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Fashion Notes.

Old fashioned aprons with braces are
striving for favor.
Paris houses are already designing au-
tumn and winter costumes.
Embroidery is seen on all materials
and mixtures Of materials.
A new material for neglige toilets,
called rendumac," has suddenly be-
come popular.
At Paris watering places the fashion
of tie-back skirts is followed to the fur
thest possible limit.
The newest style for fall isthe Heloise
costume, so called because the bodice is
fashioned after a medieval type.
A new porte bonheur is formed of
seven porte bonheurs twisted one with
the other, aud composinga single brace
let only.
A popular way of wearing the hair i
in French twist, with the ends made
in two or three finger puffs on the top
OF the head.
Quilles or robings made OF silver
braid formed into network, will be worn
during the autumn on sicilienne dresses
of dark colors.
A bride indicates to her bridesmaids
the precise costume which she desires
them to wear, but they purchase these
themselves.
Porpoise hide or kangaroo skin boots,
and either thick wooden or silk stockings,
are worn by ladies travelling abroad, for
mountaineering.
A new form of needle case just into
duced resembles one-pound weight,
and when open discloses a pincushion
and several packets of needles.
A novelty in jewelry are rings COM
posed of several narrow bands OF gold,
either plain or set with gems, miniature
copies Of porte-b -bonheur bracelets.
The latest fashion in bracelets is o
gold bracelet with the wearer's name in
Byzantine letters, but so interlaced and
so large that they cover nearly half Of
the arms.
Catagon nets, composed OF silk braid
and ornamented with ribbon bow at
the top of the head and another at the
bottom of the net, are designed for
country wear during the summer
months.
There are batiste founces nearly COW
cred with Eastern embroidery, to be
used for ornamenting light silk dresses;
they are worked in quaint shades, and
the silk of the dress matches the pale
faded tints of the backgrounds.
Indian gauzes in which faded colors
are introduced, Persian gauzes with
arabesques, and Egyptian gauzes with
characteristic designs, are numbered
among the popular Oriental goods now
in demand for overdresses to evening
toilets.
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For an hour or two he lay there, his
eyes closed, his figure motionless, and
then he arose with half groan of men
tai distress.
"This will never do. shall 60 mad
if I stay here with only my thoughts
for"-
He had gone over to the little dressing
bureau, carelessly taking up two little
pieces of paper that Effie had entirely
forgotten to hide, and a pallor, even
more marked than his late deathly pale
ness, overspread his face as he saw the
two formidable bills.
Then something very like an oath
came from his set teeth.
"My temptation be on her head
N.Y.
He sprung suddenly to his feet as the
doorbell pealed imperiously, and listened
with no ordinary curiosity as q mans
voice demanded. to SEQ Mr.. Ellis Ire
mayne, and heard the servant usher his
company into the drawing room.
Then he went slowly, slowly down
stairs, into the presence of Mr.. Wing
field and an officer.
"Mr. Tremayne, you are discovered
in your neat system OF embszzlement.
Officer" -
Ellis stepped haugLtily back.
"One moment, gentlemen, if you
please. Mr.. Wingfeld, I nm discover
ed. Twenty-four hours later I would
have been beyond pursuit; as it is, what
is the difference between hunted life
abroad, or-this2"
Quick as flash, the pistol cleaned in
the gaslight.
A report, a heavy fall that thundered
through the house like doom, and the
husband of woman that was too un-
womanly to bear her share in the bur
den of life the woman enjoying her
brief hour of pleasure on the sunlit
ocean shore-the woman who had 1t In
her power, as all women who are wives
have, to goad to destruction in some
form or another, or guide to happiness
and sue less, in some means or another,
this husband, who was less wicked than
weak, went to his reward.
And who shall say whose was the
guilt9
Hers or not, who knelt and sobbed
over his dead face, and tried to reason
into silence an inner voice that refused
to be still.
Sister wives, be you careful, lest, al
though your hands and hearts are not
stained with crime like this-and many
q wife's hands and heart are thus red
dened to day-be careful that it lays not
at your door thai your husbands lose all
their faith and trust in woman's sacred
VOW as we'll as blessed privilege to
share eagerly in their economies and
many petty grievances thatno household
is without-that small though they now
are, if not accepted in the spirit OF pa
tience, love and forbearance, are the
little ve1es that destroy the vine beyond
the hope of recovery.
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Corn IN ENa1AND.-Indian corn has
attained permanent footing as an arti-
Gle of food in England, and to our agri-
culturists this is a matter of much i'm
portanoe. In 1875 about million tons
of corn we're imported into Great Britain.
English people, however, do not receive
the article in all its original sweetness.
It must undergo process called kiln
drying, or it would heat in the barrels.
This process is performed before grind
ing, and requires great care.
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Posted.

The Burlington Hawkeye says: A
Gloucester letter writer says Goldfish are
caught with line thirty fathoms long,
provided with four hooks, which are
baited with porgie." That kind Of
stuff may do to tell away down in
Gloucester, where the people aren't
posted, but out West here We have seen
too many Goldfish swaying from the
grocery awning in the summer breeze
not to know better than all that gibber-
ing gosh about lines and hooks. You
don't catch Goldfish, you buy them, just
like mackcrel.
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A Story Tald or Nantucket.

"There are no heroes now," said she,
And turned with scornful, wearied air,
And looked across the waves to where
dim gray island met the sea.
~ wish thered be ninth Crusade,
Or Arthur's knights would come once
more,
Or of Nsntucket's prosy shore
A second linn might be made.
"No fame Of genius lights our page
Our muse is dumb. No martyr wakes
Our hearts from sleep. No hero breaks
The level Of our stupid age
He looked at her in sad surprise
Was she so heartless and 6lase?
Was there no bravery to-day
Gould make hero in her eyes?
"And yet on that plosaic shore
hero may have becn," said he;
"a knight or martyr here might be
Whv never cross or armor wore.
"Just OF Nsntucaets rugged coast
One day last week boat went down
In sight Of dweliers in the town,
And all on board but one were lost.
"For shere were two who caught an oar
Ard foated for q moment they
HID comrades been for many day,
Had danger shared on many a shore.
"One felt the oar begin to sink
Beneath the double weight; he knew
rr u1ralv cou16 r,nr 6Dat the two.
And one must go. He did not shrink;
"His sacrifice his friend might save,
And pausing no: to give him choice,
He shouted, with linging voice
That never faitered, strong and brave
"As when they scaled an Alpine height
And shouted to the arching sky
In triumph, Que MUST go-good-bye-
God bless you = and Was lost from sight.
ellis friend was saved; hut now alone
he ever hears that voice repeat
'Good-bye-God bless YOU" clear and
sweet,
In tides that roar and winds that moan !"
The red lips lost their scoruful curl,
And quivered now with tender pain,
And tears fell like n summer rain
From the dark lasLes Of the girl.
That ,pds hero! greater love
Hath no mani" passionately thrilled
The vibrant tones her face was filed
With reverence all words above.
He murmured to himself apart
Watching the lansuid cynic's face
Transformed with radiant, tender grace
"Ah novel know she has q heart!"
-Parsons.
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WHAT IT WOULD HAvE.-Speaking Of
the last prize fight, the New York Her.
aid says: Two vicious brutes, known
to pugilistic fame as Jimmy" Weeden
and Chilly" Walker, both OF Phiia.
delphia, met in the prize ring and
pounded each other until "Billy" Wal
ker dieG. We raise no objection what
ever to ruffians like these killing each
other, but as the law has declared such
q mode of staying murder we sincerely
hope that Pennsylvania law will send
Jimmy" after "Billy" by the best
line that can be procured for the pur-
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THE OoBB1ER's LAST WoRDs.-"
feel that I wax weaker each succeeding
day, and that I am fast approaching my
end; few more stitches and all will be
over; and ! shall go where there is rest
for the weary sole, and every sorrow
will be heeled" Having said awl be
wished, he calmly breathed his last,
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A few days since the poor Empress
Charlotte escaped from the Chateau de
Lacken, where she is still under care.
After finding her it was difficult to make
her return, and she was induced to do
80 at length by the stratagem OF fling
ing flowers before her, as she is very
Sond of flowers,
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The claim holders in the African dia-
mond fields are about to stop digging
until the price of the precious stones ad-
vance. The Cape Standard says :
Diamonds are dirt cheap
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A Birds Song.

A Birds Song.
The shadow Of bird
On the shodow of bough;
Sweet and clear his song Is heard,
"seek me now-I seek thee now!"
The bird swings out OF reach in the swaying
tree,
But his shadow on the garden walk below be.
longs to me.
The phantom Of my love .. .
False dreams with hope doth fill,
Softly singing, far above,
''Love me still-I love thee still!
The cruel visions hover at my sad hearts door,
But the soul love is soaring out Of reach for.
evermore.
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The Japanese have arranged for an
international exposition, to take place
shortly after that of France has closed.
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There is law in Wisconsin that when
a man dies without heirs, his property
goes to the State school fluid.
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with such honest delight, her smooth
cheek lying against his, and her dainty
little hand stroking his whiskers- of
course Ellis laid down his napkin and
pushed back from the table and kissed
her.
She was his wife-sweet, pretty, deli
cate as mountain pink, and he loved
her-loved her dearly, truly, as in the
days when he had won her, thinking
what rare flower she was.
He loved her, and was willing, yes,
anxious, to increase her happiness by
every honest means in his power-only
Efie was extravagant and unreasonable
in her demand for dress and style that
were beyond the capabilities OF the we'll
salaried man that he was.
So, now he kissed her tenderly, and
then took out his purse and laid bank
note on the tablecloth.
"There's your new silk, dear-may
you enjoy it." :.
His forbidding manner had 80 entirely
disappeared, that Efie's heart was en-
couraged to undertake another pet plan.
So as she demurely folded the note
away in her pretty little crimson Russia
pocketbook, she begun, so quietly that
Ellis was quite captured by storm
81 was wondering if it would not be
a good plan if we shut up the house for
August, dear, and went somewhere. 1t
will do you so much good, I'm sure, and
there will be no expenses here while
we're away. Cant We 60 to Hastings2"
She opened the battery very suddenly,
almost staggering Tremayne.
"Oh, Efie, no. 1t would involve a
larger expense, ten times, than it costs
at home"
Then seeing that well known, martyr.
like expression settling on her face, that
always drove him to desperation, he
added, hastily:
elf you can manage it, go yourself.
T dare say some Of your fashionable
friends will chaperon you"
"Oh, may I, may I, reallya Indeed,
I will manage it !! I don't need many
new things, I'm sure. + have enough
for the silk, and with little more I Cali
easily get what I absolutely need. Ellis,
you are darling!"
He laughed-not very Joyously.
"I'm glad you think so. Well, I'm
off,"
Two hours later, Mrs. Effie Tremayne,
dressed in an une1ceptionably elegant
walking costume, started out on her
shopping tour, to meet at the silk coun-
ter Mrs. Godfrey Coddington, carelessly
tossing over rare pieces OF evening
silk.
ct am so delighted to have your
taste on my new silks, my dear Mrs.
Tremayne. Do tell me which you pre-
fer, the salmon, or the pearl blue, or
this SUMMER pink intend to have a
The New York herald., 1876-03-09
AN OBNOXIOUS BILL.

The following protest. which has received the signs
lures Of a large number OF the prominent property
owners resident IN the upper wards OF this city,
will be taken to Albany this morning for presentation
the Legislature by ex-Congressman John B. Has
kin, of Fordham:-
To THE LEGISLATURE STATE OF New YORK;
We the undersigned property owners and residents
OF the newly annexed wards without distinction oi
party do respectfully protest against the passage by
your honorable body OF Assembly bill No ~, being
titled reorPanize the local government Oh
the city Of New York" The effect OF the passage OF this
bill would be place the annexed district completely
under the unchecked power OF the present President
OF the Park Department. For more than three years
he has had complete sway over district, and has
expended hundreds OF thousands of dollars not
single useful Improvement has, up to the present time,
been inuugurated completed Under his ma mage
ment SlS0, 900 have been expended in what called
surveying mapping and monunenting and all that
has been given IN return for the expenditure num-
Der maps (many OF which his associates have wisely
refused adopt representing ''vsiOnary schemes Of
engineers, who have had actual personal knowledge
observation-disclosures which, # adopted and carried
out, and which all honest ana intelligent citizens
should oppose and resist, would cost more than the
present value or all the land in the annexed wards,
clearly shown in an article in tho NEW YORK
HERALD
The invidious retention OF the lone" member Of
the Park Commission who has for years past been in
the receipt large salary, and the abolition Of the
Offices OF the three membcrs-his associateswho have
gratuitUusly rendered efficient and valuable services
In where their taste and good judgment wera
essential his not such legislation - cal
culated to secure reform such economical govern
the people OF our city demand or that Wa
approve of.
change in the present personnel OF the Park Depart
The New York herald., 1876-03-09

Il Is understood that the Peabody bill, somewhat
amended, will be substituted for H.
Mr. Wenzell Of Sullivan, introduced resolution
relative To the Belknap scandal, ndorsing the i'm
peachment, &c The resolution went over under the
rule
Mr. Hayes bill providing for a complete survey OF
the State, constitutes Horatio Seymour William
Dorshemer, William A. Wheeler Frederick Law Ohm
stead and Isaac A. Stout commission under whom
the work Is 20 be done. They 90 hold Office for
six years and get $500 year each. The bill appro-
pirates $50 600 for the work of the ensuing year.
Thls evening the democratic aud the republican
members OF the Senate and Assembly held a
nomnate candidates for Regents OF the University 10
M the vacancies in the Board made by the deaths OF
Horato G.. Warner and William H. Goodwin. The
democrats held their caucus In the Senate chamber
and the republicans In the Assembly chamber. The
republicans nominated William L. Bostwck OF Ithaca,
and Augustus z. George, of Syracuse The democrats
nominees Erastus Corning, OF Albany, and Daniel
Beach, OF Schuyler county.
number of New YorKers are up here to-day TO lay
pipes for the ultimate defeat OF Comptroner Green's
bills Among them is Tax Commissioner Wheeler. Ex-
Police Commissioner Osbecker Is also here TO give
lit to the bill which extends Comptroller Green's term
OF Office sixty days well the terms OF the Corpo
Counsel and seven CommssIo OF Education
for the same length of time. Dsbecker has not ioro
gotten Wlekham's Kindness TO him yet
TnE RELKSAP SCANDAL
Mr. WESzEL offered the following
Whereas the financial embarrassment under whser44
and her reputed reput alton. SO far as a repuC-
~overnments demand The ,r,eest seru,iDy on tSs
Of her representatives. their various capacities Of
Legislative duties and whereas House OF Representa-
tives have brought to light gang frauds and peeuatious
national dignity and are still progressing in their good work
of reform; and whereas, the frauds and pecuationi
avcrted late. the proceeds which
voted In maintaining in places o distinction
honor by the money the duties
better inclined emulang artOcratic tendencies
the bane republicanism which is ougrowth Of
archical governments, Therefore, be IL
Resolved That the members OF the House cordially
ndorse the efforts of representatives, In Congress In
erreng out frauds, and heartily approve of the
parchment, by the House. Of w W. Belknap.
late Secretary of War, and earnestly request
thar they their good work of reform the end
corrupt officials be speedily removed from positions
trust and the honor aud integrity OF our governments may
be maint aimed ard respected al home aud abroad.
Tabled under the rule.
The New York herald., 1876-03-09
SUICIDE OF A CITY MARSHAL

Yesterday morning Mr.. John T. Stewart, City Mar
shall, Of No IS Nassau street. committed suicide at
Gerdts Hotel the OF First and Hudson streets
Hoboken. A revolver firmly cluiched In his right
hand aud a bullet hole found behind bis right
from which blood still oozng 1t appears that the
unfortunate man came Gerdts' Hotel about four
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon and stated after cngag
ing q bedroom registering his name, that he had
some important business TO transact at Union Hill,
but would be back later in the evening.
Al about halfpast eight O'Clock he returned
and went to bed Up to noon yesterday morning he
had not lett mis- room The proprietor then looked
In the through the ianlight above the coor and
saw Mr.. Stewart lying the bed, apparently dead.
The police were Immediately communicated with, and
officer Wright broke open toe door, where he found
Stewart perfectly dead The fatal shot had evidently
been committed some hours previous as the blood ON
the rilow mad become coagulated. In searching his
clothes letters found addressed to the proprietor
Of the hotel asking him TO notify mis- wife, Mrs Louisa
stewart Of No. 3iS East Eighty fourth street, Now
York. OF his death Chief OF Police Donovan instantly
despatched officer Wright TO Eghtyfourth with
the sad tidngs TO the widow. The body wns then
moved to the Morgue and Coroner Crane will hold
inquest Mr. Stewart was about hlty-six years old and
q native OF Montreal; he leaves q widow and SIX or
seven children He member OF Tammany
Society Tor the past twenty-five years he was formerly
Oddfellow and belonged 10 Beacon Lodge. He was
for nfteen years deputy sheriff under Lynch Wiett
and others. He went into partnership last June,
but Ill to attend to business subsequently. He
terrible martyr malarial fever. caused by the
city Marshal Leubuscher that hc must kill himself
Last week he walked about six miles round Astoria in
a very excited manner. He was one OF the first city
marshals and appointed In 1860
The New York herald., 1876-03-09
FINE ARTS.

SALE OF A PORTION OF THE KAHN COLLECTION.
The FIRST nights sale OF the Kahn collection Of for-
egn paintings which have been exhibition at Krutza
gallery took place evening at Association Hall
The important prices brought ''The Morning
Prayer" and "The Morning Meal, " by Michel Armour,
$145; "A Visit to the Neighbour" August Lejeuns,
$780, "Girl at the welI," Emile Birk. s1l6: s'The
Dancing Lesson" Leon caiIle, si7o;
'Happy Mother" Cainc, sl05; Attentive
Young Listener" LEnicnt de Metz $11o; I'm the
Cottage Garden" samson, 1885, 'swaysids
Charity" Rsou Marie, sli5; "Happy Mother" Paul
Leycndcckcr, $145; "I.te Busy Body" Paul Preyer,
OF the fruit painter $i25; Fighting and Climb
ing" Gustav Breuner, $l75; 'soiree Dansants'
Charles Hue, $40; "Jeune File Basque" Charlsf
Schrieber, $40; "Pretty Waitress" Cahiland Las
sale Sll0; Charity Victor Chavct, Sl65; Amazo5
Gambling" Cadna $500 ''.At Dinner" Ricardo ID
los Rias, $3.50; Poor Animal William Frieden
Gsrn &nsse '1n sio5 nvserisy lia s Joseph coomsns
s3OO; .Jeunc Femme Grccque," Ernetz Kameritz
''Ihe Cats Amusement" August Lee Jcuno, siSot
.erhe Beach al Trouville,' Charles Pecrus, yl20i
Coming Home iron the Village Festival" sms .ssn,
'.winter IN the Black Forest" Kaunmann 500; "Win
You Boy My Birds ?" Adrien Morcau, s47e interior
OF a Tavernr jean Antoine Bail, S3l5j what ths
Flower Says" Adriana Bonifazi, 5000 Landscape"
Daubigny. s4GO; '.fhe New. Poem,, Pascuddi, $500
Beach at Deppe" Michel Levy sl25; Tho Dukes
Golden Wedding. Brumor, put up at 81 900, recev.
Ing no bids was withdrawn; ''The Confidence" 5000
'.ihe Twins" $500 "Ncar Lake do Ncmi +" Pio Paris,
sl45 "La siesie Jules Rangeron, $500; 'The Inter
rupcd Picnc," sprdon, $3.50; Solitude"
Francois Laion, ss25; LA Deieuncr" and "ia
Toilcttc,v water coiors, by Simonetti sos each;
.'Italan Peasant Girl" MchettL water
color sls5; stepping. over TO the. Neighbor,
Romako. sl05; 'rhe Hour OF Repose" by Lambert,
put up $2jV and Withdrawn; 'Enct lie Nent" Louia
Jaime, S6v; Coming from the Forest" Aillet. S63i
charcoal sketch by Foriuny, put up at 500 and with
drawn; pen and ink sketch. by Vbert SlSv; Two pen
and sketches, by Galore $50 each; one by Mar
chctti, 500; one by Simonetti, $3.50.
Mr. Kahn Us so much discouraged at the result OF
last evenings sale that he contempates Withdrawing
the remainder Of his pictures this evening His deter
mnaton will be made known In this evenings pnDerA
The New York herald., 1876-03-09
A M u S E M E N T S.
ENGLISH opERA-FAusT.

ENGLISH OPERA-FAUST.
The Academy of Music we'll filed last night, on
the OF the appearance of Miss Kellogg Mar
guerite, in Gounods Faust" The cast ad-
mirablc one and comprised the best members Of Mr..
Hess nne company. There bewitching Siebei
in the imporsonaton of Mrs. Segun, who has fairly
earned after years of service the title OF the
queen Of American contraltos. Mr. William Castle
albeit his shows omnous signs Of and tear,
commendabe spirit and sang accustomed to The
role Henry Peakes is always enjoyable actor and
singer the English opera stage, and Mephisto We
think he particularly worthy OF praise. Certainly
rendering OF the role lost night calls for the warm
concentrations. Mr.. Carleton made a thoroughly
satisfactory Valentine But the interest OF those pre-
sent was mainly devoted to Miss Kellogg Il Is now
many years since lady lrst introduced 'Gretchen"
IN operatIc form to the New York public In was then
considered admirable performance. Since that time
had many other distinguished repre-.
scntatives Off the role, notably Nilsson and
Lucca Miss Kellogg seems 10 have made
a special study of the Goethe Gounod heroine and her
impcrsonation last evening showed not only the cul
tvated songstress but also the matured actress There
were points OF excellence in her rendering Of the
familiar numbers OF the role OF Marguerite intensified
n degree approaching II not actually reaching, the
grandeur the lyric impersonations Of the past and
greatest school, that OF which Tticns has, during the
present season. gwen idea The Marguerite OF
Miss Kellogg is lyric and dramatic porlraiture that
the English opera stage may boast OF. Tonight Mr..
Joseph Mans who has proved himself 10 be the best
the operate boards oday. has benefit and
will appear as Manrico In al Trovatore assisted by
Nine. Van Zandt Mrs. Zelda Seguin and Mt Carleton.