The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-29

murdered in this city, at Ohuenton
knocked on the head with hammer
and then ohoked with a cord, mucl
valuable property was taken. Eyi
demo- amounting to certainty tendec
to implioste her nephew, bat hi
abb was ciesrness itself. a goa
bird aged q. resembling the nephew
had studied the latter, robbed him o
his papers Of indemnity, and thus
personstiDg. made an excuse 10 cal
on the old lady, and so commit the
deed. Twenty detectives wers rig
ged out AZ peddlers. who visited the
suburbs for thirty miles around. Al
Creil, two peddlers selling jewelry,
were recommended to call on q
yonng couple just set up in house
keeping. and lately married; they did
40, and rrested the pseudo-bride.
and awaited the coming of her lord
and master, who drove up In q new
dog cart, accompanied by two pals.
1t was the murderer, who had as
sumed the nepheR's name, etc. He
at once confessed the crime, and en-
loyed detailing how the old lady
''pufied of" all the deceased's prop
erty WAS found in the house; he was
wearing the old lsdy's watch, and
begged 1t would be lett with him, as
it secured him good luck in other
robberies be had since made" and
that he drove in his own trap to COM
NIT. He is quite a frail, feminine
looking lad-traits peculiar to the
race OF modern criminals in France.
1t ID reported he said, that since he
did not cissect the old lady, M. Gre7y
would never sign his death-warrant.
And there ia spice OF truth in the
cynicism. The court has disposed of
new way to pay old debts; hus-
band married very pretty girl. who
must be somewhat OF an idiot; not
receiving her dOwry, be insisted that
she should earn the household ex-
penses; the husband then sought
men to live with his beauty for day,
q Bsgdsd marriage, and if they did
not pay well, he menaced them With
charge of adultery. One iudivid-
ual declined, was arrested, but fined
only 10 francs. The case was too
immortal to punish even the wife
with the three months. imprison-
ment for belDg AIKEN in adultery.
A book that has many readers is
the "history oftha Ottoman Empire. !"
by discount de la Jeuquire. 1t is tull
of new ideas, on subject that after
all the thIeshing il has und ergone,
is still apparent IN public attention.
The book is written without passion or
party feeling. The author states,
the Turks are people that live ana
develop In corruption as some plants
do In swamps, but that they are now
retiring into Asia, as slowly as they
came from there: the water is re-
mounting to its source. Professor
Caro- has been handling the ph,los.
ophy Of the Able Gallant; the Able
had the reputation OF being a tree
thinker; be was only free critic, as
he was bon Uirant, Thus he replies
70 the argument of the world being
made by chance; the partisan Of such
a doctrine plays then with party
that ever wis, hence, having the
power to ensure by planning sue
cess.
The Renaissance theatre has pro.
duced eemic opera in tour acts LIE
SAILS, by Nine. de Olaghier. The
neice OF an Egyptian Kslipb, the day
before her marriage, obtains per-
mission to visit the pyramids; there
she raises her veil, and her beauty is
80 dazzling, that one Nsghib lie 6ais)
embraces her; he finds an entrance
10 the palace next day, and declares
he and the Deice love each other. and
are rssolved to die, il not united; the
Kaliph yields; the marriage is cele-
brated, and the young couple are
placed in boat on the Nile, the cum
uch having orders TO open the boat,
and drown all on board. But bark
comes to the rescue. Capoul is
Naghib, and he is the piece; his
voice shows no fatigue AMI his nsejzG
coca effects still captlvate the public;
he is perfect in a serenRde where be
accompanies himself on an Arabian
guitar. FIdure at the Pasd eloup con.
certs has sang TO crowded houses in
some fragments from Taunhaueer;
be simply electrified the spectators by
the purity of his execution; has the
r-t OF listening to his own voice,
Gence, never a hard or ecreeching
sound is tc be heard; the pronouncis-
ton of his words is accuracy itself.
The grand cafe concert, Ell dorado. |
the only one worth visiting, has
brought out an operette by III. Plan
quette, the happy composer oil the
GEoches de COrneUille; il is called |
Chevreau zegsrs and has several airs
that will certainly make the tour de
monde, as Gamartive observed of the |
tricolor.
The National Opera here having
declined Massanet's biblical opera |
Herodiade, he has just brought it out
at Brussels. 1t lie a complete success.
before committing the score to paper,
Massanes had devoted four years TO |
writing is in his head. The music |
puts in contrast the Jewish and the |
Roman cinlistious. She scene is |
laid at Jerusalem; the daughter"
does not demand the head either Of
an apostle, or prophet, or fore