Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-20

| every body seems to have seen it, but people 90
there In crowds and come away tired OF 1t. JET
| ferson is playing at the Grand opera house. Sth
| avenue and 2Sd street. That place rents at a
| rfdiculously low figure, and the admission Is
| 90 cents The result is, that the house is filled
| all the time.
| SARA BRRNHARpT HAS BEEN THE RAGE OF The
WEEK.
| and Salvini is to be lionized now. Bernhardt
| has shown herself great actress In all the
| plays She has undertaken here. Her grace and
| perfectly natural stage movements and Ola
iogues give tone Of reality to her acting that
| is irresistible one cannot help remarking her
| cold and pasSionleSs behavior at the beginning
OF Inc plays,in contrast with her vgor of action
anG earnestneSS ofeXpresSion from the time she
beglns 10 warm up In the second act She is the
actress born; and the dresSmakers art divides
the attention OF the auditor with the wonderful
impersonations OF character she gives.
At Nib,oS they are having good run with
"Enchantment," good spectacular play pro-
duced with good effect and az great expense
They will run 1t about six weeks, but during
Christmas week 1t is intended 10 produce new
spectacular piece called 1.-The Black Venus
something wonderfully fine, they say.
1t Is said OF Sara Bernhard that she differs
socially from we'll known English actress In
that the latter has three or four husbands and
no children, while Sara has three Or four Child
rem and no husband.
GENERAL NOTES.
The election OF Joseph Brown to the United
states Senate from Georgia gives great salts
~ the state OF Georgia. (Which was pretty good
bat0re.} very materially His selection is looked
upon as departure from tae circle OF pOliti-
cans TO find man identified With business
Interests.
Collector OF the Port Merritt says he does
nor think Gen. Carl Id purposes to begin the
SECTION OF bis Cabinet until after the Ee cooral
C3lfge shall meet and decide his election.
Whether General Garfield or General Hancock
is the next President. 1t will make little differ
ence to General Merritt. for in any event he
fret l,trr
will be furnished with walking papers. The
business men here are generally opposed to
him, and wish General Arthur was back there
A custom house broker says he went 10 to Gen.
Merritt for free permit to enter some things.
General Merritt said he would not give one to
an! hody, ana was gruff about It: 'But they
are for YOU" said the broker. sOh, WE'LL
will look into the matter" And the broker
say he gave the permit.
AN INTERVIEW WITH sIMMoNS.
X-collector OF the port OF Boston, William A.
Simmons, who has just arrived from San Fran
cisco, was interviewed just now by your CORES
pendent, like this:
would you have followed Gen. Butler into
the democratic party If you had been homer"
mo sir; would not have followed my father
into that party its aims, traditions, and dolng5
are bad:"
You had no grievance. them"
YES had; but did not air It. And Gen.
Butler had no business to do as he did without
consulting his friends. After what his friends
stranded on the beach He should have con-
suited his friends. Instead OF that he left
them.'
.How do you stand as matters have ended?n
81 was for Garfield; but have made fortune
ana stand out OF politics altogether. l am a
business man now
In talk with Colonel Hugh Hastings yester-
day he said prominent democrat, We'll known
IN Washington, told him that there had been
from the start OF the Indiana campaign a bad
feeling between Chairman Barnum and Mr..
presidency. His informant says that Mr..
Barnum went out TO indianapolis. AMI
Calling on Mr.. English. told him he had with
him certified check for $4,000 (Which he did
not then hdYe,) that the committee expected
him to contribute s100 900, and that he had come
10 use the entire amount. II necessary. In the
stare. Mir. English. according to the story, sug-
gested to Mr.. BarLum that he did not know tue
Indiana people as well as some leaders out there
did. and he proposed to name the director for
use OF his part OF the contributions. Mr.. Bar
mum pressed him for control OF the money, but
Mr. English was unrelenting, and finally spent
his own subscription through his own man.
BaTnum came back and reported that he had
made no progress with English. Tits believed, -
said Colonel Hastings, THAT BarnumS tnten-
ton was to make the English contribution a
basis OF large subscriptions elsewhere, and got
want OF the moral effect that a heavy check
from English would have produced
The talk about the Morey letter still keeps up
bat the fact is established In nearly eyerybody's
mind now that the letter Is forgery.
IN OPPOSITION TO CONKLING.
The movement OF the Western New York
people in favor OF Congressman Dick Crowley
OF Lockport for L. S. Senator will be apt to
give MIR. Conkling some trouble. There Is a
feeling now against allowing Mr. ConklIng to
lame his colleague, on the ground that he has
power enough already. The state senate Is led
by men who oppose that idea, and a majority Is
found against him there. But Conkltngs man
will be elected speaker of the next assembly.
The trouble began seriously at Chicago, among
The delegates who refused to vote for Grant.