Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-03-10
NEW YORK NOTES.
A SERIES OF MYSTERIOUS
SHOOTINGS.
derby" and ''Darby"-As to Finger
Bowls-An Organ for GrowIers-The-
atrical Managers in Wall Street.-The
Corpse in "Feodora -


asleep, but she is now in the hands of tn,
ponce. The next night Mrs. Nellie Walsh in
| twenty third street, shot q burglar who wa
I carrying on her property, and at the same
hour a man named Donovan shot himself
! Miss Mary Smith next day was shot at Gar.
den city, and there were two cases of shoot.
ing IN brooklyn and murder in jersey City
! the following day.
The Rev. Mr.. Darby Fathero Darby. a.
he is sometimes called-assistant priest of thC
rlt9allstlc Church of st. Mary the Virgins
| mad an experience the other evening remind.
| ing one OF that of the Western woman, who
| when she answered knock at her door. wa.
| asked, " Does Mr.. Robinson (her husbanti) live
mere: es, she replied; but he is not al
home" Well, he will be in a minute" wa;
the knockers retort, :. for have got him dead
| in the wagon yOnder." When Mr. Darby-il
being his servants night "Out "-responded to
a similar summons at the door of his flat in
west Forty first street, he was confronted by
a solemn looking man, who asked:
" Is this Mr.. Darby's?"
The clergyman replied in the Affirmative.
! bury him."
BURY mer' exclaimed the astonished cler-
| gyman; who told you was dead?"
Nobody" said the undertaken: sits Mr..
Darby whom I'm ordered TO bury"
| but am Mr.. Darby"
us this West Forty FIRST street,"
"Yes."
''Wel, it's Mr. Darby, of West Fortv- first
street, who's dead, and as you yourself say this
IS MS house, the corpse l am to bury must be
! mere. Perhaps it's your wife what's dead
mr. DARBY, who was widOwer when he en-
| Tered the church, and has never remarked
| from ritualistic scruples. made haste to an
swer that he had no wife. But he was unable
was at the right house, until he finally re-
membered that a Mr.. Derby lived, or had
lived, further along the block
Derby" said the undertaken. show do Won
spell it?' ~" Wv ~"
"D-e-r-b-y," spelled the clergyman.
"Why,thats Darbyw exclaimed the purvey-
or Of collins ms whose accent had long before pro-
be the party I'm looking for. Pm sorry to
nave put you to trouble so unnecessarily, but
here's my card; keep my name in mind and
III see there's no mistake the next time
story is told by the Rev. nr. Matteson,
another Episcopal clegyman, who used to edit
q church paper here. When he first went to
give reception to his parishoners, and sent
TO all the combined card of himself and his
wife, with the words, "At home, Thursday at
Son p M the Unfortunately cnIrcSy the the sex,
also the grave digger. had not
understood the name of the new clergyman,
and, therefore, regarded the card as an order
for his professional services, and not as an in
yltatlon to merry making.
'Dr. and Mrs. Matteson," he read, ga lady
and gentleman corpse. An they want
double grave ready at o'clock Thursday
night. Mighty queer time for a funeral. but
L suppose they knows their own business"
Accordingly, Mr.. Sexton digs what he called
"a pair of beautiful graves, and O'Clock
the following Thursday evening, when every
body else and his wife in Richmond Hill were
Fastening to the party at the parsonage, found
him IN the burying ground, waiting patiently
Tor the "lady and gentleman corpse" But
they came not.
Edward II. JOhnes, young lawyer of this
Gity, Is TO marry on April Is, Miss Mary
Harris, Of Louisville, Ky. Mr.. Johnes form,
erly lived in Louisville, where his step father
the Rev. Dr. Shipman, now pastor OF Christ
church, Fifth avenue and Thirty fifth street
was for long time located. Dir. Johnes
who is member OF the University and other.
clubs, Is well known in New York society
and was the Prince Charming in the spectacle
OF 1.-THE Sleeping Beauty" which was pre-
sented at the Academy OF Music two winters
ago, lie was poet of his class at Yale College
and has published volume Of verses entitled
"Briefs by a Barrister."
There is an episode in William Blacks latest
novel, "Shandon Bells" that recalls A some
what similar story that used to be told of a
well known New York lady. 1t is the chang.
ing back by Hilton ClarkeIfrom evening dress
to morning attire, when he sees that F'itz-
gerald, one .9f his guests at dinner, is not
clothed ~ the conventional costume. The
Gunner E table 1t was before the use OF finger
DOWlS naQ become general, and a country
guest at formal dinner party created con,
sternation by, through ignorance, drinking
from finger bowl. The hostess, however,
was equal to the emergencV, and in order
that the guest might not be mortified by the
mistake, at once drank from her own finger
bowl. The other guests, with equal pres
ence OF mind, followed her example, and the
representative from the rural districts did
not learn until long afterwards, il he ever did.
OF the social delinquency of which he had been
guilty: Al least that is the story. l don't be-
HeNe II, however.
There is another story told of finger bowls
which also illustrate the former simplicity of
what city people call ''Our country cousins"
1t Is sald that one of the chief contributing
Rurpn's of rbo~, l.
candidate for election in 1910, was the use
of finger bowls in the White House. Rural
orators dilated on this senile imitation of the
luxurious habits of the effete mOnarchies of
the old world, and made what D6gtferry call
ell "ordorous comparisons between the finger
bowls OF Van Bgrenis table and hard cider
9aq :.all iaS CABINS TEiGA l; We're the emblems Of
There is really no end Of the Journals start
ed in New York. Scarcely day passes that
does not Produce some new paper. To day,
as passed the news stand ON the Elevated
Road noticed a new name, stopped and
bought copy OF Tie 6run,GIer a Journal FOR
Ecery6Ody. 1t is small paper, about the size
prnted matte matter 9aS nd IS lweEe sod dr Pages gTs Of cei
object is to print the letters Of peo-
pie who have Complaints to make
srs apoHt % se5Hissr 5fis general IN the
inGigpitX 9f New ] 6rk, which lie says for down
right Ylllalpyr Rnheard OF infamy and de.
grading debauchery knocks out anyother city
N
exposure of the vicious dens IN lower New
York. Beneath is another letter. signed
"Cynic," which is prolonged sGarl upon the
sepSed syl of IrO0 0n and coal f9s sSCss C 4
and hence his fretfgi shan, Thesn1
comes ''.a'" letter from man Wbn
bewails, the fgot that he cannot go 10 church
gndertaker's sign upon the front doors. A
''student" writes two columns about the oro-
per pronunciation Of the word 1uly, and a
boy complains that he cannot throw snow
balls on the street without being arrested bv
the police. The rest e the PAPER IS filled IN
with very lahg extracts from "a London
Speetsto1SS,, IN che. 2E0rtnig1tka Ieoiesg, and
ssfoTy ss+1ss Of Of t Eather dgl adyssements 1he
trIbgtiQhs Wogls o6st hiI9 cent, and that at
cents e0p9 he can make money, There is
no mo DOUBT o. mat II he can sell his paper.
1ne Of the papers has started the question.
whether theatrical managers investsin Wall
street or not. The fact Is that specrlatian
dQrns the large part of theatrical managers
from specniatiag IN theatricals he drifts easily
iAta specuiatlng In Wall street. Manager
Gilmore, Of 'Niblo's Garden, has speculated
for years, and is said to be nearly q htndred
thousand dollars ahead 50 far.
Henry F. Ahhay, perhaps the fore
most % American managers, does
not speculate steadily, but often takes 3 flyer |
on the streets. j. II. Hayerly has wel nigh |
ruined himself ip speculatfng, and would !
probably he one Of the Wealthiest men in !
America to-day il the bulk Of hls fortune was |
not wrapped up "a mines, Maurice Grau, the |
French Opera Troupe manager, speculates |
constantly, aud John McCauli, OF the BIjou |
Opera House, Is also well known
Wall street man, Manager Dur. Of I
Days Theatre, has made great |
deal more money in Wall street than he has
on his theatre, and Theodore Moss of Wal.
lacks Theatre, has built up ona-half Of his |
fortune by judcious dealings with the Stock |
-ca hNcnange. Les.nstta drover, the playwright, |
spent many years In WalLstreet. and is not !
proof against its fascination yet. There are |
few, il any, managers who are not more or
less interested in the street.
Sarah BeFnhardt is certainly the raosf oriqi
nal woman in the wcrId There is absoIufeIv |
no limit to the extent OF her invention in get |
ting up sensations for the public, The latest |
freak has set ali Paris taking 4 must saw
that thought she reached her tether when /
she got married and settled down, which was I
such an astounding thing that it was the sur
prise of the world for six DAYS That she /
would get divorce from her husband |
was natural consequence. She did |
by letter from Paris that she has capped the |
climax Of her eccentricities by introducing in |
new play of "Feodora" q feature that ls ab- |
solntely without precedent. In the fourth act /
of this very emotional tragedy, the actress has |
scene over the body Of dead man. Ordi- /
nary actresses would give the scene over a |
cloth-stuned edummy,;' but Sarah insists |
upon having some living person act the |
corpse every night, and she finds she cannot |
get herself up to the requisite degree of en- |
thueiasm unless the corpse is acted by a dear |
friend. As is well known, Bernhardt's dear |
friends stretch in long and illustriOus line
from Prince Napoleon and the Prince of Wales |
to her husband. The sensation in Paris now
is to find out who the corpse is every niaht
She began with her ageS companion,
she was completely covered with bruises and
knocked out or breath and she resolufelv de-