The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-03-02
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10 be mutually pleased. Winter has been most
Aberally entertained here. Balls, parties, carni.
vale, suppers, dinners, receptions, opera, dra-
matte entertainments, she has been perpetually
le,sd with. Ever since, in the latter part OF
November, her presence was observed In the
ciy, all the plitterable delights OF town have
been In a state of incessant sparkle. In return,
v inter has been very kind. Whenever Fashion
has ventured out Of doors, Winter has been
mercliu to her, aud has spared hA. inatty little
auu o'nhe'a '.ny season has elapsed |
sS'' .''"u ~, during the months of Decem-
January, and February, has been SO con-
filed with equally we'll appointed
equipages and people. Consequently, when
the parting moment came and yesterday
brea,hed its last sigh, neither New York nor
Winter had any thing to regret. Each had done
the best to please, and March came in lise
mutual friend.
On Saturday evening q patriotic duel came
of between q Spaniard named Grasso and
Cuban named Asaga. The quarrel originated
In discussion about the Cuban difficulty, and
after various compliments of an exciting na-
sure, each party called the other liar, and a
meeting was arranged in which bloody rapiers
and brandy raw, instead OF pistols and coffee,
low du1k a close carriage-in fact two close
earrages-might be seen rattliug along the
most deserted portions of the deserted Meeker
avenue, Williamsburg. At that point is an an
Uient hostelry abounding in private parors and
good old port To one of these private parlors did
Grasso and Asaga repair; in that private parlor
did that affair of honor come off. The CON-
batants placed themselves at opposite sides of
the table, raper in hand, and at given signal
the work of death commenced. 1t was fore
stalled, however, by Asaga, the Cuban, wound
ing his antagonist In the right wrist. The
artery being cut, the seconds pronounced
Grssso's honor completely vindicated. The
sight OF so much arterial blood being split
seemed to arouse Asaga to realizing sensef
of the situation. All was forgiven and forgot
ten. The antagonists, dropping their rapiers,
fell upon one auother's shoulders in stage
embrace, and the reader is requested to give
three rounds of applause.
The SEQUEL to one of the most curious scenes
In its way that ever transpired in court is TO
take place this morning in the Supreme Court
Chamber. The scene referred 10 was that re-
gently enacted when, in order to enable the
intelligent jury TO decide on the merits of the
Griffith Gaunt Round Table libel, Mr.. Vanden-
hOff, the reader and elocutionist, read large
portion of the novel in court. Every one who
has ever heard Mr., Vandenhof will remember
that he is q most genial and expressive reader
clear In enunciaton, and ar,icnlarlY happy
alike in descriptive and conversational passages.
This happiness did not fail him in the reading
OF "Grifith Gaunt." Whatever pruriencies that
novel may contain, they certainly did not seem
to disgust the male prudes of the jury-box, who
listened with pricked ears and warmed express
n-lN l.
bless his hot, impetuous nature might have felt
safe in committing himself to them. When bfr.
Vandenboff had got about one-third through, so
afraid was the counsel for the defense that the
Impression made upon the jurymeu would be
too favorable, that he moved for the exclusion
of The book from being offered in evidence
and for Judgment on the pleading, on the ground
that the plaintiff had not proved that he was
the author of the book. The quston was argued
at some length, the jury mean while being dis
missed until this morning, with those sensations
uppermost that are generally supposed to be
eneendered By the words ito be continued"
appended to the end of an exciting chapter of a
serial romance.
Mr.. Horace Lingard, a gentleman not wholly
disconnected with the fortunes and fame of the
notorious Captain jerks, whose theories upon
been having peck of trouble with Mr.. and
Mrs. Pike, who place on the term utility busi-
ness, a less liberal construction than does
Manager Iingard himself. large bevy OF
actors and actresses wa, In court, among whom
were Owen Marlowe and Mary Wells, both well
known in Philadelphia. Miss Wells and Mr.
Marlowe have, by-theby, been rather nomadic
for the last year. Miss Wells, after the flood
gates of the While Fason were let loose. bohe-
mianized for little at the New York The
atre, where every actor goes who can get
nothing better to do. Finally che went
to Woods Museum, and has been
one of the curiosities there for the past four Or
ave months. Mr.. Merlowe hld his light under
n bushel at Niblo's, and Is now trying to put ii
On candlestick at the Waverley. Mr.. Marlowe,
at the trial in question, thought that utility
business did not require the person engaged for
such business TO sing in choruses. Mary on
the other hand. was of the opinion that II
required the individual so engaged to do any
thing and everything that might be required OF
him. And Miss Wells, in my opinion, is right.
The man engaged for utility business may be
required TO take any part, from that of the
crooked backed tyTant to that of the
growing cook. True, the characters to which
he ia usually limited are not much given TO
Ioouacity. All they are expected to do on the
staee is 10 exclaim, my lord, the carriage
waits.y - or "Upon him, soldiers !" or ''On to the
citadel % and other work of brilliant and
Ajehly-wrought nature. To do such igno-
minious work as this is what neither Mr.. nor