Newspapers / The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, … / Feb. 4, 1886, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
1 ,.' ! . ' THE GOLDSBORO MESSENGER, FEBRUARY 4. 1886.-- i I SELLERS GHOST Tolin T. Raymond Haunted by His Great Character. ; - A Talk With the Eminent Comedian The Ifalcyon Ante-Bellum Days Troubles of C)ur Character Men Amusing Re miniscences of Ills English Ttfp. Til match you for it." Thej"it" re ferred to in this sentence was a par tieularlv toothsotrie-lookincr iiish of sweetbreads in cases, a la Reine Mar got, which a waiter had just deposited on a table in the bouthern Hotel din ing room, and the speaker -was the eminent comedian, John T.Raymond. A Post-Dispatch reporter was lunching "with Mr. Raymond and the waiter had bv mistake brought but one dish of sweetbreads instead of two. The com edian had one hand in his pocket and iissumed an earnest expression and at titude that would have brought down the house. "Bv -jingo. I forgot !" he exclaimed. "I have, sworn off!" Ray mond's ruling passion, as every one knows who knows him, is to match No matter where he is or under what circumstances, he is ready to match for anything from a punched copper to a. twfcntv-rio lar troia piece, it ue were on his death bed he would match nickels with the "Old Boy" for his immortal soul. 'Til tell you how I happened to swear off. You know I am nrettv much of a hand at match ing, and sometimes I get started and T never know when to stop. Well, was playing an engagement I won't tell where it was, because it was an nounced that 1 was sick and I was to aDnear for the last time one night. T hannened to drop into a friend's room in the afternoon, and, before we knew it, we were.matchiqg tor dollars The. company didn't know where I was, and luck was against me, and I was so deeply engaged in the game that I forgot all about the perform ance. It was nearly daylight when I came to and perhaps that warn't a racket at the theater' Why, it,is a fact that I have matched away a week's receipts and all the money I had about me. It wax time to stop. I ook the company aside one by one andmatched Vm once for week's al aryaTtd "Won it?" "Kot by a blamed sight ! Lost it." i IN THE COURSE OF A LUNCH, in which Raymond made a record on .Mullaeratowny soup, lobster a la,Hol landaise, bailed halibut, spring chick en, sweetbreads, salads, pastry, de serts and fruits the reporter noticed that he did not touch a single vegeta ble. Remembering the gusto with which he tackled the turnips as Col. Sellers he was a little surprised at this and took the liberty of commenting on it. ' "It is strange," said Mr. Raymond, "but I may truthfully say that I never tasted a vegetable in my life. I don't know how a single vegetable in the whole list that are usually served on the fables taste. I always did have an antipathy for them that I cannot get oven I never could explain it and never could conquer it." "This confession puts the turnip act among the greatest achievements in the drama, as the flavor of a turnip is like poison to hioi and affects the actor something like a bad egg affects a ointer doq. The eccentricity must e placed Alongside of his antipathy for tobacco! nnd liquor as one of the peculiarities5 of the niau. Off the stage Raymond is the most genial and en tertaining of good fellows, and he is thoroughly amusing. He talks like a cyclone, and in his gestures, action, expression and in treatment of a sub ject, i$ very nearly as amusing as on the stage. Over the lunch his tongue was loosened, and he gave his listener as delightful a potpouri of theatrical chat as ever heard. The only trouble about Raymond is that to get the cream of a conversation an interview would have to be illustrated by a series of instantaneous photographs. There has been a great deal said this season about the decline of the stage arid naturally this came in for a share of attention. r . "I don't believe it," said he, "I am not among the growlers, grumblers, and kickers. The stage is better now in every respect than it ever was. I have been through the mill from the beginning. I remember the halcyon days as they are called and I must de clare in favor , of the present; I re member when $25 a week was consid ered high pay and when most of the profession lived on $10 a weiek.and even less and lived in the garret of an hotel at $3 a week no elevators there were no elevators in those days. I iemember,too, when it was work all day and half the night; when one had to go to the theator at 10 o'clock in the , morning and stay there until 4 in the j afternoon, rehearsing every day. Don't talk to me about the j ; ; HALCYON ANTE-BELLUM PAYS. Then a fortune was almost lan un i known thing among actors and ac tresses. Jorest was considered rich and died, leaving some $100,000. Cushman was another, but there you are at the end or them. Now, see in what condition the profession is. Why, nearly every one of the rank and file have their country homes. I remem ber when a splendid actor went all the way from Buffalo to San Francjisco for $40 a week, and the lowest salary paid to any member of my company is $40 a week, and he can live on half of it. There is no degeneration in the pro fession either. The only thing is that thte times have changed. If the public demanded it, I have no doubt that plenty of ..people could do what has been done in the way of stock busi ness. I doubt seriously whether the people who were thought great then Would be thought great now. The old timers, and for many of them I have the greatest respect as magnificent artists, bewail the fact that youngsters j imp up to the top notch at a bound, out I tell you no one jumps up there and stays who has not ability. Others may throw stones, but there is some thing in that man. which commands success. Just for a lark, I am going to try my company in a Shakespearian comedy, and I'll wager that they can perform their parts to a nicety. I shall try them in "As you lake It" and I shall take Touchstone myself. I have the cast made out. No, there is nothing in such talk, i Look at the actor socially, and he is infinitely bet ter off than he was in old times!. Now many of, them are sought after and enter the best circles. In all literary er therings he is present. There is Irving in England. There is not a man in England who stands higher, and he deserves it- -1 remember play iag with him in Paris daring jthe Ex- S'witjori. It was in "Oar American onsin." I told poor Sothern that there was an actor who would be great some day, Sothern pooh-poohed the idea, but my prediction has been veri fied.' There was something in" him that one recognized at once as supe rior." I ONE CHARACTER MEN. 1 Mr. Raymond then branched of on the difficulty in the way of aan who has created a .character aria made a narne in it attempting to ; change to something else. . f I "Why, people, think," he said, "that I never existed before Col. Mulberry Sellers and was born with my hand in the air. I had played nearly all of the comedy characters before I ever heard of Sellers, but it clings to me like a ban. It is the same way with Joe Jefferson arid 'Rip Van Winkle.' He is always Rip to the public, no matter what else he may be playing, and with what! consummate art he may take the character. We all have our peculiarities of gesture, action and modulation, but it is not so with the tragedians. Borith or any of them says 'ty be, or not to be,' this way," the comedian mimicked the tragedian, f 'and they all clap and cry out how grand !" Then again in Othello "most potent, grave arid reverend seignors' with exactly the same modulation and action, and it is 'how magnificent !' They don't say; 'that is Booth, or Hamlet' but it is -always 'Raymond is Raymond," or, 'Egad, he is Sellers !' Why! in Fresh I strike out from the shoulder thus, exactly opposite from the Sellers' gesture and its 'Egad, he can't help being Sellers.' 'If I should appear on the stage as a driveling old man they would say, 'It is just like Sellers. I tried 'My I Son,' a very pathetic play, once, and I saw two men looking at my lithograph. I heard one of them say, ' We'll go and have a good laugh.' I thought to myself, my. boy you'll be mistaken. Well, the next day I saw the very same men standing before the picture, cursing it because they had gone to have a laugh and got a cry. I took the play off. Why, in the garret scene, when the old man says, I am getting down in the world,' and looking around quickly in the garret says, 'No, I am getting up in the world,' the audience changed from tears to laughter at once. And I never could get any one to understand that the change was in tended, and was only an illustration of the pathos in humor and of the in timate connection between tears and laughter. They persistently thought it was Sellers cropping out in me. By the way. Twain and Howells are writing a new Sellers for me a sort of continuation of the old one." Mr. Raymond also indulged in a few reminiscences or uis trip to Hingiana and discussed the English theaters and audiences. "The English are supposed to be cold but they are not. They are just. They insist oni getting what they want: give them that and you cannot find warmer or more enthusiastic au diences. Mary Anderson has had a wonderful success, and it made a lump rise in my throat to see that reception that Daly's company received; it was so enthusiastic. The English won't stand any flower work. An actor or a play stands on its merits with them. Everything depends on the first night. If you are hissed then, you are gone. There is no appeal from it. I knew my play'was a failira at the end o" the first act. They did not understand the hits in it. The mass of the people in England are TOTALLY IGNORANT OF AMERICA. It is a blank wall to them. The"yTgive up their residence there and go know there is a New York and a Phil adelphia, but whether New York is in Philadelphia or Philadelphia m New lork, or both some other place, they don't know. The man who took the part of Prosecuting Attorney got him self a red shirt and a pair of top boots to wear and 1 could hardly keen him from going on the stage in them. lhey never saw a stove over there; a grate is a stove to them, and when the door of my stove fell off disclosing the caudle inside they wanted; to know what the duce I had a candle stuck in a box for, and then turnips are a lux ury to them and they thought Sellers was living high when he was eating turnips. I remember that some brute, when Laura was told that she had better go on the stage, shrieked ' don't go on the stage, for God's sake!' and there was such a howl that we had to stop the performance awhile. Nevertheless I like English audiences, because when they get what they like they are enthusiastic. I see that bridge story of mine going the rounds, but not as it actually occur ed. The fact of it is, to show the ignorance of most Englishmen about America, I went into an optician's on Bond street with James R. Osgood to buy a pair of glasses. An old gentleman waited on Us, and while I was looking over the stock h asked if we were not Ameri cans, which we confessed We were. Then he went on to say that he had a (daughter in Manitoba which he would like to see. He ask me how far it was from -New York to Chicago. I 'told him. Then he asked how far it was from Chicago to Manitoba, and I told him. He was greatly astonished at the distance and was shaking his head over the prospect of not seeing his daughter He remarked, too, that lie couldn't stand the se vovage, as it made him sick. "Why,' sail T. 'there is no need of a sea voyagel because they are building a bridge from New York to Liverpool.' I j 1 " 'What,' said he, 'building a bridge across tne seal ; "'Yes,' said I. "They had finished the first abutment when Ileft New York, and there will be no difficulty about the construction of it.' "Os good was having something like the cramp in one corner of the shon " !. " 'It will take a long time to build it. won't it! he asked i " Oh, no,' I said 'only about two or three years,' and he really believed what I told him, and thanked us hear ,i r Ai i- . my lor me lntormation. vvnv. an Englishman asked me iif we really had trees thirty feet in diameter in Amer ica. 'The bark you mean don't youf i answered. i 'You don't mean to sav that vou have trees with bark thirty feet thick,' ne replied in astonishment. . j " Oh, yes,' I said, that is a common sized tree with us.' ! "I tried to disabuse his mind after- ward but he would not have preferred the romance." it. He I By this time the re porter was nearly i 1 A 1 I 1 i . 1 ' " unuer xne taoie, and we actor was noundmsr him on the back in Gen Josiah Limber style, and he was res cueu bjr the timely iritetference of a waiter just as the resit of the people were beginning to think of sending tor an onicer. A full and beautiful line of Colors in Embroidery Silks, BpoojL Silki and Twist, &i jura. Jii. w . Aioore s. TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff Kill! Four! Men. Dallas, Texas I Jan. 29. Detective Jack Duncan and Deputy Sheriff See ly, of Freestone county, surrendered themselves to Sheriff Smith last night, stating that they killed several men in self-defense four miles from the city. The circumstances of Jthe killing were subsequently Irelated as follows at the jail : Seely and Duncan left Dallas Wednesday with a warrant for the ar rest of Jesse Bonner, of Navarre coun ty, on the charge of horse theft. They arrived at his house! in the evening, and entered without drawing their arms, not expecting to encounter re sistance, but they had not gone be yond the sill before three of the in mates openecj fire. Jesse Bonner, and one or two unknown men had revolv ers, and thej other a double-barreled shotgun. The officers drew their re volvers, at which Bonner seized Dun can's pistol hand with his left hand, and held it up, at the same time level ing his weapon at Duncan's face, and firing, but without effect. A moment later Bonner had tripped over and thrown the jdetective to the floor, at which Deputy Sheriff Seely, who stood only three feet from Duncan, shot Bonner in the right side, laying him low. Just then the light went out, but tlie shooting went on in the darkness, both sides taking aim by the flashes from their opponent's weapons. Duncan, before rising,"shot one of the unknown men, who stood over him, and in the course of the battle a wo man yelled : "My child is killed ! Oh, my child !" The firing did not cease until the last round of amnnition was exhaust ed, and the crowd retreated. Neither Duncan nor Deputy Sheriff Seely could tell what j the result of the fight was, as being without ammunition they deemed it best to make their escape as rapidly as possible. Sheriff Smith started for the scene of the fight last night to investigate the matter but has not returned. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Minor Matters of Interest, Foreign and Domestic. Religious excitement in Joliet, 111., has been raised to a fever heat by the difficulty between the Salvation Army and the Civil authorities. A dispatch from Athens to the Lon don Times states that King George has expressed himself as disgusted with his political surroundings at the Gre cian Capital, and it is thought that ho will soon abdicate and retire to Copen hagen. A dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, says that Mexicans arriving there from Macori saj' the reason Crawford's troops were attacked is that the Amer icans are as much of a nuisance in Mexico as the Apaches are. The New York. World of Saturday morning contains its expose of the Pan Electric Telephone matter. Under Washington date it gives a number of letters which are alleged to have passed between the promoters of the scheme and Senator Garland, Senator I. G. Harris, Congressman S. S. Cox and others. A Paris dispatch says it is officially announced that the French Malgassy terms have been agreed to. A dispatch from St. Louis states that Gen. Sherman and wife will soon to New York, where they will live at the 5th Avenue Hotel. Special charges of bribery have been made against nineteen of Pittsburg's councilmen. A committee has been appointed to institute an investigation, and work will betrin to dav. The movement is backed by citizens irre spective of party. Barney Card has been jailed at Warsaw, Ind., for forging notes to the amount of $20,000. He secured about ,000 by his rascality from the farm ers of .Kosciusko county. The names were secured by tearing the genuine signatures from the assessment blanks in possession ot the county auditor. A freight train oh the Pittsburg M. & Youghiogheny Railroad ran into a land slide near Scotthoven, Pa., early yesterday morning and was badly wrecked. Conductor Graham aud Fireman Elliott were buried under the debris, and are believed to be killed. lhe steamship Wm. Crane arrived at Baltimore yesterday morning, and reports having spoken January 26ih to schooner Eabaisely, Capt. Town send, which left Charleston January 21st off Frying Pan Lightship. The Jiiabaisely was leaking: badly. The Crane was unable to take her in tow, owing to the strong wind and high sea. SENSATIONS IN ASHVILLE. A Desperate Brother-in-Law A Sheriff Acquitted. AshvilleJ N. C: January 29. Special. Yesterday John Collins, of Madison county, was arrested and committed to jail at this place, charer- d with the brutal assault of his sister- in-law, Miss Maro Wise. He made an indecent proposal to her. She resent ed it, whereupon he rushed at her with a knife and inflicted in her side a wound that is feared to be fatal. Col lins is a desperate character, and was tied and brought here with the great est difficulty. Sheriff John Rich, of this county, has been on trial, charged with neg ligence in regard to the escape of six prisoners, all of whom were charged with, and some of them convicted, of murder. After a trial lasting two days he has been acquitted. Invalid's Hotel and nrgical Institute. This widely celebrated institution, lo cated at Buffalo, N Y., is organized with a full staff of eighteen experienced and skillful Pnysicians and Surgtons, consti tuting the most complete organizatian of meaicai ana surgical skill in Amer ca. for the treatmrnt of all chionic diseases, neiner rtq'iinng medical or surgical means for their cure Marvelous success has been achieved in the cure of all n sal. i 'Tos and mng aiseas-es, liver and kidney disea es, diseases of tne digestive organ!, -ladder diseases, diseases peculiar to women, bio d taiuts and skin dise ises, rheumatism, neuralgia, nervous debility, paralysis, epilepsy (hts), spermatorrhea, lmpoiestcy ano Kindred anections Thou sands are cured at their homes through correspondence. The cure of the worst ruptur s, pile tumors, varico ele, hydro cele auu sinciure is guaranteed, wun only a short residence at the institution. Send 10 cents in stamps for the Invalids' Guide Book (168 pagts), which gives all particu lars. Address; World's inspensary Med ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. 1,500 pounds more or Hams at 11 cents per pound, at R. E. Pipkin's. Call and get bargains. f 3 : t p s Sash, Doors, Blinds, Brackets, Stair Work, Newels, Balusters, Scroll Work, Mantels, Fancy Store Fittings, Counters. Shelving, in Pine, Cherry, Ash, Walnut, or Poplar. MOULDINGS at prices SO LOW as to Astonish the TRADE. Rough and Dressed Flooring, Ceiling, Weatherboarding, and other Lumber. Estimates made; Contracts taken for ll classes of Buildings, or Materials for same. Special Discount to the Wholesale Trade. . Far Same Oto of Work we guarantee to duplicate prices TO 01 FRIENDS 10 PATRONS Who have so liberally encouraged us with their patronage during the past year, we return our thanks to one and all. "We come to the front with the New Year better prepared to meet your wants than in the past, and assure you that our Motto will be " Quick Sales and Small Profits V Our Stock is Complete, with New Arrivals tion ol .b armers IP X o Consisting of the New and Improved Victor Cotton Plow, (It will pay yo to see this Plow before buying) Boy 35, 40, 45, 48 and 50 Turn Plows different Plows gfirSoliciting a share of public patronage, we are, very respecfully,, HUGGINS & FREEMAN. jan25-tf , West Walnut Street, Golds' orr, N. n. W. T. Yelverton Successor to Jones, " BOSS " TURN PLOW and Also have the DAIY TURN PLOW, don't neglect to try one before ou .i i it : i i i i c i x i 1 1 i i , ouy anyining eise. xuu win uuu oauipie tWl am at the old stand, the FAIRCLOTH BUILDING where I hope bv square dealings to get a liberal share of your trade. -Don't Forget to COTTON SEED CRUSHER! You all need one, and I have it for Sale ! W. T. YELYERTON. Goldsboro, N. C, January 18, 1886 tf mi I can and will Pay More for GOOD HIDES, (dry or Green), and FUR, than any firm in this City, because I am the Purchasing Agent lor the Largest Hlcje House lxx Boston AND ONLY GET t5This is worth thinking about. Call and see me, after you have seen all the High Price Buyers, and Find out What I am Doing. i P O. Box 489. V Goldsboro, N C, jan7-tf a Large Stock of Fall Dry Goods, Notions, Hats, Boots, Sloes, Family Groceries, Sopr, COFFEE. FLOUR. MOLASSES, MEAT. LARD An Assorted Variety of Goods Now in Stock. Will sell it Lowest Prices. Honest Dealings. We sell Good Goods that will pa; yoa to bay. Come and see mj Large Stock before ; purchasing. J. C. EASON, octl-tf " GOLDSBORO, N. C. Every Day. We call the special at:en- to our btock of w CLIPPER and JASTIC TURN PLOWS. with a full line of CASTINGS for the sold in this section. srton cfc Oo. S3 Stoves, Axes, Hatchets, Hammers, &c , Paints and Oils. The only house in town that keeps irPixiro Buck H-ostca. 1 KEEP THE CELEBRATED the "GEM" COTTON PLOW. m uuut ui siure taggeu wnn uiue riDuon. Buy a First Clas3- ESS V MY COMMISSION. JOSEPH 33AACS, , "Wholesale and Retail Grocer. ana finer Goods from any Factory whether located iri Pill 8 fP 9 MtMl i XDEJHjE s hint Furniture, Carpets, mattiugsw mm Rattan, Reed, smd Willow Mocker, Curp t Folding Kockws, every fc-'tyle of Wood and Cane eat Children- Uocktra. Chamber ets Poplar, Walnut, Cherry, or Ash Wood or Marble Top. OUR Htf Al B ! mti H IS LARGER THAN EVER, CONSISTING IN PART OF Raw Silk, Hair Cloth and Brocaded Plush. Also Easy Chairs and Rockers. Marble Top Tablts of every Stylo and .size. Secretaries, Book Cases, Writing Desks, What Note, Wa'nut ami Maple Extension Tables, Safes, Sideboards, Bureau, Wash Mamla, and a Large Assortment of Every Style of Chairs. n?,LSt2Cl0 Cl0ths Bu'' i8 LW han over; and we offer the same, for the next 30 Days at Prime N. Y. Cost! OUR STOCK OF 1ST Glass VVare Tin Ware. Wood and Lamp Goo Is, is complete and will ALL WE ASK IS GIVE US oxuuit. iiajt uicja you PURCHASE. 1 C- Also a Large Line of Frames, al.ajH on hand. Frames of ever, descr.pt.on made to order on short notice. Kcspcctfully, FUCHTLER & KERN, o v, ISjG, PERKINS. 1886 We invite the public to Bry Goods, Uota, Clothing, Shoes, HatsHardvsrare,- Tinware,- ? Arc, ce. n. , In the LADIES DEPARTMENTenJaT Cloaks. Dress and Fancy Gpoos, anda.full line of Zephyrs at reduced Dricea. r WE CLAIM TO BE oftheSon1 riTrarties indebted will please call GOLDSBORO, K. C, Oct. 5, 1885-t North, South, .East or West. Oil Cloths, STOCK OF EH Wi'low War0, Cutlery, Lamm d be sold at remarkably Low I'r.co. A CALL AND EXAMINE OUR xx. uec. j4-tr 3Ft 3E3 E3 T I XVT call and emminA oiTTRTTr HEADOTTATrrTT i7 M.ss and settle
The Wilmington Messenger (Wilmington, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Feb. 4, 1886, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75