ON DISCOUNTENANCING THE PLAYS.
THE following item from the Christian Index, of Atlanta, might be studied with profit by all the executives of all our large cities:— "A few days ago, a troupe of traveling players or singers gave an entertainment in our opera house. In the course of the performance it was discovered to be grossly immodest; whereupon the police promptly ordered the curtain to fall, and the exhibition suddenly brought to a close in medias res, and the audience was dismissed. The performers were arrested on the spot, and marched to the guard-house, where they spent the night, and the next morning they were brought before His Honor, Recorder Milledge, who fined the proprietress of the exhibition one hundred dollars. The troupe will not be likely to visit us again, yet these same performers make their living elsewhere in the United States by the very exhibition which was so promptly arrested in Atlanta."