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mils irfurbaH, Sfepfcmfor VI. 1SSL A MUSICAL 3IOVK. A AMUSEMENTS lophete," and Mme. Rraus. the leadin soprano at the tirand Opera in 1 oris, receives for each performance, which was also Faure's salary.

The following from a (Jlasjrow paper indi-dicatcs tither a sublime egotism upon the rart of the Duke of Kdinburh, or a strange urdamiliaritv with his own composition: me? The life of either of these two men whom I bave killed is worth a dozen of mine." The prisoner then sat down, whereupon the Judge informed the jury "that, in view of the prisoner's admission that the murder was premeditated, there was no necessity for further explanation of law on his part." The jury thereupon retired, and very soon came back with a verdict of guilty. In response to the rjuestion as to whether he had anything to sav why the sentence of death of death should not be passed on him, King replied: "Nothing, sir. The sentence is a just one. I ought to be hung." He was sentenced to be hanged at Plattsburg on the 4th of November next, between the hours or 10 o'clock lin the forenoonj and 2 o'clock in the afternoon. King is said to be a remarkably intelligent man.

His appearance in court was certainly impressive, and his deliberate manner when addressing the court and jury made the scene dramatic. The dcomed man is CI years of age, was born iu New York City, where his mother resid-3-, and was educated in the liomaa Catholic-faith. The Littler Ocean Nuisance. Iloston (Mass.) Special.to Chicago Tribune. The tlo'rv Little Western, which has occasioned much annoyance to ocean steamers by causing them to turn off their course oa the supposition that she was a boat containing a shipwrecked crew, arrived at Gloucester this afternoon, having completed the round trip from Gloucester to London, England, and found that you had deceived me.

Do you wonder that, miserable and wretched as I was, I sought to find a woman who had not learned the Irsson of deception? I was mad I bought a pretty toy, and thought to while awy with it hours of meditation to use it as a cham to banish memory. Instead, it shows me every hour the falsity of my reasoning, and holds up my tortured sight the 'might have been. Why do I still love you? Why do 1 not rather curse you? Why do you come here tlav after day to add fuel to the flame?" "I will never come again, Pierce. I thought, I had long ceased to leve me; tut in this last moment 1 will tell vouthetiutb. 1 did not deceive you: you were mail with jealous doubts, and I too proud to explain to you the truth therefore 1 sent you from me.

1 thought you would come back: I did not dream Her voice choked. "That I could be such a mad, insensate fool," he finished, takingup her words. "Ah, Pauline, my one only love he added, under his breath. "Hush!" she commanded icnperiously. Be a man and true to your manhood.

Edna loves vou better than I know how to love, perhaps better than any man deserves. is a simple child; honor her for it. I will not come here more. I will make to her some excuse. Hut, oh, make her happy, Pierce.

What matters it to you and me? Our bappines- is lost, but do not let that fact lead hers astrav. See, I fall on my kneas I plead to you I kiss your hand. Hy all that is pure in her life, do "not let her dream your chains are not of flowers It would kill her, as the cruel wir.d blasts with a single breath the shrinking, sensitive plant. Your soul is noble: prove it so. He gantle, be loving, be tender.

Hy the memory of your every hope for the future by the memory of, if that may sway you of your love for me I At that instant the portiere was swept back. Edna stood upon the threshold, but an Edna transformed from the timid, shrinking girl into a lioness. Her eyes flashed; her sligat figure was almost tall, in indignation drawing to its full height; her voice rang out.clear and scornful. "You need not fear," she said. "I have only beard your last sentence.

I would not ply eaves-dropper a single instant not even to'niore thoroughly expose the falseness of tbe woman who thus plays traitor to my husband. Hy the memory "of his love for you! how dare vou say that? He never loved vou! Pierce, tell me that you never loved her!" She sprang to his side and twined her hand? about his arm. "Edna." he said, "you are doin the bitterest wrong I Another minute and he would have told her all the truth, but Pauline had by this time regained her feet. "Hush," she commanded him. "Not a single word What could you say that would not further wreck her happiness? Nor Here where last for whom aight she came, even she.

I would so rladP Came in the like ness of a dream and said lit ii iuva'wj J-ome words that thrilled this desolate, ghost llironjred oo lo 1 sit alone now Ah! surely bead. in the absolute rIoohi, her on-a-t was leaned my Ah surely tv mv 1i10uth her kiss as shed, And an mv jfe hroke into si-ent and bloom Give man bliss. heart, for thy rootless ilowcr of Nor thi' the i'ods severe though, thus they se ThoiifrU thou hast much to bear and mucli to 'V hi it thou thy nights and days to he canst eem OtjPtl and that thinpr veritably this b' imperishable memory of a dream. Philip Hovkkk Makbton. WAITING.

lie was tired of women of the world Pierce Havward decreed unto himself tired of their wiles, their sophistries, their deception, their very attractions. Was it because these latter bad, in one case, proved fatal to bis peace of mind that Pauline lrvirg'-dark, passionate, soul-lit eves pursued him even here in this quiet country re-trt at, here be had taken refuge that the memory of her low, musical voice nestled in the rustling leaves, or sighed with the sigh-imr of the night wind? He admitted to himself none of this reasoning, only said that he was tired; and when, in the course of his wanderings, he discovered the pretty daughter of the miller of the place, a by maiden of some eighteen summers, he turned to her as to a new study. Sbe blushed when he spoke, and he fancied her blushes charming: she stammered when she answered bim, and he imagined that rather would he bave it thus than listen to any flow of wit from betwixt her crimson lip's. She was innocent a the flowers which she tended in her own irarden, and ne knew that she could boast thau this no greater charm. Therefore, the idea came to Lim that he would marry her.

He was no wolf in man's clothing. It was no ditlicult task for him to read o'er-soou the love that he had awakened in this guileless heart: but take advantage of it to its own undoing, of this thought he was as pure as she. Her sweet face grew very pale when, one eveninsr, in the shadows, he nsked her to become his wife. A frightened, startled look grew in the great blue eyes. "I 1 to be jour she repeated.

"Why, you are a gentleman, and I She left the sentence unfinished the gulf 1 etween them was too deep to bridge over hfc r.v-rd. 'You are all that is sweet in woman!" be replied. 'l am tired of art. I want nature. Promise me onlv to as good, and pure, and artless is vou are to-.

lay, and 1 promise to try to be worthy of you." Edna, do you feir to'trut your happiness to my keeping?" "You love me, then?" she." whispered, as though breathing an impossibility. And be. relieving that he spoke truth, an-sv ertil "ips." Then sbe flung herself into his arms and obb out her joy upon his heart. Her emotion startled him it showed depths to her i he had not known she possessed: but he quieted her with his kisses, and, as he walked home alone, having gained her father's consent to a speedy wedding, he consoled himself with the thought: "I will be good to her. Sbe will not be exacting.

Of course sbe eanr.ct he mv companion in thought, in interest; but my plaything yes." The next month they were married. Pierce Havward had been too long a cherished member of society not to have it desire with eagct curiosity to see this hastily-wooed wife. Hut one woman r.td the newspaper announcement, in her boudoir, with a quick par of pain. The paper dropped from her nerveless hands. "Married slid to herself, over and over "married! He took me at my word then.

Yet may God grant him the happi-r. 1 have- mis-ed, or, rather, thrown away bv a wretched rride and a momentary rcck-le-sniss!" Hut among the numerous calls on the child-wife was one drawn thither otherwise than bv curioiitv. Edna took the from the butler's hand with no premonition, and read the name as she read ihe many names which ne had brought her. to Mis Trving that I will so? her im-nii )y," she said to the man in who.e august presence she always stood a little in awe in spite of herself he looked so verv superior in hi spiendid livery. 'Another call.

Pierce!" sbe critd, stopping an instart in the library where he and holding the aid be-fore his eyes. Why, how pale vou are, dear! You arc ill. Shall I excuse my-sell "No, no! CJoin at once," lie answered, with the first touch of impatience in his tone be had ever hown her, and surveying her critically as he spoke, with a half dissatisfied air. The face was young and lovely none could deny that; but there was something in the general ensemble his artist eve missed a something which as sbe entered the drawing -room and advanced to meet her guest, who rose, tall and graceful and exquisitely costumed, gave to Miss Irving's tones a gentler accent, as in her heart she whispered: "Poor child! Some day he will need a friend. If she will let me 1 will he the friend she needs." Let her? of all her guest, none had charmed Kdnaas this beautiful lady.

She found her telling ber of her earlv life, of her courtship, and the strange, wonderful thing Pierce's love still seemed to her, and a'l the hile her guest kept repeating to herself: "Poor child!" 'Will you not come again soon?" she said, almost wistfully, when Miss Irving at last roe to leave. )f course 1 will return your vi-it first; but I mean I mean" "Ycu mean that you would like we should be friends. I hope that is what vou mean, for I am quite sure it is mvwih." The sweet smile was more than lna could resit. Impulsively she lifted up the little mouth for a kiss. "Please forgive me," she said, "but I love you already." "Can be'help loving her?" thought Pauline, as she drove homeward.

"Could I have believed a week an hour ago that I would pray thus fervently that all his heart migat lie given to another woman?" Pierce Havward meant to be true to his vows, his wife and his manhood: out spite of himself, as the days wore Into weeks and the -vt eks into months, a bitter sense of suicidal folly overwhelmed him. He was a cultured, cultivated man of the world, and he bad married a simple child, whose brain had grasped the rudiments of a common school education and had never gone bey or d. He saw her among his friends, and knew that thev wondered that a prettv face could thus have bewitched him; and the knowledge of their wonder rankled in his soul. He saw ber side by side with the beaut ful.exquisite-ly graceful woman whom he had loved for hom (iod help him his love would not lie. It bad been but sleeping, and h's misery arrcd against the iron hand of control with which he held it down.

He did not mean to be unkind, but Edna detected the impatience in his tone and tbe look of annoyance which sometimes swept acioss his handsome, expressive face and ber own heart grew sad and heavy; but, cl ild as she was, her lovalty kept her eilent ev to her cherished friend. Ore day, Pauline went to the bouse, but found out. "1 wib wait for her in the library," she sabl. "Tell her I am there." Mie passed into the room, expecting to find it empty: but, instead, it was occupied its niMsttr. His head was bowed upon the table, bis hole attitude was one of misery which had thrown off it mask.

she turned to beat a retreat, but he lifted hi face and saw her. Home in said. "This is your work! it I fitting that vou should look upon it." "My work sbe answered aghast. "Yes! Whotctlse? A year ago to day I St. Louis to Have a Musical Union and First-Class Concerts.

Through the energetic efforts of Mr.Dabney Carr and Trof. Waldauer, St. Louis ans will have a series of first-class concerts next winter. For some years the heavenly muse has slumbered, and this enterprise will be welcomed by riianv music-loving citizens. The managers have circulated a petition in which the signer pledged himself to financially assist in making the St.

Louis Musical Union a success. Aireadv 2S0 signers agreeing to contribute. r-0 each have appended their names to the petition. A number of gentlemen who are desirous of contributing and in tnat way obtaining a seat at the concerts, as none will be sold, have not been called upon. Such persons are requested to send their names to the managers, who will call on them.

series of six concerts will be given and six grand dress rehearsals. It will be necessary to have SCO subscribers, at 20 each, to make the movement a success, and nearly that number of gentlemen have signed the subscription paper already. Twenty-five more signatures will assure the success of the Union. The 2so subscribers already secured are the result of the unassisted "efforts of Mr. Carr and Prof.

Waldauer. After laboring so earnestly and successfully in the formation of the Union, it is to be hoped that some prominent citizens will come to the front and crown the efforts of these gentlemen. Tbe orchestra will be made up of the best local talent, while musicians from abroad will be brought here to assist. The first concert will be given November 17, to be followed by five others, one every month, at Mercantile Library Hall. On the Wednesday afternoon preceding a grand dress rehearsal will be given.

Each subscriber will be given three tickets for every concert and three for every matinee. None but subscribers will be admitted. The number of pieces foi the orchestra, which will be under the direction of Prof. Wal-tlauer, has not yet been decided on, but nothing will be left undone to make the concerts a success, and a full orchestra of the best musicians to be secured will be had. The St.

Louis Musical Union is now an assured success, and thanks are tlue to Mr. Dabney Carr and Prof. Waldauer for the same. LOCAL BREVITIES. The Knights of Bedlam, a colored secret society, gave a ball at Turner Hall last night.

The Comptroller ana members of the Board of Public Improvements will visit the Arsenal to-day. Dickey Edwards is missing from his home at 721 South Fourth street. He is thirteen years old, and has been very ill of late. Officer Tom Dunnigan has commenced walking a beat, and has been succeeded by Officer Wooster as clerk in the Chief's office. Dr.

P. I). Yost yesterday examined the applicants for positions on the police force, and they are reported a strong, active lot. Edward Langert had his foot badly hurt at the Northern Mills, Second and Angelica streets, yesterday, by the falling of an iron rail. Kobert W.

Higgins was yesterday arrested by Officer Sehacfer. Higgins is insane and will be returned to the Insane Asylum, where he ha been once before. When the alarm came in early Thursday morning, Frank Loftus, the pipeman with the Twelves, jumped into his pants and boots so quickly as to tear the nail entirely from his great toe. At half-past 1 o'clock this morning the dead body of an unknown man was found near the corner of Poplar and Fourteenth streets by the patrolman on that beat. The body was removed to tbe Morgne, and awaits identification.

Little Jessie Hall wi'l be tendered a complimentary benefit at Mercantile Library Hall on Friday evening, September CO. Oa that occasion s.j., will apuearasthe Duchess De Tort nuev a in "Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lauy." In the abrciic of -tbe pastor, llev. Dr. "Brank, ho is attending the meeting of the Presbytery at Montgomery City, the pulpit of the Centra! Presbvterfrn Church, Garrison and Lucas avenues, wilLbe filled to-morrow morning by Eev. Dr.

Iihodes, of St. Mirk's English Evangelical Lutheran Church. II. S. MacDonald presided at the metinir of the executive committee of the Humane Society last night.

Officer Creeey aud three assistants will keep a close watch ou C3al ttamsttrs who overload their teams. E. s. MacDonald and Edward Havden will visit the Stock Yards at East St. Louis and endeavor to interest that company in establishing an agent at the Union DeDot to look after tbe stock that is said to arrive and depart without food or water.

Tde fountain at the foot of Washington avenue will be opened at 12 o'clock Monday. William Fields called on Dr. Luedeking yesterday ami asked to be registered as a physician. He had a diploma, but did not have it with him. He did have a certificate from tbe clerk of St.

Louis county, though, so Dr. Luedeking registered Dr. Fields, but kept the certificate. Shortly afterward, Dr. Fields returned with his diploma, which was fiom a Philadelphia college hitherto untie ird of.

Dr. L. said that be would just keep the certificate, and at the next meeting of the Board of Health the status of that Philadelphia college will be investigated. Dr. Fields is wrathy over what he considers gross indignities.

The fall meeting of the Presbytery of St. Louis is now being held in Montgomery City, Mo. The meeting began on yesterday afternoon and. was opened with a "sermon by the last moderator, Bev. T.

Carr Barrett, pastor of Mizpah Church, near Bridgeton. St. Louis County. Nearly all the churches in the bounds of the Presbyterv are represented bv a minister and elder. This Presbytery is in connection with tho General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and is popularly known as the Southern Presbyterian Church.

The last General Assembly sent down for the consideration of its Presbyteries a revised form of directory for worship, and this will be one of the subjects discussed and passed upon at this meeting of the St. Louis Presbytery. A Dramatic Scene in Court, to the Cnlcafri) Times. A few years since, Henry King was sentenced to serve a life term in Dannemora prison, for murdering a New York Citv detective. A short time after the shooting of 1'resident Gai field King and another convict named Hamilton got into an altercation regarding the character of Vice-President Arthur and his fitness to administer the affairs of the nation in the event of field's death and Arthur's succession to the Presidency.

Hamilton made some remark which was not complimentary to Arthur, whereupon King struck his brother convict two blows on the head with an axe. killing him instantly. King was tried on tbe charge of murder "at the Circuit Court in session in Plattsburg yesterday. Justice Landon presiding. Three witnesses were sworntfor the prosecution the prison phv-sician, a cook and one of the keepers.

No evidence was introduced in behalf of the prisoner. Tbe taking of testimony occupied about one hour and a half, when the jurv retired. After an absense of about two hours they returned and requesteu the Judge to explain the legal difference between murder in the first and second degree. His Honor was about to the prisoner arose to his Teet and said: "Your Honor and gentk-men of the Jury, this was not a murder in tee second degree; it was a deliberate and prt meditated murder. I know tbtt I ive done wrong.tbiit 1 ouzhtto con the truth, and that 1 ought to be hung." Here the prisoners counsel tried in vain to silence tim.

"No." continued King, "I have done rong. It is my duty to confess it, and I can not help doinc so. I cannot keep still. I p'ead guilty to murder in the first degree. It wss fifteen minutea from tbe time I struck the first blow with the axe until I struck him tbe second time; and all thi tnn-t I kept inkirg, I will finish thia man.

If that is not premeditated murder, what is it? 1 have a liat'y kided two iten. What is my life to Nttit Week's Attractions at the Theatero. Ufnrjium's Crcatest -tiaow on tarlh luical and Tfe'ccirical Josin. The i hsnrre in the wn to the theaters, and i. liberal hw LcMowi'd v.ittr.

all worthy entertainments. Attl.e Tale's the haw plajctl a most sti fe enirasrement. Their last performance ila; this evening, when "The I'lbr. ar.a the Mouse" will be givt n. At r-? the Irish drama of Kvie-tlon" was a to.

Milton Nobles at the Jrand r.eni-h- 1-1 i-Uved to -ood iodines-. To-niht present for the last tirxebere his new hi "Interviews; or, ischemia." nann, the in-iirieian, was lirly patronized the Myinplc. His engi-ement closes this'cV'-iiin-. evening at the (Jrand Opsra-v- C. Mitchell's l'l-easure Tarty will amear mv 'Onr Mr.

William aiul his'vrife, Mis Kleanor Deerinsf, are eluded t. the excellent i-ompanv. 1'cpe's the lite Four Minstrels underitiie.l for to-morrow nnjht, Kthiopi-n minstrelsy will prevail for (iill in- and one week. i. Harry ami 1- av's "Muiiioom i ieuiu i an3 re inio.ineod "for to-morrow evening at the are People's.

Tbis is a most excellent variety tin 'A illiuns in his new play, a Carpenter," appears at the Olympic to-morrow evening. Tnc authors of the piece sire Messrs. Laniran and alhoun, both New York jiu-nalists of reputation. Williams 'tit Biae uuite a success in it. 'Ibrmim's Circus will be here next vvert The greatest show on earth will be-in entertainments on Monday.

XOTKS. Touriree and Steele "Ma.aye's vtr- of ATtrt Theater. 'h'Litober-M. l' that Mrs. Sothem's share in the It l- xuieriean property amounts dei-eased at T'- that the proposed in iO.tiiwi.

Mr sothernV will l.een and F. Wills' new "historical play," founded oa episodes in the career of the unfortunate Huke of Mun-mouth, produced at idler's Wells Theater on is a dire fiilure, if the London critics are to be believed. McCuUoiurh his first enM-'c-merit, since his return from ijimpe. in s. l'atil lat Monday nii.rht, playing' Vinrinins" to a srood house.

J. Vorke S'evens, an L.i-jrlish actor, made his American debut as a member of Mr. McCullouzh's Liu-ca has passed lh utninr in icLl ami returns to Vieuua next month fr the season at the imperial he in-terds to create three new roles, in Les-thetiki's rew opera, "The Firs Wrinkle." in 'thick' "Iphiirenia in Tauri-" and in the "Taming of the by tioet. Iltirintr her European tournee, teiinnin.r next month, Mile. Sarah Hernh ardt will irive six performances at the Lyeeo Tneater, Kir-celona, at francs per ni'ht ten at the 1'heater, Vienna, for lu.tMi frane a niirht, and the same number at the Costani Theater.

Home. Her company will twenty-nine persons. "combinations" formed for have come to irnef and been disbanded sjn the opening of the season: Lvster's v.il Death," Mrs. Kverett's "It'tith. an American WifV d.

V. Collier's "Coney I-lmd," darrett and Howe's "Srniff," Sweet's i'olleL'e Hoys; or, Medical Students on a Lark," and the Addie Uoers Company. Says a correspondent writing of the forthcoming production of "Patience" by the D'Oyly Carte Company "Miss lioache. who the a stnetie idy Jane, weighs in the neighborhood of pountN, and has a voi.re of power in proportion. Imagine this bi lump of a woman sitting by the margin of a lake, in the sad moonlight, accompanying Lerself on a violoncello." Kobson and Crane opened thir season at Detroit last Monday niirht, producing "Twelfth Niirht." Muart Kobson as Sir Andrew Amie-jli- ek, ami V.

II. Crane as Sir Tity P.elch,were highly suceessful the comedy was elegantly mounted and costumed, and the performance was a "hit," according to the local press. The comedians oi -n II i -crlv's new theater in Chicago, on Mondav niuht, with the same play. Mr. Kobert ioldteek will within a f.w days open a new private mui mI colleire.

II lias leased for a number of vcar a iarsre anil eb pant house which he is furnishing throuirh-ut bcauiifully and without stint of expene, Able teachers will assist Mr. ldbe in ttn-various departments, while he himself, personally, will continue to teach instrumental, vocal and harmony classes. By I ty or Wednesday full particulars will be iriven of date of opening, location, of th new musical institute. The London Fiiraro states that "Mr. Henry Jirrett has, on behalf of Mme.

NiUson, ar-lanued Mr. Henry 11. Ab'ev for an extended tour for concerts only, beinniu-x in ctober, ls', and that Mr Abbey agrees to pav Mine. Nil-son 2n ikni for 11 concerts, teide traveling and hotel expenses for live people an I beside a half-sh ire iii the niirhtlv receipts over and above the sum of j. Thi contract is very similar to that Mme.

Nilsson made with Messrs, i. ani Mturiee trtrakcscb in Aecordintr to the New York papers the Kirtlfy at the Academy of Musi--is distinguished rather by brilliancy of stae fettimr and billet than by pod acting. Toe piece has been cut down junee the first performance, and several scenes, notably the balloon voyaire, are now omitted entirely. TheColville version at Booth's is reported to be much improved in every respect. W.

.1. Feriruson now plays the Americn Correspondent, vice Isidore Davidson, by his clever acting, adds matcri.illy to the strength of the cast at Stetson's theater. Mr. Theodore Thomas has already received t-ixteen compositions, sent In to compete for the Cincinnati festival prize of next May. There will be a few more, which must arrive inortly.

not to be outlawed. The srenerat prade of work is said to be higher th in in the pieces sent in two year Then it was only composers of native birth who were invited to strive, now all resident Ameriein muieians are allowed to enter their works. Mr. Thomas will complete his examinttion the compositions, and immediately forward them to his colleagues, Herr Capellmeister Kcinr eke and M. Saint-Saens.

A Hungarian journal the follo.vinz account of the orisfin of the famous in irch of Kakocy. When Fran iko. zy the hero of the Magyar war of independence, was r-turniiur with his troops from the inttletiel or Sibo. where he had conquered, v. 1, be heard the air plaved for tne first time by a I si'unij Miska llaru who irave it the name of the warrior.

Adesei-ndmt of Ham, the handsome the air knov i id imr it all over the country. At stublweisniuir a musician, the "Abbe Vacek, note.l the air, and the march took a complete mimical form In the hands of the composer Kusieska. Then uluvcrs bein to add variations, many of which hive been noted, while fro. variations are bein liu-J rovisi tl every day. The I'aris Fliro publishes soni" sr itlstics whl are bo.

in-e thev throw some on the imn discussed subject of the rtci nt inert ase in the salaries of Kfeat Mntreis. i Mme. Mallnrao, then the hrst of lhinjr prima donna, received for eix pei formam-e, about J.V, while now Vit)f and tven a niht are by ini uncommon. I France, however, the 4larin of do not appear to htv leeu so Mjrh. for Mine.

Pauline Vird t-iarci Malitirau's sister, received only i nlithl it. Leu mht criali ths rvk of Fides back. She measured only a half feet long and half in depth, and is the nineteen and two and a smallest boat that ever crossed the Atlantic and the onlv one that has crossed the ocean both wavs. "The crew of two men had a pretty rough time coming back from England. They left London June 14, and were thirteen days reaching tbe L'zard, and had boisterous: weather all the way to Halifax, where she atrivedon the 2d inst.

This is the third "ocean tramp" Gloucester has sent out. The first -was the Centennial, which went to England in 1S77 with only one man on and the other the Nautilus, with tne Andrews, brothers on board, in ls.s. The Little Western was only forty-four days on her outward trip and was days on her return, including stops at Cape Breton and Halifax A Professional Stumper. From the Columbus, Journal. About a week ago a man giving the name of Custer, and claiming to hil from the State of Michigan, called on the Republican State Committee, and wished to be engaged to make speeches during tbe campaign, requesting a consideration for his services.

He was politely informed that there was no fund for' that purpose, and that, any way.that was not the manner of doing business. The would-be orator, however, could not be snaken off, and finally made the proposition that he would make speeches at the price of io per speech. This offer was again fiatly refused, and he went his way. He is now making stump speeches for "the Prohibitionists. He probably has entered into some satisfactory-arrangement with the great reform party.

"My wife," said a bard-featured old Benedick, talking in the tobacco warehouse, yesterday, when the subject of conversation "was "women," "is one of the largest-hearted women 1 have ever known. She thinks first of herself, second of the children, third of ber relatives, fourth of her friends, fifth of her acquaintances, sixth of her husband. Mighty few ladies can get over so much ground as that, I can tell ye." RELIGIOUS NOTICES. Second Presbyterian Cliurcli N. Corner Seventeenth street and Lucas Place Rev.

S.J. Klccolls, U. D-, Pastor. Divine Service Sunday, September Is, at 11 a. m.

andTj' p. conducted bv the pastor. Sunday School at 9 a. m. in the chapel.

All are Invited and welcome. teTilgrim Conjp-egrational Church, corner "Washington and Ewing avenues. Rev. C- L. Good-eli, I.

I). pastor. Rev. Robert West will preach at 10 'i a. m.

Alo at 6 p. m. Bible School at 12 in. Welcome. Park Congregational CUureli, northwest corner Hide I'ark.

Rev. J. H. Harwood, I. Haunib.il, will preach at 10 a.m., HU'i aNo at T-p.

m. sundiv School at 12 iu. Prayer meeliiiK Wed nesday night at'ii- All are cordially invited to attend. LKOAL, Trustees Sales. aMtl'STEE'S SAEE- Whereas, William i.

W1I-iiamson and Margaret his wife, bv their deed dated .1 une 7. isT2. an 1 recorded on paire boo of tiif records ol Reconle r's office for tl- citv of St I.ouls. com eved to toe undrr siti.td all that parcel real estatf to-wit: A certain lot of ground havine a rout of 5j feet on the north line of St. Ferdiuana street, by a depth of feel to a Cf tren allev.

eouitneiflntr at a. point o-Vi fret from th aoriheat corner of Taylor aveue aDd rt. Ft rd -Hand street, and jrnnlnjr eat on tlie north lin-of t. 1- erilnan-l slrc-ft tiftv feet thence wer on soi'th line of said 1 le feet, thence south lei feet to ibtce of I trust lo secure he payment certain notes in said ded- the provi-ion of said ed. the nn-ie Mvud wil ffer aid property for sale at Put lie at.

-lion, for li to bidder at the eat front or of the Court house. In said citv, between the houis of 10 o'clock a. m. nd 1 o'clock p. in.

of Mi'SDAY. OfTORF.R luTH, A. I. 1I, for tlie purnoees of said trust. JOSEPH MEYER.

"i'ru stee. St. Lruis. September J'l I 1IEREAS Ueorjre Lunz and Maria, his wife, by their dted di 1 21st day of lb7t, aud recorded ou Dare 46 of book number IS of tue records of deeds tor the county of St. Charles.

S'ate of Missouii, conveyed to the nnderorued ail that certain parcel of rea'l esttte situated and described as follows. to-it: Lot numoer 1 of block 6, (l feet 9 laches by 140 feet deep of a terufn subdivision of survey num ber 1731, as laij oit bv Henry I)epe and HenrT Relreekt. In trust to secure the pa n.ent of a rer-tain prt-mis-sory Dot-- spei'Hd lnsatddted. Now, under ihe provisions of said deed, the undersigned will effer said jropenv for sale at public auction, for cash, to the highest bidder, at the east front door of the Court-house, la the city of St. GuB, Missouri, between th tours of 10 o'clock a.

in. and 4 o' clock n. m. of TI'EMIaV. THE J1TW DAY OF OCTOBER, for the purposes of sal1 fust.

Trustee. St. Louts. Sep ember 17, 1SS1. t.

Administrator Notice. CURATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby vert that the undersigned, curator of Cathrlae Rehm, has made a Just and true exhibit of the account between himself and bis sld ward, and tiled the same with the l'robate Court tt the Cii of St Louis, and that on tbe first dy of tlie next le-cemter term thereof, lobe holden at the courthouse in the city of st- Louis, on the first Vtondav of liecember next, fce Inund-s to applv tt court tor leave to make a tinai settlement of hl curator-ship accounts, and for bis as rurator. JOHN KLoKillKC. Curator of Cathariue Rhwj.

St Lont. September 7.1ssi. VOTIlhuK lii' t.CAKlMAN. To all whom li my concern -Tskt notice, ttat at a eclal term of the M. Luls court, he or the JMd dav Ausru't, IsM.

the un was anroli ted (fuardlan an! curator of tbe person and estate of Barbara Ciuent'ier. lio per.a of unou, mind. (iuardian of Rarbara Gueulher. a non rMuio. (n the occasion of the opening oi i docks at Ltith, the Mars tender, Francis Molli-on, ith a detachment of fifty boys on board, accompanied bv their band, and under the command of Capt.

Scott, was tme of the vessels which took part in the openm? cere monv, which was performed by the DuKe of IMii.l"urt:h. While cearins the Hercules the band bejr to play a piece of nnisie or which his roval hiphness is the composer, and, after lister.in: very attentively for some tmp to Hip strains, he remarked to one of his suite who accompanied him, 'That is iuite refreshing after tnose pieces 7 Winner, after Ion? consideration, his Mari an. P.rar.dt of the Herlin Opera i 1 Parsif al." the most ditlicult nartin the opera, kumlrv is o. mvsterious double nature; partly in servic' of the holv crail and partly in rtiat of tf wizard UiiEjsor, now hatefully hideous aipearancc, now taking on an enchanV as the temptress of Parsifal anu'ei and devil in one. Wiidpassion and the ten.erest emotion belomr to the part, which deaands the LiiAest musical capacity.

Frl. alrandt bss a nisnirieent contralto and is a v. onder-ful as well. Sne i now in lVayreuth, tirdyir" the part under Wasner. She is in rreai demand jut now.

Neumar.i wanted to her for his Nibeiutiiren production in l.ori.fon, -Sut -be bad already entered into iiei'rr-atiens ti appeal in opera in London un let Hans Kichter. She has also besm invited to appear in a series of model opera performances at the Imperial Opera in Vierna netst May, to be jriven in place of the cuomury Italian opera season. AlKeel Correction. St. Lor is, September IT.

To the of tte Iost-Iispatcti 1 was disagreeably surprised at what yojr ruportcr made me say in your Thursday's isu-i, concerning the reception of the Axieib'an physicians at the Medical Congress ret erfiy met in London. Your voting wroie a peculiar memory, as he took no nou's wlr.ie he was in my After be left me be must have written his own iiuestions and his own answers. I f.o not wise to be held responsible. these answers he has now anil then sandwiajcf aoiue of rry expressions, but the whole is siwle to take on such a sensational character 'tkat it completely changes the sentiments rare bim. What 1 said about Dr.

l.ea.M as ioncerninfr th? expressions of a few individuals only whose lack oi intert-t seemed to b- from a doubt -f the veracity of the doctor, but I hail pitndsed this ailverse expression of mine by saying that it had transpired in his own rovtms, not in the contrress. I deny intr iythiiiir that could be construed inco an that Dr. very sore about outcome of his He stated that I htul said that the congress was a rreat success. Had he iriven also whit I hid iidt him ciciernin' the eiliciency of Sir V. u).

acConnae, Ihe honorable secretary of tlie ciiDXivs and of Dr. emon, the secretary of the section in which I v. a most interesteil, he would bave shown that what he mide me sav was t.vo inconsistent to be true. What 1 said cor-renum; the absence of the ex-presi-(Untsofthe American Medical Association from Ihe platform at the opening of the meet-ic could ci en in five of your lines, nor would it ha.econtained one wordthat wasthe least sensational. I deny jnvicsj him the last exj re-s'on from which he could say that Ann -rican phj-U-ians were "severely exc pt what I said about the absence of the x-v residents of the American Medical Association and the private controversy i.r Dr.

Heard. Please irive this a prominent place in your paper, as I do not wish appear guilty of inirratkude, when indeed I of he eeption piven tot he Anierlc tn at London, i ours respectfully, fiil'i- I HOS. Kt.MOI.I. from. i thki: i Lot'is, September To Hi.

the atch As the reporter who interviewed Dr. K.iai-bold, 1 beLr leave to state that I reported him a- fairly as I knew how, that his lan.ru lire is nivi verbatim in r.ifit pi ic'-. 1 d.d take notes, as he wilj probably now recall, if his memory is not also peculiar, for he read me off figures and statistic, and jrave me several names wh.ch lie nv me pu. anitins my notes. He denies saying anything that could lie const rued into an expression that Dr.

Heard felt sore the out 'orne of his tri. He, of course, remembers me hat Dr. Heard's veracity had been at-lacktd, and that Dr. Hoard had told him (Dr. that the prnsicians who -ame to Heard's rooms to hear him lecture at his invitation acted like "the bowling mob that tried to push Kr id-laurh intotlie Parliament IIoie." lie thinks that all he said about the ex-presidents of the American Medical Association not beimr invited to seats on the stand could be jriven in live line.

It ould be a hard job to eon-dense so closrdy and yet please a critic as learned as the Doctor's spelling -hows hi a to be, since wc talked aout the matter nearly twenty minutes. He told nic that Dr. Hiliinss' "paper was the only one well received: that the other. criticised, were bandied aimot in a manner, and that more than one Vmericm bad his deductions flatly denied, and he acrreed with me when I said that the pener.il reception of the papers seemed, fron his description, to be like that which a teacher rives to hi? pupils' compositions. Ir this is not snubbinL-, what is it? Joh F.

Manner. 'Pioneers of the Mississippi Capt. Willard (Mazier, the "Soldier author," since his noted discovery in July last of the new source of the Mississippi above ItisU.i Lake, has with his characteristic pluck an I energy pushed and paddled his little emoe over rapids, through rivulets, lakes and rivers down over I miles, and announces to arrive with bis small birch-bark tloet at Diven-poit, low to-day, at which point In his onward course to the Gulf he this evening de-li ers his historic and popular lecture on "Pioin eis of the Mississippi." jje expects to a M.Louis the last of the present month, ard before leaving in his cinoe for the tar will lepeat his well prepared lecture, tickets which, now in the hand i of solicitors here, are finding readv sale. The Value of Kevaccln.it Ion. from the The report recently furnished at the instance of the Local Jiovernment rt.iard of London relates to an average number of persor.s permanently employed in the postal seivico, all of whom have been required to undergo revaccination on admission to the service, unless th it operation hid been performed within seven vears previous-ly.

Anion? these persons during the ten years 17-Is7i there has not been a simrle fatal case of sni3ll-pox. and in only ten instances have there been non-fatal attacks, all of which were of very slight character. In the telctrraph department, where the enforcement of revaccination has not been carried out with quite the same completeness, twelve cases have occurred in the same period among a staff averaging jn number. Kiglit of these attacks were of persons who had not been revaceinated, and one proved futal. The remaining four were of revac-clnnte persons, ho all perfectly recovered without pitting.

This experience, like that of the nutsea at the small-pox seems to show that revaceinated persons en-Joy Hi. solute immunity from severe attack of small-pox, and that'their risk of catching that disease at all, even in its most modified form, infinitesimal. would the storm which devastates her drive our ships into harbor. OJood-by, Edna! Think of me as gently as you can. We both loved hfm.

Let thai plead my excuse." Once her glance fell on his face. Again it entreated bim in its voiceless eloquence to leave her in her belief, then she turned and left them. Without all was dark, but, thank Ood she yet might look within. The man's own unworthiness smo'e him as Edna ft II weeping piteously in his arms. He felt a coward, that he dared not vindicate the noble woman who had left tbem, but the blow would strike with crudest force on her who had tlone no wrong.

His silence was his own bitterest punishment; but at least he might atone. Very gentle, very tender was he to his child-wife. She no longer shrank at an impatient word or missed a something in her life. It seemed full to repletion so full that hen, at the close of one more short year, God called her to lay it down, sbe clung to tbe sweet boon with arms close pressed about her husband's neck. "You never loved her?" she said, in that last hour.

"Tell me, darling She tried to win you from me, but she failed?" "She never tried, my love. She taught me, rather, to love She thought he meant that he thus had judged between them, and was content. "Tell ber," sbe whispered, "that I forgive her now because she loved you even though her love was false and wicked. Oh, Pierce, how could auy woman help loving you?" They laid her away to rest, with her baby daughter on her breast, and they were honest tears of love and repentance and remorse which l'ieree Hayward shed upon that new-made grave. Then he went abroad, anil the world, looking at him, said that he had loved his wife in very deed, and wondered yet the more.

Hut after two years' travel he returned, to go straightway into Pauline Irving's presence. She was alone in the room into which the servant ushered him, and looked up with a great joy in tbe beautiful eyes. "I am come at last, my love unlove!" be said, advancing toward her with outstretched arms. She let her weary head fall on his heart. "And I have been waiting," she answered "waitii alwavs! I thought that I was tired, but I never shall be tired again." Their secret was their own now, and they belonged each to tbe other.

Yes, the secret was their own; but, in hea.en, did Edna share it? TIIK HOUSEHOLD. Retail Prices of All Supplies that Cheer the Inner Man. Between the warm summer months, when the law prohibits the killing and sale of nearly all kinds of game, and the extreme cold weather, when nature steps in and renders nearly all kind9 of vegetables and fruit scarce, the bon vivant in this locality can just now enjoy an unlimited plenty of all kinds of table supplies. Tbe cold weather is not enough yet to effect any change in the prices of the edibles plentiful in summer, while the supply of game of all kinds will increase steadily for some months. In the vegetable kingdom the following varieties are founJ upon the shambles at medium prices: Potatoes, Co cents per peck.

Tomatoes, TO cents a peck. Onions, cents a peck. Cucumbers, 2." cents a dozen. Stiing beans, ents a peck. Cabbage, to 2" cents a head.

Hf ets, 10 cents per peck. Celery, to bO cents a bunch. Sweei potatoes. Co cents a peck. Carrots.

40 cents a peek. Egg plant, Vt to 2" cents each. Lettuce, ents a head. At pits, Ho cents a peck. cents, smtll.

Grafies, cents a pound. Watermelons, to 40 cents each and scarce. Cantaloupes, 1.1 to cents each and verv scarce. Pears. 40 cents a peck.

The change in the weather will doubtless make a big improvement in the butter and egg supply. The best creamery butter sold for CI cents per pound bet dairy 2.1 cents per pound; cooking, ll'i cents per pound. Eggs, 20 cents per doen. The butchers' figures vary only with the part of tbe animal selected. Beef is from 1-1 to is cents per pound; veai.

1.1 to is cents; mutton, 12'i cents; pork, 12'. cents; corn bet V2 cents. If any change will occur in the supplv of fish during the next few weeks it will certainly be to give a little better variety than has been furnished during the hot summer months, when the principal shipments to this city were to a few enterprising dealers who got a corner on frops legs or some such supply and made money. Fish were sold as follows on tbestands: Trout 12 cents per pound, salmon 12 i cents, white ri.h 12 i cnu. buffilo 1.1 cents, croppy and basn to 3.1 per bunch of half doen, according to size.

The best ovsters sold for .15 cent per can other brands 40 and CO per can. Ci.ebc.ymkn, lawyers, editors, banker and ladles need Hop Bitters daily for nerve foice. Assignees' Notices. TN HE MATTER OK THE ok A. K.

HALTKMAN A a 4 OUI'ol! Al ION. 'edit rs and othtrs in tbe i1 of A. K. Ilalteii.au 4 Co. ac rp i atlun.

ar- heir notified that a dividt nd of ten mm centum of the amount of the demands allow ej i.ti the ir na been decitrt d. pavatle at tte otrice of tbe un.leri ned Nr. 21! Market tlie of -t. I.nuU, on Montiay. the 26tn da of p'tmVr.

A. sM, oLIV Elt I'. SAYLoR. a. K.

Halltiuan Co. Ki.etN A Aitcro.i,. St September 17 l-v-1. 621 Administrators Notlrva. INSTATE of tiecrre tiehh4tt.

deceased. Nolloe-1 h.Teby riven thai letter tnimBUry oa the estate of (iforcr liettliJtrt, deceased, were praii--t to the unUerVned bv the l'rola-e Court of the C.tT of St. Loin ou the 1 1 dar of St pt mt.fr. isM. Ait p-ron having claim estate are re quired to exhltitt the unc the undersigned for allowance within one rar after the dale of said letter, or thvy mav be re-ndrf from any lenrtlt of said estate: and tf such claim be not exhibited within two ears from the date of thu puMleaUoa, they wlU! be foretcr barred.

Iau-d UU lilth day of tru ber. IsH. K. 17. Hi ill t.l lilHRT.

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