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THfi WORLD t WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1887. K?THE WORLD. HHiT\ IHIi f4tp at frtHDiUMtng Ct. HkU' WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 2 1. HP Kp' BVBBCRXrilOlT XO TUB ETHN1NO BLj,V.J' EDITION ( Including Poitagt), HK TltXOJTTJT, 80c ;FSIt YEAR, $3.50. K'2 THE NOVEMBER RECORD. Hp Total namber or \ World printed during K- - the mantis or November, 188T, 8,505,840. B' AVERAGE FEB OAT FOR THK ENTniE Hfct. MONTH, I' 283,528 COPIES. Kq KOrXUDER C1RCULAT10X during tne pott til WW Vtart compartas HBJk1. Monthly Dalit Hrt- - M 043,801 31,403 B ' 28S3 3,301,070 40,380 B, SSSat 3,840,33 398,104 Hr'tt 38sff 4,048,4B3 304,048 HV'' 3SS0..... 0,107,430 S03,BBO K!, war 8,505,840 283,528 K' OPEN TO ALL. H.' . The\Nw York \World\ Invito every Hfr' Vewipaper Proprlotor and every Advertiser Hfo to examine Its Books and Press Room to Hn, . Satisfy himself about Its Circulation. Htf Kf - ADVERTISING RATES. Ep (Aaat Measurement.) K; Ordinary, 25 etnU pr lino. Ha eitr pile for so- - Ht etptabl display. Bosine or Special Notices, oppoelt Bv editorial ptc. 60 cent per line. Reading Notloes, p starred ormsiked \Adit.\ I First pao, 81.50 per Hfsr! JlnstFdurthpege, 91.80 per llnei Inside pan. Ml Kfe I' ton. Vl rokfVrad.rrllWiitf i IfteXialfy WORLD do no I ap- - E'V ' fhf&tJtMntmaUnu. Nor lo tho ral of that Uru. k UJ'll' t AfemliiJ JCdOlen. H'' THAT TERBIBLE WABNIHQ. Kg Tho narrow cscapo from a torriblo disastor on the Sixth nvenuo \L\ yesterday will Hj:',' Impress sovoral facts very vividly on tho H V publio mind. LB Tho Manhattan management is \taking HBt too many chances.\ Poor wages, lone hours, k , Insufficient force, resultant carelessness, tho Kwk multiplication of switchos and tho over-R- & Increasing orowds mean increasing danger. Btf\. The peril yesterday resulted from a diroct Kjl attempt to ovado tho law by a hasty con-Hr- v , Btrnotlon of a switch. Are tho authorities, B whose business it is to provent such vlohv-Ei- ;' ' tlons, asleep and as caroless as tho corpora-HH- p UonitseU? H The narrowly averted disastor, moreover, Hekf oonolusively shows that safety as well as convenienco domands the immediate con- - Btrnotlon of a more adequate and substantial transportation system. Hps.'\( FETICH WORSHIP. Ea Mr. Blaine's looal organ Kf Herod in its worship of the tariff fetioh. Ha What must sensible Republicans think of H& the Tribune1 $ latest declaration that \ to talk HP about reforming ' tho tariff \ is \like pro. Bf posing to reconstruct tho Gospel or remodel Hp' the law of gravitation.\ H There you havo it I Tho 47 per cent, war Hf tariff, pouring a yearly surplus of over K: 9100,000,000 into the Treasury and increasing y many limes that sum tho cost of the people's necessities, must no moro be dls- - J9 turbed or questioned than \ the Qospel \ or W the \ law of gravitation.\ If tho monopoly-defende- rs toko that stand Hp; the tariff will not be reformed it will ho Hgt smashed. K nXLF THE H03PITALS. E- - Church-goer- s should not let Christmas- - Hi.r civing to those who will givo to them again K leave them so short of monoy that thoy can- - K! not contribute liberally to the Hospital Fund H In tho collections to bo token next Saturday Bj and Sunday. HtV No more beautiful benevolence or desorv-BHp- 4 ins charity appeals to our people than that BvT 'r which sustains tho hospitals. K' To give every one a chanoo to contribute Hk! boxes' have been placed as usual in the sta-- K tlons of the \ L \ roads and other publio m$ places. A BATE DBE OF I0E. HBil If the scare about disease germs in ice, Hb. whether exaggerated or not, shall tend to V,' lessen the use of ice in drinking water, it H, ( will do a vast amount of good. HkV Bacteria are not tho only source of danger HEr in ice. The American habit for it is con. K& fined to this country of deluging the stom. K' ach with draughts of iced-wate- r, with tho K. meals, is most pernicious. It retards dlges- - V tkm until the normal heat of the stomach is regained, and is a proliflo cause of dyspepsia. Kh. It the water be placed in the refrigerator, K' or elsewhere in contact with the ice or cold T' air, until it be oool enough to be agreeable, K' there will bo no danger from disease-gorm- B E? a Jess danger of dyspepsia. B'' THE HEQLE0TED PROMEKADE. R, The annual bridge report shows a largo ln- - Hft crease In railroad passengers, but a consider. HV!, able decrease of foot passengers. Kot one HE person in ten walked across. b The bridge promenade, tho most magnifi. k& eBnt in all the world, is not half appreciated. K ' Thore would be fewer pallid faces among tho HT ' thousand of weary sedentary workers who HK - cross the bridge if they would nso the foot. K' t path instead of the crowded cars. K, A brisk walk in the bracing air of the K&\ '. promenade is better than medicine. The Kb t extra eight or ten minutes required are K'r cheaper than doctors' bills and days of ill. \ GIVE THEH BOUETHHfa USEFUL. K .In jlUfl jocund season of gift bearing our H&i esabient'patriots should not be overwhelmed, EW',.'ik the averago civilian, with a choice as. Bi' sortment of rubbish they don't want K '.' BeuA Mr. Buume nomething really useful, Hk; ' ' ,h m a aseteerolocleal report and probabil-- B , UJjf aaMei4'Wf.T4 of Koveb bawd on statistics of 1681. Qive Johm Biikrmam, but strictly for private amusomont, a bnndlo of old linen with a pot of carmine. Mall a neat little snub to Fobaxxo, ho dotos on them so. Put an extra lot of stationery in Mayor Hawrrr'a stooking. Hang \ Tho Example of Boncdict\ on Qov. Hill's Christmas troo. And, if possiblo, drop anothor lump of sugar InProsidont Cleveland's overrunning cup of bliss. Thus may our ntatosmen float contentedly adown tho Yule-tld- A MODEL CHRISTMAS BHOPFEB. In tho crucial test of Christmas shopping Mrs. Cleveland appears to characteristic advantago. Sho knows what sho wants and asks for it. Sho docs not send homo ovory littlo paper of pins or bit of tape. Sho acts on tho theory (hat tho salesgirls desorvo con- sideration as well as the shoppers. Nobody has over written a code of etiquette for shoppers, but it is nooded badly enough. What woful wosto of tlmo. what futilo wan-derin- hither and thither, what rounds of aimless questions attend Christmas pur. chases I Mrs. Cleveland unconsciously sets a time- ly cxamplo as n modol Christmas shopper. Frosh from his littlo pleasantry with Ade ncMMEL, Mayor Hewitt boldly invites a gonoral onslaught by the medical profession in giving testimony to tho virtue of soothing syrup in other words, diluted laudanum for babies. Tho Mayor should remember that ono man can't know everything. Behdy \Wall is n, most ungullnnt groom. Why should he outer into open competition with his brido in tho matter of raiment, and by donning \ a capo coat of whito melton, with buttons as largo as saucors,\ cast his wifo's modest cloak into tho shade ? Mar. riago ought to put an end to oven a dudo's egotism. Tho Appointment by tho Presidont of an Appralsor of tho Port of Chicago who had no \ political pull,\ but was \ backod by tho solid business men of both parties,\ is an- other application of Civil-Sorvic- o Ilefonn that will not plcoso tho spoilsmen. It is reported that a grand, sproo, whoroin noblo lord hobnobbed with plug-ugl- followed tho Kilhain-Suit- ii com- bat. Tho mills of the sluggors aro not run bywator. ItiDDLZDEnoEB will bo forgiven his antics in tho Senate if he will let himself loose to show up the absurdity of tho blatant Blaib. ThoHollandor who yearns to fare John Xi. should bear in mind the current, opinion that ho ' ' beats tho Dutoh.\ Thero should bo on extradition treaty with Canada. Let us have reciprocity in rascals, if in nothing elso. The \ L\\rallway managers evidently bo-- 1 Hovo 'thatthowayto keep rich is-t- bo born lucky. WORLDLINGS. BentorTalraer,'Of Mlanlgan, has a nobby In bla Jerej cons and Percheron bones. Ills butter coin bttn about $J a pound. A Georgia undortaker advertises tbat be baa 'two brand-ne- elegant hearsts one for the white and one tor tbe colored people. \ A petrified make, three Inches In diameter and several feet In length, was thrown out by a blut In tbe quarries at Deadwood, Dak., recently. Ucorge W. Chllds, the I'hlladolphla editor and philanthropist, poaaesaei a table service wortn $30,000, a clock that cost to,000 ami 80,000 valuable autographs. Daniel Htoncman, who has Just been received Into tho Wabash County (Ind.) Insane Asylum as a pa- tient, prefers grass to any other food. Ho chews u cud like a cow. It Is alleged that II lis Maggie Ilazloton, a young woman of Trenton, N. J. , weighs 1)30 pounds. A Philadelphia dlmo muaeum manager la making to secure her for exhibition. Tbe study of Volapuk, the new universal lan- guage. Is obligatory upon the students of tbe Itoral Gymnasia of Munich. In Uuasla it la permitted to be used In telegraphlo transmission. A traveller, recently returned from a trip to New Mexico, says that In a little valley In the south of the Territory be taw ripe apples, green apples and apple blossoms all growing In the samo orchard. A Kansas City confectioner drew crowds of curl, ous people to his storo and sold quantities of candy by suspending nvo dead mlco from mlnlaturo acal-fold- a and labelling them with the names of the con- demned AnarchUts. Capt Frank Ilurkltt, tho editor of the Oklahoma (Wis.) ittisengrr. Is assisted In his duties by Miss Jennte Lee and Miss Mystlo Ilurkltt, his daughters. They edit tho State news and tho society oolumna of their father's paper and also set type for It. The negroes of Ilaltlmore are said to be unu- sually thrifty as a rule, uud thero are nineteen of them whoso combined wealth aggregates (800,000. The richest of them Is Joseph Thomas, a bosi stevedore, who Is worth HO.OOO. James L. Brad- ford, a green grocer, Is worth fso,ooa A rubber belt on tho cotton gin at Coosaw, Ga. , broke wlib sucb force the other day that It snapped around like a whip, and the end struck Berry (lib-Bo- a negro, In the faoe. Ho was thrown to the ground senseless, his nose was maahed flat agstnat his faco and hla eyes were driven out of their sockets. Borne of the young people of Cairo, 111., had a candy-pullin- g the otbor evening, and everybody was having a Jolly llnio until suddenly tho bouse cat slipped from a shelf above tbe stove and fell Into the boiling molasses. He put such a damper on the entertainment that the party soon.broko up. The cat died. In n Hafe Place, lron (A. Jtotton Jtan.cripf.l \Joseph said the merchant to a bright young man with the best of references, \ the bookkeeper tells me you havo loit the key of the safe and he cannot get at his books. \ \ Yes, sir, one of them, you gave me two, you remember. \ 'Yes, I had duplicates made, In case of acc- ident And the other one T\ ' Oh, sir, I took good care of that. I was afraid I might lose one of them, you know.\ And Is the other ail right T\ ' Ye4 sir. I put It where there was no danger of Its being lost. It Is In the safe, air. \ A Little I,y. irtom W: Bachelor B. Why, Mary, that's a very (null iW-,te- s, abr. it U bnt It was only 114 taU moroiBcaU't ?1lf fl!iiStto!tVAi'iliV..rf MANA0ER HAIN INVISIBLE. '! lie lias Not Had Tlmo Yet to Investigate the Elevated Itallroud Accident. A train left tho track near tho Franklin stroot station of tho Sixth ovenuo olovated road at 2.80 o'clock yosterday afternoon and jolted along on tho very ends of the tics, frlghtoning tho passengers and endangering many lives. It was nlmost a miraclo that tho train was brought to a stop boforo tho cars wero into West Brondway below. All theso facts woro mentioned in tho oven Ing edition of The Wohld yesterday. Homo ono was certainly at fault for tho Hovonty-flv- o workmen had been rucnged for m oral diivs in lnying switchos nnd side tracks nt this point, nnd bolts hnd been loosened and spikes drawn from tho rails. A WonLD reporter called upon Oeuernl Superintendent Haln this morning to obtain further particulars. , Col. Iliiin returned tho card tho reporter sout In v.ith tho reply that ho was \too busy.\ Then tho reporter asked through tho incs-sonir- er If tlio blame for the accident had been fixed on any ono. To tins Col. Hnin replied that it had not nnd that full and closo investigation would bo required to settle who was responsible. Ho hnd not yet had tlmo to go into tho dotnils of tho affair. Shttttlo trains woro run both ways from tho Franklin street station for nu hour and twenty minutes, nnd sinco thon trains huvo boon run on tho regular schedule. THEIR IMMUNITY AT AN END. Indictment of Ibo Men Who Hold Alleged II nil 'tickets In NherlfT (irnnt'i. Name. Sccuro in tho romombranco that tho Su- premo Court had decided in their favor boforo, GcorgoE. Smith and Philip Dallnnd, who woro roccutly arrested for soiling alleged ball tickets, representing tliomsolvos as attache's of the Sheriff's ofllco, had hoped to cscapo a criminal prosecution. They reckonod without their host. Sheriff Orant has boon annoyed for noarly two years by tho action of thosu and othor speculators of tho saino kidnoy and wnH tlrod of bolng roprosontcd to his friends and acquaintances in tho light of a blnckmailor and ho had been on their traok with a dotectivo forcofor somo time. Not contenting themselves with a rimplo statement that thoy worn oonnocted with tho Sheriff's department, thoy threatened tho prupriutonlof Home of tho principal hotels and othors with tho withdraw al of thofavors of tho office, in tho naturo of special deputy Bhor-Iff- s, if thero was a failure to purchaso tho worthless bits of cardboard. Tho result was their indictmout by tho Grand Jury yesterduy, Shoriff Grant being tho complainant. ABOUT PLAYS AND PLAYERS. Efforts havo been mado by several managers to Induco Henry Irving to extend his aeaaon In this country, bnt up to the present they have been with- out success. Mr. Irvlng's receipts In Philadelphia have been phenomenal. Chicago Is occasionally theatrically Interesting. Ono of the occaatons will be next Monday week, when Henry Irving, Col. McCaulfs ' Begum \ company, ' Held by tho Enemy \ and ' Tho Great link Pearl \ nnd ' 'Edltha's Burglar will bo there In friendly rivalry. \ Fltznoodle, \ tho comedy by U. 11. Valentine and Grosvcnor Wilson, did bad bualncas In Mow Haven, and the company was disbanded. This does not prove tbat tho play la worthless, as some- times the best attractions do wretchedly during tho week boforo Christmas. It Is said that the ' company will be roorganlzed In threo weeks, when It will open at Uavlln's Theatre, Cin- cinnati. II. Clay Miner 1b anxious to secure a theatre on Broadway, and Is said to havo one already In view with which he hopes to make tho necessary ar- rangements very shortly. Mr. Miner's enter- prises are too nnmerous to detail. Among the principal aro Mrs. James Brown Potter (with a)ologle to the lady for calljug her an enterprise), 11 The Golden Giant\ and \Silver King,\ from which Mr. Miner receives royalties. The ontlro' Klralfy company teft Omaha on Sat- urday night for Ban Francisco direct. Tho com- pany Includes eighty people, and it makes no stop en route. Klralfy, who Is ono of the Bhrowdcst men in the profession, has wisely devoted the week beforo Christmas a week of which all man- agers aro afraid from a financial standpoint to travelling. '1 ho company will open In ban Fran- cisco on Sunday night In \ Dclorls. \ There la a rumor afloat in the theatrical sea. Thero generally Is, but this Is n particularly Inter, eating one. It Is to the effect that tho Melnlngcn German company, which; Henry K. Abbey lias been booking through tho country, may not come after alb There Is still some difficulty regarding terms, and unless this be adjusted according to Mr. Abbey's way of thinking, tho scheme will bo abandoned. Tho Mcjntngcn people aro not easy to deal with. Wesley Hiason, who went to Ger- many In tho lntcreata of a syndicate to engage them, returned unsucceisfuU Dion Uouclcault, w ho closed Ms season In Chi- cago two weeks ago, has quietly established hlm-se- lf with his wife at tho Barrett House In this city, where ho Is now hard at work upon a new Irish play. Mr. Uouclcault Is said to have put Into this play what, In tho classical parlance of the profes- sion, are called \Btrong licks,\ which translated means effective touches. When the play Is com ploted Mr. Uouclcault will reorganize hi company nnd will open in the pleoe at Worcester, Mats. , on Jan. iS, after which he will play In Boston. The perennial actor declares tbat this Is an entirely original play. Tbe burlcsquo of \Fausfhaa at last a metro- politan home. It will be produced at the Star The atre for nvo weeks, beginning Maroh SO, following Mr. Irving at that house. Before that It will bo brought out at the Broad titrcet Theatre, Philadel- phia; at Mr. Miner's Brooklyn Theatre, and In Washington, Pittaburr and Cincinnati. After its rcprencntatlon In New York It will go to the Hollls Street Theatre, Boston, and thence to Ban Frauclsco, It said that the cost of tho production will be 113,000. Mr. Phillips, who will play Mcphlstopheles, is a young Englishman, who has not yet been prominently Identified with tho dramatic profession. He played small parts at the Madison Square Theatre with Frank Mayo, John T. ltjymond and Oliver Doud Byron. Then he tried starring In New Jersey In a play called \ Caught Oh, \ a hideous misnomer, as the play emphatically Bliowed. Mr. Phillips Is said to excel In bis Imitation of K. A. Sotheru, Henry Irving as Hamlet, 'Stuart ltobson and Nat Goodwin. A great many ptoplo have wondered why Belasco and Do MUle havo been so Intent upon \lmprov-lug- \ \The Wife \ at tho Lyccnm Theatre, when every one spoke well of Its lqlllal performance. The young uuthors simply believed they (.ould make It stronger. They want It to last. It will be remembered that Bronaon Howard's play, \The Banker's Daughter,' was changed time alter tlmo untU the author was entirely satisfied with lu 'I he result Is tbat ' The Banker's Daughter \ Is a play that can bo produced at any time with tolerable suc- cess. ' ' 'Ibo Wile \ will surely meet with a like fate. Both Mrs. Walcot and Mr. Lemoyne have made bits In tbe revised performance. In fsct, their comedy scene with the letter mishaps Is now one of the atrong features of Ihe play. Mrs. Walcot has done Borne excellent work In her time, and ber suocess in the Madison square Theatre company la by no means forgotten. It is said that she and Miss Hose Coghlan had a pretty bard straggle for supremacy when Mrs. Walcot was a member of that lady's company. HIS LONG STRUGGLE OYER. mCEFUfi END OF MAJOR JAMES 'S LIFE THIS MORNING. Di-ln- will. Ills Wife and Son and Family 1'byslrlnn at Ills Hedslde Conations Vp to a Few Minutes Ilefore He Breathed Ilia Last Huflrrlnat Mreat Palo Tor Two Month with nn Abscess In Ills Thront. Major James Haggerty's lerag strugglo against dcathts over. After two months of sSsPI did at his homo, 225 m I East Forty-nint- h treeti at 7.20 o'clock this morning. His L JJftff J \wifo and son and Dr. \ Gilbort, who attended JM&mMmwS?fr '''\ durm'' his illnoss, jSgpy PsM! woro a l1'8 bodside. Kj? Y Br. Gilbert, when james nAOOEnTY. Wost Twonty-thlr- d stroot, said that tho end was peaceful and that Major Haggorty wus conscious up to a few minutes beforo ho breathed his last. Ah hoon as it wnB known thnt tho Major had died a uumbor of friends called at tho houso and offorod condolenco to tho family. Had Major Haggorty lived, y would liavo boon tho llfty-Blxt- li anniversary of his birth, as ho was born Dec. 21, 1831. For nenrly two months ho hod been a great Httfforor from nn abscess in his throat, fol- lowed by n largo glandular swelling on tho sido of his nock. Pneumonia, whicli set in Kuvurnl days ago, holpod to hasten his death. Major Ilngerty's wifn nnd son and Dr. Gil- bert, who havo so faithfully cared for him during his illness, watched at his bedsido through tho night. Tho funornl arrangements, which havo not yet been decided upon, will bo completed somo tlmo Major Haggorty was born in Glasgow. Scot-lau- d, Doe. 21, 1831, and was educated in tho common schools of Glasgow. Ho camo to this country when quito a young man, and afterwards studied law and Mas admitted to tho bar. Ho was a Itepublican until 1872, when he joined tho Liboral movement and took tho stump for Greeley in that campaign, resign- ing his position as Deputy Naval Officer of tho Fort of Now York, which ho had held for two years, in order to carry out his plan. Kinco then ho has boon actively identified with tho Dcmocratlo party, and has stumped this mid other States under tho assignment of tho National and Stato Committees. In 1869 Mr. Haggerty was appointed by tho President to bo United States Consul to Glasgow, his native city, but on arriving thero his oxoqua-to- r was refused by tho British Government, on tho alleged ground of his connection with movements in this country sympathizing with tho Irish movement in Ireland. In 1802 Mr. Haggorty entered the armv as Adjutant of the Ono Hundred and Elovo'nth Now York Voluntoers, but his health failing ho was compollod to roBign the following year. Major Huggcrty was a member of tho Assombly in In 1882 he served as Chairman of tho Committeo of Grievances and momber of Railroads, Militia. Federal UelationB and Special Committeo to Investigate Insurauco Receiverships; in 1883 as Chairman of Insurauco and moinbor of Publio Printing and Militia ; in 1884 serving on Citios, Insurance and Militia; in 1885 serving on Citios and Insurance, and was re- elected in 1880 by H votes over Henry Stein-ar- t, Democrat, representing Tammany and Irving Hall. Major Haggorty was a man of much intel- lectual f orco and learning and an impassioned and eloquent orator. - WHO'S AMES, AND WHAT DID HE LOSE? A Slilrt, a Hword-Can- e and a Iteward Of- fered for Property Taken from a Hotel. \ J. F. Ames\ advertised a rowardof 8250 for tho return of certain articles stolen from room 0 of the Stovens Houso, adding that the porson who took tho property might re- tain \ tho Bhirt and Bword-cano- .\ Tho proprietor of tho hotel rofused this morning to givo any particulars of tho rob- bery. Ho said to a WonLD rcportor : \ Tho gentleman is sorry that ho advertisod tho matter in tho papers. Ho does not wIbIi any further publicity. Anyhow, the thing has been bottled. \How?\ \ I do not enro to say.\ A glance over tho hotel register for a month past does not rovcal tho namo of J. F. Ames. During tho past two weeks a number of guests havo oacupied room 0. I.lfo lusurnnre Men at Dinner. Tho Llfo Insurance Association of New York held Its regular monthly meeting at tho Hotel Brunswick yesterday and elected Henry W. Allen, of tne Union Mutual Llfo, a member. Then the gentlemen sat around a big oval table In tho ball- room to dinner. Kvery one made a speech. These were tho gentlemen present: C. II. ltaymond, of Mutual Life; Geo. P. Haskell, of New York Lite; Gilford Morse, of Massachusetts Mutual Life; Geo, W. Kngllsh, of the Berkshire Life; A. 11. Aber-netle- y, of I'hicnlx Mutual; John J. D. Bristol, of Northwestern Mutual; Howard Blade, of Union Mutual Lite; Chan. F. Dunwell, of Berkshire Life; Clifford Thomson, of the Spectator, aud Franklin Webster, of the Chronicle. Outbreak of Peddlers or Cbrlattnaa Greens. There was an eruption of peddlers with Christ- mas greens all over town this morning. They car-rl- ed wreaths of laurel with red berries and strings of evergreens. The eruption Is accounted for by the arrival of several big consignments of Christ- mas greens all together and a consequent glut in tho market. m m Iloya and Old Papera Mart a Tiloze. \Tho Janitor's boys were rummaging In some old papers In the store-room- .\ Tbat was the way a aro on tho fifth floor of the Howard Building, 178 Broadway, this morning, was explained. A stream of water from a fire engine stopped the conaraga-tlo- n without much damage. In Hotel Corridors. Congressman George West is booked at the Fifth Avenue. John R. Cowen, of tho Baltimore and Ohio Kail-roa- d, is at tbe Victoria. Win. P. Fairbanks, tho scales man, of St. Johns-bur- y, Vc, U at the Murray Hill. John P. Stockton, of Now Jersey, Is registered at tbe St. James. Daniel II. McMlflan and family, of Buffalo, are guests of the Hoffman House. Benjamin Harris Brewster, ol Philadelphia, has rooms at tue llruvonrt. Horace Wall, manager of the Now Haven Opera-Hous- e, la registered at tne Unlou Square Hotel. Capt. W. M. Wiley, of the Bteamshlp London, nnd A. J. Wluo, of Cheyenno, aro registered at the Hodman. Two n citizens from the \Hub Charles E. Stratton and W. Potter, aro guests of these James. Mr. and Mrs. D. K. McCarty, of Syracuse, who are soon to leave this country for Europe, are now at the Hodman. Three of Plttumrg's Iron kings, John W. Chal-fau- t, 11. W. Oliver and It. C. Gray, have recently arrived at the Flttb Avenue. UeuU.Gov. JameK I. Howard, of Connecticut, and P. 11. Slott, of Stuttavllle. may be seen In the corridors of the Murray Hill Hotel. E. P. Wilbur, a director of the Pennsylvania Kallroad, from Bethlehem, and W. K. Tlllouon, of Pittsfield, am among others al tbe Hoffman. Among thoie now at the Victoria aro Capt. and Mrs. W. G. lUoul, of Georgia: a M. BlaUdell, of Ohlcopee, and W, & Walcolt, of New York Mill. Irving W. Stanton, a Colorado capitalist, and Joseph Collett, who presented a park to the city of Terro Haute, are spending n few days at the Fifth Avenue. John A. Sheldon, who owna a large part of the marble quarries at Itutland, Vu, aud William Dil- lon, owner of tbe woollen mills at Springfield, Vu, are at the Murray Ulu. A sun, nirs cur for ooojhi and colds, ADAM SOX'S Boxatio Balsam. Xusauar, usth at., Ithavs, V Oonahlnat for Threo Years. 158 08tu St., NiwYoii. Mr. Ulktr. Ulu SlBi Mi wlfs hu Iteen satferln from a hard oough for ovr tnrev yean. 1 cot bottle of your \ \ for her, which ihe bas iujt finished. All tbe doctors and tnodloines put together bare pot done one-qtr-tr u much good for her e tbat one bottle of \ltlKKB's KxrccTontDT,\ I am positively sure tbat one mora bottle or less will brine about a radios! cure. Pleas (if beam ?n bottl. I Incloae 60 pants. Yours, V dOSUHSrAM. V I MISS CLEVELAND'S REFORM. Bits Dcglni a C'rnsade Asnlnst tbo \Ladles' Window\ ofPoKt.OOlcea. llftu York Llttr to Chicago ifrald. Miss Clovcland, the sister of the Prcaldont, has settled down In this city sa a member of the Faculty at a fashionable seminary for girls. Nevertheless, she proposes to nse her Influence at Washington. She will ask for something of the Post-Offi- De- partment, but It Is a matter of philanthropy. She believes that the \ladles' window,\ upon which so many poets have sung and drama- tists have hinged their plots, has como to bo an agency of demoralization. She has written to the President on the subject and to the Postmaster-Genera- l. The postmasters of the three great cities tbat practically compose New York, ns well as of the fourteen branch stations, agree that tho evil Is grlevom. TheTcase that called MUs Cleveland's iittcntlnn to the subject was that of a modest young girl, but a little Inclined towards rebellion ajalnst her parents, because they had forbidden her with a young man of her acquaint-anc- c. The parents, seeing no more tellers come to the honse. supposed their daugh er was nil obedience, but she had contested to her nncle that sho is now corresponding with the young man throuith the ladies' window. The moro serious feature was tnat the young man is not t all tne sort of fellow for any young girl to fall In love with. It should be said that sno was not a pupil of tbe school to which Miss Clevel nd Is attached. \Weil \said tbe Poitmnster, to whom com- plaint W4S made, \ there It Is again, that satanlc ladles' winnow. You do not begin to appreciate the harm It docs. But what can we do? Ihern Inunt be a window, rail It what you will, where men and women aud buys and girls having no per- manent address csn call Tor letters addressed sim- ply In the care of the It la neces-nr- y und good that tho con cnlcnce be kept up, my dear sir; tbe clerk at that window In this office Is trylug to lessen tno harm of that window, and what he la doing has my approval, but every such effort la un- warranted lu law. He sa)B to the girls and mar- ried women who give different names to different 'You can havo tho iiersonsasthilrownnamei; you must always bo take them. You oan not come and ask for letters for Sarah Wat tins.' Ho doei that and holds back lots of letters, but i e has no right to. In your relative's case. It she Is nnder age and her parents or guar- dian ask us not to deliver letters we can hold mom back or deliver them to her oldcrs, but all tno women wio aro of age can keep on misusing the Government's service and thero Is no lawful way to stop them.\ Tho ladles' window also accomplishes good In many cases. Women are apt to make confidants in the strangest quarters, aud the consequenco Is tliut the grizzled men at those windows hear many queer things when the callers are few aud there Is time to talk and to listen. One of those confi- dences was that of a wife who asked that her loiters never on any account be given to any one else, ' because, \ she said, \they bring me the only monoy tbat stands between starvation and my children and ma My husband does no work, but drlnkB up all I can earn with my needle, even collecting my earnings before I can go and get them. My brother In tbe West sends mo what be can spare, and with that I make up my rent and get food and clothing for my little oues. I da not want to dcicrt ray ruui.and, but he must never know of this extra money that I get\ Then there ore tbo women who are Becretly engaged or even . secretly married, who tell the man nt the ladles' window all about why they hac taken the step and what terrible consequences would follow II they were ever found out. \I tell you this, though I have never told any ono else,\ ono of them explained, 'because I must tell somo one. I had to talk to somo ono about It, and 1 coma to you because you are the one I get bit letters from. \ Ono young woman, on securing a regular weekly letter, remarked one day to the clerk: ' ' What jolly row there would be If my folks knew I was getting these letters. My slater has married a Christian, and we are Jewish, you know. She has been renounced by all my family, but she and I keep each other posted every week, for sho Is my sister Just the same, and all she did was to marry the man she was fond of, after all. \ Thus the ladles' window lends itaetf to the best as well as to the weakest und theworst Impulses and motives, and thus, bo far as any one can foresee, It must continue to do as long as the post-offic- es are pnbllo Institutions. \ Going- Out\ with the Doctor. IFrom th. Chicago JVu.l \ I remember,\ said Dr. Iioscommon, who read medicine In Chicago somo thirty years ago, bnt wbo has been practising In Iowa for a great many years, \ I remember one night I passed In Chi- cago, and I don't think I conld forget It If I should live to bo 1,000 years old. I was a yonng fellow and bad Just begun to Btudy medicine. One evening Dr. Freer usked me if I would like to go out with blm that night, and I said I would. About accordingly went to a saloon on North Clark street Conley's, If I remember right and got a good Btipper. Then we started away In the doc- tor's chalBc, one of those Jlgglety-joggle- ty things, and finally tame to the city ceme- tery. After a whllo we started for Hush Medical College, then on tho North side, with ihe corpse sitting up between us on the Beat. Thefold chaise Joggled so that wo nad to put our arms around the corpeo to keep It from falling over. When wo reached the college we droto into the alley at the south Bide of It und bundled the body Into the shaft, whence It was to be nanlcd up to the dissect- ing room. Tho doctor nnd I parted then, agree- ing to meet at the college at lu o'clock tbat morn-In- g and give the body the necessary Injection. I went into tho shaft below and made the body fast to ono end of tho rope which hung down from u pul- ley, and the doctor, on the floor above, hauled away on tho other end. When about bait-wa- y up tho body stuck and I went up and, alter a good deal of tugging, managed to loosen It. Finally, when wo had drawn It to the dlssectlon-roo- aud ripped open tho sack lu which It was confined, we touud It was the body of a man who had died in tho confluent stage of small.noz. What did we do 1 What conld wo do t Wo buried the body that night in an orchard on tbe west side, and tbe doctor took his chase off Into the oountry and left It to stand out all winter were nobody could go near it. That was mr nrst experience In ' going out ' with a doctor, und I don't think I shall forget It.\ Lite on a Gloucester Fishing- Schooner. I from th. rtllilurg Jltipatch.) The vessels of our fiahormen In early times wero diminutive craft of only from s to 19 tons burden. y tho llsblng vessels sailing out of Gloucester are first-cla- ss schooners ranging from 15 to 125 tons burden. Tney aro tho swiftest, most buoyant and seaworthy, and still the most beautiful and graceful vessels afloat. There Is a pleasant story as to how these era it beoame known as schooners. In Ills Andrew lloblnson launched a vessel rigged similar to thoso known as schooner-rigge- d. As she sped down the ways for her baptism In brine some one shouted: \Look at herl Lord how she scboonsl\ \Let her be a scboouerl\ shouted back the builder: and bo she will remain. The average crew for a first-cla- ss fishing vessel comprises a skipper, or captain, and from fourteen to sixteen men; and It Is almost Invariably the case that not a man is shipped wbo Is not as perfectly familiar as the skipper himself with every manner of coast and hanks Dahlng as well as with every conceivable duty aa flsucrman or seaman. The Btores, or supplies, vary according to the kind of Osa sought aud the probable lensth of the cruise; but they are always far auperlor to those provided for sesmen In merchant service. There Is no caste, no distinction In food, treatment or lellowshlp; and a skipper would be ridiculed off the coait whose cabtu tsble was a stranger to butter, pies, eggs, fowls gd biscuit and coftee and tno best quality of cured meats; and as on many of tho vessels large quantities of ire are kept for the purpose of prcsenlng freh fish for the markets, vegetables Hnd fresh meuls aro not uncommon even on ex- tended muses. Am io I row the serious toll, dan- gers and frequent necessary hardship) endured, no seafaring men command or deservo better ttoat-inen- t. The Combined Wenlth of tho Aators. owi a JV'w Vork L.tt.Tt The combined wealth of this remarkable family (the Astors) probably stands without parallel In tbo world. It bas been the steady endeavor of tho living members of the family to underestimate their possessions In order that they might not arouse tbe too bitter Jealousy of that class of the population which looks lulmlcally at hoarded wealth. For this reason John Jacob Astor has never given any authority for statements of his woalthtbat put tho figures beyond 1100,000,000 and ordinarily this sum Is looked upon as the limit of his possesions; it is a conservative estimate because the family la always buying new real estate, as the Income In the shape ol rents brings about an accumulation of actual cash much greater than they can conveniently dispose of. But taking f 100,000,000 as a ba-l- s and adding to It tho fortune of his brother William, which u moro than half as great, andthefortuues possessed by the busbanda of the inarned daughters of the family, there would bo a total that could not fall short of tuo, 000,000. BIS HAS DISAPPEARED. A Japanese Office Hoy Mourning the Loss of an Accomplished Dlnck Cat. Tokujlro Fujuyama is a victim to grief. Tho arrow of sorrow which is sticking in his young Japanese heart is a Parthian Bhaf t shot by his dearest friond, Sis. This may sound liko the old, old story of robust manhood blighted by tho feminine caprico of somo fair but stony-hearte- d damsel. It isn't. Sis is a cat, a largo whito, beautiful cat who has disappeared from Dr. Fleming's office. Sis is a corruption of tho sibilant note with which Tokujlro called her to order and is the nearest approach to a name which tho feline possesses. As a rtilo, a narrow-minde- d hauteur is tho kcynoto to her disposition. Dr. Flem- ing and Ills wife have never been ablo to win her oven to tho ox-te- nt of a single caress. Hor undivided love was for Tokijoro. and sho would spring to his bosom for comfort aud affection and purr to him in Japanese. Toky nlways talked to her in the langungo of the Mikado, and sho understood it perfectly. Tokijoro lavished nery attention on her education, aud tho animal showed a rare de- gree of intelligence. At night Sis would go to sleep under tho shadow of a largo French clock on tho mantel. Wlioh it gave six silvery Btrokes in the morning sho sprang from hor perch, went to Toky's room aud insisted on his rising. Sho would gently pull tho coverlidl and if tho boy didn't stir would lot tho points of her claws lightly press on his arm. Sis was better than a Connecticut alarm clock. He had traiyed her to stnud on her hind legs, rocoivo hor rntions with her paws, nnd then retire to a baro spot on tho floor to dis- cuss them. Sis exercised hor brains for her own com-for- t. Sho would sometimes rctiro unilor n low lounge. Toky would poke under it with a broom. To escape detoction, Sis used to drive her claws into tho bottom of tho loungo, pull herself up, tuck in her tail, and lot Toky sweep the floor undor her with tho broomstick till he got tired. Another playful eccentricity was hor method of descending tho stairs. She would poko her hosd undor her logs, do herself up into a sphere, and roll down liko a foot-bal- l, smiling with child-lik- o mirth other own frivolity. Such endearing littlo traits havo made her dear beyond words to the soveuteen-ycar-ol- d boort of Toky. Ho has sought hor through tho neighborhood, but Sis has disappeared Any ono returning hor will make life rosy again for Dr. Fleming's dosolato ofllco boy. YERI LIKE SWEET SORROW. A Drawn Game Ilctwren Two Vlcllin of Mis Minnie Palmer' Wiles. No ono is so friendly and charming to nowspapor men as pretty littlo Miss Minnie Palmer. She receives thorn with tho utmost cordiality, and invariably makes them believe that she is greatly inipressod by their fascinations. Just before she left New York nftor her en- gagement at tho Fourteenth Street Theatre two newspnpor men wero particularly anx- ious to pay Miss Palmer homage, and called daily at her hotel to inquire nftcr her health. Tho day sho departed was a gloomy ono for them. They had each begun to despise the other, as it was absolutely impossible to tell from Miss Palmer's manner which she pre- ferred though uncharitable peoplo say that they merely amueod her. Tho Monday night followingher departure thoy met at the Fifth Avenue Theatre. \ Uy tho bye,\ said ono, \ Miss Palmer's left town. Did you know it ? What a jolly littlo woman sho is. Sho treated mo splcn-didlv- .\ \ Of course,\ Bald the other loftily, \ you'ro not n bad fellow. But.\ superbly, look at this that she gavo me.\ He drew from his pocket a largo portrait of Miss Palmor sitting m a swing, and glanced with withering scorn at his companion. \ I'vo seen it.\ said the flrst, but his voico was sad, as he drew a fao simile from his own pocket. But still ho could go his friond one hotter. Ho turned tho photograph over and pointed to tho back, on which was written : Parting is such sweet sorrow.\ \ By Jove !\ exclaimed tho other brokonly. (It is not an easy exclamation to mako brok- enly, but ho mado it.) \ Why, seo here.\ On his own photograph wero tho very same words I Then the would-b- o rivals laughed heart- ily, forgot Miss Palmor and went out to take a drink. CRUSHED TO DEATH. Another Nnmo Added to tho List of Victim at tbe Aqueduct. Another namo was added to tho already too long list of victims of tho Aqueduct shaft last night. Betweon midnight nnd 1 a. m. David Cro-ni- n, who was nineteen years of age and em- ployed ns a laborer, was caught between a car loaded with muck and tho wall of shaft 15, at Ono Hundred and Soventy-eight- h btieot and Harlem River. Ho was crushed to death. \His body was removed to his homo near by aud tho Coroner notified \ was tho stereo, typo ending of tho police report of this caso as it has beon of many anothor. e Mr. Kuell'H Alleged Assailant Arrested. srxcuL to rnt world.1 Marlboro, Mass., Dec. si. A yonng man named Henry Batson was arrested by Dctectlvo Haytcr la Northboro tbli morning, upon suspicion of being Mrs. Walter llustell's assailant. Batson Is a dissolute young fellow, and has been In nn. merous scrape For the past year he has worked as hostler lor different parlies. The last six weeks he has been doing nothing but keeping up a reviv- ing stato or devilment. Including liquor traffic and larceny of small wares. His description tallies In part with that given by Mr;, ltussell. Batson will be taken to the Hussells' to see If the aBsaulted woman can Identify him. Another Trial for Mr. Koblnson. SrECIAL TO THE WOBLD.l Boston, Dec. si. Lawyers D. F. Crane and J. B. Goodrich, counsel for Mrs. Sarah J. lloblnson, tho alleged Somervlllo poisoner, met Attorney-Gener- al Waterman at the latter's office yesterday, and tno Attorney-Gener- at that tlmo elected to try Mrs. lloblnson upon tho indictment charging her with canalng me death of her brother-in-la- Prince Arthur Freeman, by poison, In July, 1SS3. The government wishes the trial upon this Indlcu mem to take placo In April, but Mrs. Kobinion'a uttorneya wjsli tbo trial to be had at tne earliest lsslble date, and to that end will have a consulta- tion with Chief Justice Morton, of tho Supremo Court. i Humored Pnpnl Promotions In Boston. larxciAt, to Tne worxd.) Boston, Dec 21. A rumor which comes from Home, and which Is believed by tho Boston clergy, Is to the effect that on tho ocojston of the Pope's Jublleo next month Arohhlshop Williams, of Bos-to- n, will be elevated to tbe rank of Cardinal, and that Bishop McMubou, of Hartford, will bo trans-lerre- d to Boston us cosdjutor to Archbishop Will-lam- s. It Is also rumored that Vlcar-Gencr- Byrne, of Boston, will bo raised to the Episcopacy, with HatlfordaabU see. Kulnv tbo Western Union Again. (SFXCUL TO THE WOBLD, Boston, Dec SL Attorney-Gener- Wsterman has brought two mils In tho Supreme Court In lf of the commonwealth against tho Western Union Telegraph Company, to recover an aggre- gate sum of 120,501. w, which Is tho amount assessed by the Commissioner ugidnst tne defend- ant for taxes for the years 1&S8 aim 1861, tho sum assessed In IsSe being $11,410. so, and lnl63Tfl8,. osa. BS. Tne writ Is lu tbe nature of an Information. Ilather Mixed Weather In Nt. Louis. ISriCUL TO TUX WOULD. I St. Louis, Deo. si. A warm rain yesterday morning, with the thermometer at 4T, bad changed by noon Into a driving snow, with the tempsrstnre down to IS. The mercury continued to fall, and at midnight last night marked 10 degrees, with a heavy'wind, so far as known there has been no trouble on the railroad,. BAMS PREFERS LOVERING. MABSACUUBETTS'S FEDERAL PLUM NOT IET HARVESTED. What the General Hay of the Matter He I.Ike President Cleveland Congressman Leopold Morae Ha a Plan by Which All of tho Mannchuctt Democrat Wonld Me Provided with er Clothe. \ (sriCUL TO THE WOIlLD.l Boston, Dec. 21. A WoitLn roporter saw Marshnl Banks and his wifo last ovening in Waltham, at MubIo Hall. When asked what ho had to say in regard to his reappointment to act until the Presi- dent sees fit to namo his successor, ha said t \ Undoubtedly, President Clovcland has lots of other matters to attend to besides this Marshalshlp, and in duo time it will ho made public who my successor is to be, providing thero is to bo such. I havo been at Washing, ton aud havo mot President Cleveland. I must say I was very favorably impressed with him. \ I hnd a talk with him at tho opening of the present Congress. Anybody who has hold an important political position knows of tho routino business that a President is in duty bound to despatch, and this will in a measure account for his tardiness in naming my successor.\ \ Havo you any expectations of again being appointed to tho ofllco undor tho pros-c- ut Aduiinibtrntion ?\ \ Well, I don't care to say much on that subject, hut I havo given Democrats posi- tions under mo whon in office, and thore is no reason why it could not he done in tho present caso.\ \ Who do yon think will succeed you in caso you aro not reappointed ?\ \ It is a hard matter to decide, ns thero aro two gentlemen prominently mentioned for th? office. Mr. Loveriug and Mr. Pratt, of Orcenfield. If ono or the other is to get the Eosition, I would much prefer to seo Mr. appointed, for soveral reasons.\ \ Havo you outlined auy plans for the futuro?\ \ No. I havo not given tho futuro a thought, but will quietly take mattors as they como, as I don't care to worry about such things.\ Tho General is looking hale and hearty, and thoro is much speculation as to his futuro prospects among his townsmen, with whom ho is a great favorite HOW TO GRATIFY THE MUGWUMPS. A Flan for Taking; Caro of Gen. Hanks, Loverlng- and P.x. Collector PratU SPECIAL TO THE WOnLD.J , Washington, Dec. 21. Representative Leopold Morse, of Boston, has a plan by which the Presi- dent can solidify the Democratlo party In Massa- chusetts and at the samo time swln g the Independ cnts Into line. Ills scheme Is to have the President reappoint Gen. Banks, tho present United States Marshal; to make Henry 15. Lovcrlng Postmaster of Washington, and to give Pratt a snug berth In tho Boston Cnstosn-Uous- The scheme Is Ingenious to say the least Banks was originally championed by the Mugwumps, and they only dropped him when they fonnd out how negligent he bad been In the conduct of bla office. They dropped him, however, with relnctance and would like to take him np again, not because ho has auy particular merits, but because be Is a rello of Re- publican rule and the Democrata do not want him. Mr. Morso told the President tbat as Gen. Banks' days of offensive partisanship had gone by and ag ho was a sort of heirloom that had to be taken care of the President had better give him shelter. If LoTcrlng were made Postmaster of the District ho would receive a salary of 15,000, only $1, COO less than the marshalshlp pays, and the position Is a pleasant one. Pratt could be nicely taken care of , In tho Boston Custom-Uous- e, where there are rev- - I oral Important positions filled by Republicans, Boms I n places paying from 13.000 to $,GO0 a ; year aro now held by Republicans, any one of which oould bo creditably rilled by Mr. Pratt. If the President should fall In with tbis Idea and find places for Pratt, Banks and Loverlng at one fell swoop everybody would be happy, at least so Mr. Morse thinks. A NEW UNIFORM FOR THE SEYENTIL Col. I.cland Introduce Something; that In tereat Ihe Member, nt Mnzettl's. Tho members of the Seventh Regiment Veteran Association, who aro busy In getting up tho new armed reserve corps, met last evening at MazettPs and put the body on a working basis. Leonard F. Bcckwlth mado a complaisant chairman and tewed the prospects of the corps through his d glasses. Cob Leland, who was the head oi a committee on a new nnlform presented his report In tbe form of an ob- ject lesson. Member Wbltlock stepped forward with full nnlform, as It Is to be. It is a peculiarly quiet garb. Tbe close-nitin- g blonse 1b of dark blue, with fly front and brsld. Not a button is visible, and on the collar points the monogram, 7, it. V. 11., Is worked In script letters In oxidized silver. There Is a fatigue cap in dark bine, while the trousers are of lighter blue, with a broad dark band with black piping. The belt hi and the cartr- idge-box as well, though it la likely tbat with the adoption of a magazine rifle, as Is proposed, cartridge-bel- t may be taken. Tbo sldearm is a sword bayonet In a steel scabbard. Tbe uniform drew favorable criticism at once, and after ihe meeting had acted as a whole on a military tailoring inspection tho uniform, which Is to be supplied at K1W each, was unanimously adopted. The cholco of officers was next proceeded with, and Joseph Lentllhon as Captain and F. A. Scher-merho- rn as First Llentenant were cnosen unan- imously. Ihe Second Lieutenancy was lelt open. It was suggested that a number of the corps members provide themselves with uniforms and attend the meeting of the entire association on the second Monday In January, when the question of Betting aside tho cnapeau and Field MarBbal outfit of the e uniformed battal- ion will como np for discussion. Not All Little Angel. ftom th. Chicago Tribune! Two married ladles wero talking in a street-ca- r.' One was recounting the wonderful sayings of her precocious children. \ I was travelling la tM West,\ said one, ' accompanied by my Freddie. We stopped at a railroad eating-hou- se where a colorod man walked up and down pounding a gong. Fred listened awhile, and with a North Side look of contempt said: Maybe that feller thinks he's playing a tune, but he lsn'tl' When he was two years old he Baw hla first snow- storm and exclaimed: \See It's raining pop. corul' But It Is my littlo girl who always has the faculty of giving me away,\ she continued,\ \When si.o first started to school the teacher asked per namo. Stella, ' was the reply. ' But your last name J' She was silent, not under-st.ndf- that Bhe had a family name. After sev- - ' eral despairing efforta tho teaoner asked: '.What docs mamma call pupal' ' Ohl old black debbli, when she'a mad,' waa tho reply.\ An old venticman living ou the west aide entered thu connubial stato for tbo fourth tnno not long , s nee. During thu ceremony sobs were beard la an adjoining room, which led a guest to inquire what was tho matter, whereupon a little boy answered, \it Is only Mario. She always crlea when papa gets married.\ A little boy ,nd girl on tho North Side were Jacob's ladder, with tne angels - ascending and descending. The little boy strongly 1 objected to believe In the story because, he said. ( everybody knew angels had wings and so they did not need a ladder to climb to heaven on. \But said the little girl, \perhaps these angels were molting.\ Jem Carney' \Nest L'gg (argent, to Tin wobld.1 Boston, Dec si. Jem Carney was one of the happiest men in Boston yestcrdsy over the unpre- cedented success of his Monday night benefit at Music Hall. Said he: \ Why, the success of the thing not ouly exceeded ray most sangulno expec- tations, but I actually did not believe It real. I In- tend to do all In ray power to reciprocate.\ Carney will be about ts,oco better off from bis testimonial ; after all expenses are paid. Tils, with th 1500 ' which he received from the New York Racquet Club, will give him quite \a nest egg.\ Firemen to Have a Illow Out. Tho Veteran Fireman's Association will hold Its annual \blow out \at the rooms oMbe ataocla tion lu East Tenth 'street on New Year's Xr. Uoalo ana good cheer will be the ordsc
