VOLUME Vili. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., OCTOBER 20,1878. NUMBER 34.

preter, every cursed fool In the country can read and diminutive court or South American republic. This Mr. John O. ¡Pugh retires from the ohoir of St. EDITORIAL ITEMS. THE CAPITAL, grin over the damnable record. preambulating polyglot is the most un-English British subjecti ever encountered, and is deoldedly the most Aloyslus church greatly to the regret of the pastor THE funny man of the Boston Post needs fish diet, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT LADIES' DELIVERY. agreeable man who buzzes at the wells. To-day he and of the congregation. The Catholic churohes have though he's-had too much to de. Let him beat that One reads this over an entrance to nearly all the gave us a seance on beauty and its preservation. Ac- been instructed by the reverend bishop of the diocese cording to this Admirable Orlchton, when Italy sends for idiocy. THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY post-offices in larger towns, where the crowd makes It torth beauty she always gains the palm among na- to curtail all expenses, and are so doing. The result 927 JO street, Washington, D. €• better for the gentler sex to have a separate window. tions, perhaps because the constant view of perfect is that the choirs are hereafter to be carried on by JOAQUIN MILLER weeps because he was not born in We never knew what a study of human nature this form and color which greets the eye there has a direct Italy.—Boston Post. And America weeps that he does or indirect Influence on procreation ; but oertain it is volunteers. DONN PIATT, ...... EDITOR. opening afforded until one day we had occasion to call that when an Italian is really beautiful the chiseling not stay there. on a friend whose duty as post-office clerk kept him at of the teatures and the harmony of the ensemble is The many friends of Miss Emma Harman ol TERMS: Per year, (including postage,) $3.50; six LONDON streets- are torn up pretty generally for this window. greater than in any other race. When the Countess Detroit, Michigan, will be pleased to learn of her months, $1.50; three months, 75 cents—In advance. Castigllone visited England twenty years ago Lord arrival in Washington. Being such a decided favorite new wood pavements. In about two years they will One would suppose this duty would be assigned to Palmerston gave a memorable dinner, to which he in- "Single copies, 5 cents. be torn up pretty generally to make room for some- a woman. But a postmaster soon learns that nothing vited nine ot England's greatest beauties to meet that last winter in society, it is hardly necessary to add . OLUBS: Ten oopies to one address, $20 In advance of the Castigllone. They were all assembled when thing more substantial, while the profanity ot the is more offensive to the lemale mind than to be that she will gain first laurels this season. with one copy free. Twenty copies to one address,$35 she entered, crushing and overwhelming as the statue " blarsted" Englisher will be awful to contemplate. waited on by one of her own sex. Merchants soon of Venus Anadyomene among those of lesser divini- In advance, with one copy free. The Mends of Mrs. Major B. L. Shelley are pleased discover this, and nothing retains female clerks In ties, and all the criticisms on her coiffure, toilet, haughty, imperious air, were set at naught by the fact to note her return to this city after an absence of six THE JEWS certainly must be, as far as individualiza- stores but the fact that they can be obtained cheaper that every line was perfect. 1 can quite believe the weeks spent with her family in Pittsburg, Pennsyl- tion goes, the most wonderful people In the world. SOCIAL GOSSIP. and are more reliable. They are not popular with statement, for a triend of ours in Paris owns an un- vania. Gambetta is an orthodox Jew, Disraeli a Jew, though draped statue tor which the Countess Oastlgllone la men, but women loathe and despise the female clerk. said to have posed, and it is beautiful. Our Admira- too truckling to public sentiment to be orthodox; the The Wife's Letters. We suspect that to this strange dislike may be traced ble Orlchton wonders that beauty should long be able to The engagement of Miss Nina French to Count de Rothschilds, who own Europe, are Jews. And the It has been lately decided by the highest authority the slow progress made by lemale physicians and endure the corrosive effects of modern fashionable Suzannet, formerly second secretary of the French tailors who own us principally so. ttfait the husband has no right to his wife's letters. life. Being so great a power, it is worth preserving Legation in this city, is announced. clergy. We believe the. average female would die In by more attention to hygienic principles. ' Why This is wise. It i s wiping out the last remnant of THE Radical press have a good deal to say about the greatest possible agony before submitting to the were Aspasia, Lais and, later, Ninon de l'Enclos Judge Swayne of the Supreme Bench will build a the greatest brute once known to civilization as the treatment of a woman doctor; and as to the clergy, beautiful to the end ? Because they cared for and the " Democratic victory " and " Democratic govern- nursed thefr health, their Intellect and all accessories cottage In Newport next spring. ment" at Mount Vernon, Indiana, referring to the husband-at-common-law. when the average female submits to such, we want necessary tor beauty to reign and • command. They This creature was a relic of barbarism. It came some reliable people to send us their affidavits to the ignored the benefits of progress and civilization, recent decisions of J udge Lynch there. They natu- down to us from a period that ante-dates th e birth of fact, and then we will not believe them. calorlleres, tight lacing, truffles, foie gras at midnight "SOUTH CAROLINA CHIVALRY." rally presume that those who go about raping prosti- and a B and S at three o'clock In the morning—all tutes are of the Republican party, and now mourn the Diary, mother of God, when women were regarded as The one charm about sickness, and one of the many meaning poverty of blood and nervous exhaustion. By the graoe of Probate Judge Samuel Lee, and something inferior to men. We should never have met them at St. Morits.' This is through the columns of a bloody-shirt journal of this fond votes lost. in sin, is the delicious privilege it gives of talking to one view of the matter, but it seems to me, Ella, that And this in the face of heathen mythology and a sympathizing listener about one's self. We force if Aspasia & Co. never grew old it was not only be- city—the last of Its name—we learn of " South Caro- THE English theatrical manager frequently writes christian records. With the heathens—grand old fel- our egotism on others as it is; but to have a doctor or cause they had the sense to preserve their health, but lina Chivalry " in bad grammar and worse veracity. his own puffs for the press. The editorial oritle gives lows they were too—Jove shared his power with Juno; because they had no heart. Beauty possessed ot a clergyman come and beg us to talk about our body heart must suffer, no matter how sound the body, and We do not know who Judge Lee is, except that he his honest opinion of the same thing. Under this and, while war and rough work of all sorts had male or our soul is a luxury that cannot be measured in suffering begets lines and gray hairs even in youth. was here in Washington on bad and unworthy busi- duplex elliptic arrangement it sometimes happens gods to represent them, wisdom and the arts had words. On this foundation Is medicine and the Cath- The noblest beauty, after all, is that of expression ; ness last winter; but the Idea of placing such a mur- that a musical performance whioh Is " perfect" In one goddesses, save and exoept Mercury, the god of and what face can express varying emotions that has olic church based, and so long as human nature exists felt none ? A summer resort is the very last place one derer of English as he upon the bench is sufficient to oolumn Is "wretchedly butchered" In another. And thieves, and therefore the deity in and about Wash- so long will the two be with us. seeks for intelligence, yet even here the most beauti- arouse the slumbering tiger in the bosom ol the most everybody is happy. ful women are not the most attractive. The woman ington. if we turn to the Hebrew chronicles we find This luxury would loBe nine tenths of its charm to ignorant clay-eater of the Carolinas. who looks equally well, morning, noon and night ; " CAN A MAN belong to a brass band and be a that Eve, our first mother, was made from a rib of the female mind If it were limited to women. whose face never changes ; whose brow is always The "Judge"—half brother to the " Major"—writes •hristlan ?" is the question en trial in Saddle River, Adam. Therefore Adam was. only the raw material A woman will hasten to open her inmost heart to a serene, is simply a being whose blood never rises that "the Bepublicans were subject to terrorism and above sixty degrees Fahrenheit. She may be a beau- New Jersey. The baritone has been expelled from out of which this finer and more perfect article was sympathetic man, when nothing but the dire necessity excitement." Of course they were. They were terri- ty, but for all that she Is a monstrosity. As well have church for playing where lager was sold, and the base manufactured. ot having nobody else will induce her to confide in a an iceberg lor a mother, wife, sister or friend." fied,because they knew th'elr carpet-bag system was drum and E flat aré likely to be kicked overboard for From the same history we learn that Adam, though female, and then two-thirds of her confidence will be ended; they were excited through raw whisky. He the same offense, being now on trial before the same strong of body, was weak of mind, and the women led lies. says that the Democratic rifle clubs, armed with rifles ecclesiastical jury. When the result reaches this •him. . What a strange thing is that egotism. When ex- A Breakfast at the Arlington. and a flying batters' ol artillery, paraded the streets of The women led him Into a devil of a business, to be country It may be presumed there will be a clashing cessive it Is a mark of insanity. The Hon. Stanley As the red autumn leaves are driven by the first Sumter, firing salutes until the Bepublicans entered sure. Bat that came from the lack of training, which of cymbals and a tooting of horns whtch will make Matthews insists that it is the cause a3 well as symp- wintry blast along the lawn that encloses the White the town, when they loaded the cannons each " with Eve, from the peculiar way In which she was brought the angel Gabriel throw up the sponge. tom of an unbalanced mind. He has a large assort- House in a frame of fading green, the advanced vi- ten pounds apiece of ten-penny nails, which were out, could not have. And after all, our dear old ment of Illustrations; but one is staggered by I dettes of society and politics move on the American pointed at the Bepublicans for more than three hours, ANOTHER CONFEDERATE OUTRAGE.—A Manchester mother only ended where bad little boys begin—in —, one of our most able jurists and brilliant states- capital, and fashion establishes her first picket within and on the slightest pretext would have poured a (Va.) man, named Burgess, seeing his house and lot lobbing orchards. men, who cannot talk unless talking about. himself. the pictured walls of the elegant castle whioh Mr. deadly volley into their ranks." being sold at auction, rushed out from the former with Thanks to the progress in pomological culture, He has been known to hold a dinner party three mor-. Corcoran named the Arlington, to set the imprimatur of It is difficult to understand, lrom this mingled ac- a two-edged sword, ground, according to accounts, to •choice fruits, such as pippins, bell-flowers and other tal hours on the one subject. the English nomenclature on our American hotel sys- count, whether the " ten-penny nails" were pointed the sbarpnass of a razor—he had probably been shav- savory sort of apples, are more common and not so pre- What a contrast he is to the Hon. Jeremiah S. tem. It Is a palace, cosy and home-liko, but a citadel to the Bepublicans, or whether the Bepublicans would ing with it on trial—and charged the bidders and by- cious. Therefore when a bey Invades an orchard and Black. This remarkable man not only prohibits all striotly guarded by the sentinels of style and fashion, have poured a deadly volley upon the ten-pennV nails, standers single-handed, slashing right and left, and Is caught at it the owner contents himself with fanning talk about himself, but, with a subtle flattery that like stern warders, keeping even the outer barbican or whether the ten-penny nails would have played putting the entire crowd into a panic. The ladles his little bay-window with a slipper. We suppose that wins like magic, he leads one Into talking about one's sacred against the assaults of vulgarity, while within havoc with the Bep's on the slightest pretext" or on fainted, the buyers got out of .the way and the auc- .at the early day referred to, when our first parents self. It makes no odds who—a little girl of sixteen or the graces preside In the salon» and boudoirs, and toast. tioneer hasn't been heard from yet. itransgressed, a real choice artiole of bell-flower was an old bore of sixty—it Is all the same; the cunning Bacchus holds his symposium under the frescoed ceil- Then this gallant Bepubllcan and most learned but worth ten cents apiece, and in heavy demand at that. old gentleman softly opens the door; the happy ing of the beautiful dining hall. uneducated judge gives himself away, as the vulgar However, to return to our mutton—and a tough old creature slides in, and then the old jurist, looking Along the tesselated pavements and mosaic floors a little boys say, by stating that he was In his house, Tlie Glasgow Rank. ram the husband at-common-law was—we say that the from under those shaggy brows, with kindly eyes and rose-tinted light sheds the effulgence of a dreamy and whioh was " surrounded with one of his (Hampton's) The latest disclosures exhlDlt a more disastrous state -claim to a wife's letters on the part ot the husband, endless play with that silver tobacco box, listens fanciful delight, which changes into the tangible lux- companies, threatening my lite in the most abusive of affairs than was expected. Since the commence- lately disposed of, was a remnant of that barbarism gravely, while he makes a friend for life. ury of reality as the eye rests on the table, so beauti- language." How could he, under these circumstances, ment of the year the weekly reports of the amount of which, regarding the women as inferior to the men, This, too, is a trlok of Senator Blaine's. He does not fully decorated with flowers and set with fragrant have counted those dangerous ten-penny nails on a bullion on hand, which the bank was obliged to make had the wife entirely absorbed in the husband. She play it so fine nor delicately as Judge Black, for he fruits that it would seem our noble host, Koessle, was pretext; or the half shell, or on toast, as the oase may to the government, so as to show that Its tunds were was regarded only as a process through which children knows that it is not necessary. The negro minstrel an enchanter, but that the genius loci, Carter, smiling have been? And how often does a man die with the maintained In due proportion to Its note issue, have could be brought Into the world, and something to who sang that he felt " like a mornln' star when 'lasses as a philosopher, who knows that true happiness is to disease of "abusive language?" been falsified by adding thereto Imaginary sums vary- have enough individuality to be beaten. Blackstone, was bein' poured over his head " told the story, and make others happy, stands there to demonstrate that This Daniel come to judgment next cuts the throat ing from £60,000 to £300,000. The directors' reports the great law commentator, gives us the sized stick the lasses need not be pure, so they be sweet. these are not tairy gifts. ot Llndley Slurray with: " I was forced to seekfefuge to shareholders also overstated the. amounts of securi- .to be used in such punishment. ties and bullion held In reserve by £929,761 and £200,- How delicious it Is, and how our sick friends im- The oompany consists of a senator, an English lord, tn a friend's house, where I remained hid the entire A CASE IN POINT. 000 respectively, and understated the loans they pose on us. We have known people really of brain to a banker, a leader of the German, a gold king from day." What became of the oompany threatening his It was in this connection that we learned, while a granted by £1,126,764. The directors furthermore put us through hour after hour of detailed accounts of Nevada, a dark Brazilian, a blonde princess of Amcrl life with "abusive language?" .Saw student, that the intricate difficulties of the law have been in the habit of treating In the balance- aches, pains, depressions, revivals, hopes, fears, medi- can society, a young English girl, as tresh as Hebe He says: " They charge that 1 made false state* were not so much in the rule as in the application of sheets £7,345,357 or bad debts cone half of which is cal treatment, doses, bleedings, blisterings, purglngs and able to walk twelve miles or follow the Fitz Wil- ments to the President while in Washington, and for them. We were In the office of an attorney dis- due by four debtors) as an available asset. The princi- and the reverse in their frightful details, until, near liam pack on a big-boned hunter; another young that they seek to destroy me." tinguished In his day for his sucoess before a jury, pal assets of the bank are bonds and shares of the and dear as they may be to us as friends, we are lady, who is the professional Clara Vere de Vere ot That the noblest roamer of them all did make the . especially when he had an Irishman for a client and Western Union railway of the United States, and tempted to end their misery and our punishment by a American society, beautiful, well posed, alternately falsest of false statements to Hayes has been published, . some of that witty people on the panel. One day a scrip ol the New Zealand and Australian Land Com- sudden and deadly assault. cold and warm, in a silk gown ot bleu de cendre, trim- and is a well-assured fact; but he continues In his . Hibernian, somewhat the worse or better from whisky, pany, the value of which is estimated at £358,450 and We know one dear Invalid G-od created to comfort mod with the faintest pink, and a necklace ot pearls novel and peculiar English: " I stated nothing but .came in. £973,845 respectively. Crowds were assembled before others, upon whose face a smile plays from the sun- clasped with an amethyst on a neck of snow, and op- the truth to the President, which is well known as the bank -and the exchange, awaiting the report, "Where," he cried, "is the Daniel O'Uonnell uv light of the heart, who looks up lrom yearsofpain after posite to her a dark, resplendent beauty, beetle- such by every honest man In my town." which caused consternation. A call for £500 per share .Ameriky ?" the comfort and happiness of others. We are given browed and gorgeous, with luminous, dangerous eyes. And so this Intellectual edition ot the carpet-bag V He is at court," we answered. Is anticipated, which it Is thought half the share- such spirits, at long intervals, by the (Jreator, to keep But the greatest and wisest of poets—if wisdom can jurisdiction continues. By his own statement the " Bad luck to that. 1 want him." holders will be unable to meet. The remainder of the alive our faith in heaven. be among the gifts of the muses—deolared, when he only case of bull-dozing consisted in " a colored man '?* You want some legal advice?" shareholders will thus ultimately be compelled to pay However, what we were saying is that the women's invoked the shade of Lucullus, that the beauty and knocked down and badly bruised and bloodied, and -"It's the same I'm afther." double. window at the post offioe Is an opening into the female brilliancy of a fete should be represented by the dishes for a long time it was thought he was killed.'' " Well, I'm a lawyer; I can give you the advice." heart worth looking into. Our iriend, the clerk, con- and wines, since In these are the real Inspirations of "It was thought he was killed for a long time" is Pennsylvania Justice. You a lawyer!" he exclaimed, with some contempt tinued his work of delivery, while we stood by him the occasion; for it is written that "man, being rea- good. It was the length ol time given to the credit of When a man, in most of our States, Is judged to be in his voice; "be me soul, but 1 thought you was a and looked out upon his customers. They were mostly sonable, must get drunk," and nobody has over de- negro murders that for so many years tired the Grant guilty of a deadly crime he Is either acquitted by a dhlrty clark!" workwomen, running from servant girls to school nted that hunger and wit are incompatible. Let the Administration into Its wicked mal-admlnlstratlon of bought jury, hanged by a mob of lynchers, or jerked " What's the matter? On what point do you seek teachers. Scarcely one could ask for letters, as a man dishes, then, be the symbols of happiness, and bottles justice to the once crushed South; but those days are to glory by j ust judicial means; but In Pennsylvania .advice ?" we asked, with much dignity. does, and hurry away. Each had something to say, the exponents of wit and wisdom, to the end that our now gone, and with them the era ot carpet-bag govern- the political teature asserts Itself In connection with '• I want me wife." and every one, without exception, when answered far-distant reader, marking his ambition by the pop- ment, upheld by illegal bayonets. the hempen sanction of the law, and It seems very "Well, sir," we said gravely, turning over the " No letters," lingered, as If the clerk might make a ular thermometer of the ballot-box, and hoping some The ungrammatlcal expressions from this Daniel certain that the State dare not execute the last and ¿saves of our Blackstone, "the law gives a man his further search, until pushed aside by another appli- day to be an M. O., may spur his intent with the come to judgment are about as true and faithful to most formidable of the Mollle Magulres—one Jack -wife wherever he can find her." cant. Men are too busy, too hard pushed by affairs, menu, and learn to know the reward of popular ora- the truth as all of the other cock-and-bull stories of Kehoe. "Is that so?" to do that sort of thing. tory. On tinted paper, edged with gold, beneath Ku kluxism of the past. Through the grace of the devil or Simon Cameron, " Even so." At long intervals a school girl would come up shyly a classic design of Cupid and Psyche, viewing in a . A Treasury Appointment. Kehoe's death sentence remains unsigned. The gov " But Dennis O'Bryan's got her locked up." and give her name, as if doing something extremely mirror the reflection of frolicsome gods and god- The only appointment made in the Treasury De- ernor of Pennsylvania has but two months more of " You can use all necessary vloletce to recover your naughty. desses, the reveler might read the inscriptions that partment yesterday was of a cynical character. official life, and perhaps is moved to compassion, lost property—to wit, your wife." Then again overdressed females with painted cheeks mark the mile posts on pleasure's turnpike, over which Captain Vance reoeived through the malls an appli- through that fact, to sympathize with and spare the " An' kin I smash his dhour wld an axe?" very boldly asked, In the name of Belle Something, he may travel in a golden-wheeled chariot, drawn by cant for a position, with 'a tag recommendation at- existence of this infamous murderer. " If necessary, certainly." or Klttie, or Katie, or Hattie, or Mattle Somethingelse, the peacocks of Venus or the veritable wild ducks tached, in the shape of a terrier dog of the feminine The reason evidently of the postponement of Kehoe's " Be gorra, but I'll do it." and getting a letter, would wink at our friend aS if that smoke on the plate before ht m: gender—the tag stating that the Dearer was a good And our client hurried away. In about an hour taking him into their confidence. death Is political. The Republicans tear the Influence Huifes sur demi-coquilles, saumon grille a la maître black Bepubllcan with Democratic influence. of the Mollle Magulres and their friends; and to all ..alter he returned. We saw at a glance there had been Women are naturally fine actresses, but there is one de hotel, filet de soie a la Normande, pommes de a general engagement. His broken nose, bloody thing very trying upon a respectable woman, and that terre Lyonalse, Barsac. Filet de bœuf béarnaise, eote- She was immediately appointed assistant chief of Impartial minds it stands that Hartranft dare not mouth and blackened eyes showed that his skirmish Is to ask for letters at this general delivery. Ordina- lettes d'agneau aux petits pois, champignons farcie, the Bat-Catchers' Bureau. sign the warrant ot execution lor fear of injury to his choufleurs au gratiu. Pate de gibier aux truffes— " Oh, canine, in our hours of ease, party. line had been driven in on his center. He had suf- rily we all know that such letters are directea to the Marcobruner. Galatine de Faisans. Omeiet aux Uncertain, coy and full of fleas, fered In his stores, for his old hat was gone, and his oare ot husband or lather. The exception makes a truffes. Cailles sur toast, blue wing teal, broiled, with When anguished hunger wines o'er men currant jelly. Chateau Y. Q.uem. Salade aux cres- Code and Cowhide in Virginia. • clothes, ragged before, were in tatters. doubtful departure. sons. Fruits. Pommery sec. We turn you Into sausage then." "I done It," he said. "I have been here some tittle time," said our lriend General Krenhelmer, editor of the Mecklenburg Thus one may behold thé distilled happiness of The Peace Medal. "You did?" "and I have learned that when a society lady pos- Democrat, has lately had a semi-political quarrel with Washington society, served after the most approved The good little Indians will be glad to hear that the " Be the holy poker but I did. I smashed the door sessed of a husband begins coming here for letters Hon. A. Hatchett, ex editor of the same paper, and methods, imported from France, with the choice medals with the head ot Mr. Hayes, the Great •In wid an' axe, and 1 gave Dennis a devil uv a baten." there is a screw loose. There's one now." the two gentlemen determined to settle their difficulty Chateau y Qualme and Marcobruner, from cob- Father, have been finished, and will be duly pre- " Did you get your wife ?" i'rdm a carriage that rolled up a lady well known to by an appeal from the code to the cowhide. In the webbed flask bottles,"ending with the sparkling Pom- sented to the chiefs, with some moral lessons on stay- " She wasn't there, but Dennis was, an' 1 gave oc- the best society of the olty stepped out, and entering, streets of the capital city of Mecklenburg they met, ery Seo, most delicious cf all that flows lrom the ing at the reservations ail the time. This sort ol con- cashun for the doother, praste an' undertaker all at asked for and received a letter. She started slightly and simultaneously drew their keen weapons and copious fountains of Epernay. ciliation policy must have a beneficent effect in se t- -once, I did." on seeing us, but taking the letter, walked bac k to went at It In a manner to make the chivalry blush. tllng the Indian question, but the benefits would Our first client discovered, when looking at bars from her turn-out The marriage of »Ir. Calderon Carlisle of Washing- In a moment the air was dark with the fur whioh was surely be more far reaching if the medals were also 'the county jail, In contemplation of the penitentiary, " Going to be an explosion there one of these days," ton and Miss Kate Carnick Thofhas of Bichmond was made to fly; coats, trousers and waistcoats gave way distributed among the unfriendly and warlike chiefs. before the keen and Incisive weapons, and in less than that It was a " dhlrty clark," and not " the Daniel said our friend. celebrated on/ Thursday evening last In Richmond, A bronze medal with the head of Hayes on it could •O'Connell uv Ameriky," after all, whose advice he "Nonsense," we answered. "She is one of the the ceremony being performed at the First Baptist a minute a female villager who was viewing the con- not fall to soothe the savage breast, and nothing cal- had iollowed. most respected ladies in our midst." Church by one of .the eminent divines of the sect to flict tied wildly, declaring that no modest woman culated to bring about such a desirable result ought THE FEMALE LETTERS. V Don't care—she calls for letters lor her maid." which the lady's family belong, and the reception could stand by and behold such a proceeding, mean- to be left undone. This miscegenation of Black and White, known as "How do yon know they are not? She has a ser- being at the house of her father, Mr. James Thomas, ing that the combatants were likely soon to be in a writing, is like your greenback—which, if at par, is vant of that name." who is a wealthy citizen ot high standing socially and Tlie Cigar Partition Case Decided. state of Adam and Eve exposure. money, and acceptable; if below par, it is currency, and "She was too confoundedly anxious to have mo In business. Yesterday in the United States circuit court of Bal- At the end of the next minute her worst tears had not acceptable. That is, If the letters of wives are know who the letters were tor; and then ladies do not The bride has been among the most admired daugh- timore Judge Bond filed his decision, dismissing the been realized, for the almost naked fighters fled to innocent there is no reason for concealment from the take such pains to get letters for the maids. And why ters of the Old Dominion ever slnoe her debut in soci- bill of certain tobacco and cigar manufacturers and their homes, bleeding so that they haven't yet been husband; if they are not they are dangerous, to say the devil don't they go with her husband's mail ? i ety, and is said by all who know her to be as good as dealers praying for a permanent injunction enjoining able to leave their beds. the least. Intrigues are not conducted openly, in tell you there's going to be an explosion." she is beautiful. She therefore brings a double internal revenue officers lrom executing the order of .broad daylight. Like all other crimes and misde- And sure enough the explosion ocourred, and the dowry te her husband, whose character and talents the commissioner, which requires separate rooms tor An Assault. meanors, they are done in the dark; and it is as well parlors and papers are yet rumbling bacU the echoes. highly entitle him to the blessing of such a wife.. the manufacture and sale of cigars. Tnis decision George Mantz assaulted and badly beat William to leave as few traces of the offense as possible. virtually reverses that of J udge Giles of the district Tourney last night on C street, between Ninth and An Irishman on Italian Beauty. Miss Una Sailers ot Washington, Ohio, was de Messrs. Black & White therefore is a bad firm to deal tacbed from single blessedness and attached by wire oourt pronouncing Commissioner Baum's order un~ Tenth streets. Tourney's skull was Iractured, and he We oopy from the lively correspondence ot the Lon- with. They won't lie. Once put upon-the stand, and to Mr. Wheeler Ellis of Georgetown, Colorado, last constitutional. was insensible when brought to the station-house. don Truth a reminiscence of the famous beauty, Oas- the culprit realizes what the colored stage-driver said, Thursday, the happy couple being some three thou- The case was that of Collector A. M. Prond seizing Dr. Walter was called In and dressed the wounds, tigllone—not so muoh on aocount of its story as the when comparing stage acoldents to railroad casualties, sand miles apart at the date of the ceremony, it re- oertain goods upon the ground that tobacco manufac and pronounced them dangerous, If not fatal. It writer's just reflections on the preservation of female When de stage upsots'dere you is, but when de loco- minds us ot a popular Sunday-school story anent tele- turers could not sell their goods at retail upon the spot seems Mantz and Toumey had a quarrel some weeks beauty. Show us the smooth, round cheek and clear, motive busts where is you ?" graphic communication, but we generously refrain. where they-were manufactured. ago, in which the fqrmer was badly beaten, and last calm eye ot a woman who, like Dogberry, hath had It Is no great feat anyway. When tt is made possibl evening they met and Toumey was beaten. Through that vast library which goes to record di- her losses, and we will show you a heart that is dead to wire a man out of matrimony in the same style the Conkllng. vorce suits and cases ot crim. con., what a prominent as Julius Caesar's. Nothing so destroys good looks as Invention may be trotted up this way, and the in- Rosooe's reception at the Academy of Music in Maryland Jockey Club. part is performed by letters. The impassioned ap- the wear and tear of the affections. But here Is what ventor draw on us for the Cincinnati price of one Philadelphia on Friday night was quite an ovation to peals, the hasty admissions, the memory of past bliss, the witty correspondent says : BALTIMORE, October 19.—The fall meeting of the when uttered in balf-whlspered words, are dissipated beer. the muscular swell of the Radloal party; but his Maryland Jockey Club, which begins at the Plmlioo " On arriving at St. Morltz we were greatly puzzled speech was little more than a dry dissertation on race course next Tuesday, promises to be one ot the In thin air, never to be recalled save from the tortured by a man whom everybody seemed to know, who Among the pleasant coming soolal events is the onest and best attended ever held by the club. About memory of the listener; for sooner or later the torture talked Italian like a T uscan, french like a Parisian finance, that was more senatorial than popular. He fine hundred horses have arrived at Plmlioo, repre- marriage ot Miss Moitié M. Evans and Mr. Living, senting the following stables: D. Me Daniels, L. L. •comes. But when reduced to writing they pass from and English like a cultivated Irishman. First we wove the bloody shirt, however, into the texture of his heard that the Spaniards claimed him lor their own, stone Browning, a well known member of the harangue, and thus secured spasmodic applause from Lewis & F. Stearnes, jr., Thomas Puryear & Co.., Ed. the keeping of the insane to the inspection of the cold but when we came to know him he turned out to be a Washington bar. Miss Motile Evans is one of our Clabaugh, George Lorltlard, Owens & Cadwallader, blooded—a fearful hand-writing upon the public wall, native of the Emerald Isle, the last male representa- the more violent of his audience.' He went for Sam. Fleming, Thomas W. Dos well, C. F. Brown, Burch, tive of one of its oldest families, a British diplomatist most charming young ladies, and Mr. Browning's Randall with some first-class double-distilled venom, Governor Bowie, C. W. Medinger, James Jennlng, differing only from the few words that startled the for the last twenty years, who has recently abandoned gain is our loss. Miss Evans is the daughter of Dr. T. B. & W. Davis, Payne, McMahon, A. D. Brown, 1 and on the whole the Radicals think that Roscoe eyes of the Hebrew oppressor In the faot that while a career which he considers stale, fiat and unprofita- Warwick Evans, one ol our oldest and best known Daly Brothers, Pryor, Drcyer Brothers, Snedlker, made a tine effort, calculated to rally the flagging Welch, Taylor, D. McUarty, Babcock, Fitzpatrick, - the sentenoe on the palace wall called for an Inter- ble,' virtue meeting with its own reward in some physicians. •lins. Charles Reed and P. Lorlllard. THE CAPITAL: OCTOBER 20, 1878. 2

" Mr. Clinton. Well, how far back does this express the cabin flew open, a blast of wind came OLOTHING. MEN, WOMEN AND THOUGHTS, of yours ran?" [Laughter.] in, the miner's candle went out, a faint [From THE CAPITAL'S Standpoint.] This the witness evidently thought im- "Ha, ha!" seemed to come from a dis- pertinent and did not answer. Mr. Clinton tance along the mountain side, and all was Light and Heat. hushed again. The Holy Combination for heating cities is did not press it. Witness had had commu- Some of our Leading Characteristics. And the miner doesn't know exactly talked of with revived interest, the inven- nications from persons who had not been whether old Pete is actually dead or not. , tor having originally demonstrated the prac- dead ten minutes and from sòme dead for ticability of the scheme in Lockport, in hundreds of years. Among others he named Long-Lost Brother From China. •western New York. Washington and Franklin. He could not A green-grocer in New York had a pretty Contemplating some of the new inven- undertake to say whether the communica- wife, who at times looked into the street tions and discoveries, it looks as if we were tions he received were true or not. He was with one eye closed, and as the grocery man on the verge of immense changes in our satisfied that they were genuine, and he noticed upon such occasions a handsome he EXCELLENCE. methods of life, for we shall soon light himself believed they were true. He could promenader was passing, he concluded, upon and heat our cities in a new way ; one will not put himself in condition to communicate mature reflection, that his wife was a co- XN" POI^T OF QUALITY be accomplished by electric wires and tubes, in a moment. He must be in an entirely quette, not so devoted to her lord as she Our stock, having been selected with extraordinary oare, and special reference to its- the other by steam pipes. The steam heat- passive condition. should be. And that very evening he found ing has been found to be the best, and in « Can you call a spirit now ? " asked Clin- a note in her room couched in these terms: adaptation to the wants and tastes of our customers, will be found to be very superior- large buildings the method is found easy, ton, evidently wanting to subpoena a ghost "DBARMABYAMN: Be there." Kiss. Ignoramus hus- and desirable in quality. convenient and healthful; it is only neces- and cross-examine the disembodied wit- band unsuspecting dead-beat. Skylight. Eng go sary to extend the system to the community nesses from the other world. unum E pluribus chang." plan, as in the case of gas and water, and "No, sir," exclaimed the Doctor quickly. "I'll make a skylight in him," said the one ot the great changes is accomplished. The Court said solemnly : " If he can he grocer, as he loaded a junk-shop musket As to the electric light, the fall in gas had better call Commodore Vanderbilt at with small bird-shot and went into the ap- In IPoint of Workmanshipj stocks proclaims the inevitable fate of the once, and inquire what was intended by the pointed trysting place, where he had not Controlling the manufacture in every particular of our garments, and shrinking all goods • present system, while Edison's genius guar- will." staid long when his wife crept up with a antees the speedy adoption of the new. The Doctor said he believed in a heaven, smile of anticipation on her face and a tin before cut, we can justly claim to offer the best finished Ready-Made Clothing in the Dis and Clinton asked if his telegraph Une ex- We only hope that in the great cities the kerosene lamp in her hand. trict. proposed improvements will not become tended as far as hell, to which the Doctor Waiting to prove himself that which he grand jobberies. answered that he dealt only with good most abhorred, the grocer kept the junk- spirits—a rule which is as wise in our physi- shop xnusket cocked, until, as the clock A Model Race—The Iron Horse Against cal as in our mental connections. tolled the midnight hour, he heard foot- the Old-time Racer. steps, and in a minute the scuttle was raised The Gnome of the Cometock. Last Monday, just after the express train and a foot appeared. The grocer shot it full IIST POnSTT OF FIT, on the Long Island railroad passed Hemp- Old Pete, or " Tunneling Pete," is a man- of bird-shot, pulled down the owner, and By reason of recent very extensive improvement in our facilities for cutting and getting mole in Nevada, who came to California in stead, an old race horse jumped on the track pulled out two handfuls of hair from his ''49, and as soon as he got into the gold belt, up gentlemen's clothing, we can insure as perfect fitting and good setting garnlents as in front of the train, and with a flourish of head, in spite of the protestation of his took pick and shovel, disappeared beneath his tail and a defiant snort, started for a wife, and started off. The next day he re- could possibly be made to order. race. The iron horse answered the chal- the surface of the earth, and since that ceived a letter from his wife, telling him to lenge with an angry shriek, and said time has only been seen in daylight at rare return and all would be well, except the plainly, clear the track; but the old racer intervals. When he does come up he foot and head of the skylight visitor. had his mettle up, and was going to have a blinks at sunlight, and puts on a pair of BEAUTY. The grocer was inexorable. What, nur- run. Away he went, with the engine blue goggles, that, with his make-up of red ture in his own house the vile seducer who In. !Point of Style, right on his heels. At the quarter pole the nose, pale face arid hair clotted with ciay, had robbed him of his happiness through a engine threatened to lap the horse, but the make him look like the stage devil of a New patterns, unique and handsome designs, skillful cutting, fine finish, the best trim» skylight? Never. horse forged ahead on the next half, and pantomime. He curses all the time, and mings, &c., all combine to make our goods remarkable for beauty and general attraotivfi- Then another note came, saying that had two lengths the advantage on the last gloats over the rich deposits of ore he has George might die, and he suddenly discov- quarter. He came tearing by the mile pole found, and which nobody else will ever be ered that he had shot his brother-in-law and Btarted on the second mile as it he was able to get at. He has gathered millions of from China, which is the very reverse of j ust beginning. The more the engine whis- gold, but cares for it not to use, but from a shooting a mother-in-law at home. When tled the better he ran, until the engineer diabolical sense of the love other people George gets the bird-shot out of his foot the threw open the throttle, put spurs to his have for it. He burrows under mountains Fall Stock, New Goods, Tasteful Selections, nag and went for the horse of flesh and grocer may be happy. He had been read and under the beds of great rivers, for he blood. In vain; the old racer seemed as ing about Tilden's ciphers, and wrote in uses his tools with superhuman skill. Last much at home as if he was on the turf. He that style, when he wished to give his sis- year he came up suddenly after he had Unobjectionable Prices. went over the cross-ties like a poet's Pe- ter's husband a surprise. been supposed dead for three years. He gasus up the steeps of Parnasus. And at had just life enough left to say that he had last, at the end of the third mile, gave a last been away up under the roots of the Com- snort in token of victory, and capered off stock during the past three years, and had into a road which crossed the track. there seen more wealth than Fair, Mackay H. T. HELMBOLD'S Lights and Shadows. or any mining millionaire of them all had A single life often stands like a barrier dreamed of. Compound Fluid Extract between splendor and penury, for some ad- "They will never find it, though," ohuck- venturous individual whom fortune loves led he, " they will never find it ! They will to play pranks with. There is a fantastic never go down to where it is. They will be- and frolicsome spirit about the way dame come discouraged far above, up among the fortune serves some men; the strong con- twisting clays and cross-courses, and faults trasts, the rapid changes, the kaleidoscopic and great horses of porphyry. I must die colors, and the rapid movements of such now and go to hell, as I well know, but lives make fascinating panoramic views that none of them will ever find what I have A SPECIFIC) REMEDY for all Diseases of the are vividly striking. seen—no, never!" Urinary Organs—Non-retention or Incontinence of Tailors and Clothiers, In a pot-house in Sydney, New South So saying the old fellow suddenly pressed Urine ; Irritation, Inflammation or Ulceration of the Bladder and Kidneys', Stone in the Bladder, Gravel Wales, a few years ago, a handsome young his handB to his breast, a rattling came from or Briclcdiist Deposit, Bright's Disease, Milky Dis- fellow sat in the twilight ruminating on his his throat ; he fell back upon the ground, charges and all Diseases of the Bladder, Kidneys or Prostate Gland, whether affecting Male, Female or Northwest Comer Seventh and D streets Northwest. sad state of ragged poverty, and thinking gasped and clutched the gravel with his Child. sep29-3mos6 whether he could afford to spend a penny bony fingers; a tremor passed through his FOR WEAKNESS arising from excesses or dissi- for a beer, to celebrate his departure for the frame ; he straightened out and was dead. pation, attended with some ot thefollowing symptoms: Nervous Debllitv, Loss of Memory, Indisposition to New Zealand diggings. Casting his eye The miners buried him and his pick, Exertion or Business, Shortness of Breath, Tremb- down the column of a newspaper, as he shovel and bar with him, thinking that was ling, Troubled with Thoughts ot Disease, Dimness ot Vision, Pains in the Bick, Chest and Head, Rush of waited for his luxuriant meal of a pot of the last of him. Last week, however, about Blood to the Head, Sl£in Eruptions, Pale Counte- beer, a cracker and piece of cheese, he 12 o'clock one gusty night, he came up fair nance and Dry Skin. suddenly read a personal to this effect: " A. and square in the center of the dirt floor of IF THESE SYMPTOMS are allowed to go on very CUTTING, MAKING frequently Epileptic Fits and Consumption follow. H. O. is requested to apply to Messrs. , a miner's cabin, down by the Lady Bryan, When the constitution becomes aflectedwlth organic A SPECIALTY, weakness It requires the aid ot an invigorating medi- «S-LA.RGE TOLDS OF OI.OTH to select from, representing the principal cloth houses ol New Toric^ Solicitors, George street, Sydney." and there sat winking and blinking in his cine to strengthen and tone up the system, which Philadelphia and Baltimore, and direct from Europe. By this mode you SAVE FULLYOKE1H1KB A. H. 0., who was the cheese and beer old way at the owner, who was lying in his HELMBOLD'S BUCHU does in every case. in the cost, with lull guarantee or CASH RETURNED. pauper, read this paragraph with great satis- bunk regaling himself with the yellowfever «INO. M. Artist Tailor, lilt Ave. faction. He dreamed that night of all the news in the Enterprise. HELMBOLD'S BUCHU je3-tf5 happy things that a personal might evolve, The miner was one of those who had as- LADIES' GOODS. except the right one, and that was that his sisted in burying the old fellow ; therefore HAS NO EQ.TJ AL in dlsea«es peculiar to females. DRY GOODS. Chronic Inflammation of the Ucerus and all complaints cousin, Viscount G., the healthiest young he was naturally a good deal surprised to incident to the sex. man in England, had suddenly died and see him come back. NOTICE OFJEMOVAL. DOUGLASS', left him (the poor beer and cheese pauper) Why, Pete," cried he, "where in h—1 the heir of a fortune and a title. He didn't HELMBOLD'S BUCHU We are now at our old stand, NINTH AND F STREETS» do you come from ? " go to the diggings. 817 MARKET SPACE, "You have named the place," said old IS UNECiU ALED by any remedy known. It is pre- Between Eighth and Ninth streets, The present Earl of Harrington, owner of scribed by the most eminent physicians all over the Pete. " I am fresh from the brimstone dig- world to be used after conttnement, and all enfeebled With facilities for doing business second to no house the famous yacht, The Bessie, is another in-J constitutions of both sexes and constitutions. gings of his Satanic Maj esty. I always knew in the city, and shall keep on hand at all times a No. 1 H C stance in point. His father, Hon. and Rev. STOCK OF STAPLE AND FANCY, FOREION » I should go there, and I told you so just be- AND DOMESTIC fc Fitzroy Stanhope, was a convivial divine,! fore I died." Dyspepsia or Indigestion, H Mh such as Mr. Trollope has depicted in the w "Why didn't you stay there? What HEADACHE, Pain in the Shoulders, Cough, Dizzi- 0 H father of the Countess Vesey-Neroni. A' ness Sour Stomach, Eructations, Bad Taste in the French Abbe once told an English brother brought you back?" said the miner. Mouth, Palpitation of the Heart, Pain in the Region In addition to a large stock of DOMESTICS, of all 4 ÖD "Well, I should have staid there, and of the Kidneys, and a thousand other painful symp- kinds and qualities, we are receiving almost every » that what he longed for was " one of your toms are the offspring of Dyspepsia. day, additions to our now large assortment ot H would have been comfortable enough, if I leavings (livings,) a charming sinecure h! H with nothing to do but to believe in God." I had not been able to see all that was going HELMBOLD'S BUCHU 0 0 FINE FABRICS « tf Such a thing suited the father of our on outside. 1 tell you when I saw Johnny INVIGORATES the Stomach, stimulates the torpid FOR LADIES' AN^CmLDREN'S FALL AND present noble lord, but not the son, who was Skae going straight down into that private liver Bowels and Kidneys to healthy action in cleans- treasure-house of mine the devil couldn't ing the Blood of all impurities and imparting new miserable, as a poor engineer. He was at life and vigor to the whole system. In BLACK AND COLORED SILKS OUR STOCK keep me. You fellows buried my tools with iS breakfast one morning, and happened to be A single trial will be quite sufficient to convince the BLAOK°ANb eOLORED SILK VELVETS—all me, and when the imps of the lower regions most hesitating of Its valuable remedial properties. THE GREAT thinking how much better meal he might qU came for me I was such a bag of bones that, BLACK AND COLORED OASSIMERES-all look forward to some day if his young wool—from 50 cents to f 1.60 per yard. cousin, Lord Harrington, was not such a in trying to get the whole of me, they Price, $1 per Bottle, or Six for $5. healthy fellow. In the midst of his medita- gathered out tools and all by mistake, and Housekeeping Goods, CURATIVaug4-3m3 E CORSET. tion a dispatch announced to him that dumped all down together in the devil's ALL KINDS AND QUALITIES, Lord H. had been killed in a steeple-chase, dominions. I heard the clatter of pick, and an almost endless variety of desirable goods, much To th.© Ladies. and that the immense estate and title were shovel and bar when they tumbled me too large to be mentioned In an ordinary advertlse- H. T. HELMBOLD, AN INDISPENSABLE TOILET ARTICLE.. his. He changed his order for breakfast on downoverthered-hotcliffsof hell, and when m Proprietor, !(W-Glve us an opportunity to show our goods, and we promise to do our best to satisfy all. MADAME LKWENBEKG'S PASTILLES DE- the credit of that telegram. I wanted to get out I just hunted up my FLORENCE (WHITE & ROSEES) are unlike any tools, tunneled under the walls—and here I WM. M. BROWN, other preparation. Used in the place of soap for th& The Ghost-Seers. face they remove TAN, SUNBURN, etc., and all IM- am." TEMPLE OF PHARMACY, 817 MARKET SPACE, PURITY and GREASY appearance of the skin, im- The scenes in the Yanderbilt will case re- Between Eighth and Ninth streets, parting a fresh, clear and very natural COMPLEX- "Yes, you are here—what next?" said 830 Chestnut Street, ocl3-t(3 Washington, D. C. ION. As an ABSORBING POWDER they cannot call Schiller's thrilling story of "The Ghost- be equaled In quality and purity. the miner. Seer," and the wild impression of supersti- PHILADELPHIA. N B —Ladies troubled with paleness or sallowness tious dread which was thrown over the soul Don't you fear. I am not come to stop A. TTWHÏTÏNG'S, will And MME. LEWENBERG'S ROSE POWDER invaluable. Price, 60 oents, at Druggists and Per- of the unfortunate Prince by the cunning with you—I am going up to the Sierra Ne- JOHN F. HENRY, CUERAN & CO. 924 Pennsylvania Avenue, fumcrs. mh31-t!4 jugglery ol the Spiritualist. vada to keep an eye on things. There has On cross-examination Dr. Mansfield said got to be a square deal up there, now that NEW YORK AGENTS. STRAW m BLEACHERY. Madame B. Yan Reuth, they are into the edge of it." Now Keady for Refluii-liing he was a doctor of medicine, although he SOLD EVERYWHERE. had never had a regular diploma from any " Otherwise, what ? What can you do ? IN ALI. THE oc20-ly2 0C13 4 college. His title had been given him by queried the miner. FALL STYLES PREMIER MODISTE. the public, and he had used it on his pro- "What can I do?" and here the ghost

# fessional cards. He was not a doctor of of old Pete chuckled horribly. " What did BEST SELECTION FROM EARLY IMPORTA- BBOKEB, divinity. A card represents Dr. J. B. Mans- I do when in the life?—such life as it was. " MORIARTY," TION OF FALL STYLES. field as a world-renowned spiritua me- Let Skae displease me and see what I will F STREET, OPPOSITE EBB1TT HOUSE, Merchant Tailor, NEWEST STYLES IN WEDDING TROSSEAUS, dium, and witness said it was his card. do ! Who let the water into the lower Will cash Regular Army Officers' Pay. Will also 612 » street nortliwest, near corner Witness said he made his living by convey- levels of the Savage and Hale and Norqross ? purchase Oregon Claims aeatnst the Government In Seventh, MORNING DRESSES and WALKING SUITS. unquestionable shape. The above business I propose With a New Stock or Choice Goods to select lrom, sep8-ly8 ing mess iges from the spirits to the living, Who did it ? Answer me that ?" making a specialty in future. Congress pay antici- highest prices paid for making, thereby saving the pated. onia-..m ANNVTMA H A 7. A IT Double Barrel Breech-loading and his charges were regulated according to I How do I know?—I wasn't there when annoyanoe ot alterations, and by means ot other ad- SX 0IVLLI>« UA/IJUII Central-fire Shot Cunl English vantages, fine goods are at low prices and perfect sat- Laminated Steel barrels I Lefau- the time of the audiences given to his pa- it came," said the ininer, becoming a little RS. S. J. MESSER, H ! isfaction in all cases. mnn-iy r • urubtjuiailiug "ulu A«""«"« . , _ ,, cheux double-grip lever action! tients. alarmed at the shrill and rather fierce Dressmaking from Latest Parisian atylcs. Stronger and better workmanship MOUTTiNG AND FITTING A SPECIALTY than the Remington or Parker I Mr. Clinton, one of the lawyers, asked the tones of old Pete's ghost. S T Taylor's Patterns, System of Cutting, and Md'me De Courcey White, Trial given and warranted to Journals, (Le Bon Ton, LeModo Elegante andRRevu e shoot wel 1 or money. refunded! doctor of spiritualism if he charged accord- " Ha, ha, ha ! No, you wasn't, but I was, Gun, with Poeketbook Cleaner— de la Mode,) for sale. (LATE OF LORD & TAYLOR'S, NEW YORK,) 1 dozen loaded shells—Loader, ing to the rank of the spirit which he called; and arn't they pumping yet? Oh-ho ! arn't mh!7-tl3 1213 Pennsylvania avenue - &e.—Cover and box sent any- where by express C. O. D. (seeing any more for an interview with Plato or they a-pumping yet ? Let them pump—let It before paying) for $25. Former HE CHEAPEST AND BEST COOKING AND 605 FIFTEENTH ST., price $55. Send for circulars. Lycurgus than with any ordinary mortal, them pump! I have brought in seas—I'll T FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER, O'Meara's G un Bazaar, Agency?*? bring in the ocean ! Thus far all goes well HEATING STOVES Washington, D. C. aM-M fiAwi.TMM«'—-^-a. to which the doctor answered: of the latesDEVINt ImproveE dSTOV stylesE aEXCHANGEt low prices ai , No«. 621 and 62S D Street H. W., 0T«r Mrs. Hunt's. au25-t!2 " No, sir. Though 1 do not know that I ever com- asquart thee Sierrdeala, oNevadar I'll , bu" t there must be a 832 and 634 D street, near Seventh northwest. sep22-lyT municated v 1th either of those you named." There was a clatter of tools, the door of sep29 5t8 THE CAPITAL: OCTOBER 20, 1878. 3

lie beautiful air, "Di Provenza," in which Germont selected with great care, and represent Gerome, For- PROSPECTUS. MISCELLANEOUS. " SAPHIR'S" NEW YORK LETTER, appeals to his son. The concerted piece in the third tuny, Achenbach, Bougalreau and other great mas- aot went well, and the final scene, in which Mfes ters at their best. «n8 Joy Treading on Another's Heels—The Grand En- Hauk provel her powers as an actress anew, held the Perhaps the ploture that attracts the most attention R. HARRIS & CO., tree of Italian Opera—How the Horse-Shoe of the attention of the public, who have listened to more is Fortuny's portrait of a Spanish lady, which is cer- eflective singing of the farewell to the past, but have tainly remarkably beautiful, and has that Indefina- Academy Shone—Improvements in the Auditorium— "THE CAPITAL" SOLE AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED seldom seen a better piece of actfng. There were two ble vitality which excuses some deficiency ill the " La Trariata's" Interpretation—Miss Hauk's Re- recalls at the close—a token as much of the public's painting of the flesh. Nothing but praise could pos- appearance—Great Success of ;Signor Galassl—A approbation of the excellence of the ensemble, for the sibly be awarded to the treatment of the dress, which Libretto War—Artistes Paying Calls—Mme. Modjeska chorus and orchestra were simply admirable through- Is so faithful as to almost seem to have caught the woof Parisian Diamonds. out, as of satisfaction with a singer who has yet to of the flounced black silk—the mode is In the Spanish Essaying Juliet—Sliakspeare in a Modern Manner— p rove her powers in Bizet's now popular opera. In style and the days of crinoline. The subjeot is, the The Picture of " Spring "—Fortuny's Portrait- the ball-room scene there was a ballet, and at catalogue says, the wife of a Spanish secretary of em- Marvels of Bric-a-Brac—The Loan Exhibition. any other place but the Academy, where the dancing bassy at Rome. That was years ago. She is proba- FOR. 1878. Noyelties in Solid Gold and (Regular Correspondence of THE CAPITAL.) seems to be regarded as an Intrusion, it not a positive bly a matronly senorita now, with few traces of the offense, the spectators would have applauded M'Ue enchanting beauty immortalized by the great pain- Gold-filled Jewelry. NEW YORK, October IT, 1878. Oalvalazzl's poetic and really consummate dancing ter. No. 435 Seventh street North- This Is a week of events—not one of those indif- to the echo. This premier is a very beautiful Italian, ferently dull "eight days," as the French have it, The brlc-a-brac, the pottery, the art decorations of west, who reminds one of Bonfantl. Tne other leading various sorts, Japanese costumes, china-ware, jewels, adding one to seven with characteristic exaggeration, dancer of the company is M'lle Marie Muller, a little WASHINGTON, B. O. but full of high days and holidays, marshaling a miniatures, armor, make up a bewildering show; but girl who was born In New York but trained abroad. it Is so well classified and arranged that there need DONN PIATT Edior. «-PRACTICAL OPTICIANS. sepl-ly8 succession of brilliant nights. And thd weather, al- She Is said to be a prodigy oi grace and skill. Her though unexpectedly warm, is in harmony with these be no confusion in the minds of those who make a father Is employed in some foundry in this city, and leisurely tour, with the aid of a catalogue. The pri- 0. R. WIXOM & CO., gala hours, which, being among the first of the season, I believe the child Is a protégé of Mme. Kattle Lin- vate view, at which flowers bloomed and an orchestra lEWlm-Mm t»TVT. are all the more keenly appreciated. The problem. ner. "Where are the people? are they back in town or played, and there were other gala adjuncts, was a As Mme. Gerster will probably not be able to appear very great success indeed, and there was a brilliant not?" has finally been definitely solved. You should A WEEKLY PAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST FAMILY FL0UK have fooked upon the horse-shoe sweep of the Academy for some little time—she is sick in bed with some low assemblage, Including Mrs. S. L. M. Barlow and fever contracted on ship board—La Sonnambula must others who have been generous in loans. The day be- IN THE CITY, of Music bbxes last night, when Miss Minnie Hauk, At $1.60 per Quarter Barrel, $6.10 per Barrel. SIgnori Frapolli and Galassl, and the general utility be deferred, together with Lucia, and other operas of fore I had seen an almost equally interesting exhi- people, led by Signor Ardlti, gave La Traviata for the her repertoire, in favor of Le Nozze di Figaro, Faust bition at the rooms ot Mr. Watson, who from being OLD GOVERNMENT JAYA, •opening of Colonel Mapleson's.season ol "royal" and, last but net least, Carmen, in all of which Miss an amateur has become a professional collector. But 30 Cents Per Pound. Italian opera. Not in the days when Nilsson's popu- Hauk will be conspicuous. Mme. Slnico and other of this anon, for no summary could do justice to the Politics, Literature, Societv prlme-donne of sterling talents will come forward, treasures which he has amassed, and over which brlc- All Staple and Fancy Groceries at larity was in its height, and fair hands showered roses WIXOM'S, and geraniums In an odorous rain upon her and that however, and we shall listen again to Signor Campa- a-brac lovers have gone a little mad. SAPHIIU ardent Victor or Victors, the effusive and burning nlnl, and to Signor Bel Puente, who is said to have 504 NINTH STREET. vastfy improved since the days when we wentNilsson- apH-tlS Quinine and Arsenic • Capoul, have the boxes of the opera house been peo- ing, a long time ago. At present every one is talking Form the basis of many of the Ague remedies in the and News. KLJX DESFOSSE'S pled by a more elegant and brilliant assemblage. about the opera, and It vies with Tilden's reply and market, and are the last resort of Physicians and peo- E From where Mrs. Hoey sat, blazing with diamonds local political puzzles in the public mouth. I can as- FRENCH BAKERY". ple who know no better medicine to employ for this (Established 1859.) and looking almost as youthful as her daughter, who sure you that Irving-plaoe was lively last night, for, distressing complaint. The effects of etther of these 18 TEARS OF INCREASING SUCCESS. was beside her In a robe of pale blue, to where Clara besides the long row of carriages driving up and de* FELIX DESFOSS£, drugs are destructive to the system, producing head- Louise Kellogg, in the same soft color, occupied one positing their occupants beneath the illuminated por The well Known and only real Frenoh Baker In Wash- ache, intestinal disorders, vertigo, dizziness, ringing of the " artists' boxes," a succession of fair women, in tlco, there was a libretto war going on, In which one ington, Is now at No. 2012 H street N. W., where he ha« handsome attire, and with uncovered heads, dis- of the ears, and depression of the constitutional health. PUBLISHED BÏ THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMP'Ï greater facilities than before for the manufaotnre of faction undersold the other, and let the fact be known the best French and American bread. tracted the gaze of the casual swells, in immaculate by means of lighted transparencies inscribed, "Books AYER'S AGUE CURB IS a vegetable discovery, contain- FRENOH BREAB A SPECIALTY. ing neither quinine, arsenic, nor any deleterious in- evening dress, all alike, who employed their lorgnettes of the opera, ten cents." As almost every one knows N. B.—French Bread is recommended for persons of gredient, and is an Infallible and rapid cure for every delicate health, especially for those snllering irom and.ohatted, and recalled the blackbirds who began La Traviata by heart, 1 can't possibly see how they form of Fever and Ague. Its effects are permanent dyspepsia. Beware of Imitations. to sing when the pie was opened. The crust of the oould have made much, especially at that low figure. Bepot at S. Yelatl's, No. 618 Ninth street, opposite and certain, and no injury can result from its use. Maplesonpoie was duly broken, and whir-r.r! whit a Just opposite there was not only a crowd to catch a Patent Office. sep8-ly8 Besides being a positive cure for Fever and Ague in covey of them! glimpse of the toilets and the general bustle, but R. C. BBMONTREVILLE, BENTIST, NO. 122a all Its forms, it is also a superior remedy for Liver The opening of the Italian opera season was, in- the steps of Irving Hall were peopled by citizens in D Complaints. It Is an excellent tdnlc and preventive, F Street northwest, between Twelfth and Thir- deed, attended by something like a demonstration. attendance on one of the numerous conventions now teenth streets, (same house with Br. O. O. Cox.) as well as cure, of all complaints peculiar to malarious, The preliminary trumpetings had put people on their engrossing attention. So, what with the fashionable Office hours dally 9 to 6. Sundays 2 to 4 p. m. marshy and miasmatic districts. It acts directly on WASHINGTON CITY. mettle, and every one seemed to come in evening world, the politicians, the libretto troops and the hack the Liver and biliary apparatus, thus stimulating the Thirty years experience. Celluloid, Gold, Platlna - dress, or at least to make some show of ceremony in drivers, Irving-place was in a tumult from Fourteenth and continuous Gum Work. Platinized Gold Fill- the matter of a light bonnet or gloves, or one of those system to a vigorous, healthy condition. ings lii front teeth an artistic specialty. REFERENCES: street to Grammeroy Square—or, as ft has been named Col. W. K. Rogers, Private Seoretary to the President; • details which the New York public, being Jond of its in honor of the Uncle Sam. of nephew Pelton, FOR SALE BY ALL BEALBRS. Gen. Wm. G. LeBuc, Commissioner of Agriculture; ease in its inn, slothful in the matter of ceremony, " Cipher Alley." Hon. John J. Knox, Comptroller of Currency; Sena- and fallen into the evil ways of a "hack" hat or a tor MeMlllan, Gov. Alex. Ramsey, Gov. O. K. Davll A custom in vogué among artists abroad, but very OIGAES AND T0BA000. IMPENMTiHD AGGRESSIVI business coat—which is, in deed, all that some operatic and others. oc28-ly8 rare here, has been revived here since the invasion of performances that have been tossed on our stage have THY THE our shores by Colonel Mapleson's minions. This Is Dr. James B. Hodgkin, deserved—has come to regard as "too much ol a the paying of visits to the newspaper offices, where bother." But they must have been very glad they the editor-in-chief and the musical critic are severally P. O. D. 5-Cent Cigar had put themselves to some trouble when they entered honored with a card and amicable expressions of the WARRANTED ALL HAVANA FILLER, the Academy and fouHd that erst rather dingy interior primo-tenor or the baritone whom they have only seen AT THIS JOURNAL CRITICISES PUBLIC No. 935 Pa. ave., Washington, D. C. -swept and garnished with soit crimson oarpets, tropi- and heard across the footlights. This delicate atten- cal plants in the foyer, and a warm, red curtain that MEN, DISSECTS PUBLICMEASURES, PROBES tion Is Intended solely as a mark of respect, and In FRANK LOUGHRAFS, fell in soft, graceful lolds, instead of being run up Professor of Bental Mechanism and Metallurgy, Balti- France it is carried so lar that some of the ladles de- PRIVATE CLAIMS, EXPOSES THE LOBBY and down on a roller, after the manner of the dusty S. E. cor. Hinth and F sts. If. W. novl8-lyl more College of Bental Surgery. marl7-lyl scend upon the sanctum of the wrfters of the press green baize of tradition. 1 am inclined to impute not ANB ATTACKS THE RINGS. CRISP, LIVELY, and express to them the assurances of their distin- C. TAYL0E H0LTZCLAW, a little of the pleasure of the evening to this curtain, DANIEL LOUGHRAN, guished consideration. It is usual here, Indeed, for SEARCHING AND SEVERE, IT GIVES THE which, refractory as it was at times, harmonized so the critic to receive a visiting card from the ialr and JOBBER OF well with the ruby-like tints of the proscenium boxes, FULLEST, LATEST AND FAIREST BUILDER, famous prlme-donne in acknowledgment of a review in which the fortunate daughters of moneyed men CIGARS AND TOBACCO, ol their performances. The invasion of Printing- half reclined, their arms and bosoms gleaming House square by energetic and long-haired gentlemen, Ohle Avenue, bet. Twelfth & Thirteenth Streets N. W. through white lace and soft silk of equal purity of NO. 1408 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, OPPO- filling the October air with soft, bastard Latin, melting hue, contrasted with the knots and bouquets of nat- like kisses, etc., Is not so usual as not to excite re- SITE WILLABBS' HOTEL. ural flowers at their corsage or on the velvet ledge be- WASHINGTON, B. O. feb3-ly« mark. They all speak French with an Italian accent mar25-ly6 fore them. The curtain, whioh, when parted at Inter- that betrays their nationality ; they are all very cor- Accounts of Life and Affairs vals, disclosed the principals bowing in response to MISCELLANEOUS, dial ; they hare their autobiographies at their togues' JOHN BARRY, unanimous plaudits, was certainly a great success. end, and they finally shake hands with effusion and It was the rose-colored portal to the new-old world of 1 bow themselves out backwards with a demonstrative- lyric art for which the musical public have hungered W Plumber, Gas & Steam Fitter ness that is quite overpowering to the distracted and thirsted for so lpng a time. scribe, who, with inky fingers, pen in hand, and at the Naional Capital. 1819 Seventh Street, bet. N and O N. W. After the lights had been turned up, flashing out "copy" in great stacks, tries to be appropriately grate- You can buy a whole over the crowded and expectant house, Signor Arditi ful and responsive. WALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. took the conductor's seat, but not before he had had Mme. Modjeska Is about to appear as Frou-Frou, in my8-tn to bow his acknowledgments for a warm reception. which one can "see" her, as it were, and It would be EDCAL BRBMICK GOV'T BONE ANTED.—You to know that aflrst-class second- Like most conductors—ourious fact—the composer of a good idoa if she would follow this assumption by the Which bonds are issued and secured by the Govern- hand suit Is better and cheaper than a common II Baclo and so many other popular airs has a bald Wnew one. Buy at " JUSTH'S old stand," No. 81» heroine oi Les Pattes de Mouche, which is known in ment, and are redeemed in drawings THE GREAT SOCIAL ANB POLITTOAL CEN- head, but he is a sprightly, active man, and what B street n: w. N. B.—Very good prices paid for llrst- English as A Scrap ol Paper. It Is easy to imagine class second-hand clothing. Notes by mall promptly there Is of his hair is dark. The curtain roBe, after that she would deal very charmingly with the glitter- FOUR TIMES ANNUALLY TER OF THE COUNTRY.-®» attended to. mar21-tft the brief introduction, on the "halls of dazzling ing comedy of this most ingenious of Sardou's crea- Until each and every bond is drawn with a larger or light," in which the fair and frail heroine meets for tions. As Juliet she has failed to distinguish herself. smaller Premium. EVERY bond MUST draw a J. L. SMITHMEYER & CO.. the first time her devoted Alfredo. The stage was It is quite easy to see that Mme. Modjeska has not Prize, as there are no BLANKS. ARCHITECTS, more effectively arranged for the scene than I remem- THE TH BEE Highest Prizes AMOUNT TO the scope and elevation which tragedy demands. She 210,000 Reichsnmrk Gold. NO. 70S FIFTEENTH STREET, BETWEEN G • ber to have ever seen it, the tables being disposed, Is an actress of to-day essentially, and she plays Ju- AND NEW YORK AVENUE. with their mock viands and glittering candelabra, In 120,000 " " febl8-tfd liet In a modern manner, from her very limitations. 48,000 « « the center of the stage, near the footlights, and the Bo not for one moment imagine that there was any- And bonds not drawing one of the above prizes must LIVEBY STABLES. • chorus, although as ugly as the one which has taken thing harsh or out ol time in her performance, but it draw a premlun of not less than 68 MASK GOLD. root with us, seeming to have been taught to make a was nevertheless sweet bells jangled, for it never can The next drawing takes place A. B. KEYK8. J. L. SMITH. picture, instead of ranging themselves In rows like a -be satlslactory to see an actress essaying a role for battalion. Presently there is clapping of hands, for which she is unfitted, no matter how greatly the 1st of NOVEMBER, 1878, Violetta comes on almost Immediately, you remem- oharm of her personality or her experience as an ar- And every bond bought of us on or before the 1st of ber, and Miss Minnie Hauk emerges from the throng, tiste succeed in making amends for her failure to NOVEMBER is entitled to the whole premium K.E3YES db Co. from which it is at first difficult to distinguish her, realize the ideal In the minds of the spectator. 1 that may be drawn thereon on that date. smiling and bowing right and left. When she last set Out-of town orders sent in REGISTERED LETTERS, read once in a review of a certain actress' Juliet, pub- and inclosing foot on this stage she was a promising, but inexperi- lished, I believe, In THB CAPITAL, that sometimes it COACHES, enced, girl, with her road to make. Now she is a reminds the beholder of Lady Macbeth, sometimes of AMONG ITS CONTRIBUTORS ARE: woman, with an established reputation and the pres- Bfanca, and so on. Mme. Modjeska Is too much of an will secure one of these bonds for the next drawing. tige of an extraordinary success in at least one opera- artiste to commit such a series oi faux pas as the above For orders, circulars, or any other Information, Carmen—which we are to hear her in next week. She address: OPEN BRETTS, assertion implies, and her conception was certainly INTERNATIONAL BANKING CO., certainly looks Violetta, In her pale blue dress with consistent In Itself, but It was radically wrong, for it BRET HARTE, its bands of silver embroidery, and some bright flowers conveyed the Impression throughout that it might 185 Chatham Square Bank Building, New York city. ESTABLISHED SINCE 1874. LIGHT WAGONS, in her dark hair. She has a mature, well-developed have had had she been playing one of Bumas' or N. B.—The bonds we offer for sale must not be GEO. DOUGLAS (BEAURY,) figure, and a bright, saucy, dark face, and her abandon Sardou's, or any other modern dramatist's, heroines. classed or confounded with the so-oalled Lottery as an actress Is evident. The voice Itself is not a In brief, her Juliet, finished as the aotress was, and Tiokets, as the sale of these bonds does not in any way .phenomenal one by any means, but it is clear, ring- conflict with the laws of the U. as lately decided by ALMONT BARNES, original as were many of her points, was as much a SADDLE HORSES, ing, "full-throated," and of good compass. Mlse the V. S. Courts. woman of the world as though she had been tne In writing to us please state that you saw this in Hauk is rather a mezzo than a pure soprano, and, Baronne d'Ange of Le Beml-Monde, or who not in THE WASHINGTON CAPITAL. sep29-lmo4* MARIE LE BARON, after hearing such a singer as Nilsson in the florid the repertoire of the contemporary French theater. D O UBLE and, SINGLE B UG GIES passages of the Sempre Libera, her high notes were Her ardor was intense in the balcony scene, but It sot as Impressive as might have been desirable. The WILL STUART, lacked the vibrations of spontaneity and the glow of change of pitch, too, affeoted Miss- Hauk to as great youthful passion, and when it came to that terror- and all other vehloles promptly furnished. an extent as it usually does new-comers from Euro- franght passion In which Juliet oonjures up one A. O. BUELL, pean opera houses, and occasionally she sang flat. hideous vision alter another, fn a wanton exercise of Her voice possesses, however, a delicious quality, and SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A imagination, the actress tottered on her tragedy stilts has those warm throbs and pulsations that constituted FORTUNE. ELEVENTH GRAND DISTRI- PAGE MCCARTY, and tried to redeem herself by a hysterical spring into ABUTION, 1878, at New Orleans, Tuesday, November 4V Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the • the chief charm of Lucca's singing. Like that artist a great chair—a picturesque point, but soaroely an 12th. she is intensely In earnest andan accomplished aotres! adequate compensation for the noble Sh&kspearean " ROBERTS," as was evident before she had done little more than LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY COM'Y language uttered with a foreign accent, and for a Stable, day or night, will receive prompt attention. sing the Ltbramo—that reckless, jocund, devil-may- This Institution was regularly Incorporated by the manifest deficiency in physical power. The death care chanson In which Verdi so thoroughly conveys Legislature of the State for Educational and Char- JOHN JAMES PIATT scene was beautifully managed—Indeed, throughout itable purposes in 1868, with a capital of $1,900.000, to the spirit of the character. In this scene, too, we the actress showed her eye for classlo postures and which It has since added a reserve fund of $350.000. Close Carriages for wedding oalls and receptions. again saw Frapolli, who has had a not over successful ITS GRANB SINGLE NUMBER B1STRIBU- effective contrasts of color—but, as a whole, her Juliet T10N will take place monthly on the second Tuesday. and others. -career in England since he sang Raoul so superbly at was a constrained and purely modern treatment of a It never scales or postpones. Look at the following the Kellogg benefit at Booth'B Theater. Sooth to say role which demands breadth of utterance, lreedom, distribution: he does not shine as Alfredo, the more particularly Capital prize, $30,000. 100,000 tickets at $2 each. spontaneity and largeness ol method and a girlish, Half tickets, $1. Boarding and Livery Stables because Capoul made an impression in the part which and yet unreserved, ardor of temperament. These LIST OF PRIZES. is not yet forgotten. That master of sentiment, who are obviously the prime requisites for Juliet, and these 1 Capital Prize $30,000 had a curled, perfumed, drawing-room manner that 1 Capital Prize 10,000 AT WILLARD'S HOTEL STABLES, Mme. Modjeska could not supply. Her art Is subtle 1 Capital Prize 6,000 fitted the ideal of Vloletta's adoree, used to Introduce and fine, however, and her personality so winning 2 Prizes ot $2500... 6,000 Halevy's romance, l'Eclair, Into this opera; and how that one can almost forgive her occasional mistakes. 5 Prizes of 1000 5,000 Corner Fourteenth and D streets, Washington, D. O exquisitely he can sing it. 1 can see him now rolling 20 Prizes of 500 10,000 Besides, to play Juliet is a laudable ambition. Mme. 100 Prizes of 100 10,000 his eyes upward with a languor that used to make Modjeska was hampered by a weird Romeo, who re- 200 Prizes of 60 10,000 ESTABLISHED IN 1844. Murray Hill shiver and turn pale, and hear, too, his minded one of those caricatures of troubadours one 600 Prizes of ' 20 10,000 tones pass on, freighted as became those of a young 1000 Frizes of 10 10,000 sees in the old copies of Punch, long-visaged and lack- APPROXIMATION PRIZES: gentleman who was said to have gone on the stage in adaisical, strumming a light guitar. 9 Approximation Prizes of $300 2,700 • order to give vent to his emotions. Every one knows Cot's picture of spring, at least 9 Approximation Prizes of 200 1,800 Terms : 25 cents per month; $2.50 After the first act of the performance with which 9 Approximation Prizes of 100 900 from its counterfeit presentment in chromos, photo- ANDREW J. JOYCE, we now have to do Miss Hauk was recalled, and they 1857 Prizes, amounting to $110,400 per year (including postage,) invariably in graphs, prints and what not—the sunny-faced girl • did the old floral business—fans, baskets and all man- Responsible corresponding agents wanted at all with curling hair swinging in the same seat, under a prominent points, to whom a liberal compensation advance. Clubs : Ten copies to one address, ner oi devices—until she actually had to call Signor leafy bough, with a slender, dark youth, who Is reading will be paid. Application for rates to clubs should Frapolli on In his red velvet and .white lace to help only be made to the Home Office In New Orleans. CARRIAGE MANUFACTURER! her soulful eyes. The original now ocoupies a con- Write, clearly stating full address, for further infor- $20 in advance, with one copy free.. Twenty her carry off the harvest. The bouquet thrown to her spicuous place in tne gallery ol paintings at the loan mation, or send orders to - spontaneously from one of the proscenium boxes after exhibition at the Aoademy of Besign, having been M. A. DAUPHIN, copies to one address, $35 in advance, with 412, 414 and 416 Fourteenth St. the final fall of the curtain on the death scene had placed there by Mrs. John Wolfe, its owner. It is an P. O. Box 692. New Orleans. Louisiana. more real significance, however, than all this pomp Or to H. L. PLUM, one copy free. attractive work, as its popularity proves, but scarcely 319 Broadway. New Terk. and parade of the cut-and-drled stamp. In the seoond a painting oi the highest order. Every one stops and All our grand extraordinary Brawings are under the Particular Attention Called to Stook of Carriages act Miss Hauk's singing was on a par with her highly supervision and management of Gens. G. T. BEAU- All BUSINESS communications should His Own Manufacture. takes a long look at it none the less, for there Is a fas- Repairing a Specialty. • expressive acting, and the well modulated fervor of REGABB and JUBAL A. EARLY. 0013 4t4 cination about the blithe couple which the quotation be addressed to Agent for Brewster A Co. of Broome Street, New her parting with Alfredo elicited a recall, bat the hon- in the catalogue well expresses : 1T1T Yorft- n.i>21-flm . ors ol the act, and indeed of the opera, fell to Signor " O primavera ! glovente dell'anno ! EYES. Galassl, the best baritone we have heard here since O glovente ! primavera della vita ! " II. H. HEHPLEB, Optician, S. A. 8AFFOIID, Jr., J. AMBLER SMITH, Maurel, and a true exponent of the Italian school. (" Oh, spring ! youth ot the year ! Law Offices 7 and 8. 323 Four-and-a-Half street N. W., He has a powerful and sympathetic voice, and uses it Oh youth ! springtime of life I ") . Washington, D. C. sep-29-ly7 453 Pa. ave., oor. Four-and-a-half st Business Manager, with an eloquence that produced something like a The embarrassment of riches in the loan exhibition Claims against United States promptly oolleoted. fifll 1» Any worker can make $12 a day at home. Costly Refers to Hons. G. W. McCrary, Sec. of War; J. A. v furore. His taste and sentiment are equal and iault- justifies a longer review than I am at present able to aUJill outfit free. Address TRCB & Co., Augusta, Me. Williamson, Com. Land Office; Kenneth Rayner, .. less, and he has real magnetism. He had to repeat give them. The pictures in the south room have been aprtl-lj* 927 D Street, Washington, D. C. Solicitor of Treasury. sep22-lmol THE CAPITAL: 0 TOBER 20, li?78 4 It was extremely cruel, for the Hon. Ben. had- CIPHER TELEGRAMS. be to break down and destroy the esprit du labor the starvation wages these very cor- porations force upon the toiling millions, Woolley consigned to the room where little Vlnnie THE O APITAL. Jay Gould's organ of civilization, founded corps which now makes gentlemen of the and commended the «hooting down of the Beam, was modeling her Lincoln. When Woolley re- by Horace Greeley and confounded by graduates. covered from tt.e cross-examination and the whisky poor wretches who dared complain. Whitelaw Reid, is rioting at this time in an The meaning of this is that the innovation straight, he found himself, in the somber light of WASHINGTON CITT. Since the Rev. Beecher held forth as unhealthy lot of cipher telegrams. would wipe out the aristocratic exclusive- evening, in the presence of Lincoln's old boots, Lin- above quoted the terrible developments of coln's old pantaloons, Lincoln's identical shirt and . It seems that while the late Presidential ness that now makes of our army more of a SUNDAY MOBNUifl OCTOBER 20, 1878. his private life have forced him to take drawers, with aghastly efBgy In plaster towering above trouble was brewing, and one electoral vote social than a militiry institution. refuge under the very wrong he then de- him like death before daylight. He was struck with was necessary to make the eminent states- To accomplish this we say to a congress- THE CAPITAL has a Larger nounced. He seeks refuge behind the mil- terror. He, shivering, cried for help. Woolley is a man, Samuel J. Tilden, President of the man, Nominate us a cadet. He, in response, brave man. Woolley was bora on the dark and bloody lions that, corrupting the people and de- Circulation, both Local and by Mail, United States, Messrs. Manton Marble and offers the son of a man having the most ground of Kentucky; but that place was too much.. grading the Government, he hopes may than all the Other Sunday Tapers of Charles Woolley went on a hunt into Florida political influence in his district. We all He sent lor Butler, and Woolley confessed and was re- shelter him. Washington Combined. for that one vote, and there encountered know what this means. It points out the leased. Butler found the confession of no use, but he bad gone through Woolley. other noble hunters for several votes, who lowest and most corrupt of the congress- " Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, HT" Contributors will please i emember answered to the names of William E. Chand- man's constituents—the keeper of a corner And thus, the native hue of resolution Dick Wintersmltb—we believe It was Dick—told a thai we do not undertake to return rejected grocery, saloon, or perhaps worse. Now no Is sicklied o'er with the thought of Elizabeth ; story one night to a dinnerparty that was quite illus- ler, General Lew Wallace and the solemn trative. Dick said that while the presidential contest manuscripts. And no contribution will be one objects to the son of such a man being And enterprises of great pith and moment, Ampt, all honorable men of good reputa- With this regard, their currents turn away was in its throes of deepest uncertainty, he met paid for unless on a bargain made tn ad- tion. Indeed, the pensive public is inclined trained into even the appearance of a gen- And lose the name of action." Woolley in the lobby of the House. Woolley rushed at vance. By bearing these facts in mind much to regard all these gentlemen as the most tleman ; but from that same class—probably him. Seizing him by the arm he whispered : annoyance will be saved. honorable of their generation. We are told from the same corner grocery—comes the pri- " Been looking for you—come here—there isn't a in holy writ of a Hebrew who was without vate ; and the exclusive privilege, the great MINOR NOTES. second to lose." Colonel Blchard is a corpulent gentleman, resem- OUR CASE. guile. This assertion has been seized on by aristocratic feature of West Point as it now bling Hamlet, in being " fat and scant of breath," so stands, is, that the private has no rights the THE SOCIAL LIFE ot New York is stirred The supreme court of the District affirmed men of sceptical turn, such as Bob Ingersoll, that by the time they reached the front of {he Capitol - officer is expected to respect. Discipline over the wedding of Commodore Garrison to ft lady the decision, on demurrer, of the court be- to throw doubts upon the bible. But we ho could not find wind to ask what was up. Woolley so much younger than himself that he once tossed her low, in the case of Hill against THE CAPI- must remember that all things are possible demands that the last named should be furiously beckoned for a hack. Thrusting the two In his arms as a baby. Well, he is secure of one toss- TAL. Publishing; Company. with the Creator, and the guileless Hebrew treated like a dog. hundred pounds of confiding iriendship Into the ing of a baby at least. heathen convenience, he cried : This was what we expected, for our court was set on end in an age of miracles. Here, for example, is the Sherman family. It is well known that the Shermans were "To the Baltimore depot—last as you can." is composed of jurists who have won the But how unreasonable these men are. GENERAL FITZ JOHN PORTER said he was "What is it?" gasped Richard. confidence and respect of all by their high Bob Ingersoll, who does not believe in God, paupers, depending for a living on the not loyal to Pope. But Senator McDonald, Indiana's " Hush ! not a word," responded Woolley, grasping sense of honor and eminent legal ability. and does believe in Blaine, will certify to Ewing family. The Hon. Thoinas Ewing ablest and boldest statesman, is loyal to Hendricks. Dick's knee with his right hand. Mr. Hill undertook to punish us, through the guileless condition of three of these visit- procured a West Point cadetship for Tecum- There is no god blessed with such bigoted worshipers At the depot Woolley whispered, " Wait." the late bankrupt law, for failing to meet ing statesmen, while the Democrats indorse seh. The same liberal hand provided for as the god the worshipers create. Then he jumped out and hurried into the depot.. and liquidate what we regarded as a fraudu- the remaining two. .Talk about the im- John, the brother. But let us suppose an Not long after Woolley reappeared, and jumping in, ordinary case—that John had been left to ordered the hackman to drive like the devil to the- lent claim. We courted the ordinary legal probability of the bible story after that! THAT preposterous pulpit round-dancer live out the humble life for which his Pennsylvania depot. One horse racked and the other- process for the collection of debts, and even While Marble and Woolley were tele- and stump orator of the Lord, Talmage, ought to em- galloped, as the crazy old hack rolled and pitched* economical structure, being without bowels •went so far as to offer this gentleman ample graphing in cipher to New York for money ploy two detectives and raid Grammercy Park. The over the streets to its designation. or brain, destined him. He would probably unseen wickedness of that mysterious locality would security to the payment of his demand, pro- and instructions—principally for money— "Look here, Woolley, what the ——is up?" cried* have gravitated to the army as a private— keep the old hot gospeler In howls for a year. vided he made it appear that it was honest. the other three noble hunters for lost Dick. that being the refuge of such helpless class— This did not suit him, and he rushed into electoral votes were engaged in the same " Hush! not a word," responded Woolley, again- and we would have had one brother, a high- grasping the knee of hij amazed friend. court, demanding that we be declared bank- mysterious business with Washington. THE genial George Gorham yet goes about toned lunatic, lording it over the other, a At the Pennsylvania depot Dick was dragged ln_ rupt and our concern put in the hands of a with his head on his shoulders, although the bloated We do not have, however, a fair show of low-down, vulgar idiot. Fine feathers make bondholders, beastly bankers and bursting- money To every part—every nook and corner, even to thfr receiver. To this our able attorneys, Messrs. both sides in the production of telegrams. fine birds, says the old proverb; and Tecum- bags demanded his deoapttatlon. George says the closets of that Egyptian structure—was the wind- Merrick and Garnett, demurred, claiming broken Richard pulled—but to no purpose. They re- The telegraph companies—in this case the seh has some very fine feathers, if they are d—d fools propose to dispense with that which they that, as publishers of a newspaper, we were turned to the hack, and In the hack to the Capitol,. Western Union belongs to the ^ Republican stolen. need most. neither traders nor manufacturers, as con- side—are products in their character of mo- Woolley looking as solemn as a bull In autumn, but templated by the law. The whole system is not only foreign to never uttering a word. The hackman was paid, and nopolies of the money power that makes THE sensations in Akron, Ohio, are a Woolley, turning to Klchard, said ; house stoned mysteriously by spirits—supposed to be The act was passed for the better regula- railroad kings, merchant princes and tele- our form of government, but in deadly an- " Now, Dick, not a word ot what you know." spooks of the bald-headed Young Men's Christian tion of traders and manufacturers, and the graph combinations, and they stand by tagonism to our sense of justice and good "May Satan cast me to ," cried Dick, "if I. Association Christ invited to stone the woman caught sense. ever do." protection of people engaged in business their creator, of course. So that while in adultery—and an editor who has suggested the And Dick says that he would die of a debate in the with them. As much of the law was in the Messrs. Manton Marble and the diplomatic It is unjust to have in our midst an insti- nomination of John Sherman for the presidency by Senate, or any other slow torture, before he would tell shape of a punishment, its application Woolley have their queer telegrams pro- tution the vitality of which depends on its the Republicans. Akron is In the wildest condition. what he learned that day. called for the same striot construction that duced and translated for an amazed public, aristocratic features, while the best armies Well, suppose it is ? is applicable to the criminal code. those of the guileless William E. Chandler, of Europe are based on the broadest demo- Had it been the intent to cover all debts the heroic Lew Wallace and the solemn cratic principle — that which recognizes GAS STOCK comes tumbling at the first THE cipher telegrams from Florida, at- Ampt are all destroyed. The high-toned superiority in merit only. But it is not hint of Edison's discoveries in electricity. There is tributed to Manton Marble and Mr. Charles Woolley, the law would not have been restricted to are creating considerable excitement. We are some- traders and manufacturers; the object be- visiting statesmen, such as tne Hon. John good sense. To have an army we must hope fbr Washington. Our gas is so bad that the men employed to extinguish the street lights have to what surprised at it, for this sort of seoret writing is ing to protect parties having business with Sherman and the good Garfield, can smile have the private, for On his courage and en- as old as civilized humanity. One would suppose durance depends success in war. Suppos- carry lanterns to find them, and the company is So these two classes when the credit in their complacently and say, "Oh, certainly, pro- rich and corrupt that it buys up Congress and shuts from the row made that we were being treated to a line has come to be a custom and a part of duce our telegrams; they are all extremely ing brain to be necessary for the average of- its bronze doors on investigation. May the Lord pre- novelty. Marble and Woolley did not begin it. Why, their ordinary transactions. A trader or a innocent; we were not only visiting states- ficer, and genius the mark of the great cap- serve Edison and strengthen his elbow. Amen! then, was that young scamp, Harpagus, who, wishlrg: manufacturer who lets his paper go to pro- men, but christian statesmen, and without tain, we have that in both which no school to excite Cyrus to an electoral conspiracy against his Uncle Samuel ot that day, sent his letters in the belly test serves notice OIJ. the business world that guile." can supply and God alone creates. In Eu- MONSIUER LE DUE denies with some ot a hare. he is bankrupt. Now, while a man not a rope the call for this quality is made to the The most entertaining part of the busi- whole people, for intellect is never the ex- emphasis that he has turned his attention from tea He was caught at It and cashiered. The fool should trader or manufacturer may take advantage ness, however, is to be found in the virtuous culture .to a promotion of port-holes, and had had dis " have known better. Had his row been concealed in a. of the law, such person cannot be proceeded clusive property of one class. In this en- tributed large quantities of seed to that end, as re- shad it would have passed as a shad roe. Not having indignation of the Republican press, espe- lightened country we limit our demand to a against under the provision that put it in cially the daily Cesspool, edited by White- ported by tho Philadelphia Times. M. Le Due says Webster's unabridged at the time, the authorities little school on the Hudson, and the private that this Administration must have some culture,and never could have discovered the dlflterence. the power of the creditor to punish the de- law Rei4, for its proprietor, Jay Ghoul. In we neglect altogether. that of tea is better than none. We approve of Mon- Then again Demaretus, king of Spain, when a linquent. This part of the law, being quasi- holding up their hands in holy horror they criminal, may not be enforced against any siuer le General le Due's decision. refugee, acquainted his countrymen with the designs forget that their hands are dirty. It is now To illustrate the monstrous absurdity of of Xerxes to invade Greece, by writing an epistle on a- but those who avail themselves of the bene- conceded on all sides that the electoral vote this system, let us suppose all of the legal tablet of wood and covering the letters with wax. fits accruing from the privileges custom has of Florida belonged of right to Mr. Tilden, profession were limited to one academy, MANTON MARBLE pronounces the cipher We will not answer for the truth of this, because telegrams, implicating him in an attempt to purchase accorded traders and manufacturers. and if that white-aliy, Manton . Marble, or medicine to one college, each filled, not Herodotus, we suspect, Invented the story to lug In a. with students who have developed a turn an electoral vote in Florida, forgeries. So our friend little joke about Xerxes waxing wroth at the discov- We Were aggrieved, but not surprised, at and the wistful Woolley, did endeavor to Manton finds that instead of defending the aged for law or physic, but by boys selected by ery. As Xerxes seems to have been in a ohronic con- the dissenting opinion of Chief Justice purchase an electoral vote, they were only Sammy he is callod on to defend himself. The burden dition of wrath, the wax story is very improbable. members of the House because of the polit- of proof rests with the men making the charge, and Cartter. While the Chief Justice is justly re- bribing a man to do his duty. But among the ancient devices for secret communica- ical influence of their parents. What, un- until that proof Is forthcoming Manton is all right. garded as a man of remarkable natural tion none appears so ingenious or so singular as that, We admit that it is wrong to bribe, or But after a time the good people of the United Stater- ability—one who in any department of life der that arrangement, would become of the of Histiasusy mentioned by Herodotus. Whilo he re- attempt to bribe, any one; but when we there are a lew—will discover that said electors were would be remarkable—he is byno means of learned professions ? sided with Darius in Persid he was anxious to send to- offer ten dollars to a sheriff to return us our openly In the market awaiting purchasers, and that Arlstagoras in Greece about Inciting the revolt Jrom, the sort great jurists are made. The ease We have no need of an army—never had, one side was quite as corrupt as theother; for in all own umbrella it is not such a crime as if we' the Persian government, but did not know how at that itself with which he acquires information and the probability is that we never shall. controversies of this sort, involving charges of cor- were "to offer that sum as an inducement to distance to convey so dangerous a message with suffi- and gets at the inner sense of all subjects, We -would have no Indian wars had we ruption, the disinterested lookers on—the jury that steal for us the umbrella of the judge. But cient secrecy. At length he hit upon this expedient r make up publio opinion—end In believing both. has been in the way of that accurate knowl- whether there is or is not a difference in the no soldiers to fight them, for in that case He selected one of his household servants, whose eyes edge so necessary to his profession. When case, it certainly does not lie in the mouths we would be without swipdling agents and were unwell, and told him that for his recovery his- to this is added the indolence of his tem- contractors to provoke hostilities. There hair must be shaved and his head sacrificed. In the of the thieves who stole the presidency to THE Post calls attention to the enforce- performance of this business His ti ECUS imprinted his • perament, we can see that all his errors be so confoundedly indignant over a case of never was an Indian war that did not begin ment ol an old law which directs the police to arrest secret intentions on the bald head of his servant, and would be in a direction fatal to law as an in violated treaties and swindling con- vagrant children, and, In default of ball, lock the.lit- bribery which consists of an attempt to pay kept him close at home until his hair was grown. He exact science. tractors on our side. But if an army is tle beggars in the police stations. The law is an ab- a man that he may be induced to act hon- then told him that, ior his perfect recovery, he must surdity, of course, and in many Instances a positive A man of this sort is apt to pride himself estly. necessary we had better get it by imita- travel into" Greece, to Arlstagoras, who, by shaving wrong. Nevertheless, there Is no city so lntested with ting the war power 6f Europe, and while his head the second time, would certainly restore him upon his disregard of forms, definitions, We are strictly impartial in this case, this class of vagrants as Washington. They are making the private respectable and efficient to perfect sight and health. By this means Histiasus- nice discrimination, or, as he is pleased to being in the condition of the Kentuckian mostly negroes, ragged, active and impudent. was enabled to make the wished-for communication. call it, red tape. And in this way the Chief throw open the offices to the widest com- Thronging our streets night and day during the week, who once witnessed a fight between a This was very ingenious, but rather slow for this age. Justice has been famous for cutting in di- petition. This is part of the proposed re- on Sunday, in summer, they spread over the country, skunk and a rattlesnake. For the first Had that been tried by the Florida conspirators Uncle form now offered. and one driving outside on that day encounters gangs rectly to the equities and enjoying the des- time in his life he had to admit, sadly, that Samuel would have been dead and damned—we beg. of them bent on mischief. In this exists our common potism of j ustice.. pardon, forgotten—before he could have lead the secret, he could not take sides, as he did not care school for orime, that graduates In the penitentiary, writing. This is all very well so long as such men which whipped. But it strikes us as some- AN ILLUSTRIOUS VICTIM. variegated and relieved by the gallows. Of course one as the Chief Justice are upon the bench. To what ludicrous to hear men covered with There was an eloquent, bold man once night's incarceration in a lock-up only stimulates the However, had Manton Marble shaved Woolley's their honor and ability we can well intrust head and written something withindellble ink thereon,. national infamy growing virtuously indig- who, delivering an address in St. Louis, evil. What we need is a final disposal of the class. our rights. But the time comes whefl the nant over the claimed offenses of others. Woolley would have had a chance to get more on the; judge and the criminal change places, and (1873,) said : outside than he has on the interior of his skull. And- then it is our safety is found to rest solely " 1 must, however, make haste to say that among OP ALL the men brought to the front by then again, shaving his head would have cooled the WEST POINT. the dangers of thé limes is one which has developed the late Presidential complication the one we cotton diplomatic brain and done something towards curing on what men of genius, such as Cartter, have out of the prodigious rapidity of the accumulation of the genial and gentlemanly Woolley of a disorder no patience with and utterly despise. An effort is being made to not only re- enormous and consolidated wealth. Ii'l stand in the to most kindly is Mr. Charles Woolley. To say that city of N ew York and look south ward 1 see a railroad— we love our Woolley would but feebly express the op n that seems to have been born with him. form but to popularize the absurd little the Pennsylvania Central—that runs across the conti- But, as we have said, this cipher business Is an old, old Traders and manufacturers issue notes of nent with all its connections. Its bases and branches dltlon ot our journalistic heart towards this accom- hand. It is a part of their business. But aristocratic hot-house on the Hudson, represent, a capital of same..hundreds of millions of plished and entertaining gentleman. Woolley to us dodge. Le Sleur Guillet de la Gullletiere endeavors to- known as West Point. The monstrous dollars. If X turn my eyes to the North I see the Erie, show that the Spartans were tho inventors ot writing. all men who issue notes, and get confiding where hundreds of millions of dollars lie. If still fur- is meat and drink. Many times a day we say God people to take them, are not traders and features of this school have been so fre- ther to the North, X sec tie .great New York Central, bless Woolley and keep him going, for where Woolley In cipher, and that their Scytalae, according to Pin quently pointed out by us, and demon- that represents ¿hundreds of millions- ot dollars. Is there is choice entertainment lor man and beast. tarch, was this: When the Grecian magistrates sent manufacturers. It was a colored divine These three roads .^present thousand^ of millions out an admiral or a general they prepared two cylin- ot consolidated capital. Now suppose In any emer- Woolley Is a born diplomatic devil. He is an Inno- who, denouncing the Methodists, said he strated by experience, that it is scarcely drical pieces of wood with so much exactness that necessary for us to present them again. gency the railroad interests demand, suppose there cent, inoffensive devil—but a d., all the same. To use would "not say dat all Methodists was hoss were some great national question which demanded— the favorite phraseology of his native State, Ken- they were perfectly equal, both in length and thick- that the President of the United States should be a ness. One of these they kept themselves and the thieves and gamblers," but he would "say The main point in this new move is to man and theSenate should be composed of men playing tucky, he was begot by Ultimatum, out of old dat all hoss thieves and gamblers was Meth- transfer from members of the House the into the hands of the great national railroads' concen- Diploma, and has all the marked points of the breed. other was given to the military ofll'jer there employed. odists;" and the same way the mediqal stu nomination of cadets to colleges in the sev-' trated capitalists, what power is there on the conti- He is full of treasons, stratagems and spoils. He feeds When they had any seoret or important orders to nent that could'for a moment resist them ? It is not communioate to him they took a long, narrow slip of dent, sent to prescribe for a case of indiges- eral States that have made military educa- a great many years since it would seem almost on mystery, sleeps under the blanket woven of confi- atrocious to have suggested that thought. Butlegls dences, and takes his whisky by stratagem. He goes parchment and rolled It round their own staffln spiral tion, prescribed a horse medicine, claiming tion a part of their course. It is proposed latures have been bought and sold until we think no form, one told close to another, and then wrote their to have the cadets taken from the gradu- more about it than of selling so many sheep and about with solemn significance, pulling wool over the patient had swallowed that animal, for cattle. somebody's eyes—generally his own—and Impressing communication upon the edges of the parchment. This under the bed he saw a saddle and bridle. ates, so that one or two years at the utmost done, they took it oil the scroll and sent it to the com- " Does anybody suppose that if it were a national his wide circle of hard-drinking friends with two We mean no disrespect for our eminent would be necessary at West Point. interest that these vast corporations were seeking to facts—that in the first place he is a good fellow, and mander, who, on reoeiving It, applied it to his- This', however, is but one step in the subserve, that there is any legislature on this conti- In the second that he is " a hell of a fellow." staff, so that the broken and imperfect characters now friend, but his opinion that any man who nent that could not be crushed or bought out by this beoaine legible. If sticks could be used to-day In this right direction. The West Pointer, at the Woolley moves on that Inner circle of unseen llle puts out a promise to pay comes within despot, compared with which even Blavery Itself was a manner what, a valuable man Manager Ford would small danger? One of the greatesthumillations of a na- called motives. He stands where he beholds and con- the meaning of the law that applies to end of his one or two years, should be be. tion that Is justly proud of so many things is thatdlsas trols the beginning of things. In Woolley's scheme traders and manufacturers, reminds us of forced to serve in the army one year as a ter which has lallen upon our Congress. When we see We learned at school, among other lots of useless private, with the pay of such. Then, if the slimy track of the monster we may justly ask. of oreation there is no such thing as ehance. It is all the maxim of the Baptist and the conclusion What are we coming to ?" There has got to be a desig$ Life, with Woolley, Is a game, and common lumber, that In the age of Aristotle seoret writing as- -' of the medical student. The learned coun- capable, one year as a corporal, with the public sentiment created on this subject, or we will be men are the ohess or the cards, and Woolley sees the suined a more regular and systematic iorm; and swept away by a common ruin. 1 tell you that the -.Eneas Is said to have colleotsd and invented a great sel who drew up the petition for George compensation of a corporal. Then, aftor a shadow that is already cast upon the land is prodi- players and always knows their play. Hill, jr., called us a trader. Thinking this careful examination, the position of sergeant gious. I do not believe in the Socialists, in the Inter- Don't Woolley knowa.llabout it? Better believe he number of seoret modes of corresponding. should be open to him, with the pay of ser- nationals, nor the Communists; but when I see what does. Listen to htm : " Why, when old Pumphandle, Again, in modern times Lord Bacon, the Marquis would not do, he asked to amend, and de- rich men, as a class, are doing with our legislatures, of Worcester, Baptista Porta, Vieta, Dr. Wallace,. signated us as a manufacturer. What we geant, for one year. At the end of this ser- what laws they have passed, what disregard there is in 18-somethlng, met young Fizzletop at Saratoga, to the great common Interests, I fear that the time they planned that campaign and prepared that plat- Bishop Wilklns, &c., have reduced the art of writing could be charged with manufacturing puz- vice he could either retire to civil life or go will come when the workingmen will rise up and say in cipher to a science; and letters, nuaieral figures, before a competent commission for exami- that they have no appeal to courts, no appeal to legis- form. Greeley had an attack of hysterics, and old zles the will and confounds the understand- latures ; that they are bought and owned by consoli- Pumphandle sent for Bennett, and that night, over seoret characters, pieces of thread, gloves, notes of ing. For a high court to assert that, as we nation as to his capacity to serve as an dated capital ; and when that time comes, unless It a game of poker—Greeley play poker?—of course he music, &.O., have all been employed with great inge- brings reformation, it will bring revolution; and if nuity. So we see that this "Gobble" and "Fox"" publish the news, we could therefore be officer. any such time does come I do not hesitate to say I will did; kept himself poor at it. People didn't believe considered a manufacturer of news, would stand by the common people, and against the wealth he was profane. Well, sir, in less than thirty days business is no new thing, and nothing but the In ense Of course this radical reform will not be of the consolidated capital of the land." Ignorance oi the New York Tribune gives It any im- be extremely absurd, not to say slanderous. agreed to for many motives. In the first the country was ablaze, for I suggested the com- bination, and it would have won, only old Thurman portance. We purpose shortly publishing the argu- place it takes from the House of Representa- The man who uttered these brave words, every one of which carries a truth, and got drunk, and Vallandigham got religion the same ments of our eminent counsel, Messrs. Mer- tives a portion of its best patronage. No, night. Oh ! I know all about that." A Start for Spain. rick and Garnett. They are learned, elo- political body was ever known to give up who so boldly pledged himself to a war We all remember the prodigious noise made by The land of the cabalero demonstrates, If the recen quent and conclusive, and ourreaders will be willingly any of its power. Where power upon the gigantic wrong, was no dema- Woolley in the Johnson impeachment. Ben. Butler, royal order relative to Blavery In Cuba was Issued in delighted to learn what a dignified, useful has been limited in any direction the re- gogue, no ignorant brawler and mischief- another "old diplomatic cuss," baffled In his attempt good faith, that the present King of Spain is up with calling is this of publishing a journal. form came from above and outside the maker between capital and labor. The' to get evidence enough to unseat Johnson, and satis- the most advanced ideas of the present time. The parties enjoying its possession. orator on that occasion was Henry Ward fied that it was about, If he could only find it, saw system, however, of gradual emancipation is, in some Beecher. Woolley flitting about in a mysterious manner, and of its features, seemingly impracticable, and will Another reason—if we may call it such—is, came to the violent conclusion that Woolley knew doubtless be modified hereafter. THE report in circulation to the effect that ' considering our democratic form of govern- It is pitiable to put the fact to record. To- the President had been invited, and had given his ac- something. Impressed with this belief, heput Woolley ceptance, to an Invitation to make a series of pleasure ment, simply monstrous. It is urged that day this Protestant Pope of Brooklyn is the undef fire on the witness stand, and wanted him to WE ARE in receipt, from Scribner, of a excursions Into the several departments of Washing- to throw open the door to graduates from supporter and advocate of the very abuse tell all about It. Poor Woolley, he did not know any- new edition ot "That Lasso' Litfrles." It is hand- ton, to note the cheerful working of his civil service State institutions, and then make privates he thus denounced. Nay, he is the man thing about It, so he refused to tell, and Ben. had somely gotten np—worthy of the characteristic excel- reform, lacks confirmation. of the material intended for officers, would . who commended as good discipline fo him put under thè Oapltol. lence of the novel. THE CAPITAL: OCTOBER 20, 1878. 5

THE PRESS ASSOCIATION is beginning LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. From the Fever Districts. LOCAL ITEMS. DIED. to attract attention. It is one of the most corrupt con- CHATTANOOGA, October 19.—Dr. Vanderman re- HAGERTY.—At 12:80 a. m., on the 19th Inst., Wil- ports for the twenty-four hours ending at 4 p. m. the cerns known to the country. Owned by the money liam Hagerty. aged seventy-three years, a native of FOREIGN NR.WS following deaths : Cora Cbamberlin, John Sullivan the county of Longford, Ireland, but for the last forty and two colored persons. Thirteen new cases, seven JOHNSON'S fried oysters, 25 cents per dozen In box. power, it is used openly in its service, and the Democ- PARIS, Ootober 19.—Elaborate preparations have 440 Nlntb street northwest. eight years a muoh respected citizen of Washington. been made for the distribution of the exhibition prizes of whom are colored. Among the new cases is Dr. W. racy of the Northwest learns to its dismay and disgust T. Blakeford. The oold weather has developed about His funeral will take place from his late residence, that lies about it are widely promulgated, while facts on Monday next, Ociober 21, in the Palace de l'Indus- A CARD from New Orleans, dated September 21, corner Twenty- second and I streets n. w„ Monday trie, under the personal direction of M. Krantz, the all the fever. There was a slight frost this morning, morning at 8:30 o'clook, to proceed to St. Stephen's are suppressed with an audacity that is without paral- and to-night it Is clear and cold. 1878, shows thus: commissioner general, and M. Georges Berger, the The undersigned certifies that he held for collection, church, where high requiem mass will be held for the lel. The latest instance' oi bold, bare-faced lying director' of the foreign sections. A series of benches, MOBILE, October 19.—For the past twenty-four repose of his soul. The friends of the family are re- hours twelve new cases and one death. Indication for acoount or Messrs. Rivera Bros., 71 Maiden Lane, comes out In the re-hearing of the Fltz-John Porter forming a platform at the west extremity of the tran- New York, half ticket No. 52,313, Class I, in the Lou- Bpeotlully invited to attend. * cept. will be reserved for the senate, the chamber of of a slight frost by morning. isiana State Lottery, which drew the capital prize of case, i The testimony is travestied in the vilest man- deputies, the council of state, the judges, the loreign MEMPHIS, TEN»., October 19.—The board of health twenty-five hundred dollars on Tuesday, September GIBSON.—October 19, 1878, at 12:10 p. m. M nfer. Witnesses- are made to say directly the reverse commissioners and high officials, and the first plaoe officially reports 7 deaths from yeflow lever for the 10, 1878, said ticket having oost the sum of one dollar Emma Gibson, aged 1« years and 6 months. past twenty-lour hours, ending at six o'clock to-night. Her funeral will take place from the residence of of that to which tliey swear, and falsehoods sent out for the marshal and princes, and other guests of dis- at the office of H. L. Plum, 319 Broadway, New York, tinction by whom he is accompanied. Three sections The undertakers report 13 additional burials of per- and that the amount was promptly paid on presenta her mother, No. 607 Sixth street northwest, Tuesday, as facts in the coolest manner. sons who died outside the city limits. Sixteen phy- October 22, at two o'cloek p. m. Relatives and friends-- of the area are allotted to French and foreign exhibi- tion of the ticket at the office of the company, by M. ot the family are Invited to attend. *1 This is no departure from old custom. Public men tors, and those who rective Invitations. In the first sicians of the Howard medical corps report 40 new A. Dauphin, P. O. Box 692, New Orleans. gallery,which surrounds the whole nave, a tew benches cases, ten of them within the city limits and 30 of R1CHOLD.—On Saturday, October 19th, at 10:15 a. in Washington have been made to sutler through the are reserved for tbe press and other bodies, and the them In tbe suburbs of the cfty. Among the deaths T. M. WESOOAT, m., Moses Rlchold, in the 70th year of his age. same process; for, while the machine itself is in the occurring since noon- were Drs. W. P. Clure, Mrs. H. Agent Southern Express Co., New Orleans. rest fer ladies only. On the ground floor benches are Why may net the reader have equal prosperity In The funeral will take place Monday morning, at 10 pay of the' money-power and used to further their also reserved all round, but there both ladies and gen- Cohen, Mrs. Nancy L. Pollard and R. B. Heidel. The o clock, from his late residence, 491 Pennsylvania Howard Association this afternoon sent a large lot of making a similar investment? avenue. Friends and relatives are respectfully In- measures, its members and agents, in all personal tlemen will bo admitted; places are also allotted to choral and instrumental bands. supplies to Brownsville and Martin, Tenn. No more vited to attend. and private matters, use their positions to fill their money is needed here at present. WANTED—A first-class mllltner; none other need M. Berger, accompanied by the chiefs of groups and apply. No. 717 Ninth street northwest. * pockets. JACKSON, MISS., October 19.—Total cases to date, president» of classes, visited the Palais de l'Industrie 267, of which 98 are white, 159 colored. Total deaths to-day to make the finaf disposition for Monday's The telegraph itselt is a monopoly of the same sort, to date, 87, of which 25 are white, and 12 colored. Now Carpet Cleaning:. ceremony. under treatment, 220. and used in the same way. Its so-called sacred confi- President MacMahou will arrive at the palace be- Carpets cleaned of all moth, dirt, dust, and grease W. R. VICKSBCRG, Ootober 19.—Frost this morning, with SPEARE, dences—made so by law—rare only respected in behalf spots removed at McGee & Ferry's carpet-cleaning tween half-past twelve and one o'clock, where he will a prospect of another to-night. Deaths in the city oi its pets. The latest instance of this, and the one to be received by M. Jaisserenc de Bort, minister of works, Seventh-street wharf. Orders by mail or leit lour, five in the country. Two new cases at Delta at W. J. Mitohell's carpet house, Market Space, be- which we call the attention of the Democratic party, commerce, and he will then proceed directly to the to-day; no deaths. Three new cases to-day at Yazoo place designated for him. As soôn as the marshal City. No deaths there in four days. There was a tween Eighth and Ninth streets, promptly attended UNDERTAKES, comes in on the surrender of the! cipher telegrams shall have entered the officials of the exposition will heavy frost there this morning. to. Carpets called lor and delivered froe of charge. from the South to Tilden's friends, while those of the be organized in groups, each of which will be com- HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., October 19.—The last two ; jy21-tf 04.O F Street northwest, Republican side are destroyed. posed of member of tbe grand jury, presidents and nights we have had good frosts and bracing weather. secretaries of class juries, and those of the exhibitors ; BROWNING'S BITTERS will oure dyspepsia, indiges- Ten new oa es and two deaths in town, and one in the tion and oonstipation. For sale by the druggists, tf [FORMERLY WITH R. F. HARVEY, j The telegraph ought to be a part of the PoSt-Office to whom grand diplomas of honor, grand prizes and country. Among the new cases are the railroad ope- Department, and run by the G-overnment, as in gold medals have been awarded. The groups will rator and W. J. L. Holland, chairman of the relief Ross. Europe. It is, in fact, the poor man's post, consisting then take their places in the cortege, which is to defile committee. About one hundred oases are under treat- Burial Caskets of all Grades and Styles. before President MacMahon as follows : Ushers of the ment. Among those who have become famous throughout of a pole and wire, and if properly conducted would several ministries in grand costume, ioreign soldiers the land is our friend John Ross, whose heart is full be cheaper and more convenient than the mail. Let in parade uniform, and then the groups thus : Works to overflowing with the milk of human kindness, and BODIES EMBALMED AND PREPARED Attempted Outrage, and Killing. whose purse is always open to the poor. John Is by the Democracy move in the matter if it hopes for life. of art, education and instruction, lurniture and acces- sories, textile fabrics, olothlng and accessories, mining SAVANNAH, GA., Ootober 19.—On Thursday last, training and association a benefactor to the human FOR TRANSPORTATION. instruments, raw and manufactured products, appa- while the wife of Houston Demere, a planter In race ; he reduced the prices «f fried oysters to 26 cents Brjan county, fifteen miles from this city, was return- a box, and proposes to give quails on toast to the Warehouse Locks. ratus and processes used in the mechanical manufac- LOTS AND GRAVES FURNISHED tures, alimentary products and agriculture and pisci- lnjrlrom a vislfto a neighbors, she was followed by a yellow fever sufferers. IN ANY In response to the proposal of the Secretary oi' the well known negro named Giles, who beat and attemp- Treasury for locks for the warehouses the bids were culture. CEMETERY. . Each group will be preceded by Its banner. After ted to outrage her, but was prevented by thè timely Caramels. entered qn Monday last. The awards will De made arrival of a gentleman, when the fiend fled. He was defiling before the president the groups will occupy captured on Friday, and while in charge of a consta- By calling at Velati's, No. 620 Ninth street north- EXPERIENCED LADY ATTENDANTS AT to-morrow. The committee on awards on this oc the plaoes reserved for them. There will be a re- west, you can obtain the best caramels in the city. We ble Mr. Demere shot him and then surrendered him- SHORT NOTICE. casion is composed of a much more careful and of a hearsal of this part of the ceremony on Sunday, the self. The negro died this morning. know of what we speak, for we have been there and 20th instant. After the march past tbe ceremonies tried them. Go thou and do likewise. Mr. Velati is much more expert set of gentleman than heretofore. will consist of singing, speeches and tbe delivery of also agent for the sale of Desfosse's celebrated French EVERYTHING STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS, By reason oi the^ circumstances incidental to the one hundred and fifty diplomas of honor by the presi- bread. dent. BURNING SNAKES AND RATS. award this contract will be very lucrative to the sue And on the most reasonable terms. dec9-tf The whole ceremony will occupy about two and one Oysters. cessl'ul bidder, as the margin for the number of locks half hours. The hall Is hung with red velvet and How Bishop Seymour Broke Up a Rattle- The best authority on the question of oysters Is very wide, and i the necessities of the Government cloth bordered with gold fringe. The benches are snake Community. Matthew De Atley, who it mignt be said'grew on an SPECIAL NOTICES. in this respect very extensive. covered with red cloth, and around each of the oolumns [From the Whitehall (New York) Times.] oyster bed, having been all his life in the business, which support the roof are clusters of flags of all and therefore we advise our friends to call on De By the way, a preacher of the De Witt Talmage nations. In the town of Hague, on the banks of Lake George, REASURER'S OFFICE opposite Huleft's Landing, has lived tor a long time a Atley, 1212 E street, whenever they want any oi the or Beech er order could find in this matter of intricate Twenty-one thousand tickets have been distributed, finest and most dellolous bivalves. T whereof the senators and deputies took 2,600, and the man and his wile by the name of Mr. and Mrs. Reu- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, locks and lock systems a very broad ground for a ser- ben Davis. This couple have occupied a log cabin WASHINGTON, D. C., October 20, 1878. public functionaries, the commissioners of the exposi- which has been situated near tho water's edge. The mon. The lock system, whether seal, combination or tion and others for whom places are reserved, 8,600, Hagerty. Notice Is hereby given that on Ootober 31, 1878, will leaving 10,000 unreserved plaoes for distribution to place has been known as the "Rattlesnake Man's While Company F from Richmond were attracting of any other character, as lound to be necessary to House," and many visitors have made excursions to expire all licenses given by the Dlstrlot of Columbia the G-overnment. is ex parte evidence of the acknowl- the public. On the 22d Instant the Marshal will give the spot to see this singular-looking couple. They universal attention by their magnificent appearanoe a grand dinner and fête to the royal and other dis and soldierly bearing, our friend Hagerty, Seventh to all apotheoarles, auctioneers, banks and bankers, edged dishonesty of Its employees. With honest and have made a living from rattlesnakes, capturing many tingulshed visitors at Versailles. of the reptiles, and obtaining the oil, which always and E streets, astonished our Richmond visitors by bill posters, brewers, brokers, book agents, butchers attentive agents the simplest padlock or the merest The park will be lit up by the electric light, and throwing open the doora of his popular resort and in- commands a high price. At this cabin might always viting the boys In. . We were unfortunate enough to in the several markets, claim agents, contractors,, stationary would be sufficient. As it stands it seems there will be illuminations and fireworks on the same have been seen large numbers of these reptiles. The scale as those in the Boise de Boulogne on the 30th of old man, who is now about sixty-five years of age, be absent upon this interesting ocoasloa, but a letter cattle brokers, commission merchants, dealers in dis- that the professional burglar is not the party to be June. from one of Company F.'s boys concludes as follows: catches them with a long pair of wooden tongs, with " Washington Is a jolly place, but without Hagerty tilled and fermented liquors, wines and cordials, dis- feared, but the keeper of the watch. BUCHAREST, October 19.—The first detachment of which he quickly and dexterously grasps them just tillers, Insurance agents, ice dealers, manufacturers of Roumanian trooDs for the occupation of the Dobrudja below the head. He then either killed them outright It would not be worth visiting." Would that spiritualism could so develop Itself left here on Thursday. or else removed their fangs, and tfius rendered them Illuminating gas, life and insurance companies, pat- into material use that, through the medium of clalrvoy- ATHENS, Ootober 19.—After a long debate on the harmless. Wllkenlngr. ent agents, pawnbrokers, photographers, proprietors ancy or second sight, perlectly and sublimely honest government's policy the ohamber passed a vote of There are few of the many patrons of our friend of bar-rooms, sample-rooms, tlppling-houses, billiard,, confidence by 69 ayes to 63 noes. He possessed power to charm them also, It is said. men might be discovered, and the office of adminis- In fact, he once lnforpied the writer, who visited his Wllkening who are aware of the fact that he has fallen LONDON, October 19.—Oolonel W. G. Boyle, the heir to a fortune of over one hundred thousand pounds. bagatelle and Jenny Lind tables, bowling-alleys, tration so preserved in perfect integrity. Arizona pioneer, now In London, has completed tbe cabin, that " thar warn't a varmint that crawled Hut wot I ken make 'em lay down as quiet as a lamb." We are authorized to invite the public at large to call hotels, livery stables, Intelligence offices, junk-shops,, purchase of the entire interests of the English owners The old man had about his premises a large number at his popular restaurant and partake of his hospital- restaurants and eating-houses, theaters, rectifiers, &c.' of the celebrated silver mines in the Santa Rita ity. In 3Iemoriam. of snakes which be exhibited to visitors, expecting All parties engaged In said business, trades or pro- mountains, Tyndall district, Arizona, l'or Dr. H. R. and receiving many a nickel or dime In return. He TTLKE —On the morning of October 16,1878, Charles Allen and his associates. The latter have made all fessions must promptly renew such lloenses, in ac- Thornton Tyler, in the 31st year of his age, eldest son never visited a village without carrying several ot his Steamed Oysters. the arrangements to organize a strong company In odious specimens with him, which he will draw from cordance with the provisions of the act of the Legisla- of John and Frances H. Tyler of Alexandria, Va. New York to work these mines, so famous in the an Tbe entire upper portion of Seventh street is full of his pocket and place about his neok, or fondle and enthusiasm, and pronounce Ned Dubantthe prince of tive Assembly, approved August 23, 1871, and the act These few lints record the death of a man.. A nobler dent history oi Mexico. handle them as if they were kittens. By these ex- LONDON, October 19.—Sir Stafford Northcote, speak- caterers. Ned has tickled their palates and filled their amendatory thereof, approved June 20, 1872, viz :• and princelier gentleman was never born; a man more hibitions he picks up a good many coppers. Many stomachs with the finest steamed oysters that ever ing at Birmingham last night, admitted the depres- wonderful stories are told about" Old Rube" and his "That every person liable for a license tax who may beloved never died; and no man dying ever left In sion In trade and consequent loss of elasticity of the were seen in that locality. His restaurant, corner of wife, the latter being as much of a curiosity as her Seventh and N streets, has been filled to overflowing fall to pay the same before engaging in the business, this our city such a void—a vacancy that cannot be revenue. Nevertheless he did not anticipate the ne- husband. We have been told that the very shanty with hungry and excited patrons, all desiring steamed filled. cessity of asking of the country renewed sacrifices. swarmed with rattlesnakes, the occupants not having oysters. shall, In addition to the license tax Imposed, pay a He condemned over anxiety respecting the' fulfill- any fear whateverof them. fine or penalty ol no less than five nor more than fifty True, faithful and generous, he held men to him by ment of the provisions of the treaty of Berlin. Dis- those links of human steel that mean more than bars turbance of the waters does not cease with the falling The land on which tbe shanty stood was lately pur- Our Beverage. dollars for each offense. of the wind. An important moment would be next chased by Bishop Seymour of Illinois. The owner has ROBERT P. DODGE, or bolts of iron. His soul was white with all the grand tried repeatedly to get the Davis family to move olf, The finest beer we have ever tasted is the celebrated May, the period of complete Russian evacuation. He Rochester beer, which has not only become a perma- Treasurer of the District of Columbia. purit/ of' manliness ; his heart brave with the self- but the old couple have refused until lately, when the was convinced that the Powers would not sutler the Bishop threatened to eject them by legal process. He nent success, but has made such a hole In the sale of [Star, Critic, Post, 3 times.] It3 sacrifice of a perfect man. treaty of Berlin, which cost so much, to be set aside. finally offered Davis ten dollars to leave peaceably, all others that it has become a chronic nightmare to all In common with those who knew our dear, dead The English government's policy would be one of and the old man, his wife and a boat load of snakes rival brewers. Made of the purest malt and placed SPECIAL NOTICE. firmness, prudence and moderation, and they would upon the market unadulterated, It is recommended by friend, our tears would blur whatever we might speak left one day for Harbor Island, about a mile south of watch over the Interests of England's Indian colonial M here the cottage was situated. On Friday the torch physicians and used in large quantities in all fam- By request a of him. If our lives could be as pure and as unselfish empire. ilies: We earnestly advise all who desire to use gen- SPECIAL MEETING was applied to the premises. When the fire began to uine beer to call on Flnley & Kooh,1206 Pennsylvania as was his we could as safely meet the dread tidal The government would not have the heart of Eng spread a terrible sight met the eyes of those present. OF THE JACKSON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIA- land with them if it thought the Interests of England It was a sight that caused the beholders to flee up the avenue, as these gentlemen are sole agents for the TION wave of death. were limited to these small islands, meaning Great trees for- safety. Hissing rattlesnakes and squealing celebrated Rochester beer. Will be held at Britain and Ireland. One great principle of their rats poured outof the building from all directions. As HAMLIN'S HALL, policy is the preservation of the Ottoman empire, and the hot flames sprang towards the roof the crackling Madame Garrett. Corner of Sixth street and Louisiana avenue, AMUSEMENTS. they intended to introduce material improvement in of the dry boards was mingled with the rattle of ON TUESDAY, 22d instant, at 7:00 o'clocï p. m The ladles of this city will be delighted to learn of JOHN E. NORRIS, President. THEATER OOMIQUE.—We are to have a week oi bur- Astatic Turkey. He then defended the acquisition of scores of maddened serpents and unearthly yells of the return of this famous modiste, with the latest lesque at the Uomique. Miss Jennie Kimball's re- Cyprus, which he said was vindicated by tbe govern- rodents. The very root seemed to be alive with the iashlons in dressmaking. Madame Garrett has1 re- October 19, 1878. LT6* nowned troupe of burlesque artistes, Female Minstrels ment's policy respecting Egypt. Concerning Afghan- venomous reptiles, and the bright green and white of moved to No. 1223 F street northwest, where she has and Art Troupe, take possession to morrow night. istan, the chancellor reiterated the statements made their outside covering shown with a glare as the increased facilities lor catering to her patrons. The IF YOU WANT TO FIND THE BEST They have leased the theater for one week only, and by Mr. Cross, the home secretary, at Southport, add- flames lit upon them. Madame has a reputation second to none, and those and cheapest place to buy and sell your new all should see them, as they are spoken of very highly ing that the government will not allow Its attention who call on her once never fall to call again. Don't and second-hand Clothing, Boots and Shoes. Hats, to be distracted* from the execution of the Berlin One of the men, who was a olose eye-witness of tbe Jewelry, Watches, Pistols, &c., call at by the entire press whenever they have appeared. scene, says: " One large snake, about seven feet long, forget the number. The company includes some of the greatest of specialty treaty. opened his mouth and out came at least two score of G. GOLDBERG, artists, and no pains or expense have been spared in BERLIN, October 19.—The Reichstag to day adopted little reptiles, whose little tails shook in the air as If JOHNSON'S Tangier oysters. Steamed, 15 cents half je9-iy8 919 and 923 D street. making this the model organization now traveling. the whole of the socialist bill by a vote of 221 against they, too, were frenzied at the destruction tbe flames peok. 440 Ninth street northwest. Miss Jennie Kimball Is highly spoken of by the New 149. Both sections of the conservative and national made of their home. Several snakes charged madly York press: liberals, with some Independent liberals, voted for the EDUCATIONAL. upon the flames, only to fall back burned to death, Bowling. " Union Square Theater—Ernani has been running bill. Prince Bismarck then read the message closing while the rats that could get away took to the woods. at this house for the past two weeks. Miss Jennie the Reichstag. He said the government, armed with In one place a projecting log was made the object ot The lamented James Flsk once remarked that the Kimball, a charming songstress, sustaining the lead- this measure, would make a determined effort to oure attack by three large reptiles. As the trio charged only way he could keep himself In any kind ot con- ing character. Miss Kimball is very pretty to begin the prevailing disease. If they were not able to suc- madly upon It a great sheet of fire, whose forked dition was by bowling; while Alexander Stephens EDUCATIONAL. with, and she has a very sweet and powerful voice."— ceed In two and a half years the government hoped tongues were even more poisonous than those of the informed us confidentially that he would not have THE ARCHER INSTITUTE, New York Herald. further concessions. snakes, rolled around and seized the reptiles, causing weighed a pound If it had not been for the same cause. BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL VIENNA, October 19.—A dispatch to the Politicaf them to oease rattling, as each one dropped over dead. Bowling Is therefore healthy and beneficial to all, and, For Young Ladies and Children. "New York, Union Square Theater—Bad Dickey.— as there Is only one place worthy of the name of Miss Jennie Kimball, as the Princess Elizabeth, has Correspondence from Constantinople says the Grand About the ground lay many dead serpents and roasted •Mrs. Archer, late principal of " Patapsco Female Vizier has expressed to the ambassadors the Porte's rats, while some were writbing and seemed to be In bowling saloon and suitable for gentlemen to visit, Institute," near Baltimore, has removed her school to created a decidedly favorable impression, and is every one visits Joseph Oker's saloon, 1218 E street greatly admired by the habituants of the Union alarm at the Russian military measures and proceed- fearful agony." 1401 Massachusetts avenue, Washington city. where the finest alleys In the country can be found as '—.School duties resumed September 26,1878. Square Theater."—New York Herald. ings, which have prevented the Porte from carrying well as the politest attention. The whole company appear in a grand minstrel out the much-desired disarmament. •For circulars, address scene, a strong specialty olio, and concluding each A Sleeping Boy's Wonderful Escape. jy21-3m3 Mrs. M. R. ARCHER, Washington, D, C. performance with an amusing burlesque. See the Political—A Bloodless Quarrel. [From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.] THE hosiery department recently opened at the blondes and be happy. RICHMOND, VA., October 19.—W. W. Newman, Esq., A remarkable Incident eccurred during the run of Palais Royal attracted greatly the attention of the ADEMOISELLE BRUN HAS RESUME O- Greenbacker candidate for Congress In this district In ladles. The success of the establishment in this, as M THE TESTIMONIAL TO MISS MILLS.—The compli- the express train over the Chicago, Milwaukee and well as In all their various departments, is well her instructions in the French language, and opposition to General Joseph E. Johnston, the regular St. Paul railway, due here from Chfcago at 12 o'clock will Insure satisfaction to those who entrust them- mentary concert to Miss Mills at Lincoln Hall, on Democratic nominee, and William L. Royall, a lawyer last night. Among the passengers was a lady named merited, for with regard to assortments, quality of Friiiay evening, was one of the most brilliant enter- of this city, were before the police court to-day on a goods and prices, they are unequaled by any store in selves to her method ot teaching. tainments ever given by'our talented amateurs. The Dixon, with a family of eight children—seven Boys the city. Pronunciation and conversation being the point» obarge of being about to commit a breach of the and one girl, the age of the eldest of the former being most difficult to acquire, Mademoiselle Brun will de- second act of Martha was sung with the dash and peace. It appears that Royall, who bad been can fourteen years. As the train sped towards Milwaukee, spirit of professional singers, especially In the parts of Improvements. vote special attention to them. 1803 H street north- va?sing the district in behalf of General Johnston, the children, one by one, dropped into a sound slum- west, corner Eighteenth street. sepl'5-10t6* Martha and Plunkett, taken respectively by Miss felt himself aggrieved at some remarks of a personal ber, until all were asleep. The train passed Lake We were greatly surprised to witness the improve- Mills and Mr. Young. The audience was a full one, nature made by Newman. Whereupon Royall opened station, and was flyfng over the rails at the rate of ment which our friend Bernard Henzehas made In his EORGETOWN COLLEGE.—me next session and manifested their gratification by frequent ap- a correspondence by demanding of Newman if he fully thirty miles an hour, when the mother missed popular restaurant, 1216 Pennsylvania avenue. The G will begin on Thursday, September 5. Exami- plause: would receive a challenge without giving information her eldest boy from hfs seat, and looking In the direc- entire building has been repapered and painted nations for admission on Monday, September 2, and that would lead to his arrest. Newman replied eva- tion of the door of the car, caught a glimpse of his throughout, and presents a most attractive appear- therealter. The F-street cars run within two blocks THB fashionable event of the season, will be the juve- sively, saving it would be time enough to answer that slender form as It passed through and out upon the ance, and Is, without exception, the neatest and most of the College. P. F. HtiALY, S. J., nile soiree, which takes plaoe on Friday evening, Oc- question when Royall sent the challenge. Fplattorm. complete house In the city. • Mr. Henze has erected a sepl-8t7 President. tober 26, at Sheldon's Assembly Kooms. Professor magnificent steam oystêr bar, and has unequaled Sheldon is not only an artist in his protession, but as Royall replied In a note that implied cowardice on She hurried alter him as quickly as possible, but the part of Newman, which ended the correspondence facilities for supplying steamed oysters in any quan- a teacher is unexcelled. The Professor has the happy before she oould reach the platform he was gone. He tity. All the luxuries of the season, as well as the faculty of being a gentleman as well as a teacher, Newman, however, made the matter known to his had stepped off the car and plunged into the abyss of AUCTION SALES. friends, who conveyed the information to the police finest liquors In the city, can always be found at this which accounts for his popularity among parents and darkness that shrouded the train and its surround- popular resort, as well as the enterprising proprietor, his success with his pupils. authorities, and the result was the arrest of both par- ings. The poor woman became frantlo ' with grief ties. They were bound over in $1,000 each to keep the and his accomplished and affable assistant, Mr. when she realized that her idolized son, the oldest of Dink Fugltt. THE first grand ball of the Barrett Olub will take peace lor twelve months. her interesting flock, had encountered a danger from Very Large Ex- place at Franklin Hall, corner of Sixth and O streets POTTSTOWN, PENNA., October 19.—The Democratic which the chance of escape from certain death was northwest, Wednesday evening, October 23 This Sale conterees of the Seventh dlstrlot to-day nominated O perhaps but one out of a hundred. The remaining Coleman. tensive1 is one of the best halls for dancing in the city, and the P. James for Congress. ocoupants of the car were also terror-stricken to such The rich and the poor can all enjoy the luxury of a —OS — committee promise to make this an event that will FRANKLIN, LA., Ootober 19.—The Democratic ex- an extent that steps were Instantly taken to find the bath at Coleman's tonsorlal emporium, corner of F1N,E WALNUT PARLOR SUITES, IN REP AND not be forgotten by those who may enjoy themselves oonduotor, with the view af having the train stopped ecutive committee of St. Mary's parish have adopted Eighth and D streets, as this energetic and popular PLUSH; FINE WALNUT M. T. CHAMBER on thatoccaslon. a resolution approving the findings of the committee and backed to the scene of the acoldent. gentleman has placed his prices at so low a figure that in the Acklen case, and call on the central committee By the time this could be accomplished, however, for one to go dirty is not only a disgrace, but actually §ETTS, LOUNGES; WALNUT M. T. DRESS- to nominate a candidate in his place. Milwaukee was so close at hand that the conductor a orlme. ING OASES, WASHSTANDS, WALNUT To Correspondents, NEW YORK, October 19.—The adjourned Tammany concluded to make the depot and send a party of yard WARDROBES, HAIR MATTRESSES, FEA- [From the Boston Transcript.] county convention met this afternoon. Resolutions men to search the track for the lad. A switch engine were adopted ratifying the nomination of George B. Driver's. THERS, SOFA, SPRING BEDS, EXTENSION Causeur knows that he will deserve and win the was accordingly dispatched, which proceeded as far Bradley of Steuben as associate judge of the court of as Lake station, where the youth was found wander- There is nothing like success to cause one to feel TABLES, WALNUT DINING CHAIRS, M. T. thanks oi all managing editors if he can but Impress appeals ; indorsing the platform adopted by the Dem- that he Is a friend to all mankind; and as our friend ing about upon the platform In a state of bewilder, TABLES, BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY AND IN these few simple rules upon the minds of those who cratic State convention at Syracuse; denouncing the ment, rubbing his eyes, and feeling of his shoulder George W. Driver has been more than successful, he write occasionally for the press: criminal neglect of. the Republican legislature since and bead, which had sustained slight scratches and Is therefore a friend to humanity. We advise all who GRAIN CARPETS, STOVES, Oil. CLOTHS, desire to enjoy any of the luxuries of the season to call I. Write upon one side of the leaf only. Why 1 1875; to reapportion the State, and demanding just bruises. Beyond these not the slightest Injury could BLANKETS, SPREADS, CROCKERY AND Because it is often necessary to cut the pages Into and reasonable excise laws for the city. Nominations be discovered. The lad could give no account of his at Driver's, corner of Four-and-a-half street and Penn- "takes" for the compositors, and this cannot be done were then gone into and resulted as follows: For singular action. He knew only that he had fallen sylvania avenue. GLASS-WARE, &c., &c,, BEING THE ENTIRE when both sides are written upon. mayor. Augustus Sohell; for district attorney Fred- asleep In the ear with his brothers and sister, and was CONTENTS OF HOUSES NOS 1101, 1103 and II. Write clearly and distinctly, being particularly erick Smyth; for city judge, G. S. Bedford; tor coro- awakened by the shook of striking the earth Upon his The Chesapeake. 1105 G STREET NORTHWEST. careful in the matter of proper names and words from ner, Michael Twomey; aldermen at large, William R shoulders. foreign languages. Why? Because you have no right The proprietors of this famous resort have again On THURSDAY MORNING, OOTOBER 21, corn-- Roberts, William P. Kirk, Patrick Keenan and Wil- distanced all their competitors by securing the freshest to ask either editor, proof reader or compositor to waste liam Bennett. The violence of the concussion caused him to roll menclng at 10 o'clock, we will sell theentlre furniture their time puzzling out the results of your selfish care over and over down the slight embankment of the oysters in the market, and making their famous res- lessness. road bed, and by tbe time he could collect his scat taurant the resort of all lovers of these delicious of forty rooms contained In above bouses, all of which bivalves. Steamed, roasted, stewed and fried are III. Don't write in a microscopic hand. Why? Canadian Items. tered senses and regain his feet the train was out of is nearly new and well made, having been furnished Q.UEBEO, October 19.—A grand receptl sight. Not knowing which way to proceed, he wan- served at the lowest prices and of the finest qualities. Because the compositor has to read it across his case, i was given dered along the track at random, and soon reached The bar is stocked with the finest liquors and wines, by G. M. Wight, fisq. at a distance of nearly two feet. Also, because the to the governor general this morning, at T whioh he embarked on the steamor Polynesian. the platform of Lake station, where be had concluded and Messrs; Flnley & Supplee are the acknowledged House opened lor Inspection on morning of sale at editor often wants to make additions or other changes. to remain until daybreak, when the rescuing party caterers of our city. It a stranger besets our city be IV. Don't begin at the very top of the first page. OTTAWA, October 19.—To-day's official Gazette an- 8 o'clock. nounces the lollowing appointments: Sir John A came up. The joy of the mother on finding her boy should eall at the Chesapeake for anything he desires Why? Because, it you have written a head for your safe and sound can better be imagined than de- in the eating or drinking line. A splendid opportunity for persons refurnishing. article, the editor will probably want to change it, and MacDonald, solicitor of the interior; S. L. Tilley' minister of finance; Charles Cupper, minister of scribed. He had passed through a terrible ordeal In It2 DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. if you have not—which is the better way—he must a sonambulistlc state, and escaped without a sprain write one. Besides, he wants room in which to write public works; .7. H. Pope, minister of agrloulture; Emmet House. John O'Connor, president .of council; James Mc- or a fracture, and no discomfort beyond that oo- his Instructions to the printer as to the type to be oasioned by a few scratches and bruises. This favorite resort for the traveling public has be- used, where and when the proof is to be sent, &c. Donald, member or the privy council and minister of come famous as the model hotel of the oountry We The Windsor Dining-liooms V. Never roll your manuscript. Why ? Because it justice. Mrs. Dixon is en route from Montreal to Manitoba, had the pleasure of enjoying one of Dan's famous maddens and exasperates every one who touches it- in the British possessions, where her husband is at meals; our mouth waters at the recollection ol tbe editor, compositor and proofreader. present engaged as a contractor. She remained in luxuries we enjoyed, and the only report we can make Mrs. M. W1LKEY (formerly ol 508 Ninth street Movements of President Hayes. tho city until this afternoon, when the journey to the northwest) would respectfully intorin her numerous VI. Be brief; Why? Because people don't read BALTIMORE, October 19 —President Hayes, accom- new home in the far northwest was resumed. The is that the Emmet is the best hotel in the country, and friends and the public In general that she has leased long stories. The number of readers which any two panied by Mrs. Hayes and his son, Webb O. Hayes story of the wonderful escape spread like wildfire on Dan. O'Brien is the best landlord in the world. and removed to the large ana coinaiuaiuus building articles have is inversely proportioned to the square arrived in this city this afternoon; and immediately the south side, and resulted in making the motber and located on tbe of the respective lengths; that is, a half-column roceeded to the residence ot Samuel M. Shoemaker her family objects ot Interest during their stay. Washington Mattress Factory, »05 D article is read by four times as many people as one of SOUTHWEST CORNER OF TENTH AND F STS., double that length. Psq., at Green Spring Valley. Baltimore county' Street Northwest. Ihey will be the guests of Mr. Shoemaker until Mon- We visited this establishment last week, and were VII. Have the fear of the waste basket constantly day next, when they will return to Washington. Fall and Winter Hats. which has been thoroughly renovated and i-e*ly fur- and steadily before your eyes. Why? Because it astonished at the amount and quality of the goods nished throughout, for the reception ami ¡icc-urii Nida- The finest assortment of fall and winter hats in the turned out. . Lloyd's improved hair-picker, which is will save you a vast amount of useless labor, to say city can be found at Wfllett & Ruoff's fashionable tion of permanent and transient guest*, wriere all the nothing of paper and postage. Heavy Frost. the only picker of the kind In the country, as It picks comforts of a home can be reullzr •ml er-joywl. emporium. These well-known gentlemen are agents and cannot tear the hair, is, In our estimation, an A VIII. Always write your full name and address LOUISVILLE, KY., Ootober 19.—The ground this for Dunlap & Oo.'s New York hats and Christy & Oo's Single meals at any hour served, tat l if." son, plainly at the end of your letter. Why ? Because It morning was covered with such a heavy frost as to No. 1 machine, and enables him to renovate hair mat- with home-made dishes. Oysters J London hats. Their stock is complete In every par- tresses at a low figure and return all the hair. fies In will often happen that the editor will want to com oause the belief that a light snow had fallen. The ticular, and those who need or wish a stiff or soft nat season. munlcate with you, and because he needs to know the temperature lell enough to allow ice one-eighth of an of the most correot style, and at popular prices, should writer's name as a guarantee of good faith. If you inch in thickness to form on the ponds In and around call at 905 Pennsylvania avenue. use a pseudonym or initials, write your own name the city. VELATI'S and address below it. It will never be divulged. Welcker. CITY ITEMS. IX. "These precepts in thy memory keep,"and, Tlie Weather To-Day. Celebrated Caramels for fear you might forget them, cut them out and put For New England rain areas, followed by clearing Opposite the Treasury Department our old friend FRIBD OYSTERS per dozen in box thirty oents, at them where you can readily run through them when weather, southwest veering to northwest winds, ata- Peter Welcker still continues to cater to the wants oi Charles Mades', Third street and Pennsylvania CANNOT BE BEAT IN THIS COUNTRY tempted to spill Innocent ink. tlonary or lower temperature, higher pressure. For the inner man, and maintains Ms reputation as the avenue. 50 CENTS PER POUND. Causeur's word for it, those who heed these rules authority for mixed liquors and prolessor In the art of the Middle Atlantic States, dear or partly cloudy manipulating all the ingredients tha* cause a man to Central establishment 020 Ninth street northwest. will be beloved and favored in every editorial sano- weather, northwesterly winds, stationary or higher Overcoats. Branch stores 707 Thirteenth street norttiw- in. and 513 tum. think there Is only one plaoe In the city, and that is pressure and temperature. Pete Welcker's. All grades and prices cheap for cash at Roman & Seventh street northwest. Importer of Puro > til and Oox's, 607 Seventh street. Maccaroni. oc201y7 6 THE CAPITAL: OCTOBER20, 1876.

Elephants as Explorers. For THE CAPITAL. —It doesn't pay to sling French around too loosely. BE0KEBS, REAL ESTATE AG'TS, ET0. MUSIO. BREVITIES. The Pays said that McMahon should resign from the Falling speedier means of locomotion in Africa, FAKTIXO. presidency of France. It was sued, fined four elephants promise to become important aids to the fu- ture development of traffic with the interior of the FOR SALE. On the door-sill she Is standing, hundred dollars and two of Its editors Imprisoned. dark continent, pending the time when the iron horse If Grant was as powerful we would have been hanged, will find its way thither. For some reason or other And her band be softly presses, 44 drawn, quartered and presented to the devil on toast- the domestication" of the elephant has been confined Looking fondness and Indulging to the Asiatic species, which was erroneously supposed In divine door-sillinesses! ing irons years ago. to be more tractable and more powerful than its Af- —Mr. Murch says: "We have been widely misrep- rican cousin, though the latter is the cleverer of the A SPLENDID RESIDENCE. •0KKEOOGKIZBD. two. Since the time of the Roman Empire, when resented. We have been called Inflationists. I deny Caesar is said to have actually brought an African In vision land I saw a creature strange, that emphatically. I am not, anyway. We are called elephant to England, much to the terror of the aborigi- A noisy, barefoot boy, with cotton bead. repudlators. That I deny. We fire said to be in favor nes, the sole object of man in his dealing with the .A- Hare Chance. •»' By all the freaks of wonder-working change, African elephant seems to have been Its extermina- of Irredeemable paper money. That Is false. My tion. The success which has attended Colonel Gor- "Who, noisy juvenile, are you? " I said. views can be given in a few wards, and 1 think they don's experiment in turning to practical use in the A splendid, nearly new, thirteen-room private resi- dence In the center of the beautiful northwest section, are the same as of a vast majority of those who voted Soudan the Khedive's tame Indian elephants, which •«•What? Don't remember me—your boyhood ? Then on the finest avenue In the city. This property will be for me. Of course, there are some details of the finan- Have been eating their heads off in idleness so long at sold at a POSITIVE SACRIFICE. Price, $16,600. Parties Fond memory has dressed me In fine clothes, Cairo, will no doubt lead not only to the use of the cial question upon which my mind Is not fully made meaning business will be shown the property, and get And wrote my hist'ry with unloyal pen " Indian elephants in Africa, but also to the training particulars by applying to my agent, up. My Idea is that the Government should be the of the native variety to purposes of commerce. An " 'Tis false, yeu ootton-head; go wipe your nose!" J. V. N. HUYCK, sole issuing source of money. Let banks do business African specimen, which accompanied the Indian GRAND, SQUARE and UP- elephants in their long journey from Cairo to Dufil, Office No. 1506 Pennsylvania avenue, THE BREAKER'S 7ATE. If anybody wants to do business with them; but they in equatorial Egypt, is reported as being in good health (Arlington lnsuranoe Building.) A palace of visions was his must not issue currency." and amenable to discipline; and there is little doubt Or Address P. O. Lock Box 128. sep22-t!6 RIGHT PIANOS: In youth's grand and passionate days; that with the assistance of competent Indian elephants S. B. MILLS, THEODORE THOMAS, "WM. MA- to capture, tame and teach the African variety, these IHE JEWELRY STORE, 619 PENNSYLVANIA Foor dreamer, time shattered his bliss; animals might be made as useful in their native coun- T avenue, removed to this place. SON. And now in the poor-house he stays. try as the others are in Asia. Three important points " They are in every respect superior instruments. GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. at least have been proved by Colonel Gordon—that Their tone is pure, rich, brilliant, very distinct and of TRUST. the Indian elephant will live and endure hardships an entirely musical charaoter. Their workmanship is What if a maid deceive? THE WILHELMJ CONCERT at Lincoln Hall was, as and privations in the most trying parts of Africa, and S. GOLDSTEIN & CO., ol the very best." had been expected, a most complimentary welcome to with unaccustomed kinds of food, swimming rivers And shall I then believe the great violinist, who has been heralded with popu- and crossing deserts with equal facility; that the Afri- G. KUHN, That ev'ry maid's untrue 1 lar enthusiasm, as well as the most favorable criticism. can variety can be tamed and be pressed into the ser- 407 Tenth Street, SOLE AGENT, Miss James, a fair enough singer for the concert room, Loan and Commission Brokers No, no ; 'twill never do— vice of man; and that the native Africans can be Also for the Matchless BURDETT ORGAN. gave several of her selections with favorable effect. taught to tend and drive their enormous charges as That Is the oynlc's view. Madame Oarreno plays at times with brilliancy, and well as the Indian trainers. Two important features sepl5-3mo86* has remarkable power of execution for a woman. The in connection with the employment of elephants in Northeast Corner of Tenth and D Streets. No, no; all womanhood accompanist hardly did justice to Herr Wilhelmj's Africa are that the animal is proof against the attacks I believe pure and good; solos, and was at times not exactly in the proper rela of the detested tsetze fly,whic h neither horses nor ELLIS & CO., All but the tickle maid tive tone to the violin. cattle can endure, and that the natives—so far, at least, PRIVATE ENTRANCE ON TENTH STREET. as our present experience goes—flee at the approach Who the deceiver played. To appreciate so eminent a master fully we must of the great creatures quietly driven by men seated 937 Pennsylvania Avenue, Soon may her image fade! bear in mind the remarkably phenomenal character of on their heads.—Exchange. Liberal advances made on valuable Personal Prop- the violin—an instrument of such wide range and VERY SAD. marvelous variety ot expression that the pieces spe- erty to any amount and for any time desired, on very Sole Agents for THERE is nothing like making yourself understood. easonable terms. Through the grave-yard, with the pun-god, 1 strolled, cially composed for it by great musicians are im- The other evening a western gentleman was accosted mensely varied and subtle, full of delicacies, acrobatio by. two practicing communists, who intimated that A large stock of line goods for sale. Perusing pralseful head-stones; with a laugh he scales and labyrinths of harmony, which none but the 44 41 they would trouble him for his watch." He at once The oldest and largest business in the city. mhly7 THE FAMOUS WEBER, Said, 0 how we flatter and extol the dead! finest artistic mind can compass, and none but the explained that he carried his watch in his hip pocket; Alas for epitaphs—they're epitaphy!" most masterly execution express. Wilhelmj plays that it was a stem-winder, full-barreled, and that with ease, and with the soul and passion which impart 44 there would be trouble all round" if he was obliged THE BEST IN THE WORLD. enchantment and rapture to his music. The harmon- to pull it out. The communists requested him to pass FOR SALE, ics are like echoes blended into the other parts of the on his way, and to keep their share ol the watch till composition, and the unity of the whole makes a they asked for It again. A Desirable Home Very Cheap. PERSONAL. beautifuliy toned picture or poem put into sound. His Nearly all the great singers and artists of the world playing of his own paraphrase of Wagners Preislied A corner lot, 70x96, streets parked and paved, beau- give them the preference over all others. Also agents —It is better to be born luoky than Acklen. of the Meistersinger, was the most pleasing of his per- NEW PUBLICATIONS, tiiul shade trees surrounding the entire property, for the celebrated —Ole Bull has returned to America from Europe. formances, as it gave all the beauty of his finestexe - which fronts on the finest GOVERNMENT RESER- cution, and at the same time displayed his talent in JBeginning of a New Volume. —In New York State hay is sold for ten dollars a VATION in the «ity. the next grade to original composition. The residence is a very fine one, of modern construc- ton. Smith American Organs. MR. JOHN GILBERT is to have a benefit at Wallaces Scribner for November tion, though much better built than usual, the walls —Farmers say that a mortgage is the hardest thing being 14,18 and 22 inches in thickness; plate glass In on the 28th of November, the identical day on which, EDITION, 90,000 COPIES. front windows. The interior is fitted up with all the WEARING APPAREL. to raise. fifty years ago, he first appeared, and this benefit will Dr. Holland, writing of Frances Hodgson modern conveniences, except furnace. There are 14 —Hats change, as last fall's tile is not like this be remarkable both by reason ol the character and rooms and 2 bath-rooms, marble mantels, latrobe services of the beneficiary and the fact that not ior Burnett, says: " There is but one English fall's style. stoves, range, hot and oold water, gas, &c. c! SÎSHtil twelve years past has Wallack's Theater been thrown writer—a woman—who can command « bet- p —Five hundred women enter the university In Lon- open for a benefit performance. It is not decided Twe-story brick stable on the lot. SO O trS-S B ter audience in America." The above property will be sold for $13,600, on EASY J? fcdc . ** ® a PEO! don this fall. what form the benefit to the veteran actor will take. «OS CT® D »"• No doubt the most prominent actors in America will "HAWOETH'S," TERMS. Apply to P © p o oft- er, —Ramsdell and .Tim Young no long tour together. J. V. N. HUYOK, a » O œ i all assist only too gladly. The occasion will be made MBS. BUBNETT'S NEW NOVEL, 01 *> 'Tis sever thus!" memorable, and if we might be permitted the sug- Begun in this number, is in some respects REAL ESTATE AGENT, £¡3 ® Ses ! Ö NO. 1605 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, —Smith Weed oalls $80,000 a " few dollars!" That's gestion, It should be a homogeneous and single per- an advance on her " That Lass o' Lowrie's." Oig • h gl o w formance, in place of the usual disjointed form which (ARLINGTON INSURANCE BUILDING.) «3 the way he ciphers. The first installment is of absorbing interest, P. O. LOOK BOX 428. sel5-tf3 K - © o» H a benefit takes where a number of stars assist. One hrf fel : ê oggo! —Vanderbilt's interview with the spirits seems to embracing seven chapters, with four en- I > » H»© ¡ OD play should alone be given, and that play ought to be gravings by Dielman and Bolles. GQ • 05 D o d ! show that they were above proof. the School lor Scandal, with a star cast. The benefit a t . £•© QC to Mr. Uompton, in London, some two years ago, A New Portrait of Longfellow. 02 s-3 —The Alta California calls Emperer William the might be a model for this occasion. At that benefit The present number is rich in exquisite >-J 60 "f'i-gf Si s si QC leading antl-soolallst Bill of the age. such men as Henry Irving and a number of others engravings, prominent among which is a CD f 2 ¡S s® h ® fill » took subordinate parts. In the same way Mr. Gilbert $30,00V 0 _ o»S o B.O • M —Ben. Hill Is not a good Latin scholar. He is said full-page frontispiece portrain of Longfel- CD •a* 75 fc. bsK playing his immortal rendering of Sir Peter Teazle, «-o su 1-3 HH •to call " mors omnibus " Latin for hearse. and Mr. Wallack Charles Surface, the other parts low, drawn from life by Wyatt Eaton, and To Loan, in Sums to Suit, ?» 'S2. BS • SB —Clarkson N. Potter has been playing ceramics on should be distributed to such men as Owens, Chan- engraved by Cole, the artist and engraver of I -^r tils opponents—he has been renominated. frau, Boucicault, Warren, Uoghlan, Thome, etc., and the Bryant portrait in the August numDer. ON sr ï™ N i H such women as Mrs. Bowers, Genevieve Ward, Agnes g-B-f oc —"A long felt want" has been discovered to apply Accompanying this is a biographical paper Booth, etc. A benefit of this kind would be worthy of by the poet Stoddard, with illustrations by song entitled " Darling, ican audience, so wild, so wanton, or so witless an at- cesses. Illustrated by Thomas Eakins. lé 17 Pennsylvania Avenue. myl2-ly4 Calls the special attention of gentlemen to his new hug me as before," a duet without accompaniment. tempt at comedy. Monarch of an imperial instru- Farm Life in New York, and fine assortment of fall goods. They all duet. ment, Herr Wheeler has probably perpetuated the By John Burroughs, with' illustrations by most vile and vicious adagio in B fiai ever submitted Mary Hallock Foote, reproduced by a new FOR SALE, Cheviot Suits »20 and $22 —U-eorge Frauds Train calls meat the delirium to the judgment of a refined constituency. Never be process. A Substantial House, nov4-l y6 tremens of ileah. George Francis is the characteristic fore has such bowing been wasted In such a puerile Johnny Beb at Play. jlm-jam of humanity. attempt to inculcate a metaphysic vagary on the stage The first of a series of papers by an ex- Situated near the Arlington Hotel, a new and supe- H. HEIL, —" Oheese It," according to our excellent and ele- of Mendelssohn's exquisite Concerto, Op. 29. Must rior constructed three story brick residence, contain- it always be ? Has art no illimitable expanse of tau- Confederate, giving an inside viewof life in ing about twelve rooms, besides convenient closets, XCevelKMn't gant friend Dr. Elliott Coues, is a corruption of tologic eccentricities ? Has nature—has nature—has the Confederate army, with illustrations by storerooms, &c., &c. n the ground that they are Inimical to insects and no recommendation in Washington, where she is a scribe direct with the publishers should favorite, endeared to the public by a long and pleas- MEAL ESTATE AGENT, friendly to fruit, while birds of other feathers pluck ant acquaintance. write name, Post-Office, County and State all the delicate fruits. in full, and send with remittance to SCRIB- 223 Four-and-a-half Street, Dally arriving, cargoes ol select ANTHRACITE, AT THE National last week The Hidden Hand was NER & Co., 743 Broadway, New York. and BITUMINOUS COAL, for families, steam and —Murphys, like potatoes, grow. Francis, the tem- withdrawn, after a rather cold reception—naturally sepl-tfS Above the Columbia Building. manufacturing use. perance lecturer, possesses a son who Is rapidly tread- given to the bad adaptation of a bad novel—and ing on the heels of his father, and is pronounced as on Thursday evening John Brougham's well known ST. NICHOLAS, KINDLING AND CORD WOOD. %>eing within an ace of his equal. burlesque of Pocahontas was put on, with Miss FOR SALE, Adelaide Detchon in the title role, Denham as Pow- SCRIBNER'S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE COAL STANDARD—TON 2,340 Ibe. —In Paris a beautiful Spanish lady appears on the hatan and Mrs. Blanche Ford as Captain Smith. The promenade with a dove attached to a rose colored rib- first performance showed the faults incident to a hur- For Girls and Boys. A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE Best duality, Fair Prices and Fair Dealing. bon. The difierence between Diana and Venus is that ried preparation, but on the next evening the music AT A POSITIVE SACRIFICE. was done better, and the splendid humor of the dia- No. 424 TENTH STREET WEST, one had a dove and the other a dog. Good Things for 1878-9. In the northwest section a nearly new twelve-room logue went oil more trippingly on the tongues of the Between D and E streets north. —Dennis Kearney has metamorphosed himself into The arrangements for literary and art con- JB HICK RESIDENCE, occupying a large corner lot, actors; the audience being delighted, as they are tributions for the new volume of STan. d fronting on a small triangular park, with horse BRANCH YARD, cornor Twelfth and O street» one of the " slimy, lecherous, hell-born, hell-bound bound to be with such a clever burlesque. Miss NICHOLAS—the sixth—are complete. Mr. cars within 300 feet. northwest. newspaper gang" by starting a two-cent paper In Detchon acted the mock heroine well, and interpola- This house was built under the personal supervision ted several recitations which displayed the taients Frank R. Stockton's new serial story for boys, DEPOT at Potomao Bridge, oorner Maryland ave- Boston. It Is oalled the Open Letter. of the owner, who now occupies it, and Is well built. nue and Thirteen-and-a-half street. sepStfS that properly belong to the higher spheres of the pro- • "A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP," The lot is nearly sixty feet front and 100 deep. —Longhelmer, "Diokens' prisoner," who figured In fession, and should not be wasted or marred in the Will run through the twelve monthly parts, Reason for selling, owner going to leave the city. the American Notes as a martyr, has, at his own re- study of farce. Any success, therefore, achieved in beginning with the number for November, Price only $10,000. quest, been sent back to the penitentiary, which he has this line would be rather a cause ot regret to those who 1878, and will be illustrated by James E. Apply to J. Y. N. HUYCK, COKE DOWN TO 4 CENTS- have seen her in a Shakspearean role, and feel the in- No. 1505 Pennsylvania avenue, iondly called "home" for forty years. terest which youth, beauty and talents excite. Kelly. For the girls, a continued tale, 8epl5-tf7 (Arlington Insurance Building.) —Blaokburn says: " Well, now, It would be a h—1 "HALF A DOZEN HOUSEKEEPERS," 40 BUSHELS DELIVERED FOR (2.10. SILENTLY placing the bottle on the table, the min- By Katharine D. Smith, with illustrations -of a thing if I, chairman of the Democratic congres- ion withdrew and left Herr Strakosch to contemplate by Frederich Dielman, begins in the same SIMON WOLF, sional committee, should be beaten by a Greenback«, It in solitude. After eyeing it with a savage gleam, number; and a fresh serial by Susan Cool- GAS-LIGHT OFFICE, just as was Hale, chairman of the Republican com- the usually good-natured maestro di piano took his idge, entitled "Eyebright," with plenty of mittee." celebrated eighteen-bladed jack-knife out of his pocket and knocked the head off. Pop! went the pictures, will be commenced early in the Attorney-at-Law & Justice of the Peace 411 and 413 Tenth street. —Sir Garnett Wolesley, recently made governor ol 11 wine"—some ot it into a tumbler which Mr. Stra volume. There will also be a continued Cyprus, started in the army AB a poor boy, without any COLUMBIAN kosch held ready for it. fairy-tale called LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE AGENCÏ, lntuence to aid him. He distinguished himself, when He tasted it with a hideous grimace. "BUMPTY DUDGET'S TOWER," a youngster. In the Crimean war and afterwards in " Das ees de worse great feex I ever gets in," mur- Written by Julian Hawthorne and illustra- 44 017 SEVENTH STREET, the Indian mutiny. mured Don Maurice, and das is de worse poison I ted by Alfred Fredericks. About the other ever try to trink. Vot 1 do wiz heem, eh ?" jyïl-3mosl —In Boston a man one hundred and four years of 44 familiar features of ST. NICHOLAS the editor Ah, 1 have heem all right," he cried, tapping his BANK NOTE COMPANY, 44 preserves a good-humored silence, content, "PIOR SALE. age, and lor sixty-eight years a Methodist, joined, on nose with his forefinger, 1 have heem ail right. perhaps, to let her five volumes already is- Friday last, the Baptist church. The reason of his Wheelaire and Wintaire, and Montgomeree and little sued prophesy concerning the sixth, in re- change is said to be that he loved a fair maiden of Freddie Swab—dey dine wid me dis evening. I feex Cheapest Lot in the City. de press of New York, cheap and satisfactory sure," spect to short stories, pictures, poems, hu- A FINE LOT, 33x146 feet and 11 inches, with side •eighty who belonged to that communion. and Herr Strakosch kept on tapping his sagacious mor, instructive sketches, and the lure and alley, 15 feet, and rear alley, 30 feet wide. Located on OOS Pennsylvania Avenue, —Kearney Is lamented somewhat thus: nose with his subtle forefinger for some time. lore of "Jack-in-the-Pulpit," the "Very K street northwest, between Sixteenth and Seven- Dlnnis, Mavournin, the convenshun's in Besshin, Miss ANNA STORY is highly complimented by the Little Folks" department, the "Riddle- teenthifronts south; concrete pavement and parking Boston critics for her fine acting of the part of Sister paid lqfc The bray ol O'Donnel Is heard in the hall-; box," etc. Contains 4848 square feet. Price, $1.10 per foot. The byes to their feellns is givln' expresshln— Simpllce in Cosette. The play is a strong melo-dra- The November Number. Terms, small cash payment; balance 7 per cent, inter- WASHINGTON, D. C. matic adaptation of Victor Hugo's famous novel, and Ah, Dinnis, me darlin', 'tis you'd bate them all. Attention is especially invited to the No- est. retains and intensifies much of the most dramatic vember number, which in many respects TITLE PERFECT. —Not content with his own follies, Murat Halstead parts of the original, which is from the most remarka- Apply to has employed a boss idiot to imitate Shakspeare. ble dramatic writer of the time. Mr. Lewis James approaches nearer to our ideal than any J. V. N. HUYOK, We are prepared, with every faelllty, for The idea of a pen-wiper from the city of hogs and took the princ^al part, Jean Valjean, and distin- number we have issued. It contains 72 Real Estate Agent, pages, and its illustrations throughout are Nt>. 1505 Pennsylvania avenue, Halsteads reproducing Shakspeare is about as prepos- guished himself, as he does in all of his characters, by the force and intellectuality of his rendition. fine and varied. It begins two splendid (Arlington Insurance Building.) terous as a parlor matoh spitting out fire in the sun's serials. Its shorter papers represent a wide P. O. Lock-Box 428. sel6-tfl face. AT THE Academy of Music in New York the Traviata rangó of subject — History, Travel, Fun, Engraving and Printing —General Kllpatrick lectures on Sherman's march was given on last Wednesday evening, the occasion Poetry, Adventure, Science,Natural History, FOR SALE. to the sea. He forgot to mention that there was no of Mapleson's opening of the opera season of Italian Home-life, Sport and lively narrative—the opera. Miss Minnie Hauk was the prima donna, and ATTRACTIVE HOME BANK NOTES, BONDS AND COMMERCIAI. army in front of him when he accomplished the last was also accorded the same honor on Friday when whole crowned by an appropriate Thanks- quarter, ;and that 11 Jetf. Davis had not taken the the Marriage of Figaro was presented. It seems strange giving story. With the New Feature of a rebel army from his front the march to the sea would that the first performances were not given with the Throughout are seen evidences and fruit of WORK OF EVERY KIND, &0. never have been made. best talent of the company cast in the best operas of the editor's recent travel across the conti- Side Lot the repertory. nent, and Mrs. Dodge's inimitable touches Of Even Width of the House Lot, all neatly Sodded —Yiotor Schoelcher, the French materialist, Is said everywhere show the heartiness and zeal and Adorned with Flowers, Shrubbery, &c. WM. H. PHILIP, President. to be temperate 'solely because he believes in the EMMET is giving the Standard Theater a better The House is a New and Neat Structure containing GEO. T. JONES, Vice President. with which she resumes active editorial about Nine Rooms with all the Modern Improve- maxim that there Is a " Providence for drunken send-off for the last quarter of the fall season than the management. One long article and two ments. Street Parked, Paved and Paid For. JOHN W. WATERS, Secretary. men." Few Irishmen are Infidels, knowing by ex- manager should have expected. Emmet as Fritz is poems in this number bear her signature, PRICE ONLY $6,600; WELL"LOOATED; TERMS perience that" God Is good to the Irish," and being fine, though it is a character part in a poor play. He and in the Letter-Box she talks pleasantly EASY. is one of the best paying stars in the country, and has anxious to keep It up. with the young folks about her delightful The above Is a good chance. returned to New York with increased reputation. Apply to J. V HUYOK. —Is civilization a failure, and Is the Caucasian journey to California. There is a finepor - REAL ESTATE AGENT, played out ? It looks that way when we read that MODJESKA'B JULIET is credited with some new and trait of Frank R. STOCKTON, accompanied No. 1505 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. National Portrait Gallery, pretty effects, which relieve the conventional rhapsody by a sketch of his life. (ARLINGTON INSURANCE BUILDING.) the coach running on the Black Hills and Cheyenne P. O, Lock Box 428. sepl5-t!5 Toute has been made Iron-clad and furnished with of the old-time Juliet. She is aline actress, but too Terms $3.00 a year; 25 cents a Number. 625 Penn. Aye., bet. Sixth and Seventh Sts., long and not young enough, to use the phrase by cour- Subscriptions received by all Booksellers port-holes, through which to fire upon the gay and per day at home. Samples worth $5 free. tesy, to play the delicious purity of youthful love In and Postmasters. $5to$«0 Address STIHSON & Co., Portland, Maine. Washington, D. C. festive highway robbers. that character. SCBIBNEB & CO., 743 Broadway, N. Y. april-lyfi augll-tl4

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than sending money to the far-away heathen. Look actress or singer starts out with some distinguishing HOTELS AND -BESTAUB ANTS. HOTELS AND EESTAUEANT8. GOSSIP BY ROBERTS. after your own poor first before you send away. X will trait that is used as an advertisement. Some times give food and find work. X cannot gfve money. It is it Is heralded that thousands of dollars have been paid Now that it Is over, 1 want to say a few words about a struggle for me to keep the poor little penny lunch for her wardrobe, or she 18 of high birth—a sort of the "revival," so-called, that has been held In Foun- going. Think this over and let me hear from you princess in disguise. Abbott's advertising card was dry church for the past few weeks, and 1 don't want soon. The parties I speak of are of a class we ought her morality, and the fact was widely circulated that to be misunderstood. That some may have been WASHINGTON to help, and the Lord will think a heap more of you she had thrown up a splendid engagement in Europe honest, and had really the good of their fellow crea- than if you contented yourselves with commending because she was expected to sing In Travlata, Don tures at heart, I am convinced of, but to my mind the poor to him and do nothing yourselves. Giovanni and other naughty but extremely nice these revivals are wicked larces. People talk of X hear a great deal of talk of the cruelty of the old- operas. However, "nous avoua changé tout cela," and " getting religion " as if It was a dress or a fall time usage of the slaves, and a week ago we had she is to give us Marguerite, in Faust. Mrs. Seguin overcoat. I did not go, though urged many times, but Uncle Tom's Cabin played, and I saw offiolals there is with the troupe, and needs no words ot praise. She I know hundreds who went as they would go to the red-eyed over the sufferings ot that ancient darkey. X is one of the most popular singers on the stage. Al- Club Restaurant, theater or circus. I know of persons who were "shin- wondered why they did not Keep those tears for the ways willing and ready, always good tempered, she ing lights " at the revival, who prayed loud and de- white slaves that are in every manufactory in this goes on the even contralto of her way, and ^s always livered pathetic addresses, yet who were willing the country, and even right under our eyes, in a branch of welcomed by the public. next day to turn a poor man and his family out on the the Government of these United States, that so proudly It is to be regretted that so great a change is tob e street for a little bit of back rent. 1 know of boasts of her stars and stripes, and X quote to myself made in the choir of St. Aloysius' church. This NO, 1409 NEW YORK AVENUE, one, who was prominent in the amen corner, who had— the poetry published in the New York Tribune in 1862: church has had a great reputation for Its music, and well, I won't say swindled, but who had "financiered " "Tear down the starry banner, during the " season" crowds go there every Sunday a woman out of her earnings. These are cases 1 know All hall the flaunting lie," etc. for the sake of the music alone, and it was a source of of, and it is fair to presume there are many more. In the bureau of engraving and printing the women considerable revenue to the church, as almost every There Is too much religion and too little Christianity there, and some of the men, are In as cruel bondage one whowentthere gave something. While wishing to con. NINTH ST. AND PENNA. ATM, 3STOW OPEISr. seX6-Xyg In this world. It is the saints that keep people down, as was ever any negro slave. Women there are say nothing against Mr. Gann.n, whom I like, and and prevent them from reforming and living a better obliged to stand for hours at the press on a spot of who has, in my opinion, the finest baritone voice in life, even if they wish to. X was struck lately with an about twelve Inches. Any one who has been In the the District, yet the church will find It has made a Instance, where a woman, keeping a house of doubt- army knowj that the greatest punishment given a mistake in losing Mr. and Mrs. Sherman, to whose ful character, was arrested for harboring young girls. soldier is to oblige him to stand on a given small spot. fine musical talent the chief excellence of the choir BEST HAVANA CIGARS, She said to Major Morgan, crying bitterly, " X tried to X spoke two weeks ago of one coachman of Colonel was indebted. earn my living honestly, and had a house filled with Irish who carried the book out of the bureau ; he was I have received ton dollars from the employees of respeotable people as boarders, but the officers and paid from the rolls as a laborer, but did no work. the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company for others would say, as they saw me,' Oh, that is old; she William Wallace, who succeeded him, and is now dis- the penny lunch. I am also indebted to Timms, the CHOICE OLD WINES. kept a house in the Division ;' and all my people left, charged, was also paid from the rolls as laborer, but clothier, corner of Seventh and D streets, for some and X could only return to my old business." Another never did one hour's work for the Government. He damaged clothes, which came in nioely. He has instance is that of a man who was sent to the peni- simply drove the family carriage, and was discharged newly started for himself, and goes on the basis of au-l-ly tentiary, and, after serving his time out, tried to earn because he fell asleep oh "duty," not being able to cash sales and one price. Also, a boneless ham from an honest living. He was engaged by a gentleman Best Caterer in the Citv, and a Cuisine work twenty hourB In the day. It is said Colonel Dr. Antlsell of the Patent Office. The ham had every in this city to drive for him. Some one passing saw Irish is building a house and using Government car- bone taken out and was then sewed together. It was MILES HOUSE, him, and Baid, "That man is a thief; he has been in tiiat Defies Competition, penters to do it ; though X believe this has been stopped very nfoe and very acceptable. Ifo. 913 F Street Northwest» the penitentiary." The man was Instantly dismissed. lately, when he got an idea It would be ventilated. If All his friends, and their name is legion, will be That is the way the world treats any one trying to do a woman is a few moments late she is docked ; also, if Strictly first olass in every particular. Meals 26 glad to know that Colonel Pierce, the popular host cents each ; $3.50 per week ; $15 per month ; twenty- better. Pious people," so-called," will give you tracts sick, it is taken from her pittance, while the chief can and advice, and tell you you are damned if you go on of the Imperial, Is getting better, and it is hoped will one meal tickets for $5. do as he likes. There was a thousand-dollar bond soon be to the fore again. He has had a long and Board and room $1 per day. in the way you are traveling, and then they will damn lost on August 23 from the upper story ; on the 25th it E. S. RANDALL, you if you try to do better. The only way I console tedious illness, but is now recovering. SPECIALTY, aug25-tf8 General Manager. was found in the cellar, and the person who found it " ROBERTS. myself is by thinking that the Lord is not easily was reprimanded for making it known. The bureau fooled; that he takes all this dollar-store religion for has, It is strongly suspected, furnished money before TO TEAYELEES. what it Is worth. " Not every one who says Lord, THE TIGER KILLER OF ASIA. Kentucky Blue Grass Mutton, for election purposes. Let the publio watch it now. ALTIMOBE AND OHIO EAILEOAD. Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven." That is It is pleasant to know that people care whether you An American Boy who Is the Special B what the bible says; and some acquaintances of mine Slayer of tbe English Government. SWEETEST, TENDEEEST, JUICIEST MUTTOH The great double track. are sick or well ; therefore it has been very pleasant to will feel mighty "cheap" when judgment day [From the London Dafly News.] NATIONAL BOUTE AND SHOBT LINE me to see the Interest shown by all, even those 1 have IN THE WOBLD. comes. X wish X had the money some people have; I It may not be generally known In England that the TO THB never seen, In trying to cure me of my little attack of North, Northwest, West and Southwest. know X would do differently. They will give large English government, through the medium of the rheumatism. I have reoelved about nine hundred governor of Singapore, generously maintains "tbe TO TAKE K1TFEOT sums towards paying off a church debt—when the SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1878, at 4:46 p. m. and ninety-nine thousand receipts, bottles, ointments, greatest tiger killer in Asia," and, since tigers exist BLUE POINT OYSTEES church had no business to be in debt—because that is in Asia only, the greatest tiger killer, wo may infer, pills, powders—everything that can be imagined. One Leave Washington: spread throughout the country, when that same money in the world. This slayer of tigers, like the still more and lot clear from St Albans, Vermont. Some one sug- famous slayer of lions, M. Gerard, is a Frenchman. +5:15 a. m.—NEW YOBK, PHILADELPHIA and would set up a half a dozen people in some little busi- His name is d'Harnancourt, he is of Norman extrac- BOSTON EXPBESS. Elllcott City, except Sun- gested a Turkish bath. I concluded to try one, as it LITTLE NECK CLAMS days. On Sundays to Baltimore only. Stops at ness that would make them happy and give them a tion, and his father was a captive in the Moscow cam- would give me a new sensation anyway. I am happy paign, who escaped from Siberia and sought refuge in Smpley's,Laurel, Annapolis Junction, Jessup's, Han- living. Do you suppose the Lord cares for the fine FEOM NEW YOHH over and Elk Bldge. to say my expectations were realized. For those of America. churches, with the trimmings that cost so muoh 6:50 a. m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. you who never tried it I will give an account of my D'Harnancourt was born in "let prairies du far DEVILED OEABS, TEBRAPIN, fcC. (Cranberry, Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstown and money, when his own son, whom we worship, was born West," and began early to hunt. His hunting forty minutes In the lower regions and back—otherwise Way via Belay.) in a stable ? grounds varied from the Baid pairles to the " loy re- a Turkish bath. X rang the bell of a nice-looking house gions of the Arctic pole," a tolerable range lor a young +7:40 a. m.—BALTIMOEE AND LAUEEL EX- PBESS. on £ street, where the baths are given, and was man man of fifteen. Anxious to see Europe, he left X am constantly, through my connection with the " ces belles contrees giboyeuses" to seek other countries, 8:10 a. m.—Point of Bocks, Cranberry, Strasburg, penny lunch, being brought in contact with, many ushered into a room with a row of dressing-rooms on possibly less beautiful and certainly less gamy. He Winchester, Hagerstown and Way Stations. 8:80 a. m.—New Yo*k, Philadelphia, Boston and sad phases of life, and many cases of wrong are one side, and the trip commenced. After disrobing was "wrecked at Formosa, and the barbarous people ESPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN did not show him much kindness, though, as we know Baltimore Express. PAELOE CAE to New York and brought right before my eyes. One case X mention to I was taken into a room with marble seats, a pool of that ¡the telephone has recently reached Formosa it Philadelphia. Stops at Annapolis Junction. show how the Government rewards those who have water in the center and filled with steam. The atten- might have been supposed that Ingenious arts would +8:36 a. m.—St. Louis, Chicago, Columbus and Pitts- dant, a nice, pleasant colored woman, attired herself have had their usual effect. However, an English burg Express. Hagerstown and Valley Branch ex- sacrificed everything to defend it. Among the patrons captain rescued him and carried him off to Singapore, cept Sunday. Through car to Staunton. Pullman of the penny lunch has been for some time a Lieu- in a sort of bathing suit, and commenced getting up where the governor engaged him to kill tigers at JEIO DINNER PARTIES cars to Cincinnati daily. Grafton to Sandusky, dally, tenant Lawrence of the regular marine revenue ser- steam, when! mildly said, "It's pretty hot." She a head. except Saturday. says, " Oh, that's nothing to what it will be ! " And 9:00 a. m.—On Sunday only. Baltimore, Annapolis vice. He comes of a good and, in old times, wealthy M. d'Harnancourt is saving up his head money in AT THÉ CLUB OE PfUVATE,HOUSES. and Way Stations. she was right. I felt like a steamed oyster. With all order to go to Algeria, where he will have the double iamlly. When the war broke out he was a lieutenant advantage of being under French Instead of English 10:00 a. m.—BALTIMOEE EXPBESS. Stops at on board the Lewis Cass, which was turned over to this heat it was not suffocating, as the air was pure. I government, and of having lions to fight Instead of Bladensburg, Beltsville, Laurel, Annapolis Junction, got Intolerably thirsty, and no champagne ever tasted tigers. The English gentleman who introduced M. Jessup's and Hanover. the Confederate service. He and one or two others 12:10 p. m.—Baltimore, Elllcott City, Annapolis as delicious as did the cup of ice-water that was given d'Harnancourt toth e authority from which we derive resigned rather than desert the Hag. X give the letter this intelligence (the correspondent of a French news- Elegant Private Rooms for and Way Stations. he wrote to the New York Herald, which was pub-me. X spent about twenty minutes in his Satanic paper) made private but injurious remarks about the +1:30 p. m.—New York, Philadelphia and Boston Majesty's regions, then was laid on a slab and hero's sobriety. But as the Englishman's name Express. On Sundays to Baltimore only, stopping at lished February 9,1861: all stations. Stops at Laurel. scrubbed with a scrubbing brush, or something like it ; (most curiously) was John Smith, and and as the Parties. MOBILE, ALA., January 31,1861. tiger slayer's preference for Algeria was uncompli- 4:30 p. m.—Baltimore, Bladensburg and Laurel Ex- To the Editor of the Herald. then was put uiMer a shower-bath of cold water, and mentary to England, we need not attend to those In- ress. Frederick via Belay. Stops at Annapolis The United States revenue cutter Lewis Cass, at- sinuations. The colonial office Is doubtless proud of the return trip to earth began. Some persons take a Sunction. tached to this station, has this day been turned over plunge-bath in the pool of water, but I refrained from Its dependent, and will, if necessary, put up tigers' to the State of Alabama by her captain, James J. heads a pound or two in order to retain him. This house, elegantly finished and furnished; pre +4:35 p. m.—Point of Books, Frederick, Hagerstown, that. Then I was taken to another station, and put Winchester and Way Stations. OnSunday to Point Morrison ot Georgia. All of the lieutenants have vlded with the best service, Is under the immediate concluded'te leave her and stand by the Federal Gov- under two or three shower-baths, then laid on a flat of Bocks and Way Stations only. ernment. 1 shall not give up the old ship of state A Plagne of Rabbits. supervision of +4:40 p. m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Sta- bed and rubbed by the " neat-handed Phyllis " with Union as long as a plank of her remains afloat, but [From the London Globe.] tions. stand by her firm as long as the flag ot my country the palms of her hands. A delightful langour stole ,The extraordinary rapidity with which the rabbits +5:30 p. m.—Philadelphia, Norfolk and Baltimore waves from the Capitol at Washington. Express. Norfolk except Sunday. Norfolk passen- over me, and 1 did not care " whether school kept or Increase In some portions of our Australian colonies gers taken In the cars direct to boat at Canton. Stops The lieutenants on this vessel are as follows: not." You lie down for a while, and the " Turkish threatens tob e a serious public evil. In Tasmania the at Bladensburg and Laurel. First Lieutenant Anson S. Rogers of Connecticut. rabbit was Introduced by British colonists more than +6:50 p. m.—Baltimore and Way Stations. Second Lieutenant Thomas H. Liwrence of New bath" Is over. When I got outside 1 stood for a half a century ago, but they never imagined that in John Chamberlin. +7:15 p. m.—Chicago and Columbus Express. York city. moment to see if 1 was all there, and then walked bringing the animals from England they would be- mh24-tf3 SLEEPING CAE to Chicago. Third Lieutenant Charles F. Shoemaker of New away feeling like a new person, BO scraped down that come a serious drawback to the prosperity of the +8:10 p. m.—BALTIMOEE EXPEESS. Mexico. farmer. The Tasmanian legislature has tried in vain my clothes would hardly stay on me. If any one wants +9:26 p. m.—St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburg and He then entered the'volunteer service, and was with to deal with the evil, and private enterprise Is all that Louisville Express. Pittsburg, except Sunday. Pul- to feel as If they had been born again let them take can now be relied upon. The'sheep-farmers shoot, me ]sr T o isr, man cars. Captain Charles S. Boggs on board the United States one of the baths. trap and poison the rabbits. The last named is the (SOUTH OF FEANCE,) +9:30 p. m.—New York, Philadelphia ' and Balti- steamer Varna, sunk in battle April 24,1862, below most expeditious, but it can only be used in winter more Express. SLEEPING CAE to New York and New Orleans. He has a bill before Congress for his The Natatorium is largely attended, and the pro when the animals are short of green food. "She poison SPECIAL SLEEPING CAE to Philadelphia. is conveyed by means of oats subjected to treatment HOTEL NATIONAL. +Dally. All other trains daily, except Sunday: relief, which it is to be hoped he will get; in the prletors have built a large furnace, by which means with strychnine. The grain is scattered by a man on All trains stop at Eelay Station. meanwhile he is destitute. On the 21th of last De- the water is heated, thereby rendering the baths as horseback, and in the oourse of the night the rabbits This new hotel, one of the ;handsomest at this cele< All through trains will stop at St. John's Bun for cember Sherman gave him a letter to Hon. John L. pleasant now as in hot weather. are destroyed by hundreds. The skins are then hung brated resort, Is constructed with all the modern Un. passengers to and from Berkeley Springs, and at Deer up to dry, and when fitlo r transport are packed into Park and Oakland Hotels during the season. Thomas, collector of customs at Baltimore, and he was A week or so ago, in mentioning the co-operative bales and sent to England, where there Is a ready de- provementB, has a superb! position, commanding a For further information apply at ticket offices at de- appointed a deck-hand on the steamer Search, used sewing establishment, I made a mistake in the ad- mand for them at from two pence to three pence per beautiful view of the city, the sea and the Alps. It pot, corner New J ersey avenue and O street, 486, 601 for night duty by the. Inspector of customs. He re- dress—it is on Ninth street, No. 1213 ; all kinds of sew. pound. The rabbits are larger in the winter than in has a hundred elegantlv-furnlshed bed-rooms and and 603 Pennsylvania avenue, and 613 Fifteenth street the summer, and the skins consequently more valua- northwest, Washington, and Masonic Temple, High mained In that position until the 1st of Ma> last, and lng is neatly done, and at moderate prices. ble. They are kept down In summer chiefly by the twenty-five parlors. Its dining-room is light, airy and street, Georgetown, where tickets oan be procured was then obliged to resign, on account of the intem- The death of Mrs. Barry, an old lady, who was use of the ordinary rat-trap or gin, which Is set in beautiful. It has a restaurant, reading-rooms, with and orders will be taken for baggage to be checked and received at any point in the city. perate habits and abusive conduct of James Fitzpat- knocked down by a wagon, ought to be the means of great numbers over night. Each trap is covered with library, billiard-rooms, and hot and cold baths on a little fresh earth, and the rabbit Is so inquisitive L. M. COLE, W. M. CLEMENTS, rick, first assistant engineer United States revenue causing some stringent punishment for careless and that on leaving his hole he invariably examines the every floor ; also, a hrst-class elevator. Gen'l Ticket Agt, Mast. Trans'n. marine, in charge of the boats, who, from all accounts, reckless driving. There ought to be a policeman on place where the trap is concealed, and Is detained by This hotel Is the property and under the immédiats GEO. S. KOONTZ. General Agent. is more fitted to carry a hod than wear the uni- either side of the street at Seventh and the Avenue, It until the trapper comes round, which he does three control of M. Schlrrer, so long and so favorably known times in the course of the night. Shooting Is too slow 1 Q7Q GEEAT form of an office/ In the United States marine ser- by the market. It Is one of the worst places in the and expensive a method of dealing with ground game as the landlord of Hotel Méditerranée. je9-tfl IÖ I O. PENNSYLVANIA vice. On the evening of one day last February, while city to cross; women and children are constantly going BOUTE 1878. when it has become vermin. In using the poison TO THE NOETH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. lying at the wharf waiting for the night Inspector, with large market baskets backwards and forwards. I great care has to be taken that the sheep do not pick SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, this man was brought on board in a beastly state of up the prepared grain. Oddly enough, the Leicester have several times seen old women nearly run down sheep will not touch it, but the merino will. A meat- Doable Track, Steel Ralls, Splendid intoxication, and charges were made against him by while crossing, by carriages and wagons, and it is preserving company might do well In Tasmania by Scenery, Magnificent Equipment. Captain Biddeman of the night Inspectors, and an preparing the rabbits tor food. At present the skin is JUNE 10, 1878. really necessary that policemen should be detailed Trains leave Washington, from Depot, Corner ot investigation was,held before Colonel Vernon, sur- the only portion preserved. Experiments have TOWNSEND HOUSE. there to see people across. proved that the flesh of rabbits destroyed by strych- Sixth and B streets, as follows: geon of the port, when the charges were proven by 1 wonder if there is any time when one feels more .For Pittsburg and the West, 10:10 a. m. dally, wltfi nine is not affected by the poison. Xt is freely eaten Parlor Car to Pittsburg, and Sleeping Oars to Pitts- the testimony of the night inspectors, the boat hands like a fool than when having a picture taken with by the farmers, but the supply is so far in excess of the burg, Cincinnati, St. LOUIB and Chicago; 7:40- and the clerks in the custom house. The result of demand that the crows and wild-cats have by far the your hands fixed in company attitude, your head in larger share. They are admirable scavengers in their p. m. daily, with Palace Oar to Chicago. this.trial was forwarded to Secretary Sherman, but, BALTIMOEE AND POTOMAC EAILEOAD. the clutch of two iron prongs, and told to glare at way, and the former is very highly estimated as a FIRST-CLASS HOTEL. For Caimndaigua. Eochester, Buffalo, Niagara- through the interference of Philadelphia politicians, some given spot and "look pleasant." I felt all this useful agent in disposing of rabbits dead or alive. Falls and the North, at 7:40 p. m. daily, exoept Satur- where Fitzpatrick resides, the case received no further the other day when X went into McAllister's photo- day, with Palace Car to Watkins. For W illiamsport, notice than a light reprimand. Lawrence has tried AMONG the other ouriosities on exhibition at the Lock Haven and Elmira, 10:10 a. m. dally, except. graph gallery to thank his wife for some donations to American department ot the Paris Exposition was a Sunday. * to get an appointment of the humblest kind until the penny lunch, and they insisted on taking my pic spring chicken from an American boarding house. Most Dèllghtful Resort in the West for Tourlstf. For New York and the East, 1:46 a. m. and 9:30 p. Congress acta on his bill, but while those who never ture. X could not help thinking of the woman who, The chicken was taken to tbe guillotine one morning, m. daily, with Palace Cars attached; Limited Ex- served the Government, except by talk, can get any- but when the heavy knife fell on its neck the fow Best Commercial Sample Booms In the^Clty. press of Puiman Parlor Cars, 8:20 a. m. dally, except. after being put into " regulation fix," was toldt o look gave a frightened squawk, and after one or two tre- thing, he cannot get hardly a hearing. He came into WM. H. HOOPEB, Sunday. at a certain spot, and lookedatltforasecondor twoand mendous pulls, jerked Its head away irom unde* the For New York and the East, 1:80 p. m. dally, except: the lunch room a few days since, after an absence of then got up and went over and said : "What is in knife and made its way back to Its coop in the Expo- WM. JENNINGS, sition. The knife was sent to thè foundry lor repairs. Sunday, with Sleeping Oars from Washington some weeks. He had been sick with chills, and asked there, anyway ?" j«16-4m2* Owners and Proprietor«. to Boston. For Brooklyn, New York, all throngs me if X knew where he could get toast and tea for ten FROM the timo a boy Is eight years old until he is trains connect at Jersey City with boats, Brooklyn The appointment of General Paine as commissioner thirteen he devotes two solid hours of every day of and Annex, affording direct transfer to Fulton cents. X told him he should have It tor nothing, and of patents has given great satisfaction—and appoint- his busy life to learning how to make a new kind of EBBITT HOUSE, street, avoiding double ferriage and journey across gave orders for both; but he insisted on dividing ments do not often do that. His record (s good, and noise. By the time he is thirteen years old he ha« New York city. what he had, and paid five cents. Now, X think it is accumulated noise enough to last him the rest of his HEADQUARTERS ARMY AND NAVY, For Philadelphia, 1:30 p. m. dally, exoept Sunday, he is an honest, practical man. The only thing 1 know natural life, and to use three kinds of noises the same and 1:45 a. m., and 6:30 and 9:30 p. in. daily. little enough for the Government to do to give that against him is that he is a wicked Republican. Gen- day, too. Limited Express, 9:20 a. m. daily, except Sunday. WASHINGTON, D. C. Accommodation for Baltimore, 6:66 and 8:80 a. m. and man some place for a few months. eral Paine has a chance to right some of the wrongs 4:20 p. m. daily, except Sunday. Another sad case came to me on Friday. A man that have been going on in that bureau, and free it FOUR IRON FIRE ESCAPES. For Pope's Creek Line, 6:66 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. dally from some ot the corruption that has been festering and wile and child came to see me. They were of the 1433 Pa. Ave., C. C. WILLARD, Proprietor. except Sunday. better class. She was pretty and young, but with there for years. For Annapolis, 6:65 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. daily, except Sunday. lines in her face that told ot the hard struggles for The base-ball match which was to have been ALEXANDBIA AND FEEDEEIOKSBUEG life. He is a printer by trade, out of work, not a played on Friday, between the young Baltimore and IMPERIAL HOTEL, BAILWAY AND ALEXANDBIA AND WASH- dollar, and in a strange city. He has a letter certify- Washington lawyers, was postponed on account of the CORCORAN BUILDING. INGTON EAILEOAD. (FIEST CLASS,) WASHINGTON, D. O. For Alexandria, 6, 7, 8, 9:10, 10,11 a.m.; 1, 3, 4:20 6 ing to his honesty and capacity from Don Cameron, weather. Our Washington boys beat the Baltl- Boom and Board per month, (50 ; per week, $17.60 ; 6:20 and 7 p. m. On Sunday at 9:10 a. m and 1 and 7 senator from Pennsylvania. They were sheltered moreans at that place last week, and can do it again. per day, $2.50 to $3. p. m. for the time being with a family who are as poor as Messrs. E. B. Hay, A. A. Lipscomb and "Qlok" X would respectfully announce to my friendsan d For Eichmond and theSouth, 2:46,9:00 a.m. daily and the public that I have opened, at the above address, a To meet the wants of the traveling publio this first- 6:36 p. JQ. dally, except Sunday. themselves, and who could not keep them. He said if Pairo are among the leading members ot the club. depot for the sale of class Hotel has reduced its prices from $4 to $2.60 and Trainsleave Alexandria for Washington, 6,7,8:00,9-10 he was by himself he could walk away from here,but he Washington oan show a better lot of talented young $3 per day. Table board $25 per month. 10,11 a. m., 1,8,4:20, 6, 6:20 and 7 p. m. On Sunday at oould not take his wife and really sick child on a tramp, lawyers than any other city. We are sadly deficient 8:00 and 10 a. m. and 6:20 p. m. Je3-tf8 J AS. S. PEIBCE, Prop'r. Tiokets, Information, Sleeping and Parlor Oar ao- and he thought ho would get work some time. She in many things that other cities have, but we possess First-Class oommodations can be procured at the offices: North- says she can work nicely, and if she oould get started better advantages for those wishing to study law or east corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- she could earn a living by washing. I looked at her, medicine. A young man prooures a position in the Staple, Fancy, Commercial AMERICAN HOUSE, nue, northeast «orner Sixth street and Pennsylvania with her pretty, refined lace and her dress the rem- department, and thus is free from that financial strug- avenue, and at the Depot, where orders can be left for Corner Pennsylvania Ave. and Seventh St.i the checking of baggage to destination from hotels nant of better days, and thought what a come-down gle that young men without means have to undergo and Bankers' Stationery. and residences. It must be. A lady at the hotel who saw them, and to while in the chrysalis, or studying state, and although L. P. FARMEE. My faollltles for supplying orders entrusted to me whom X afterwards explained the matter, was sur- It is a severe tax, a man who is determined can fulfill are the very best, and prices will be the lowest that TABLE BOARD, $20 PER MONTH. _ Qen'l Passenger Agent. prised. She thought them friends of mine, from the his departmental duties and go on with his profes- FEANK THOMPSON, suoh goods can be sold for in any of the Northern Gen'l Manager. bearing and looks of all, and we both felt sad all that sional studies. The young members of the Washing- cities. My experience of twenty-fire years in this line of trade will enable me to make the most suitable my28-tn SCHOFISr.n * HUFFY. Proprietor«. day. Think of it, mygossipers Suppose any of you ton bar are a set tob e pioud of ; not that we are not selections for this market. Greatly Reduced Bates. were obliged to go toa n utter stranger, as I was to proud of some of the older members, but they have M V JK «.»« WEDDING, them, and ask for food and work. had their day, and now encourage their young BEOEPTION and Orkney Springs, Virginia J The Rtfie Association was to have had a shooting brothers. VISITING OAED PLATE Dinin^-Rooms, BOAED—Daily, $1.60: Weekly, $8; and by the- match that day, but the weather prevented, and Mr. Secretary McCrary has rented for the season the month, $26. Howard Nyman of the Post-Office Department sent handsome house of Mrs. Bayliss, 1734 I street. The ENGRAVING AND PRINTING loos and lOXO F St. Northwest. SEASON CLOSES OOTOBEE 16. me the lunch that had been prepared, This I gave to Interior la well adapted for entertainments. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company will lssne- will be a specialty. A call and a portion of your pa- EOUNIVTBIP TICKETS, the parties above mentioned, and told him to come We are to have a week of opera, with Miss Abbott tronage is respectfully solicited. 25 Cents Per Meal, $16 Per Month, Good until November 1. se7 tf2 every day for food. One lady will give washing-tubs in the leading roles. She has a sweet voice and well $4 Per Week. and fuel to start with; now if they oan get money for cultivated, and if she acts as well as she sings she 21 TICKETS? FOR $5. G. DO HO LAS, one month's room rent, and a stove, they can earn a will be an accession to the lyric stage. She has wisely WAT TOBN EY-AT-L. AW,-» RICHARD B. mm, This place is the cleanest and best conducted of Its living. This won't cost muoh, and X think, my friends, shed that garment of fastidious and extra morality, kind In the olty. Five different kinds of vegetables, CAPITAL Office, Washington, 1). O. you might come forward. Twenty-five dollars will do that was at first so great that It was almost necessary 1433 Penn. Ave., two different kinds of roast meats, and two different All Cases except Patents Attended to. de30-tf2 all. Two hundred people, at ten cents each, will fix desserts every day. Attentive and polite waiters. to dress the logs of the pianos when she sang, (tfifl a week In your own town. Terms and $6 outfl the whole matter, and it Will be a great sight better C (> II COHAN BUILDING. J.C. BUEGER, and she turned her back on bare walls. Every je30-tf8 9™" free. Address H. HALLETT it Co., Portland, Me apzi-lyo Proprietor. aprtl-lye THE CAPITAL: OCTOBER 20,187P.

The Fauquier White Sulphur Springs. BOOTS AND SHOES. THE MEN'S QUARTER of our salesroom oc- The names of many gentlemen of high soolal stand- the capital cupies all the available space or our first floor. Each ing, and eminent as business men, are associated with article shows the perleotlon of cut, anq, painstaking an enterprise in which Wasbingtou is especially in- workmanship. Goods that will not wear well are dis- terested, since it is proposed to establish a delight- THE GREAT BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, ful watering place within two hours' ride of the city. S0NDAÏ HOBNINfi .OCTOBER 20,1878. carded. We have In view the cultivated taites of tbe The Fauquier Springs are located In the heart of the people, whose favors we are grateful for; Piedmont country, surrounded with the most charm- THE GREAT BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, A. SAKS &.*Co., Clothiers, 316 Seventh street. ing scenery, luxuriant meadows and delicious passes and groves, through which crystal streams meander, THE GREAT BOSTON SHOE AUCTION HOUSE, RECORD OF THE WEEK. AT THE regular weekly meeting of the and along which the carriage drives are perfection Carroll Institute, last Thursday evening, Dr. J. Webb itself. On the one band the distant mountains blend Rogers delivered a very eloquent lecture on "Catho- Into the blue sky with that enchanting beauty which Go TO Julius Lansburgb for carpets. licity In Its Influence on Civil Policy and Juris- Is fanciful and dreamlike; and on the other the rich 491 Pennsylvania Avenue, prudence." Mr. Kalpb Jefferson tendered his resigna- pastoral country stretches away to a level horizon that MES. CBITTENDEK, corner Fifteen-and-a- tion, which was accepted with regret, and Mr. J. marks the banks of the Potomac. It is a real summer 491 Pennsylvania Avenue, half street and the Avenue, has beautifully located Howard Bushnell, first vice president, was unani- Arcadia, where even the noonday heat is relieved by a mously chosen to fill the vacancy. pure air, which fills tbe lungs with the same pleasant 491 Pennsylvania Avenue, rooms—parlors, chambers and offices. effect as that which champagne gives to the palate. Governor Shenherd has undertaken to overlook cer- OVERCOATS, all grades, shades, weights FAUST, (paraphrase)— tain parts of tbe Improvements, and the other parts and prices, at the one-prlce olothlng bouse, 319, south- When the moon on the scene shines soft and sweet, will be under scarcely less able management. SIGN OF THE EED FLAG, east corner Seventh and D streets. George F. Tlmms Each girl with her own adorer Must wish herself was Marguerite, norse-Shoeine. SIGN OF THE RED FLAG, & Co. Hearing the " Salve di mora." We call the attention of the public in general, and •ALOYSBS SCHAFEB, a young boy aged For the tenor chants In a voloe that thrills the owners of horses in particular, to- the old and re- SIGN OF THE RED FLAG, three years, fell out of the seoond-story window fit Ms With rapture In every note, liable establishment of William Anderson, tbe prac- parents' resldenoe, on Third street, near Massachu Convincing a girl, though It sometimes kills, J| tical horse-shoer, on Ohio avenue, between Twelfth avenue yesterday morning about eleven o'clock, That 'tis better to love than to vote. and Thirteenth streets northwest, and would advise ffiSe/wssW The doctors tear that the case them to give him a call and try his system of horse- LEOPOLD RICHOLD PROPRIETOR. CLOTHING FOT EVERYBODY.—It is so Well shoeing, whioh Is something new in this line, and of will prove fatal. known that we keep all qualities ot olothlng that great benefit to the feet and also very endurable. As LEOPOLD RIOHOLD, PROPRIETOR. reference to the fact is hardly necessary. We have to the formation of the foot and shoe It cannot be sur- OYSTERS.'—The finest oysters that arrive good suits of winter clothes for men for $10, $12 and passed. In cases where horses have diseased feet, or LEOPOLD RIOHOLD, PROPRIETOR. in this city are consigned to Messrs. Turner & Street, all the finer grades. We sell pantaloons for $2.60, where the hoof has been split by persons not ac- who are really the wholesale oyster merchants of the S3 $3.60 and upwards. Every garment Is out accu- quainted with their business, it will take him but a TOstrlct and supply the entire trade. The trad? rately, the cheapest as faultless in skape as the dearest. short time to eradicate the disease and beautify the ffld cafl on fir. Street at Eleventh-street wharf Suits of olotbes for ten dollars are as new in shape as foot. He guarantees to. give satisfaction in every case. before purchasing. suits tor three times that price, and when compared with so-called merchant tailors' productions they are OVERCOATS and winter suits In great variety of style and material are selling very cheap at Soman PARISIAN DIAMONDS in solid gold settings, decidedly more stylish. Our cutters are the best in Come ami Examine tie Great Stock of Fall and Winter Goois, 25 Per Cent, the cltv A. SAKS & Co., Si Cox's, 507 Seventh street. at R. Harris & Oo.'s, 435 Seventh street. 1 3 316 Seventh street. Marfariter. Cheaper tton any House this Side of Boston, Goods Received Daily from tlie ONE OF THE LARGEST and best sales of At the opening Of the winter season all residents of household furniture of the season Is that advertised by PABISIAN DIAMONDS are not paste, but this city and the strangers that were within our gates, Best Manufacturers in the Country, Particular Inducements given to Country Messrs. Duncanson Brothers, In our columns to-day. rook crystal, diamond surface, and will not lose their very well knew that Markriter has the latest things In This furniture Is "^rly new, and contained In torty handsome lrames and all things pertainingto Interior Wholesale Buyers, brilliancy. decorations. This is a branch of art which he has ISPStore will be closed (on account of death.) till Wednesday morning, October 23. rooms, which was furnished by G. M. Wight, our studied with the skHl and taste of a master, until be well-known furniture manufacturer. A REMARKABLE BOY.—A mother at the can tell exactly the colors and the styles that suit and West End heard the low murmur of voices in the boys' accord with various sorts and designs of architecture,, T. W. TALMADOE, Esq., for many years a room the other night after she had gone to bed. With paperhangings and paint. Go there and learn a les- AMUSEMENTS. MISCELLANEOUS. Government olalm agent at Oolumbus, Ohio, has noiseless footsteps and bated breath she stole to the son in how to make the home look pretty and com- ODened an office In Le Droit building for the proseou- door and listened. The room was dark, the voices fortable. ATIONAL THEATER. UPE «.A SEASON twn of claims in the departments and the oourts. He were low and earnest. What visions of future great- N Beginning MONDAY OCTOBER 21. ls^eU known to all oUr citizens from Ohio, and enjoys ness were the sons of her heart recounting to each A Cure Without Medicine thlir confidence in his profession. We welcome Mm other 1 What plans lor wealth, for glory, lor pleasure, Is effected by Dr. N. Frank White, the Magnetic EMMA ABBOTT filled their boyish hearts? She bent forward and SARTORIAL. among us. Healer, No. 732 Tenth street northwest. AND THE leaned closer toward the bed to catch one earnest word Consultation tree. sep22-tf of tbe murmured thoughts that were surging from her THE SOCIETY ALBUM.—This is the title of HESS ENGLISH OPERA COMPANY. boys' hearts up to their lips. She heard: " Bill, you Tremont House. C. D. HESS DIRECTOR. a neatly gotten up weekly, Issued on Saturday, and can iust bet your life I am going to buy my clothes of There Is no hotel in the city being so thoroughly Comprising the Eminent Artists. Miss EMMA AB- dedicated to social news and gossip. The^um, tow- Katzensteln. He has the largest stock and makes BOTT. Miss ANNIS MONTAGUE, Mrs. ZELDA gobds in the best style. I am not going anywhere renovated asthe Tremont. It has been newly painted ever Is solid In point of news and oomment on pass- outside, painted and papered inside, newly carpeted SEGU1N. Mr. WILLIAM CASTLE, Mr. O. H. Tur- Merchant Tailoring in in! èveXs while its selections from the press gener- else, and you can bet your last dollar that 1 know and furnished throughout. All are Invited to call ner, Mr. H. Bragau. Mr. E. Ryse, Mr. E. Seguln, Mr. ally Indicates the taste and judgment of a good jour- what 1 am talking about." and see the model hotel. The prices are lower than H. Warren. Mr. A. W. Tams, etc. nalist. elsewhere, while the accommodations are second to GRAND CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA. BEST QUALITY of Hartford and Lowelil none. S1GNOR G. OPERTI CHEF D' ORCHESTRA. A SOCIETY of sailors on board the United REPERTOIRE its Finest Art. Ingrains at eighty-five cents. Julius Lansburgh, 437 Chimes States steamer Wyoming Intend giving a ball to their JE. ©. Davis. Monday, Faust. Tuesday, numerous lady friends, previous to thcir departuie for Seventh street. Wednesday, Bohemian Girl. ThursdayES, ! I of The store on the corner of Eighth street and Marke Friday, Mignon Saturday,) Normandy the European station, on Tuesday evening, Ootober SOME wholesome reform is greatly needed Space shows a splendid variety ot fancy goods worth GtíÁND" ABBOTT MATÏNE-—E SATU.SATURDAY" . 22 at Washington Hall, corner Third street and Penn- In the matter of reckless and fast driving In this cityl looking at, even if you do not want to buy. All va Dramatic Prices—Secured Seats, $1 and $1.25; Ad- NEW YORK GARMENTS. svlvanlB avenue southeast. Cards of Invitation to the iust now. The recent death of Mrs. Henrietta Barry, rietles that customers of various tastes and varloui mission, 75 cents and 50 cents. Sale begins Thursday number of two hundred have already been issued. on the 16th, who was run over by a garbage wagon deKrees of means may like are there, and whoever morning at Box Office of the Theater. It2 and fatally injured, brings the necessity home to us. wants a nice article may be sure to find It at a price JULIUS LANSBUBGH'S carpet opening to- The evil Is always a crying one in crowded cities. to suit the times. With our smooth pavements, over which the wheels FAIR GROUNDS, Oiitters That Cannot Be Excelled: morrow. move noiselessly, It is doubly so. The ease of propul- Lots of Bargains, sion the difficulty of immediate checking, render in ladies' and gent's furnishing goods, will be offered HELMBOLD BEDIVIVUS.—Those who re- every rapidly-driven vehicle a messenger of destruc- Alexandria, Virginia, member having seen the beautiful picture of Dr. on Monday at Charles Baum's, 40S Seventh street. tion and sudden deatb. Yesterday afternoon a WEDNESDAY, OOTOBBEB 33, 187S, E. S. Bartram, Helmbold's native savages gathering buchu for the huckster wagon was driven over an old man in one LARGE lot of china plates painted by Miss Matte benefit of civilized mankind will be delighted to hear of the crowded streets near the post office, and the son, just arrived and on exhibition at Boteler's, «23 AT 2 P. M., that the Doctor is again about to astonish a grateful victim was picked up more dead than alive, and Pennsylvania avenue. 11. EL Hardon. world with a bonanza of cure for all maladies, and borne to Ms home. If a citizen goes out day after day TWO-RING TOURNAMENT AND BALL, that he will be again hailed as a benefactor of man- and returns to the bosom of bis family with unbroken Burger's Dlnlng-Rooins. GLASS-BALL SHOOTING, kind. hones and unbruised body.lt Is more his luck than GREASED PIG CHASE, The Best Sewing Tailors in the city, the Best Gutters, good management. The huckster, butcher and ex The finest dining-rooms in the city are Burger'i MULE RACE The Best Workmanship, press wagons have become a public terror. Let the 1010 F street, where every delicacy of the season, t ALL the leading styles in business suits, well as the substantials of life, can, always be feund And other sports, for cash prizes amounting to T WO reader stand In a safe place as they come sweeping HUNDRED DOLLARS. rom S3 to $25, at the one-price olothlng house, 319, furiously by, driven by irresponsible boys and negroes, We have often wondered why people will stop at cheap THE BEST GOODS southeast corner Seventh and D streets. George F. and see the panic-stricken women and children and boarding-houses when they can procure better meals Tickets 25 cents. Boat from Alexandria to Wash- at the same prices at Burger's dining-rooms. ington, alter the Ball, at 1:30 a. m. It7* At popular pnoes. 1 guarantee the cutting, work- Timms ScOo. old men flying lor their lives, then smile and ignore manship and goods. the fact it he can. We don't clamor for a terrible ex- HEATER COMIQUE. THE monotony of the week is pleasantly ample ol Robert Harris, the slayer of Mrs. Barry. II MISCELLANEOUS. T No deposit required, as I employ first-class artists and interrupted by the genial presence of James D. Butt, will never bring her back to life and friends. What is wanted is a wholesome check put upon the bloody MONDAY, OOTOBER 21, NIGHTLY, TUESDAY workmen. Esq., of Harper's Ferry. We heartily congratulate business to prevent future murder a nd manslaughter. AND FRIDAY MATINEES. this gentlemen, who was special counsel for the Gov- All garments made to order. Strict!? merchant tailoring. The public are invited to call. No branch ernment In the Mason ferry case, upon the satisfactory THR GREATEST COMBINATION EXTANT! Issue ot his suocessiul prosecution in the aflalr, and store. My number is cheerfully accredit him with the praise he deserves, 719 NEW 719 Ball Kotes. and has so well earned. MISS JENNIE KIMBALL'S THE latest reports of League nines lor '79 are ¡13 BLONDE TROUPE OF MINSTRELS. BUR- J GOLD-FILLED JEWELRY, equal to solid follows: . LESQUE ARTISTS AND ART TROUPE, 414 ft3B?*TH ST. gold in wear, a specialty at Harris & Oo.'s, 435 Seventh Cincinnati—W. White, p.; J. White, c.; MoVey, lb.; Barnes, 2b.; Burke, s. s.; Gerbardt, 3b.; Dlck- FALL AND WINTER STYLES, THE GREATEST TRAVELING ORGANIZA- street. erson, 1. f.; Hotallng, c. f.; Kelly, r. f.; Sullivan and AT TION NOW BEFORE THE PUBLIC. Foley, substitutes. GEO. T. KEEN. THE WEATHER the past week has, for In- Boston—Bond, p.; Snyder, o.; Morrill, lb.; Bur- DÂVIS', dian summer, been perfectly delightful; with one day's dock, 2b.; Carey, s. s.; Sutton, 8b.; Young, 1. f.; Beautiful and Talented Lady Artists. exception we have been almost smothered with dust. O'Rourke, c. f.; Hawes, r. 1. 719 MARKET SPACE, 113 A Splendid Troupe of Specialty Artists. We envy the merchants on Seventh street, who have Providence—Ward, p.; Brown, c.; George Wright, the benefit ol a watering-cart, and wonder why any s. s.; Hague, 3b.; York, 1. f.; Hlnes, c. 1.; Hlgham, Cor. Mightli Street. INCOLN HALL. places are left blank. We would gladly make one of r. 1.! first and second basemen not yet known. Ii Chicago—Larkln, p.; Flint, c.; Anson, lb.; Quest, a number to pay anything in reason to have our street UST RECEIVED FOUR OASES NEW STYLES. OLE BULL, $14,000IN THfoE r $1. 2b.: Peters, s. s.; Williamson, 3b.; Dalrymple, 1. f.; watered and the infernal dust kept out ot our eyes and FELT WALKING HATS. Latest shapes in ears, as well as the office. Gore, c. f.; Schaelfer, r. f.; HarbridgeandHanklnson, J The world-renowned violinist, will give his GRAND KENTUCKY STATE LOTTERY, substitutes. telt bonnets In all the most desirable colors, at Stars—Dorgan, c.; McOormick, p.; Carpenter, lb.; DAVIS'. FAREWELL CONCERT in Washington Wednes- THE heavy suits for $8 and $10 at Roman Farrell, 2b; Richmond, s. s.; Allen, 3b.; Mansell, 1. day evening, October 30. Ole Bull will be assisted fc Cox's, 50? Seventh street, have no equal in the "XTOVELTIES IN BLACK AND COLORED WHICH DRAWS OCTOBER 31 f.: Kelly, c. f. and change catcher; Puroell, r. f. and fancy feathers, ornaments, &c., at by DON'T OVERLOOK THE OPPORTUNITY. country. change pitcher. ^ DAVIS'. NOTHING RISKED, NOTHING GAINED. MISS ISABEL STONE SCHEME: "OBSERVATIONS IN EUROPE."—This is THE eager and nipping air has almost chilled the life out ot base-ball events; but the reception of Joe ANOY RIBBONS IN PLAID, STRIPED AND AN UNRIVALED CONCERT COMPANÏ. 1 Prize of $14,000 is $14,000 the title of a lecture to be delivered by Mr. Jackson Gerhardt on Thursday night, on his return from Cin- F and FLOWERED, very new and desirable, at 1 Prize of 8,000 is 8,000 H. Ealston, under the auspices of the Workingmen's cinnati, was warm enough for August. His lriends, DAVIS'. Admission, $1.00. No extra charge for seats re- 1 Prize of 4,000 is 4,000 Assembly, at Franklin Legion hall, on Friday even- 2 Prizes of 2,600 are 5,000 headed by Mr. Michael Scanlon and a drum corps, served beiore October 20th. Tickets at Metzerott's ing, October 25. This gentleman has already deliv- marched to the depot and surprised Joe as he emerged LAID SILKS AND VELVETS, at 4 Prizes ot 1,000 are 4,000 ered with success one lecture on the subject, and it from the train, and then escorted him to his home- DAVIS'. music store. octl3-3t0 10 Prfzes of 500 are 6,000 has been so well spoken of that he has been prevailed stead, where his immediate lamily were In waiting to P 50 Prizes of 100 are 6,000 upon to repeat. He will revise his former effort, and give him a cordial reception, and irom thence he was RINGES, TRIMMINGS AND BUTTONS, IN 100 Prizes ot 50 are 5,000 «bring out new and entertaining facts in his next. taken to Seaton Hall billiard room, where a grand endless variety, at PROF. SHELDON'S 200 Prizes of 25 are 5.000 ovation was given him—music, fire-works, hand-shak- F 1» AVIS'. 600 Prizes ot 10 are 5,000 ine: and good cheer all round. Joe's modest demeanor 1,000 Prizes ot p are 5,000 IN BEGARD to the proceeds of the grand DANCING ACADEMY, 27 Approxfmation Prizes amountiDg to 2,925 •concerts given ior the benefit of the yellow fever suf- during the excitement was characteristic of tbe model OVELTIE3 IN NECKWEAR, at ball player he Is, and the compliment was well de- DAVIS' ferers, and the poor of the District, recently asked for served. Mr. Gerhardt is a native Washingtonian, 1004 F street northwest, 1.896 prizes amounting to $67,925 by " Chorus," tnrough the columns of the Post, we and although quite young, has played In New York, pLAIN, IHEMSTITCHEDI ^ AND FANCY-COL- WHOLE TICKETS, $1. must say it is impossible to make a full statement, as Louisville and Cincinnati with distinguished ability, ORED HANDKERCHIFS, in great variety, at NOW OPEN FOB THE SEASON. JtS- Address all Orders to our General Eastern Aarents, WILLIAMSON & CO., 599 Broadway, New York. a number of tickets for each concert, out for sale, have and without even a suspicion against his honesty; very low prices, at _ . _. . Days of Tuition—Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur- not yet been accounted for. Proper persons are in which Is certainly a record to be proud of. DAVIS'. days. Terms.- FIVE DOLLARS per month. Special •charge of this matter, and it is expected that the de- rates tor children and former pupils. The Kentuckv State Lottery has, during its exist- sired statement of net receipts of each will be pub- IT WOULD afford us a pleasure which we may yet ADIES UNDERWEAR, BEST MAKES, AT ence, paid more money In prizes than any lottery, do- lished in a day or two. realize of showing up some of the sourvy galoots who, J unusually low prlcei at mestic or foreign, whose tickets are sold in this coun- . EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. out of personal spite, circulated through the country DAVIS». SHELDON'S ASSEMBLY BOOMS try. No drawings have ever been postponed, and reports advising players to sign elsewhere, and also Prizes have always been cashed, without deduction, button-holed gentlemen here to Induce them not to For BALLS, GERMANS and other purposes, can on presentation. We also desire to oall particular at- ALL-WOOL ingrain carpet, sixty cents, at Invest In a club. The measure ol some of these fel- TOOK OF ALL KINDS OF FANCY GOODS be rented VERY CHEAP. Call before maklngotber tention to the laot that all correspondence with our Julius Lansburgh's popular low-prioed store, 437 Sev- lows has been taken heretofore in these colums, but S' and notions complete, at arrangements. sel6-tl3 lirm is strictly private and confidential, and that we enth street. • , that simply had tbe effect to drive these rats into the will not, under any circumstances, publish the names . sewerB, and they have since been working under FIBST GRAND BALL of persons drawing Capital Prizes for the purpose of THE death of Mr. Oertley, sub-engineer cover. A heavy back-water may drowned them, you DAVIS' OF THE drawing custom to our lottery. ot the District, on Wednesday last, was very sudden, know. WO Market Space, /®-The drawings take place every 15 days. and the associate circumstances exceedingly sad. THE PROSPECTS of a first-class club In Washington BARRETT CLUB, Oc20-2t3* SIMMONS & DICKINSON, Managers. Heart disease was hereditary In his family; but be next season seem to be petering out. Tbe last hold is oc20-3t3 Corner Eighth street. had arrived at that period of his life when it was pre gone by Joe Gerhardt signing to play third base ior AT FRANKLIN IIALIJ, sumed he would be safe from its vivid blow. He had the Cinclnnatis. He was anxious to play here; but Corner of Sixth and C streets northwest, PALAIS ROYAL, been somewhat ill, but on the day ot his death he was there seems to have been such a systematic effort made On WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 23,1878. suddenly seized with a faintness on the Avenue, hur- to discourage gentlemen willing to Invest in a club, Tickets, admitting a gentleman and ladles, $1. For ried into the St. Maic Hotel, and died nearthe clerk's that Joe's friends sent him word to use his own judg- sale by G. W. Cochran & Co., Brad. Adams, and at HATS! HATS! Ellis' Music Store. 1117 Pennsylvania Avenue. desk. ment in tho matter, and he very properly aooepted a Our reporter was present at the death. Lieutenant sure thing. GRAND MARCH at 8:30 sharp. FALL AND WINTER Music by Pistoria's Band. ool3-2t3 We shall oiler for thfs week decided inducements in Arnold cared for the body and arranged for the pres- ACCORDING to the batting averages In the Clipper our LACE, GLOVE AND HOSI ERY DEPART- ence ot his relatives. " Old Reliable" (Joe Start) heads the list, and Will. BSERVATIONS IN EUBOPE. MENTS. White, pitcher ot "Our Boys" of Cincinnati, is at STIFF AND SOFT HATS, Lecture by FOUR HUNDRED PIECES of magnificent the tail end. Joe Start has been playing profession- O PRINCESS. RUSSIAN-POINT AND DUCH- quality of tapestry carpet, seventy-five cents, at the ally longer than any man in the country; but there is IN ALL THE NEW STYLES. JACKSON H. RALSTON, ESS LACE COLLARS AND CUFFS, in all the popular low-prloed house of Julius Lansburgh, 437 no falling off, either In his fielding or batting. Tem- Under the Auspices of the latest shapes. Seventh street. perate habits and honest play, backed np by a power- ful physique, have carried Joe to first place. Agents for DUNLAP & CO.'S NATIONAL WORKINGMEN'S ASSEMBLY, A LOT CHILDREN'S RUSSIAN POINT THE news and periodical business in this LACE COLLARS, at 76 centi , worth $1.25. •city is controlled by Brad. Adams; and his two mam- ON TUESDAY the National and Manchester nines Franklin Legion Hall, cor. Sixth and C sts., moth establishments are crowded dally by our citi- meet at 3:30 p. m. The Nationals have been strenrth FRIDAY, OCTOBER US, 1878, at 8 p. m. . ALL THE LATEST NOVELTIES IN SPANISH ened by Joe Gerhardt appearing at second base. They NEW YORK HATS! Tickets 25 oents. For sale by Milans & Wilkins SCARFS AND TIES. zens in want of books and stationery, and giving orders play the following nine: Lvnch D., Trott o., McGraw for printing, engraving, book-binding and everything 1 b., Gerhardt 2 b., Revilie 3 b., Honck s. s.. Holly 1.1., Agents lor CHRISTY & CO.'S and at the door. ltl LADIES', MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S HO- •connected with bis line. This morning you will find Baker c. 1.. and Barron r. f. The Manchesters are as SIERY, plain, checked and embroidered in the neat- all tbe magazines for November, literary as well as good players as any of the clubs visiting here during BASE lES-i^T HT •• est designs In ootton, Lisle thread and silk. fashion, and those in search of reading for Sundays the season. LONDON HATS! will find bis place open until 1 o'clock. His specialty FULL LINE GENTS' HOSE. for the week Is a one dollar Webster's dictionary lor THE Manchesters are to be here this week, and with We shall also continue to offer great bargains in un- thirty-five cents, which is selling very rapidly; also, them the celebrated Jack O'Rourke. The National dressed KID GLOVES. boys, it is understood, have their lives insured, so that MEN'S, BOY'S AND CHILDBEN'S MANCHESTER the cheap Duplications, such as the Franklin Square, VS. THREE-BUTTON, 75 oents. Seaside, Riverside, &o. Slip in on the way to the some one ot their families will be likely to collect a FOUR-BUTTON, 90 oents. post-office and see him. policy, which collection will be superinduced by Jack HATS, batting a ball so hard as to hit one of the " boys "and NATIONAL, SIX-BUTTON, $1.10. send him Into the sweet bye and bye. IN ALL THE LATEST STYLES, AS SOON AS NEW ASSORTMENT OF GENTS' EMBROID- AN ADVANTAGE.—Throughout the dull INTRODUCED. On TUESDAY AFTERNOON AT 3:30 O'CLOCK. summer months we employ our workmen in making THE Baltimore and Washington lawyers will play a ERED GLOVES. overcoats. They are made of tbe finest material, complimentary return game on the National grounds CORRECT STYLES. First of a series of three games. It3 Also, LACE MITTS of the most delicate tints, to trimmed In the beBt manner, and as they are made by to-morrow at three' o'clook, when they will snake off POPULAR PRICES, match evening costumes. It8 for the nonoe the rusty lore of commentators and show FINE GOODS. our best custom hands, they are equal to any that can up the technical points in the manipulation of the STEAMED OYSTERS be made to order. We offer them at one-third less sphere. MADAME LAG0RCE, than we could make them to order for, in identically the same style. ' NOT only are the Buftalos the State and Interna- STEAMED OYSTERS No. 717 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST, A. SAKS & Co., 316 Seventh street. tional champions, but United States champions as WILLETT & RUOFF, WASHINGTON, D. C.j well, having defeated more League clubs than any Has just received a tine assortment of the latest SCARF-PINS and rings, new designs, 50 other club.—Buffalo Star. Hl-ho, Buffalo ! STEAMED OYSTERS FRENCH HATS, BONNETS, FEATHERS, cents to $1, at Harris & Co.'s, Seventh street. THE clubs so far positively named for the League Hatters and Furriers, FLOWERS, VELVETS, PLUSH, next year are Boston, Providence, Chicago, Cincin- 15 cents Half Peck, And all other novelties direct from Paris. AN OFFICER gives chase to some fellow nati, Buffalo and Star. Indianapolis and Milwaukee A new invoice each month. ' who has committed some workhouse offense, and, are shaky. 905 Pennsylvania avenue. 15 cents Half Peck, French Millinery a specialty. OC20tf4 PRICES VERY REASONABLE. It8» falling to overhaul, sends a bullet after his man. In FOR heavy hitters look at the names o£ the Chicago 15 cents Half Peck, the case of one George Curtis, on Friday, a gentleman outfield for next year—Dalrymple, Gore and Schaetf er, in blue landed his ball in a leg. Supposing It had AT THE A. H. P1CKRELL, Pres. J. W. DEEBLE, Sec been plumped through the heart, what then? Or, T. W. TALLMADGE, supposing it had been through the vitals of some In- ROOM 32 Le Droit Building (late of Columbus, POTOMAC INSUBANCE COMPANY nocent bystander—not at all an unwarrantable sup- liable Brothers. NEW YORK RESTAURANT, of Georgetown, D. C. position when the poor pistol practice of our police is Ohio,) prosecutes claims before the departments. He taken into account—would the case be justifiable This firm, at their elegant establishment on the has an experience of seventeen years. NEW YORK RESTAURANT; Having been appointed Washington Agent for the homicide or murder? Is a policeman taker, judge, corner of Seventh and D streets, can display the finest above well-known and reliable Company, I can be lay-out of winter goods in all the Btyles to suit the • References: Hon. John Sherman, Secretary of the 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, jury and executioner exofficio, carrying the death Treasury; Hon. A. G. Porter, Comptroller of the tound at my office, 1339 F street n. w., dally between sentence In his hip pooket and execution In the steadi- various tastes of all customers. The prices are main- 1216 Pennsylvania Avenue, the hours ot 9 a. m. and 4 p. m., prepared to renew old ness of his hand ? It BO, the laot should be conspicu- tained. at the low figures which have held over from Treasury; W. A. Knapp, Chief Clerk of the Post- Policies and take risks upon properly of every descrip- ously made known, so that small rogues may take last season, and those who will pay a visit to this es- Offlce Department; United States Senator A. G. BEBNABD HENZE, Proprietor. tion. JOHN H. CASS1N, Agent warning and the shedding of blood be prevented. tablishment may be sure of finding something taking O020-tll oct6 2mo4 - and suitable. Thurman. oot20-2ti