The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-02-25
'rIfEGATECiTY.
Music and the Drama.

Mrs. Ossian +. Dodge died at st. Paul
Minnesota of eousdmphon,. On iheA 9th inst.
James f. Murdoch gave readings at Toledo
last week.
At the Richmond Fheater, (says Boston
qnidnanc, the late seeesh .ara nioe Enenl
occupy seats on opposite sides Of the house.
Growers German Opera Company appear
at the Metropolitan Theater, Bufnio, TINS
week. On the 26th it opens in Philadelphia.
Married, on February 4th, in Boston, MISS
Eveline Lehman, -dsnscuse, to Signor lharies
Constantine Won Szurrnay n'rff'e da odhef.
Mdlle. Piccolomini is dangerously i'll with
n malady OF the spine, and her medical ad-
visers do not believe she can outlive many
weeks.
Richard Maiden, of the old Nashville
theatre and Martha Fowler, Of the same
theater we're married on the lst inst at the
residence OF Quartermaster Robert r. Ste
vens. t !,
Mr.. Edward Barry, the well known theatre
al manager, assumes the lease ana manage
ment of the National theatre in CINCINNATI on
the 26th inst. DIR. Collins will remain as bns-
ness manager. .sss-
The London Illustrated Ne'rs chronicles
Mdle Pa,ana's return, and says that she
comes back crowned with wealth and honors,
having refused to remain longer for fear of
losing her position in England by absence
from the London season.
The following quiet remark of the New
York Post las significance for other cities:
The iumor that the Philharmonic con-
certs are 10 he carried on without music, and
ser,e only rs Conversations. is incorrect. The
pr y ANNE will be played through in spite OF
The most vigorous takers" se
Concerning the grand opera ball to begiven
at the end ofthe season, at the Academy OF
Music. the World says; ,,rf
The promised bal dopera, which is in
tended to excel all the brilliant reunions OF
the season, will be hedon Easter Thursday,
April 5, instead of the date originally named
IL March, and which it was found would fall
during an advanced period Of Lent. The
postponement meets the wishes Of the regular
subscribers to the opera, who are looking for
ward to the festive occasion with evident
interest Tickets to the ball will be in readi-
ness by the middle of March. The number is
to be limited to one thousand-eertainly a
very short allowance for the many who are
bent on securing cards. but sufficient to secure
brilliant aud comfortable gathering, and
prevent the Academy from again being con.
verified into sor: OF hermeticaiy sealed jar Of
fashionable anatomica! jam. In order TO give
fuli effect TO the great feature oftle evening
aprocession of odds and ends--it as neoe sry
that the spectators be limited to given mum
Der"
The New York Clipper relates the follow
ing:
Speaking of the elder Booth, the father o
Edwin, calls to mind an incident once related
10 as, which has not to our knowledge, eve
before appeared in print Our informant Is
Or. T. X Jennings, of Nashville, Tennessee
# which city he has been resident for thu
past half a century. We give it in the Doc
Tor 8 own words, as follows: !" Between TART
and forty years ago, during Mr.. Booths las
engagement here, | was called on profession
ally . visit him, On entering the room
found the eminent tragedan STOPPING before
The fire, with pitcher of water in bis hands
and very busily engaged in exunguishing tn
live Goals in the CRATE. | remarked that tn
day was very cold, and by putting out the FIR
he ould make Mrs. Booth uncomfortable
that he should desist. He replied that ever
instant the fire burned, it consumed million
Of animacule' What are the lives of mil
ions of animacule compared with the comfol
Of your wifi? | asked. He retorted b
saying, sSirt you are named to me as a ply
stefan, Lut you utter the sentiments OF
butcher! Besides, the souls Of my aneei
tors NAV reside in the bodies of these sam
animacula' Says l. You believe, ther
Mr. Booth in the doctrine Of transmigratio
Of souls I? Certainly, sir, was the prom
reply, every man of sense does don
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