Amusements

The audience to hear Rev. J. Nelson Jewis's Brother Jonathan went to TJniversity Hall that evening, and the Rev. f, Nelson was quite sarcastic in his opening remarks, which the vacant seats took in in a remarkable marnier. The singing was excellent, and the show n every way one worthy of good paxonage. On Monday evening next there will e a return engagement of the famous 'Limited Mail," that gave such satisaction here a few ruonths ago. The Limited Mail is a grnphioally drawn picture of life on the rail, and in ts unfoldingare employed some remarkible and successful pieces of imitative realism. The play's greatest hold upon mblic appreciation is in its situations ind climaxeB, which are thrilling, and n its scenic and mechanical embellishnients, which are extremely elabórate and pretentious. A train of railroad cars dashing across the stage in the space of six seeonds, is a feature which elicited the unstiuted applause of the audience. The saw-mill scène, in which the heorine comes within a hair of being cut in twain by a wicked looking "buzz"' 8 excessively thrilling. A message flashed in blazzing letters across the wires, forestalling and defeating a dastardly attempt to wreek a train about due, is far and away the best hit of the )roduction. The audience was large md wildly enthusiastic. The Limited Mail liad a tremendous metropolitan send-ofF. - X. Y. Dramatic News, üct. 25. At the council meeting Monday evenng Aid. Miller presided. New sidewalks were ordered on Traver, Fifth, Packard, W. Catherine st., and Spring ets. Aids. O'Mara, "Walker and Dieterle were appointed a committee to settle with the Nowland heirs in the matter of the Old Cemetery. Aids. Hall, Taylor, and O'Mara to confer with the University authorities relative to free beds at the new hospital. The T. A. A. & N. M. R. R. was severely censured for allowing ;he etreets to be blocked ; the question of closing the saloons according to law discussed, and the yearly report of City Treasurer Watt's read, the main points of which were published last week. Protection to American industries has ;he effect to encourage capital and labor in this country, while a reduction of duties and free trade means to legislate in favor of English capital and laborers. I think the following a safe rule for the people of this country to be governed by in relation to the tariff: We can buy nothing cheap of foreign countries that has to be purchased at the expense of leaving our own good raw material unused and our laborers unemployed. -