Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-16

as he Is young. He has begun indiscreetly
he has needlessly got himself into hot wa
ter. Even if the young women of his congre-
cation have made love to him, he should
not tell of it. 1t is not good sense. Men
of the world, though not over-nice in NOR
ais, do not talk in that way, and clergy
men surely should not be more communi-
cative on so delicate subject. Rev.
| Trumbower should learn to bride his
tongue. He never can expect any peace
If he keeps up such babbling, even In
the Arcadian circles of West Hoboken.
| While the whole affair seems to be storm
| IN saucer, 1T has created tumult In the
| church, which is so very small and SO
| perched upon hill that it might be upset
by SO slight cause as the wagging of its
pastors tongue.
CALEB CUSHING.
George Loring, of Boston, delivered
lately at Newburyport, Mass, an address
commemorative of the late Caleb Cushing,
who was born near that quaint old town
Salisbury was his native place., in January
of the present century. Cushing was
very peculiar man, and as study is very
interesting. He had many defects but
as an individual he was curious, and at
tractive through his very defects, which
were unlike the defects of most people.
His associates have differed much as to his
degree of talent but they have all agreed
about his marvellous industry and memory,
which allowed very little that he had ever
read to escape him. His application was
prodigious. For near thirty years he spent
sixteen hours out of twenty-four on an
average in study and work, and retained
perfect health all the while. He was wont
to say that all the opinions and theories
| concerning the necessity of outdoor life
and exercise were unfounded, and gave
himself as an illustration to the contrary.
He certainly was an exception-perhaps
one of the exceptions that prove the rule.
He spent most of his long life within
walls he toiled continuously and untir-
ingly, and yet he kept extraordinary vigor
and the appearance of comparative youth
up to almost So Probably no American
of his time had done more miscellaneous
reading, and what he had read 20 or 80
years before was nearly as fresh in his mind
as what he had read few days previous
Persons not wellacquainted with him often
thought that he had been cramming for a
particular subject, so completely informed
was he on it. They would be surprised to
learn that he had not consulted any au-
thority on that topic for many years.
Although he had filled various important
public offices, he was greatly disappointed
politically, thinking that his political tai
ents and knowledge had not been appre-
ciated. He frequently said that he had
spent twenty-five years in equippirg him
self for public service, and that most of
the time so spent had been wasted. An
analysis of Caleb Cushing's character by
some one who knew him, and several New
Englanders still living knew him thor
oughly, would be valuable contribution
to magazine, and would possess ample
charm as a revelation of the inconsistencies
and even contradictions of human nature.
VARIETIES.
The death, just announced, Of Mrs.
George f. Deutsch, Martin Van Buren's
niece. by taking opium to end her troubles,
is sad close to a life which opened happily
and brilliantly. She was the daughter OF
DIR. Peter Van Buren, of this city, had been
very handsome, was finely educated, and
had been prominent In the most fashionable
and refined circles. She had carried on
Irritation from the back windows of her
fathers house in Twenty second street with
man twenty years her senior, and had
been married to him after her fathers death.
The union was wretched; her husband left
her she became a mental wreck from using
opium, and finally committed suicide. This
is another of the numberless tragedies con.
t1nu9IIU from ipho
riage.
The opening of spring at an earlier date
than usual Is announced by Colonel De
Lancey Kane, who will begin to drive his
Tally Ho coach next week between here
and New Rochelle, and make regular trips
during the season. Playing coachman is
not very dignified employment, but it is
better than the vulgar dissipation of
many of our men of fashion. Kane's mother
is an Astor, grand daughter of old John
Jacob, the German immigrant who landed
here with half-a-dozen flutes, all his
property, and died worth $25, ,OOO, 900.
Thus far this has been most typical
April. We have not had more changeable
weather than at present in many years.
The skies change every few minutes. We
have sunshine, rain, snow, hail, thunder
and-lightning, and sunshine again, all in
the same hour. Who could ask for more
variety?
There is no doubt that we are to have
here, in the vicinity of Fifth avenue and
Thirty-seventh street, a new and magnifi-
cent opera house We need it-for the
Academy of Music is now out of the way.
After all the idle talk, we shall be pretty
certain to have within two years a lyric
theater worthy of the metropolis.
Some of the horse-car lines have lust put
on smoking cars in order no doubt to draw
smokers away from the elevated cars where
smoking, properly enough, is not allowed.
Spiritualism is said to be increasing very
rapidly in orthodox circles here. The rea-
son assigned is that spiritualism inspires
belief in personal Immortality, and that
science has taken such hope out of evan
gelical theology.
The new Metropolitan Museum, though
it has been opened only one week, has
been visited by nearly 10000 persons,
which shows the interest that the commu-
nifty feels in art matters.
| George Augustus Sala said, just before
he sailed back to England, that New York
had impressed him as the gayest and most
luxurious city on the globe; that Paris and
Vienna do not begin to compare with it in
this respect.
1t is said that two of the city theaters
intend to have a double stage, after the
plan of the new Madison Square, which
has proved an extraordinary success.
CHAUBERT.