A season with “Muldoon’s Picnic,” with Hyde & Behman, and Mr. Reed returned with Emerson’s Minstrels in San Francisco, subsequently becoming a partner of Emerson, and later Charley Reed’s Minstrels held sway at the Standard Theatre until April 10, 1886. August 16, 1886, he opened at the Madison Street Theatre in Chicago, with a minstrel company. He continued here a few weeks, and in the following October he appeared with Lew Dockstader’s Minstrels in New York, playing a brief engagement; this was his last appearance in black-face. Later he appeared as Ko-Ko in the “Mikado,” “A Rag Baby,” “City Directory” and other farcical plays. At the time of his death he was associated in partnership with William Collier in “Hoss and Hoss.” Charley Reed was born in New York City, May 22, 1855; he died in Boston, Mass., November 21, 1892. * * * * * NAT. C. GOODWIN in minstrelsy? Why, yes. He commenced an engagement with Haverly’s Minstrels at Chicago, September 11, 1876, doing a specialty consisting chiefly of imitations. * * * * * GRIFFIN and RICE ranked with the premier black-face song and dance teams of minstrelsy. They made their first appearance as an act in Pittsburg, Pa., about 1873. September 15, 1875, they opened with Buckley’s Serenaders in Boston; the season closed October 25, 1875. December 20, same year, they began an engagement with Carncross and Dixey’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, and continued throughout the season. On November 20, 1876, they opened with Sweatnam’s Minstrels, also in the Quaker City, an engagement that terminated December 16. Two days later they returned to Carncross and Dixey, where they remained the major portion of the time until the dissolution of their partnership in 1883. In June, 1878, they played a limited engagement with Neil Bryant’s Minstrels in New York. August 6, 1880, they were with Sweatnam and Dougherty’s Minstrels, and September 6, 1881, with Murphy and Morton, opened with George Thatcher’s Minstrels in Philadelphia, as Murphy, Morton, Griffin and Rice. In 1883 Mr. Rice broke away from his black-face affiliations, and with Geo. S. Knight’s “Over the Garden Wall,” played a German comedy role. About 1885 Mr. Rice formed a partnership with Geo. W. Monroe, and for several years they starred in “My Aunt Bridget.” Subsequently he was identified with May Irwin’s and other high-class farcical productions. Mr. Rice excels as a neat dancer, and as a light comedian, leaves nothing to be desired. [Illustration: CHARLES HILLIARD.] Of course, everyone knows that Sallie Cohen, of Rice and Cohen, is none other than Mrs. John C. Rice; as a guess, the author would say the change occurred about 1890. James Griffin formed a partnership with Ned Ainsley in the late 60’s, doing black-face songs and dances, and as Ainsley and Griffin were together for several years. In 1872 Mr. Griffin was with Purdy, Scott and Fostelle’s Minstrels.