The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-02-03

The gayest of dance music, irom an
orchestra OF one hundred performers,
the novel impersonations, and charm
ing French toilets were attractions
which crowded the Academy as II Is
crowded but onee a year at the rePe-
tition of these balls. The characters
were not so new as beautiful, the
baccbante crowned with vine clus-
tiers and leaves, a gold cup IN her
hand, a Spanish girl with gold ana
purple skirt, black lace mantilla, ana
fan. and high comb, queens ana
gipsies. an ape covered with fur, and
/ a iiend in fame color and black, who
wbirled in the waltz, holding an an
gel with wings OF down 10 bis arms.
a family Of professional dancers
made their first appearance here IN
two new carnival dances, and there
was a mock reception of the klng OF
the Sandwich Islands, and a lottery,
which the French delight in, was
drawn, giving prizes of diamonds a
gold watch aud chain, beside sums
of money, to the holders OF tickets
The taste and brilliance OF these
halls renders them the delight OF fast
New York. which likes to encounter
the fun and abandon OF all the opera
companies at short range.
THE UNION LEAGUE RECEPTION
In contrast to this entertainment,
which throws the mantle OF broSdest
charity over all who enter its doors,
the most select ladies' reception, held
annually by the Union League Is
given at their snowy clubhouse, on
the corner Of Madison square. Not
ten private houses in New York have
the room or the resources to enter
tain on a truly great scale, and the
club receptions supply the %splendor
which society Graves The balls OF
the rich Union League are high
dressed affairs, when white silks that
stand alone, round point fiounces and
strings of pearls have it their own
way in the halls of the spacious CLUB
house, whose wide drawing-rooms,
theater. and picture-gallery, aud wide
stair-cases are the Dearest approach
10 palatial brilliance of anything the
civ has to boast. There the most
stylish and ambitious girls ofthe city,
in toilets of unmpeachable elegance,
will promenade the wide corridors on
the arms of m~iliionaires, maJor-gen-
erals, and managing politicians The
sight will be an instructive one. Inc
serious, stern-lipped man, to whom
most Difference will be paid fer his
wealth and influence, who speaks OF
"the house Of" as we do OF the
house of Rothschild, began his career
here as a shop. keeper in Greenwich
street, where he sold the most hon
est sixpenny-worths in the city, and
first drew custom by the basket of
lace remnants always found on bis
counters. The thin, WORKOUT Young
man, who promenades carelessly
with the prettiest bellies, is q stock
broker who inherited millions. At
thirty be has exhausted life, and
spends money for pleasure in a loose
handed. cynical way. His mistress.
to whom he is indifferent, has $780,
900 a year spent upon her. and has
laid away Il small fortune of about
5000, 600 against the day when ne
tires of her utterly, on which she
will emigrate, play the role of rich
widow, and marry respectfully. The
leader of society, whose v%elvets trail
as negligeutly as if she had been
born to them, and whose fine looks
well become her deep laces, was the
daughter of a poor mechanic. The
other day an old schoolmate sal
hours in the rich woman's luxurious
morning-room, among her carvings
/, inlaid woods, and Turkey carpets
thinking Of the time when she, with
other school girls, well born anc
bred, looked down on the idea of as
sociatiug with The shoemaker's dargh
ter. Now she waited, cold, fatigued
and wet, an unrecOgnized reporter
for items about the Academy ball, o
which madame was TO shine..as la
dy manager.
THE WEATHER
Has been very cold for this section 0
? the world, particularly up the Hud.
son. Saturday moTRilg the Eas'
, River was packed with ice so urm|y
/. that people crossed On it by th'
: thousands TatLer than wait the slow
|, motion Ct the ferEg bosts. This
! makes the third time this has hap
pened for twenty years.
!, The poor are suffering terribly from
this excessive cold, and deaths are
occurring daily and nightly from colo
an / starvation. Work is scarce anc
wages are low, half the laborers il
. the city are working On half time
aud tie extreme cold makes living
/. higher thah eses How anxiously
4 they look for the coming Of spriGg,
, and how slow the cold DAYS pas,
with them. Heaven help them
! spring via eomo 100 late for many 0
them.
LITTLE REMNANT OF FISK.
, Jim Fisk is dead, but his WORK
survives. The Erie Railroad Com
pany is puzzling its wise head tC
know what to do with the Grauc
Opera House, which vas the scene
of FisS's wild %reyels. Fisk bough'
the Opera House Of Pike with money
, that be stGln from tbe company, then
be leased all but the tbeater part o
it 10 ihe company for $4,000 PEI
q annum. The theaia: cpd the room,
attached be wanted for his bevy o
> h%ariots, aud therein be held th,
widest orgies that this OF any othel
, cOlDtry eyer saw. lie had the en-
tire revenues Of the company to draw
> from, and he made things lively til
:. Stokes cut him down. Now thu
company have resumed their old Off
: ces, the Opera House is empty, anC
what to DO With it is a conundrum
1t is about the last relic of ore of th,
: bol4est bad men the world eyer cav
- BUSINESS
= is dull as uull u be in most lines
though why, it would puzzle tb'
oldest man to explain. The countr,
is fall ofMoney aud the city bank