Smyrna times., 1883-12-19

OF the twenty theaters in New York
only two are reported by the chief of
the Building Inspectors Department to
be fire-proof Within month two of
the theaters have been burned down,
and on Wednesday night last another
came very near to being destroyed by
fire. In Philadelphia, says the Inquirer,
there is no such thing as frc-proof
thcater; there is not single one hav-
ing iire-prOof curtain to separate the
stage from the auditorium. Fires in
the theatres in ninety-nine cases in Il
hundred occur on the stage, and the
chances of escape for an audience
would be increased in that ratio if
shcet-iron or even closely woven wire
curtain were provided for the theaters.
Mary Clemmer, the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Hdepen-
dent thus describes the meeting of Con-
gress and the men who assemble
there:
at is more than a sentimental sigh
one gave in passing from Gods bright
weather into the Capitol, to see at once
that the beautiful corridors given to
cleanliness and silence for the last nine
long months had in one briefh hour been
seized by the Philistines'and besmeared
and defled by the tobacco-chewing
and splitting citizens of the United
States. During the sessions of Con-
gress the internal condition of the Cap
itol of the nation is a perpetual insult
and grief to every refined American.
In single day, not only the superb
Capitol, but the streets our of beautiful
city seem suddenly possessed by hordes
of unkempt, dreadful looking men.
The Huns of Attila, when they swoop-
ed down from the North did not look
half so dissipated as these men do
whose greater proportion, by the way
do not swoop from the North at all,
but from the South and West"
A Washington correspondent in
speaking of the harassments of the
Speaker of the House, says:
"Speaker Carlisle's wan face and
anxious, weary air excited general at
tention and comment Monday, and
clearly showed the severe mental and
physical strain put upon him by his
new duties. Last Saturday he spoke
confidently of his ability to complete
the committees so as to announce them
to-day. He then expected to have the
Democratic assignments to standing
committees completed Saturday night,
but tonight he finds that work still
unfinished and in some respects in a
less satisfactory condition than it was
was 4S hoursago. 1t sunderstood from
Democratic Congressman who enjoy to
certain extent his confidence that the
Speaker is greatly worried, not to say
disguised, by what he may justly re-
gard as the unreasonable and pertina-
cious demands of some of the men who
supported him. They "claim " and
insist upon having important places, tC
which they are not fairly entitled by
experience, ability or qualification, and
places, moreover, which have been
| promised to other men,"
The fatal drop has fallen and the
soul of Patrick O'Donnell, the slayer
of the informer Carey, has gone t.
meet its maker. The efforts of the
doomed mans friends in all parts o
the world were unavailing and he wa
hung at S o'clock Monday morning
England turned a needless ear alike t,
threats, appeals and entreaties, ant
from the first it was evident tina
O'DOnnell would have to suffer the full
penalty of his act. 1t was upon the in
formation of Informer Cary that man,
Of the dreaded Invincibles were car
tured and hung, and England hat
pledged itself to protect him from tn
vengeance that was threatened o
every side. O'DOnnell was the instru
ment that thwarted the British plan
and avenged the betrayal of the Invir
cibles. England saw that it must max
a terrible example of the offender if
would maintain its reign of terror owe
the Irish. The example has bee
made and the fate of O'Donnell hans
; as a menace over the heads of Ireland
/ sons. OF the two ways of governin
; Ireland, says the Philadelphia EUenir
: Ne,Us, that of force has been chose,
$ and England having chosen it cou'
4 do nothing else than hang O'Donnel