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STAGE ETDICS. citv and share the glories of the va ABOUT BROOKLYN PEOPLE. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. wyn. Those familiar with English Church literature may remember the dedication of one of the volumes of Henry Edward Man 1 Ding's (now a Eoman Cardinal Arohbishop, then an English Arohdeaoon) sermons: "To selected spot foi the performance, oi the ceremony.

Marriages of this kind however, in which the bride enjoys a seniority of two yeaia over the mother, are not always likely to end woll, and if a third town in the neighborhood, Mount Desert, shall not have coincidental relation to the match, there will be fewer people to say "I told you "so than the prospect at present so ems to warrant. years old, showing signs of deraDgement of itomeobv the mother concluded to give Ills child a teafpoonful of lime water, arid cot being able to read English, tbrougn a mistake gave a of the belladonna mixture. After taking tbe medicine, the ohlld want Into tbe rear yard to play, In about an hoar after she waa obscrvod to fall in a epasm. On being picked UP he was at first aupposed to have been overcome by the beat, aa tho skin waa vary rel, hot and dry, hawing congestion of tbo capillary vessels, looking as if (he had scarlet fever, only more livid. An lamination of tho phial at onoo revealed tho mistake and souroe of tbe difficulty.

Tbe puUe was rapid, hurried roeplta tlon, as though she had oeea running great palpitation of tho heart, aa If frightened Intolerable thirst, difficult deglutition or (wallowing, as if In a great hurry pupil ddstod, eo as to cover tbe whole iris inability to distinctly groping, fetling far, or teaching after imaginary objects twitching ol muscles tlndlnum) imagined si times eba was falling and wciul 1 clutch with a death grip every portion ot the person hotJIug her al time hhe was being whipped, and screaming for her nr.tjer to save hr at other tlmni singing tier little 'little or playing with her dolls aalo, ceo: Hag. sinning or suJ then suddenly bounding iut a trWrnitic season, straightening and throwing out ui Lm awl les in ths most rigid manner. The arer; v. r. all i I ut, evorythlng dried up, no lecus or perspiration.

This condition cin tttitieJ, a mouanl's roiaul; for twelve hour iln jIjou was taken, when, under appro nrialo ant. lo: sht sauk into a quiet sleep for ala lavs war uoa the street tjuits wotl. sithriga a T. i. TU i caul t.Ju.k oue Iuurth ol a grain of atropa.

.1. formerly held a position under the City Government, but is now employed in a New York banking house. He is quite active in the Republican politics of his ward, and for a number of years was seoretary of the ward association. Bass. The Rev.

J. G. Bass has taken oharge ot William Roberts, who waa arrested on suspioion otboing Implicated In the Planet Mills robbery, aa1 who was tbe only one of the three arrested forthe offensa that was acquitted. Under the influenoe of Mr. Bass, Roberts la said to have reformed oompletely.

Cbapts. Captain Crafts started on Thurs day morning for Windsor, Vermont, where he will spend his vacation. Owing to his Bomewhat Impaired health, the Police Commissioners have extended his leave of absonoe. Whilo the Captain is away, the oommand of the preelnct will devolve on Sergeant Eason. Howsll.

Mayor Howell is spending a short and well earned vaoatlon on Lake Champlain, near If Brooklyn could always be as surod of so good a Mayor, it could soon affor to put up a Summer municipal residence for its Chief Magistrate at our great popular resort by the sea, so that our Chief Magistrate could always be within call. Fbenoh Imoebsoll. Rev. Drs. J.

Clement French and Edward P. Ingorsoll start for tho Adlron dscks, on Monday. They go far into the wilderness, where they have oltn camped together. They are said to bo akillful with both rod and gun. Dr.

Ingcrsoll and family will spend the month of August at the Uan hanset Houae, Shelter Hland. Pbatt. In a motion befora Justice Pratt, a young lawyer was very persistent In urging his view of a point, He openedjvolume alter volume, and spread them before him. "I rule against you," his Honor said. "But," was the reply, "I will read to you a caso whinh in my opinion is decisive.

His Honor smiled sweetly as he aald, "Not so decisive as my ruling, for that is final." Coohbane. Dr. David Cochrane, Principal of the Polytechnic institute, has offered a position as teacher in that school to Mr. Charles R. Klngsljy, of Utica, an instructor of whom the Utica Observer speaks in high terms, saying, too, that the Brooklyn position is one of great honor.

Nevertheless, It hones that Mr. Klngsley will remain Iu I'tica, and become connected with the Free Academy there. Tatlob. Principal Taylor, of the Adelphi Academy, was last week in attendance at Albany on the Convooatlon ot Regents of the State, and presoatud a young lady, Mius Hammond, of this city for the inter academic examination. Her average was the highost ever bofore attained, and she will enter Smith College at Northhampton, taking there a oourse Identical with that men take at Amherst.

DeWitt, One day last week, Corporation Counsel DeWitt bought an expensive and highly oolored bathing suit and hired himself to Brighton Beach. For half an hour he buffettod the waves and had a royal time of It; but alas! on returning to bis bathing house, he disoorered that the fabrio and the dye had parted company, and he had become from shoulders to feet the color of an Easter egg. It took two men three hours to restore his original color, and as the work progressed, people in tbe vicinity said that the building was shaken by the vigorous expressions whioh escaped blm. Mobbis. Mr.

Ernest Morris sails this week for his fourth trip up the Amazon and its tributaries. He out this time as the naturalist of the expedition sent out by tha firm of ilaoklo Scott, who are building the railroad around the falls of the Maderla river, for the Peruvian Government. The railroad will bo about 150 miles long, and will conneot the navigable waters of the lower Maderla and the navigable waters above the falls. It la estimated that there are fully 1,800 miles of river navigable for steamers above the falls. This route will open northwestern Bolivia, and will be the route for Amerioan goods, instead of taking thom ovei the Andes bb Is now tbo custom.

Mr. Morris will be gene about two yeara. Claghobn Gifford. Professor Charles C. Ciaghorn, Principal of Claghorn's Bryant It Stratton Business College, of this city, accompanied by hiB As slatant Principal, Mr, Gifl'ord, left Brooklyn this week for an overland trip through the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

They proposed to mke easy distances daily, and enjoy all the scenery and good living to be found between Brooklyn and Boaton. Returning they will come down by Albany and enjoy the Hudaon River views. If fair weather attends them they will leich home in about a fortnight. The freedom of the trip will add much to its pleasure for both these weary maBtere, and like the boys they bare so recently sent out for a holiday, the; will enjoy tbe woods and the sunny meadows through which they wdl pass. Gould.

People who knew Coney Island a decade ago, when it was the stamping ground of drunken ruffians, sometlmeB wonder at the good order malntaiaod there now, when so many people frequent this seaside resort. The secret is la the management. President Culver, for Instance, has in his employment three or four quiet looking fellows, who obtrude tuemsolvos on nobody, have nothing to say to the peacefully disposed oitlzon, but who soot every bad oharscter as soon as ho shows himself, and, with a quiet touoh at tho elbow, conrinoes the Intruder that he bettor retire. Should there be any demurrer, the oase is disposed of with a silent exertion of convincing power, whioh alarms no peaoeful visitor, but settles the ruffian for onos and all. One of these quiet athletes Is Thomas E.

Oould, and another is James Elliott. Gould has held positions of responsibility and trust in New York and elsewhere, his demeanor is always that of a gentleman, but when he ilnds it his duty to face ruthantsm ha takes no odds into consideration, This is one of the secrets of good order at Coney Island. A Cblcsgo BB.an' Ciulde Boon for tbe Xbeairical Profession Some Curious Hinta of Wbicb Managora, Agend and Actor will do tvu to Avail Themtelvei ilinualng Bevela tiona of Some of Ibolr Peculiarities. The prediction that "of making many books there shill be no end" ccsma to apply witu all the dlrecinsss of propheoy to tho proaenl day and Bon sratlon. We have.

all sorts ot books nowadajB 10 tsU us things that we don't know and others that we do; books to tall ns what to believe and what to doubt; books to criticize other boJks, and still again books to criticize tho very critic). We hire volnmas of oyclopadlc Information to private history of every man who achieved vast magazines of valuable knowledga about things, snd dry Con graiilonal reports which nobody ever thinks of keeping, but whioh the nation insists must oo sent frcs through tho malls. Nay, we have even books nowadays to tell ua how to bshave toward ono another, how to eat and drink and sleep aud bathe, and sit down and get np again. How many of these evor reach a second edition it would be interesting to K'aru. A groat majority of thsm are unknown to tho worl 1 at large, partly because thov relate to axclu'sive Interests, partly bacause they are Intrinsically worthless.

We havo before ua, however, a modest looking vol umo of very attractive typographic appsaranos, catered according to Act of Congress by John B. Jcff of Chicago, entitled "Jeffory's Quldo and Directory to tbe Publio Halls of America." Now, if any volume on tue faoe of the earth can safely ba lojked up a with prejudice and a fear of dulluosi and stupijitj, it is work calling itaelf aguidabjjk and dirsctory. With this disadTantago, however, and the aititl )al of being written exclusively for theatrical pjople, Jfefferr 's little work will, wa fancy, bocjun a staple literary cammodity. Ono reason for bjlievinj ia iu permanency is tho vory ovidont trouble thi atith jr hai been at to get at facts; another is tho obvious nocosslty for some suoh guide, end a third is tho cxoallout cuts and common a cm it. diractneas ol atdtomont whicS characterize the author's hiuts.

Tha great bulk of tho work is taken up vltb information for tho benoQt of the actor, agont an 1 theatri. cal manager. The Ouldo is an ampliQjd gaauieor containing la alphabetical order, by ths uaitio or every town and city In tho UJion hu ihian 1 cal pretaualons, stating the number of tho.nr03, tbMr names, owners, dimensions, stage eppointraouU, population and oharaoter of the town, tun sharing torma of the various thoatros, tho priucipal rteia, those which are devoted to theatrical un I forth, with great conciseness nud fullness. Tna nrst edition is necessarily wanting iu some of tho minor details. Tbe author, with unlimited printing racllitius at hand, had interleaved it with blank pages for oraeuda tion and correction.

Thi bbcodH edition will, therefore, bs as nearly perfect as the linmanse scope of tho book will pormit. It is a work which nobody in tho profession oan heroafkor aflord to do without. Ail this, however, has more interest to tbe proft sionol por9on than to the average who may wonder wherein Mr. Jeffory's work concerns him. It lies in a nutshell, In "Jafferj'a Hints," la whioh ho addresses a word of advice to managers, agents, bill posters, hall owners, hotel proprietors, members of a theatrical company and aeon, lucre is a delightful simplicity In tho way Mr.

Jeffery toll a thom what tj do and what to avoid doing, because it discloses to the outside world so muoh that tola peculiar people is iu the habit of omitting to do and, per contra, of doing, quite beyond the imagination of an ordinary well bred man. Anything that aotves to familiarize tbe public with th exclusive ethics of stige life is interesting, and, therefore, we venture to make a few pregnant excerpts from Mr. John B. hinta. In addressing a manager he tolls him ''Ho should abstain from all display of favoritism, an i whilo demanding tha prompt fulfillment of their dutisa bj his employes, ha should never deviate from the ruins ol politeness aud courtesy." Now, perhaps to ths gonoral reader this may read like a well lntentloned platitude, but to many maDSgers tbe proposition will coino with ail the force and suggcHtiveaeas of novelty.

Here again, Is a hint which will startle a great many mana from a traditional cUBtom "If his bu rinosa eijould bs unprofitable ho will find it to his advantage to acquaint his company with the fact, as, by obtaining ncqutescjnc? in its continuance ho will relieve himself from much subsequent snnoyancs, and will also obtain adJitional Evidently Mr. Jeffery has known manager) in his day. He has known an.i beom thjroujhiy familiar with the tricks of their trle; with their pecu liar ideas of reolprooal obligation to their companies; with their habits of suddsnly leaving a town and sui fering their unpaid employes to xet out as best they can, without baggage or money. Ttire ii a wurM uf revelation in this little sentence to those who know how "snide managers" travel th Western and Southern circuits. The agent comes in for a large Bharc of goo.1 advice, which also domocstrates what hla habits are, too ofton.

After telling theua good young men not to overesti mato the value of newspaper influonc. ana to avoi 1 the other extreme, he says: "Thj Qoal success or failure of any show enterprise depends almost solely upon the merit of tho thing itselr, and not upon what tho newspapers say of It." course," thinks tha reader, "anybo iy kuws that." But wait one moment, and let Mr. Qnieh: With regret, bo it 6aid, that many alvanco agents are profoundly Ignorant of this. As a consequence of their ignorancs they ns often turn such Influence as the press possesses against thuir employers as In their favor. Journalists, through constant contact with all aorta of mjn, become intuitive Judges of character.

The agent who visits a newspaper ofnoe and aftor a half hour ot brag departs In the belief that hehaa solidified himself with that publication, would frequently be surprised oould ha knmv the real Benttmsnts which his conversation has Inspired. In tbe larger oities tbe Journalists are by force of necessity, gentlemen at least In exterior. A gross mistake ia that whioh the agent makes when he thinks the oonrteiy with which ho is porionally trostol Indicates an implicit belief in all he has said." This is a sketch from real life, no that any Journalist will at once recognize at least a scora of theatrical agents of his acquainting, any one of whom Mr. Jeffery might hare been thinking of wben he wrote these hints. Then he points out a conclusion whioh thoy scorn to hare avoided in thinking the matter over, if indeed they ever do, namely thai "Tbesj msa prejudice newspapers against those whom they represent, and even when thy succeed in seourin? all tbsy want la tho way of elaborate preliminary puffing, lnnlcl damage by exciting popular oxpoctatlon to a pitch far above the point their company can reach," The ridiculous belief entertained not only by agents, but by all olassos of theatrical peopls, thai nawspipors ore conducted for thesolc purpose of bsnofiting tbeatrioal people, gets a nice little rebuke "Nowepapers publish notices of dramatic or other performance as news, just as they publish acoounts of fires or scientific discoveries, or public meetingi bacause thsy ore matters in whioh a large share of the publio takes a lively iotorest.

They cannot, in Justice to themsolvea or their subscribers, transcend the news limit for the purpose of tooting any manager's horn. If thsy do tho publio is very apt to doteat the nature of the music and is not over charitable in aisigniog a reason for it." This is another instance In which the truth come; with all the freshness of a new discovery to tho agent class. A word to hotel proprietors and members of the company finishes thsso timely hints. When 3tfr. Jeffery warns tho former uot to discriminate toward his quests as "show people," wa may rest assured that this discrimination is very frequently mads, and the oompany being regarded askant by other boarders, unpleasant feeling traceable tothe landlord is apt to arise.

To the annoyance of tbo company the waiters and sarvsnts consider it their to gat "paasoa" from every member of the company. They refuse t'j be even civil, except upon the underdtandtng that tiioy are to be paid in free tickots. Ab regards loul prof oasional talk at tab' tbe habit of "guying" one another in public, the di ipiay of petty jealously, and tbo general refusal of professionals to mako themselves either useful or agreeable because "it Is not so nominated in the bond," Mr. Jeffery gives actors sound, sensible, and we regret to add, needed advice. Indeed, so acourato a knowledge of stags life do hia "Hints" exhibit that Ihe professional parson may rest assured that the guide is a safe ono to follow, topographically.

BATRIilO.MAL. How the Superintendent of the Industrial Scboot for CUlldren Solved a Difficult Problem. Last evening, at the Industrial Home for Children, the Rev. llr. While, of Willlamsbnrgb, joined in the bonds of holy wedlock Mr.

Samuel Peacock and 11m Anu White, or, as she is bitter known, Mrs. Ann Peacock, both of East New York. This couple wore first brought to the public notice on the 3rd of July, when Mrs. Peacock was arrested on a charge felonious assault preferred against her by ber Buppostd husband. The cause of the alleged assault was air.

Peacook's patting the two children of himself and MiBs White into the Industrial Home. He had always Introduced Miss White as bis wife. She was confined In the' County Jail, serving ont a sentence of ten days for Intoxication, at the time her children were placed in the Home. When the examination was had beforeJustice Oertum, in East New York, tha defendant waa dlamisscd, the evldonco was not sufficient to hold her. When the Superintendent read the facts, as published iu the Baolb, he Investigated tbe matter and decided to reunite the separated couple.

Yesterday morning he sent an invitation to both of the parties to come and see the children. At the time appointed both were preaont, neither one of thorn ana spectlng the preaenca of tho other. They were conducted to tho room in which the childron were by different passages, and were suddenly brought faoe to faoe. At first they refused to recogntzo eaoh other, but after some kindly advice given by tho Superintendent mutual oxplanationa followed and they agreed to forget the past offanses. Tha Superintendent then proposed that their onion be legalized, and neither objecting, the minister, who wss waiting in an adjoining room, was summoned and the marriage service was They were then given a total abstlnenco pledge to sign and both affixed their names, stating that it was their firm resolve to forsake the uae of liquor, which had been the cause of all their trouble.

Tho reverend gentleman then baptized tbe children and the parties departed for their home on Atlantic avenue, near 8tone avenue. It is the Intention of tho Superintendent to still further advance the reform be has oomraaaoed by finding occupation for Mr. Peacock. When this ihall have been done the children will again be pul under their mother's charge. GABBHJK DBAMATIC ASSOCIATION.

The Garriok Dramatic and Social Union held their ieml annaal meeting on Thursday evening last their room in Everett Hall, SSS Fulton street, Charles Morris presiding and Budolph Coorant, Ksa offloUting as Secretary. Tho semi annual buel nesVwas transacted and the condition of Ihe Onion financially and otherwise was shown to bo satisfactory. The foUowmg officers were ejected for the ensuing an months President, Charles Morris; Vloe President, 8 oolUni; Secretary, Budolph Courant Treasurer, Hunter Exeeutlf OotnrnitU J. Norrls. J.

Beilly, I Trum T. Hooley, N. Hooloy. Trut9 0. Bou onette, M.

I Brock, S. Morris. On motion a vote of tbanka waa tendered to tho outgoing Board of Officers. This Union was organized last Martb and has already attained fly thrsa members, composed of ladles and gentleman. Contrast the interchange of journalistic amenities in Mississippi with those of California.

In tbe latter an editor says his rival ia meaner than a shad roo oat of season tha former be says that his volee Jf UUQ nisei, loraonilii out aoft wfiia riety theatre. These glories consisted in singing divinely to the aristocracy of New York and living in a state of princely opulence, clad in velvets and satins, and gold brocades, with footmen and coachmen, and the neoessary chariots galore. Sho had promised her youthful companions, who had come all the way from To ronto, delights which would dazzle them, and yielding to her persuasions they had left home. A searching cross examination by the police revealed the fact that Miss Lillie Gray was dealing out to the officers a vast quantity of fiction, and at length the truth was elicited. Sho had received no letter from a variety actress.

She knew no variety actress. She had no connection with the variety Btage except Buch as she had picked up from reading flash stories published in the Boys' and Girls' Weekly. This last revelation followed as a matter of course upon the story told by her companions. The other children said that Lillie had held out golden promises to them, could they reach New York. How to get to the Metropolis was tho question, whioh was answered by tho ingenuity of Miss Lillie.

She bade one of the girls plunder her uncle's trunk, from whoso recesses she brought up $40. Then they started. Nobody interfered with thorn until they ware near New York, when a certain person glared furiously on them. Him they instantly char actorized as a sneaking detective. That phrase discovered tha falsity of Miss I Lillie's story.

Anything that smacks of the law is characterized as low, sneaking and vil famous only in juvenile publications of the flash variety, and the taking up the sneaking detective" and truuk robbery clues, promptly assumed that a boys' and girls' story paper had furnished the whole scheme of adveuturo, mendacity, robbery and flight. The assumption was justified by the eldest girl's confession. What would havo become of them but for tho prompt interference of the police, one shudders to think. They are but children, very ignorant, of course, but respectably connected and fairly well brought up. Their fate, friendless in the slums of Now York, hanging round the stage doors of some concert dive, thence downward, would have been destruction both of body and soul, and the rum of three young girls, the anguish of three families would have been directly traceable to the pestilent juvenile literature whioh, during the past year, has added so many to the amazingly long list of juvenile criminals.

The police returns of all large cities are beginning to show a great increase of juvenile depravity and the growing popularity of flash juvenile stories is unquestionably at the bottom of it. How to meet the evil by authority is a difficult problem, but one remedy exists for parents which is simple and efficacious. It is to keep such injurious trash out of the hands of ohildren by putting into them stories of a proper character. Stories of adventure are suitable for the young and a capital literature of such tales exists in all civilized countries. The English language is especially rich in wholesome stories for the young.

Parents who will trouble themselves but a ittle to secure fitting books for their children will be rewarded by finding tho craving for flash literature with its vice aud folly give way to a better taste. If not, they must be reconciled to robbery by their own flesh and blood, and must not complain if their children wind up in reformatories, at the scaffold or even in places more hideous than either. THE PAN AN OLICAN IN SESSION. At the recent opening of the Pan Anglican Synod in Lambeth Palace, under the presidency of tho Archbishop of Canterbury, ninety prelates assembled. Of these only about thirty, including the Suffragan bishops of Dover, Nottingham and Guildford, belonged to the home Episcopate.

Throe only of the Protestant bishops of the United States were present at this preliminary meeting, the remaining bishops hailing from Canada, Australia and Africa. Looking back from the present to the past, it is appropriate to notice the chairs that have found other occupants since the last Pan Anglican Synod was held, under Archbishop Longley, ten years ago. The English Episcopate has since then lo st some of her greatest prelates. Not to speak of Primate Longley himself, or of Charles Richard Sumner, then Bishop of Winchester, three bishops may be mentioned as men of powers too remarkable to be reproduoed in a century. Chief of them intellectually, in our opinion, was the late Connop Tbirlwall, Bishop of St, David's, the contemporary of Macaulay as Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, a man of whom Gladstone says that he possessed in pre eminent degree the historical mind, whose sermons, charges to his clergy, and pamphlets are masterpieces of dialectics skill such as even Whately might have envied, whose history of Greece is among tho classics of the English language, and who sleeps in Westminster Abbey beside his brother Greek historian, Grote.

Bishop Thirlwall's face was, in its sweetness and tranquillity, a Platonic study like ono of Cudworth's ser mons, or like a poem of Wordsworth. His moral courage was equal to his intellectual power and learning. He loved truth for its own sake, not because this or that view agreed with his profession or promoted the secular interests of the State Church of which he was a prelate. He gave remarkable proof of when ho alone of all the bishops of England stood up in his place in the House of Lords and made a masterly speech in favor of Mr. Gladstone's Irish Disestablishment bill.

The Primate had begged the bishops not to vote and to abstain from active opposition to the bill. Two prelates, however, stood forward and made memorable speeches. The one, Dr. Magee, Bishop of Peterborough, made one of the most eloquent and pathetic speeches ever heard within the walls of the Upper House against Gladstone and Disestablishment, employing every argument that Irish wit and a remarkably logical mind, combined with extraordinary fluency aud a most impressive de livory, could suggest. The London Times declared that John Bright stood nowhere whon compared with him as a master of pathos.

The appeal, however, was in vain, since the will of the Commons had been too clearly pro nouncad for the House of Lords to venture to refuse their demand that the Protestant Establishment in Irelaud should cease to be a State institution. Then, with that unassuming majesty which was so graceful and natural in Bishop Thirlwall, he rose to startle his Episcopal brethren with tho statement that he had never cared for polemical Protestantism which the State Church of Ireland served only to keep alive, and in a calm, historical argument to record his hearty approval of Mr. Gladstone's measure. The same great journalistic authority declared that although in point of rhetoric and oratory Bishop Thirlwall might not equal Bishop Magee, yet his reasoning was far more convincing to an unprejudiced mind and that bis speech had more solid value than that of either the Primate Arohbishop Tait or the Bishop of Peterborough. In the pulpit also, Bishop Thirlwall had a wonderful charm and persuasiveness.

Those who have heard him preach to his Welsh flock in one of their country churches could understand well how it was that clergyman and peasant alike regarded him with a feeling of personal veneration. Another voice and form that will be missed in this Pan Anglican is that of him whom Mr. Trevelyan, Macaulay'a biographer, calls par excellence "the great bishop," Samuel Wil berforce, successively Bishop of Oxford and Winchester. To some, undoubtedly, to whom the glitter of versatility is more precious than the profoundness of study, his will appear the greatest loss which the English Episcopate has revived during the last decade. The sad catastrophe whioh ended his career is familiar, no doubt, to many of our readers.

Riding with Earl Granville to meet Mr. Gladstone at a cJuntry house, the Bishop's horse suddenly stumbled, throwing him over its head. The Bishop's neck was broken by the fall and he neither spoke nor moved again. A third great bishop who took an aotivo part in the last Pan Anglican is the late Bishop of Liohfield, who was for so many years Bishop of. New Zealand and who was really the founder of the English Church in that colony and was always the Maori's friend.

It is pleasant to remember that when sharp shooting was going on between the natives and the whites, the Bishop, ft man of invincible courage, passed oalmly between, and I the Maori chiefs, when told of his danger, de I olared that they would have ceased firing if the? had known it) was the giahpn Sir (Jarnott Wolsely is 45. Ja." Samuel J. Tildeu was born in 1814, and Is In bis Gith year. "Kebamio." Dr. Sohloimann, Mr.

Prime, General di Cesnola and tho rest of thorn prononnoa Celtic, Keltic" and Cyprus "Kyprus," F. Jj. The report was incorrect, since It appears Mr. TUden Is spending tho Summer at Long Ilrauch, He Is tho only man at present In this country who was ever elected Prealdont of tho Uultod States. "A Eeadeb." Fort Greene is described on tho offljial records of tho city as being "over thirty acrta in extent." We assume this to mean that it OVor thirty acres, and lesa than thirty ono acres.

"Ixquiiieb." The Theatre Fire Iteliof Association oollectel about $50,000, All bat about tH'Oo has been given out in relief. The families al.loJ nuui bur 188. About fifty families are still paid an agrc: of 1700 a mouth. Tho beneficiaries live in Iir jot lyn, Sow Vera, Oswego, Hrw Haven and phia. "N'AnnowBACK." Tho National Convention of narrow gauge railroad mca will rucot in Augusta, Georgia, on the 17th of July.

The City Council of Augusta invited all who are id narrow intercuts to come or send a representative or representatives. Old Reliable." Without pretending to havo any special information on tho subject, we shouM say that tho rumor of a proftured agreement between the Regular Democracy and tho Independents, on tho basis oi uniting on Justice Heiley for Hheritf, absurd. ii." The figures havo been repeatedly published in the Eagle. Tho span of the Eon River that is, the distance between the tvo t'trorn is fct. Tho raiiroad Suspension llrldxe a'.

Niagara is euo feet in longtfa, that at Cincinnati is 1,000 feet, and v. ill rank next sizs to ours. 'It. The present City Treasurer is Honest John's rou law, Mr. Little na a candidate jl against Martin Kalbrlrisch, but it ought fairness t'j be tha: the Ilepuehcans trie! to git two ur three citizens to run beforo they Bolected Mi.

Liul? whjse doljai that year waa a torcgonu con 'Rapid Tbansit." The Siith avenue Rail i jad variu i iu height Iroiu betu 11 ana i.i ieet. it ii usiurned tj have cost half a million doilard per mile. uetbfcr it will pay or not, simply ai au invstnK'at to tboso who own it, is still an open quastiou. Its managers aay it does pay competent rallroal men say that it doss not, aud nuTer can bo made to pay. ''Politician." The Tribune erred in saying that Dotuocratio mombcrs of the Potter Commit lee bad boon defeated lor rnomlaatioti.

Messra. Blackburn and Springer will be re cleotod without any opposition, llr. Potter will be renominated. Mr. Mac Muhon will be, too.

Judge Uuntjn, Virginia, hai socured a majority uf the dotogutss to the Convention, which nil! mot August 23. "An Alajsmed Citizen." Mayor Howell will bo absent in a time when the Common Council is not in session. Acting Mayor fisher has engaged not to do anything while officiating as Mayor pro except discharge the routine duties of the ofllce. Mr. Liowell has been in poor health for aome tlmo, but Mr.

iiowcll will return atrongthened and la. time to be ready for the Aldermanic antics in August and September. "Fifth Ward." The Eaole, we believe, was mlataken. County Treasurer Gardiner has bela the effim, by successive elections, for. ws thiuk, 111 lean years.

He secured in an eminent degree the ounfl deucj of the best citizens of both parties, and of the larost taxpayers of the county. The term of tbo County Treasurer expires in August, and not in January, becauau the law so provides, ana for tbe roason that the county's fiscal year commeccos on the first of AU7USt. "L.1MEEIOK." Your communication is based on a total niideouixptl'ri almost tho vary rovorso ol what you state being the fact, singularly enough. Neither party at tho Battle of tbo Bjync displayed "orange'' colors. William's soldiers decorated their caps and protected themselves fr.m th July sun by gresu boughs.

The IriBh, under James, aiopted wolt i as their cot in cnupllnaeat 1 1 their ally, tuo f'reuc'a king, who was of the 11 use of Bourbon. "Obsekveb." Tho total eclipso of the suu will occur un July 39. It is tut returu shadow of that ui July 18, 1SC0. It will first Hrlko the osrtu (that ihe dark shadow ot tho oio will) in IK degrees U'J minuttB eatit of (ireenwicli. In the I'n't? 1 It will Bfltiip over SVest Montana, tbe Yellow stoba Park, Wyoming Territory Lieuver.

N'ortu eru and Texas, Bnd will aps over tha Oulf uf Mexico between Orleans an.l GalvoHton. It wi I bo psrlially visible in the afternoon of July all over tho Uultci State3. Tho population of Washington, by the late census, to Tuat it nearly moro tLau iu lc70, when it was 1.11,710, of whom iverfc wlntu an i 40,133 colored. Tne 45,0 JO increase In bIx years Is mainly anvmi; the whites. More blacks tile than are born in VYasningtnn.

Ths oX'alh rate among the white May was 19 in the Among tha blacks it waa 49 In the 1.000. Tnere were 3SJ white births and JiD blacks. In slavory be blacks 2" per cant, very ten years. In freedom, they decreaie at almost the eamo rat Tha mortality rate In other Boutharu cillea ia about tho hutno as iu Washington. R.

F. Gray." The questior. was never settled. The lato George Hall always contsnJed that ho waa born in New ijrk, shortly after tho arrival of his parcuta in this country from Ireland. It wan charged, on tho other band, ttiat he was born in tbe County Woxtord, and came to this country whon a lal it was so ohargod, becauso Ur.

Hail so violently resented what was ot very liUlu cjusoqueace olther tj himself or (o anybody elte. Your implied charges against Mr. Hall are groundless, tie was a god hater, but was a kind hearted man and never coul.l keep hi own monoy became of his doiire to help other, John McNameo's bust of the late Mayor Ealbfleiaob was not purchased by tba city. Aidorman ha as yet mado any vo in this direction. The "Old Dutchman'' had many frienda and aJ mirers in hia life time, but "we are very aoon forgotten wben we are gone." Thare is a bust oi ex Mayor Powell In tho Common Council Chamber, and there is also a portrait of that gentleman.

Tb picture was takon whoa Mayor Poivcll had closed hi. first two tevroB as Mayor the bust was made whon clossd a third term, some five years ago. Tho "OKI Jjutohman" served three terms ai Mayor of Brooklyn. "Houskkeepeb." The scientific name of the carpet bu la Anthrcnnt scroy.hnlance. It is a European importation.

In Europe it lives mainly on animal diet. Here it "goes for" auytbing wojlen. An a carpet bug it beats the moth. It is black anJ. hairy and about one fourth of an inch long, oval In its Hhapo aud very quick of motion, It lives lu crcvicci and attacks furs, clothes, Impartially, fieniine copiously sprinkled round is tbe bsat destroyer ol the pest.

It first appoared in Cambridge, In 1J73. rioou after it appeared In New York anJ Chicago. Connecticut le its favorite iocalo this year, "Cold Water." This correspondent wants to know whether in view of the fact that I. J. O'Don noll opposed a proposition to enforce tempsrance by Law upon the c.turo community, be va not Inconsistent in advocating tiioeajeof jmporauoo as represent? I by the Catjolij Touiperincj Uniu.

Mr. O'Donnh'j r.ppDaltion to tho oercive measure only nrovaJ that when be to the pledga he did not take laave of his senses. Tho men who want to legislate the worl I into eobiiety differ not at all la principles from th ise who In religion woulJ prove their doctrine ortnoJox bj apostolic blows and knocks. Ur. O'Douaell ii not in consistent, is simply reasonable.

"A Readee. Alex. H. Stephens nevov fought a duel. He had a personal fight with Judge Cone, of Georgia, in 1843, and afterward of Texas, where he is now, he prodding Cone with an umbroila, Cone cutting biro with a knife.

In 1S56 the ey between Ben. H. Hill and SUpUans, which you wrongly think resulted in a duel, took place. Hill spoke of Stephens as playing Judas to tbe Whig party. Stephens challenged htm.

Eill said he waa insensible to fear, was a Christian man, iild no! fight a duel, but would defend himself. Stephens said "No man has a right to issalt me like a worldling and then run into tbe sanctuary liko a Christian," He then "pasted" Hill in these terms 1 am compelled by a sense of duty to myself and the public to make kuown that by the correspondence juet terminated, and in relation to It, Mr. Hill has proved himself to mo to be not ooly an impudent braggart and an unscrupulous ilar, but a deapicable poltroon beside. All these I proclaim him to be, holding myself, notwitbatanding what has paased and this denunciation, still responsible, even to bins, for what 1 say. if ho be not insensible to thanio and degradation, however he may be to fear.

I will also, I trust, be cicused, even by tbe most fastidious, for the language now used toward huu. which my own self respect would, on ordinary occasions, forbid. But when a mendacious gasconader sets op wantonly to asperas private character and malign individual reputation; and then refuses that reJresj which a gentleman knows how to ask as well as to grant.no course la lelt for the most courteous and decorous, tho moat upright and honorable, but to put the brand of infamy upon him, there lo remain until a radical change In hu character and espocially in his conduct, either In giving personal lnaulte, or making proper anionda for them whon glvon, shall removo it. ALziAHDca H. Siapnrxsv Washington, D.

December 12, 1SS8. Thla did not hurt Hill. The people understood him and Stephens bettor than they understood one another. "A Student or the Adblphi." John Randolph freed hie slaves on his deathbed. They were settled by hia exocaiore in Ohio end turned out poorly, as tho people would not employ them.

The second generation of them are doing better. The poem on the act of Randolph, of which you inquire, waa by John G. Whtttior, and was one of his "first productions." Tho stanzas directly referring to ths event are theso He held his elavea, yet made withal No false and vain pretenses, Kor paid a prleat lo eeek For Bcriptural iofenaoa. His harshest words of prood rebuke, His bitterest taunt and seornimr, Fell flreliko on the nortnern brow That bent to blm in fawning. Ho held bis slaves yet kept tte while His reverence for the human la the dsrk vassals of his will He saw but man and woman Mo bunter of Goo's outraged poor His Boanoke valley entered No trader in the souls of men Across his threshold ventured.

And when the old and weariod man Laid down for bis leal sleeping, And at hta side, a slave no more, Hia brother man stood weeping. Hta latest thought, his latest breath. To Freedom's duty giving, With falling tones and trembling hand Tha dying bleat tbe living. liEMlUKABr.ECASK OF POIS05I5G FBOM BEL ADOS rtl BECO VEST. fta tht Bdityr of the Brooklyn BajU: On the 2d of Juno, a physician in this city was called upon to prescribe for case of Astis (Inflammation of ths iris), tn a child a year old.

Tbe doctor ordered two grains of sulphate of atropa (Ihe oaaentlal principal of belladonna), tn on ounce or rose water. This was carefully prepared by tha druggist, tb directions plainly written upon tho label, and applied to the eye, dlroctel by the doctor. TalJ, with other appropriate treatment, soon removed Us Inflammation and restored the eyo. Three weeks afterward, nUW abl OeUiiSItitUiUS eUllilsflt BBS feaU Cobnell. Mr.

Thomas J. Cornell, of the Polioe Telegraph Department, will spend hts vaoa tlon At Chatham, New Jerssjr, with his family. Boo an. Charities Commissioner Bogan and family will spend a couple of months at a quiet oountry place In Connecticut. Gkab.

Mr. William R. Gear, one of the Police telegraph operators at Headquarters, Is laid up with a severe attack of pneumonia. Cambpbll. Felix Campbell, will, as has been bis oustom for many yaara paBt, spend the Summer at Saratoga.

Etan. Mr. James E. RyaD, Principal of Publlo Sohool No. 26, will spend hta vaoatlon at Lake Luzerne; Warren County, in this State.

Wabd. Counselor F. A. Ward and Mrs. Ward, ot EemBen Btreet, sailed for Europe a week ago.

ArLEr. Surrogate Dailey purposes to hold oourt evfcry other week during the hot weather, commencing with to morrow. Moobe. Judge Henry A. Moore is to spend a ahort vacatlc at Babylon.

Milford, papers will please oopy. Babbe. Register Barre has engaged a hotel at Baratoga Springs for the season. There are a few others atlll vacant. Y.

M. C. A. It ib understood that the Gospel tent Is to be raised forthwith on the vacant lots next the County Court House. Lkhbenkbadss.

Mr. Julius Lehrenkrauss, cashier of the Germanla Savings Batik, will sai: for Europe on the 18th inst. Claflin. Mr. and Mrs.

H. B. Clan in sailed for Europe a few days ago, and will spend some months abroad. Foote. Dr.

E. B. Foote is rusticating at Darien, unleaj when professional duties, whioh cannot ba put off, call him to the city. Qoiok. Supervisor Joe Quick, of the Third Wanl, has gone for a fortnight's shooting and Ashing to Ue Adirondack.

It is sail that his old friend Dur yea has gone with him. Pickebing. Mr. Richard Pickering, of East New York, tho erudite editor of the Long Inlarvi Record, has been appointed town auditor in the place of 8amuol Livingstone, who hat removed from tha town. Nobth.

Mr. G. A. F. North, the Principal of Union Free 8chool No.

2, of East New York, will make a tour through the Western States, during his Bummer vacation. Wheeler. Mr. H. H.

Wheeler is endeavouring to make arrangements with President Culver for Summer quarters in the top compartment 01 tho Observatory at Coney Island. Walsh. Judge Walsh's family will spend the rest of the Summer at Southold, L. and his Honor will visit them every week. He takes no extended vacation himself, Halleit.

Sergeant James Hallett, of the Fifth Precinct, has a little hatchet, that coat him precisely two hundred and five dollars. It wa given him by a creditor who owed him that amount, Olsbn. Mr. John Olsen of Flatbush avenue, starts next week for the White Mountains with his wife and family. He contemplates an extended shooting trip In the Fall Fisoheb.

Mr. E. W. Fischer, of the Board of Eduoatlon, will not leave town during the Summer, except for occasional trips to Brighton Beaoh and Stat a Island. Pattebson.

Professor Calvin Patterson, Principal of Publio Bchool No. 13, started on Thursday for Cape Cod, where he will remain for about six weeks. Ma jeb. Mr. Daniel Maujer, of the Board of Educal ion, Intends, If the hot weather continues, to take a trip aoross the Atlantic, and expects to be away for about two months.

Dunkly. Mr. Leonard Dunkly, Principal of Publio School No. 1C, has started for Moose Head Lake, and will return to Brooklyn about the end of next month. Roderick.

Counselor Geo. W. Roderick's Fourth of July was rendored peculiarly attractive, by the Rppoarance In tho household of an interest lug little stranger. She came to stay, It la hoped. Br.owN.

Supervisor Brown, of the Eighteenth Ward, hos been ill for the past three weeks with Inflammatory rheumatism, but Is able to bo about again. Tanneb. Tax Collector Jame3 Tanner will go to Alexandria Bay and the Thousand la'auds about the first of August, to spend his Summer vaoatlon. Teaoy. General Benjamin F.

Tracy paid a vi. it last week to his farm at Owego, N. Hu leturned to the city Wednesday much improved in heath. Towns. Counselor Mirabeau L.

Towns, tho youns, handsome and learned law partner of Judge Sjmler, is to leave for Europe on the 18th inst. It is whispered that he will bring back a wife. Spbague. Mr. William E.

Spraguo, of the Beard of Education, says he shall remain at home, and take' in Coney Is'and by installments, beginning at Manhattan Beaoh and winding up at Nortou's. Bell. The Rev, Fred. Bell, the singing preacher, was recently married In England to hiB second wife. His first wife who accompanied him to this oountry died soon after her return to her native land.

Hurd. William B. Hurd, son of ex ilioo Commissioner Hurd, Is now in Europe making the grand tour. He was a passenger on the Erin of the National Line, which arrived iu (Juuenstown on Wednesday last. Caywood.

Mr. David G. Cay wood, a well known resident of the Eastern District, recently became a member of 'the Athletic Bowling Club. David handles tte balls the same as he handles everything be engages in cleverly and well. Shabpb.

Receiver Sharpe, of the Long Island Railroad, has inaugurated a new era of en terpriso In that corporation. The cheap trips to Roekaway in the evening will no doubt be largely patronized during the Summer. Hayes. Mr. Stephen Hayes, stenographer for the New York Marino Court, will walk a match on tho Coney Island road some time this month for two hundred dollars.

The dlstanoe will be tur. miles. Lynch, Captain David T. Lynch was presented with a large crayon picture ot himself by tho members of Company H. Fifteenth Battalion.

The Captain will spend two weeks at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga. Elliott. Jimmie Elliott, of South Brook ia one of tne special officers employed around the Culver plaza at Coney Island. Jimmie is tbe right man in the right plaoe and rowJies will be sure to stoer clear of his post. Jewell.

Mr. Ditmas Jewell, of East New York, has just returned from a four weeks' sojourn iu the northern put of the State. He has fully recovered from the attack of aiokoesi which had confined him to the house several weeks prior to his departure. Gertum. Justice Chas.

Gertum, of East New York, will spend bis Summer vacation with bis son who owns a farm in Illinois. His official dutliB during the past year havo been quite arduous, and the rest ho seeks 1b absolutely oeeesiary. Lewis. Captain J. A.

Lewis, for many years a resident of this city, and well known in Grand Army circles, will sail to morrow for the West coast of Africa. Be will first visit Sierra Leone. He goes on business for a prominent New York shipping bouse. Mabtin. Miss Lillie Martin, aged 11 years, daughter of JobnT.

Martin, ol Pierrepont street, who was so terribly bitten by sojourning with the Hon. J. R. Kennaday's family In Connecticut, some three weeks ago. has so far recovered as to be able to go to the oountry again.

WiLLtAMS.Ex Sheriff Aras G. Williams has been In Oneida County flatting relatives in his former home. Un Thursday he went to the Thousand Islands, where he will bo joined to morrow by the members of his family. He will bo absent from Brooklyn till Ootober. Steele.

Mr. N. McGregor Steele left the olty on Friday for an extended northern lour. He intends devoting considerable time to trout Qshing In Vermont, and will pay passing visits to Lake Qeorgo and the Thousand Isles. Mrs.

Steele accompanies her husband. Gbeenwood. Mr. Richard B. Greenwood, of the Law Department, and family have gone to the Berkshire Hills.

Mr. Greenwood will return to his offlolal duties In a week, and make occasional trips to tha Hills during the Summer. His family will remain there until October. Hall. Vice Commodore Hall, of the Brooklyn Yacht Club, his oommenced his annual cruise in his schooner Mystic.

Last week, he made his headquarters at Oreenport, whence he took short trips through the sound and the Great Peconlo Bay. McLaughlin. Captain McLaughlin, of the Ninth Precinct, is one of the best amateur oarsmen In the olty and two or three times a week spends an hour or so In Newtown he Is always ready to take a brush with the best sculler that comes along. Btjbnham. Mr.

L. S. Burnham, of Atlantic avenue, has not only made arrangements to give eaoh ot his employes ten days' vaoatlon, but to close hie store at 1 P. M. on Baturdays during the Summer months.

There is no large establishment in New York or Brooklyn where the interests of employes and employed are mors In unison. Gbaham Mr. Willard Graham, one of the leading members of the Long Island Yacht Club, has just purohased the sohooner yacht Agnes, She la anchored at Frank Bates' and la as fine a specimen of nautloal architecture as oan be found, Mr. Oraham has perfeoted some Improvements in ber. Chandmb.

Mr. F. H. Chandler and wife, and youthful eon Frank, left the olty yesterday afternoon for Noroten, near Stamford, where they will spend a few weeks with friends, sojourning there, and then depart for the Green Mountains of Vermont where they are to remain until the Fall. Abbott.

Principal Abbott, the sterling and cultivated scholar In oharge ot Publio Sohool No. 1, attended last week the State Association of Teachers, taking a quiet but effective part in their Interesting deliberations, and on Thursday bolog eleoted a Vloe President ot tbe association tor the ensuing year. Mount. Mr. W.

S. Mount, a well known resident of the Eleventh Ward, was reoently married to MIsi Mary Gllfleraleeve, the beautiful and accomplished daughter ot James Ulldersleeve, the fish dealer. The happy ooaple went on bridal trip to garttoa ftadJUagM 2Tda Mt, AiQunt the Right Rev. George Augustus Selwyn, D. Lord Bishop of New Zealand, who, in an age of softness taught us to return to onr true mother, these sermons are affec tionately inscribed." As Bishop Wilber force had been the historian of the American Protestant Episoopal Church, so perhaps no English prelate was so well known personally to our clergy as the late Bishop of Lichfield, who, it will be remembered, preached the opening sermon at a church convention in New York, a few years ago, and whom our Protestant Episcopal Church chose as its spokesman soon afterward when it sent a present of altar service to St.

Paul's Cathedral. Such are some of the losses which may remind American visitors to the present Pan Anglican of the question once asked by a Hebrew seer: "Your fathers, where are they? and the "prophets, do they live forever?" But if among the more recent bishops of England we look in vain for a Thirlwall, a Wilberforce or a Selwyn, it is impossible to deny the great gifts and large mental and moral influence of such men as Dr. James Fraser, Bishop of Manchester, and Dr. William Connor Magee, Bishop of Peterborough. The Primate himself, who was Bishop of London at the previous Synod, is a man of graat energy, learning, character and liberal influence.

We believe he enjoys the affectionate respect of all but the extreme Ritualists. His love of fair play was finely shown when the clergy of London were denouncing Moncure D. Conway as an atheist, and the Archbishop, after reading the book which Mr. Conway sent him, declared that he could find no atheism in it, and deprecated the current habit of the clergy of calling by hard names those who differed from them. So far as the personnel of the present Pan Anglican is concerned, it is emenently respectable, although not perhaps what Cardinal Manning styled the conclave which recently elected the Pope, "the most august assembly upon earth," ANOTHER EAGLE BUREAU.

For the accommodation of the patrons of the Eagle, who cross to New York by tho way of Montague street, an Eagle Bureau has been established in the Continental Building, No. 206 Montague street, where advertisements may be left and other business transacted. The Bureau, which has been in operation for some weeks, is also the headquarters of the Eagle's staff up town, and is connected with the main office by a telephone, by the use of which the roaders of the Eaole have frequently been favored with later news than could have been obtained without it. With the main office in Fulton street, the Bureaus in Montague street and Broadway, E. both of which branoh offices have demonstrated the value of their existence, it is believed that the wants and demands of the patrons and readers of the Eagle havo been fully met.

With an increase of railroad facilities for reaching Coney Island will neoessarily come an increase of accidents like the two reported in the Eagle last evening, one on Mr. Gunther's and one on the Brighton road. In neither case could the blame of the accidents be laid upon the railroad management. If men will do foolish things aud take their lives into their own hands in spite of the warnings of the railroad people, they must be held responsible for the consequences. The increased facilities for travel merely serve to give careless and foolish people increased facilities for showing their carelessness and folly, and as the railroads cannot bo hold responsible for the mental and moral aborrations of their passengers it would be both illogical and unjust to attribute such casualties as are above noted to them.

There is a slight difference of opinion between Deacon Richardson and ex Commissioner John Cunningham as to the value of the Common Council resolution authorizing the Bergen street Railroad Company to travel to the South Ferry over the Atlantic avenue company's track. Deacon Richardson's opinion is that the resolution oonfers no authority. Mr. Cunningham, who is the Bergen street company, thinks the resolution is very much to the purpose. We shall therefore have the spectacle of the Deacon and the Commissioner opposing each other in court, with the chances of victory very mch on the Deacon's side, as usual.

The question of rapid transit is one of so much interest and importance at the present day that any experiments with a new motive power must be interesting. The announcement by tho Second avenue Railroad Company of New York that they havo found a solution of the problem of combined power and economy in compressed air would possess more interest were the schema entirely novel. Per hnps the best reference for particulars regarding this invention could be made to General Beauregard, who tried it for all it was worth in Now Orleans, and to Mr. Myers, of Chicago, who, after going to great trouble and expense, abandoned it as impracticable. The East River Bridge, when finished, ought to return an interest on the amount of money it will have cost.

As it approaches completion, the New York authorities pretend to be troubled all at once with the question of whether Now York can legally con tribute the balance of its share of the amount needed to finish it, while by delaying the work interest at the rats of over half a million dollars a year is lost to the two cities and lost beyond recovery. Our old friend "Joe" Reeve is satisfied that the displacement of Conkling's friends in the New York Custom House "will unite the Republicans of Kings County, and especially "the 'Old For many years the "Old "Guard" in this county has been Joe Resve, and it is a unit. It will never work as it did of yore though, when it marched under tho inspiriting legends of "Freeman," "One "more dash and the Navy Yard is ours." District Attorney Catlin follows up his notable success in the Planet Mills robbery case by triumphantly demonstrating to the Eagle's satisfaction that he has made good his pre election promise, to cut down the expenses of his office at the rato of $10,000 per annum. Whenever so clever a gentleman as the General scores a point, it will always afford the Eagle satisfaction to "tally one." Judge Moore, of the County Court, meets the demand for decreased local taxation in the right spirit when he says tersely and promptly "I will keep within the appropriation; if my Court officers are not con tent with such compensation as it will allow "me to give them, they will have to try and do better elsewhere." With Mr. Patrick Hayes at the head of the Supplies Department of the Board of City Works, President MaBsey will be in duty bound to forego his Summer vacation, we should judge for if he will not have ample employment in superintending Supplies Superintendent Hayes, then Mr.

HayeB is not the man who dealt with Frank Swift, or the man we take him lor. If Mr. Frank Swift, the well known contractor, is not wholly destitute of humor, it must afford him rare fun to see Mr. Patrick Hayes made Boss of the Supplies Department in the interest of "reform and in order to get in a deadly blow on the "Ring." The Republican managers are having such a terrible time of it in trying to evade detection for their part in filling the Presidential offioe by fraud, that we don't believe the experiment will ever be tried again by the politicians of either party. Now that the Charities Commissioners have been indicted by the Grand Jury, we beg to remind the E.

D. Times that it is departing from its usual custom in not presenting the name of at least one of them for Mayor, or for Sheriff, this Fall. New York's experience. in the rapid transit business has been worth a great deal to Brooklyn. Since Mr.

Pat HayeB has secured a snug position under Mr. Flaherty, it is harder than ever to Aetemjrwipjj jf tftQia "figffc" SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 14, IS78. The Sunday Edition oj the Eagle has a Large and Rapidly Growing Circulation, and is Becoming a Favorite Medium for Advertisers Who Desire to Beach All Classes of Readers in Brooklyn. The Daily Evening) Eagle is Now in its TJivty Ninth Tear. Its Circulation is Larger Than That of Any Other Paper cflts Class in the United States.

THE SECTIONS IN POLITICS. A good many Western Democratic and Republican papers are telling the public men and journals of the East that the people in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys are becoming a law unt them selves, and that the principles of political economy are being shorn of their applicability to that portion of the American poople. We are warned that we are capitalists, bullionist accumulators, non producers Bad the like, who cannot sympathize with or understand the workers, groenbackers, disburses and multipliers of wealth of the West. They have had enough of us, unless we come to their way of thinking. They will make an allianco with the South and will leave the North and East out in the cold.

This tune has had several refrains, for yoars. The first refrain was inflation. The second refrain was to pay promises with more promises. The present double refrain is "fiat" money and plenty of subsidies for local improvements. The East is variously regarded as a Bourbon, a Shyloek, a oorrupter as an utterly Belfish quantity.

There is really little difference in the present surfaoe politics of the West. Take references to the Presidential fraud out Bnd there is very little difference between the platforms of the two parties out West. They prefer different men, but they advocate like measures. On finance they are at present for the greenback and for plenty of it. As to labor they are equally in favor of re olving anything that will gat the labor vote.

On tariff they impartially "hedge." For the Administration they have a oommon contempt. And for Eastern "views" they profess an equal dislike. These things are not difficult to account for. The war which for a while has demor Dlized all American politics, demoralized the West mora than the East. It puffed up her Canity more, beoause her soldiers had the )st luck, fought over the largest spaces and made more noise per man than any others.

Moreover, the things which greenbacks would buy best were the necessaries of life the luxuries had to be bought at a gold standard, and there were an abundance of the former and a paucity of the latter in the West. On East corporations were the strongest forces, and they are conservative Out West there were many weak corporations, but they sera at the mercy of radical public opinion. So tho bloody shirt, the greenback and the granger became forces in the West, and the West was able to bully politics for long time ia both parties. Beside, the East had invested a great deal of money in the West, and the latter felt that calm superiority which a debtor always feels toward a creditor Who cannot push things. Then the remoteness of the West was in favor of its misunderstanding the East.

Tha West felt as if it had grown up by itself iudepanJently of the laws of progress. The East to it was an apex of England or Goruiauy, simply because it was nearer to them aud because the conditions to solvency in European business are not different from American ones, and the proper Science of affairs everywhere is the same if really understood. ''What do we care for abroad?" scornfully risked Stanley Matthews. The capability of asking such question reveals the essential mental crudity and insecurity of the West of the day. The idea that principles do not take on a climatic change never once ocenrred to the West.

They are great JJabylon, and they built themselves. So wo are told that "Western ideas" will rule, and the must adopt them or get put on the shelf. The arrogance of the announcement is exhilarating. Its effects are as notable. Mr.

Watterson says that if Democracy does not become Whigism and go in for subsidies, the gouthwest will have none of it. Mr. Ewing Bays that Democracy meanB giving the Government the power to declare paper to bo money, and tho Administration the power to Btimp as much of it as it wants to. Judge West told us, last year, that Republicanism meant Communism. Sam Cary and Mr.

Kearney toll us that between labor and oapi tnl there is one irrepressible conflict, aud that property is a crime. They nil tell us that Western "ideas" will prevail, and they are novel in always giving geographical, rather than moral or intellectual, qualification to their "principles." Meantime tho East is as united and clear on the principles of Government as the SVest is not. The East is for hs.rd money. The Ea it, as a whole, is for home rule, "blather" as the politicians may. The East, as a whole, that protection is tho bane of our affairs but the East if.

a minority, tha West is a plurality of the ople, and the South holds the balance of power between the two. This fact accounts for a measure of the ns Burance of tho West. Nothing is so positive Rii misinformation. Nothing is so confident Es lusty vigor without the temperance of culture. Hence, the South is ogled and claimed by the West, aud, in our judgment, without warrant.

Her affiliations are with the Middle Blales. Her men of affairs have coaimorcad in thought and in cotton more with the North and Europe than with the West. The one experience of reconstruction has been so bitter and absorbing that heresies have not had room or time to run rampant in the Southern mind. The war gave tho South her fill of paper money, unredeemable currency and the like and left her with clean decks, and, if with no assets, so also with no debts and no nonsense. The recurrence of the South to practical questions reveals hr aa faulty but on one Democratic issue.

She is not for "no subsidies," because Republicanism sub Bidied the North and West and she wants some, too." But even that feeling is not more than skin deep. The bottom and permanent opinion of the South is for free trade Bnd free trade means an absence of favoritism as well as an absence of oppressive discrimination. The South would like to get out of this last interim of Republicanism as much aid as she can, for it is, to her, like spoiling the Egyptians, but she would not ask Ihe Democratic, party to be un Democratic on tier account, if it was in power. Among the gentlemen elected to represent the Brooklyn Greonbaekers in National Convention, we are pleased to notice Dr. Thomas Tuilamore Henderson, whose versatility has made him everything by turns, and nothing long.

Tho Doctor, it may be remembered, left the regular Democrats because they would cot nominate him for Coroner, and joined the Republicans becauso they did nominate, and he has left them because they did not elect him. and esteemed his influence so lightly that they would give him no other employment than that of Sewer Inspector, at two dollars a day. The Doctor has roason to be dissatisfied with both political parties. Ab dentist, dramatist, Irish patriot and friend pf the Amerioan laboring man, he has no pqual. It should be mentioned, to the Doctor's credit, that ever since he became an aspirant for political honors he has been active in Fenian oircles, and has permitted no Hibernian parade in Brooklyn on St.

Patriok'a Pay to pass without participating prominently. The politicians of South Brooklyn will do well to remember that "Workingman" Geg ban, of the Twelfth Ward, is already trying his speed over tha Assembly track of the Third Assembly District. The pace he is going at in bis preliminary oanter shows that when the real trial comes he will be a candidate to be dreaded. Mr. Geghan is not only the favorite of the workingmen, but that branch of them known as the Cartmen's Association have taken such an especial interest him that ha is determined "to do or die" in the forthcoming Assembly race.

Pleasantville is a good name for the villago en the Harlem road in whioh Miss Vee flenbergh, eged 40, woed and won the son of her employer, aged 17, and Unionville whither they sped to be married, was a happily RAPID TRANSIT AND STREET. FULTON The JtapidTransit Commission has reported to tho Board of Aldermen that, in its judgment. Fulton street, from Fulton Ferry to East New York, can fittingly be devoted to tho purposes of an elevated railroad. While the consideration of this extraordinary recommendation is pending before the Aldermen, the old Silent Safety Elevated Railroad Companywhich erected throe or four posts in I Lexington avenue, some years ago made its appearance before tho asking that it be allowed to build an elevated railroad on so much of the route designated by the Commission as is embraced between I Fulton Ferry and Nostrand avenue, along the line of Fulton street. This modest re quest has been so well worked up that, it is reported, if a vote had been taken upon it, on I Monday last, a majority of tho Board of Al derinen would be fouud to be in its favor.

As it was, the requost of the venerable Silent Safety concern was referred to the law adviser of the city to the end that he might give his opinion as to the legal right of tho Aider man to grant this franchise to this corpora I tiou. We are pretty well satisfied that noth 1 ing directly i6 to be feared from any combiua tion which can bo effected between the Alder man and the managers of the Silent Safety concern, for the reason that the Aldermen oannot legally appropriate any part of tho i route designated by the Rapid Transit Com mission to any particular corporation now in existence, or to any company other than that I the Commission itself has the power to organ izo after the city authorities shall have ratified the action thus far taken by the Commission. There ought to bo no hesitation whatever in instantly rejecting so much of the report of the Municipal Commission aa contemplates the ereotion of a steam railroad, in any form, on Fulton street. How the Commission came to agree in such a recommendation is a mystery. In view of the experience of New York, on Sixth avenue, any man who should recommend the erection of an elevated railroad on Fulton street, or any other street at all like it, ought to be regarded as a candidate either for the penitentiary or the lunatio asylum.

Apart altogether from what is known about the destruction of property on Sixth avenue, the proposition to place a steam railroad on Fulton Btreet ia outrageously preposterous. It is hard to exercise patience in discussing it. From Flatbush avenue to East New York, Fulton street and Atlantic avenue may bo said to run side by side. For miles together a Bhort block divides the two streets. Wo have now a steam Burface road on At lantio avenue, and the proposition to placo a steam road on the adjoining street can be held not to be knavery only by regarding it a3 lunacy.

Wo are well satisfied no steam railroad will over bo forced on Fulton street, for it would, under tho circumstance, bo an outrage that would justify resistance in case men eleoted to guard tho people's interest betrayed them, and that the law of the land afforded them no protection. Until men suffer the cowardly sneak thief to enter their dwellings in the daylight and suffer him to ransack the premisns rather than resist him, it will be vain to expect that men will puffer their property to be ruined before their eyes with impunity. The real danger is not that there will be an elevated railroad forced on Fulton stroot agniust tho united protest of those who own property on it, and of that of every man who regards the rights of his neighbor as involving his own. But that the present precious Board of Aldermen may take such action as will throw a cloud on the future of one of our principal thoroughfares. If that body should, either by granting the application of the Silent Safety banditti or by approving of the report of the Municipal Commission, moke it even possible that a steam road can be placed on Fulton street, it will result in the depreciation of every dollar's worth of property in the line of this great thoroughfare, and next to a steam railroad on a street, the fear of it, the possibility of it, is most to be dreaded.

We do not bolievo that any Board of Aldermen, where members expect to oontinue to live in Brooklyn would dare attempt now to perpetrate the wrong whioh may have been contemplated a week ago. But while we say this, the possibility of tho existing Board of Aldermen for mischief oan hardly be exaggerated. The Municipial Commission of whose members better things wore expected have afforded a precedont behind which jobbers will be eager to shield themselves. Of course such security as Mayor Howell's official power can throw around publio interest and private rights may ba relied upon, but it so happens that the existing Board of Aldermen, as a body, are not in sympathy with Mayor Howell. The voters of Brooklyn can order it otherwise next November, when one half the msmbers of tho Board are to ba elected, but until that time, tho force of public opinion and of organization among the property owners and taxpayers of Brooklyn must bs their main reliance in securing for tho Mayor tha strength to serve them and protect them.

Short work ought to be made of the request of the Silent Safoty operators as soon as the Aldermen get together next monlh; and as to the recommendation of the Municipal Commission, tho best thing to do with it, under all the circumstances, is to squelch it promptly, and for good and all. What we have said of Fulton street is, to a great extent, true of Myrtle avenue and of all our business streets, Rapid transit, as it has been attempted in New York, is a failure, for it involves the confiscation of more property than it can ever be the means of adding to tha taxable wealth of a city. This conclusion is inevitable, and the sooner Brooklyn accepts it, the better for the city and for any project of rapid transit that will be endurable, and which does not sweep over private rights like the bosom of destruction. THE PLAGUE OF FLASH TU21E. LITER A It would probably be assuming too much to suppose that persons of a speculative turn of mind habitually attend variety performances in tho minor theatres and music halls surrendered to this class of entertainment, but occasionally, perhaps, a human being of a reflective turn is to be found in the audience.

To him, watching the antics of the "song and dance listening to tho extraordinary sounds proceeding from the person of the Ethiopian comedian or struggling to evolve a grain of sense from the dubious utterances of the comic singer, a question must have arisen now aud again as to the origin of these luminaries. From what unknown spot on earth, he must ask himself, did these prodigies of imbecility originate Do they grow in shoal9 or the variety theatre a sort of focus for the whimsicalities of nature Do all persons with large feet and small brains gravitate instinctively to the variety theatro Or are they sent thither by special agents bidden to collect the sporadic prodigies of nature 't Then the question enlarges itself, as the feminine jig dancer and "serio comic enchantress" appear, as to how the variety theatres are recruited. The subject has puzzled a great many well meaning persons, who until to day have remained in a painful state of perplexity. But the uncertainty is in a measure dispelled. A certain adventure has shown that the same beneficent hand which supplies boy highwaymen, boy train wreckers and boy murderers has also the honor of furnishing embryo serio oomics and half fledged British blondes.

It came about by means of the arrest of three silly little girls of Toronto, aged re speotfully fifteen, fourteen and thirteen years, who were caught in New York yesterday en route for some mythical palace of variety fame, known as Egyptian Hall. The eldest of the party, who seems to have developed by dint of careful study of juvenile story papers a magnificent talent for lying, narrated to the police that she had received a letter from a variety aotress who shone in spangles at Egyptian Hall and spent her unprofessional hours in cutting coupons off fabulous quantities of bonds, inviting her to come the AJIATKIK LIT KR A TURK. To'l i Eiitar of th ir.A'j., The communication from B. (it shnid i liavi. bjsn B.

which apii a. oi youi i iie HjnJsy last, re jU.res a.jr Inaj puna, I10 out as a reply lo kind, but as an thi which prompts! Ui pubtl illon. l'o of liii rarv as ociatl which it ref rs qui. kly dmoovdre 1 an.i have, tlisrefor the cinsolsti ui su.i viiu that, initea of b.iag (BtoaoWJ au a est of trioui'e'vei their work. It lii ui! a tL i.

inaiioi ui mind, it iel r.v!i3 caoiu to initio. a t.oi exioate the nisuMhip nl coiront tbo grammar) turns out to be a party wui bl bu a of tbe Aasociaiion who iiAi i i i rob il." 'irril)U coiiirau ni''t! 'ii a by blm to the oJlior utois ho now so rw.ul..uipioV ly ussaiis. liis vf had mid aprsr ut upon previous occasions, but in our charity ve did not b.ui to be the cowarlly poltroon that he now lw'oTsrj himself to be by attempting In a maluloua couiirrialcatwa to an mfiiential joaraai to ciat eo tmp: ib" pi. ions ic I aluu of his former fellow member's, lit thus publicly sesks t5 relress an em lillv rnv.te ws himself to b3 not only a riilr crcalur' a ba'O corJ fTtliicb, bv tbo way, he tue reputation lu private circles of being.) As fo. the party who etgn himself B.

it w.i: suffice to snow how li of a gentleman he la, to sim j.ly eiato that he now, alter having enjoyed the courtesies of our Association, ii ii In the public press vililfy us. But this is alter the faahiou of eratursa of his class. As tbo comniunlLali jn Is actuate! only by u.allcs and cann bs cievatsd lo the dignity of even a biaasil oriticiim. it Is useless Iu answer bis idiotic tatonicnta, but his assertion that wo are "au association of bovs and girls, barely out ot our teens." does not rotijel oreJitably upin the InicUl ence of our Board of iucation, who have daemed eflver.il of our members to bo oompotent to adequately fill tbe 'anion of instructors tn our public schools; one of this number being a principal, and another a vice principal. A Ukubsk.

A PLKA FOB A LOXU SCflOOL VACATION. Tc tht Editor of Ms Brooklyn Baalt: In your issue of Friday last I noticed nu article on the eohool vacation, tho writer of which aeema to think thaMn regard to Bobool vacation every thing did not conform to tho "idea! pattern bo had conceived in his mind of absolute right." Well, people of different minds must necessarily differ. I think the uxaga of vacations doe.i accord with common sense, for the reaaoa that I have been as oyo witness to tu'ir good elTeat. In the first Instance I claim that a good teachar aa welkaa a good scholar, If ihoy use the bram tiFiuo for niDe months out of tho twelve, will nod toi three months' vacation to strengthen that tissue to un'Iero another nine months' labor. I know when a boy that six weeks' vacation passed too quickly and that I wanted more that vacation bsfore I was anxious to return to school, and other boys wer liko nil ia that ropoet.

Tbn real trouble with tho writer of that arli do seems lo be like that a great many othfar parents, who don't wish to be bothers! with their chf.dron around aud want some one else to take ohsrgo of their children, eve ii it is only a school teachy. It is their personal ooro fort and convenience, not tho desire fer the health and olucatinn of their children, wbicb exercises them. Now as to the duty of a achool teachor and the wearing nature i Ihe teacher's occupation. Xo un' with a kuowledgo of a teacher's duties wou! I question tho wear ug nv'ur i ol it, although It only axteu la, aa the writer aays, from nine A. M.

to thro? P. five days in a week. Lei the writer of tbe article try a class of boys or uirla for oqh day instoai of Qve let that class be composed ol twenty scholars, all ol dlftiTeat disposition and wmrerameots let him Wy anJ keep them in perfect order, atteupt to Imparl knoilelgo into their brains, some being dull of comprehension others let blm keep hi. temper ou all occasions an.i so on 1 not himself as lo ooinnn.l their at lenti' 'n an i respect; let him do all this for on day only, and he wul then kuotv something of a toacber'rt position in our public schools. I will voutur lo say, lu uo other walk of life is a position so trying lo a person as tb.it of a public i 1 teacher, and so much xpjeted ot hlru at so min'l a roiuunora tmu.

They are killing bouts InCeed, lu they uot from tho seat of vn.il power, the brain, and tins being the i.sition of teacher, iloo i not the scholar Hkewh' givt his portlou of brain power to the samn ami shall his hours of rclaiMl or vacation sb to satisfy the oomioit of a complaimag parent wh los not want tb th of ill li rj in vaci lime If a ohibl to lo impr.nooe 1 during tha hot ws.tth noho.nl room became he ink? bu so tnlck boa let, i ll vhty in his menu, bo no loubl Inherited, toe truth irss known, from hi I ii to vat wis lnti hlui during nine months of pr vioua sumy 7 Funhr liatitu A truancy can no better ia 'lovel'ipeJ than by ibe hign yatern 'f a cbll 1 at his or hor booktl for too long a seas Young America woVt stand It, even if lazy or nniiiiniilna parents cm. Tho only way the 'wliom I do not lve tbe credit of being a parent, but 401111 old erusty feluw," Is to found a Summer ac'iool under his plan, lilta ralght schools, civilly thoi? teachers an.i scholar who neai vacation, or think tbey do, a rost. A Paeext. tlUIPS AND JESTS. A woman who can mnko a good pudding in silence Is greater than she who can make a tart reply.

Two American piano factories have jnsi bean start. id In Mexico, and if this doe not pro voko hostilities nothing will. Another little girl on being asked tentatively In oourt If she knew whore liars went, replied; "To tb6 Potter Investigating Committer," The sins of tho father aro about to bo vis lied on the children for at luast one generation, tor Webb Iluyos Ib atout to bo msrrlod. Insects aro not muoh given to talking, but they have been kaown to the liveliest Hort or conversation In others. It is a curious fact that no man really likes ro hold a girl baby In his arms until she is neven een yars old.

Perhaps during their meditations in church tbU morning some of our readers will hit up in an explanation, as to why tha organ spoaks so sally whilo the collection is being taken up. Mr. Dodd, of Iowa, enjoys the initials, A. I). And Binoe ilrd.

Dudd has just pron uto blm with a twenty second littiv UJ those lultlain seem to be prophetic, It is thought that only ons more invention can bo ask id of Ell ton, as his crowning effort, narnoly a cirrflB clowu with original ideas and a mouth. The correspondtnit who writes to inqniro whether It tako Jon tramiug to knotr how to manage a four band. plca wi to learn tuat it easily done if Ihey are four ac Now that t.he shad eason is over, everybody has probably dticvi that the story of tholr having Irlculnre in them was a hoax. They have too many bones to permit of their having anything A farmer writing to a bright city newspaper to know what to get for klcilns cjwi is please 1 to bo tol 1 that ho ought to get two years In tht lor bis brutality. Mr.

Alger has evidently stolen a page of I'je llev. Joseph Flavim Cook's matujcript, wben 5 says that the "univerje is only a saimtn. of diflir encD on a screen ot identity." It is not true that the valus of pictures ai vsnccs 1ih A two dollar chromo bought flvo years ago wouldn't bs away with a pound ol hard tack nowadays. Some people have tukon gruve exception to the statement that a Colonel wa reoootly killed in with ladlaas. He mutt ha vj been a greon one, tli jy flay, not to have been a sale place when bullets were earning his way.

Frenchmen do not reserve all their capacity for unoranca to amuse Am ricans. Invitations wtre recently IssiMd by Ihe Literary Cingrei" of Pirn to M. Douglas Jerroid and XI. Will.aroi Llekcpeai Thackeray. Mile.

Gorster has greatly offended th: London critics by pretoal.n to gel into her stae bvl with her ho ota on. She rUhex sharply Ibat she supposes sho has Invalid their particular privi ege. A noted fl oricnlturalist addressing an audience said he never could look upon a pink, a poppy or a sweet William without tbinklug of hit mother. A gontleman In tho audience rose to adi one more fluwor to the list ol maternal reminders, namely, the la ly's slipper. One of Mr.

Bryant's peculiarities in said Lo have been a desire to be al ine when writing. II is a peculiarity that most great literary in bava. Persons wanting will plaae cut this out and pasto it in their lists. Since she appeared before the ComrniUoo Mrs. Jonks has received by mail simultaneously two offers of employment, one from 8t.

Louis and the other from Chicago, natnsly, t3 edit their refpectira directories, Beaconsfield, on being asked how Russia would construe a clause In tho Salisbury circular, replied with a pedagogical smile. "Thsy will not oonsuno it, tuoy will decline it." If this is the Ueat he can do it'e a pity he ever put into cxscnlion bis forty year old threat to be hoard. A New Orleans lawyer, in defending a rail road company In a ault brought by the parent of a onild who had been nu over, demaaded of the Jury a verdict for bis client on the ground that ii the plaintiff won the people of New Orleans woaid be etemany sending tUeir children into tbe streets tc be ran over. Mind, it was the Buffalo Express that said this unkind thing of our contemporary "On tha lass dsy Mr. Bryant' visited the Kuninj Poet says Ihe Brooklyn Union Argut, "he rods as to the offioe." Now this was real unkind.

Wa srappoee, bow ever, that Mr. Bryant, being somewhat nearsighted, thought be was on oroe ol the regular animal. BUSINESS KOTICES. THE SK ASIDE LIBRARY, Oat la day In e'ear. bold, Qaadeeaee type, L1BBARY.

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ft4 pas dotan mdtrrsa ditto la crroai variety. (We aoatrol ail tha at, naaba etJKQ I ram one shipper.) Also tha Orand Wiase, bottled at Um Chateau, from tba most reliable shlpMrt ot liordoaaax. Also SaiaterBe. common, raadlnm 'i? fxp" Fulton ii ajrj 709 Broadway, K. T.

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H. alABVlS, Pswldeat, tTiBaxu. 8natr FASHION NOTES. Summer figures for ladies' prinoess morning robes and for children's dresses are striped or else figured like old fashioned brlllantes. Basques intended for Summer materials are deoidediy dressy, and the vesta are their chief feature.

Buttons and bows of ribbon are much used, in addition to other trimmings upon basques. The new perfumes are a peculiar attar of rose, called "Love's Faintest Sign" and "Smothered Sigh." The groat delicacy of these odors will render them popular. White dresses were never more fashionable than at present, but they scarcely come under the head ot every day dress, as they ore exceedingly elaborate. Long crepe de chine scarfs of blue or brilliant scarlet are trimmed with rioh fringe and worn as an evening drapery. They are thrown across the shoulders, orossed in front, and carried around and tied in a loose knot over the drapeiy ct the dress at the baok.

It has become a fashion to set about a room in braokets upon the walls, Frenoh plate mirrors about a foot and a half in size each way, of whioh the frames are richly embossed brass and forward of whioh, also in brass aro three colored wax tapera. When lit these adjuncts add muoh to the life and brilliancy of a room. It is poor economy to lay aside dresses and not wear them, simply rouause they are handsome, until their newness and fashionablencst have departed, only unearthing them to remodel them, vrhen, the colors proclaim their antiquity, and all the additional expense and trouble put upon them cannot make them wearabld. A pretty and useful costume for lit tie girls of twelve years oonslsts of a kilted skirt, with a waist suspended by Btraps from the shoulders, faoed to simulate a vest, or a long jacket, cut away slightly from the front. Down the front is a row of buttons, and buttons oruamont tho cuffs and pocket).

The linen collars worn at present are high at the baok, and decidedly flaring, and the points in front begin to turn over quite underneath the ear. The slope ia gradual to the front. Newly imported linen collars have the points embroidered In gay linen threads, and a few have a row of this bright colored embroidery extending around the collars and ouffs. The edges are finished with small points or scallopB. Silk, sicilienno, and Indian cashmere continue to be the favorito materials for oonfeatlons, and there is a deoided tendonoy in all tho scarf mantles to give the appearance of much narrowness to the figure.

In soma of the models a trimming of black velvet and beads is Introduced at the back; in others the aide pieces covering the arms are made of transparent Spanish lace. There are many novel features in plaitings for the throat and sleeves, notably In orepa Usee. They are stltohed In the centre, and frills are added at the edge; some have triple plaitings, and the plaitings are very fine. The muslin and tarlatan ruohes are crimped and mounted in box plaits, generally two rows, the outer one being somewhat wider than the inner row. The new black net ruches are edged with amber beads; they are so fall that they look like fralses round the throat, and to slender necks are most becoming.

The "Cromwell," is the newest hat of tho season. It has a very wide brim, a Cromwell crown, and the brim Is either turned up or left down as suits the taste. The popular trimming Is a facing for the brim, a bow fastened with an ornament, where lc is turned up, and a scarf knotted around the orown. The feature of all the hats for country wear la the straight, flexible brim, which can be manipulated in any way to suit the taste. Very little trimming is required for any of them.

High colored fans are at present the rage, and crimson, scarlet and blaok are frequently chosen for mountings, and the decorations are flowers or figures in white or some contrasting oolor. Decorated wood fans are also popular. There are handsome fans of medium size, made of satin and silk oombined, and deoorated with water color paintings. Some of these have stloks of ash or oberry tinted in beautiful oolors. Costly tans are not often seen in the warm season, the plainer ones being considered most appropriate for the weather.

The most admired ovorskitt at present in vogue is known as the "washerwoman's fanoy." The front Is a straight, smooth breadth, with a reversed pleoe trimmed at the top, and carried baok tar enough to button just baok ot tbe seam wbloh unites tho front and back breadths of the overakirt. A square outline makes the back breadth, whioh also is deeper than tha front, and a puff, supported by a strap supplies tbe drapery. This design la suited ootn for woolen goods and wash fabrics. The modes of making most admired for light woolens show a long or a abort walking skirt, accompanied by a polonaise or else ot an overakirt and basque. Such a drsas has a simple trimming of either aids or box plaiting on the foot ot the skirt; tba overakirt Is oloeo and smooth st the front, with either round, square, or diagonal eflaot ot outline, and tbe drapery at tbe baok 1 nlaoed very low.

The basque Is made usually with a vest. The back is rounded up, and ia quite short, and finished with a simple trimming, and a belt passes entirely around the waist. The yoke basque la sometimes preferred to either ot tha above.