The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-22
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From Our ossn Correspondent
NEW YORK, Dec. %, 1862
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NEW YORK, Dec. 90 1869.
ssAII the same TO Him.
Ono of the chief beauties in the character of
Count Joannes is his indifference to money.
This he sometimes illustrates in court greatly to
the edihcation of the public and the amusement
of the counsel The case of Eleanor f. Bishop
against Robert HI. Jones was commenced by
him about three years ago, and came up yester-
day once more in the Court of Common Pleas.
II was originally instituted to recover $4,000
for false imprisonment and malicious arrests,
and Count Joannes has taken a peculiar in
terest in 1t because question of womans rights
was concerned in it. OF late the proceedings
have had relation to motion of the court to bring
the case forward on the calendar and increase
the amount claimed from $4,000 to S50,000.
On the Counts mentioning, with impreSement,
that his motion was to increase the amount of
damages to $4,000, Mr.. Beach, who was coun-
eel for the defendant, exclaimed in somewhat
excited manner, "You can increase it to a mil
lion If you wish"
"Very WE'LL" returned the imperturbable
Count; 81 take you at your word. \ million
let il be-" and resuming his seat he began to
ventiate to a knot of semi-demi admirers his
intentions with respect to the Mcfarland trial.
He intends to do all he can to have that injured
man tried by jury of his peers-the first
qualification of whom is that they shall all have
wives as chaste as Caesars wife, and, If possible,
even more above suspicion.
John Real.
Although John Real who killed Officer Sme-
dick, is far gone in consumption, and will pro-
badly not live six months, he is taking much
interest in the possibility of being set at liberty
as though he were good for twenty years more
of pleasurable freedom. He is hardly more than
mere skin and bones and his moral nature seems
toI h;. Lod t.,
counsel, ex-Judge Stuart, contends that the
Supreme Court, which denied Real a new trial,
was an invalid tribunal under the provisions of
the new State Constitution, which emphatically
forbids Judge who has tried case from taking
q part in it upon appeal. Judge Barnard origi-
nally tried the case, and hence became disquali-
fed from deciding in it upon appeal. The
Supreme Court Room has been crowded to eX-
cess during the development of these new phases
in the Real case, and will continue to be so until
some ultimate decision has been arrived at.
Things Theatrical.
A little bird, call it journalistic magpie, has
whispered to me that at least two theatres in
this city are about to pass into other hands.
One of these is the Tammany, which, by-the-by.
seems to have experienced the process known as
''passing into other hands" ever since its first
inception. The expenses are very great, but
somehow or other people 'front.' go there. The
attractions there of late have been of the most
blood-thirsty and narrowing description, but the
star of the Tammany, under che present ma
nagement at least, seems on the decline Yet
Mr.. Leonard Grover looks happy enough to be-
long to the Fat, Mems Club and is as beaming
and debonnair as he ever was during his palmy
days at Washington or his Sinn-fu days at the
Chestnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia. The
other theatre over whose spirit u change is to
creep is the Fifth Avenue. Mr.. Daily has done
artstically well there, but he has lost
money He tried hard to emulate
Wallack's, and even surpassed that brilliant old
fogyism in the style in which several of his
plays were produced. He pays larger salaries
to the members of his stock company and he
ought to pack his little theatre nightly but he
don't. Perhaps this is partly due to the fact
hat personally he is timid, almost bashful-an
Extremely phenomenal accident for one who has
teen 30 much of the world. To be bashful is q
tlonstrosity in q newspaper man, as Mr.. DAILY
.)as been. In theatrical manager it is abso-
tutely criminal. If Mr.. DAILY would only thaw,
and stay thawed. he would make many friends.
And is not the art of making friends part of
the art of success in life, whether a man be q
crossing-sweeper or a sensation newspaper in
terviewer?
DIR. Train
George Francis Train and the Cooper Institute
have had fight, and Mr.. Train lays his damages
at $25O0. On Sunday evening he was to have
preached-I mean lectured-on the sold Fogies
of the Bible" In consequence of his having
blazoned his intentions, however, in a manner
distssteful to the political creed of the pro-
prietors of that building, he found, on proceed
ing thither, the doors closed against him. He
forthwith went home, wrote ffty-five letters
and as many epigrams to the daily and weekly
press of this city, and procured one of the most
extensive and gratis advertisements of the
period. ALI BABA.