The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-04-26

| OF the evening was the Chautauqua
| Square, danced for the first time IN this
| city.
The explanation of Lord Randolph
| Churchill's downfall is the same old story.
| A domestic trouble befell him just before
his hasty departure for Africa some time
ago, and since then he has been anxious
only TO throw away a promising career.
The scandal was hushed up because very
exalted parsonage, now dead, was ln-
volved, but TO a man of Lord Randolphs
temperament it was fatal.
Part 3 of THE News Portfolio of Actors
and Actresses contains Edwin Booth as
Hamlet, Lawrence Barrett, Lily Langtry,
De Wolf Hopper, Edna Wallac Hopper.
Frederic Robinson, Marie Burroughs,
Bessie Cleveland, Katherine Clemmons,
Sol Smith Russell, Isabelle Irving. Fred
erick Warde, Cora Tanner, James Il.
Powers, Annie sutherland, Otis Skinner,
Helen Bertram, Della Fox, Anna O'Keefe
and Ida Mule.
Ex-senator Thomas w. Ferry of Michi-
gan, who was president pro TEN of the
Senate during the exciting times of the
Tilden- Hayes contest, is living in seclu-
sion at Grand Haven Mich, much broken
in health and in poor circumstances. He
preserves as memento the pen which he
used in signing the document that as
sured the presidency to Hayes, believing
that he was instrumental in saving the
country from q renewal of hostilities.
Jesse Seligman's fortune was estimated
at between $40, 900 900 and 10000, 900 ard
up to the time of his departure for the
West Mr.. Seligman had rarely missed
day at his Office in the Mills building, on
Broad street, where the firm of j. & w.
Seligman has made its quarters ever since
the building was completed. Query:
Had he had much real enjoyment out of
his big fortune before he handed it over
to his heirs ?
Mr.. Roger G.. Young and Miss Harriet
j. Goff, daughter of James &. Goff, were
married at the Union Baptist Church last
evening. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. J. X. Ever. Miss Mary George
OF Plains boro, n. H., Miss Clara Cross,
Gurney were bridesmaids; William o.
Hutchins, best man and Messrs. George
Hurlbert, David Anthony, Embert
Gurney, George Kiltpn, William Clafiin
and Merrick l.. Goff acted as ushers.
"Roller ball." the invention of A. III.
Overman of Victor bicycle fame
which is intended TO supersede football
and its brutality, had trial by the SPRING
field training school athletes last week.
The ball used is the largest football ever
made, three feet in diameter, and filled
with air, as is any kicking sphere. AL
though no rules have been made to regu-
late the game, ii is understood that the
ball is TO be rolled or thrown over the
regulation football field and through the
goals.
1t was Miss Avis Blivens' first public
appearance as n pianist last evening at
Blackstone Hall. She is an excellent per-
former and the large audience in attend
ance at her first recital was fully
appreciative of its merits. The program:
Prelude and fugue in G minor from "The
Well Tempere Clavichordn ~ Bach "Song
Without Words" "Nenetianisches Con
dellied," "Spinning Song" "The Wan
derer," Mendelssohn; noeturne, Sgam-
BATH; waltz SHARP minor, Chopin;
"Gondoliera," MosZkowsh: maZurka,
Stoiowski; etude in the form OF scherzo,
Ethelbert- Nevin. polonaise Il major, Liszt.
Dispatches from Rivera give details of
alleged atrocious treatment of prisoners
taken by General llippolyte after his
victories in Rio Grlnde do Sui. IL
is charged that they were decapi-
tated. Decapitation OF prisoners is said
to have been carried on by both sides i'm
Parana. After General Saraiya occupied
Laha he executed Colonel Sierra Martino,
and several others Of PeiXoto's officers
who had violated their paroles. NJ. Butte,
a well-known French engineer, who was
i'm Admiral Melo's service and employed
in the arsenal i'm Desterro, is among the
prisoners who have been sent TO Rio
Janeiro.
The oyster cocktail one sees advertised
around town lately is an idea imported
from New York, and So far its popularity
il monopolized pretty fully by New York
men. Ii Is said to be useful i'm dissipa-
ting the tired feeling after n certain sort
OF dinner. It is hot and mixture OF
catsup and spices with n couple of lonely
oysters i'm the bottom OF the glass. There
is no liquor i'm Il. Herman Oelrichs, the
New York club man. introduced the con-
coction TO New York, bringing ID from
San Francisco, and MIR Jesse Metcalf in
troduced IL to Providence via the Hone
Club. That Is one thing Oelrichs discov-
cred in California beside his wife. the
daughter OF Millionairc Fair.
For the last two DAYS he London news
papers have been freely commenting on
the "industrial armies which are now
marching 10 Washington. The Chronicle
declares that the people of the
United States are being cqnfronted
with the Nemesis which their