New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-08-20

Play-poers are familiar with the battles which
sometimes incarnadine the stage when the drop Is
ND but these mimic engagements are nothing TO the
rencounters which occasionally occur when the drop
ia down. The children of Thespis are apt to be q
pugnacious and irritable lot The dreadful denun-
Citations of each other which the business of the
piece requires them thunderously to utter are not
without effect upon the personal character OF the
utterer who after strutting his brief hour in pub
lie may treat himself to supplementary strut or
two in private with bit of genuine assault and
battery They had little scene of this kind lately
in the Manchester (Eng) Theater where Mr.. Band
mann, who is not unknown to our theaters, under
took to play few weeks engagement, for half the
receipts less certain sum for expenses. For some
reason Mr. Bandmann did not draw well, which, OF
course filled him with sour suspicious that the ac-
counts were cooked. so one night when he was up
for Macbeth" he refused to go on unless his view
of the contract was accepted Then the acting man.
ager called Mr.. Bandmann A" a cur" Then Dir. Is.
rushed upon the manager. knocked him down, and
kicked him. When he did this, Mr.. b. was attired
as Macbeth and must have presented an extremely
military spectacle Not less than ten stage Carpen-
tars were required to restrain Mr.. Bandmann from
committing homicide. The injured manager APP
pealed to the laws of his country and the case was
tried at the Asszes this month. Mr.. b. himself on
the stand testified that there is always good deal
of unpleasantness amongst the company" 1t is"
said he, empbstically, {" more difficult to manage
company than regiment" Here we are told that
there was laughter What were they laughing
at Not, we hone, at the poor tragsdian, who was
ordered to pay E5
When female baby eighteen months old is found
in a railway station solitary and alone and totally
destitute Of claimant, the station master and the
conductors, and even the corporation itself may
well be considered in fix. Always provided the
baby baggage ia not directed A lonesome infant
was discovered in the FItcbburg railway depot, IN
Boston, last Saturday. On its dress was pinned
card with the following useful information This
baby belongs TO Mr. Dane of Lowell | took it IN
lit of insanity" The most troublesome form OF IN
sanity this is yet discoyered-ths running away
with other peoples babies and leaving them IN rail-
way stations Meanwhile Mrs. Dane in Lowell was
IA melancholy a Dane az Hamlet himself. Her
beautiful little baby was gone she knew not where.
Her agonies were soon relieved. however. A tee-
gram Informed her where her oherub was, and pres
emily ID was restored to the maternal fount. IL
turned out that the baby sealer had been servant
in the Dane family. A nursery maid with mono
mania for absconding with the baby and then
dropping It in n railway station makes herself alto
eether too generally useful"
We have TO acknowledge the receipt under date
of the l6.h August, of 81 from j. l.. d. Hy," with
a request that we devote il 90 any deserving char
it,. As IN fornof rr. 'yil be forwarded Ia ~
Howard Home 'or ''u. Wanderers.