VOLUME VI. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., OCTOBE.K 22,1876. NUMBER 34.
public affairs. When his son, F. P. Blair, Jr., Californi a theaters. In this line of comedy Mr. James carries the voucher. So the fourth act brings us to THE CAPITAL, Hnrrlcane. was a mere boy, Mr. Blair said his hope was to is said to slan d without a peer. The charming Mrs. the apartments of the eocotle, where we find Amilcar KEY "WEST, October 21.—The gale which set in PUBLISHED WEEKLY, live to see that boy a man. The boy died at the Germon will give all necessary vitality to the am- feigning a violent passion for the fair possessor of yesterday broke at 11 o'clock last night. The wind bitions mother-in-law. the priceless stage-box. The lndy seems to appie- age of fifty-three years, after a mo3t eventful attained a velocity of ninety miles an hour. EY THE ciatejhls ardor, and, while Amilcar proposes that career, and his father has survived him many MAGGIE MITCHELL.—Maggie Mitchell, whose Nothing can be seen this morning of the steam - they start together Immediately for a trip to Italy, it months. name is a household word throughout America, held tug Godfrey Kleber, from Philadelphia for Galves. Capital Publishing Company, is arranged that she shall send the box to Madame the boards of the National last week to unusually ton, before reported ashore. —The Democratic executive committee of large audiences, and the pleasing acting of this lady D'Eitourelle. 927 D street, Washington. D. (J. "Weather ie hazy. The steamer City of Houston, South Carolina have issued an address to the always guarantees the presence of the largest au- The lady puts the voucher in an envelope, telling from New York for Galvesion, is ashore, half out of people of the United States in reference to the diences. her maid to take it to its address, and at once begins water, at Boca Chlca. She struck last night, and to make preparations for her journey. But Amilcar BONN PIATT and B. G. LOVEJOY EditorB President's proclamation. The tone of this The style of drama presented by Miss Mitchell is will probably come off after lightening. All on has no intention, It need hardly be said, of leaving paper is respectful, manly and truthful. It as- of a sort that, by divine and thesplap right, is always board were saved. Mr. Albury, a passenger, died TERMS: $2.80 per year (including postage) in peculiar to that actress, and she absorbs in herself Paris, and consequently tries to pay forfeit in the last night. advance. sures the Northern and "Western people that the pretty much the entirement of the play. Her support shape of a bracelet or a pair of ear-rings. " So I HAVANA, October 20—A fearful hurricane pre- CLUBS: Ten copies to one address, S20 in ad- President has been deceived by Governor Cham- must be good; but its worth is lost sight of, except did well to keep the box," exclaims clever Mile. vailed here all last night. Telegraphic communica- ranee, with one copy free. Twenty copies to one berlain as to the statements upon which the pro- Lembnche with a roar of laughter. She had merely address, $35 in advance, with one copy free. in the leading characterof each play, in the prime tion throughout the whole island is interrupted. clamation was issued; it recommends the exer- impersonation of Miss Mitchell. Her style of plays directed the envelope to her old adorer, Beaupageot, The lines connecting with the cable are down, but cise of the utmost patience and forbearance on is as thoroughly original as her style of acting; they who was waiting in the next room. will be repaired immediately if the weather allows. CONTENTS OF INSIDE. the part of the people of the State, and appeals are tender cabinet pictures, and contrast with popu- Such are four acts of the piece; the fifth The barometer is still very low and there are signs PAGE 2.—Letter from a Foreign Pagan, &C. lar sensational society dramas of to-day as the sweet cannot be described. It takes place partly on to the sister States of the North to repudiate the of another hurricane. The wind varies from north- PAGE 3.—Miscellaneous. poetry of Tennyson to the stirring, passionate rhythm the stage and parily in the famous Box 6. Amil- east by east to northeast. None of the American oppressive measures adopted through party PAGE 6.—"The Graves and.Cilley Duel," and of Swinburne. They are merely gentle pastoral car has resolved, as a last resource, to vessels in the harbor have suffered thus far. In this " The Gallant Bachelor," policy against the natural and constitutional idyls of the stage. repair to the theater, take possession of the city several buildings have been severely damaged - PAGE 7.—" Dolls," &c. rights of a State ef the Union and of American Her support was excellent. InMr.Harris she has a box and defend it against all comers. A lucky and many trees in the public park are down. One citizens. gentleman of fine dramatic ability, moulded on the chance favors him; for the prima-donna having sud- of the walls and the roof of the new theater of Pay- denly run away from Paris with one of her many ret now constructing were destroyed. EVENTS. An address from German merchants of Aiken two supereminent models of ambition and character- istic common sense intelligence. The result is that admirers, Mile. Lembachs is called on to fill the is another contribution to enable those away he can make a score of lines go further than the ma- role, and she yields Box 6 to Amilcar and his friends. Trotting. —The safe burglary seems to hive been like from the scene to get at the true condition of jority of actors could do with a hundred. This capac- The troubles of the young man Amilcar should SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., October 21 —At the Bay dis. the Banyan tree—spreading its branches and affairs. Here again' Governor Chamberlain, in ity Mr. Harris evidence» iu a marked manner as serve as a moral and a warning to others heart- trict track yesterday, the trotting race between Oak. taking root everywhere. Last week one of the the dignified language of a dispassionate discus- Lord Rochester in Jane Eyre. "With the same lines affected In the same manner as himself. land Maid, May Howard, St. James and George side issues of that delectable "joke" came to the sion of the rise and progress of carpet-bagism, he gives us an entirely different character than that MAUD MÜLLER is just the sweet society drama an Forest, which was postponed from last Saturday, surface in New York. One John Yolz went bail is represented in what we fear are his true colors, of McKee Rankin ; the latWr exhibits an overbear- admirer of Whlttier's beautiful poem would expect, when each horse took a heat, was concluded, the ing bore, the former a brusque, ecoentric and distrust- maid winning in two straight heats. Time, 2:22M. for Thomas P. Sommerville when the latter was namely: those of a hypocritical and disappointed and Miss Genevieve Rogers looks and acts to per- ful man, but a gentleman throughout. 2:22. indicted for alleged connection with the con- demagogue. fection the character of the innocent little country In no one week's engagement has Miss Mitchell charmer. She is a jourg lady of great beauty and spiracy. The benevolent surety of Benton's Scnlllng The New York Herald, which furnishes these had so broad a scope of exhibition of her versatility remarkable talent, and there was but one verdict of FITTSBCBG, PA., October 21.—The single scull race lawyer was subsequently indicted for perjury in two addresses, contains a letter from a Northern as in the past, and so perfect has she shown herself her acting last night. The audience is lOBt to all was won by Schnff by one length. Time, 35 minutes swearing falsely as to his qualifications to enter merchant on the same subject, and all are sup- each impersonation that comparisons with knowledge of Miss Rogers, so perfect are her pic- and 3d seconds. into the required recognizance, and being in plemented by the news of the murder of one and a view of determining her relative merits in each tures of the innocent maiden and the grief stricken are of too fine a character to be settled in a hasty dieted, was found guilty. The cancerous char- attempted murder of other Democrats who were wife. All appearance of art is lost in her Maud critique. Muller, and more than this cannot be said. She has acter of the conspiracy becomes every day more peacefully riding along the highway. The wave BOOK NOTICES. Clifton Tayleure's new dramatization, called Becky the additional advantage of most excellent support, apparent. of sympathy being awakened for the white peo- Mix, gives us Maggie in an entirely new role—that of so that the entertainment is certainly one of the A VISIT TO THE CABINET O» THE UNITED STATES ple of South Carolina will sweep away or for- the female Arab of the streets of New York. The best offered here this season. The piece will be re- MINT AT PHILADELPHIA. J. B. Lipplncott, Phila. —Hew Jersey juries have generally stood high In this little volume, handsome, complete and ever bury carpet-bagism in the State. play is a rather poor piece of business; a dramatiza- peated to- night.—Pittsburg Pott. in the estimation of the public. They have in tion of newspaper paragraphs, a mingled maze in well edited, Miss E. B. Johnston of this city, so fa- criminal cases heretofore vindicated the out- the shape of an intricate plot and impossible situa- vorably known In literary circles here and else- raged law with a vigor unparalleled, yet un- tions. The title role impersonated by Miss Mitchell LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. where, has given to the reading world one of the GREEN-BOOM GOSSIP. most useful and Interesting discourses that has mixed with vindlctiveness. The recent acquit- is the sole character of any note in the drama, and it is by far too slangy. The thing is Theater Com- characterized the centennial year. This book is not tal of Mrs. House, however, for killing her Thb BI'RLBSQUB of The Two Orphans will be pre- Foreign News. iqueish throughout. Her support in this piece was only valuable to the numismatist, or to the dille- worthless husband, shakes our confidence in even sented at Ford's this week by the Freeman Sisters LONDON, October 21 —A dispatch to Reuter'3 Tele- not good, a fault due probably to the revampyre of gram Company from Vienna says: tante in coins and the histories associated therewith, a Trenton jury when a woman's in the case. The opinions of the press, of which we have a the play rather than to the people on the stage. A Russia has presented to the porte an ultimatum but to all who read to be taught or to be interested. budget before us, speak in the highest terms of The authoress, in almost the opening sentence of It does not appear that Mrs. House was in praise of these artists and of the humorous merits of little study of the effects of dress, and some attempt embracing in substance the following points : her work, declares that much of the great past his- that situation which would have excused or their play. The Two Orphans ought never to have in the way of harmony between personal attire and First, a six weeks' armistice unconditionally. Sec- tory of the world is dug out enstamped on the faces justified a man in using a lethal weapon; so been burlesqued, but the crime once committed is, personal complexion, woeli benefit Miss Wellesly; ond, administrative autonomy for Bulgaria, Bosnia of oolns and medals ; that the chapters of the dead that this and the'Mary Harris case, and all the we trust, spiced with sufficient wit to serve as a while less wax on the moustache, or, better still, no and Herzegovina. Third, the execution of reforms moustaohe for waxing purposes, would do Mr. Tre- under the supervision of commissioners named by ages are found link by link iu the numlsmatory relics other feminine precedents, confirm the fact that palliation. villS much good; but Treville has not had a fair the great powers, and to be protected by an armed struck off in each individual age, and proves it by a the only original common law of the United States THE Baltimore Sun, speaking of Mr. .Tames, who chance so far this entire season, save in Evangeline. foreign force. clever record of facts founded upon the indisputable is a time-honored custom which secures the in- appears this week in the exquisite and much re- Mr. Varry merits special praise for his unexcep- To day's dispatches necessitate a serious modifica- evldenoe of written history. Studious researches estimable privilege to' woman of killing her own vamped drama of "Wanted, a Divorce, says " he is tlonally flue acting, particularly in Fanchon and tion of previous views In regard to the Eastern have placed the broad scope incidental to an essay husband or somebody else's husband with im- the peer of Lester Wallack and E. A. Sothern." Mr. Jane Eyre. question. By ihe confession of the Times Vienna of this character, wholly in the hands of the writer of "The Visit," and we have Ihe result presented to punity. James is a Washingtonian by birth and a gentleman The houses last week were much larger than any corresponnent he was mistaken about the powers us in this brief but complete work. of haudsome appearanee and pleasent address. so far this fall, every seat being occupied each which had declared their acceptance of the six Pretty much everything of interest associated with —It appears that the real facts of the last dis- This week we shall be able to judge for ourselves night, and all the standing room occupied. months' armistice. Neither Austria, France or Italy coins, and specially the Interesting detajls connected 1 turbance in South Carolina throw the blame on whether the unqualified and distinguished praise he had notified the porte of their adhesion to that pro- has won from the press generally is really merited. TUB AVAST SCENE is the title of the latest Paris- with the Philadelphia mint, are found in this volume, the misled colored men, and leave the whites, posal, though none had objected to it. England "We have no doubt whatever that it is. ian drama, by Ernest Blum, and from the descrip- alone, therefore, took formal action in its favor. The and we cheerfully commend It to the public. It Is for heretofore accused of the aggressiveness, in tion of its plct in that weekly encyclopedia of the effect of this is that all the powers except England shle at Mohun & Brothers, and the prices exceed- OUR FRIEND MAC. has been distinguishing himself condition that mtlst excite the commiseration of drama, Frank Queen's Clipper, it is evident that the remain in a position to urge the porte to concede the ingly reasonable. this season. He starts out on the " curtaine stage' every heart. They are between two fires, and French taste for intricacies of all sorts, dashed Russian demand. Scribner's Monthly and St. Nicholas for December next month as a lecturer on his personal subject, through with Intrigue, is unchanged. The spirit of the to exercise the natural right ot self-defense On the other hand It seems certain that Russia have been received and are as welcome as ever. Ta- " Cheek as a good thing," and has begun the adver- play hinges on the clandestine affection of a gay and would only entail on them additional penalties. has not the turport of either Germany or Austria bles of contents, both varied and clever, Invite the tisement by saving the life of a woman—beautiful poetic diplomate, Amilcar, for Mme. D'Estourelle, in the contemplated movement against Bulgaria. eye, and we recommend the Monthly to our friends The story is as simple as it is tragic: A joint woman—In distress. She was Eli Perkins' cook, and the wife of a cabinet minister, who is a gentleman of The announcement that the Czarewitch will visit and the St. Nicholas to bur friends' children. Dr. discussion was agreed on and both parties con by the evening Mail of the 16th Instant we see that arduous labor >nd a» excellent pistol shot. On a Holland's new serial story, Nicholas Minturn, be- the house of Perkins caught fire, the cook was being the courts at Vienna, Berlin and London seems to tracted to meet at the hustings unarmed. A certain day the minister is to be called off to a pro- gins in this number of the Monthly. suffocated, when MacGeachy rushed in and saved indicate that Russia is hesitating to act separately. difficulty occurred and the Republican negroes tracted meeting, and eo affords an opportunity for THE LAUREL BUSH. her. Had it been Eli instead of his cook he would the lovers. The diplomate Invites the minister and Anyhow the mission of Colonel Detashkoff, the ran for their concealed weapons and fired upon Such is the title of -a delightful, old fashioned love have merited death for interfering with the just de- his wife to witness a new play on the night of the Czar's adjutant, to the emperor of Austria, fared no their defenseless opponents. This is a South slory, by the author of " John Halifax Gentleman," signs of Providence. occasion of the meeting, offering them box No. 6 at better than that of General Sumarakoff, and the Mrs. Mulocb, whose name is synonymous with all Carolina massacre of white men by black men the theater. His plan is that the husband will be weight of the evidence seems to show that the other THE fair Anna Dickinson, the Graphic's favorite that is chastely beautiful in literature. We are in and was manipulated in a way that would have compelled to excuse himself, and that he and the powers have, like England, taken up an expectant against the field of American actresses, has been receipt of the book from Brad. Adams, open to-day, been creditable to Sitting Bull or Schack-nasty wife can take a brief trip in the country on that oc- attitude in face of Russia's warlike preparation; for well received in Cincinnati. The following criticism and always open to lucrative engagements. casion. Unfortunately the minister resigns before we have also a contradiction of the Russia-Italian Jim. from the Enquirer is one from the generally favorable the occasion, and accepts the invitation. Fearing alliance from several quarters, including an Inspired notices by the press in the city of hogs, of Miss Dick- —Dr. Johnson wrote a very unsuccessful trag- the catastrophe likely to result from the suspicions Renter dispatch from Rome, which says : THE new national hymn, "Salute to the Flag," inson's merits: " As an actress Miss Dickinson may of the husband, the diplomate proceeds to secure the "Contrary to ramor, Italy, up to the present, main- words and music composed by Mr. Herbert A. Pres- edy which he called Irene. House, the New also succeed. There were indications enough last box. Here the trouble commences. Only one course tains an attitude of reserve." ton, which was rendered Thursday with such grand York divorce and Tombs lawyer, married a night that the fervor and intensity which made her is open to Amilcar. He must obtain that identical Prince Bismarck is still at Varzin. The Emperor effect by the Marine Band at Mt. Vernon, was an ap- woman named Irene, who enacted a very success- at times electric in the lecture-room still burn within stage-box at DO matter what cost, or the price of his of Austria and Count Andrassy are at Pesth.and preciated feature of the reception of the Society of her, and that nervousness and an undue fear of ful tragedy wherein she procured a separation, a failure will be that M. D'Estourelle will discover the Russian Court at Hivadia. At Belgrade it is the Army of the Tennessee. The full Marine Band, •overdoing' curbed her power. In^he stronger pas- vinculo matrimonii, by means of a pistol ball, all. The nnlucky man begins his qnest. He rushes declared that the Czar's return to St. Petersburg fifty pieces, were several times called upon to repeat sions she seemed always at the point of doing some- more effectual even than a decree in equity. to the theater, bribes all the officials, offers to buy will be the signal for the entry of a Russian army the hymn, and the rendition was most happily re- thing that would have sent an enthusiasm other ceived. Bradley House, brother of the murdered man, the house, In vain. "While waiting to see the man- into Bulgaria. than that of sincere admiration and courtesy to the ager his difficulties become complicated, for he meets A dispatch from Vienna to the Standard says. Mr. Preston has been known in Washington for came upon the scene in a militant mood, deter- audience, but fell short. Her voice in conversational an old beau (Beaupageol), who is also determined " Two large clubs of the Constitutional party in the ten years as a journalist, but his most intimate mined to reduce the relict to poverty and then passages is sweet and cultured, and her face one of to obtain Box 6 for that evening. This antique sar- Austria Reichsrath, the club of the Left and the friends never supposed that he possessed the high send her to the scaffold or penitentiary; but find- the most expressive we have ever seen, her large dine has under his proteotion the star of the house club of the Progressionists, held a sitting yesterday qualification of a musical composer. This, the first dark eyes beaming out from under a blonde wig, ing that the deceased husband had secured all of Mile Lembuche, who has not a part in the new on the questions to be put to the ministers respecting piece he has offered to the public, evinces remarka- coming near to deserving the much-abased adjec- his property from attachment and other disagree- piece, and is therefore determined to assist at the the attitude of the government upon the Eastern ble talent, and among the many congratulations ex- tive, 'speaking.' Her best acting was the depicting able processes, by putting it in his wife's name—a first performance. question. The majority of both clubs declare tended none have been warmer than from the mem- three several times in the play the struggle which method peculiar to and almost universal among against any intervention, occupation, or annexation bers of the band themselves. The hymn and music Anne has between her sense of right and her love Amilcar gets rid of his rival in an ingenious way. whatever. Some objections as to the competency have already been sought after by ¿he most promi- New Yorkers—the angered and grieved brother for Percy, a love which she admirably represents as a When he heais what Beaupageot is in search of, of the Reichsrath in foreign affairs hitherto re- nent singers In the city. suddenly became the lover of the murderess, and wild, p&ssioo&to devotion, such MS would, with &n he tells him that he had engaged the box himself, served to the deliberations of the Austro-Hungarian SALUTE TO THE FLAG. according to last accounts was laying encourag- ordinary woman, have swept away all bulwarks be but he will be only too happy to yield it to his delegations, were overruled." Unfurl to the breeze, on land and on sea, Our emblem of liberty, the flag of the free. ing siege to her affections. In the meantime tween her and its object. She was almost great in friend, only he must go to Neullly, to an impossible In the Servian camp, according to the Times the la6t scene of the fourth act." street with an impossible number, where he will The army shall wield it as their sceptre of power Mrs. House has been undergoing trial, and the Vienna correspondent, the idea of peace is scouted. The navy shall shield it as the hope of the hour find his valet, who will give him the voucher. The Fighting continues before Saitschar. The Servians While the South with the North proclaim in one next thing in order will be a marriage between THE GREAT DIVORCE CASE.—Le Proces Veau- old beau is delighted, and, after profuse thanks, under General Doctor«", General TchernayelFs new voice, Bradley and Irene. radieux, the exquisitely ludlc rous comedy by A. The flag of our Union Is the flag of our cholee. starts off on his journey, by which he must lose at chief or staff, are endeavoring to drive the Turks Delaoour and A. Hennequin, in the height of a tre- Thus will this slight family difference be effect- least a conple of hours. Meanwhile his pretense from their position there. The Servians considera- mendous popularity at the Vaudeville, in Paris, is Aimee's Diamonds. of buying the theater enables Amilcar to penetrate bly outnumber the Turks, but have not effected any- ually healed. Such compromises are based on being plaved In English elsewhere under an infini- [New York Cor. Chicago Tribune.] to the managerial sanctum; and, when the business thing yet. unparalleled charity. tude of titles. At the Criterion, in London, as The discussion draws to a close, he requests the director The naughty Aimee (the Phlladelphians call her The Pall Mali GazttU publishes a long statement Great Divorce Case; at Wallack's, in New York, as to let him have a stage-box that evening for the worse names than that, and say she deserves them, —Francis P. Blair died Wednesday afternoon which it says is by a person fully entitled to speak Forbidden Fruit; in the same city, at Daly's Fifth gentleman who is to provide the funds for his pro- too,) has recently rid herself of a source of trouble at his residence, Silver Springs, Montgomery on behalf of the whole body of American mission- Avenue Theater, as Life; in Boston, at the Boston jected purchase. Not only does he receive an affirm- which is said to have been more of a burden to her aries in Turkey. The writer says: " The Protestant county, Md., at the advanced age of eighty-seven Museum, the clever adapter capitally dubs it, ative reply, but, lucky man, Box 6 is placed at his than a half dozen fresh lovers. In 1871 she was missionaries do not hesitate to say lhat the Turkish years. The venerable gentlemen retained his Wanted, a Divorce, and it is this translation by Mr. disposition. Suddenly, however, the manager re- persuaded by some Frenchmen to invest all her government affords better assurance of religious lib- physical vigor, bis mental faculties and sprightli- Fred. Williams that is announced for presentation members that he has given the box to the composer savings in diamonds, in the belief that they would erty than some forms of christian rule which might here. The head and front of the play is an argus- of the music of the piece, the Illustrious Potinet. appreciate in value and prove a lucky venture. ness of disposition to a remarkable degree, and replace it. The missionaries have such dread of.Rus- always took the deepest interest in the events of eyed mamma-in-law who mounts a dragon-like guard The third act opens in the home of the musician, She bought them to the value of #30,000, and then over the movements of a gay son-in-law, the moves slan ascendancy that they have requested me con- her trials commenced. Everywhere she was afraid the time. He was perhaps the best posted man where an extremely comic scene takes* place. fldentally to lay before the German government cer- each are constantly making to outwit the other—the Potinet wishes to make some alterations in the of being robbed, and became, so to speak, saturated in the country concerning all the exciting epocEs son to enjoy his liberty and cover up his traces, and tain proofs of Rnssian intolerance,and to solicit Ger- with the idea that her servants and companions through which the country has passed and the score, and gives orders that no one but the prima many to secure from Russia guarantees of religious his Nemesis to as persistently keep the trail. The fun donna and the stage manager shall be admitted to were continually conspiring to steal her diamonds. political intrigues in which the leading men of fairly boils and bubbles from the opening scene, liberty before consenting to the dismemberment of This idea became an absorbing passion day and his presence. Amilcar has to disguise himself as Turkey or Russian occupation. These missionaries the different periods have tak«n part. In the Where Madame Laiqulser imperatively recom- night, and after awhile she added to it the fear that the accompanist of the diva in order to obtain ad- appealed to Germany because America's policy of exciting issues which divided men and parties mends the quiet life of a country justice to this lively mission, and old Beaupageot, disguised as the lady's her life would be taken if necessary to consummate young city blade, to the last, where, completely de- non-intervention in Euiopean affairs preclndes her in the days of Jackson Mr. Blair, as an editor, an father, is there to meet him. the dreaded robbery. The diamonds were secured luded and hoodwinked by a burst of virtuous elo- treating the question by diplomacy." "When once in the presence of the great man, whose upon her person and carried about her everywhere. adviser and a politician, was most prominent quence from the fairly cornered young limb of the The Pall Mall Gazette, in a leading article, says: genius is celebrated by all his servants, and even by While performing here at the Lyceum she employed and exerted a powerful influence. In the period law, (who is conscious of her vicinity, though she is " We have no faith in the negotiations nor in the re- his parrot in a: chorus of "Ah ! ii a du talent, Pot- a policeman to watch her dressing-room at night, preceding and during the civil war Mr. Blair ensconced behind the tapestry.) Under the most'try- ported understanding between the Powers, and do inet !" they have to listen to all sorts of musical ab- for fear that while upon the stage she would be ing circumstances, he thus passes through the fur- not believe any of them have abated their preten- was among the foremost in molding opinions surdities, very cleverly executed by Fusier, and are robbed. When she journeyed to France she left the nace, remains In Paris and the mother-in-law retires sions, laid aside their jealousies or modified their and directing events. Although a warm sup- the loudest of those present is their admiration of diamonds in a bank-vault, bnt when she returned to the Gauntry. policy." . porter of the administration and of the war he, that great man's powers as a composer. This ft a here brought them back. Then she confided them The article concludes as follows: " The least san- to the care of a gentleman who proved unworthy of after that unhappy conflict was ended, has inva- The plot, though ludicrous in its construction, is very laughable scene; but, after a series of side- guine view is at present the safest. We shall do only a', string on which to hang dainty drolleries, splitting Incidents, Potinet informs both gentlemen the trust. He pawned a portion of them for a mere riably given his influence to the restoration of wisely in believing there is not yet any such concert sparkliqg witticisms, delicious satire and amusingly that he has sent the box to a friend of his wife, who trifle, and Aimee was forced to redeem them. Now harmony and the obliteration of the issues of the or understanding between the Powers as'may insure suggestive situations. This will be the first appear- is no other than Madame D'Estourelle herself—a she has sent them to France again, and her auditors past. His reminiscences were more copious and Europe against the worst consequences of a war be- ance of Mr. Ford's comedy company here, for whose joyful announcement to Amilcar, but a fatal blow to who miss her brilliant diamonds and read these lines tween Turkey and Russia." more interesting than those of any of his contem- class of talent it has been specially adapted; the role the hopes of Beaupageot. But the matter is not will understand what has become of them. -It is safe to say, however, that if* Aimee continues to at- poraries. He has outlived ljaost if not every one of Fauvinard, the dutiful son, being personated by closed. Potinet had chosen for messenger his Tbe Weather To-day. of those with whom be took an active part in Mr. Louis L. James, the popular light comedian, late nephew, who is enamored of Beaupageot's mistress. For thevMlddle States, rising or stationary barome- tract as many admirers behind the scenes as usual, of Daly's Fifth Avenue Theater, the Chicago and Mile. Lembuche, and it is to that young lady that he ter, northerly winds, shifting to warmer southwest she will soon have diamonds enough to satisfy he or southeast, and clear or partly cloudy weather. longing. 2 THE CAPITAL.—OCTOBER 22, 1876.
remainder, it would not do for me even to hint the top of the piano, where he alighted gracefully; GOAL AND WOOD. For THB CAPITAL. guilty of using their Influence for sinister pur- but the dog followed him, and the kangaroo, that I agree with the foregoing opinion. SONNET. . poses, and yet they continue to retain power seeing an etagere across in the corner of and to exert Influence in the political world; one When I left my benighted country my objec the room, jumped on top of Whitmarsh's raother-in- TO JOHN J. STAFrOBD. COAL. of your Cabinet ministers is put upon trial for' was to study the secrets of a high civilization, law'a head, as a half-way place, and in making another spring from that insecure footing to the In this dim life there'« nothing that -we see taking bribes, and even after he has confessed his and to become a wiser and better man, by visit- etagere, he hurled the old lady over against the wall In Its true light, and eve» the golden sun guilt it is found quite impossible to pronounce ing the United States, and while I trust that I Shows brightest only by comparison, . have been profited in many ways. I must confess of the room, where she fell over an ornamental him guilty and to secure his punishment, because chair, which she entirely ruined in her fall; the On and after MONDAY, October 9, 1879, our prices And though I know thee, yet in simile that I have witnessed a great many things which I must show forth the "parts composing thee, of the legal tricks resorted toby personal friends kangaroo, failing to connect with the etagere, fell for fuel delivered in any part of Washing tonor George- For it takes many to make up thy one, who happen to retain power. One man commits are not calculated to win me over to the Ameri- prawling on tbe floor and was promptly seized by town, in quantities not less than one ton, (2,2-10 lbs.,) To purest streams a thousand streamlets run, a murder for money, and he is acquitted on the can theory of life. Of course the foundation of the dog. Whitmarsh danced excitedly around, try- And in the ocean myriad streams are free. high civilization is what we call education ; but ground of insanity; another kills his wife when ing to get a grip on the dog so as to pull him off; but until further notice, will be as follows, viz: Thou art a river giving all away, before he oould do so the kangaroo rose on his hind is that such a transcendent power for good as White Ash Furnace, Egg and Chestnut... ,$5.50 per ton. Refreshing all that cross thy stately path, under the influence of strong drink, and if he legs, and, seizing the dog with hie fore legB, by a With here an eddy; there a gentle lake; you claim it to be ? I am told that prior to the can command money he defies the law and es- powerful effort threw him crashing Into'a $500 plate- White Ash Stove or Range 0.00 " Thou art a gray cloud on a sultry day late rebellion there were four millions of people capes hanging. Your Government passes a lavy glass ; but the dog was game, and although he was That with soft rain revives the aftermath; in one section of your country alone who could ShamokfnEgg 6.00 " Thou art a man whom God was glad to make. declaring it wrong to distribute public offices verely cut in several places, again renewed the not read nor write; and I have myself seen it re- Sfcaniokln Stove or Range..... 6,50 MAURICE T. EOAN. without regard to merit, and only among parti- corded that in the State of Massachusetts, the attack. san 9 and personal friends; and yet, if your pa- The kangaroo went racing around the room, Lykens Valley Egg or Stove 7.10 " boasted center of intellectual culture, there are LETTER FROM A FOREIGN pers speak truly, the President of your country witching his tail and knocking off mantel orna- Cumberland Lump 6.00 ' " s ixty thousand inhabitants who are wholly des- PAGAN. has himself placed the whole of his relatives in ments and upsetting the company, with the dog in titute of any education. You publish hundreds hot pursuit; finally, making a misstep, he fell over Cumberland Run of Mine 5.00 " I am a veritable Pagan—all the way from be- positions of profit and' influence. of volumes about the normal and public schools card-stand, and before -he could get on his legs yond the Pacific ocean—but I have been spend- Now, all these things may be evidences of a again the dog had him. The kangaroD tried the and spend a great deal of money for school build- Oak Wood in stick .oc per cord, ing some considerable time in America, and pro- high civilization, but in the countries of the far ings, and yet illiteracy runs riot in the streets of plan so successful before, but the dog had a good hold ou hi» throat and hung on to him. A desperate pose to give the civilized public, a few of my East such offenders against the law as I have your cities; even your professors in their Pine Wood in stick. oo " truggle ensued; chairs were broken, growls -and observations. My brother Pagans in this coun- mentioned would be punished with the utmost Sawing per cord 1.50 14 knowledge of English call a common college a shrieks filled the air, the kangaroo's tail flew round try will please understand that, while I may certainty. Indeed, it would seem to me some- university ; you teach all the sciences and yet like a flail, seriously injuring two old ladies and a Sawing and splitting per cord 2.00 / appear to be severe upon them, they must not times that the only people who are ever pun- kill thousands of children by cooping them up young widow, who were struck by it, and the scare construe any of my remarks in this " open let- ished for crimes in this country are the poor, the in badly ventilated rooms; and cram others with ended by a young lady being knocked down in a cor- T.'IEWD. CLARK & CO., ter " as personal to themselves. The fact is friendless and those only acquainted with dead and foreign languages before they have ac- ner and the kangaroo and dog falling on her. Be- Dealers in Lumber, "Wood and Coal, that ever since I arrived in this land of the free wretchedness and woe. If it were possible for quired a knowledge of their own. You claim fore the dog could be choked off the kangaroo was dead and the young lady had fainted.. An uphol- Office, 603 Pennsylvania avenue, northwest corner Sixth life has been to me a continued series of sur- me to be in a doubtful state of mind in regard to for your newspaper press that there Js nothing sterer got a $1,200 job from Whitmarsh the next Wharf, Depot and Planing Mill, foot of Fourth street prises, and it was the very last one that I ex- the facts of American modern history just men- like it anywhere, and iij that you are undoubt- east. week, and cutlo«ltles do not now excite any entho^ oct8-tf3 perienced which gave me the idea of writing this tioned, one particular incident teaching the same edly correct; for in DO country that I have yet siaam In the breast of Whitmarsh. H.A. CLARKE. JOHN. T. GIVEN letter. During a recent visit to New York I general moral will long be a convincing argu- read of can there be found less respectability or went with a friend to hear a lecture by a noted ment that the princeB of the moneyed world are independence than among the political journals of LOBD LTXDHCRST once^said on a public occasion Englishman, named Huxley. I had been told not always to be implicitly trusted. Several this country. You have but to differ in opinion when he was called onto speak: "I wishyoa could Wood. induce Lady Lyndhurst to make a speech instead Coal and -that he was a very great man. but when I heard years ago, when a number of my Asiatic friends from many of their editors to call down upon him trying to prove that the human race, as of asking me, for if she wonld only talk to you as she arrived in New York—some of whom were stu- your head every epithet in the catalogue of ras- talks to me sometimes she would make you a speech well as the solid earth, originated in a kind of CLARKE & GIVEN, dents—and wanted to know where they could cality, and if you are in the line of speculation that you would not forget.' * jelly or mucilage, and then making an effort to WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN deposit their money for safe-keeping, they were you have but to open your purse freely to secure disprove the records of the bible, by reading a THB first gun from Utah—Gannon is renominated referred to a house which was at that time en- a public of your own. WOOD AND COAL. few bits of poetry by John Milton, I said to for Congress.—Boston Po»f. Rather a son of a gun. joying the special patronage of the Government. Dally arriving, cargoes of select ANTHRACITE and myself in amazement, " Is this a christian land, ONLY brunettes should wear cardinal red hose. The poor Pagans were confiding, made epecia' And then how much better is it with your BITUMINOUS COAL, for families, steam and manu- and is it this kind of nonsense that they call A*. T. Jlerald. faet nring usu. deposits and demanded no interest,and—were general literature ? One half of it, if not more science f" I knew before that another great KINDLING AND GOKB WOOD. swi ndled out of every dollar. In my country is deliberately stolen from foreign authors ; and MEDICAL. man of science, named Darwin, had claimed that a large proportion of the balance is made up of COAL STANDARD—TON, 2,240 lbs. those rascals would have been imprisoned for he was the direct descendant of a monkey, light productions, from the fashionable romance life or executed; but the policy of your people Best Quality, Fair Prices and Fair Deal.ng. (perhaps the very one which wrote a letteivto to the dime novel, which are commonly with- seemed to be to excuse, and then start them For the the Spectator in 1712,) and that he had proven out a redeeming quality. That there aro some NO. 421 TENTH STREET WEST, anew in their business of swindling. One, two, his theory by exhibiting himself ; but this man respectable journals and good books published Sponges, Soaps, Towel.«, Brushes, Sea and even three "first-class" banking houses Salt and Perfumed Waters. Between D and E streets north Huxley was so perfectly cold-blooded in his as- in all the departments of learning, I do not have gone to the dogs, nsthey say, since my ar- BRANCH YARD, corner Twelfth and C strevts north- sertions that I expected him to declare that his deny, but they are in a melascholv minority. rival in this country, and it is this fact, with oth west. own ancestors were serpents or crocodiles. At Your people, my goad American friend, as you ers, perhaps, which has placed the credit of the DEPOT at Potomac Bridge corner Maryland avenue any rate, heathenish as I am in my opinions, claim, are highly educated, but, to my mind, the and Thirteen-and-a-half street. sep5-tfs United States even below that of France, with Soda Water, the lecture I heard filled me with amazement, for fruit is not what it should be, and not exactly I remembered that in the benighted land whence all Its unsettled and tumultuous experiences Drawn, ice cold, with fruit and Creala what I came to this country to obtain. Syrups. COAL! GOAL I came, and where the people only believe in And here let me tell you how they manage these But I must close this hasty screed. The facts Buddha, such horrible doctrines would not be things in my country. Aleading banking house I have collected, calculated to illustrate the tolerated. It is true that some of my ancestors which I have in my eye has been in existence AT LESS THAN PANIC PRICES. history of what is called christian civilization, may have believed in the transmigration ef for two centuries, and is to-day as firm as a would make a regular cyclopedia, and that shall souls, but such men as Huxley and Darwin mountain. Its owners have always formed be my first production, for the amusement of Vlclry, Kissinger), Seltzer, Congress, seem anxious to convince the world that they kind of family league or corporation, and while listlithorn, High Bock, Geyser, Ex- CALL AND SEE BEFORE PURCHASING. my countrymen, after my return home. celsior, Bedford, Blue Lick, Fried- were born without souls, and that the universe there has ever been one ruling spirit or presi- erlckshall and Buffalo Springs. was not the creation of an almighty power. dent, whenever his schemes or propositions for That may be a consoling doctrine for highly civ- investment have been deemed hazardous by his BttNAPABTE. THOMAS W. RILEY & ilized people, but the Pagan world would fain colleagues he has been at once retired from acl pray for a very different scientific theology. tive business and his place filled by another. In Some ÏIttberfo Unpublished Anecdotes DEPOT: Bilej's Wharves, Foot Eleventh Concerning; the Little Corporal. and Twelfth Streets soot Invest. this manner has the credit of the house been Oalman Levy, the Paris publisher, has just Issued Turning from science to religion, I cannot re- kept up, and on the score of integrity its record PHARMACIST, 703 FllTKK.VTH ST. OFFICE: C, between Second and Third an as yet unpublished work by Stendhal, consisting novai-lys Streets northwest. frain from expressing my surprise at the manner has continued unsullied to the present time, al- of fragments of a projected life of Napoleon Bona- QetMmS in which Christianity is practiced in this country. though every man who has been identified with parte, relating chiefly to his Italian campaign. Cer- Leaving out of view the numerous sects which that houBe was a benighted Pagan. tain passages are very' curious, and deserve quota- ST. CLOUD DRUG STORE, Great Seduction in Price of Coke. tion. He thus speaks of Napoleon's moiher, Mad- are supported by fools and knaves, hardly a day Another phase of American life which has DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY AT* passes that does not bring to light some incident ame Lœtltla : " That Tare specimen of womankind, JOHN T. COLE & CO., THE SAME RATE. attracted my attention and filled me with sur- who possessed a character that may be called unique calculated to prevent me from adopting the Hew schedule—Full load of 40 bushels for $2 60. prise is what might be termed the eccentricities in France, possossed, above all the other inhabitants Have just opened a fresli stock of [Smallerloads, S cents per bushel; cytagc, 60cents.) christian religion, although its vital truths I un- of refined society. From time immemorial, in of the Tuilleries, the firm, sincere and never shaken APPLY TO Office of Washington Gnsligli 1 Company, derstand to be love of the Supreme Being and of all Asiatic countries, high personal character belief that sooner or laler the nation would awaken ; DRUBS AID A FULL LINE OF TOILET ARTICLES our fellow-men. I have noticed, for example, that all the edifice reared by her eon would be over- AT THEIU 418 Tenth street northwest, 711 First street northwest, and a good name have been the only passports or to 110 Rrldge street. Georgetown. that the bitterst quarrels which take place in thrown, and that it mi(ht crush bim in falling." A to the higher grades of society ; but in this coun- Hew Stor«*, Cornor Hindi and F Str««
1 HE 6 KEEN FIELDS OF THE M005T. 000,000. Being at the Union Olub one night, twenty IlnmorN or Centonulal Travel. years ago, Mr. Henriques, a broker, saw him fold [New York Correspondence of the Louisville Courier- GE0GEEIES. PLUMBING- AND GAS-FITTING. Interesting: Cbser vat ions of the Lunar Sur- away a bundle of stock in his pocket. Journal.] face. " Harlem, Commodore ?" Henriques said. , The crowds that pass through this city, either [From the Scientific American J " Ye», young man. And perhaps you'll smile coming from or going to the outskirts of Philadel- When the moon is at the full, the unassisted eye when I tell you that we will live to see that stock phia, are really enormous. Every horse-car is filled 1423 NEW YORK ATENUE. 1423 readily distinguishes on her face certain dark gray at a premium." with wanderers, seated on carpet-bags on the floor. spots more or less sharply separated from the bright- In 1882-63 Yanderbilt had the Harlem stock so The Fourth avenue lino, which runs to the Grand er portions. Throngh the telescope these spots ap- perfectly cornered that the great bears could not Central depot, is strung along with cars which sug- pear as broad, level spaces, resembling terrestrial find it to deliver according to contract, or, as the gest cotton boats on the Mississippi—a moving mass seas. Indeed, the earlier observers mistook them phrase goes, to " cover their shorts." Dan Drew of carpet-bags. The Erie road on Friday evening THOMAS M. SHEPHERD, for seas, and by that name (Latin, mare) they are and the rest were made bankrupt. The price ad- sent out twenty-seven cars in one train, including G. G. C0RNWELL & SONS, known to this day. They are not seas, however, vanced to 285, and Yanderhilt and one John M. sleepers. I boarded a centennial train at New bnt ancient sea beds, now probably nearly, if not Tobln took $3,000,000 out of the street, having inves- Brunswick and rode thirty odd miles amidst an quite, destitute of water; vast arid basins like the ted less than that amount. The bear brokers took odor of hay-stasks, villagers and eggs. Across the Sahara, or the great interior Utah basin of oar con- such fright that for three years all speculation aisle from where I sat was a gentleman clad In FINE GBOCERS. PLUMBING, STEAM ÄND GAS tinent. ceased in Harlem. russet. He was about sixty years of age. and sur- Examined more closely, these dried-up sea-beds ace Tobiu was an accident, and soon went under, and veyed mankind from under a hat made on a block seen to have a rolling surface like some of our west- in 1864 Yanderbilt got nearly all the stock he had which must have crumbled into powder centuries FLOUR: FITTING ern prairies or to he traversed by numerous long put by in Hudson River Btilroad. He took a large ago. His «hoes were covered with hard-baked mud, ridges, resembling the wave-like sand-hills which lump of money out of Erie, and went steadily for- which seemed to annoy the proprietor of it, for he give so marked and particular an apperance to the ward buying both Hudson River and New York occasionally scraped his feet on the gaping iron 100 BBLS- 'WHITE BLOSSOM," CAS FBXTURES, Central stock until late in .December, 1868, hejaw s of a black bag, an evident heirloom. A young deserts of western Australia, the leveler portions be- MINNESOTA PATENT PROCESS, $9:50 PEE BBL.. The largesD g f t and best assorted designs In the city, con- fiend, who roamed unmolested through the car with , , . S. Chandeliers In crystal, bronze and gilt; ex- ing dotted with low mounds, interspersed with small gathered some of the directors of the latter road to- $2.10 PER SACK. ilslte Toilet and Newell Lights; portables and readinc a basket on his arm, sold the old fellow three ba- crater pits. In many places formations of an appa- gether and resolved to divide the increased value of WENGER'S PATENT PROCESS, $1 PER SACK. t C k ,ln enl eSS rently alluvial character abound, while the ancient the road and. the increase of earning«, Instead of ex- nanas, objects as surprising to -hi ¡a as-any chapter Ph1ik d%^a?sS e p1^- " ¡¡11" coast lines show distinct traces of water action. celling the usual eight per cent, dividends. This in- in the Revelations. In iront of him sat his son and MANTELS Two of these lunar plains—Mare Humorum and crease was legitimate, arising from the vast trade daughter-in-law, a pleasant, civilized couple, and 500 BBLS. WELCH'S, METZ, RATS', Of the newest and most elegant styles in marble, slate Mare Chrisium—are walled in completely by lofty of the country. The dividend amounted to eighty didn't seem to be proud of the old man. He divided and carved walnut, and at the lowest prices. ST. LOUIS, SWISS PROCESS, STAR FLOUR, AT mountains, presenting stupendous precipices to the per cent, first and twenty-seven per cent. after- his bananas with them, and proceeded solewnly, LOWEST RATES. vanished sea. The larger mares are more like ocean wards, thereby presenting every holder of a dollar and with evident misgivi ngs, to peel the one he kept. In silver, gilt, bronzGRATEe and nickel, Sof handsom and finish. e design beds. They run together as terrestrial oceans do, with another dollar. The stock shot np from 120 to He bit that banana after smelling it a foot off, looked and sometimes merge into the brighter continental 168, and the sum of ts,000,000 was taken ou t of Wall dubious, bit again, and got away with half of it; NEW MACKEREL: regions, without a distinct line of demarkation. In street. Vanderbilt had at the time 130,000 shares, then he concluded to take the remainder home to the NO. 1 MACKEREL. $2.t5 PER KIT. A dozen different styles, including the "Mayflower." other places they show a rugged coast line, rising which at forty-five per cent, advanee yielded $5,750,- old woman—about a three days'journey. Impelled NO. J I $2.00 " Silver Palace," "Social," "Boyn ton's 187»," "Balti- morean," " New Balto" and others, rut up in the best into cliffs and peaks, and pierced at times by valleys 000. This same New York Central Railroad, under by this spasm of generosity, he took up his carpet- NO. 3 " $l.eo | manner and guaranteed to give satisfaction. and ravines. the management of Dean Richmond and Erastus bag in order to stow away the fragment of the feast- GEORGE BANK COD RECEIVED EVBRY WEEK As he opened it he discovered that the scrapings of POTOMAC ROE HERRING, (salt.) One of the most conspicuous of these lunar beds, Corning, had with difficulty berrowed six per cent, RANGES. his shoes had left scant stowlng-room; whereupon SCOTCH HERRING, 60 cents a box. I desire to call special attention to the " EMPIRE " also one of the deepest, is known as the Mare Sere- dividends to deolare them. A littlewhile later Van- tange, which cannot be excelled bv any range in the he tumbled out the geological formation into the lap OREGON SALMON, (salt.) nitatis. Its area is nearly 126,000 square miles. derbilt consolidated this road with the Hudson market for cooking and baking, also for beating stories of his temporary companion, a pleasing Hebrew WHITE FISH, In kits, 1 and J bbls. above. Also on ham) the " Defiance," "Chilson," "Spar- Within its dark gray border, from 30 to 80 miles wide, River, and became president. He continued to buy tan" and other ranges at very low prices. seated at his side. The Jew refused, with great in- is an extensive inner plain which at times presents the stock and to work up the character of the road dignation, this tender of real estate, although It cost & fine, clear, light green tint, with a central streak of and its capacity, and here he made the immensity of GAS STOVES him nothing—intredible as it may seem. Now the old For heating and cooking complete with fumitur pure white, the green area ljing lower apparently his fortune. He owns, as I have already said, »60,- Etnas, Monitors, &c., for the sick room. pilgrim, wishing to deposit his moiety of banana in G. G. C0RNWELL & SONS, than the gray exterior. The green tint is difficult 000,0C0 worth of the stock, besides bonds and other the bottom of the bag, where it could not be to catch, except under favorable conditions, and is stock, making him the richest mail of the age. He FURNACES. has not been a speculator so much as a cleaner-out Injured, made a general jail delivery, and FINE GBOCERS, I am prepared to furnish any styles of furnace, either much weakened by the effect of numerous small portable or set in a superior manner in brick, at reason- out of that bag came a bald-headed hair- • white round spots and gray ridges. of speculators; for every stock he buys is for per- able rates. manent investment, and he makes on the rise. brush—or nearly so—a few hairs alone re- E»a « "«wíum.»»«*.»® Another of the moon's green plains was discov- maining ; a fine-tooth comb, which to clean He has taught the roughs of Wall street that the ered by Madler in the Mare Humorum, already men wonld have been as dangerous as to remove Time's Plumbing, Steam and Gas Fitting. best way to get rich Is to buy something to keep Employing none but tile most skillful workmen, I am tioned. This is one of the smallest as well as most accumulation on the canvass of an old master ; some prepared to execute all orders promptly and In a su- and give its former value the weight of your tiiar- perior manner, and at the lowest prices. distinctly bordered of the dark gray plains. Its area extremely worn shirt collars, horribly soiled ; a red acter. The greatest bull of the age, the American is 50,000 square miles. The greater portion of its in- flannel undershirt; some stockings so rent and tat- of most hopefulness and confidante, as proved by terior is distinctly tinged a dusky green, sometimes tered that I concluded his custom was to wear them TH0S. M. SHEPHERD, his investments, is Cornelius Yanderbilt. That Is very marked, affording a strong contrast with the outside of his shoes; and a half peck of fragmentary why he is respected, despite his severity and un- 1423 NEW YORK AVENUE, pure gray of the borders and high-enclosing ridges. sandwiches, which appeared to be the result of a ootl-tfa 1423 aesthetic character He does not destroy anybody's On the west the green area extends nearly to the feast that had exploded in samejmysterious manner. property nor any values to enrich himselt He says : edge of the mare, but elsewhere, as in the Mare Se The old man chased bits of ham about, and cornered "Come, buy what I buy, and stand by it." But te JOHN HARRY, renitatis, it is separated from the border by a nar- biscuits, every once in a while laying a particularly HAMS, &c. those who are making contracts to deliver property row, darker gray fringe, except on the corthweet, fat piece of ham on the Jew's trousers, an uncon- next month at half its quotation to-day he says in where the gray and green areas merge insensibly scious delicate attention, a species of mosaic charade. SUGAR-CURED MARYLAND HAMS. PLUMBER, GAS & STEAM-FITTER effect: "I'll make it to your peril to depress my intdeach other. Having cleared out the hold and restored the cargo property !" Now there he lies dying, .surrounded Still another area of green is observed in the Mare the old man, who seemed to be devoured with a rag- SUGAR-CURED BREAKFAST BACON. 1319 Seventh St., bet. N.a»d 0,N.W. with riches, while the old bear, his contemporary, Chrisium, oils of the most conspicuous of the moo EX'S ing thrlst, made his twentieth trip for a glass of Daniel Drew, Is dying bankrupt. dark plains. It is completely inclosed, and is, per water. In getting out of his seat he crushed his SMOKED TONGUES-EXTRA QUALTY. «Ö-ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO haps, the deepest of the lanar mares. Its area is Drew is a professor of rsltgion. Yanderbilt hardly daughtei's bonnet and tumbled over the Jew. When apSO-l. 78.000 square miles. Its general tint is a gray mixed knows what it means. Yet by the habit of looking he returned he was doubtful about his ability to get LEAP LARD, lib, 6ft and 101b tins. JAMKS LOCHHEAD, with an unmistakable tinge of green, especially un- onward and with confident hope. Yanderbilt is dy- into his seat, which was next the window. He took der high illumination. This verdant hue is seen to ing the gamer of the two. hold of the ba«k of the seat and clung to it, and then c. C. BRYAN, best advantage for several days before and after the Comer Fifteenth and I streets northwest. Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting, lifted one leg over the child of Jerusalem, but could je4-0mos3 moon is full. B«miniscences of John Randolph. not make np his mind, having no faith in himself to 415 TENTH STREET N. W., These and other color changes on the face of the [Correspondence Springfield Republican.] speak of, to let his hand loose until he had somewhere (Adjoining Gas Office,) This station i f the Richmond and Danville rail- moon—as, for Instance, the darkening of the great to anchor. This evolution resulted in his getting the N.T.METZGER & BRO., WASHINGTON, D. C. ridg plain of Plato with increasing light, and like road brings to mind the name of John Randolph of Jew's head into chancery. With one arm around 417 Seventh street northwest, Jobbing and 'orders by mail promptly attended to. changes in certain long, winding lunar valleys—led Roanoke, the once famous contemporary and foe of the neck of that persecuted Israelite he literally tum- Estimates furnished. novSl-2 Beer and Madler to suggest that they would indicate Clay and John Quincy Adams, the fiery defender of bled over into his place with the neck under his arm DEALERS IN FINE FAMILY GEO-! vegetation, were vegetation possible on the surface State rights and the idol of his constituents of the The victim ol this maneuver came to the surface in MISCELLANEOUS. of the moon. But having accepted Bessel's conclu- Charlotte district. He was a man of many idio- total darkness, with his hat driven down on to his CERIES. sion that there could be neither air nor water on the syncrasies, and it is in accordance with his own de- neck, while the daughter straightened out her bon- lunar surface, and consequently no life, those much" sire that his grave on the beautiful hill overlooking net, which had again been crushed. The Jew meta- HAEMON, BOSWELL & CO., respected selenographers could not entertain the the valley of the Staunton river is unmarked by phorically hung his harp npon the willow. He fled COFFEES: hypothesis of lunar vegetation, however strong the to the smoking-car. The triumphant old granger headstone or monument. From Captain Barnes of „ , , COFFEE, RIO COFFEE, evidence might seem. Wylliesburg, a pleasant Virginia gentleman of the fell asleep in his shoes, to the intense grief of the ireihly roasted or green, at reduced prices. But Bessel's opinion is inconsistent not only with old^chool, I learned several anecdotes of Mr. Ran- whole company. I think a liberal subscription could Furniture, the conditions on which he based his calculations, dolph, with whom he was well acquainted; and Mr. have been taken up on the spot to have had that old TEAS : man wound up again so that he could have run to ryand but also with the results of more recent studies of Randolph's old residenoe and his burial place are !pjS 71 carefully selected stock of I the state of the moon's surface. So far from being free tp be visited by any one. the end of th« journey. A pleasant gentleman seate d Upholstery Goods and an airless, waterless, unalterable desert, a change- beside me, who had been roaring with laughter and Randolph's old Roanoke plantation (x part only less mass of dead matter, like so much volcanic was as much pleased as if the ancient bad been his of his 10,000 acres in Charlotte count}) is now owned TABLE scoria, the moon is know known to have an atmos- father, told me that he saw this unconscious instru- LUXURIES: by Judge Boulding, a not over scrupulous member Such as Decorations, phere of considerable volume and density, to present ment of mirth at the Centennial negotiating for the SPICED MEATS, of the supreme bench of the State. The residence is SPICED OYSTERS, abundant evidence of physical activity and change, purchase cf an apple from a smart young female, SARDINES. OLIVE OIL, situated in an extensive oak grove, with an ex- CHOW-CHOW, SALAD OIL, 313 EIGHTH STREET, NEAR PESSSII.- and to have in all probability water enough to make who was turning an honest Quaker penny in a pomo- SAUCES, PICKLES, posure of the south and west, fronting and over- PRESERVED GINGER, life easily possible on its surface. The moon is dy- logical way. "Three cents!" exclaimed the old SPANISH OLIVES, GINGER SYRUP, &c., ¿C. looking the valley. In 1810. when Randolph first TANJA AVES IE, ing, but very far from dead. Being so much smaller man, "why, I give'em away to the hogs at home ." jy30-3mos5 came there to live, he called it " a savage solitude;" than the earth, it has run its course more rapidly, " That's what we are doing," retorted the young but he hardly ever wearied of his beautiful oaks. CHEESE: but is still a good way off from that goal of ultimate woman. He allowed ths underbrush to grow at will, and POTOMAC PAPER MILL, deadness to which so many astronomers have theo- YORK FACTORY, (very fine.) never trimmed the trees. During his absence once GEORGETOWN, D. C. retically assigned it. There is not the slightest ade- the overseer cut away from a tree before his house quate evidence af the popular view, and " its truth alimb which brushed against a window. On his Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry. BUTTER: would be admitted by no astronomer who had de- Always on hand the FINEST GILT, EDGE. return he asked the reason, and being informed, re- The great remedy for Consumption. This well- voted sufficient atlention to selenography to enable GEORG LL, Jr., plied : "Why didn't yoa move the house, sir!" known remedy is offered to the public, sanctioned by him to thoroughly realize the probable present con- Manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in That, indeed, would not have been so difficult a the experience of over forty years; and when resorted LEA & PERRINSSAUCES' WORCESTERSHIRE: , HAL- dition of the moon." to 1 n season, seldom fails to effect a speedv cure of FORD'S YORKSHIRE RELISH, MUSHROOM, task, for his cottage was strangely at variance with WALNUT and TOMATO CATSUPS. Such being the case, the hypothesis that the his spirit of family pride. The old English barons Coughs, Colds, Croup, Bronchitis, Influenza, Whooping Cough, Hoarseness, Pain or Soreness in the Chsst or PAPER. moon's green plains derive their color from vegeta- of feudal times were his ideals. His home, how- tion seems to bo impossible or absurd. The evi- Side, Bleeding at the Lungs, Liver Complaint, etc. Be- SYRUPS: Warehouse. 433 Ninth Street Northwest, ever, was a low cottage house, which has disap PURE MAPLE SYRUP, SILVER AND GOLDEN I dence is not of a character to justify a positive asser- ware of counterfeits! Remember that the genuine Wis- peared, though his summer residence near bv is TAit's BALSAM or WILD CHEHBY has on the outside DRIPS. sepio-tfä WASHINGTON, D. C. tion that the mythical man in the moon may have still standing. Many of his vagaries are to be at-, wrapper the signature of " I. BUTTS," and the printed abundant pasturage for his cattle; but his case tributed to his Indian blood, derived from the his- name of the proprietors, " SETH W. FOWLE & SONS, WINES: LORENZO RICE, ceases to be absolutely hopeless when a thorough- toric Pocahontas, of which he was very proud. Mr. BOSTON." AH others are base imitations. Examine CLARETS, such as MARGEAUX, BORDEAUX and I going selenographer can say, as Nelson does, that all the popular brands. SHERRIES, PORTS, Steam Carpet Beating Works, Randolph had many flue horses, which he was the wrapper carefully before purchasing. MADEIRAI . ANGLIC A ISn niTiWUA ' EIRA, ANGLICA AND CATÀW*»Â. FOB CLEANING CARPETS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, the moon may possess an atmosphere that must be glad to exhibit whenever occasion offered. He drove 490 Maine av., bet. 4J and 6th sts. s. w., regarded as fully capable of sustaining various in a coach-and-four where it was possible when SHIETS, WHISKIES : WASHINGTON, D. C. forms of vegetation of even an advanced type; that upon his numerous journeys. Our Whiskies, from their purity, are especially recom- 49-Carpets called for and delivered free of charge."®» it does not appear how it can justly be questioned mended to the public for either medicinal or social purposes. PBICE LISperT : Ingrainard , 4 cts. per yard; Brussels and 3- that the lunar surface in favorable positions may His slaves were always well treated ; one of them y ; Velvet, I cts. per yard; Medallion SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKIES, JAMAICA RUM, & Wilton, 8 cents per yard., myl4-6mos yet retain a sufficiency of moisture to support vege- especially, his body-servant, Johnny, being carefully Ac. ' provided for. No grain was ever sold from off Mr. OLD TOM GIN, tation of many kinds; and that, in a very considera- jpELIX DESFOSSil, ble portion of the entire surface of the moon, the tem- Randolph's land. He always said that his blacks FINE CIGARS: perature would not vary sufficiently to materially shonld raise what was needed on the plantation, but We solicit a call, and guarantee satisfaction 1 THE POPULAR price ana quality. affect the existence of vegetable life. no more. Finally, in his will, he made provision FRENCH BAKER, for freeing them all, 300 in number. He had been 933 Pennsylvania Avenue, NO. 2112 H STKEET, unalterably opposed to the Missouri compromise, by begs leave to inform his friends and the public that he How Yanderbilt Entered Wall Street and N. T. METZGER & BRO., has just received direct from France various qualities of which the domain of slavery was restricted; he bad 417 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. PiBK FRENCH CI. A HEX, What He Bid. upheld the divine right of slavery through evil re- novl4-ly2 which he will sell by the gallon or the dozen, at prices £New York Correspondence of the Cincinnati lower than such Wines have ever been sold in Washing- En- port and good report, and yet in his will occur these ton. aug2o-smos2 quirerj words: "I give and bequeath to all my slaves their At this time of his life Yanderbilt was a beauti- freedom, heartily regretting that I had ever been HAVE REDUCED TUB? PRICES OF THEIR NEW BUCKWHEAT, &C. 1833 ESTABLISHED 1833 ful figure of a man—tall, spare, straight, with a the owner of one." Further than this, he provided JOHN MeDEKMOTT A BKOS., kingly carriage of the hero, luxuriant fair hair and for the purchase of 4,000 acres of land, to be given FRESH NEW YORK BUCKWHEAT. COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, eide-whiskers, a countenance open and proud, and to these free slaves. Those who remember Mr. NO. 310 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, with most piercing and gallant dirk eyes. Some- Near Third street, Randolph say that he never shaved. He had an ex PURE MAPLE SYRUP. WASHINGTON, D. C. where backlin the generations before him must have tremely thin, but very sweet and clear voice. He C ELEB RATED Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold been a gentleman, for his hands are fine as bis was affable in conversation, and something of a on Commission. Carriages Repaired. anatomy. He dressed with care, and was not im- wit. Once, when in England, he made an engage BREAKFAST HOMINY. pervious to the smiles of women. In course of time ment to dine with a certain nobleman, but subse- GO TO FUSSELL'S he sold out his line to the Isthmus, and put steam- quently receiving an invitation for the same time C. C. BRYAN, boats on the European route to Havre in order to from Miss Edgeworth, the author, he accepted the jel-omos6 For the Best Ice Cream and break down the American line. For -this purpose latter, and afterwards apologized to the nobleman Cor. land Fifteenth Streets N. W. he built a great ship, named for himself, which he by saying. " The women tempted me, and I did YOKE "Water Ices in the City gave to the Government. The sale of his steamship eat." JOHN R. KELLEY, AT stock and the profits of freights and passengers Dealer In 1427 SEW YOBK AVENUE N. W. The celebrated duel between Randolph and Heary made him a rich man about the year 1854. He was . Jy»-tf5 • Olay grew out of the Presidential election of 1824. First-class BEEF, IAMB, VEAL, MUTTON, he. probably worth, when he quit sea, from $1,000,000 to In that election Mr. Clay, finding that he had no VERT IMPORTANT TO HOUSE- to $3,000,000. Among his exploits, and the only CORNED BEEF A SPECIALTY. chance but held the balance of power, elected John SHIRTS pleasure of any magnitude he ever took, was a trip Stalls 628, 129 and 630 Center Market, Ninth-street KEEPERS. Q,uincy Adams, by whom he was made Secretary of to Europe in the large vessel, North Star, carrying Wing, and 2oo and 208 Northern Liberty Market. For SCOURING, CLEANING and POLISHING the State. In public debate Mr. Randolph spoke of this Marketlng.delivered free of charge to all parts of the his family and a few friends, among them his chap- citv. P. O. Box 71!. novli- QUAKER CLEANER as " a combination, unheard of till then, of the Puri- is the Cheapest end BeBt preparation ever offered to the lain, Deems, who wrote a book on the voyage. Old AS FOLLOWS : • tan with the black-leg." In the resulting duel Clay public. Retail price 25 cents per box. Liberal discount Mrs. Yanderbilt, his first wife, went out with this BENJ. J. CADY, to dealers. Ask your grocer for it. missed his aim and Randolph fired wide. Clay party. She was not always in her right mind, late J. B. BROWN, grasped his hand and exclaimed: "I trust in God, in life, owing probably to much work and child- QUALITY No. 1, $24, F0RMEKLY $30. FLOUR AND FEED DEALER, ap23 General Agent, 1122 Fourteenth street N. W. my dear sir, you are untouched; after what has oc- bearing. The Commodore provisioned his vessel 1 curred, I would not have harmed you for a thousand 8. E. cor. of.Second and CSts. N. J) AILROAD TIES. with as much providence as he fed his regular pas- worlds." Not long after Clay told Randolph that sengers, for he was always celebrated for wanting WASHINGTON, D. C. WHITE OAK TIMBER. OEI)»R POSTS, AND Mrs. Clay had borne a son, and they had named it QUALITY No. 2, $33, FORMERLY $36. HICKORY BUTTS, his dependents to eat as little as himself. He paid All kinds of mill feed kept constantly on hand. Reck John Randolph Clay. Mr. Randolph straightening poor wages to captains, and generally bought his salt, lime, plaster and cement. For quality and quantity Manufactured and For Sale by up, replied, " I hope he will never disgrace his god- my prices can't be beat. Give me a call. ap30-l own stores. father." Notwithstanding this incident, and the QUALITY No 3, $39, FORMERLY $42. AUSTIN P. BROWN, He had seen with a sweeping eye that the sceptre fact that Mr. Randolph paid a visit to the Senate New York Avenue and Fifteenth Street, of the republic was to be lost on the ocean, and that but a few days before his death for the express pur- J. L. SMITHMEYEE & CO., the next period of development in transportation pose of bidding adieu to Clay, the tradition here is QUALITY No. 4, $42, FORMERLY $48. ARCHITECTS, apM-l Washington, D. C. was to be on the land. He first designed buying a that he was at his own request buried in his grave Ko. 703 Flfteonth St., bet. G and N. T.Ave. J ATHS1 LATHS 11 LATHS!!! share in the New Jersey Central Railroad and posh- in a sitting posture, with his face to the west, " that nov2l-2 ing it westward, but was unable to agree with Just arrived, ONE MILLION PRIME BANGOR he may watch his enemy, Henry Clay." The place LATHS, which we will_sel»ill sell cheap^especiallcheap, especially In large Johnston, its obstinate president. So he commenced which he selected for his grave was between two TAYLOR & HUFTY, lots. T. EDWARD CLARK & CO., W. E. CLEVER, Lumber and Coal Dealers: to buy Harlem Railroad stock at $18 a share, now pine trees in front of his house. One of them Is still VETERINARY SURGEON. Wharf and Depot foot ol Fourth street east. quoted at 137. The capital stock of this road is •11.- standing. 033 Pennsylvania Avenue. No. 617 Louisiana Avenue,l)et. Sixth and 7th sts Office: No. 603 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, cor- Strict attention paid to the examination of horse« ner of Sixth street. may7-tmo8 for purchase. nov2X-t , augi-tfS 4 THE CAPITAL.—OCTOBER 22, 1876.
GOSSIP BY ROBERTS. Yon know that row of oaks on the^mairistreet going down from the old meeting-house, past the post- THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. that a twelve hundred dollar salary"em- The tidal wave of Centennial visitors is now at its office. Well, I set them out when I was a mere The proclamation of the President is not a braces. THE CAPITAL. height, and at all points we see groups of people boy. Why I am sixty years old and over and I surprise, and falls flat upon a people who have The moral of it, however, is the worst fea- standing, in a dazed and torn-up state of mind on lived there man and boy for fifty years. Somehow grown familiar with assurances under the ture. It is the basest use of power, and is the corners of our streets, or gazing open-mouthed or other my heart-strings took root there, and it WASKINUTOK CITY. gave me a wrench to leave there and start in a new great seal that Governor Chamberlin and calculated to disorganize what little civil on the different buildings of the city, which we pass and repass every day and hardly notice. It is so all place. Every spot had some sort of recollection to service we have left unto us. Of course other carpet-bagger's, politically in articulo throush life—the things we have, the friends we it. Deacon Smith dead, you say. Well, he was a SUNDAY.' MOEHING, 00T0BEB 22, 1876. mortis, are like the great and good George when conscience is flung to the dogs it is possess, we don't value; it is always what we don't good old man. When I was a youngster he used to Washington, and cannot tell a lie. The fact puerile to be a half-way villian ; so for the have that we want. The unattainable is always de- have all the boys up to his place in watermelon sirable, and possession. always biings indifference, time; and didn't we pitch in, though! How's- that South Carolina threatened to become a first time in the history of the country army Lawyer Jones. What! dead toot I hope he is warm Average Circulation, 10,100 Copies. officers have been subjected to persuasive and the average human toeing will squeeze the disaffected Republican State excited more heart of its best proved friend in order^to conciliate for once by this time. He had heaps of money, than ordinary interest in the country, and the notes of the party lash. It is true that the a person or persons, who only, laugh at them behind draggtd outof poor ensseswho had to go to law;, the capitai. leading newspapers with independent ten- invasion of this branch of the service is con- their backs. " From envy, hatred and malice, good yet he was tco mean to buy wood enough to keep Lord deliver us." Envy would have been enough, him comfortable. He got my farm. Well, never Cia always be found on sale at the newsitands dencies, such as the New York Herald in the fined to those officers detailed for semi-civil service; but this does not relieve the mind of for the other two follow on Its heels as a conse- mind ; don't want to bother you. I got along In my in the following cities : North and the Cincinnati Commercial in the quence. If you do anything for any one, try to new home and saved enough to como on here antf AUSRICAS NEWS COMPANY, New Tort. the fact that a deadly gangrene is creeping serve them to the best of your ability, pntthem un- see the sights. When you go homo tell them you NEW YORK NEWS COMPANY. West, made the negro in the Palmetto State into every nook and corner of Federal occu- der what they think is an obligation, and they will saw old Joe Robinson, will ye ; and tell 'em he has GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, U a subject of inquiry. We had occasion to re- NEW YOBK HOTEL, M pation. The army is indeed an honorable never forgive you, 'but they will ose you to the a place in his heart yet for his old friends. Well, fer to the advices of the former, indicating B^SENTILIOTEL', Philadelphia. body dedicated to dishonorable purposes, last moment, as long as a dollar can be saved out of now, I'm going np to shake hands with old Grant. I PABKEB HOUSE, Boston. such a division in the colored vote as rendered their own pocket and taken from you; and when feel sort of sorry for htm ; he was a good friend to J. R. HAWLEY, Cincinnati, Ohio. when those heroes who wear swords are WJLL GRAY. St. Louis, Missouri. the election of Hampton probable. The New they think they have reached a point when your a friend, but they treated him kind o- bad—went PALMEB HODSE, Chicago. sent to intimidate at the polls, and those who services are no longer needed, they will hate you in back on him." And the old gentleman got his hat C. H. 4CIMBY, Wheeling, West Virginia. York Herald has for some time, advised the C. F. JOHNSTON, Richmond, Virginia. wield that mightier instrument, the pen, are proportion to the way they have used • you, and and depaited to view the glories of Washington. T* T ELLYSONì " support of the Democratic candidate, with a taxed to pay the expense of Mr. Blaine's throw you aside. Experience is dear, and costs One is constantly hearing little histories of the HI N' HALEY, New Orleans,Louisiana. knowledge that the Republican assertions money; all of us have found it so, and every one W SCOTT GRLORB, Louisville, Kentucky. romances and Mr. Schurz'3 essays. kind, and many a nice little romance could be woven J A. ROYS, Detroit, Michigan. who reads this idle "gossip" has probably bought 1 C C UIGUTER, Charleston, South Carolina. about Ku-kluxism are for the most part false out of the drippings of the Centennial mouth, and THE CAPITAL has always sided with the and paid for that expensive article. There Is noth- WHITE & BAUER, San Francisco, California. and slanderous. General Grant has been some good jokes too. One lady wrote a letter " to- Ü W.r^ayetteStreet,Baltimore, weak against the strong. It deprecated the ing so real in this paradoxical world as sham, and hum" describing her Washington experience—I again ill-advised, for the country does not be- it is wonderful how artistically some people can iia at all the&teli and news stands In Baltimore. action of the House that gave excuse for the would have given anything to have read it—and lieve in the existence of any disorder lit South "sham." I have seen it done so nicely that Is Also, at went to the post-office with it. That is, she started' infliction of inexcusable hardships; but the tually believed it, until events proved differently. Beading. Room New York Herald, 61 Avenue de l'Op- Carolina such as demands the interposition for that place—said she could go there alone, as it foolish economy of Congress was wise con- was only a "short tramp." She came back soon in *aèadìng Rooms Robert C.M.Bowles, 148 Strand,Lon- of Federal authority in a shape of such But all this is a " digression." I did not mean to trasted with the cruel imposition of the Re- preach a sermon, but to gossip about the Centen- a disgusted fíame of mind at the office being closed. don. ____— gravity. There is no " insurrection" in South publican Executive Committee on the office- nials; I have been studying them lately, at meal She had gone to the Patent Office, and as It was- Carolina, nor does the proclamation under after four they would not let her in, " but I just give- NEW tobk. holder. There is a reduction of pay under times; as at the house where I refresh the " inner take to specify one ; there are 110 unlawful man," or woman, rather, the infatuated and popu a saucy jackanapes of a fellow a piece of my mind."- AIL eyes are turned towards New York, both systems; but no one will hesitate in his combinations which -have resisted or havu lar landlady has been doing a rushing Centennial She was told to put her letter in the letter box and and the two parties are preparing with un- opinion as to respective merits of not appro- business. If any one has my heartfelt sympathies it would go jnst as well, which she proceeded to do, offered to resist Federal or State authority. precedented vigor to contest the issue in that priating the money of the people and taking It is the Centennial who only spends Sunday in being anxious for " Jerushy to git this here letter. I It also does not appear that Governor Cham Washington. We have a beautiful city, and are the never writ one before, and I've had a heap of State. by force the money of the clerks. berlin has taken any steps incumbent on a headquarters of all the brainB in the country; yet it trouble over this." Afterwards it turned out that The local discussions of the Democrats in she did not put it in an envelope or direct it. She said State executive before calling for Federal in- must be acknowledged that to a stranger we are a the two great cities have disappeared before trifle dull on Sunday. The only thing in the way of she " s'posed the man would fix it and put the terposition. .There is but one light in which MINOR NOTES. wilting on it when he took it out." This is a facU the influence of the wiser and better counsels amusement is to go down to the Rev. John P. New- to regard this movement, and that is, as the man's church and look at the Administration; and and yet that woman was no fool in other things, and of the best leaders, and the organization is supplement to the bloody shirt Antecedent THE telegraph announces "Terry on the trail." this can only be viewed in the light of a melancholy at home was probably of more use than you or I, or not only to-day in perfect working order, but the materializing of the speeches of Blaine, If Sitting Bull requests him, in his own happy pleasure when one reflects how soon we are to lose a half dozen of people who know enough to post a the recent municipal nominations are unex- way, the general will apologize and get off it. him. letter right, but do just about as idiotJc things in. Ingersoll, et id omne genus. ceptional. It seems as if the Democracy has That seems to be the thing to do. One Ady of a party who arrived on Sunday morn another way. ROBERTS. Let the South Carolinians, however, dis realized at last the prerequisite to success in Ing, and were obliged to leave that evening, on ac- band every organization if necessary, from a count of those aggravating round-trip tickets, wa Hartford's Writer,«. the conflict. Having a lively appreciation of SITTING BULL sues for peace witli exceeding asked, just before "she left, how she liked Washing « rifle club " to a sewing circle. The whites The prominence ol the-city lu literature dates back the fact that protestations of virtuous senti- plaintiveness. It is hard to refuse any modest ton. " Don't know ; I have not sepn anything but are, in fact, actually in the condition that the to the first of this and last of the previous century,, the outside of buildings when I wanted to see the ments will avail nothing unless supplemented request from such a retiring savage; and if so to the peiiod of Joel Barlow, John Ttumbull, Dr. blacks are alleged to be, namely ¡ proscribed, inside. The only place I've seen is a graveyard— by tangible evidences of good faith and many troops are required at the South, we see Cogswell, Theodore Dwlght, Dr. Hopkins and Rich- persecuted and intimidated. that's the only place we could get into." That ard Alsop, known as the " Hartfjid wits." These earnestness, they have put and are going to no reason to doubt that, with- the hero of the is another Centennial fact that impressed me, It is the last, though largest draft on their brilliant men, who earned their title mainly by their put'at the head men like Smith Ely, men Custer massacre, asking is receiving. Throughout life the " graveyard " is the only place contributions to a number of papers that were occa- endurance. We trust they will be both patient always open to us. We stand outside the " build- whose characters can pass through the fiery sionally printed, may properly be called the founders and politic enough to bear up bravely; and ings " containing our hopes and fondest desires, un- THE "-WIDOW" is preparing a philippic for of the literatnre of the place. Trumbull, the author furnace of contemporary scrutiny and repel able to get in, and we go to the graveyard when although irritated to the cruelest degree, Judge.Hoar. If there is one thing the widow of "McFiugal" (who was admitted to Yale College the shafts of slander with which every quiver everything else shuts ns out. Another " digress;" there can be no safe course but a peaceful can dp better than anojther it is to puncture pre- when seven year3 old, and who, settling as a law- is loaded. but you know gossip is always erratic. one, and no surer way of securing redress tensions to superior excellence; it is to seize a yer in Hartford in 1781, lived to bi eighty-one,) and A few days spent in New York acquainted I have been for the last month in a torn-up condi- Theodore Dwight, were probably the best known of than by referring their wrongs to the grad- hypocritical Joseph Surface metaphorically by tion of mind, for fear that the friends and relatives us to some degree with the state of public these. Dwight was an editor, and was offered, but ually growing mass of friends and sympa- the hair and, after ramming his head against the of the roving Centennial would be called upon to declined, the editorship of the New York Evening' sentiment, and we found that the Democrats thizers who compose the Democratic party of lamp-post, throw him down the cellar orifice. mourn their untimely end, owing to a reckless habit Post, before it was given to Mr. Coleman in 1S01. are straining cyery nerve, although inspired they have of blowing out their gas. Now, the Wash- the North and West. He was in Congress in 1806, and shortly afterward •with a comfortable confidence calculated to ington Gaslight Company ¡»-perfectly harmless as established the Connecticut Mirror, a brilliant Fed- The policy of the Republican stump, of the "HIGH Old Salts, or Stories intended for the fir as throwing light ou any subject Is concerned; render ceaseless activity a work of superero- eralist sheet, intended to be more pronounced than ' Republican machine and of the Republican Marines, hut told before an Unenlightened Com- but it is an expensive and aggravating party to keep the Courant that he had edited. Dwight was secre- gation. * " company " with. They will send you ecru-colored administration towards the South is certain to mittee of Congress, with a portrait of Admiral tary of the Hartford Convention, and after it left There seems to be 110 question among either bills every month, which, if you don't pay, a fiend Hartford. Near to these in time was S. G. Good- react. This proclamation is itself a boom- Porter, painted by himself." This is the title of comes up with an impossible-looking iron, which Republicans or Democrats but that Governor rich, the familiar "Peter Parley," who was a pub- erang, a scheme that will plague its inven- a lively little work by Captain F. C. Adams, does not enter your loul, but which turns your even- lisher before he began to write, and brought out Tilden is the antipodes of Governor Hayes in tors. There could not be a better campaign which will appear in a few days, and afford in- ing illuminator off, or else he carries away the me- Trumbull's poem in 1820 In Hartford, and afterward, his relations to the conduct of the campaign. ter, leaving you to meet her (pun!) or him by moon- document, except, perhaps, Mr. Blaine's late teresting reading for sailors and congressmen. moving to Boston, established there the Token, in The former, it seems, is a very Napoleon in light alone. The "bill" also states that the gas which he introduced Hawthorne and others to the- speech in New York. consumed (7) equals so many candles. The wise the political field. Informing himself of every public. His work in American literature was some- The tendency of such tactics must be ap- THE report that the anxiety and activity dis- " company " that issues these much-loved circulars thing liko Knight's in England. He popularized and, detail, and taking a comprehensive view of played by the United States authorities in the know that people are not going to run around and, either in his own name or as Peter Parley, he was parent to the most ordinary understanding. like the person in the song, "spend their money the whole field, he is probably the first Pres- capture of Tweed and his conveyance to this the writer of one hundred and seventy books, of Its effects are just as well defined. The South free " to buy.candles just to see if they can see what which his compends of information—history, geogra- idential candidate who ever superintended country had been inspired by a desire to give materially relegated to the situation she occu- the enlightened company means. phy, travel—are still remembered and used. His every movement or was familiarly acquainted that distinguished gentleman an opportunity to pied at the close of the war, heavy taxation Washington is a responsible place, and nine Recollect! ms," in two volumes, are full of Hart- with the nature of the foe and its tactics. " peach," is denied by the proposed conduct of months out of the year can furnish their own gas ferd stories. The poets Percival and J. G. C. Brain- to support a standing army, the recuperative The State central committee were never the Administration, who. it.is said, has decided from raw material; but there is talk, that is not all ard, the latter one of Connecticut's favorites, were power and desire of that section throttled in efficient in a campaign; but there are to transfer the peripatetic defaulter to the New talk, about establishing another gas company. 1 his friends and contemporaries. Of Brainard, whose its second birth, the Nortli and West bur- know friend Bailey et.ial. rely on the members of the theme was mainly nature, he says that he wrote his circumstances which have rendered their York authorities before he unfolds the promised dened by the dead weight of an unproductive Cave of the Winds, to whom (the knowing ones) b* Ode to Niagara," admitted to be the finest ever quiescence a matter of necessity rather than tale. gives gas free, which is like "carrying coals to New written on the subject, in a hurried half hour, at a. and unresponsive community—these are a choice. It is presumed that they will shortly castle'' to prevent any blocking.of his little game call for copy in the office of the Mirror, which he few of the points that will be presented to the The lovely "Co." in question must remember that a be up aud doing. SIKCB Talmadge, the blasphemer, is no longer edited, and when he wrote it he had never been man of conscience and the man of expe- change has came over the spirit of our Congress,and within five hundred miles of the Falls!—O. H. The position of the New York Herald in the christian at work, and it won't do for the diency, and such arguments appeal to both things are not as they "used to was;" and if they Clark; Scrilmer for November. respect to the policy of the Administration christian at work to be idle, the Rev. Dr. W. M. don't alter their way of doing business they may classes with equal force. Taylor his taken the laborious pen in hand. find another Richard in the field. to\#ds the South, and especially South Caro- Editorial Cares. Brother T. is entertaining Tupper in a princely lina, must , have more or less effect upon the But to return to the Centennials. They will blow [From the Cleveland Leader.] and poetie style, and the latter responds in chunks out their gas, and, harmless as it is when lighted, New York election. "We do not refer so par- YOIIB MOSEY OK TOUR OFf ICF, The editor of a Texas paper gives the following of proverbial philosophy. It must be hard to when blown out the smell is enough to make life a figures of a statistical memorandum of his every- ticularly to its editorial columns as to its We believe it was Lord Mansfield who said .have Talmadge for dinner and Tupper for desert, burden. day life, and still people will think that editors have news columns. the statute against usury was so well drawn Last week the cheerful landlady above mentioned especially if you are at any distance from one of but few cares to disturb their slumbers and start Its circulation is immense, and it is inde- that the ingenuity of man could not devise smelt a smell not agreeable, and traced.it to a room into the newspaper basinets to enjoy life : Dr. Kitehner's peristaltic persuaders. occupied by four green Centennials. She knocked pendent enough to invite the confidence of any means whereby to escape its compre- at the door. "What's wanted ?" "I want to see Been asked to drink ||>|® its .readers on matters of fact. It has a South hensive provisions. about jour gas," said the. "Oh, it's all right, we Drank. THE Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Dis- Requested to retract "¡41T» Carolina correspondent who is evidently influ- blew it out!". said the g C- "Yes, and you will be Didn't retract • • • Equal success does not seem to have at- trict day at the Centennial was very creditable. enced by a conscientious desire to speak the blown out if you don't let me in." Whereupon th Invited to parties and receptions by parties tended the efforts of those American legis- The ring poking was of a superior order, and door was reluctantly opened and the gas turned off. fishing for puffs "J truth, and that gentleman is telling, through lators who, in response to public opinion and the Southern boys had a graud time generally. "Didn't you smell anything ?" said the landlady Took the hint ™ the columns of the Herald, a very sad story Didn't take tlje hint good conscience, framed an act for the pro- The exhibition of skill in horsemanship and use "Well, yes ; we did think there was a queer smell Threatened to be whipped <•• 1 arouDd, but we knew that those there investigatihg of the results and tendencies of the Adminis- tection of Government employés from assess- of the lance was highly appreciated by the Phila- Been whipped ¡f tration measures in the Palmetto State. committees had stirred up some very rotten things Whipped the other fellow * ments for political purposes. delphians and their guests unused to such enter- and we thought it was the natural smell of Wash- Didn'Been tpromise come tdo timwhiskye , gin, 4c., if we would The people are informed of the honesty of 8,61» The relation of a Government clerk to the tainments, and the affair was, owing to its ington." go after them 5,008 the Southern whites in their pledges; of the Been after them...... appointing and removing power is nearly novelty, one of the most agreeable features of the Now if tio psoplo cf Washington don't tarn ou Been asked what's the news 000,009 dishonesty of Governor Chamberlain in his 23 allied to that of the former slave to his mas= Centennial. en masse and shoot those Centennials on the spot, Told 200,000 proclamations 5 of the murder of Democrats am disappointed in them. We are bad enough, but Didn't know qasm Lied about it »*,»/( ter. In proportion to the difference of moral we don't equal the escaped smell of the Washington after being deprived of the means of self- WASHINGTON has been lifting its head ambi- Been to church 32 and intellectual character the pen-driver's Gas Company. Changed politics 60 protection ; of the continued arrival of troops, tiously of late years in many directions, but the Expect to change still t situation is even more abject. Independence One thing I have heard great wonder expressed at Gav/I..e. tmAhnrlto charitvy *a 00 and that all these evils are the result of a latest sign of progress is its rivalry to Brooklyn by our visitors—and I may say here that citizens are Gave for a terrier dog. 26 «0 of political expression and action have long 1 00 Cabinet meeting adopting unconstitutional in the Moultonian Mutual Friend business. We beginning to ask the same conundrum : Why the Cash on hand— been out of the question under the adminis- means for effectuating a party success. In do think that the City of Churches is left far street line of cars should ask seven cents a trip, tions of both paaties, but the assessment sys- while every other line in the city only requires five The Staff of Life. the light of this state of facts, it must be rer behind, for our Moulton was everybody's mu- tem lias grown to perfection under the spirit cents, and the transit over the route much quicker [Albert Rhodes in the Galaxy for November ] cognized that Mr. Chandler is both Secretary tual friend. Mutual friendship with Moulton I know one can buy a package of five tickets for of enterprise that has dismissed all senti- Bread is the foundation of human nourishment, of the Interior and chairman of the National was a pearl not to be cast before swine; it was a twenty five cents ; but that Is only at stc-ted place and any attempt at improvement should begin Republican Committee; that while he is the ments of justice, self-respect and charity from commodity to be the subject of eontract, one of and not always convenient to citizens, and totally there. Hundreds of years ago the importance of this adviser of the President, he is the wet-nurse public places. whose first principles is mutuality. He did not out of the question .to visitors. Two cents is not was seen in France, and a society cf physicians was It was not sufficient that all men of inde- deal his stock around altogether promiscuous much in itself. It is more likely to make its pos organized under the auspices of the government, of Governor Hayes; that he is the connect- sessor unhappy rather than happy; but it is thou " to improve the art of making bread," at first more pendence and proper feeling antagonized like, but showed a fine spirit of eclecticism. The ing link between present Republicanism and sands of dollars' income to a railway company. If especially for the patients in th-) hospitals, and after- the Republicanism that is to come. It is the assessing of Government clerks at every Citizem' National bank purchased over $4,000 one can go nearly the same route—as we can do by wards for the people at large as a matter of public of Moultonian mutuality, experience and suspi- therefore impossible to resist the conviction annual election; the legislature considered two other lines in the city—for five cents and two hygiene. Their labors were attended with good re- cion. S. P. C. A. Gatcbe'l was not such a favor- horses, we don't feel satisfied to pay seven cents and sults, and from that time down to tha present the of there being an identity between the policy itself called upon to shield the helpless ite, and obtained, with expressions of gratitude, only ene horte. The expenses on this road must be knowledge became general, and the nation has -un- of the past and of the future. and ill-paid employé from actual robbery, less, as they have no conductor, only a driver and $400 worth. Mr. Brainard H. Warner drew a interruptedly eaten good bread. Vienna bakers also The Administration must isolate itself from for every assessment was paid per minas. In one horse. furnish an excellent bread. What is sold in New prize of f€,000, and other gentlemen call for the support of reform Republicans when pur- prohibiting the direct interference of officials However, this is a question I mean to take up an York as French bread in most of the American hotels smaller shares. and restaurants is not much better than the Ameri- suing this policy; but as it is impossible to in a practice so disgraceful to superiors and otlirr time—now I am talking about Centennials. The moral of the flight of this real-estate ras- Many cf these people have never been a hundred can baker's bread, and bears no semblance to degrading to inferiors, Congress failed to ac- separate Mr. Hayes from the Administration, cal is that the first requirement of success in miles frc m home before, and are unaccustomed to French bread, as mad« in France, lu taste, text-tre he cannot expect to escape the penalties re- complish the end aimed at. For while the borrowing as much money as you want is brass; the rules and rtgulations of the world at large; but or nutritive quali'ies. Through the inferi >i;i •• of the Dread made here it i-> not as much eaten it sulting from the association of ideas, and for letter of the law is obeyed, the spirit has beer the sicond is plausibility; the third is preten- at home th*y are men and women, in the strongest would be if better made. It is, wrien properly pre- these reasons we believe that many wavering twice ignored. sense of th- word, and worth a thousand of us in tiousness, and the fourth is a tendency te steal, this and other cities, who know how to use our pared, superior to any of tha other vegetable pro- voters in the State of New York have already The circular sent around to the various de which only waits for a favorable opportunity for knives and forks, and have the rules of etiquette ducts In nutritive qualities, and ou It prooably de- decided to cast their ballots for Mr. Tilden. partments was as much a "stand or you development. If Moulton had been a modest, more completely committed to memory and more pends more than ra any other aliment the mental The prosperity of the country, the revival of die" as any bold highwayman ever uttered retiring, honest fellow, he couldn't have ex- particularly observed than the ten commandments; and physical health of our people. but who will grasp a friend's hand with a warm trade, commerce and industry are the de- on Ilounslow Heath. Having paid two per changed checks with the ghost of Beau Hick- pressure, and lie to him, and cheat him if possible, "PSHAW!" said a young lady IMPURITIES IS WATER. LOCAL ITESIS. Seaton Billiard Hall.; Tills old established hall still contlnnes to be the pop AMUSEMENTS. DEY GOODS. The Dangers which Menace those who ular resort of all lovers of the game of billiards. The LOOK at our $1.75 corset, equal to the best $3.00 corset, i Imbibe Adam's Ale. Douglass, Ninth andF streets. tables are In complete order; while the bar is stocked JPORD'S OPERA HOUSE. [From the Boston Gonrier.] with the finest liquors and cigars. Our old friend Tom At the recent meeting of the British Association HARPER'S, Scribner's, Galaxy. St. Nicholas, Atlantic Duffy Is general superintendent, and makes every one WEEK COMMENCING OCTOBER 28. FOE THE LARGEST STOCK feel at home. Don't forget the location, corner Ninth the anatomici.1 and physiological section was occu- and all the magazines for November, can be had to-day The new and popular burlesque on and D streets, or fail to pay a visit to the old Seaton. pied with a most interesting discussion upon what (Sunday) at Brad. Adams' until 1 o'clock. THE TWO ORPHANS, we ought to drink and what to eat. Professor HAVE your prescriptions compounded at Koss' phar- HOLE-IN-THE-DAY was a brilliant type of Indian with a grand Dramatic Company, supported by the su- Wanklyn, the well-known analytical chemist, opened macy, corner Seventh and Boundary streets. ap23-ly perfection, but Frank Hagerty's ' Hole-in-the-Wall, the controversy by reading a paper on the effects of opposite the City Hall, is even proportionately a much perb Novelty Troupe, Including the mineral substances in drinking water on the HARPER'S, Galaxy, Scribner's and St. Nicholas for brighter feature of United States polish and refinement, Miss LIZZIE FREEMAN, • November at Parker's, 527 Seventh street. health of the community. He commenced with Frank presides at the bar in a style that will be handed Mr. SAM COLLINS, "" SUSIE FREEMAN' Greatest Variety some statistics which oaght to strike horror into the down to posterity as a type of judicial intelligence of THE NATIONAL JOCKEY CLUB will hold Its fall meet- Miss LOUISE CONKLIN, ^ heart even of a Good Templar. The Professor tells ing in this city at Bennlng's next Tuesday -week, con- large merit. As the best Qf whisky, cigars, wines and brandies abound in his abode, there is no oblectlon to Mr. CHARLES FISHER, us that an adult male daily imbibes from half a tinuing three days. The best running stock of the their use in Frank's court. . and the OF gallon to a gallon of fluid in some shape or other, country are expected to participate. We will speak WONDERFUL PERFORMING CANARIES, and, however small may be the percentage of salts further of the meeting In our next Issue. IMPELLED by an insane idea, many think that men' In their Novel and Cunning Acts. contained even in the purest well water, it yet stands EUREKA TOOTH POWDER is prepared only by E. II. appetites cease at midnight, when in fact they really to reason that six gallons of well water contain an Wells, dentist, of this city. Give, it a trial, and you begin. "The Club," corner of Thirteenth and GRAND MATINEE SATURDAY. HATS, FUHS appreciable amount of solid matter. Profesibr will refuse all others. streets, is evidently managed by gentlemen of suprem tt-9 Prices as usual. Wanklyn, indeed, shows that there is even more knowledge in dletectlcs, as there we find the dinini ALL magazines for November can be had now at J. C. 'JTHEATER COMIQUE, mineral matter in . ordinary drinking rooms open at all hours of the day and night, and sup- Parker's book and statl onery store, 527 Seventh street. plied with viands of a character and cooked in a styL water than in household bread. If, in other words, S.elow Pennsylvania avenue. that epicures would gloat over. Call in at ail times, MONDAY. OCTOBER 2«, NIGHTLY, AND MATI- a loaf of bread is burned to ashes, a very small resi- THE largest assortment, most complete and cheapest Tou are ever welcome. NEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. due of mineral matter is left, while if, on the other stock of wall papers ever exhibited in this city can be Engagement for one week only of Mr. JULIEN seen at L. F. Clark & Sons' new store, No. Ills F KENT, Who will appear in the thrilling border sensa- hand, a gallon of drinking water is evaporated, its PARKER'S IS the place to purchase your papeterles. tional drama, entitled, Seal Sacques, mineral contents will be found much larger than street. as he has the largest and best assorted stock In the city. might have been supposed. There are, we learn, ROMAN & Cox, 507 Seventh street, are selling flne MR. JOHN MARKRITER, our leading paperhanger, 439 introdueiag his wild Rocky Mountain bear, JULIA. two kinds of drinking water—the hard and the soft- overcoats and suits at prices so low it surprises the na- Seventh street, has all thé latest shades, patterns and Engagement and first appearance of the following tives. variety talent : Mr. BARNEY REYNOLDS. HEAlY and a man who is accustomed to the one cannot styles of paper, which he is offering at prices to suit the GO TO without risk suddenly adapt himself to the other. |nRdA§«ERBGSE.J°HW ANME TUD0B "THET WEREN'T careful of what they eat, and the times. Mr. M. has a corps of skillful and practicable o f Nor is this all; for even those who object to water snows of winter will waltz around their graves ;" but workmen who execute work entrusted to them rapidly and well. His assortment of pictures In oil are very TS»iis H iSfdffiMsrasr for drinking purposes cannot help taking it had they patronized the gentleman's dining saloon of 11 8randcompllmentary fitto WM^MORTON ' fttr various shapes. Beer, for instance, is made with Mr. Dave Hagerty, corner of Seventh and E streets, in- choice, while a full line of chromos, steel engravings J. Y. DAVIS' SONS, water, and so is tea, and water is daily consumed by stead of death, healthy digestion and satisfaction with and a rare lot of beautiful pastlle gems make a deslra- many people in combination witn alcoholic liquors. the world would have resulted. Mr, Hagerty's viands ble selection of articles of vertu. DBY GOODS, There is an old story of an Irish squire who said are only equaled in excellence by his liqueurs. ONE and all make a call on J. C. Parker, 627 Seventh that up )n principle he never touched a drop of 621 Pennsylvania Ave. CHILDREN'S beautiful overcoats and ulsters at $5.00, street, for your stationery, books, pens, inks, &c. water, but he liked his cup of tea in the morning at Katzenstein's, 310 Seventh street, near Pennsylvania OUR FRIEND MIKE SBANLON, having sold his inter- and his tumbler of grog at night. Now, according avenue. MITCHELL & MARTIN, to Professor Wanklyn, it makes all the difference in est in the Coliseum Billiard Hall, Is looking around for (SUCCESSORS TO JOHN T. MITCHELL,) SOLE AGENTS FOR THE a desirable location to open a first-class billiard hall, , the world to a man what are the precise mineral THERE is a cross eyed type-setter in Buff\lo who The lovers of this noble game will welcome Mike back Pennsylvania Ayenue, constituents that enter into the water with which is the fastest " comp." in the city. While he is pick- to his old business with pleasure, for his fair business 931 his tea is made and his grog is mixed. Lime, for ing up one type his blincker Is looking for another. dealings have made him a host of friends. Have Just opened a large stock of Cloaks in plain instance, is an essential element of the human body. DISTRICT o f COLUMBIA THERE never was an article receiving such favor Beavers and Mattelasse In the newest styles. It enters into the bones and into the enamel of the from the first as Well's Eureka Alexandria Gazette. TOURISTS' CLOAKS IN PLAIN AND FANCY teeth, and, without a steady supply of it in some CITY ITEMS. CLOTHS. shape or another, and in districts where only soft WE ARE pleased to see our old friend Dan O'Brien is ULSTERS, FANCY WATERPROOF CLOTHS, ETC. getting such a liberal patronage from the hundreds of FOR Weber's Cincinnati lager and steamed oysters go water can be procured, the children are apt to suff to Mades', 300 Pennsylvania avenue. WALKING SUITS IN BLACK AND COLORED from what is commonly called rickets—a painful strangers visiting our city. Mr. O'Brien keeps a gen- CASHMERES. and distressing malady, believed by medical men to teel restaurant, and everything in season is found on First-Class Scouring and Dyeing. SHAWLS IN ALL THE NEW PATTERNS. his table, cooked in the best manner. H's restaurant TRESS & CO., London. be due to a deficiency of lime in the organism. LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR A is Just opposite the Baltimore and Ohio depot, which A. Fischer enlarged Ms establishment by removing SPECIALTY. THE VERY BEST GOODS IN THE Upon the diseases which are the result of drinking makes it very convenient for travelers to get refresh- to his new building, MARKET AND VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES. impure water we need hardly dwell. It is now gen- ments. PILLOW AND SHEET SHAMS IN GREAT VA- erally recognized that typhoid fever and cholera are 906 G Street, 3 Doors West of Ninth Street, RIETY. Prices to Suit the TimesOC15-4U . almost entirely due to contaminated water supply. Tou will find the address of E.H. Wells, dentist, upon Just a few steps from bis former place on Ninth street We ask an inspection of this stock, which will at all The result has been that of late years cautious peo- all Eureka Tooth Powder. where he is ready to do any work in bis line in his times be found desirable. ple have taken to boiling their water in the hope of superior manner. * A large lot of CART WRIGHT & WARNER'S Ladles, MR. DEATLEY has now two restaurants where fami- Underwear at greatly reduced prices. thereby destroying all organic matter in it, and after- ! FURS! lies and others can be supplied with the best oysters in Kid Gloves and Shoes, Crape Veils cleaned at a very The DresB Goods Department is supplied with all the wards filtering through a charcoal filter. Such the market by the pint, quart, gallon or In the shell. short notice. Ladles' Dresses cleaned without taken newstylesaud fabrics. (One price.) —FOR- process, of course, thoroughly eliminates every pos- They can be had at either 1220 E street northwest or at apart, and spots removed without cleaning the whole For the present all carriages will have to come to the sible source of contagion. On the other hand, the the West End, on G street between Seventeenth and garment. Gent's Clothes cleaning and dyeing D street entrance. • THE WINTER of (876. water thus treated becomes soft, and is altogether Eighteenth streets. Mr. DeAtley also keeps an excel- peclalty. mano-lyl MITCHELL A 91 ART 1ST, Our stock of Ladies' and Children's Furs is now ready deficient in lime and those mineral salts a certain lent supply of everything found In a first-class restau- octs-dtl 931 Penna. Avenue and 924 D Street, rant. for Inspection. Our stock embraces all the leading supply of which is absolutely necessary for health.— TE0TTING. stylos and varieties just introduced by the modistes of IF THE first drug store happens to be out of Wells' New York. Eureka, go to the next. Only one trial asked. 705 MARKET SPACE. 705 S EALSKIN SACUUES, New Pattern. Amber. A.» [From the Arcade Times.] COLONEL CULPEPPER STABBOTTLE was overjoyed to find Robertson county whisky in Lower California loo dozen ladles' and gent's colored bordered, [Gored and Cut to^Flt the Shape.. Of all the gem-like substances used for personal nen, hemstitched Handkerchiefs. $3, worth $6. upsetting in its onward march the " semi-civilization BLACK SILKS, from 87 cents to $4.50 per yard: a first adornment, amber is of the highest antiquity. It Is of effete despotism." He could have found better by rate SILK, for {¡17a, worth now $2.25. SEALSKI.1 MUFFS AND BOAS, mentioned by Homer, and is found introduced in the CASHMERES. going no farther than Mr. Pete Welcker's wine parlors WILL TROT AT THE most ancient specimens of Etruscan jewelry. In the BLACK AND COLORED, all the new and desirable on the Fifteenth street Rial to, opposite the Treasury, shades, at 50 cents, worth 62}. SILK MUFFS, TUB. TRIMMED, collection of the Prince of the Oaniuo was a neck- where not only Robertson, but the finest Bourbon and « lace of choice Etruscan workmanship, having pen- choicest wiues of all characters are In plenty. ALPACAS. BLACK AND COLORED, all shades; special bargains And Every Variety of dants in the form of scarabei of alternate sardonyx In colois at 20 cents, worth 25. A MAINE woman is the mother of a dozen twins. and amber. The Greeks termed amber electron, WAS KINGTON HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. FUR TRIMMING from Elector, one of the names of the sun If she dozen'twin the prize for that sort of thing BLANKETS ! BLANKETS I! some other country will have to be dusting around. GOOD 10i WHITE BLANKETS for $2, worth $3.50. For SILK and CLOTH SACQUES. Among the Romans also this substance was greatly SPLENDID LARGJC-SIZE COMFORT for $1.25. prized. Pliny tell us that a small figure carved in — Worcester Press. TREMENDOUS STOCK OF CURTAIN LACES from SEALSKIN CAPS For Men, Boys and Misses. 18 cents up. amber had been known to sell at a higher price than E. H. WELLS, dentist, 103 Second street northwest. All wool Blankets, $5.50, worth $8. Table Linen a living slave in vigorous health. In the time of Prices reasonable. bleeclied, full width, to cents. Bleeched Sheeting, 10.4 AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Nero one of the equestrian order was sent to Ger- wide, 20 cents, etc, etc. One Case .Honey Comb Quilts, THE finest assortment of stationery in the District 75 cents, worth $1.' loo pieces new i*rlnt, el cents. 1 case many by Julianus, the manager of the gladiatorial can be inspected at Parker's, 527 Seventh street. Creton's dark shades. 12} cents. exhibitions, in order to procure a supply of this gem, Gent's DRESS SHIRTS, complete, made of Warn- DUNLAP NEW YORK STYLES He succeeded so well and brought back such vast GRAND DISPLAY of business and dress suits, from BENNING'S STATION, sutta.Cotton and Richardson's Linen,for $1. Warranted. quantities that the very nets that protected tha *10 to $50. Single and double-breasted sack and frock oct8'4t2 WIS WALL & GWYHIi. SELK and FELT HATS. podium against the wild beast, the litters upon coats, in all styles of patterns, of the most choice which the slain gladiators were carried away, and fabrics, opened yesterday at Katzenstein's fashionable establishment, 310 Seventh street, near Pennsylvania ACE CURTAINS. all the other articles used were studded with amber, avenue. TUESDAY, OCT. 24th, Sir Thomas Browne also, in his " Urn Bnrial," men- WILLETT & RUOFF, tions among the contents of a Roman urn in the To Smokers. LACE CURTAINS 905 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. possession of Cardinal Farnese, not only jewels, but We call attention to the advertisement ol J. A. Kuhn, OCtl5-4tl an ape in agate and a grasshopper and an elephant in another column. Mr. Kuhn has begun business with POE A PUKSE OF $2,000. We have the Largest Line in the City. carved in amber. the intention of keeping nothing but the best, thereby meriting the patronage of those who can 1udge and are 924. E. G. DAVIS & CO., 924. Great uncertainty prevailed among the ancients as fond of a good cigar. We also refer our readers to his 150 PATTESKS TO SELECT FROM to the natale of amber, and many were the legends stock of stationery, which cannot be excelled in the to which this uncertainty gave rise. After Phaeton District. Ranging from $3.00 Upwards, at — DEALERS IN — had been strack by lightning his sisters, we are told, WELLS' EUREKA IS fast becoming an indispensable changed to poplars, which every day shed their On WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and FRIDAY toilet article In every house.—Alexandria Gazette. tears upon the banks of the Eridanus, and to these there will be two Races each day, comprising some of TAYLOR'S, tears was given the name electron. Nicias says that MADAME EMMA SOULS, dressmaker and milliner, the best horses in the country, such as LADY MAUD, DOMESTIC" AND SBOVERI BAKER NETTIE, HUNTRESS and ADELAIDE, in the 109 Lexington street, it is a liquid produced by the rays of the sun; that has at her parlors, 1107 Pennsylvania avenne, Cover Free for All. these rays, at the moment of the sun's setting, strik- Gait's) in addition to all that is new and novel in BALTIMORE, ing with the greatest force upon the snrface of the dressmaking, a flne display of imported millinery Formerly of 11 N. Charles street., oc22-3mos6 soil, leave upon it an unctuous sweat, which is car- and bonnets, the price of the bonnets ranging from ried off by the tides of the ocean, and thrown upon ten dollars upwards. Madame Soul6 has the repu- SEWING MACHINES! Round Trip Tickets • • • • • 21 Cents the shores of Germany. According to another au- tation of making the handsomest and best fitting Mme. L. P. Jeanneret thor there is a river "beyond India," the banks of dresses in Washington. By the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad. which are frequented by birds called raeleagrlde Train; leave at* 11:50 a. m. and 1:40 p. m., returning Fancy Goods and Notions. IF TOU have the least trouble In obtaining Wells WILL OPBX A CHOICE ASSORTMENT Of these, weeping the death of Meleager, allow their when the races are over. Eureka, send to his oflice. tears to drop into the stream, whereupon they are transformed to amber. A similar belief—that amber Athletic Pastime. FRENCH BONNETS AND A COMPLETE STOCK OF DOMESTIC AND GROVER was prod need by thé tears of birds—prevailed The Dubant building, corner C and Mxth streets & BAKER SEWING MACHINES, MACHINE among the Orientals. This is allnded to by Moore northwest, has been made doubly attractive by the Rates or Admission : NHEDLES, BEST SILKS, COTTONS, in ' ' I.alia Rookh :" addition ef one of the finest bowling alleys in America. Meeting Tickets for the four days, including all ROUND HATS AND SEWING MACHINE AT- The proprietors, Messrs. Shekell & Co., have de- the privileges, - ^5.00 TACHMENTS, " Aronnd thee shall glisten the loveliest amber • That ever the sorrowing sea birds have wept." termined to leave nothing undone that will be to the Gate, . 1.00 ox Always on hand and for sale at the most reasonable comfort of their patrons, and we feel assured that a Grand Stand, Including Quarter Stretch, - - 50 cts. terms. It was gradually, however, raa.de manifest that first visit to their establishment will induce a second. 112 amber was neither more nor loss than a vegetable The bar will be stocked with the purest wines and SATlBMT,OCTCBiB 7,1878» E. G. DAVIS & GO., product—a kind of gnm ; hence it acquired the liquors that can be obtained. AMUSEMENTS. name snccinum, by which it is now known in eu-ltg 924 Seventh Street Northwest, F. W. KOSS, druggist, is a graduate of the Maryland natural history. It was found that by boiling in College of pharmacy. Prescriptions compounded at VTATIOSTAL THEATER. 83 N. CHAELES STREET, BALTIMORE, turpentine it could be rendered plastic, and pieces his store by himself only, corner Seventh and Bound- ocl-lmos JOHN H. KENNY, were discovered in which insects, leaves- of plants ary streets. ap23-ly and other foreign matter had become embedded, ON MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 23, 1878, LOVERS of the turf, and all things of exccllence per- FELT II ATS, (Late lace buyer for A. T. Stewart A/Co., New York.J proving that the amber must at one time have been First appearance this season of the distinguished Light in a liquid or semi-liquid state. taining thereto, will find Washington to be the locality Comedian, or merit in horse-flesh tills week. The meeting at the BEST QUALITY, Has opened a choice selection of Wherever beds of lignite occur amber is found ; Washington Driving Park, at Benning's, on Tuesday, so that it is very generally diffused over the world. Wednesday, Thunday and Friday next, will be the Mi". Louis L. James, But the shores of the Baltic, between Memel and grandest trotting meeting ever held here. Goldsmith F.r a number of years the head of In all colors and chapes, from $1 upward. Königsberg, is the only district that supplies it in Maid, the queen of the turf, will trot on Tnesday for a DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE COMPANY. quantities. As much as 4,000 pounds weight of purse of $2,000, and the reputation and record of this Hats, Bonnets & Millinery First production in Washington of the FANCT'AND OSTRICH FEATHERS, amber yearly is said to be the average produce of noble animal Is of a character designed to attract the MOST SUCCESSFUL OF MODERN COMEDIES that country. It Is mostly found on the seashore, most indifferent to witness her speed and beauty. Nor (Frum the French of Le Proces Veauradieux par MM. TELVETS, SILKS, - ALSO, CLOAKS AND SUITS, but in Prussia there are also mlneB. is Goldsmith Maid the onlv attraction; the horses en- A. Delacour et nenmquln, originally performed at tered for the other days—such names as Lady Maud, the Vaudeville. Paris, June, 1875.) of which a version In Shakspeare's time amber seems to have been has recently obtained immense London notoriety un- RIBBONS, OBKAMESTS, été. Nettie, Huntress and Adelaide, In the free for all, have der the title of the And is making additions dally to ills stock of fashionable as an ornament, as he more than once no sound of the slouch about them, but a ring of gen- GREAT DIVORCE CASE, JUST RECEIVED. alludes to it. When Petruchio promises to take uine metal, and mettle that will characterize this week And at Wallack'8 Theater as FORBIDDEN FRUIT. LACES, EMBROIDERIES, Katherine on a visit to her father he mentions "am- This version was dramatized by Fred. Williams, Esq., Particular attention given to orders. as the greatest chapter lo the trotting history of Wash- and presented under the iltleof PARIS NOVELTIES, AND ber bracelets " among the " bravery " with which ington. See the advertisement for fullest particulars. WANTED A DIVORCE. MRS. J. P. PALMER, LADIES' FINE UNDERWEAR, she is to be adorned. Among the artists of the renais- With new and appropriate scenery by GETZ and this sance period it was chiefly used in the formation of IP TOD use Wells' Eureka, please tell your friends Brilliant Cast: 1108 F street, between Eleventh and Twelfth. how you like it. FADVINARD MR. LOUIS L. JAMES ap2-ly3 AT VERY ATTRACTIVE PRICES, jewel caskets and such like elegant objects. It is Gatlnet Mr. Harrv Pearson still much valued In the East, but the chief market J. H. SQUIEE & «CO., bankers, 141» Pennsylvania Tardlvant Mr. Geo. W. Denbam De Bagnolles Mr. C. L. Farwell HE LADIES OF WASHHTINGTON at present is China, where it is crushed Into powder avenue, pay 6 per cent. Interest on deposits, payable on Commissary Mr. J. Van Deerln T To which he Invites the attention of the ladles of Wath- and burnt as an incense. Mouth-pieces of cigars, demand. Special rates on time deposits. Interest paid Secret» ry.; Mr. J. Atwell WILL BE PLEASED TO LEARN THAT ington and vicinity. Mad. Lalgulser Mr. G. C. Germon MiOAHE GKANGIKK OF NEW YORK beada and other ornaments in this material are, January and July, or credited. ser 8-tf Mad. De Marsan Miss Nellie Cummins Will open a permanent branch of her well-known however, extensively manufactured in the work- Mad. l)e Bagno.les Miss Annie Montague Metropolitan Dressmaking and Millinery Establish- 915 Pennsylvania Avenne, between Ninth 11 Angelle Miss Edith Granger ment in this city November 2, at shops of Dantzlc, Himburg and elsewhere. " To the Ladies. No. 1310 O street northwest. and Tenth streets. ccts-ly2 Superior kid glove cleaning, 12Jc per pair. Fanchetie Miss Kate Newton An addltltlonal feature of this establishment will be The electric properties of amber early attracted Therese Mi as Charline Weldman soplile Miss Alpha Perry a tine assortment of PARISIAN UNDERWEAR for attention ; it was also believed to be highly mediei- ladles. Madame Grangler will receive special orders Kid gloves beautifully dyed to look as well as new, Act 1.—A Legal Consultation assisted by a Mother-in- preceding the day of her opening, at her New York nal, and was said to have the power of detecting the law, Vliss E. A. McCormick 30c> per pair. A«t II.—Legal Proceedings Resulting Unexpectedly. house, 38 West Twenty-ninth streeet, New York. presence of polton ; "for then an appearance like Act III —Legal Eloquence Triumphant—Three Cases oct22-3t*3 th9 rainbow flies to and fro in the vessel, attended Feathers handsomely cleaned and curled, 25 and 50 Gained—A Motber-in-Law Lost, and Everybody made Happy. by the crackling of flime , and gives warning by this cents. OUR. STOCK WILL OPEN, double indication." It is still supposed to possess October 30, first appearance of the beautiful and tal- OF Ladles' dresses cleaned without being ripped. ented young actress, Miss GENEVIEVE ROGERS, as certain virtues. The wearing of an amber necklace, An entire suit of gentlemen's clothes handsomely Maud Mailer. 14.5 Wednesday, October 18,1876, it is said, will keep off attacks of erysipelas, and it is cleaned, steamed and pressed for $2. Millinery Goods & Notions also a preserva'ive against sore throats, on account Is now complete, and ladles are invited to examine Office of R. C. Douglas, under National Theater. tf DD FELLOWS' HALL. of the circle of electricity maintained, as well as the before purchasing. A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF warmth of the amber. THIRTEHX SODA TICKETS FOR $1.00. Cocoanut, o MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1876. FULL LINE OF THE CELEBRATED* Quince, Currant, Cherry, Banana, Coffee, Tea and BOLD MEDAL " JOUVIK " & MONOGRAM KID BKOVES, Dramatic entertainment by the Wrench Bonntts and Round Hats, thirty other syrups drawn from the largest and finest "BUCKSTONE DRAMATIC CLUB," In 2,3,4 and « Buttons. AN impecunipus individual was heard to mutter apparatus in the city. H. M. Plnkard, 477 Pennsylva- In aid of the INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL, when will Special attention given to orders; ladies own mate- rial made up In an artistic manner. All kinds of lace as he flnishsd wading a railroad hand-bill headed nia avenue, Dr. Clark' old stand. ap23-ly be presented for thellrst time In this city the beautiful With Novelties in Feathers, Flowers, Ac., Ac drama entitled MIRIAM'S CRIME, and the amusing work. Ladies morning and dress caps made to order. " Through without change," " That's ihe road X Black crape veils cleaned and recrlmped. BKOWNHJO'E BITTJERS will cure dyspepsia, Indiges- Vaudeville entitled THE LOAN OF A LOVER. Tickets, 50 cents; reserved seats, 75 cents; for sale at 5M NINTH STREET, (St. Cloud Building,) shall take ; no fault to find with them terms." tion and constipation. For sale by the druggists, tf MRS. II. J. HUNT, 631 and 623 D St. Solomons St Chapman's book store. oc22*2te 0Cl-tf2 aprf-lyt THE CAPITAL.—OCTOBER 22, 1876. 6 which it came in csntact. It was affecting to see SEWING MACHINES. For TUB CAPITAL. fended and sustained it, then that he was un- the sad, proud man stung by slights which he LIFE'S MUSINGS. worthy of notice. This it was impossible for could not resent, and checked by opposition •> Life—what Is life ?" asked a youth Mr. Cilley to retract or to qualify, which Mr. SEWING MACHINE, ARMS, &C. Too young and too feeble to know. which he could not avert. He lost the nomina- Graves perfectly knew when he consented to THK REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has sprung rapidly Wonldst thou, my 'child, learn the truth tion. The Cilley duel did the work. He never Into favor as possessing the very best Combination of good Of shallow existence below. bear "Webb's note. In the attempt to force a re- qualities, namely : Lightrunnlug. smooth, noiseless, rapid, afterwards took a prominent part in politics. traction or qualification lies the gist of Mr. durable, with the perfect Lock Stitch. Know, then, that friendship Is rare; Graves'responsibility and the responsibility of Faults of others, but more of h.s own bad ended De- Pleasure no gladness can bring; his advisers for all that followed. I MhiBs careercareer., He died literally a broken-hearted It Is a Shut! le Machine, with Automatic Drop Feed, Vice has a place everywhere; sign beautiful and construction the very best. Virtue's a laughable thing. < After the first exchange of shots, Mr. Cilley man. THEBBMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has received pre- Talent wins little applause; firing before he had elevated his piece, and miums at many Fairs throughout the United States, and Learning goes begging for pay; plainly with no intention of killing Mr. Graves, THE GALLANT BACHELOR. without effort took the grand Medal of rrogress—the high- est order of Medal that was awarded at the late Vienna Ex- Cunning presides over laws; General Jones asked Mr. Wise if his friend was [From the Home Journal.] Honesty lives not a day. position. satisfied. Mr. "Wise replied: " Mr. J ones, these The gallant bachelor 1 Let us introduce bim Man at bis best is unjust, gentlemen are here without animosity toward to our readers. He is tall and portly. His age The REMINGTON WORKS also manufacture a new Selfish, and cruel, and cold: Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Shot-Gun and the Cele- each other. They are fighting merely on a point may be anything between thirty and forty. His brated Remington Blfles, renowned throughout the world Beady to crush In the dust for Military, Hunting and Target purposes; all kinds of His father or brother for gold. of honor. Cannot Mr. Cilley assign some reason countenance is smiling and self-satisfied. The Pistols; Bine Canes, Metallic Cartridges, 4c. garments which he wears are perfect in cut, and Love is a gossamer thread, for not receiving at Mr. Graves' hands Mr. the quality of their material is excellent. There AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.—Improved Mowing Too thin and too subtle to weir; "Webb's communication, or make some disclaimer Machines, Steel Flows, Steel Hoes, Cultivators, Road Scra- Faith Is a mountain of lead, which will relieve Mr. Graves from his posi- is money in his pockets, and there are rings on pers, Patent Excavators, Hay Tedders, Cotton Gins, Iron Hope ever dies In despair. Bridges, Ac. tion ?" The challenge was then suspended, and his fingers. A massive gold chain dangles in Teace—ah, my child, there's no peace; GeneralSJones proceeded to say that Mr. Cilley, front of his waistcoat, and diamond studs glitter «9-GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Send for Circulars. Age only adds to Life's gall. in declining to receive a note from Mr. Graves, upon festive occasions in his shirt-front. He Death comes at last to release, haunts the most fashionable theaters. At his PRINCIPAL OFFICES—E. Remington & Sons; Remington Sewing Machine Co, And silently buries us all. purporting to be from Mr. "Webb, meant no dis- J. E. RAISBECK. respect to Mr. Graves, because he entertained for | club he sips the best wine and smokes the Remington Agricultural Co, Ilion, N. Y him the highest respect and most kind .feelings, choicest cigars. Perhaps you would like to have BBAKCH OFFICES :—281 and 288 Broadway N. Y., Arms. Philadelphia, Pa., 810 Chestnut street. Sewing Machines. THE GRAVES AND CILLEY DUEL an explanation of all this. The explanation is Madison Square, New York, Sewing Machines. Baltimore, Md., it N. Charles street. Sewing Machines but that he had declined to receive the note fce- Chicago, 287 state street, Sewing Machines and Arms. Indianapolis,Ind., 72 E. Market ST., Sewing Machines [Colonel Terrell In the Covington (Ky.) Common- simple. "When we -repeat his oft-reiterated de- Boston, 562 Washington street. Sewing Machines. St. Louis, Mo., ooe N. Fourth street, Sewing Machines cause he chose not to be drawn into any contro- Detroit, Mich., 191 Woodward ave., Sewing Machines. wealth.] Cincinnati. 182 West Fourth street.Sewing Machines. versy with Colonel "Webb, or that he did not elaration that he is not a marrying man, we have Utlca. 129 Genesee street. Sewing Machines. London, E. C, England, 51 Queen Victoria St., Arm The death of ex-Governor Henry A. "Wise of given it. He has successfully steered his bark Atlanta.Oa., DeGive's Op. House, Marietta st., S. M. and Sewing Machines. choose to be drawn into any expression of opin- Virginia has revived the story of the Graves and amidst the shoals and quicksands of society, and ion as to him." • CUley duel. This occurred near is now so accomplished a mariner that no one WASHINGTON OFFICE, 521 Seventh st., This was deemed unsatisfactory, and the duel City in February, 1838, both principals at the supposes that he will ever suffer shipwreck. SEWING MACHINE*. went on. After a second exchange of shots, jy4-6 time being representatives in Congress-Mr, The feat which he has performed is a great one, both missing, there was a strong interference on Graves from Kentucky and Mr. Cilley from and he is proud of it, He dwells upon his clev- MISCELLANEOUS. the part of those present not officially engaged, REAL ESTATE, ETC. Maine. Tn our issue of October 5 we copied a erness and prudence with unctuoui satisfaction. who urged that the combat should now cease, etatement of the affair from the Chicago Tribune, He hold himself up as an example for young and Mr. Graves declare himself satisfied. Mr. IcEuen, which contained errors that we would have cor- men to imitate. He laughs contemptuously at "Wise, in his testimony before the committee, PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH! rected at the time had we more carefully noticcd the poor fools who have yielded to feminine fas- To do this it is necessary thatyou shouldlnhale fresh the article. And we observed in the Louis, says that Mr. Graves " positively, peremptorily and pure air in tlierooms vou dally and nightly occupy, another shot." cinations and burdened themselves with the care This can onlv be done successfully and without dan- ville Courier-Journal an editorial allusion to and repeatedly insisted upon ger of contracting Coughs, Colds and their probably This was had,"afte7 r the reiterated assurance from 0f wives and households. As he put. it, his ob- RF ftl FSTATE fi G E u N T > attendant evils, Oy purchasing and uslngthe th h . i • „, I . . . 4. „ l,;mc..oU /»rim nlot.plv ffim- I " " ~ ' l"cl?n toTrdr—nL that led | ^A^to'i^M the highest respect |ject in life is to make himself complete^ com. NEW PATENT fortable, and he does so. -to the deplorable killing of Mr. Cilley may not "Webb's note because he chose to be drawn into On the other hand, married men, as he also Transparent Ventilators, "be out of place. The facts which we detail are Sonlheast Corner Seventh and E Streets. puts it, don't. You cannot gull him with the Which,besides being actually ornamental to the win- mainly obtained from the report of the com- no controversy with him. Mr. Cilley was hit in dows, are entirely different from all others in their argument that it is easier for a man to keep him- manner of operating to permit their Ingress and egiess mittee appointed by the House of Representa- the body. He dropped his rifle, beckoned to a of air to and from the room. self and a wife than himself only, and he tells tives of Congress to investigate the matter friend standing near him, and said to him, «3-EXCHANGE OF RE\L ESTATE A |SPE- By the employment of the " Paten t Transparent Ven- "sbot"'~put both hands to his wound, fell, and I you so with many scornful laughs. It must not tilators " a current of air is created nfar tne window, Matthew L. Davis, at the time the "Washing- which Imparts motion to the volume of air In the room in two or three minutes expired. be understood, however, that he holds the fe- | CIiLTT- and cleanses It from existing Impurities, by constantly ton correspondent of the New York Courier and carrying off the foul air and «implying pure air in Its There ought not at this day to be any contro- male sex in contempt. The gallant creature place, which operation Is so uniform, and may be regu- Enquirer, writing over the signature of " The la ted wlto such precision as to alwayIways Issuissue !a •dea - l thful versy about this ghastly, this deplorable, this dotes upon it. He follows it from place to place. atmosphere in the room. ThiThlis current of air may be Spy in "Washington," (it was he who subse- shut off at airy time, if desired. wicked business. The blame rests nearly alike There is scarcely a ball-room in which he does JPKOPKKTY sol», quently edited a biography of Aaron Burr,) had These Ventilators may be applied to windows or all upon all concerned. not put in an appearance in order to worship it descriptions, and «re stationary. They are valuable charged a member of Congress (not Mr. Cilley) HOUSES RENTED, for use in school-rooms, public halls, hospitals, Invalid Mr. Crittenden, who was present as an adviser At bazaars he shines with a brilliant luster in his chambers, sleeping apartments and rooms In general. with corruption in the passage of a certain ef Mr. Graves, exhibited a lamentable degree of efforts to pay it becoming homage. Of many a These Ventilators are on exhibition at measure. Mr. "Wise, then a member of the RENTS COltECTED. 1302 F Street, near corner 13th northwest, indecision ; Mr. Wise lost his coolness and Mr velvety croquet ground he is the champion, and Washington, I). C., House from Virginia, called the attention of that Graves his temper. General Jones, who acted hero, and willing slave. He addresses ladies in And may also be seen In operation at the Billiard body to the article, and offered a resolution that The patronage of the publi« is respectfully solicited. Booms of Miller & Jones, over National Theater. Call for Mr. Cilley, having consented to the meeting, tones as gentle as a summer zephyr. He con- seplï-tfJ and examine them. GEO. WAGNER, a committee be appointed to inquire into the , mar5--tfs Inventor and Patentee.Washington, D. c. should have taken his prinoipai from the field veys to wch favored one that he has never loved truth of the charge, with power to send for per- after the first exchange of shots. The sixth rule but once, and that she is the object of his adora- MONEY TO LOAN J. C. NA1LEY, sons and papers, as the Character of the corres- of the code (so called) as generally accepted among tion. He hands them ices with perfectly be- AT pondent had been vouched for by Colonel James HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, men of honor is, that " in all cases of substitu- wildering grace, and helps them on with their (Formerly of the firm of Nalley & Hodges.) Watson "Webb, the editor of the Courier and 8 PER CENT INTEREST ON FIRST CLASS Enquirer. Mr. Cilley spoke in opposition to [ tion of the second for the Pnacipal. the seconds wraps with the most charming elegance. But, Particular attention given to the resolution, and in the course of his remarkj should interpose and adjust the matter; that the I notwithstanding the ardor of his nature and the IMPROVED KALSOMINING, GRAINING AND INTERIOR DECORATION. observed that he "knew nothing of this editor true reason of substitution is the supposed in- extent of his devotion to them he does not com- sult of imputing to you the inequality which is | mit himself. Nor does he through his delicate No. 509 K Street Northwest. maV-l (Webb,) but that if he was the same editor who Real Estate in Washing- charged upon your friend, and when the con- attentions to them deny himself those little lux- once made grave charges against an institution ROOMS AHB trary is declared there should be no fight,fo rurie s which he imagines are necessary to the ton. of this country, and afterwards was said to have individuals may well differ in their estimate of proper sustenance of his extremely sensitive or- received facilities to the amount of $52,000 from another's character and standing in society." ganization. He never goes without a good sup CIRCULATiNS LIBRARY, the same institution, and gave it his hearty sup- The rule was flagrantly violated in this instance. per, however crowded a party may be; it is D. F. HAMLINK & CO., NO. 1IN H STREET NORTHWEST, port, he did not think his charges entitled to The course of Mr. Grav«s and his friends ren- simply useless to attempt to satisfy him with a General Eife and Fire Insurance Adente, "WASHINGTON, D. C. much credit in an American Congress." | dered any other than a bloody issue impossible. makeshift. He always finds but where the best New Books and Periodicals received as soonaspul) 940 F street N. W., Washington, D. C. ished. nov28-lyl These words were spoken in debate; they Indeed, they proposed and General Jones ac- bottle of wine is to be found, and waiters know mySl-tf5 _____ were strictly parliamentary and were perfectly cepted the preposterous suggestion, that if the that it is a waste of time and attempt to humbu . QHROMOS FBAMED TO ORDER, well founded. They referred to notorious facts- F, BEUTER & CO., matter was not terminated at the third fire the him. He is also careful not to iDjure his sensi- A, 8 CENTS PES FOOT. facts that had been officially substantiated. Col- distance should be shortened 1 tive organization by overwork. onel "Webb had, as editor of the Courier and Real Estate and General Agents. WINDOW CORNICES $1 PER PAIR If his partner at a ball is plain and does not Enquirer and otherwise, supported General The Courier-Journal says that Mr. Cilley was e VELVET AND FA*CT MATS. PASSEPARTOUTS, dance well, he is above putting himself in a per- a*X?«s t» M» and S. CASTILE, No. 1304 11 Street n. w. Jackson in his war upon the United States bank ; an excellent marksman with fhe rifle, while Mr. L^ans Negotiated? Legal Documents of all Descrip- PICTURE FBAME FACTORY. spiration in order to gratify her. Of course he tions Carefully Drawn. Houses for Bent and Collection Come and see the handsomest imitation velvet frame and he had afterward changed that hostility to a Graves was unused to it as a weapon, and that is aware that he is a great man. Of course he is °Offl?e^!%CTenth street, between'L and M.northwest. in the city-for cablmt cards, either stands or nangs— support of the bank, having in the meanwhile his lack of skill was such that his friends ex- sepn 6mr.s5 F. A. BETJTEU. Justice of the Peace. onlv 85 cents. * my?-5 cognizant of his wonderful powers of attraction. accepted " facilities " from that institution to the pected him to fall at the first fire. It mentions In bursts of confidence he will tell you that Mil- LIYEEY STABLES. amount specified. This a committee of Con- that " Mr. Benton or Mr. Clay, or some other Hosea B. Moulton, prominent member of the Senate, drew his dred is dying for him, but that he is not such a gress, in 1832, appointed to " inspect the books 1331 Seventh st. between N and O sts. N. W., and examine into the proceedings of the United watch and said to "a friend near him,' Graves is fool as to be caught, though the girl is passable, ATTORNEY-AT-L VW. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, States Bank," had established beyond dispute. a dead man.'" All this has an apochryphalair, In another burst of confidence he will inform SEAL ESTATE AGENT AND COMMISSIONER K£ EYES A CO. you that old Mrs. Moneybags is working with OF DEEDS. For Mr. Cilley's remarks, as quoted, Colonel but we will not deny its truth. The best reply tn it iq the fact tkat Mr. Cilley, from the testi- I aalll heherr mighmightt anand maimain ttoo entraentrap hihim foforr her cleadearr | g lal at{entlon g!ven to the prosecution of Pay Wekb, nine days afterward, visited "Washington mony before us, did not make the slightest effort I little pet, Fiorry, who has been in the market Pension and Bounty Claims against the Government, COACHES, OPEN BRETTS. LIGHT WAGONS, 8A-T>- DLE HORSES, DOUBLE AND SINGLE and addressed him a note inquiring if he (Webb) to use his skill as a marksman. these six years, but that he is above falling a vie- — was the editor alluded to. This note Mr. Graves Samuel O. Mills, BUGGIES AND ALL OTHER Like the duels between O'Coimell and D'Es- tim to such petty wiles as hers. As he has these bore, tendering it to Mr. Cilley in his seat. Mr. VEHICLES PROMPTLY larre between Castlereigh and Canning, between bursts of confidence pretty frequently, it is to be Cilley refused to receive it, with a personal ex- FURNISHED. the Duke of Wellington and the Earl of "Win- presumed that the number of his conquests is JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, UNITED STATES COM- planation to Mr. Graves that in so refusing he MISSIONER AND NOTARY PUBLIC.. Chester and between Clay and Randolph, this be- correspondingly great. The pain that his indif- tj- orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the Stable, intended no disrespect to him. The latter, ad- tween Graves and Cilley was at bottom a politi- ferenee causes does not hurt him. The fact that No. 48« Louisiana Ave., Washington, ». C. day or night, will receive prompt attention. vised by injudicious friends that he might possi- cal duel It produced a profound effect upon he is considered to have behaved with abomina- Close Carriages for Wedding Calls and Receptions. bly be compromised by the refusal, as in bearing Special attention given to Pensions and the Collec- the country, and had its influence as late as 1844, meanness in half a dozen cases does not con- tion of Claims. mar2C-ly8 Colonel "Webb's note he was technically respon- We in the great contest between the Whigand Dem- him. Indeed he thinks it the finest thing sible for his character, wrote Mr. Cilley and de- cern ocratic parties for the presidency. Mr. Clay was creation to flirt with a girl until the chase be- CHARLES A. HINCKLEY & CO., manded whether or not his refusal to receive the in represented as a counselor of Mr. Graves in the too hot, and then, when she^has suc- BOARDING AND LIVERY STABLES, note was based upon the fact that he did not re- comes Real Estate Brokers and Insu- affair, and it had the effect of doing him serious „umbad to the magic of his influence, to sud- gard Colonel "Webb as a gentleman. Mr. Cilley Willard'sHotel Stables, corner Fourteenth and D streets, irjury. Graves himself met the ooloquy of his Ljenly drop her and betake himself to other rance Agents, replied that he did not choose to be drawn into dec Sl-tf Washington, D. O. act like a man, as he was; ran again for Congress 8weets. Boom 81, Le I»rolt Building, 803 F Street, w. s. ROB BY any controversy with Colonel "Webb; that he Washington, 1>. C. •w. H. BIRCII. neither affirmed nor denied anything in regard in spite of it, and was triumphantly re-elected. Such is the gallant bachelor. Is it worth while Money loaned on real estate, houses rented, rent collected. novl4-lva BIRCH & ROBEY* to his character; but, lest this might place Mr. But this was immediately upon the heels of the | for the rising generation to imitate his career ? AUCTIONEERS. Graves in an unpleasant situation, he repeated event, when his constituency, incensed at theLe t us glance at the latter scenes. Even he has what he had previously said—that he intended public outcry against him, was disposed to stand his day. When people find that he will not Horse and Carriage Bazaar, marry, and that he is getting on in years, they by the refusal no disrespect to Mr. Graves. up to him, whether right or wrong ||Thi|s feel- Geoeral Claim and Collection Agent. 938 and 940 I.OUISIA1VA AViSIIE, WASH- gradually "drop him." He ceases to be asked IKG'H'OJf, 1>. C. Mr. Graves responded that this was "inex- ing afterwards painfully changed Auction sales every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Up to the time of this unfortunate occurrence to parties, and haughty beauties turn up their DISTRICT CLAIMS A SPECIALTY". at lo o'clock. . , plicit, unsatisfactory and insufficient," with a Horses, Carriages. Harness, &c., at private sale. he had been one of our most promising public | noses when he supplicates for their favor. He further demand, "to which a categorical answer NO. TIS FIFTEENTH STREET, OPPOSITE ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS. men. He had as his first opponent for Congress may not lose caste at the same time that the Special attention given to sales of Real Estate ana was expected, whether he (Cilley) had declined novll-8 RIGGS & CO. Personal Property. the distinguished but eccentric Tom Marshall, to receive his (Webb's) communication on the bloom of youth is robbed from him, but when aug27-tfi i and beat him by an overwhelming majority. A ^TTJ. BICKSLER, ground of any personal exception to him as a he begins to enter upon the regions of thé sere Jamas W. Halm, Auctioneer gentleman or man of honor." steadfast "Whig, thoroughly devoted to the in- and yellow leaf his flatterers drop away. He 486 Louisiana avenne, Washington, D. C., terests of his party, and ever ready to serve it, sees younger rivals upon his heels, and has to «-JEMS'- Mr. Cilley refused to admit Mr. Graves' right Southern Collection and Claim he was, nevertheless, a man of broad and com- make r00m for them. The old ties that rendered to propound the question, and was thereupon -• . * ,.n:„J infrnvwitir I - 1 T "Ktt NMO 'AND NRVNO f*AT"RO Agency, prehensive views and of unsullied integrity. life dear to him snap, one by one,;and none form immediately challenged, Mr. Graves, under the Collects Claims and Accounts, Rents, Ac. HORSE AND CARRIAGE BAZAAR, His chief characteristics were personal courage, to take their place. Not being engaged in any LANDLORD AND TENANT BUSINESS code, placing himself in the stead of his princi- CORNER BALTIMORE AND PACA STS.. work of usefulness he has to flyt o his club for In the District of Columbia, a Specialty. nov2l-5 pal, whose character and honor were in question. strength of will and indomitable perseverance. companionship, and he has no dfflculty in dis- The challenge was duly accepted. This latter quality the Whig party in CongresB BALTIMORE, MD. turned to account on an important occasion. covering that the "friends" whom he makes I DEFY COMPETITION. The duel was arranged for the 24th of Febru- AUCTION SALES every Tuesday, Thursday and The session was approaching its conclusion, but there do not care a straw about him. People Friday, at 10:30 o'clock. Horses, Carriages, Harness, ary, near Bladensburg, the historic ground for Ac., at private sale. Stabling for 200 head of Horres feel that he is in soma respects a social failure, and Mules. anfW-tt» such events, where Commodore Decatur and there was yet more than half a day remaining, Buy where you can, the m»st for yonr money. Call The party in power had in view the passage of an(i they feel further that this is his own fault, and examine my stock of • Armistead Mason, a United States senator from an important bill, and the only means to defeat h at him because he is vain and selfish WA8H1N8T0N BAILOR'S "Virginia, within a few years previously, had They laug it was for some Whig member to get the floor tinues to hanker after admiration; they FUBNACES, RANGES, LATROBE STOVES, SLATE fallen. General George W. Jones, delegate in and con and speak the session out. The one-hour rule AND MARBLE MANTELS AND HOUSE Congress from the then Territory of Iowa, acted hold his little foibles up to ridicule; they use as the second of Sir. Cilley, while Mr. Wise had not then been adopted. Graves managed to him when it suits them and forsake him when FURNISHING GOODS. served in the same relation to Mr. Graves. The get the floor, and hour after hour, in spite of in- it suits them. , , , , Cash customers can save money by calling early and terruption, menace and .remonstrance, did the Perhaps there is no man more hopelessly alone purchasing their Heaters for tte coming winter at weapons were rifles and the distance eighty in the world than the gallant bachelor who has prices lower than any house in the city. ,,, intrepid and tireless Kentuckian keep it, and Call and conTlnce yourselves that I am still selling paces. Mr. Cilley fellat the third fire. outlived the pleasures of youth and turned fifty. First-class Goods thatjlefy Competition. speak on until the Speaker's gavel fell, and the This duel was fought on a punctilio. Mr. Nor is this all. As his digestion fails him he session was ended. cannot solace himself with the delights of the CHRIS. RIESSNER'S, STABLES, K Cilley had not declined to receive Colonel "Webb's table As his strength fails him he cannot keep After serving out his last term in Congress 182« E ST., OPPOSITE NATIONAL THEATER. note, as the Courier-Journal states, because he up his courage in defiance of the world's opin- 715 and 717 Seventli street northwest. Particular attention paid to BOARDING HORSES. did not recognize him as a gentleman and a man Graves returned home, a stricken man. To a ion Often at the last he has no alternative but jeX8-tfs T ÏÏMtrtvlS«CARRIAGESwit h responsible drivera. to marry a woman who is no sooner his wife of honor. As tbe correspondence shows, he re- friend he remarked that he could never, even for SADDL^IORÖESTBUGGIES AND PHAETONS a brief period of time, remove from his mind the than she wishes him dead, in order that she may R. TAX.X.ANT & CO., fused to express any opinion upon that subject. have his money, or else to surround himself with "HORSESalways for SaleandEicharge. novit He had said that if he ("Webb) was the editor re- dying loolj of Cilley. In 1844 he was promi- a crowd of hungry nephews and nieces who, nently brought forward by many personal and almost from the day of their birth, have been ferred to in a certain report made in Congress B. G. IiOVEJOY, political friends as a candidate for the ^office£ ^^^^ imf- Upholstering & Mattress Makers some years before, charging him with having governor of Kentucky. He entered into the I Jat fte gaUant bachelor. If they love, let them âTTOMEY & OOUNSELLOB-AT-LAW received facilities from the United States Bank, e WORK PROMPTLY DONE AT THE LOWEST RATES. which institution, up to the time of such accom- canvass for the nomination with zeal and energy; marry. jf they do not love—well, let them hope No. 342 D street, opp. City Hall. but the old sorrow, like the upas ot Oriental that they may be so fortunate as to do so in good marl9-tf2 modation, he had opposed and denounced in 419 Eleventh Street S. W. selO-lfl the columns of his paper, and thereafter had de- table, lingered with him, blighting all with I time. 7 THE CAPITAL.—OCTOBER 22, 1876. For THE CAPITAL. lously moulded to the last fashionable expression having been accidently npset in his lap, he was BALLOTS VEBSUS BULLETS. of flirtation or ennui. This is n«t a person to be pat seized with such terror at this nntovrard ocenrrence I TO TBAVELEBS. HOTELS AND BESTAÏÏBAST8. 44 'Hl.l Ml "" Troth crushed to earth shall rise again, ted off to sleep upon one's pillow, propped np on the that he rose from his seat, declaring that he was a The eternal years of God are hers ; table while one Is learning one's lessons, "or surrep- dead man. In fact no sooner had he got home than! jgALTMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. G. C. WILLARD, But error wounded writhes with pain, titiously dipped in the nnrsery-bath. Of grand he was attacked by fever and died a few days after- | And dies amid her worshipers.." dolls of this kind it may fairly be supposed that they wards, in the year 1710. OCTOBER 16, 1876. On ye freemen I Still victorious, are more blessed to the giver than to the receiver, I A. M. Leave "Washington. Let November tell the t«le; and that the former are of the wealthy-bachelor, S:oo Baltimore,Ellicott City and Way Stations. MISCELLANEOUS. 8:40 Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Station., Point EBBITT HOUSE, And the ballot, far more glorious god-papa order, whose intentions are good, but of Rocks and intermediate stations. Main Than the bullet, shall prevail. whose domestic education is imperfect. They are stem. GTEIN WAY'S LAUKELS. 7:10 Baltimore and Alexandria Junction. Sanday beautiful objects in the shop-windowa, and they Thou hast met, the foe and conquered, stops at Annapolis Junatlon. WASHINGTON, D O. faithfully represent every fashion and every folly of THE JUDGES ¿WARD HIM THE HIGHEST HONOR 8:10 NÌW IMI, PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON EX- Not a blot of blood wag shed : OP THE f ORTT COMPETITORS. PRESS. Pulman Parlor Cars, (Sunday to Balti- Brother may have brother bantered, the moment. But what healthily-constituted child, more only, stops at Way Stations.) But no mother mourns her dead. with brains, would really care to have a model of PHILADELPHIA, September 27. 8:30 Baltimore and Way Stations. IMPERIAL HOTEL, 8:40 Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Pittsburg a skating rink, with two couples of rinkers in cor- The agony of exhibitors as to the awards Is over. Ow- Tiuth with falsehood sternly grappled •express. Frederick. Hagerstown and Valley rect attire and the dantiest miniatures of Plimpton's ing to the fierce competition among piano manufac- Koad. Parlor and Sleepers. No connection for In fraternal loving strife: Cbleago on Saturday. skates, moving mechanically over the floor ? Such turers, the greatest Interest was manifested to know Thus your country's foes ye've baffled. »»0 Point of R.cks and Wav Stations. Harrisonburg WASHINGTON, D. C. a toy has nothing bat its cost to recommend it, and who had carried off the highest honor. STEIN WAY & and Way Stailoni. Valley Branch, Piedmont Thus ye've saved th« nation's life. SONS, as usual, are the Tlctors. The fudges at Philadel- and Way Stations. Main Stem; Hagerstown. the youthful proprietor who should pull it to pieces 8:20 NKW YOIIK AXD BOSTON LIMITED EXPRESS. On ye heroes to the field, phia hare indorsed the verdicts of the juries at Paris to see how it was done would command our appro- Baltimore and Philadelphia and all Eastern J. S. PIERCE, Proprietor. Brighter victories etill t© gain : and at London. Forty different makers, comprising cities. No stops, except at Relay, for through val. . Other objectionable dolls are the fine ladies in ail the most noted at home and abroad, competed,and passengers. Sunday to Baltimore, Relay and Never to the spoilsmen yield, promenade costumes, with realistic, lank cheeks, lhe American STEINWAY IS THE BEST. The fol- Annapolis only. Scorn submission to their reign. P. M. THE CARROLLTON tight mouths, wasp-like figures, and languishing towlng extract, which will serve as an Illustration, tells 12:15 Baltimore, Way Stations, Ellicott City and An- Conquerors ye have been before, ©yes, with all the effects of bisire and belladonna why the judges, in their report, recommended the napolis. 1:40 NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND NORFOLK EX- BALTIMORE, LIGHT AND GERMAN STB., And can conquer them »gain : faithfully presented. Perhaps it would be absurd to awarding of a Diploma and Medal to Stelnway: PRESS. Alexandria Junction. On Sunday all Victory's shout from shore to shore, talk of a doll as a moral, immoral or unmoral "FT Greatest Concert Capacity in Grand Pianos, Way Stations and Baltimore only. 3:30 Baltimore and Way Stailons. Frederick via BALTIMORE. Freedom's banner shall maintain. agency, but children are at least as well without as also Highest Degree of Excellence in all their styles, Relay. suggestions of Madame Benoiton. vlt: Largest Volume, Purity and Duration of Tone 4:30 BALTIMORE AJTB LAUREL EXPRESS. R. B. COLEMAN. Proprietor Vain their proud official hosts, and extraordinary Carrying Capacity, with precision 4:3j Frederick and Point of Rocks (via Motropolltan novio-iyi Vain their tributary gold : Supposing the flaneur to be also an intending pur- and durability of mechanism; also, Novel Disposition Branch.) Connects on.Saturday for Hagerstown What are now their empty boasts, and Winchester. • "•J" » »O JW HOOTKX., chaser, his difficulty of choice will grow with every of the Strings and Construction and Bracing of the 4:45 Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. Fred- Since the tale October told ? moment, as he catches sight of the waxen beauties Metal Frame erick. GEORGETOWN, D. C. 5:30 Baltimore and Way Stations to Annapolis Junc- V. SHINIf Proprietor. Truth is mightier than the sword, which hang, like Bluebeard's wives, in corners, who After this follows a minute description and com- tion. This hotel Is conveniently located, being situated on And o'er falsehood still shall reign; form garlands of florid cheruos across the window- mendation of six of the principal and most valuable of 6:45 CINCINNATI AND LOCISTILLE EXPRESS. (Ex- the line of the Washington and Georgetown City Pas- cept Saturday;) Hagerstown and Winchester. senger Railroad, the cars of which, from the Railroad Till our unity .restored, tops, or peep at him from glass cases with sly blue Stelnway A Sons patents. Sleeping cars to Cincinnati and Louisville. and Steamer Depots, pass.the door every two or three Peace and plenty smile again. eyes or bright black ones, with sweeping lashes, dls- W. G. METZEROTT A CO., 8:50 Point of Rocks and Way Stations. minutes. The guests or this House can reach any of octl-tfs , Sole Agents. »25 Pennsylvania avenue. the Public Buildings of the National Capital, or any tractingly real, and such lovely hair. It is brushed 7:oo PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. place of amusement, Ac., by a pleasant ride of a few Duty be the watch-word now. 7:15 Baltimore and Way Stations. •minutes. Till the final victory won ; back from their snowy temples in rippling, silken 7:35 Pittsburg, Chloago and Columbus. DUNCAN80N BROTHERS, »20 Baltimore, Aieatandrla Junction and Relay. Board per day, S3. By the month at reduced rates. Men of anvil and the plow. waves, or laid fla^o n their beautifully shaped heads lo:ooNsw YORK AND PHILADELPHIA NIGIIT EX- sep28-tf8 Finish what they have begun. in soft little curls; it is braided in high coronets over PRESS. Sleeping cars to New York. the brows of the more intellectual—for there are 10:05 Baltimore and Way Stations to Annapolis Junc- Still let Tilden be the cry, tion. HARYEY'S Till Reform shall win the day; dolls of talent and character among the collection, 11:45 ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI AND CHICAGO EX- whose bumps have been studied—or it is tied np in AUCTIONEERS, PRESS. On Saturday to Louisville. Sleepers. When November, drawing nigh. 7:10, 8:1», 8:40, »:io a. m.; 1:40, 4:4T, 6:io, 5:45,7:00,7:15, Old Established jUtiHe«' and Gentlemen's Spoilsmen shall be swept away. irresistible clubs and pigtails. The dark haired dolls 7:35, 9:20, lo:oo, lo:oc aud 11:45 p. m., dally. are less costly than the fair haired, because fair hair AH other trains dally, except Sunday. No connection on Sunday for Hagerstown, Valley Ballots and not bullets then, (human) is much dearer than dark, and fair mohair Branch, or for New York and Philadelphia at 8:10 a. OYSTER SALOON AND RESTAURANT, Shall decide the nation's fate: is less succefrbful, though it looks wonderfully bright Corner of Niuth and B streets northwest. m. and 1:40 p. m. 1016 Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh Brother shall, as fellow-men, „.for further Information apply at the Baltimore aad and silky too, spread out on the shoulders of a beau- street, Washington, D, C. Then with ballot-» save the State Ohio tlcketomces, Washington Station,and 485, «01 and tiful waxen lady in a white dressing-gown, who is 803 Pennsylvania avenue, aud «13 Fifteenth street north- WASHINGTON. west, where orders will be taken for baggage to be The largest Orster House in the United States. All contemplating herself in a loeking-glass. If one can REAL ESTATE AND TRUSTEES' brands of the finest oyster» that thebrlny deep can pro- checked and received at any point in the city. duce are served with every Imaginable dish that can be get a peep behind the window, one may see scores SPECIALTY. THOS. R. SHARP, called for. DOLLS. of waxen busts not yet stitched on to their respec i r » ,,,,, „ Master of Transportation. The Ladles' Saloon is one of the handsomestln all Its L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. appointments, and is conducted especially for them. tlve bodies, and discern in half-opened drawers hon Sales of every description personally and promptly | &EO. 8. KOONTZ, General Agent. febl-»5 Open from 8 a. m. until midnight The Ubiquitous Toy tM it Appears in the dreds of ro*y, dimpled limbs—baby hands and feet— attended to. •SSrOvsters, Terrapin and Game a specialty. octl-8 GREAT a 8hop«. which look very funny in their unassociated cond- 1876. PENNSYLVANIA 1876 HARVEY