The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-02
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From Our 0On Correspondent


there are numerous surmises as to whose it is
and where it comes from. Reporters have been
trying hard to erect it into q romantic story,
though as yet they have not succeeded. The
skeleton was found between the weather-boards
and the chimney of a house in Columbia street.
1t was discovered while some workmen were
engaged in putting up building there. To
make room for the new building it became
necessary to pull down part of an old one. As
they were pulling it down the skeleton fell
out, and the smoke of romance arose. The
skeleton is evidently that of a female. The
bones are all complete, and the only little
discrepancy noticed is that the two portions of
the upper part of the skull, which is sawn
off, do not properly dovetail together. There
be those whose memories recall strange facts
at sight of the mysterious skeleton. One old
crony remembered that the house in which it
was found was formerly inhabited by man
named Roper, who had had two wives, both of
whom had died suddenly and somewhat mystic
riously. But as a rule New York has quite
enough to feel concerned about in the murders
of the present. City and suburbs are full of
them just now, and all kinds and quantities are
perpetrated with an indiscriminateness that
causes the daily newspapers to literally reek.
The very printers ink smells of blood and the
galleys may be said to run with gore.
The Free-LOve Fight.
1t is scarcely going too far to say that the
recent Mcfarland trial has resulted in the crea-
tion of two factions one OF which believes in the
holy and lifelong obligations imposed by mar
riage, and the other in the equally holy absence
of obligation. These two factions fight each
other vigorously, and give no evidence of ever
letting up. don't remember any case which
ever cut so quickly so sharply, SO surely, to the
very core of social and domestic lfe OF course,
wherever the history of this trial has been read
the influence, to some extent, must be the same
But in New York it is necessarily more poignant
than anywhere else. Go where you will, you
will hear the story discussed with almost the
same animation that it was in its earliest days.
Lifelong friends have been divided, families
have been estranged, business and social rela-
tions have been dissolEed, by the too warm and
unrestrained discussion of the problems to
which the trial gave rise. The last people
whom you would have thought likely to espouse
the cause of the imprudent wife and mother
have been the very ones most unreasonably
virulent in her defense The pulpit and the
press have quarrelled among themselves, and
the names of eminent and honored men have
been dragged through the mire. AT the table of
the clearinghouse or hotel it was, it even now
is next to impossible to get through a meal
without falling out with your neighbor. l hope
trimonal clouds will purify the atmosphere of
marriage. In these days, when women wear the
moral and intellectual breeches, and have all
but succeeded in grasping that power which is
represented in the wearing of the material ones,
it would be too much to eXpectyoung people TO
grow up with pure old-fashioned notions re-
specting the love of the wife for the husband
and the parent for the child
MIR. GayIer's Play.
When last Monday night, Mr.. Charles Gayler
literally dispensed champagne among twenty
newspaper people invited to meet him in Mr..
Booths private office, he ought to have remem-
bered that that sort of thing is in great mea-
sure played out, that oyster-supper criticism is
on its last legs and that the good word of New
York dramatic editors was not to be bought
with the pop Of corks and the sparkle of effer-
vescent wine. At any rate, the criticisms which
have been bestowed upon his play of Taking the
Chances prove that these gentlemen, as a class,
are above the vulgar bribe of something to
drink" OF all the notices of itwhich amount to
anything, the Tribune is the only one that goes
into praise. The World is denunciatory; the
Times is bitter and sarcastic; the Standard
calls the comedy mixture of gag and buncombe;
the Herdld-but then the Herald is not worth
mentioning in this connection. Mr.. McVickar
has surprised and pleased good many people.
He is quiet, easy, natural actor, performing
with much intelligence and good-nature. The
character of 'Peter Pomeroy' is one of those
candid young men from the country who dress
in buttemut suits, entertain hatred of broad
cloth, and who represent stern degree of virtue
united to an uncommon quantity of bumptious-
ness. He bules everyone in the play from a
lady leader of fashion to a sinecure-seeker who
pins his faith to collateral issues" The moral
of the piece is spurious, the sentiment is sickly,
the plot is fimsy, and the points are the broad
est kind of gags. If this piece were produced
at the Bowery, its spread-eagleism would be
appreciated by the newsbOys and bootblacks.
l can imagine Mr.. Booth surveying il pensivey
from his private box, and saying to himself
"Wel, / did it for the best-to Oblige Benson !"
Lola MOntez's Daughter.
lady who processes to be the daughter oi
the late Lola Montez and King Leopold is tC
lecture at Steinway Hall this evening. Hel
theme is 'The Equality of Woman" and she I;
expected to introduce some mention of the
wrongs which her celebrated mamma issupposeJ
TO have suffered
Wash and BE Clean.
In managing the Department of Public Work
Mr.. Tweed has so much TO do that he Shut
himself up in his Office from morn till night, anC
has no less than three doors through whicl
applications of various kinds are made to him
Through one of these notes are handed through
another a small number of intervieW-seekers arr
admitted; by the third the great majority o
those who wisn to see him are denied. AS rule
about sixty applicants are on hand at any on