The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-27
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New YORK, Sept 81.
The First shower Of Leaves
mas begun. The foliage of the equinox loosens and |
urops. NOW come the hours when lights CLEAN in
slde the cabins of ferry-boats and the walk or ride
nome from business is performed in the damp dusk
vi the evening; when the last winds OF summer
ramble and mourn through the melancholy streets
with sounds like showers Of shifting sand Now ap-
proach the days Of alternate romance and muRg-
ness, when the fruity saporosity OF summer vet
fingers in the mouth of memory, which is vet dis
mally expectant Of the pending hour when fruit aud
flower shall fail. Not far Off glimmers the
gaunt season when crisp cold days shall sud-
denly be shut in with npping darkness
and parallel rows Of street-amps shall flicker frostily
ere O'Clock r. M. be told; when cars and stages
Shall be "doubled up" and the unavailable web of
railroad tracks shall be swathed in winters freezing
wool; when city and suburb shall alike be disrupted
as with earthquakes OF snow and volcanoes Of ice,
and the bocked-up pedestrian shall remember
green leaves and sigh. Stunned and shattered lies
the summer like an exquisite youth broken and
bleeding in the hands of giant Closed be the wa
terngpace where the tender fashions OF the warmer
weather give up the ghost, and exhale themselves
away. Down the street in which write charges the
wind right and left among the trees like misfor-
tune making a dash at enved prosperity. The QUIZ
of the many worlds within this world comes to my
ear, and its burden is not Of the past but of the
crowded interests packed in the budget OF 1S69-7O
The Nine Muses.
at the Somerville Art Gallery attract greater num-
Der of fashionable visitors than any other pictures
which have been exhibited there for a long time
Why? Because as l before limited, every one is
anxious to know which is which blessed few are
supposed to be in the ring, and each of these few
forms nucleus around whom circumferences of
fashion-mongers extend themselves. have before
explained that, under the disguise of Clio, Euterpe
Thalia, Terpschore, Melpomene, Erato, Polyphyn-
mia, Urania, and Calliope, the Nine Muses. in ques
tion as many celebrated American beauties were
meant to be represented that Mr.. Fagrans pictures,
in short, nothing more less than portraits
with classical names attached, and painted in that
innocenty voluptuous undress which distinguished
those graceful frauds, the goddesses Consequently
society has been pqued to discover the clue. 1t
was at first supposed that Of the muses. Eu-
terpe was meant to indicate a once celebrated Phi
ladelphia belle, passee who has been variously
spoken OF as the woman with the belladonna eyes,
and the lady with the arsenic complexion, from her
notorious addiction to Fowers solution and another
noted specific from which atrOpia is not absent. But
1t is now certain that the suspicion incorrect,
and that it is a New York young lady who is thus
mythoogically prehgured To be brief, Mr.. Fagrani
has disfed up American female beauty in the follow
ing order r:-Clio Mrs. William NJ. Johnson; Euterpe,
Miss Minnie Parker; Thalia Miss Nellie Smythe;
Terpschore Mrs. George Ronalds; Poyphymnia,
Mrs. General Barlow Urania, Miss Bodgett, each
Of these six ladies being resident of this city, or
.
from New Orleans; Miss Kitty sulvant (Erato) from
Ohio, and Miss Wadsworth (Calliope) from the city
OF Genesee.
$4,000 Worth of Clubbing.
This is a suit brought by German society of this
city against roundsman named Charles @. Bud
dington charged with having, the 9th of last
August, clubbed to death poor German emigrant
named Jacob Burkel The wretched emigre was so
artstically dealt with that his occipita bones
reduced to gelatine and himself refined into corpse
After he was dead and buried his murderer expected
to escape, but the German society instituted civil
action for $50 900 damages. Buddington arrested
on a warrant of the Coroner, but released on
bail. On Saturday an order of arrest was granted
by Judge McCunn of the Superior Court, fixing bail
at 20000 The man Buddington was no doubt an
accomplished clubbist. Had he had club in his
foot as well in his hand, he could scarcely have
executed his purpose more Economically
Carlottn PATHS
appearance on Saturday evening at Steinway Hall
was success in every sense OF the word. L have
alluded to the enormous putiery which preceded it,
have only to repeat that the character OF the wire
pulling set at work was of the most glaring and
cheeky description, entirely too much when one
considers the vast merit OF the cantatrice Since she
was last here Carlotta Patti has improved her gifts
both of physique and voice. She has that sort OF
continental embonpOint which, by pleasant fiction,
is presumed to be acquirable only by prime dOnne
who dine at imperial tables, and drive with their
sand francs who lead sort OF buttered rose-leaf
sort of existence, and for whom the milk in the
cocoanut OF life is not milk but cream. Her voice
too, is very greatly improved, the upper notes
having entirely lost the tendency to scream which
once characterized them. Her selections were
in the best taste. They were the ''Luce di Quest
Anma,r from Linda in which she touched g
with silvery facility, the Bolero from the Sicilian
VesperS Benedicts Carniual Of Vedice, in which she
reached the high clear, and held it with melo-
dious pertinacity that was almost painful, the cele
brated French 'LaughiBg Song and finally Gou-
mods "Ave Maria" She completely magnetzed
the immense audience, and upon her last recall
ried away with her small hot-house, and remain
ing for some moments bowling in response to ap-
plause which lasted long enough for her to have had
her tn-type taken several times over.
That
LOthariO of the s'Independent,'
Theodore Tilden, was yesterday morning expected
to escort the celebrated colored woman, Sojourner
Truth to Plymouth Church. She has been stopping
at his house, and having desire to hear Mr..
Beecher Brother Tlden offered his services Invent,
therefore, yesterday morning, for the purpose of
seeing the sight But II Tilden was there, didn't
see him, and didn't hear OF him. But heard
Beecher and that was better. ALI BABI
SPEECH OF HON. JAMES M. SCOVEL,
at Merchantotle, NJ j., Saturday, 25th-"Up Nth The