Year: 1877

elopement in which the daughter of D1


Youlin, 4 respectable citizen of jersey
City is involved. Miss Youlin was ar
rested on Saturday in company with s


Mr. Nroom, a leather dealer in the
swamp, at the instigation of her cousin


Nroem it appears was engaged to Mis-


Youlin, and they were soon to be mar


ried, but while visiting her he had found
an attraction in a much younger CIR


who lived next door to his fance. The
old sad story followed;-@light Eros found
a fere," and Hymen had for assistant.
the Rector of ST. Paul's and the Chief O
Police. Vroom however managed with
his willy tongue to persuade Miss Youlir
that his marriage was illegal, and tha
he was much abused individual. and
now it is limited that he became a biga
mist Saturday. Miss Youlin, however
returned to her father, but not until
Vroom himself had desired her to do so


Another sad story is the taking of Paris
green, by housekeeper in a tenement
house, prompted to the act so she said
before she died, by the son of the house
agent who threatened TO shoot her ifshe
did not, hoping in this way to avoid ex-
posure.


Last week saw the opening of the reg
ular season at two of our theatres Mr.
SOthern opened at the Park in the
Crushed Tragedian," and received a
perfect ovation. 1t is character which,
while being totally unlike, may rank
with his Dundreary. 1t is irresistably
comic, while sufficient pathos runs
through the play to produce that slight
change and turbulence eofemotion, which
is the theatre-goer's delight. / think /
have rarely enjoyed anything more than
that entertainment. 1t will probably
run the season, and | recommend it as
delicious treat to all who visit the city.


From the moment in which the
crushed Fitz Altamente in his seedy
clothes dawns upon the audience, dismal
and Shakesperian, until he effioresces
into "grande comique' concert singer
with store clothes and diamonds, and
proposes marriage in the most original
and absurd way, one does little but
laugh and grow fat. A hint to your
readers, naturally not intended for the
Editor of the Buffalo Sunday News.


DAILY opened the Fifth Avenue with a
local melodrama, called the "Dark City"
No manager so thoroughly feels the
public pulse as Mr. DAILY. The gr0nde
monde ofNew York have not yet return
ed from their summer outings, whether
to Europe or nearer home. The Dark
City would hardly please these butter
flies offlshion. They would rather see
their own faults and follies depicted, but
the class OF residents who come back
now, and the people from out of town"
who are just now here buying bargains
are of that more unsophisticated and
deeper feeling portion ofsociety in whom
the dramatic incidents of the play will
awaken the warmest response. Itisjust
one of those plays over which country
people weep one moment and laugh the
next, and thoroughly enjoy, while more
artificial upper tendon would prefer
Divorce" Saratoga or something
more akin to their daily life.


The funeral of Mr.. Davenport, the ac
tor, which took place at DIR Chapins
Church filled that edifice in way that
if it could be done every Sunday would
be extremely gratifying to the Pastor
thereof From star actor to scene shifter
/ think the whole theatrical world was
present The sermon and eulogy was
excellent. Mr.. Chaplin doing justice to
his early friend, their careers not being
perhaps so widely different after all.


At the final look one of the daughters
broke down utterly, and Fanny never
appeared to a better advantage than
when, careless ofall criticism, she threw
back her heavy veil and forgetting her
own grief sought to comfort her sister.
Fine ladyism would not have done so
natural and unaffected a thing.


Our English letters came fre:ghted
with words of love and commendation
for the Princess of Wales who has for
gotten all claims of her rank in the
higher ones of maternal duty and afiec
ton. as she has watched by the bedside
of one of her boys. There are terrible
tales of the Indian famine alsoand much
mutterings over the boarded millions of
the Empress of India" while her dusky
subjects are starving by thousands.


Letters from Paris also speak Of Theirs
in health, while modern science has al
ready brought US the details of his death
and funeral. 1t will probably add new
complications to political difficulties in
that country which always seems to be in
a condition of political difficulty. Mac
Mahon is not liked by many. Theirs
was worshipped, while Gambetta can
hardly take the latter's place


New goods are beginning to appear
and closely initiate the summer fabrics
except that they are more substantial. |
will write you more at length concern
ing them next time, as / must make
room for brief paragraph concerning
the SILVER Bell" Piano.


At the last moment the manufacturers
have decided upon some still further
improvement in what already seemed to
me a most excellent instrument This
has delayed their production and they
asked me to say to the many people who
have heard of them through your col
umns that this short delay would enable
them to offer a still better instrument
,bo, n. fru+ and ~ snon "a rerfocfpd