VOLUME VI. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., AUGUST 20,1876. NUMBER 25.

Mr. Randall's review of thè condition of the ME. HOVEY'S EXAMINATION QUESTIONS. the city of London was not and could not have been reign of Victoria, being then thirty-two years of age, THE CAPITAL, country and the remedits applied by the Demo- Mr. Hovey having invited and defied criticism built on the Cumberland lakes? why the Qity of Con- Mr. Disraeli made his first speech, which was a, stantinople was not and could not have been builtln PUBLISHED WEEKLY, cratic doctors will also meet with general con- of his " parts of speech" and the character of lamentable failure. He closed it, however, by say- Central Asia? or why a Sioux Indian was not and sideration. his questions in the examination of school child- ing, "I am not surprised at the reception I have BY THE could not have been born a Polish Jew, a Scottish experienced. I have begun • several times many " In reviewing the action of the House an im- ren, a contributor has favored us with the fol- Highlander or an Indian Brahmin? things, and I have often succeeded at last. I shall Capital Publishing Company, partial judgment will accord to that body the lowing letter, vihich will be satisfactory to all of If Mr. Hovey should accuse me of having misap- sit down now, but the time will come when you will praise due to its successful investigations and prehended or misconstrued the meaning of hisques- 927 D street, Washington, D. 0. our readers except the gentleman who is the hear me "—a prediction which has been most mem- exposures of frauds which, like some secret victim of his own vanity : tion, my reply is, that I challenge himself to furnish orably fulfilled. His political career, unaided by an explanation of it that will make it appear lees wealth or family connections, and in spite of the BONN PIATT and B. G. LOVEJOY Editors disease, were feeding upon the vitals of the SIE : Mr. Hovey proclaims every man an ass that absurd than it is here presented. The language of disadvantages of his Jewish origin. Is one of the Treasury. Thè mistakes of the session were cannot see the propriety of the question« propounded the question does not admit of such explanation. most extraordinary in English history.—Baltimore TERMS: $2.80 per year (including postage) in confined to persons and cannot honestly be at- by him to certain pupils in the public schools of this Even in the few questions published in THE CAPI- Sun; advance. . city. On behalf of myself and- about, t^n thousand tributed to tbe whole body. Its retrenchments TAL, which are the only.ones I have seen, I could, CLUBS: Ten copies to one address, $40 in ad- other asses in this District; I ask you for the favor vance, with one copy free. Twenty copies to one will, we feel satisfied, be apprpved by the coun- had I time and space, point out several other errors of sufficient space in your columns to vindicate our ad Iress, S35 in advance, with one copy free. try .and justified by time. Closer application in In English. I could, for instance, convince Mr. Hovey judgment of Mr. Hovey and his questions. I pur- LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, the early part of the' session would have brought himself that the expression, " was not and could pose to demonstrate to his own satisfaction that COXTENTS or ¡\SIBK. not have been built,!' is grossly incorrect. O. A. V. about an earlier adjournment ; but all things*con? those questions are absurd, illogical and ungram- PAGE 2.—" Gossip by Roberts " and " Future It is quite probable that a critical reader could dis- NEW YORK, August 19.—Mr. Van Nortwick, a sidered, the unpartisan mind .must regard the matical. That Mr. Hovey should have been a grad- Music." cover slips in toy own English. I do not claim per- member of the New Jersey senate, on behalf of the general result of the session in the most favora- uate of Dartmouth College, a superintendent -of PAGES.—" Common-school Education and Com- fection. I am not a schoolmaster or a school trustee. order of the O. A. U., has addressed a long letter to schools in one of the principal cities in the United petitive Examinations," "Great ble light. In regard to its retrenchments, they I have never been a superintendent of schools. I Governor Hayes respecting the seventh plank of States and a general in the Federal army, only ren- Men's Wives," &c. are presented in a triple shape. First, as appro- am not engaged now in writing questions for public the Cincinnati platform, referring to public schools,., ders bis present exhibition of ignorance the more PAGE 6 —Letter from Saratoga, &c. priating 164,000,000 less than the Republican de- examinations. I had not Mr. Hovey's advantages and asks of Mr. Hayes : ¡, amazing and deplorable. A graduate of Dartmouth PAGE 7.—Anecdote of Curran and Death on the partments asked for ; second, a3 appropriating in youth. • I have not the addition of " General'' to "Was the seventh plank of the Cincinnati plat- might be pardoned for making occasional slips in his form merely inserted to beguile the O. A. U. and Stage. my name. Ido not even write my native language $30,000,000 less than the Republicans insisted on; English in conversation, or even in his ordinary cor- similar organizations into' the support of certain when I write English I write this criticism, not to party nominees? Is it only a delusion, a snare, a thirdly, as appropriating $38,000,000 less than respondence ; but when a graduate of Dartmouth show my own cleverness, but to rebuke tho pre- lie ? Were the men who so uproariously greeted its was voted last year. sits down leisurely and deliberatively to frame ques- reading in convention only so many elaquers hired' EVENTS. sumption of an overbearing, irascible, self-conceited tion to test the intelligence of others, it might be ex- lo get up a cheap demonstration ? Was the recent pedant, who insolently proclaims every man an ass contest in the United States Senate over this very —According to sea stories, whenever a ship pected that his own wfiUing should be free from any —The order of the Secretary of War to hold that fails to acknowledge his superior wisdom and issue only another act in the play of deception ?- "crossed the line" it was the signal for an gross solecisms of thought or diction. With the highest possible respect for you, sir, I ask. the troops in the Southern States in readiness ability. these plain questions for the enlightenment of my- orderly craft to become a perfect.pandemonium; I have observed that when a conceited pedant who has been variously commented on. The New No donbt Mr.. Hovey self, of the organization with which I stand con- imagines that be knows more than any of his fel- nected, and of the hundreds of thousands scattered discipline and dignity were at once dismissed, i Yo rk Herald, in an editorial that has many ad- " CSvi speak Greek lows placed on an examining board, he is always from Maine to California who sympathize with its- and every man contributed his mite to the con- As naturally-as pi'is do squeak;" principles and approve its mission." mirable points in it, regards this movement as more anxious to display his own cleverness in fusion that ensued. The last night of the House but, considering his early advantages, it might also " a bit of political strategy," " a harmless thun- framing questions than to ascertain the intelligence Mr. Van Nortwick concludes : of Representatives always is characterized by be reasonably expected of him« that he should ex- derbolt launched in too ready compliance with of pupils. It would never do for him to ask ques- " A mere platform declaration is not sufficient for press his ideas logically and write his native lan- the earnest workers of the O. A. U. It must be sup- similar doings. The possibility of a speedy tions in the usual way. His questions must beorlgi* astute politicians," as " a very dexterous way of guage with some degree of correctness. The severe plemented by sharp, decided action on the hustings adjournment, supplemented by reinforcements nal and enigmatical. The question mnst never be and through the press. The membership of the trumping the Democratic trick, but beneath the critic and stern,-unpitying judge that has no charity from Sanderson's, render the representatives of framed In such a way as to suggest the exact nature organization are not the class of men whom poli- for the failings or shortcomings of others, should ex- ticians can juggle or catch with chaff. They are men dignity of the President of the United States," of the information sought; the pupil must guess at the nation as joyous, riotous and quarrelsome as pect no forbearance or charity for his own imperfec- possessing the ability to think, to reason, to judge, and adds, after referring to the recent decision that, as he would at any other riddle or conundrum. to act. Men who have shaken off the yoke of party- school-boys on breaking-up day. tion.'--. Charity for uncharitableness has never yet of the Supreme Court as rendering such an ord?r The relation between the question and the answer fealty and dare approve the right wherever they been commended as a duty or recognized as a virtue find it. Such men hav e an interest in understand- Last Monday night was regarded as the last of must be such as to create surprise when discovered ; a brutum f ulmen, " We are sorry the President by any moral code, divine or human. ing whether the seventh plank of the Cincinnati the present session, and the usual disgraceful or the question may, like Mr. Hovey's question about platform means business or otherwise. If the reso- holds out delusive hopes to the ignorant negroes. It may not be improper for me to state in conclu- Chicago, suggest many answers, all equally correct; lution be a sham, a mere wordy exhalation, then scenes were witnessed. Mr. Kasson of Iowa If they should in consequence be emboldened to sion that I have no ground of personal ill-will agains t they must bide their time. If, on the other hand, it in which case it is the business of the pupil to guess started the ball by.injecting into the more impor- Mr. Hovey.. I have never seen the man. I haye means thftf the school question is a line issue in the commit acts of violence, the President himself at the answer demanded. Thus the pupil will have present canvass, then they expect that the word wilt tant discussions a stump speech including certain never heard or seen his name mentioned excepting will see that this unseemly order is neither inno- the double task of guessing at the meaning of the be passed to make fight along the whole line. Until allegations not at all complimentary to Mr. Til- -in connection with the controversy in which he has that word is given and the movement begins in ear- cent or harmless." question, finding out the nature of the trap that is gained such unenviable notoriety. Nor have I the nest, they will necessarily feel that they have no part den. Mr. Cox in reply defended his leader and laid for him, and furnishing the required informa- or lot in the matter. slightest personal interest in that controversy. assailed the " allegator." Thereupon Mr. Kas- —Mr. Lewis J.. Jennings, formerly editor of tion. . "With great personal respect for yourself, I am,, the New York Times and now the London cor- There is not a man engaged in it, on either side, sir, truly yours." son said that what Mr. Cox said was untrue, and To illustrate Mr. Hovey's ignorance of Eaglish respondent of the New York World, has con- that I could recognize on the street. I have formed the chronicler of American humor—bad humor grammar, let us take the following question: my opinion of the merits of the case, and of the spirit Card from One of the Whisky Riug-. in this case—said that Mr. Kasson "lied." tributed an article on "Unsettled Problems of " 14. Explain how it happens, if it does happen, that animated Mr. Hovev and his friends, solely SAINT Louis, August 19.—Colonel Con. Maguire„ Mr. Hoar withdrew his parliamentary legs from American Politics" to the Fortnightly Review. that the days and nights vary in length at Wash- from the published reports of their proceeding s. who is now serving sentence of six months in the ington, D. C.; and if there be any time or times under bis desk, gazed at Mr. Cox and Mr. Kas- Mr. Jennings' close and intimate relations with during a year when the days and nights are of equal From the sentiments and opinions that I have here county jail for connection with whisky frauds, pub- son through his parliamentary spectacles, just as the Republican party renders his testimony his- length in Washington, give a reason therefor." expressed, Mr. Hovey can see what is thought of lishes a card in the Evening Dispatch, correcting some statements recently made in the public prints as to Mr. Pickwick was wont to gaze at the too viva- torically important, and he reviews the recon- Will Mr. Hovey inform us by what rule or princi- him and his course by every disinterested person ple in grammar he justifies the use of the subjunc-, that bates injustice, persecution and oppression. when his sentence will expire. He closes as foL- cious Winkle and the too susceptible Tupman— struction policy of that organization with no lows:" tive form of the verb "to be" in the second part of this J. M'L. for Mr. Kasson is a sort of a Tracy Tupman, very favorable pen. The wise and magnanimous sentence. If he uses it correctly there, why does he "When I again have the privilege of meeting my- that " terrible thing, a lion among the ladies." designs of Mr. Lincoln in behalf of renewed not use the sa.me form of the verb "to do" in the first fellow citizens, which will be before the election, I SPEAKER KERB'S DEATH. shall have a little vindicating to do, and I may be However, to proceed: After gazing at the bel- peace and equality between the sections were, he part 1 Why should he sa^,*if it does happen " (in able to show that some of out;, would-be Re- tells us, defeated by partisan blindness, and the stead oST" if it do"1; in "the former, and " if there be Just as we arc going to press the sorrowful publican leaders, engaged in preaching moral re- ligerents through his aforesaid gold spectacles in form, ought to have striped suits on, and with their- an upbraiding way, Mr. Hoar asked that the methods adopted by General Grant's advisers a time or times " in the latter ? Mr. Hovey ought but not unexpected news reaches us that the heads shaved, serving out a term in the peniten- words should be taken down. It is an awful have been equally fatal to the accomplishment o' to know that the latter form is used only when the Hon. M. C. Kerr, Speaker of the House of Rep- tiary." verb implies futurity, as well as doubt, uncertainty process, taking the words down, and while the the great end designed by all good citizens—na- resentatives, died last evening at half-past seven Foreign News. or contingency, thus : " I propose to take a trip into o'clock. The late hour at which this information solemn deed was being completed the friends of tional peace and prosperity. the country to-morrow if the weather be (or con- RAGUSA, August 19 —Prince Milan has entrusted Mr. Kasson formed a protecting ring about that tinue) favorable. But where is the element of fu- comes to us prevents that comment which is due Colonel Despetovich with the chief command of the gentleman. The skirmish line, however, was —It would be vi ell for the independent voter turity in Mr. Hovey's sentence ? He should have to the irreparable loss to the country and deep insurgents in Bosnia, who has defeated the Turks too much scattered, and Mr. Cox slipped in be- t» cast up accounts before deciding as to which written, "if there are a time or times " Mr. Hovey affliction to a large circle of devoted friends. • at Pretrovatz, setting fire to the town. The Turks have left the Austrian frontier and ''are concen- tween the stations, and got near enough to Mr. party he intends to support, and to this end we condemns himself; for, in another exactly similar call ¡.Mention to Mr. Blaine's recent speech, sentence, he writes: " If there are any, state what The Transpacific Cable. trating in the vicinity of Liono. A body of about Kasson to shake his fist under the nose of that 5,000 Turks have been defeated at Janlcova. The theV are called." The bill petitioning Congress to permit the which arraigns the Democratic party as initiating Tnrkish forces now in the vicinity of Albania are. gentleman. Mr. Kasson only elevated his pro- Transpacific Cable Corripany to lay cable be- boscis, which insinuated soap and water to Mr. the more than questionable process of seizii^g The following sentence stands unrivaled in point estimated at 40,000 men. of absurdity and bad English : tween California and China, thus uniting the United Cox. Mr. Stevenson of Illinois, with an exhibi- and examining the records of a telegraph office States to the Eastern world, passed Congress last BELGRADE, August 19.—It is understood that the* for evidence. "Name and describe the famous valley, if there Skuptschina will be convoked shortly. tion of courage that deserved public recognition be such a valley, at or near the headwaters of one week, and having endorsed the bill as a proper sub- from the House, placed himself between the fiery It was the Republican party, under the advice of these elvers, and state for what it is chiefly cele- ject for favorable legislation we commend Its passage VIENNA, August 19.—The Political Correspondence. brated." announces that great excitement again prevails in>~ antagonists, but Mr. Cox, having invaded the of General Butler, that first invaded the private and congratulate the company on its meriited success Here we have the same error that I pointed out the Crete. stronghold of the enemy, shoved him aside and records of a public agent ; the Essex statesman Much credit is due to Captain Celso Caesar Moreno, before—"if there be," instead of " if there is." Mr. the projector of this great enterprise, through The Mongolian Commission. retreated, Parthiap like, hurling dreadful denun- first seized all the telegrams received at all the Hovey uses either form of the verb at random, ap- whose intefatigable efforts and energetic prosecution offices in Washington. This was done in 1868 ; but LONG BRANCH, N. J., August 19.—Representative- ciations as his form reached his chair and sank parently unconscious that there is any rule or prin- of the matter its passage was effecte'd. Meade, who arrived here this morning, states that to the sympathizing embrace of its cane seat. the lapse of eight years cannot metamorphose a ciple that should control his choice of the one or the Senator Sargent evidenced by his genuine lat*or in there is a misapprehension concerning the rumor Mr. Randall endeavored, when Mr. Cox got his wrong into a right ; both acts were wrong, and other. behalf of this enterprise, his interest in the welfare of his resignation as a member of the Mongolian second wind, as they say in the prize ring, to let the censure should be impartially distributed. By supplying two small words that are under- of the Great West, of which he is one of the most joint commission. It is his intention to serve, though his friend have a hearing. Mr. Hoar, who is a stood, we are enabled to detect another grave error eminent representatives in the Senate of the nation. he greatly regrets the rumor of Representative Wil- in the sentence : "Name and describe the famous son's declination to serve as a member of that com- sort of a here-houncl—which is a bad pun con- —The South Carolina Democratic convention 1 valley, if there be such a valley, which is at or near, ' Disraeli. mission, and trusts that Mr. Wilson will reconsider tributed to Mr. C.'s book on American wit and met last week, nominating General Wade Hamp- &c. Now, the word "such" requires "as" after it, The recent elevation of Mr. Disraeli to a peerage ton far governor and adopting a conservative his determination, in view of the public importance • humor—when a Democrat is run to cover, in- either expressed or understood. We are not per- might have reasonably happened years ago, for he of the investigation proposed and the general confi- sisted upon censuring Mr. Cox. In the confu- platform which endorses the resolutions of the mitted to make the same word, oither expressed or has long been a foremost statesman and orator of dence in Mr. Wilson's judgment. This wish Mr. sion a majority of the members had adjourned St. Louis convention, and says : " We declare implied, do service as a relative pronoun to a cer- Great Britan. The London Times says he is the Meade believes is shared by Messrs. Page of Cali- to Sanderson's, and no quorum was present. our acceptance in perfect good faith af the thir- tain antecedent, and also as a substitute for the word greatest member of Parliament that ever lived fornia and Kasson of Iowa. "as" after " such." Mr. Hovey erroneously supposed What a tribute this is to a scion of the despised The result of the whole affair was that Mr. Cox teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution. Accepting and that, because the form of his sentence permitted Hebrew race, whose ancestors fled to England in Contradiction. was cut off, and will have to carry, like an old hyn to suppress the word "which," he had escaped a the fifteenth century from the inquisition in Spain. ST. LOUIS, August 19.-^-The Kansas City Times - loaded musket, his charge until next session. standing upon them, we turn from the settled violation of this well-known rule. The question is And what a race the Hebrew race is; how it pre. publishes a letter purporting to be from Jesse James, and final past to the grand living and momentous just as defective in sense and grammar as would be serves its ancient characteristics; how it rises over denying point-blank that he had anything to do-' Nothing, not even an undignified scene issues of the present and future," It calls on the following : Name a famous poet, if there be such all obstacles; how'it goes through the Red Sea of with the Otterville train robbery, and gives the in the House, is without its moral. Mr. citizens of both races to join in an effort for re- a poet, who is (or as is) an editor of a New York adversity without befog drowned, and through the names of two prominent citizens in Jackson county,, journal, and state for what qualities, as a poet, he Is fires of war and oppression without being destroyed; whom he says can testify that he saw and talked-' Kasson showed bad taste in selecting the form and economy, and is altogether a very en- couraging and hopeful utterance. chiefly celebrated. how it rolls through the waves of time like the gulf with in that county the morning following the place and time for a stump speech; but Mr. Is it possible that Mr. Hovey's mind is of such strean^ through the ocean, without losing one drop robbery. He also says the confession of Hobbs Kerry Kasson is afflicted with a vain ambition for noto- illogical cast that he can see no absurdity in his speak- of its pecnliarity, its identity or its force until now, is one tissue of lies, and that he doe3 not know riety ; he speaks more and says less than any one In this material nineteenth century, it holds in its Kerry, Petts or Caldwell. Wedding Cookery. jijg of a valley as " famous" and " celebrated," and even naming the location oi it in the same sentence hands the money power of all Europe, and, even in in the House with the same experience in public - On first commencing catch a young gentleman and Ulys. at Long* Branch. in which he expresses .uncertainty as to its existence, England, leád3 the van of civilization, politics and affairs; his frequent utterances are Very like his lady. The young gentleman will be best raw, and LONG BRANCH, N. J., August 19.—President Grant or in his asking his pupils to describe such hypothet- law. Not ten years ago Judiah P. Benjamin fled a frequent appearance in print as acting Postmas- the young lady quite tender; set the g mtleman at and .family arrived'here at 4 p. m. to-day by special^ ical valley ? Perhaps the absurdity of the ques- wretched exile from the fallen Southern Confederacy ter General, for then John A. Kasson published the dinner table; take a bottle of wine, claret is train over the New Jersey Central railroad. Tn the- tion will be made manifest, even to Mr. Hovey's to Great Britain, and now he stands with scarcely a good, port is better, a little dash of champagne will evening he drove along the beach behind a fast trot- - his name every morning and evening. Like mind, by transposing and expressing it in correct rival at the British bar. And here is Benjamin Dis- give it a briskness; let him soak in this mixture for ter. He was cordially greeted by the many people . Mr. Toots, who was constantly writing to him- English, thus: " If there is a famous valley at or raeli made a peer after he made himself more than a a couple of hours; if no sign of boiling, try another on the beach. self, John A. was constantly publishing his bottle. When getting red in the gills take him into near," iic. peer of the greatest men of England, and placed him- self, the descendant of Hebrews, and at one time an name. Mr. Cox, as a lawyer,a politician and a man the drawing-room; if in winter, set him at thg fire- " If not, wliy not?" asks Mr. Hovey. He should The Centennial. articled clerk in the office of a London attorney, at of the world, should know that when a man loses side by the lady, throw in a dash of green tea, of not have used language that he might well know PHILADELPHIA, August 19.—The weather being the head of the prond conservative party of England, about three caps to each, and let them simmer to- would have a tendency to divert the thoughts of his damp and murky the attendance at the exhibition his temper he loses his cause. Besides, to call a and, what is more, vindicated her place as a Euro- gether; if in the summer time, place them in a cur- pupils from the subject of the examination. I am to-day—the first twenty-five cent day—did not come- man a liar on the floor of the House is like pean power when it had been given up by half her rent of air, as near the window and as much out of very sure that on reading that question their minds up to the expectation of the managers. The total, poking a stick at an angry bull through a rail own people. sight as you can; stick the lady all oyer with flow- were far busier with memories of honest Jack Buns- paid admissions are estimated at 52,419. fence—the stiek is irritating and the bull can't ers, and place them near the piano, and keep s tie- by, the man of profound opinions—the man that had It may not be uninteresting in this connection to. The employees of Steinway & Co. of New York poke back. Mr. Kasson was as undignified in ring them till the lady sings. When you hear the a new opinion knocked into his head every time he mention that Mr. Disraeli is the eldest son of Isaac attended in a body. provoking the language as Mr. Cox was in using gentleman sigh it is a good sign ; as, whether winter had his skull cracked—than with Mr. Hovey or his Disraeli, the author of " The Curiosities of Litera- Between twelve and one o'clock Mr. Paul Basco* or summer, they are sure to be growing warm. it; and the parties which these gentlemen repre- questions. tute," and was born in London in December, 1805. witz gave a piano recital near the Corliss engine,; Then take them off, and put them in a corner of the Mr. Hovey reaches the climax of absurdity in the His father removed to England in 1748 from Venice, which attracfed a large assemblage. sent may feel secure In the balance of accounts. room on a sofa, near a chess table, if possible; leave following question : where his ancestors assumed the name of Disraeli, them together simmering for the rest of the evening. Base Ball. In leaving this half ludicrous and unfor- (originally written D'Israeli,) " a name never borne Repeat this for three or four times, taking care to " Give a reason why Chicago was not and could PHILADELPHIA, August 19.—Athletics 9, Mutuate- before or since by any other family, that their name tunate scene for a more serious considera- keep them as close t» each other as you can. Great not have been built in the interior of the State." 17. might be forever recognized." Perhaps there never tion of the final adjournment, which took place care must be taken about tfce degree of heat; if too If one of the pupils had answered that it was be- BOSTON, August 19.—Bostons 13, Hartfords 4. lived a more completely literary character than the at 7:80 o'clock Tuesday night, it would be un- warm, they will explode and flyefl; if too little[ cause the same city could not have been built in two SYRACUSE, N. Y., August 19.—Stars of Syracuse 15-, father of the present premier of England. He liter* they will turn into a jelly, or perhaps an ice. The different places, could Mr. Hovey tell him that the Quicksteps of Wilmington, Delaware, 2. just to pass by the sudden appearance of Mr. ally found his life in his library. His son began life best heat is the moderate, regular and constant. answer was not correct or justified by the nature of LOUISVILLE, August, 19.—Louisvilles 7, Cincin- He>itt in the role of an orator of no mean as an author, and delighted to style himself " Disra- The length of time during which it is applied must the question ? It might be answered that if built in natis 5. • ability, and as the warm defender of his personal be according to circumstances. For a gentleman the interior of the State it would not be Chicago— eli the yjunger." His famous novel, "Yivian Jewell on the Stump, and political friend, Governor Tilden. Mr. and lady under twenty-five, three months, three that Is, the city that Chicago is, or even a city like Grey,".was published when he was only twenty one. VERGENNES, VT.,' August 19.—Governor Jewell*, Hewitt's speech must be regarded as far above weeks or three days sometimes are sufficient; but it; that it would not be situated on Lake Michigan ; His book was translated into the principal languages spoke here this evening in the largest hall in the city,, the level of any other effort of the session. It is in every instance there must be great precaution to that it would not be-in the northeast part of the of Europe. Other works of his attained great popu- which was filled to overflowing. Great enthusiasm, not saying too much to compare it, for energy, avoid a broil. A certain quantity of currency put State, &c., &c. In Ake manner it might be shown larity. In May, 1S35, he ran for Parliament as a in during cooking will have great effect in keeping that the city called Chicago could not have been built thorough-going conservative, and when charged by is everywhere manifested. eloquence, earnestness and effectiveness, to the somebody in a public assembly with " O'Connel* up the heat; the dish will look remarkably well if either in the interior or on the coast of a-ny other The Weather To-day. rhetoric and logic of the olden times; He gave garnished round with bank paper; it may be then lism " he called the great Irish agitator a " bloody country on the globe. No other spot In God's uni- In the Middle and Eastern States, falling followed' Mr. Kasson a deserved excoriation, silenced the served up at the table, and make an excellent meal traitor," to which Mr. O'Connell made the memora- verse possesses the same environment, the same con- by rising barometer, wind shifting to cool, north- for two. Care should be taken that no vinegar is ble retort, "For aught I know the present Disraeli falsehoods in relation toMf. Tilden's war record ditions of soil and climate, the same configuration of west and northeast, except higher temperature than used, as the dish is remarkably apt to turn sour. fs the trne heir-at-law of the impenitent thief who and contributed an invaluable paper to the cam- land and water, or the same relation to surrounding on Saturday along the coast, and partly cloudy eonntries as the spot on which Chicago is built. Mr. died on the cross." This led to a challenge, which paign literature. ARR OLD COOK.' weather, with frequent rains, succeeded during th©- —Brooklyn Eiffle. ifoy?y might witfi eqsal jrjpriety have asked why was sot accepted, in the first Parliament of the da- by clearing 2 THE CAP IT A L.—AUGUST 20, 1876.

GOSSIP BY BOBERTS. Cave, where he might have a relapse. Therefore FBI IKE MUSIC. DET GOODS, SHIRTS. I feel— I go, but X come again; in a little while ye Wagner's Great Music-Drama at Balrenth. shall see me." This is the refrain of the depart-1 " Of all sad words of tongue or pen. [Cable Dispatch to N> Y. Herald, 14th ] to PER CENT. OFF! ing congressman,and We as a people must not look The saddest are these: we may have Ben." The ]3th of Angust, 1876, will form an epoch in the TAYLOR 4 HUFTY, back on the past when the loved one3 were with I don't like to spoil the pathetic part of the history of music second to none in import&nc^. us, or allow our thoughts to dwell on the pres- story; but I cannot help thinking that perhaps The long dream of Richard Wagner's life has been realized, and his unquestionable genius, unbending OUR FIRST ent, as they have gone, but look forward to the the widow's story of her husband's having been will, indomitable perseverance and a rooted belief killed in New Orleans may have caused the mil- future and remember in the " sweet by-and-by" not only in the heavy task he imposed on himself, 933 Pennsylvania Avenne, we Bhall see them again. One thing we can con- itary hero to make a mental mathematical calcu- but in his absolute power to accomplish it success- ANNUAL DISCOUNT SALE, •sole ourselves with is that they liked us so well lation of his gains in that city to enable him to fully, have brought forth the desired fruit. When, they tarried with ns as long as possible. When refuse a small fee from the widow of a soldier thirty years ago, his opera of Rienzi was produced they leave us the feeling of sadness is only killedltbere. at Dresden it was but the reflection of the style of ALLOWING 10 PEE CENT. OFF. his early friend, Meyerbeer. Since that time his ar- / V." V' equaled by that experienqpd when listening to There is a story about John Logan, to the tistic nature has cast off all fetters of servile imlta 1 HAVE REDUCED THE PRICES OF THEIR an asthmatic organ play " The Last Rose of effect that he used to be a great poker player and tion, and the culmination of the labors of a lifetime In order to reduce our very large stock of Summer," while a melancholy monkey in an won of a friend one night two hundred dollars. is found in the great music-drama which com- • .is.' V. indescribable red garment squats on the pave- When he came to Washington as a member of menced to-day in thiB town of Bairenth. ment, relieving the monotony by taking off a the Cave of the Winds he became moral and TUB I'BRVOKMA.NTK OF BHEIXGOLD, Summer Dry Goods dirty hat every once in a while!. When I hear pious, (like'the rest,) and gave up evil ways. Which is the introductory music-drama to the the tune above mentioned played like a fune- His friepd came on here, and while in company Ring of the Nuebelungen, commenced at seven "We offer to buyers for the next sixty days tlie extra- CELEBRATED o'clock this evening and lasted three hours. Long ral dirge on a disreputable organ, and the sad with Logan and several others proposed a game, ordinary inducements of 10 per cent, ojf on the dollar before the prescribed hour for the opening of the fes eyed monkey squatting, I feel, as a friend ex- speaking of John's skill, " S—b," whispers tal theater all Baireuth was excited, and the vast on all goods in our establishment. Our* assortment pressed it, (and he swears it is original,) like John, " don't say a word; I have joined the concourse of visitors was out of doors, eagerly await- consists ol all the latest novelties for this summer's going to some ravine and dying. church and don't play now." His friend looked ing the moment when they could enter the temple season, such as handsome The closing scenes of a session of Congress are at him pensively and said, " What a pity, John, of music, the Walhalla of the lyric art. Grenadines, Summer Silks, DOUiBLE-YOKE always amusing, and to a close observer intensely you did not get religion before you won that The Emperor of G-ermany, the Emperor and % Empress of Brazil, the King of Bavaria, Prince instructive as an evidence of what fools people two hundred dollars from me." Lawns, Suitings,White Goods, George of Prussia, the Prince of Hohenzollern, can make of themselves when they try. The Now, what a pity Butler did not get religion Prince Wilhelm of Hesse, Grand Duke Vladimir of Linen Suits, morning piper, the Republican—so truly loyal a sooner. Down in New Orleans to-day there is a Russia, the Grand Duke of Mecklenberg, the Duke Lace Sacques and Shawls, paper that it almost amounts to idiocy—gave a family, the head of which before the war was of Anhalt-Dessau and a large number of other titled SHIRTS very amusing description, not at all hampered by one of the largest commission merchants South. magnates, occupied seats in the Princes' Gallery. Fine Hosiery, Sun Umbrellas, facts, howfever. It held up its hands in holy When the pious and sentimental Butler was in About sixty Americans attended the performance. The scene in the auditorium of the theater before Fans, &c. horror, as if it was the first time a scene of con- possession of New Orleans he sent his brother the commencement of the rausic-draira was an This opportunity should not be lost. fusion was ever witnessed, and due simply to to the warehouse of this party and gave an exceedingly-brilliant one. Looking up from a seat AS FOLLOWS : a Democratic majority. Perhaps my friend order for things for the army that amounted to in the amphitheater toward the Princes' Gallery, the eye was dazzled with the splendor of the uni- WQLFORD & SHILBERC, who runs the morning paper forgets the closing thousands upon thousands of dollars. The goods 81T MARKET SPACE, night sessions when the moral Republicans were were to be delivered and paid for after delivery. forms of the suites of the various personages, forra- jell-tf8 Third Door from Ninth street. i ng a bright background to the large assemblage of QUALITY No. 1, $24, FORMERLY $30. ahead by a large majority." I have seen, du- Everything was settled, papers all made out, the visitors that filled the one thousand three hundred. ring a night session, several of the truly loyal so contract signed and sealed. Colonel Butler KER & GREEN. seats in the amphitheater. Above tile Royal Gal- QUALITY No, 2, $33. FORMERLY $36. overcome with—iced tea—as to fall asleep with made an appointment with—well, we will say lery was a second one, in which a large number of a cigar in their mouths, feet on the desk before Mr. Smith—to be in his counting-room the next the citizens of Baireuth ere seated. An unusual Hatters and Furriers, then», head on the one behind them. I don't day at ten o'clock. Smith said it was earlier feature for a German opera-honse was the preva- QUALITY No. 3, $39, FORMERLY $42. lence of full evening dress, which lent an additional •suppos'e it makes much difference, when a man than usual for him to be there, but on account 1419 above attraction to the body of the theater. sets out to make a fool of himself, what party he of the large sale he would oblige him. QUALITY No. 4, $42, FORMERLY $48. Pennsylvania Willard >8 'belongs to. Colonel Butler did not arrive at ten, because THE WARNING FANFAKK. A " call of the House " about two in the morn- he was busy seeing to having circulars, signed At seven o'clock eight trumpeters, stationed in the aven ne Hotel. TAYLOR & HUFTY, ing makes it about as lively in a peaceful and by General B. F. Butler, posted around the opening or front of the theater over the amphithe- unsuspecting family as Sitting Bull and a few of streets, that Confederate money was not lega 1 ater, gave the signal for the commencement of the NRI an. work, and the echoes of the long trumpet-call had All the leading styles of Cassimere Dress Hats. his followers would in a Young Men's Christian tender " on and after that day." Mind you, the scarcely died away towards the distant Fichtelge- Various kinds or Straw Hats, Genuine Mackinaw, 933 Pennsylvania. A-venne, Association. Holman was mad, because he does bargain was made and was to be paid in Con- Milan Braid, Leghorn, &c. m ay 7-5 m o8 birge and Kulons when from the " mystic abyss" the Hair Cloth and English Linen Hats. his own washing, and when " callejl" was en- federate money. Some merchants came in and opening strains of Hans Richter's in visible orchestra American and English Silk Alpaca and Glngliam Umbrellas. - PLUMBING AND GAS-PITTING. gaged in hanging the washing just finishedo n told Smith, but he showed them the papers and floated though the house. To those accustomed to Ladles Parasols an,d Sun Umbrellas. the brilliantly lighted effect of the great opera- Umbrellas and Parasols covered'and repaired in tlie .gas-light fixtures, backs of chairs, in fact in would not believe that any one would do such best manner. oc24-ly JAMES LOCEHEAD, «very available space. Williams, the "linked a trick. But the Colonel came, brought United houses of Europe the appearance of .the Wagner Theater was very singular^ The auditorium was Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting, sweetness long drawn out" from Indiana, was States army wagons to take away the goods, and quite dark, light there being considered by the com- LADIES' GOODS. busily engaged in packing away, in a box labeled Mr. Smith, who had signed the receipt for the poser as calculated to distract the attention of his 415 TENTH STREET N. W., "Glass—this side up with care," his lovely suit money, went to General Butler, but was told, hearers. Another was the suppression of all out- JOHN H. KENNY, (Adjoining Gas Office,) of blue jean. He folded each article with a ten- "A business man should know what was going ward applause, which is also regarded by Wagner as WASHINGTON, D. C. derness no one would have supposed a member on." There was no help for it, the goods were annoying and destructive to that continuity of Late Lace Buyer for A. T.Stewart Jobbing and orders by mail promptly attended to. thought necessary for the full appreciation and en- Estimates furnished. nov?l-2 of the Cave capable of. Cox was slipping out taken and paid for in Confederate scrip. A joyment of his great work. & Co., New York, every few moments to get a cup of Gunpowder number of the leading merchants stood by and When the curtain rose on the first scene, the bed R. G. CAMPBELL, tea, which accounted for his wanting to " blow took a list of the goods as they were carried out, HAS OPENED A NEW STOCK OF of the Rhine, .the scene was so life-like that it was up " every one. Kasson—who reminds one of the name of the driver of the wagon, the name difficult for the audience to restrain their delight. the animal described in "Goldsmith's Animated of his regiment, thinking to bring the matter The three Rhine nymphs-or nixies, Woglinde, Well- Laces, Embroideries, Paris Nov- GAS-FITTER AND PLUMBER. .Nature " as an ass, such a tendency has he to into the courts. gunde and Flosshilde, appeared, gliding about, sing- elties and Ladies' Under- . JOBBING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. • •bray, and who is nothing if he is not blowing- This is truth, and if General Butler read3 THE ing and chasing each other about the rocks. The " water music" which accompanies this scene is of tried to make a sensation, and he got one. He CAPITAL he will know who the person is, and garments, -*« s. nrinttifst. nr.-««?-, that flowing, indulating character that fits the jy28-tfl roused Representative Hewitt, who rose up and that the name he bears is one renowned in mili- dreamy songs of the' nymphs, and is full of charm. AT A SMALL ADVANCE ON IMPORTEES' PRICES. JOHN BA1ÌRY, made one of the finest impromptu speeches that tary .circles for three generations. It may in- Woglinde sings the opening measures with the strange words, " Weia! waga ! Woge, du Welle!'' 915 Pennsylvania avenue, between Ninth >has ever been made in the Cave of the Winds, terest him to know, in his reformed condition, and Tenth streets. iand as a campaign document will score a num- that the transaction broke Smith up, and his The voice of Mme. Lille Lehmann blended admi- je2E-3mos3 ' PLUMBER, GAS & STEAM-FITTER ber of votes for Tilden. New York can be proud wife and family would be in absolute want but rably with the orchestral accompaniment. Marie Lehmann and Minna Lammert, who represented the of one of its representatives,any way. The speech JUST RECEIVED _FR0M NEW YORK. 1319 Seventh St., bet. N.and 0,N.W. for her efforts at teaching and the contributions other two nymphs, were no less effective. The ap- •was good because it was manly, to the point, an of relatives. He himself has lost his mind pearan ce of the dwarf, Alberich, and his seizure of MARINE BLUE, .«»-ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. effective refutation of the charges" brought, and entirely. When I think of all this it is no won- the magic Rheingold formed the next feature in the NAVY BLUE, ap30-l JiQt filled with vituperation or coarse wit. der I am not impressed with the sentimental opening scene. MYRTLE GREEN, . MERCHANT TAILORING, ETO. The Fog-bank adjourned with its usual dig- part of the Sunday-school story now being • THE HOHS OF THE GODS. BROWN AND BLACK VELVETS. mity—they never have "list scenes" there. '«irculated. From the waters of the Rhine to the mountain ALSO, Morton et al. hive been busy trimming their I went into the White House lately, for the tops, on which the gods were discovered slumber- NEW STYLE HATS IN FALL SHAPES. D. JONES, ing, was a noiseless and remarkable change. Here •under wearing apparel with "Hamburg" edging. first time in years. The Administration never COUP DE PLUMES, Mcrc'SaaiRait •Cs^lloa*, occurred a long duet between Woton, (Odin,) the The bloody shirt trimmed with Hamburg will FANCY FEATHERS, &C. had my heartfelt sympathies until I saw the sun god, and Frlcka, his wife, followed by some 165 Bridge street, Georgetown, D. €., be their fancy dress in the coming political mas- crowd waiting to " pay their respects," (it don't characteristic music for the giants, Faffner and WSpeclal attention given to orders. Has now on hand for custom make one of the finest and querade. best selected stocks of French and English goods, and cost anything to pay respects.) It was very Fasolt. As the scene progressed Frela, the goddess MRS. J. P. PALMER, which he guarantees to be as represented. Fit guaran- The Administration at last can get to hisamusin g to watch on the centennial visitors' of Love and Spring; Froh, her brother, Donner, teed. (Thor,) Loge, the flre god, and Erda.(Earth) were Agent for Vinton & Hutchinson's Fine Custom Shirts. loved Long Branch and muse on the time, fast faces the awe-stricken look as they went into his No. 1109 F street, between Eleventh and apr30-8mos3 Twelfth. approaching, when he can go there when he heard, each having some peculiar motif by which presence, and the satisfied smile as they came he or she might be recognized. This phrase, al- ap2-ly8 likes, and a happy country won't ask where he out. What tales they can tell their companions though generally short, partook much of the char- JOHN SCHECK, as. He did one good thing for us, however, at home "when they meet and crowd around." acter of the personage it represented. Miss E. A. McCormick, 5n putting his presidential foot down on ex- One's delight at the cheapness of bananas is NIBBLHEM. Merchant Tailor, tending the time for paving the Avenue. I somewhat dampened by sorrow at seeing them From the fountains to Nibelheim, the dark abode 583 NINTH STREET, (St. Cloud Building:,) CORNER SIXTH AND II STREETS NORTHWEST, suppose, after all, my dear CAPITAL, there are thrown around so promiscuously on the side- of Alberich and his dwarfs, was a somber change. worser " men as well as " bigger " men than walks, thereby causing innocent pedestrians to The repulsive Alberich monopolizes the greater Has now on hand for inspection one of the finest assort - Will be in constant receipt of all the ments of fall goods ever opened in this city. nov23-lfiH •old Grant. execute sudden and undignified movements. An portion of the music of this scene, and it was a se- vere test for 1me baritone of Carl Hill, one in which, WILLIAM HART, I walked around Washington a few days since unsophisticated and harmless centennial visitor NEWEST DESIGNS IN IMPORTED BONNETS, with a gentleman who is editpr of a paper in a does not like to sit down suddenly and forcibly however, he was entirely successful. The scene ended with the capture of the dwarf king by the sun Southern city, and who had not been in Wash- UMTRIMMED STRAWS AND CHIPS, Merchant Tailor on our pavements. When he does he risesup god and flre god. ington for eight years. To say that he was sur- and walks hastily on, delivering his opinion to Back to the mountains again, an agreeable change, FLOWERS, LACES, & , 519 NINTH STREET NORTHWEST. •prised would mildly state his condition. Instead his wife in language not suitable to him as a especially as in the Nibelheim scene every part of FOR THE SPRING AND SUMMER. A large and select line of Imported Goods, which will -of a dirty city, with unpaved streets and dilapi- deacon of the church, and which would wring the theater was in gloom. The gods dragged in be made to order promptly In the latest styles, as I have their unwilling prisoner and forced him to give up the best cutter in the city. novil-tfS dated frame buildings,he saw rows of handsome a groan from his pious friends at home; but then The ladies of Washington and viclnit y are requested dwellings, streets paved, sidewalks widened, the ring and all his other treasures. they never slid for a half a yard on a rotten to call and examine before purchasing. MISCELLANEOUS. parks throughout the city, in fact a change as banana and then sat down on it. There is a time THJE CUBSE OF THE BING. aprfl-ly* ¿great as Aladdin's palace. He is a man of strong for all things, but on an occasion like the one The curse which Alberich hurls after the ring is prejudices, yet he could not but acknowledge mentioned one forgets about christian virtues. a grand piece of musical declamation, and Herr Hill MISCELLANEOUS. BIRD & HEPBURN, delivered it with rare effect and emphasis. Erda's that the man who did this could not be the rascal ROBEBTS. prophecy of the sad " twilight of the gods " is one of and robber his enemies called him, and which he HERMAN BAUMGARTEN, Carpenters & Builders, the features of the work, and it received due justice himself had always considered him. from Mile. Luise Laide. The appearance of Erda, ENGRAVER OF SEALS AND STENCIL GUTTER, Colonel Spencer's "Spoons." 1007 B STREET NOTHWKST. In the future Alexander Shepherd will be as she rose-up in the midst of the gods, was very 229 Pennsylvania Avenue northwest. [From the New York World.] picturesque. Seals for Lodges, Societies. Corporations and private more appreciated. The good he has done us is It Is told of Colonel Charles Spencer, counselor-at- jy23-tf WASHINGTON, D. C. The last scene represented the 'gods crossing over use. Dating and Bank and Hand stamps of all varie- •visible to the naked eye, and the greatest charge law, that some years ago he had to defend one Mar- ties. Steel Stamps and Burning Brands for marking what was designed to represent a rainbow bridge tools. Stamp Ribbons in all colors and sizes. brought against him is that he made money too shall, charged with larceny, and against whom there FRANK MILLER, into the palace of Walhalla, rejoicing at the re Crests, Monograms and Initials cut in stone. was very strong evidence. Before the trial Spencer Stencils. Indelible and otfter Inks for stencil use always DEALER IN MEN'S, LADIES', MISSES' ANS» fast. Perhaps we who make these charges are covery of their fairy goddess Freia, while from the on hand. Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases. went to his client and told him that his only chance CHILDREN'S mad because we have no chance for a like charge depths below rose the sweet voices of the Rhine Jy23-lm2 of escape was in a plea of insanity, and he advised to be brought'against us. Anyway, he gave us daughters, apostrophizing the magic Rheingold of GEO. A.. BABB, BOOTS AND SHOES, him to play the lunatic, and to answer all question which they had been robbed. The concluding trio .something for our money that will last for ages. pnt to him with the word "spoons." The day of No. 1037 Seventh street northwest, of the nixies was very beautiful. The scenic effects His own building on the corner of Twelfth and the trial came on, and Marshall took his place in the Between New York avenue and L st., Washington, D.C. were grand beyond description. There was no noise the Avenue is one of the handsomest in the city dock, pale, haggard and wild-looking. jv30-tf3 or delay in the changes of scene; everything worked CARPENTER & BUILDER, "Guilty or not guilty?" asked the cierk. and the admiration of all strangers. like a charm. The lighting arrangements of the " Spoons!" bawled the prisoner, with a blank One of the prettiest stories for a Sunday- stage were .perfect. The curtain fell on the last A.T. WHITING. stare. Shop 503 New Jersey Avenne. school paper is that one going the rounds about scene at ten o'clock. The artists, one and all, ac- "Come, plead guilty or not guilty," repeated the •General B. F. Butler and the widow. It comes quitted themselves to the satisfaction of the maestro GENTS' STRAW HATS OB' EVERY DESCRIPTION clerk. ' LORENZO BICE, just in the nick of time; we wanted a n6w himself, and Hans Richter deserves all praise for CLEANED AND RENOVATED. " Spoons." was the only reply. the admirable manner in which he handled the Steam Carpet Beating Works, » motto, and had gotten tired of truthful George, " Prisoner, will you answer the questions put to orchestra and led his one hundred and twenty in' FOR CLEANING CARPBTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, 031 Pennsylvania avenu«. i his little hatchet and " Father, I cannot tell a you, or do you want to be punished for contempt?" 8trumentalists safely through the intricacies Franz Betz, Berlin; Banner, Eugene Gura, & Wilton, 8 cents per yard. • myl4-6mos a widow, and I am too old to begin." Tab- condition to be put on trial, as he was evidently not Hamburg; Froh, George Unger, Baireuth; Loge, COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, leau—weeping but grateful widow in the fore- responsible fer his actions, and it was an outrage on Heinrich Yog), Munich; Alberich, Carl Hill, Sch J> ATLROAD TIES. NO. 810 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Near Third stréet, free citizens, &c. werin; Mime, Carl Schlosfcer, Munich ; Fasolt, Al- aground putting her money back in her pocket; WHITE OAK TIMBER. CEDAR POSTS, AND WASHINGTON, D. C. Ben. in the background, his handsome figure " Do you understand what is said ?" asked the bert Etlers, Coburg ; Faffner, Franz von Reichen- HICKORY BUTTS, Carriages and Harness received on Storage ana Sola berg, Frankfort; Fricka, Frederike Grun, Coburg; on Commission. Carriages Repaired. gracefully posed, and his eyes turned towards judge, addressing the prisoner. . Manufactured and For Sale by Freia, Marie Haupt, Cassel; Erda, Luise Laide, the ceiling. Brad. Adams is going to give up " Spoons," was hiB reply, in accents wild. It was evident that the man was crazy, and the Darmstadt. Rhine daughters: Woglinde, Lillie AUSTIN P. BROWN, GO TO FUSSELL'S his Richmond excursions and turn his attention Lehmann, Berlin; Wellgunde, Marie Lehmann, judgeorderedhim discharged. He was taken charge .New York Avenue and Fifteenth Street, to getting up a chromo illustrative of the above, of by his friends, who were present and left the Berlin; Flosshilde, Minna Lammert, Berlin. For the Best Ice Cream and and present one to any person who will buy court with him. Counselor Spencer followed them Few will indulge in sleep to-night in Baireuth un- ap23-l Washington, D. C* Butler's analogy. It is sad, now that Butler and, congratulating him on his escape, suggested til a very late hour, at least, as all are discussing the "Water Ices in the City AT has reformed, to think there is a chance of his that it might be a good idea to pay him his fee. event of the day, and indulging in various theories J. L. SMITHMEYEB & CO. His client stared at him in blank amazement, and as to the other portions of the great music drama '•becoming a member of the Cave and having to ARCHITECTS, 1437 NEW YORK AVENUE N. W. moved away with the simple remark, " Spoons ' The introductory work, Rheingold, has made a JY9-TF5 No. 703 Fifteenth St., bet. « and S. T. Ave. «it among the wicked Democrats. What is his profound impression, even on those who came with nov21-2 loss may be their gain. Perhaps he may be the prejudices against Wagner and his works. The per- 5 " STKAM is a great thing," remarked »traveler in tj^ " DILLON, means of reforming the rest and innoculating formance was a revelation in opera, the turning jr «• is jw Mr Jic. j*. m je B a railroad car to his vis-a-vis. " So it is.", wa s the them with his fine sentiments. Still he ought to point, perhaps, in the history of the lyric stage ARCHITECT, PHOTOGRAPHER, reply ; I owe my fortune to it." " Monsieur is man- The first of the works of the Trilogy, Die Walkure, made superintendent of the Young Men's ager of a company ?" "No, I have lost a number of 1337 Pennsylvania avenne, will be presented this evening. Has removed to 1505 PENN'A AVENUE. dec5 sepl- •Christian Association instead of coming to the relatives by railroad accidents." 3 THE CAP IT A L.—AUGUST 20, 1876.

COMMON SCHOOL EDUCATION—COM- science in its modern sense. This expression means, knowledgment of her tenderness, worth and excel QRQ0EBIES. GE00ERIES. rather, logic and metaphysics than geology and me- lence from my pen." PETITIVE EXAMINATION. chanics—those " arts," in fact, in which men passed Speaking of Hood makes us think of two notable The London Standard of July 29 thus dis- as bachelors and masters. However, we have little instances of great write'rs of our time who have not THE AMERICAN COFFEE COMPANY. N.T. METZGER & BRO., courses on a discussion of these interesting fault to find with Dr. Play fair's address, which as- been happy in their wives—namely. Charles Dickens 417 Seventh street northwest* topics: signed its true place/to classical scholarship as the and Bulwer Lytton. It is neither a pleasant nor a means of discipline and culture.~ On the subject of thankful task to expose the spots which spoil the N.W. Cor. Thirteenth and F Sts. DEALERS IN FINE FAMILY GRO- The speeches of the Bishop1 of Peterborough at female education the Doctor perhaps has not been beauty of great works of art, nor to call attention to Leicester, of Mr. Forster at St. Olave's Grammar CERIES. qu te correctly reported. It is true enough that men the littlenesses which detract from the admiration School, and of Dr. Lyon Playfair at the Memorial do not wish their wives and sisters to beco*ne classl we feel for great men ; nevertheless, there seems Hall in Farrington street, are interesting contribu- CLARET. cal " prigs." But wer do not see why we should de- ample reason for believing that in both these in- tions to the question of middle-class education. The COFFEES : sire them to be our superiors in any kind of learning. stances whatever fault there was did not lie wholly CLABET. FINEST OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA COFFEE, GEN- first thing which strikes us, on a bird's-eye view of When they are so by all means let the fact be ac- with the wives. Thackeray, who has been fre- CLARET. UINE MOCHA COFFEE, MARICA1BO them, is the agreement between the Bishop of Peter- COFFEE, 1110 COFFEE, cepted with all frankness and humility. 'But we see quently spoken of as a similar instance, was most Freshly roasted or green, at reduced prices. borough and Dr. Playfair on the subject of competi- no reason why men should wish to be inferiors to loved and beloved by his home-circle, but sustained St. Margeaux. tive examinations. The learned Doctor is evidently women in "modern languages," in the "elegant arts" a deep afiliction in his wife losing her reason after St. Julien. of opinion that we are fast being examined to death, TEAS: or in "moral and rellgiods sentiments." Women the birth of one of her children. St. Estephe. We have a very large and carefully selected stock of and quotes the example of Frahce, where it is Teas, comprising the very finest GUNPOWDER, IM- are more pure than men no doubt. But ought not The constancy with which so many women have Medoc. acknowledged that " their loss op great men and PERIAL, JAPANESE AND OOLONG. men to wis.h to be as pure as they are ? A man's cherished the memory of their husbands when death St. JEmillion. their defeats in the late war were owing to examina- sister very often knows more of French and Ger- has removed them from their sides cannot but call tions having sapped the vigor and energy of tjie TABLE LUXURIES: man than he does—though very often they know less— forth both respect and admiration. Our Queen is Such as country." This wholesale condemnation of the sys- PRICES TO SXJIT ALL, can paint or play better than he can, and are more herself a noble example of this. The depth of her SPICED MEATS, SPICED OYSTERS, tem rather reminds one of the anathema pronounced BARDINES. OLIVE OIL, religious. But should a man not presume to wish sorrow for the loss of the good Prince Albert, and on washing by a celebrated character in one of Mr. CHOW-CHOW, SALAD OIL, to be their equal in these respects? That is cer- the faithfulness with which she cherishes and hon- QUALITY GUARANTEED. SAUCES, PICKLES, PRESERVED GINGER, Disraeli's novels: " I was always against washing, SPANISH OLIVES, GINGER SYRUP, Ac., Ac- tainly an odd doctrine, though it is possible, as we ors his memory and teaches her children to do so, sir; it takes the marrow out of a man." There are say, that Dr. Playfair has been imperfectly re- are known to all. cases, we know, in which washing becomes a morbid ported. If not, the fair sex are certainly indebted to CATAWBA WINE, CHEESE: habit, so that the patient is never easy unless he can Lady Franklin, too, holds a foremost place among ENGLISH DAIRY CHEESE, EDAM CHEESE, him for placing them on a pedestal higher than any perform his ablutions every time he uses his hands. the faithful and true. When her husband, Sir John NORTON'S PINE APPLE CHEESE, NEW they have ever occupied—as divinities whom it is $1.50 per Gallon. YORK FACTORY, (very fine.) But it would be wrong on this account to refrain Franklin, did not return at the expected time from only permitted to us to imitate at an humble distance, TOMATOES, from washing altogether. Similarly with competi- his last expedition to the North seas, apprehensions and whom it is impious to wish to equal. began to be seriously entertained respecting his fate BUTTER: tive examinations—they have been carried to a mor- Three-lb. Cans 15 Cents each. Always on hand the FINEST, GILT EDGE. bid extent in this country, we readily allow, but we and that of his brave companions. Lady Franklin offered rewards of £2,000 and £3,000 to any persons should hardly like to say they were sapping all our Great Men's Wives. SAUCES: life and energy. The Bishop of Peterborough does discovering or affording relief to the missing party, CORK, LEA & PERKINS' WORCESTERSHIRE, HAL- [From Cassell's Magazine.] or making any extraordinary effort with this object. FORD'S YORKSHIRE RELISH, MUSHROOM, not go so far as this. He only says he is not very WALNUT and TOMATO CATSUPS. greatly in favor of them. And probably the dislike It was a saying of Rousseau's that " a man is only She appealed to the American people to assist in the $1.50 per Dozen. entertained for the system both by the Bishop and what a woman makes him," and this sentiment is search, and she herself determined upon, organized slightly varied in our own old English proverb, and to a great extent defrayed the expense of two SYRUPS : the Doctor may be traced to evils which cannot be PURE MAPLE SYRUP, SILVER AND GOLDEN- explained away, but which seem almost inseparable which says that " if a man would thrive he must expeditions to seek for traces of the missing party. EVERY CAN GUARANTEED. DRIPS. from modern ideas of education. These evils are ask his wife's leave." The records of history con- For years she refused to give up hope, and it was first of all the tendency to confound sham knowl- tain numberless examples of women who have done only when Captain McClintock returned with what STAR. WINES: for their husbands what Aaron and Hur did for were considered full proofs of his death that she CLARETS, such as MARGEAUX. BORDEAUX and" edge with real, which is one product of the system; STAR. all the popular brands. SHERRIES, PORTS, and seeondly the tendency to exaggerate the impor- Moses: they have held up their hands and supported rested in her endeavors io prosecute the search. To MADEIRA, ANGLICA AND,. CATAWBA. tance of showing intellectual acquirements, which them at the greatest crisis of their lives, and so quote the words of Sir Roderick Murchison, "Noth- STAR. is another. When competitive examinations were turned what would have been a failure Into triumph ing daunted by failure after failure, she persevered and success! And they contain examples, too, of This celebrated brand of pare old Rye Whisky can WHISKIES: first introduced at Oxford it was predicted of them through years of hope deferred with a singlene ss of still be had at tne above establishment for Our Whiskies, from their purity, are especially recom- those who have accomplished a far more difficult purpose and a sincere devotion which were truly mended to the public for either medicinal or social* by more than one man of real and substantial erudi- purposes. task—that of sustaining and cheering when endeavor unparalleled." The little ship Pandora, which is tion that they would turn out to be the tomb of ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKIES, JAMAICA RUM,. learning, and they certainly do encourage a great and hope were dead. It is only necessary to men- now acting a-s the medium of communication be- ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. OLD TOM GIN, &c. deal of hasty and superficial study which ds calcu- tion the names of Gertrude von der Wert and Lady tween England and the present Arctie explorers, lated to make a good show on paper, but which is Rachel Russell in proof of this. It may not be un- was fitted out in great part at her expense before FINE CIGARS: interesting to give a few instances of women in our her death. We solicit a call, and guarantee satisfaction ln< all forgotten three years afterwards. If this is true price and quality. of the universities, a fortiori it is true of all other own generation who have been to their husband« helpers and fellow-workers as well as sympathizing H. C. BOWERS, places of education. If Oxford and Cambridge feel N. W. CORKER OF THIRTEENTH AND F companions, and who have thus taken a position The Fouiau Skirmishing Fund. N. T. METZGER & BRO., the bad effects of cramming, what must other schools STREETS. [New York Letter.] and universities do which have none of the counter- which is unanimously acknowledged to be a most ap0-6mosl 417 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. A Lexington avenue housekeeper was surprised a acting influences which exist in these ? But it is not proud and honorable one—that of a-helpmate to novl4-ly2 few days ago by her Bridget asking her for an ad- only the tendency they create to mistake sham man. Among these th3 name that is first thought vance on her month's wages of $5. Naturally some G. G. C0RNWELL & SONS, knowledge for real that discredits competitive exam- of, probably because It has so recently been brought WM. H. H. CISSEL, explanation was expected, and the girl volunteered inations in the eyes of men like Dr. Magee and Dr. before the public notice, is that of Lady Augusta the statement thai she had subscribed that amount WHOLESALE AND BETAIL DEALER IN Playfair. It is the insufferable self-conceit which Stanley, the wife of the Dean of Westminster. Her- to the Fenian fund. It has transpired that the con- FINE GKOCERS, they engender in a certain class, and the false views self the daughter of a peer, and one of the most in- tributions to this fund are in steady progress all of life which they are calculated to disseminate, timate of the Queen's personal friends, she possessed FINE FAMILY GROCERIES over the country. O'Donovan Rossa is at the head that cause them to be regarded with even still a largeness of heart and. a strength of intellect of the financial agency in this city, and has re- greater jealousy and suspicion. Yet they are un- which won respect and kindly feelings from all who 1419 Pennsylvania avenue, opposite Wil- cently admitted that he is in receipt of $100 per day, doubtedly a great stimulus to intellectual activity of came in contact with her. She sympathized most lard's Hotel. Teas, Wines, Lipors, Hardware",i &c •j and up to last week held over $15,000 on this account. a certain kind, and a vast number of people have heartily with her husband both in thought and 1133 Seventh St., bet. I. and M Sis.. 113» The' fund, he said, was strictly for war purposes, now been trained to think that intellectual activity work, while the poor of Westminster found in her and, as the war committee of the Fenians was con- WASHINGTON, 1*. C. of any kind is better than none at all. The nation tenderness aud kindness a frequent alleviation of stantly employed, the fund collected would be judi- that a little learning is a dangerous thing is scouted their miseries. WELCH'S. RAY'S AND TENNEY'S BEST FAMILY ciously distributed. The delusion exists among a LBS. BEST QUALITY as one of the most egregious fallacies of our be- AND EXTRA FLOURS. Every one will remember the testimony of John class of Irishmen in this city that the Fenian cause nighted. ancestors. And, indeed, we scarcely see NEW YORK BUTTER FOR $3.50. Stuart Mill to the worth of his wife, which is to be can in some way be benefited by secret blows aimed Canned fruits, Spices, Sugar-Cured Haras, Flsli of all. how the country is ever to regain that state of lost kinds. at British colonies or British men-of-war. One of innocence in which people were contented to be igno- found in the dedication to her memory printed at Goods delivered in all parts of the city free of charge- their organs in this city directly intimates that the rant, if learning was beyond their reach. "We ipust the commencement of one of his essays: "To the auis-tl'8 explosion on board the war-ship Thunderer recently LBS. VERMONT all know something now; if soundly and deeply the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the was the direct result of a Fenian conspiracy. Mr. 1,000 MISCELLANEOUS. better;. but if not, then in any other way that pre- inspirer and, in part, the author of all that is best MAPLE SUGAR, 6} LBS. FOR $1.00. John Darcy, a prominent Irishman of this city, in sents itself. Still it is well that a continual protest my writings—the friend and wife whose exalted response to an interviewer recently, said that it was should be kept up against the real vulgarity of this sense of truth and right was my strongest incite- THE BUFFALO the duty of every Fenian to strike Eagland a blow theory; and it is a subject of congratulation that ment, and whose approbation was my chief reward— LBS. VERY FINE whenever and wherever and however it would do two men who differ from each other so widely as Dr. I dedicate this volume." It is said that such was most harm. With all due respect to the war-like 10,000 Playfair and Dr. Magee should agree in discharging Mr. Mill's sorrow at her death that he continued to PRUNES, AT 13 LBS. FOR $1.00. proclivities of an Irish exile, it does seem a little this function. reside at Avignon, the place where she was buried,- LITHIA WATERS o that he might continually visit her tomb, and he strange that, with ten thousand Irish paupers al- never ceased to lament her loss. most suffering for bread in this city, the contribu- The Bishop, however, spoke even more strongly on tions of servant-girls should be diverted to silly |AA CHESTS FINE QUALITY For Rheumatic Gout. the danger of taking the education of children en- Thomas Carlyle, one of the greatest intellectual plans for injuring the English Government. OOLONG TEA, AT 50 CTS. LB., 41 LBS. FOR $2.00. : \ tirely out of the hands of parents, and teaching the lights of this century, has recorded his testimony to latter to believe that the State alone is concerned the worth of his wife on her tombstone; "In her Testimony of Dr. Hunter McGuire, Professor of bright existence she had more sorrows than are Surgery in the Richmond Medical College. Extract with it. No doubt there is great danger in doing The Timber Supply. from a letter dated September 16,1*75 : common, but also a soft amiability, a capacity for this. Mental and moral education cannot safely be [From the Boston Transcript.] DOZEN 3-LB. CANS "I have used the BuffaloLithia Waters recently in discernment and a noble loyalty of heart, which are 1.000 two cases of old Rheumatic Gout, and with won derfully separated from each other, and if children once see James Little of Montreal has published a pam ph- " TOMATO, AT $1.75 PER DOZEN. rare. For forty years she was the true and loving good results. These cases had resisted the ordinary that their parents wash their hands of them in the let on the probable duration of the timber supply of remedies. Further experience with these wate rs con- helpmate of her husband, and by act and word un- firms the opinion I hare already expressed to you o£. matter of ordinary schooling they will soon learn to Canada and the United States, if the destruction of weariedly iforwarded him, as none else could, in all their great value as an alkaline diuretic."- treat with contempt lessons of domestic morality. forests goes on at the present rate. Beginning with of worthy that he did or attempted." The breaking up of home influence is no doubt one Maine, he limits her forest resources to a period of 5QQ DOZEN MARYLAND Caseof J. C. Gorman, Adjutant General of the £Ftatw- of the evils to be dreaded in taking children too of North Carolina, of Raleigh, N. C. The wife of Sir William Hamilton, professor of from five to ten years. Her principal pineries are SWEET CORN, AT $1.75 PER DOZEN. BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, August 18,1876- exclusively under the control of the State. But as logic in the University of Edinburgh, was a true nearly all gone, and many of the mills erected for COLONEL GOODK : we have made our bed so we must lie on it. Such is Dear Sir: I have been a sufferer from Rheumatic Gout* helper to her husb and ; indeed, it is more than the white pine trade are now running on spruce of of a most aggravating character. Most of my limbs, es- the tendency of modern legislation, and though we probable that without her many of his best works small dimensions. The Eastern and the Middle 500 DOZEN PEACHES, 3-LB. CANS, pecially at the joints, were greatly swollen and en- may modify and retard it, it is difficult, if not im- larged, and I suffered at times the most excruciating' would never have been written. When he was States, except New York and Pennsylvania, are just pain. It was with difficulty that I moved about at all possible, to practically reverse it. A somewhat kin- elected to the professorship many of his opponents as badly off. The Adirondacks still have a large AT $3.00 PER DOZEN. with the assistance of a cane^ My liver was torpid and^> dred question is raised by the comparison between complexion sallow. In this'iicondition I was advised declared publicly that he would never be able to quantity of spruce left, and the Susquehanna valley by my physician (Dr. E. B. Hay wood of Raleigh, N. C.,) » boarding schools and day schools, which was started fulfill the duties of his position, as he was nothing in Pennsylvania is still rich in pine ; but it is esti- to visit these springs. I arrived here on Friday, the - by Mr. Forster. The right honorable gentleman 13th day of the month, having to be assisted from the but a dreamer. He and his wife heard of' this and mated that a few years more will clear the good stage-and to my room, both my legs and arms being.*- spoke very strongly of the advantages of home life determined to prove that it was not true. They timber, from both. Most of the Southern States 0. G. C0RNWELL & S0NS, very much contracted. I commenced at once the use and domestic associations, which he thought were of the water of Spring No. 2, which in about four hours therefore arranged to work together. Sir William abound in pitch pine and cypress, but have no white aeted profusely on my kidneys, giving evident relieiV more than an equivalent for the discipline of a pub- wrote out roughly, each day, the lecture that was to pine, which is the wood most in demand for general ¡FINE GROCERS,| to my general system. From that time my improve- lic school. But this statement is too general. Much ment has been so rapid and astonishing as toattract the - be given the next morning ; and as he wrote his wife uses. To the vast stretches of white pine in Michi - attention and remark of the visitors generally at the depends on the character af the boy, and much on copied it out, and again and again they sat up writ- gan he allows a life of only six years, and he takes WI>!><>Mlte 'W*? ill}»r-al'i Springs. On this, the sixth day since my arrival; I am the career that lies before him. "I think it is very my9-8 walking readily without my cane. The swelling of my ing till far into the night. When Sir William was the same view of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Ohio, joints and the contraction of my limbs have almost en- probable," says Mr; Trevelyan, "that had Lord struck down with paralysis, the result of overwork, Indiana, Illinois and the prairie States and Territo- tirely disappeared, and I am free from pain. I reached Macaulay been sent to a public school he would here without appetite, but on the next day found my- - Lady Hamilton devoted herself entirely to him— ries generally have but little forest land, and are self craving food, and was enabled to eat heartily. never have lost, .his seat for Edinburgh, and never wrote for him, read for him and saved him in every largely dependent on Michigan and Wisconsin. C. C. BRYAN, Very respectfully, JOHN C. GORMAN. have written the history of England."' That is to way. Washington and Oregon have timber to*fepare and say that a public school education trains boys to be JohnFiaxman, the sculptor, had made considera- distribute it along the whole western coast of North Statement of Dr. J. D. Eggleston of Hampden Sidney v men of the world, rubs down their individual angles, and South America. In conclusion he advises College, Ya., a visitor at the Springs, in relation to the - ble progress in his work when he married Anne Den- foregoing case: and teaches them to find their own level, whether man, a noble-spirited, intelligent woman, full of more liberal encouragement of the cultivation of STAPLE ANO FANCY GROCERIES My attention was called to the condition of General that be high or low; but that it may possibly check new forests, if only to avert in part the serious co n- Gorman upon his arrival at the Springs by his great de- - love for art, and with an intense admiration for him formity and difficulty of walking, and I observed with the development of special genius, especially where as an artist. . It happened that soon after the event sequences of the diminution of rainfall, which fol- interest from day to day the rapid and astonishing im- Northwest corner Fifteenth and I Sts. this is coupled with a sensitive or nervous tempera- he met Sir Joshua Reynolds, ir whose opinion no lows these unsparing raids upon the timber lands. provement above described by himself. Hte disease was- ment. The question is, which is better for the ma- evidently Rheumatic Gout. man could hope to become an artist who did not de- J D. EGGLESON.-M. D., jorityAnd we must each of us answer that ques- vote himself entirely to art, and who had not studied ENGLISH ALES, &c. of Hampden-Sidney, Ya. - Kissing in Austria. tion by our own experience. Public school men gen- patiently and reverently the works of the great mas- BASS & CO'S BURTON ALES, NO. 3 STRONG. Kissing in Austria is perhaps justly regarded as erally go through life with fewer scrapes, have more ters in Italy itself. BURTON'S MALTHOPTONIQUE EXTRACT OF These waters have In innumerable instances evinced savoir faire, and are less likely to make fools of too serious a matter to be trifled with on the stage. MALT AND HOPS. extraordinary power in GOUT, RHEUMATISM and PARALYSIS ; In Derangement of the DIGESTIVE and themselves in ordinary matters than men who have "Well, Flaxman,". said Sir Joshua, " I hear you An Anstrian manager would be as much surprised R. YOUNGER'S SPARKLIDG SCOTCH ALE, BOT BILLIARY ORGANS, in the PECULIAR DISEASES of been privately educated. And what is called getting are married. Yo^ are ruinted for an artist." at seeing the lover in a play kiss his beloved in ear- TLED BY TRAIN & CO. WOMEN, and in AFFECTIONS OF THE KIDNEYS AND> BLADDER. \ on in life depends largely, on qualities of this de- Flaxman went straight to his wife and said to nest-; as. at seeing the villain, in a play stab his vic- McCULL AGH'S IMPERIAL PALE ALE. GUINNESS EXTRA BROWN STOUT, BOTTLED BY scription. On the other hand, a public school is only her—, tim in earnest. Hence a scandal the other n ight The Springs Pamphlet will be sent to any address on-, FOSTER & SON. the great world in miniature; it is apt, like that, to " Anne, I am ruined for an artist." at the Imperial opera. A handsome tenor, Bastia- application. GINGER ALE, BOTTLED BY CANTRELL & COCH throw cold water on enthusiasm, to». look with sus- • § Who has ruined you, John ?" no Widmann, having to kiss the soprano, Signorina RAN, BELFAST. "It happened in church," he replied, "and Anne G-iovanni, in Lortzing's opera of the " Armourer,' The Water in cases of one dozen half-gallon bottles picion on originality and tcf regard emotion with CINCINNATI AND NEW YORK LAGER IN BOT- that lady at the rehearsal requested him to " make can be had of the Proprietor at the Springs at $5 per contempt. It requires no great conjuror to tell us Denman has done it. " TLES. case. that for the large majority of boys who are not gif- He then told her what Sir Joshua had said, and believe" in the correct Viennese manner. Instead CHAMPAGNE, CIDER, PINTS AND QUARTS i ted with these sensitive natures and these creative added, "I should like to have been a great artist." of which, when the proper moment came at the first 4B®=*The Springs was open for the reception of visit- faculties, and who have to make their way in the "And so you shall be, and go to Rome too, if that performance, the handsome, tenor plumply and re- ors on the 1st ofJune. sonantly kissed the astonished soprano upon her world by tact, self-possession and good manners, will make you one." — C. C. BRYAN. rosy lips. Signorina Giovanni, after the curtain 'jel-emose mDr. G. F. Adams of Baltimore will be the Resident. much more than by intellectual accomplishments, a " How ?" paid Flaxman. Physician during the season. public school is far away the better training. But "Work and economize," she replied. "I will fell, went in a pretty rage to the manager and com- where real genius is concerned, or where a highly never have it said that Anne Denman ruined John plained. The manager sent for the handsome tenor JOHN R. KELLEY, THOMAS F. GOODE, Proprietor, . poetic and highly nervous nature is at stake, the Flaxman for an artist." and requested him to restrain his ardor for the Dealer 1% future on pain of a worse thing. "When the second First-class BEEF, LAMB, VEAL, MUTTON, 4c. BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS, - case may be different. These may be crushed where And so the brave couple did work and economize. jy2-3mos3 Mecklenburg county, Ya. rougher natures are only hardened and Invigorated. representation took place Signorina Giovanni, dis- They worked patiently and hopefully for five years, CORNED BEEF A SPECIALTY. Mr. Forster's argument from G-ermany is based never asked help from any one, never mentioned trusting him, exclaimed loud enough for the house upon a fallacy. "Working men never can afford to their intentions to any one, and at last went together to hear, " I will, excuse you from the kiss." The Stalls 628, 620 and 630 Center Market, Ninth-street Wing, and 206 and 208 Northern Liberty Market. send their sons to boarding schools. The superiority to Rome, where Flaxman studied and worked to handsome tenor, incensed at the insult, responded in LUMBER! LUMBER! 1 Marketing delivered free of charge to all parts of the of German workmen tells nothing for or against the such purpose that he achieved both fame and com- a stage whisper, " Thank God for that! Who wants city. P. O. Box 718. novli-8 to kiss such a n old thing ?" The house sat appalled superiority of day schools over boarding schools, it petency. His success was not shared to the full, BENJ. J. CADY, not being set up that either class attends the former. however, by his faithful wife, for she died many Signorina Gievanni flounced .oft the stage, and the NEW STOCK: Besides it is probable enough that for the career of years before him. handsome tenor has been bidden to apologize or ab< FLOUR AND FEED DEALER, an artisan day schools are better suited than board- The wife of the late Dr. Buckland considerably as- scond. ing schools. But you cannot argue from that to sisted her husband in his labors. She used to write 8.E. cor. of Second and C Sts. N. E., what is better for the nation at large. from his dictation for hours at a time. She herself WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C. NEW PRICES! furnished many of the drawings with which his All kinds of mill feed kept constantly on hand. Rock Dr. Playfair of course, In his address to the Col- works are illustrated, and she skillfully and dex- salt, lime, plaster and cement. For quality and quantity lege of Preceptors, aired some of his favorite ideas terously mended many of the fossils which but- for Mattress Factory, my prloes can't he heat. Give me a call. ap30-l MOW IS T1IE TIME TO BIILD, WHEN about technical education. John Knox, he said, had her would have been useless. Hair, Husk and Straw Mattresses PRICES ARE »OWN. struck the true definition of middle-class education. The wife of Faraday was a true helper to her hus- TERY IMPORTANT TO HOUSE- The middle classes were to give a certain time to band. After twenty-eight years of married life, he ALWAYS ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER KEEPERS speaks in his diary of his marriage as an event TRADE SUPPLIED. grammar and the Latin tongue, a certain time to the For SCOURING, CLEANING and PQLISHING the 1 am receiving a new stock of White and Yellow Plnst arts of philosophy, which Dr. Playfair says meant which more than any other had contributed to his MATTRESSES MADE OVER AND QUAKER C3.EANER Lumber, Joist and Scantling, Lath, Fallings and Build* modern science and other tongues, and a certain earthly happiness and healthy state of mind, and RENOVATED Is the Cheapest And Best preparation ever offered to the lng Material in general, and am able to sell atgreater time to the study which they intended to pursue for says : " The union has in nowise changed, except publie. Retail price 25 cents per box. Liberal discount to dealers. Ask your grocer for it. | redaction in prices than ever. Parties about to build- the good of the commonwealth. We share Dr. Play- only in the depth and strength of its character." AND CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED. J. B. BROWN, will find it to their advantage to call' and examine ray fair's admiration for this terse and exhaustive sum- Thomas Hood, the wit and poet, speaks thus of Salesroom: 905 D street northwest. Faetory: Rear ap23 General Agent,1122 Fourteenth streetN. W. mary of what middle-class education ought to be. "his wife: "I never was anything, dearest, till I >23 D street. stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere. LL KINDS OF GENTLEMEN'S CAST OFF WEAR, But it is to be observed that, technical education knew you, and I have been a better, happier and MATTRESSES, BOLSTERS AND PILLOWS MADE A lng apparel can be sold to the very best advantage GEORGE II. JOHNSON, stands last in the category, and we must take leave more prosperous man ever since. Whatever may TO ORDER. by addressing or calling on JUSTH, 619 D street, be- Lloyd's Patent Reversible Lounge. tween Sixth and Seventh northwest. Notes by mall corner Fifteenth and R streets northwest* to doubt whether " arts of philosophy" mean befall me, the wife of my bosom will have the ac- Jy23-ti3 BAMUEii LL9TP, promptly attended to. Cash paUl, jnatfl-tft W'tSffliM 4 THE CAP IT A L.—AUGUST 20, 1876.

will recall the use and abuse of standing fitness to serve the people in his calling, ocrity when such men as Mr. Hovey are an grass. Public opinion should condemn the in- THE CAPITAL. armies by Great Britain on the eve of onr whose record has been almost unexceptiona- improvement on their personnel. The vanity justice done Mr. Wood by this Kentucky con- Revolution, when troops were stationed in ble throughout a long public career, whose of this assertion is only equaled by its ab- gressman, and would have done it if his charges WASHINGTON CITY. Massachusetts as they now are in Mississippi character receives the solid endorsement of a surdity. Nor can we think that a person had been deemed worthy of any consideration; and other Southern States. Can any Ameri- large class of our most respectable citizens, of the class he represents can be an acqui- but we must say that the United States attorney can who believes in the old-fashioned idea of ivhose labors have been rewarded by the suc- sition to or improvement on this commu- of this District will be derelict in his duty if he SUNDAY MORNING, - AUGUST 20,1876. does not send witnesses before the grand jury fair play; can any American who has a spark cesses and grateful acknowledgments of his nity who designates so respectable and old and investigate Mr. Wood's case. His position of patriotism, manhood and sympathy for his pupils, whose cause was so warmly, consci- a citizen as John T. Given as a '• black- Average Circulation, 10,100 Copies. renders his offense the graver, for his course is fellow-citizen, view Without indignation the entiously and ably espoused by' Trustee guard." This language is not only unpar- not only in antagonism to the well being of so- picture that presents itself? The Northern Lloyd and his coadjutors, who formed so re- liamentary, un-Pickwickian, un-trustee like; ciety and discipline of the service, but is a bad THE CAPITAI. spectable a minority of the board of trustees, it is absolutely coarse and vulgar, and proves man and the Western man speaks his senti- : example to his associates and his subordinates, •Can always be found on sale at the news stands ments-and casts his ballot with perfect free- we say the dismissal of such a man from his nothing but Hovey's unfitness for any posi- the younger officer^. ' in the following cities : dom. One half of the country goes to the position, especially in view of the millennium tion in the gift of the commissioners. AMBBICAN NEWS COMPANY, New York. The New York Graphic thus sensibly treats .MEW YORK NEWS COMPANY, " polls unattended by the protecting or terri- of civil-service reform that is dawning on our To Mr. Hovey, who represents the superior ©RAND CENTRAL HOTEL, " of this matter, after the philosophic manner of NHW YORK HOTEL, " fying presence of a glittering bayonet; the anxious eyes, is an act of thoughtlessness on class that by God's blessing has come among Falstaff's homily on " honor:" ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, " other half, provoked by the taunts of carpet- the part of some, of weakness on the part of CONTINENTAL HOTEL, Philadelphia. us since 1860, we would refer the assessment William 'W. W. Wood, engineer-in chief in the PARKER HOUSE, Boston. others and of outrage on the part of the lead- J. R. HAWLEY, Cincinnati, Ohio. baggers and the inflammatory harangues of books of the District for enlightenment as to United States Navy, has issued and published a letter WILL GRAY, St. Louis. Missouri. misled negroes, marches between a line of ers in a movement so discreditable to all to John D. White, member of Congress from Ken- PALMER HOUSE, Chicago. who own the bulk of District property ; the C. H. QJUIIIBY, Wheeling, West Virginia. soldiers to cast a ballot that is almost too ex- concerned, both as servants of the people and census of Pennsylvania avenue as to who are tucky, which he intends shall be the basis of a chal- 1835, i Stats., demise of the Territorial government and the •exigencies of the ocecasion, that body hesi- fought or their heroes bled. Nations, the most re- committee on the subject nearest to our 75G-7, sec. 1, that " no officer shall be put on Board of Public Works, that this gentleman had nowned among the ancients for their wisdom and hearts and our, pulses, so that we shall no furlough but at his own request, and all officers tated before consenting to the request; but their policy, have viewed' the army with an eye of contracted a habit of being interested in con- over and illy persuaded, it did contribute to attentive jealousy. The Romans, characterized for' longer furnish a game of battledoorand shut- so furloughed shall receive one half only of the tracts. Mr. Gregg, a witness before this com- the required addition. It was alleged that personal bravery, trembled for their country at the tlecock to the two houses, no longer be a pay to which they would have been entitled to mittee, and a contractor of the Board of Public on leave of absence." the troops in the South had been deci- tight of one hundred and fifty lictors or peace offi- scorn to other cities, no longer be a bankrupt Works, said, " I expected to be furnished with cers as a guard for the decemviri. Such an army on Wall street and no longer be an asy- By the act approved March 3, 1845, 5 Stats., the means; I was promised the means for this mated to 1111 the quota of the Northwestern was dangerous, they said, to liberty. These politic •division, and in yielding to the persuasions of lum for all sorts of corruptionists. But to 790, sec. 6, the above was repealed as follows : work; Senator Dorsey was to furnish the people knew the prevailing propensity in all man- "That so much of the act entitled 'Ah act to means." the President the Democratic representatives kind to power. The history of later times has return to the immediate subject-matter of abuudantly justified the wisdom of their jealousies. these remarks. regulate the pay of the navy of the United credited him and his advisers with good faith States,' approved March 3, 1835, as provides This is the contract record of the senator who All parts of Europe which have been enslaved have introduced the bill naming Generals Gilmore and and common honesty. been enslaved by armies. When a government has We are at present under the guardianship that no officer shall be put on furlough but at Wright on the commission. A judge who had C ongress had hardly adjourned before an a body of standing troops at command it is easy to his own request, be and the same is hereby re- of a commission against whom THE CAPITAL expressed an opinion on the right of property in •order was issued from the War Office, not form pretensions for the distribution of them, ee as pealed." to effect their own purposes. When a favorite point has heard no complaint. These gentlemen a boot-jack would not feel that he wa3 acting directing the attention of the people or order- is to be carried, a thousand soldiers may convey have an almost unlimited control, and we By act approved June 1, 1860, 12 Stats., 23, with propriety if he sat in a replevin case involv- ing tile movement of troops to the scene of irresistible arguments and compel men to act against suppose from this very fact that their sense sec. i, it seems the right of the Secretary to fur- ing its ownership. Jurors are often sworn on actual hostilities, but taking the resolution of their feelings, interest and country." of official right and wrong, official justice and lough officers is recognized. That section reads their voir dire to ascertain if they have held or Scott Lord, a Democratic menjber, as a pre- injustice, official respectability and vulgarity, as follows: "And be it further enacted, That expressed an opinion about the merits of the nothing in this act contained shall be held to amble by a slight-of-liand and a trick worthy must be rendered more susceptible to impres- case. Between judges, jurors and this commis- A EAT AM) LOCAL SERMON. modify or affect the existing power of the Secre- of its source, dedicated a large and useless sion we cannot, in a moral light, see any differ- When a municipality is deprived of its sions from without. A body of citizens lias tary of the Navy to furlough officers or to affect ¡body of troops to service at the polls in the charter and left without the power of select- called their attention to a wrong and sug- ence. Yet we are informed that both Generals the furlough pay." Wright and Gilmore sometime ago indorsed •Southern States. ing or controlling it3 servants, it is remanded gested a remedy; it has called their at- To the same effect is section three of act ap- in writing the Grahamite pavement as the best A OMOI;6 experienced legislator than Mr. to the press and public opinion for moral sup- tention to the fact that a competent, public proved February 28, 1855, 10 Stats., page 617. school teacher has - fallen a victim to the ag- in the market. Their decision to-day in favor of Lorfi would not have bfeen guilty of contribut- port in resisting usurpation and oppression. There were several laws passed on this Sub- this patent is certainly consistent with their gression of incompetent school trustees; ing plausibility to the unconscionable schemes A wrong done to any citizen by official agents ject prior to 1860, which are not referred to former position ; but ought they to have ever of a desperate faction; but even his honset who are irresponsible to a community is a it has not asked the reappointment because they are now obsolete. It seems, what- acceptedAhe unthankful situation they occupy ? intenti on and exactlanguage has been abused threat offered to all citizens, and by enlisting of Mr. Thompson, but has suggested the ever impression may be in the minds of certain Again, in advertising for bids the commission for a bad end. propriety of reorganizing the board of officials as to the right or power of the Secretary in his cause we are doing nothing more than was guilty of a folly in requiring a $100,000 school trustees. Since this interview there of the Navy to place officers on furlough pay, Mr. I jOrd's resolution declares what is self- giving ear to the suggestions of prudence bond from each bidder. A mere nominal bond evident to every good citizen, and points out and contributing to our own protection. has been another meeting of the board, the law of 1870 is clear and explicit that the Sec- retary has no right to the exercise of such power is enough to require of one who seeks a con- the only constitutional means for remedying A momentary outburst of indignation will and one of its most objectionable mem- tract ; a bond with penalty should be demanded bers, in the defense of himself, has insulted save as inflicting punishment, or as a sort of the real or romantic wrongs of Southern Re- neither redress a wrong nor insure against suspension. of a contractor. Again, after inviting proposals, publicans; it simply repeatswhat is the senti- this whole community and used language in under these embarrassing and discouraging cir- its repetition. For tlidse reasons we again The third section of the act approved July 15, ment of every intelligent and patriotic man : regard to one of our oldest and most respec- cumstances, for stone pavements, they threw out refer to the dismissal of John E. Thompson 1870, fixes the pay of all officers on the active • that it is the duty of the courts of justice to and its attendant circumstances. ted citizens which might harmonize with the all such bids, and likewise refused to consider atmosphere of a bar-room or the vulgar pre- list. The rale of pay thus fixed cannot be changed any patent whose composition contained any vigorously prosecute any man or men who Last Monday night a large assembly of except by legislation. All rights accruing under interfere with the free exercise of the right cincts of Billingsgate. coal-tar whatever. Yet the best pavement ever most respectable citizens met and passed the act of July 15, 1870, are still in force, and it laid in the District is the one in front of the Ar- of citizenship. resolutions of a dignified character, deprecat- THE CAPITAL has always advocated every does not matter what the Revised Statutes con- lington Hotel, and Mr. Gantz oflered to lay one There can be no punishment without a ing the action of the board of school trustees effort to make the District attractive to the tain on the subject, in any way changing this similar to that, of greater depth as to foundation •«rime, and it is the first attribute of justice, as being unjust to Mr. Thompson, antagonism- people of all sections of the country, and in law, as will be seen by the Repeal Provisions, and thickness of surface-wearing layer, and to sec. 5597, the intent and meaning being clear charity and common sense to wait for a tic to the interests of our educational system offering in the name of the older residents keep it in repair for fifteen years. and explicit. «breach of the law before starting the machi- and in defiance of the wishes of those citizens the warmest greetings to new comers, it will Again, statutes are to be construed strictly, nery for its vindication. most interested in his retention. They sup- not silently suffer this people to be misin- To furlough an officer in the navy sense of the and the act expressly limits the commission to term is to punish him by a pecuniary penalty. The Secretary of War, after consultation plemented their action by the appointment terpreted and maligned. While deprecating the choice of" the best kind" of pavement, not If General Order 216 of the Navy Department is M itli the Executive and other members of the of a committee who waited on the commis- the best kinds; yet the Commission has decided any action or words calculated to divide the valid it must result in the wholesale punishment Administration, Iks, with an hypocrisy that sioners and laid before the chairman of that citizens into two classes, it certainly is not to contract for the Grahamite from Sixth to Fif- of officers accused of no offense. But party zeal teenth streats, and the balance of the Avenue is as too apparent, and a spirit of littleness that gubernatorial trio their grievances. This gen- becoming in any bona fide citizen of fifty pauses at no. sacrifi ce. does not become his high position, twisted tleman, after giving them a respectful hearing, days or fifty years residence to permit the to be dedicated to the Neuchatel. promised to give their demands a respectful We think there has been too much haste in and tortured, the resolution of Mr. Lord into slander of office-seekers and adventurers to WILLIAM W. W. WOOD, engineer-in chief of iin excuse for threatening the South with the consideration, and we have every reason to pass unnotieed. the United States navy, recently published a this matter in Congress and out of Congress. It looks as if the lobby had lifted up its voice to no lieel of Federal oppression, and agitating the believe that the action of so large a body of It would be an anomaly to find any com- letter to John D. White, a Kentucky member of •negro race into that state of political excite- the people of the District will invite an in- Congress, which signifies that the former is little purpose. Next spring or summer would munity outside of a mining district in a have been the proper time for this improvement, ment and extravagant expectation which has vestigation into a matter that from our willing to meet the latter at Bladensburg, if it new territory where the oldest citizens especially in view of the fact that the present standpoint involves more serious incidents signifies anything. We sympathize with Mr. iieretofore been so pregnant with evils to did not form the bulk of the wealth and laying of water and gas-pipes will insure parallel 1 Wood's outraged feelings, but cannot findan y them and the section they inhabit. There is than the loss of employment to an individual. intelligence; and when we have heretofore and rectangular gulleys after the completion of -that kind of glee and glory in this State pa- excuse for the proposed ^method of redressing The order of the day is civil-service re- spoken of the oldest citizens we never in- his wrongs or vindicating his honor. An officer the work. A pavement laid on such ditches per which a Tombs lawyer exhibits When he form. Both of the political parties have tended any reflection on the new citizens, must succumb to the rising and sinking of new has cheated the penitentiary of a thief or the of the army or navy is even under more obliga- identified themselves with a doctrine_whose but simply recognized the fact that as the tions than a law-abiding civilian to discounte- earth, under the influence of winter frosts and gallows of a murderer by some clever misin- popularity is daily increasing. Every citizen armies of the republic were ever attended by nance a barbarous custom, against which the the thawing of spring time., terpretation of a pleading or a statute ; and recognizes the necessity of the employment a disreputable host called "bummers," so the bravest and best men have for a half a century yet a more narrow-minded, short-sighted of competent and honest agents in every de- influx of men of means, brains and conscience turned their faces. Being men of arms, the LAST Sunday there appeared in THE CAPITAL proposition never emanated from an iron- partment of public service, from the office of to Washington, was followed by a train of temptation to appeal to the code is probably monger in Cabinet position—if such a man a paragraph reflecting on the good name of Mr. President of the United States to that of adventurers, some of whom became safe- greater in the service than elsewhere. The law of Samuel Proctor, who is connected with the St. ever before held such a position. principal of a public school, and the man or burglars, some became ring contractors, the land not only forbids sending or receiving a James Hotel of this city. We hope it is not neces<- The people of the North and West will be men who set their faces against this pro- some became office-seekers and some have challenge, but the Government has, for the good sary to say to our readers or to Mr. Proctor that of the service, and for the establishment of a horrified by the bold announcement of forc- gressive movement and stand in the way of held positions on the board of school trustees we had no knowledge of its publication until standard of true courage, fixed punishments be- advancement to a better order of things and other situations for which they were in our attention was called to it by the card of that 'in£ Republican victories in the South by yond those contained in the penal code. means of Federal bayonets. They will re- should be set aside. nowise fitted. gentleman published in the Republican and We had supposed that our civilization had Chronicle of last Monday. It was imposed on gard it as the assured postpo nement of peace With public opinion decided as to the im- When Mr. Hovey said, in the meeting of .and prosperity to a still more; indefinite eradicated from this latitude the spirit of the our foreman in the shape of a local notice or ad- portance and propriety of devising means to the school trustees last Monday, that "a. vertisement, and was put in the column assigned period; they will recognize this fresh agita- duello. The appeal to muscles or pistols for the accomplish the desired end, the dismissal of better class of people began to settle in the establishment of character properly belongs to such matters, not appearing on the editorial tion in the South as the pledge of a a public servant who has been faithful to his District in 1860," he furnished a contradic- to the prize ring and the Western settlements. page or in the Record of the Week, and out of prolongation of hard times in Northern trust for twenty-seven years, whose experi- tion to his statement in his own person as a Too many valuable lives have been sacrificed at respect for ourselves we beg to express our re- as well as Southern communities, and, ence, even if based on the most ordi- type of that better class. That people must this brutal and bloody altar to suffer the code to gret ai the appca'aoce of such a coarse and un- above all, in this centennial year they nary abilities, is an assurance of his peculiar indeed be far gone into the regions of medi- lift its head like a "poi?oaous snake from the truthful faragsaph in THE CAPITAL, 5

TOMATOES AND OYSTERS. About Boiling Eggs. Furniture. TRUSTEE lio VE Y'S unfavorable opinion of the their attention to the fine facilities we have to There is an objection to the common way of boiling The attention of our patrons Is called to the adver - 1 offer them at Washington. Our Pump, is a tlsement which appears in another column of Mr. people of the District, who dwelt.here in igno- Men Kissing; Men; Shall we Introduce It eggs which people do not understaad. It is this: George Breltbarth. Having examined his Immense rance and barbarism until tbe Argonauts of I860 standing candidate for kidnapping. Come along, as a Custom. The white under three minutes' cooking becomes stock of furniture, we do not hesitate to assertthat It is not excelled In any particular by any house In the Dis- arrived and the light of his countenance broke gentlemen. Expenses paid and a chromo to Years ago, and not so many either, when the tough and indigestible, while the yoke is left out. trict. The goods are all of the latest design and pat- each benefactor. tomato was called the "love apple," and cultivated When properly cooked, eggs are done evenly through tern, and manufactured expressly for tills market. Mr. upon the intellectual and moral darkness that Breltbarth Is a young gentleman of energy and activity, enshrouded this community, has inspired an in- as an object of curiosity, the idea of eating it was not like any other food. This result may be obtained by whose long experience in the business with Green & entertained. Its flavor to the natural taste was dis- putting the eggs in a dish with a cover, as a tin pail, Williams especially adapts him for Ills new enterprise. quiry into the antiquities of the aborigines who We earnestly advise our friends to examine Mr. B.'s NEW BOOHS. agreeable in the extreme. Yet now it Is universally and then pouring cn them boiling water, two quarts first instituted the clumsy, cumbrous and alto- RECORD OF THE TEAR. A'refeience scrap-book, be- stock before purchasing elsewhere, as we are satisfied ing a monthly record of every important event of eaten, and is considered not only the most delightful, or more to a dozen eggs, and cover and set them they will save money by so doing. Let every one call gether inadequate and absurd system of public away from the stove for fifteen minutes. The heat at 417 Seventh street northwest, next door to Odd Fel- any nature worth preserving; together with a but one of the most wholesome vegetables. low's Hall, and satisfy themselves as to the truth of school education which has been reformed, re- careful selection of the choicest current miscel- So with the oyster. Nothing can be more disgust- of the water cooks the eggs slowly and evenly and our statement. \ lany. Edited by Frank Moore. Published by G. sufficiently, and to a jelly-like consistency, leaving modeled and started on its progressive path, the W. Carleton & Co., New York. S. Lowe & Co., ing to the eye, nothing more revolting to the the center or yoke harder than the white, and the DURING the absence of Miss Eva Mills, the talented •climax of improvement being reached in the London. stomach—that is, the n nedncated eye and stomach. solo soprano of St. Xloyslus choir, Mr. Sherman has egg tastes as much richer and, nicer as a fresh egg is The September issue of this en tertaining publication It was observed during the late war that the men tieeu fortunate to secure the services of Mrs. Chas. Mc- annihilation of the oldest fossiliferous teacher nicer than a stale one, and no person will want to Cartee. whose lovely voice and exquisite rendering of is now before us. We have examined it carefully, who came down from the mountains to the coast and the firm establishment of a patented eat them boiled after trying this method once —Bos- the difficult music of the Catholic service In connec- and find that it supplies a want which we have long could not for a long while be persuaded "to touch tion with Mr. Sherman's masterly accompaniments, Is ton Transcript. double-action, complicated governor of the board felt and embodies a result which we have laboriously oysters, or to eat out of a vessel in which they had charming tbe many who attend the vespers at this cel- of trustees. The firstpresiden t of the board of been cooked. They even regarded with distrust the ebrated church. and indifferently approximated by a private scrap- ANENGLISH bishop lately ordained a young gentle- people who did eat them, looking upon them as nn- trustees of the schools of the District was book, cumbrous and unindexed. Our thanks for the man as deacon, and then felt it necessary to send for LETTER-HEADS printed at Knight's for $5 per ream. natural beings with depraved appetites. And yet Thomas Jefferson, a not altogether obscure man number is given somewhat grudgingly because the the clergyman who had recommended hnu. " What neither the earth nor the air, nor the waters that OUR friend John Markrlter, 439 Seventh street, cer- in his day and generation, but who unfortu- publishers have neglected us in the past; but we may your lordship want with me ?" "I wish, sir, to tainly does cater to the wants and tastes of the public cover the earth, contain aught that in all respect nately had not the advantages of a normal school cordially and conscientiously recommend it to our speak about that young man." " What young man, and to the progress of the times. His establishment Is readers as a hand book whose contents are very equals the oyster. stocked with the latest styles and patrons of wall- your lordship?" "The young man, sir, whom I paper, and the most exquisite paper ever seen In this •education, and must be Consigned to the con- readable and as a most excellent and COBvenient con- The generalization often drawn from the tomato ordained. I want you to keep him in check. I had city Is now at his store. His stock Is very large, and demned class of old fogies who have forfeited Mr. temporaneous catalogue for daily consultation. In and oyster is, that acquired tastes are by odds the any taste can be satisfied from his splendid assortment. great difficulty, sir, in keeping him from examining Hovey's good opinion, and with it the respect of addition to its usefulness to the editor and the poli- strongest, and, in many cases, the most beneficial to me!" .'" ' I , ' ' . J. C. PARKER, bookseller and stationer, has the best tician, it has selections of an Interesting and in- mankind. But the latent moral, discernible only by posterity. After President Jefferson, whose •9 assortment of stationery In the district, to which he •failure as a public school trustee in nowise in- structive character—a sort of literary gossip with the philosophical eye, has never yet been unfolded invites Inspection by the public, without regard to which to agreeably employ the odd ends of leisure to a blind and uninquiring world. We announce it LOCAL ITEMS. race, color or previous condition of servitude, and feels terfered with his ambition to establish the Uni- when the cook is slow in serving up dinner or a now. It is this: satisfied that he can please them, one and all. MILANS & WILKINS, booksellers and stationers. versity of Virginia, Father Matthews, that noble friend behindhand in keeping an engagement. The Acquired tastes being the strongest and most bene- THE University of Virginia honors us with its ad- old priest, stands prominent as a District school index, that great victory of modern publications ficial, may it not be—nay, is It not certain—that WELLS' EUREKA IS entirely different and superior to vertisement this week. The University stands pre- 'trustee, and after him the mayors of the old cor- over the almost unsearchable pages of older works, mankind is losing a great deal by not cultivating an y 15 cent article. All drug stores have it. eminent as an Institution of learning, and is the Idol is elaborate and exhaustive. of the Old Dominion. poration, being ex-oficio presidents of the board these tastes, and by not searching about to find MILANS & WILKINS, 019 Seventh street. objects on which to exercise them ? The French are BUSINESS CARDS only $2 per thousand at Knight's, •of school trustees, interested themselves in be- "THE LIFE OF GOVERNOR RUTHERFORD B. very happy and indnstiious in pursuits of this char- SEE advertisement of Sunday excursion of. steamer 816 F street. HATES," by Mr. J. Q. Howard, was briefly referred half of free education, and no one exceeded Mr. acter, and the result is that they can eat and enjoy Mattano to Marshall Hall. "Seaton of the National Intelligencer in efforts to on the receipt of a copy from the publishers, Rob- Improvements. anything on earth except buzzards. LEGAL BLANKS a specialty at Parker's, 527 Seventh The avenue paving commission should call on W. S* for the establishment of this great and glorious ert Clarke & Co., Cincinnati. We have had the opportunity to examine the work of the biographer, But what do the Americans say to .the kissing of street. Powell, 506 Ninth street, before issuing their contracts. men as a new, cheap and permanent source of deep For taste and style we do not know any one like Powell. republican institution. and congratulate Mr. Howard on the happy manner WELLS'EUREKA TOOTH POWDER contains no acid enjoyment ? We all fancy that we know what it is to We refer to his grand banner which Is swung to the The present system had its beginning in 1849, of executing an undertaking which, even ifalaborof or anything injurious. Price 25 cents. breeze as an example of Ills ability In that 11 ne. love, he has had but a short time to devote to. The kiss a woman—a young and pretty woman. It and not in 1860, as Mr. Hovey would have us be- LEGAL BLANKS at MIlans & Wilkins. biography shows an intimate acquaintance with Its is said by those who have tried it to be rather a CHEAP and good printing In every style at Knight's» lieve. Of Colonel Seaton's successors to the good thing. But the kissing of a grown man by a 816 F street. mayoralty Messrs. Lennox, Maury, Towers and subject, and its style is of a higher order than the LADIES, Wells' Eureka Tooth Powder Is com posed customary lives of favorites written at the opening grown man is something at which unenlightened entirely of imported articles. Price 26 cents. Wallach were especially zealous in the encourage- epigastrium heaves fearfully—in this country. The of presidential campaigns. The publication is for CITY ITEMS. ment of tbe institution, Mayor Wallach giving French kiss, the Germans kiss, and—do but read BLANK BOOKS, large stock, at Parker's, 527 Seventh sale at W. H. & O. H. Morrison's, and our readers street. ) prizes of silver cups to excite generous emula- will, of course, provide themselves with a copy. this: WEBER'S Cincinnati lager beer, at Mades', 300 Penn- NEW BOOKS and novels, Milans & Wilkins. sylvania avenue, wheie one can enjoy the same In his tion among the pupils. Presidents Tyler, Polk, " Osculation is practiced somewhat promiscuously cool summer garden. ROOSE'S COMPANION AND GUIDE TO WASHINGTON in Russia. Somebody writes: 'The Russian cere- Fillmore and Pierce were accustomed to attend AND VICINITY. Gibson Brothers, printers and WELLS' EUREKA gradually removes tartar and all mony of saluting every one upon Easter with the PLEASE compare Wells' Eureka Powder with all publishers, Washington, D. C. impurities without the least injury. Price 25 cents. others and see Its superiority over all. Only 25 cents. the closing exercises of the departments and aid sentence 'Christ has Risen' and a kiss, was carried This is a very compact and exhaustive directory in developing the system to the indifferent con- out with much pomp by the emperor and his court. KOSS' flrst-class Pharmacy, corner Seventh and Boun- J. H. SQUIER & CO., bankers, 1416 Pennsylvania to everything of interest in the capital and its dary streets. f ap?3-ly avenue, pay 6 per cent, interest on deposits, payable on dition in which Mr. Hovey found it when he suburbs. Every stranger who visits Washington Precisely at midnight, the hour being announced by demand. Special rates on time deposits. Interest paid MILANS & WILKINS, Seventh st.,oppo. Patent Office. consented to visit us with his elevating pres- should supply himself with Roose's Companion and cannon, the Czar, his family and all the court digni- January and July, or credited. my21tf taries, together with the chief officers of the army ence. Guide. It will save much time and expense in J. c. PARKER, bookseller and stationer, 527 Seventh First-Class Scouring and Dyeing. " doing" the city. and navy, went in a procession into the church ad- street. ^ The present system was really . established joining the winter palace. Here, ata certain stage of A. Fischer enlarged bis establishment by removing . FOUL BREATH and spongy gums cured bj Wells' under the management of the following trus- to his uew building, the ceremonies, the Czar gave three kisses each to Eureka Tooth Powder. Price 25 cents. tees : Messrs. George Watterson.the first librarian GRAKD CENTENNIAL BALL AT RAWLEY the State dignitaries, the gen eral, aids de camp and 906 G Street, 3 Doors West of Ninth Street, of Congress, a gentleman of high culture and SPRINGS. the commissioned officers of the guard. Mass was LAW, medical and school book;, Milans & Wilkins. then celebrated and the company dispersed.' " Just a few steps from Ills former place on Ninth street ' character ; Geo. P. Abbott,Robert Farnham, Gen- RAWLEY SPRINGS, August 18,1S76. EUREKA TOOTH POWDER is prepared only by E. II. where he Is ready to do any work In his line in his So great a nvn as the Emperor of all the Russlas, eral Peter F.Bacon, Jonas B. Ellis, James Haliday, The grand ball of the season took place last even- Wells, dentist, of this city. superior manner. we may be very sure, would not Indulge in the above Ignatius Mudd, Dr. J. E. Morgan, Wm. B. Ran- ing. Some three hundred guests assembled to join Kid Gloves and Shoes, Crape Veils cleaned at a very ceremony if it were so very loathsome as we Ameri- BEST Soda and mineral waters t o be found at Koss' in the gayeties of the occasion. The management short notice. Ladles' Dresses cleaned without taken dolph, unconnected with the present trustee Ran- cans fancy. Ours Is a miserable delusion. Away 7th and Boundary streets. ap23-ly dolph; and Jbhu T. Cassel—all old citizens, have been untiring in their endeavors to make the apart, and spots removed without cleaning the whole grand centennial ball a success, and their hopes, with it. We haven't a doubt but that the kissing of J OIIN DOWUNG'e, corner Seventh and I streets north- garment. Gent's Clothes cleaning and- dyeing a some of whom are now living among us. and the expectation of the guests, were more than men is as far superior to the kissing of women as west, is the only place In the District where you can Specialty. marl?-lyl Not to the Argonauts of 1860, but to Mayor beef is to veal. Nothing can be argued from the procure pure teas, coffees, sugars, &c: This Is the only realized. At 9 o'clock Steubgin's fine band strnck store in the city that sells at New York prices.' Wallach and his coadjutors in the city councils, up the grand march, and a large and brilliant kissing of old women, who are a kind of beardless SPECIAL NOTICES. we are indebted for the "Wallach and Franklin throng marched into the handsomely decorated ball- man, because nobody kisses them often enough. If NEW YORK Sun, Herald, Tribune, Times and World we persisted, as one does with tomatoes and oysters, of last niglit can be had to-day at Brad. Adams' until 1 school buildings; to the late Thomas E. Lloyd room, at the entrance of which Mr. A. G. Lee,' who THE VERY BEST AND COLDEST supervised the decorations, had a beautiful fountain old women's kisses would in time become delicious, o'clock, full of political news of the day. of South "Washington for the lot en which the but still not quite equal to the kisses of men. The SODA AND MINERAL WATERS, " playing into a large basin seated on a mound of CIRCULARS for patent agents neatly printed at moustache, we are assured, operates like black wal Jefferson school building is erected, and the rocks beautifully adorned with moss and ferns. Knight's, 816 F street. Ice Cold Tea, Coffee & Chocolate, nut catsup on fish. personal exertions of Captain "W. W. Moore ob- The spacious ball-room was full to overflowing, Objections to tobacco, whisky, Swiss cheese and FRANK HAGERTY'S little restaurant, the " Hole In tained from the late territorial legislature the ani all seemed intent on mirth and merriment. Dr. the Wall," on Louisiana avenue, near the city hall, is IN GREAT EXCELLENCE, AT perhaps onions, as inevitable accompaniments of the erection of the Seaton school building. In 1860 J. William Wall of Baltimore and Mr. Mclntyre of kept in first-class order—neat and clean, and worthy Washington city were untiring in their exertions to male kiss, will be urged by the opponents of our the patronage which Is so liberally given It. HILBCRK'S, 1439 Pennsylvania Avenue. the school system, its methods of instruction views. The objections have no particle of weigh t. ap4-tf3 and ability of its teachers, were fully up to the see that every lassie had a laddie, and that all who CALL at Knight's, 816 F street, and see samples of all wished should join in the merry throng. Frail, delicate, refined women manage to worry present standard. All that has been added since through long happy lives in spite of those trifles, kiuds of printing. MISCELLANEOUS. To describe would be almost beyond me, but a and we may do the same. Let us hasten the era that period is of a questionable character, consist- passing mention of some of the elegant dresses and THE finest brands of wines and liquors at the wine of high-flavored masculine kisses,and leave the tame, parlors of Peter Welcker, on Fifteenth street, oppo site ing of a smattering of educational aesthetics beautiful faces must not be neglected. Insipid lips of women to schoolboys and preachers. the Treasury. All the best brands of cigars and H. E. OFFLEY & CO., which are calculated to interrupt the accumula- The prettiest little lady in the room was Miss We have lost ages of bliss by not doing it in times tobacco also at this famous place. Mamie McFalls of Georgetown, whose blue and BANKERS, tion of that essential and solid information which past, and we cannot begin too soon.—Charleston white tarlatan seemed to suit her fair complexiion THE Washington Business College advertises in the brief career of a public school should be ab- 6S. C ) News. WASHINGTON, D. C. and dark brown curls admirably. Mrs. McFalls, in another column. sorbed in gathering. Bank of Deposit» Exchange, Collection, Ac. pearl colored grenadine, was among the'handsomest PARKER'S IS the only place in the city where you can A Brave Old Soldier. ladies present. MlssE. C. Waltman of Washington, get satisfaction for amount expended for anything in United States Gold and Silver, Coin and Coupons He was quite an old man and had quite a bad THE ADMINISTRATION of law, both in the eourts together with her cousins, the Misses Lewis, daugh- the stationery-line. boughtand sold. Foreign Coin and exchange. Govern- limp, and he remarked as he touched his hat: "All ters of ex-Senator Lewis of this county, were on ment Bonds, all issues and denominations. below and above, exhibit the jurisprudence of I want is money enough to get to Savannah. I feel MESSRS. MILLER & JONES have closed their elegant hand. Little Miss Alice Burdette as a fairy was one billiard saloon for the purpose of making extensive the District in no very favorable light. The of the sweetest children in the room, and her father, that I have not long to live, and I want to be burled District Columbia securities dealt in and loans nego- improvements, which, when completed, will make It tiated. latest display of judicial eccentricity is furnished W. W .Burdette, and lady .were also present, Mr. B. in that nice, cool grave-yard just outside of the handsomest place of the kind south of New York. Collections made at lowest rates and drafts cashed by the paradoxical conclusions of Justice Hum- being one among the most attentive gentlemen pres- Savannah." and Issued on the principal cities. The appeal didn't open a single wallet. He was THE gentlemen's dining saloon, corner Seventh and phreys of the supreme court of the District and ent. Mrs. Calhoun of St. Louis was elegantly E streets, notwithstanding the dull times, is doing a Justice Mills, temporarily wearing-the discarded dressed In black silk with elegant white lace over- talking to three men who had found a shady spot fine business. Tills place Is under the management of Strict personal attention given to orders for Invest- ermine of Snellfungus. skirt and diamond ornaments. Miss Southall nnder a grocery awning, and he seemed a little dis- Mr. Dave Hagerty, a gentleman in evary particular ment Securities, and information concerning them of Baltimore, iu a handsome pink silk, white appointed. Pulling a new string, he remarked: capable of conducting a first-class saloon. cheerfully sought and furnished. dec20-tf8 A man was last week brought before the po- lace overskirt and pearl ornaments, was " Gentlemen, won't you do something for an old CALL on Knight, 816 F street, and get estimates on 1QOULANGERIE FRANÇAISE. lice court charged with embezzlement. The among the greatest belles of the evening. Miss soldier ?" " Were you a soldier in the last war ?" your printing. . r evidence offered was sufficient to influence Jus- Gerdie Ervin of Burlington, Iowa, was'handtomely asked one of the group. " I was," was the prompt THE Captain Boy ton life dress, with which he crossed FÉLIX DESFOSSÉ, dressed in pink silk and white overskirt. Miss reply. "What branch of the service?" "The The well known and ONLY French Baker in Washing- tice Mills to commit him to jail to await the the English channel, and how it can be used in the sav- ton,has removed to No. 2012 H street, between Twentieth action of the grand jury. Being once in jail Thurmond of Harrisonburg was a handsome bru- heavy artilery." " Where were you stationed ?" ing of human life, will be shown at Mount Vernon and Twenty-first streets, near Pennsylvania avenue, nette, dressed in black, with cinnamon ribbons and "Well," slowly replied the stranger, as if he hadn't Springs to-day from the steamboat Mary Washington, where, in a house expressly built for the purpose, he under this commitment, Justice Mills' jurisdic- has greater facilities than before for the manufacture gold ornaments. Among other ladies from Harri-x expected such a question, " we were sometimes both in the morning and evening trips. tion over the man and subject-matter ceased. of the best French and American Bread. sonburg were Mrs. Fellows and Mrs; Grieber; Mrs. here and sometimes there. The fact was our artil- OUR centennial visitors will miss seeing one of ths FRENCH BREAD A SPECIALTY. An application, however, was made for a rehear- LIBERAL TERMS OFFERED TO HOTELS AND Doctor Thompson of Washington city was hand- lery was so heavy that we generally kept it on a hill. attractive features of our city if they fail to call at DEALERS. ing, and Justice Mills granted it, but the jailor somely dressed in black velvet, with thread lace The Confederate Government didn't seem to expect Professor Wilson's Ebbltt House barberlng saloon. N. B.—French Bread is recommended for persons of This is a model saloon In every respect, worthy of the delicate health, especially for those suffering from dys- refused to deliver up the prisoner. A habeas overskirf; ornaments, diamonds. These are but a that us three or four men were going to drag a big centennial year. pepsia. jy2-ly3 -corpus was sued out before our Pump., who few among the many. To describe them all would cannon all aver the country and whip the Yankees IT WILL be seen by referring to our advertising decided that the police court continued to hold flu your paper. At twelve o'clock we were su m- to boot. Yes, I was wounded In the left leg." XPELIX DESFOSSE, moned to the dining-hall, which was beautifully columns that W. W. Burdette & Co. are still offering the man undfer its control, and its justice had a "In what action ?" was asked. great bargains. Now Is the time-for housekeepers to decorated. Opposite tbe door, upon the wall, was THE POPULAR right to alter his judgment; so he remanded the " I never knew what they named It; my business make their purchases. Read their advertisement and written, in long, green letters made of ferns: was to get up and thump and knock thunder out of profit by it. FRENCH BAKER, prisoner to Justice Mills, who, on further hear- NO. 2112 H STREET, " 1776. CENTENNIAL BALL. 1S76." a whole Union regiment to once, and yon just bet I The new and handsome establishment of Mons. Felix begs leave to inform his friends and the public that be ing, released him on his own recognizance. didn't have any time to fooLaround and ask what Desfosse, 2112 H street, gives encouraging proof of his has Inst received direct from France various qualities of On entering the hall, oh ye gods! what a PURK FRENCH CJLAKET, they were going to name the battle. I went into the increasing trade and general prosperity. His enter- The vital objections to this action are few and sight. Tables magnificently decorated and groan- prise extends, however, beyond the borders of his which he will sell by the gallon or the dozen, at price» war to fight, and didn't I just throw myself though!" lower than such Wines have ever been sold In Washing- ing beneath a load of all that Is good to tickle the adopted land, the fruits of which Is the receipt of a ton. aug20-8ui082 simple: large invoice of claret from la belle France. palate or please the eye. The bill of fare, oh, what " Did you ever throw yourself nnder a wagon ?" The Revised Statutes, sec. 1051, p. 122, pro- quietly asked one of the three. vide that " the judge of the police court may a thrill of pleasure znust have entered the heart of THE Academy of the Visitation,. B. V. M., George- the epicure as he glanced at its contents. Fish, flesh "Sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't. They town, will resume exerslses for the scholastic year, W. E. CLEVER, examine and commit or hold to bail in all of- used to let me fight any way to win. I've fit from September 5. This Institution is so favorably known VETERINARY SURGEON. and fowl in untold quantity and endless variety; that it needs no commendation from us. The many No. 617 Louisiana Avenue,bet. Sixth and 7th sti. ienses,. whether cognizable in the police court ices, confections, cakes and jellies without stint. under a wagon and from the top of a tree, and the pure and noble women throughout the land who re- Strict attention paid to the examination of horses or the supreme court of the District." Now, can boys used to call me the wild-cat.* ceived their crown and medal at this Institution are for purchase. nov21-8 Mon. Jules Vivarez, the head cook, had brought into living tributes to its Superior excellence as a school for any lawyer find a marginal surplus of jurisdic- play the skill of an artist in the preparation of the " They must have seen you ' clawing to the rear,'' the education of young ladles. SUMMER RESORTS. tion for the justice of the police court, after grand feast. suggested another of the tribe. Rock-Hill College. he has exhausted his power by committing for After supper, (oh! how many longed for a more " Very likely, gentlemen. Sometimes I could fight better at the rear and went back. Then I'd ar- This institution will resume exercises on the 4th Sep? examination by the grand jury, to recall the capacious repository for good things of this earth,) tember, and parents having boys to educate cannot 11 range and fight on the flank, and then I'd advance prisoner and rehear the cause ? Can common the ball-room was entered, and until the we sma' find a better school than this. Every advantage that WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, hours " came and went the merry-makers danced and mow 'em down in fiont." moderu science' ean afford Is availed of to lnstru ct and sense find any reason in releasing a man on his "Where did you say you were wounded ?" "In advance the student, while at the same time his moral WEST VIRGINIA, on. Manager Bunker has been awarded the first and religious training Is strictly looked after. own recognizance after sufficient evidsnce has premium for a good supper by a unanimous decision the leg; j ust about there. The surgeon said that been found to hold bim ? of all the judgus, viz, all who were present. To-day three or four bullets hit 'me at once." " Be honest, THE old stand-by, Dan O'B^en's restaurant, the Whose elevation Is 2,000 feet above tidewater and fa- " Spirit of the Times," Is tbe place where troops of the guests met and adopted resolutions of thanks to now, old man, and tell us if you didn't get that leg mous for Its ALTERATIVE waters and fashionable Can charity excuse the absurdity of Judge hurt in a mill or aro und machinery ?" " Great centennial visitors daily coming to our city can find Humphreys, after having the prisoner before Mr. Bunker and the hotel company, and appointed everything to satisfy the inner man. Travelers by the patronage. Is now open. a committee, headed by Mr. W. W. Burdette; of God! do you doubt my word ?" gasped the old man, Baltimore and Ohio railroad will find this house very CHARGES TO FIRST JULY—Monthly, $2 per day ; convenient, as it Is Just opposite the depot. him, remanding him to the justice of the police Washington city, to appropriately inform Mr. starting back. . - Weekly, $2.50 per day. F0R MONTHS OF JULY AND AUGUST—Monthly, court for final action ? Justice Mills was prob- Bunker of their good wishes, &c., In a neat letter "We do!" they replied In chorus. He closely WE ALWAYS like to commend and sustain home ably right in the first instance, but was led signed by the committee. Mr. Bunker met the scanned each face, and was indulging in gestures to talent and enterprise, and we must confess It is some $2.85 per day; Weekly, $3 per day. what puzzling to understand the motive that 1 nduces . Extensive Improvements made since last year— astray by the ignis-fatuus of our law subse- guests in the hotel parlor, and In a graceful and be- show how he deplored such conduct toward one who many of our business men to give their patron age to among others, the erection of the PEYTON HOUSE, a quently. He had better follow his first convic- coming manner responded to their letter and good had fought bravely, when one of the men said : strangers and pass by men who have been born and 1 Come, now, speak the truth, and we'll raise you brought up among us, and who are in every way large Hotel with all modern Improvements, and| which, tions in the future. wishes. W. worthy of patronage and esteem. In closing this brief will be kept open during the winter as well as summer; .thirty cents." The old man turned to go, halted, notice, It gives us pleasure to commend to the business also, several new COTTAGES. hesitated, and then replied; " I suppose, gentlemen, men of our city and our many centennial visitors the BAYARD TAYLOR tells of a Yankee who, walking hanking house of H. E. Offley & Co., corner of Fifteenth my28-3 GEORGE L. PEYTON & CO. THE Brooklyn Eagle, with characteristic good that I fell off a building in Atlanta and hurt my leg, and F streets. These young gentlemen are to the the streets of St. Petersburg one muddy day, met but It . happened so durned elose after a battle that " manor born," obliging and first-class business men. taste, thus deprecates the manner in which our the grand duke of Constantine. The sid9walk was I could never really tell whether the- fall or the THE HYGEIA HOTEL, homeopathic poet who wrote those touching not wide enough for two to pass, and the street was fright hurt me the most. Now, please pass* in your " To the Ladies." Old Point Comfort, Va.. lines— very deep in filth. The American took a silver rou- ten centses I '—Raleigh Sentinel. Superior kid glove cleaning, 12JC per pair. Situated within 150 yards of Fort Monroe. Open all ble from his pocket, shook it in his closed hand, and the year with ample eapacltv for 500 guests. Has all "Jamie is himself again "— Kid gloves beautifully dyed to look as well as new modern Improvements. Six daily malls and telegraph cried out, "Crown or tail?" " Crown," guessed the office. Fifteen to twenty flrst-class steamers land daily, Is placed on public exhibition: THESE fine summer mornings, just as a man Is 30c. per. pair. duke. "Your highness has won," cried the Ameri- except Sunday, 150 yards from the door. Superior beach A way should be devised which will prevent the trying to get another forty winks of sleep before for bathing at door-steps, and good from May until can, looking at the rouble and stepping into the Feathers handsomely cleaned and curled, 25 and 50 November. Boating, fishing and driving especially i sickness of great men from becoming an advertise- breakfast, afford unusual facilities for studying the mud. The next day the Yankee was invited by the cents. , attractive. Send for circular describing hygienic mentfor a Doctor Pope in Washington. If he is a habits and disposition of the common fly. The sa- advantages. 4c. H. PHOEBUS, PROPRIETOR. grand duke to dinner. Ladies' dresses eleaned without being ripped. an6-tf» good doctor or an infallible Pope he disrelishes these gacity of the insect is marvelous. They never fall An entire suU of gentlemen's clothes handsomely advertisements. Beside, as few horrors as possible THE late Lord Alvanley, who was delightfully to find the tenderest spots on a man's face, and when 'cleaned, steamed aud pressed for $2. CONGRESS HALL,, should be thrown round beds of pain and death. odd, met the proud lord of Durham at Aloopka, found they hold battalion drill right there, close np Office of R. C. Douglas, under National Theater, tf Prince Woronzow's place on the Euxine, and Dur- in column of companies, then deploy in line of bat- THIRTEEN SODA TICKETS FOR $I.OO. Cocoanut CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, ham, who was filled with an amazing quantity of tle, advance skirmishers and throw up rifle-pits, LAST WEEK a train was boarded in Colorado Quince, Currant, Cherry, Banana, Coffee, Tea and NOW OPEN. consequence, said, in referring to some scene of keeping up in the meantime an incessant crash of thirty other syrups drawn from the largest and finest and Judge Stone of the United States circuit English home-life, " I was obliged to assert my dig- field music. After this has gone on for a half'hour apparatus In the city. H. M. Plnkard, 477 Pennsylva Terms, $3 pqr day for May and June. je25-tfa nla avenue, Dr. Clark.' old stand. ap!3-ly2 • court was kidnapped to prevent him holding nity, for the fellows had found out who I was." or so, a man thinks he might as well get up and ArMMiJ a Week to Aients. Samples FREE. P. court. If those gentlemen who did this deed The wit looked up and rejoined, "Ah, and who take care of the baby—if he has one.—Wilmington BROWNING'S BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, indiges- $00°3)l I O. YICKERY, Augus.ta, Maine. are out of employment we respectfully call were you ?" Baity Journal. tion and constipation. For sale by the druggists, tf aug20-ly3 6 THE CAP IT A L.—AUGUST 20, 1876.

For THE CAPITAL. Hall, the oldest and most aristocratic of the HOLLAND HOUSE. SEWING MACHINES. HIS LETTER. three, is capable of accommodating about twelve Beneath tills grand old oak, whose branches sway hundred guests, and is the best located. Its Some of lis Secrets Revealed by Current And toss upon the wakened breeze to-day, British Gossip. I sit me down, dear friend, to write to thee; ball-room, which is apart from the main build- Who has not heard of Holland House ?—that noble SEWING MÄCHINE, ÄRfVIS, &C. And shall I weave my thoughts in poesy ? ing, with which it is connected by a handsome old mansion, standing a little way from the heart THE REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has sprung rapidly And yet not simply thoughts. Wishes, desires suspension bridge, that when lit up in the even ito favor as possessing the verv hpst. Cnmhtn«enn,,r :> May claim the verse; and while the muse aspires of London, the home of an ancient and illnstrions To raise to thee upon Icarl^n wing, ing presents quite a pretty appearence, has been family, where Cromwell consulted with his chiefs 'Thou shalt Inspire what, else, I may not sing. for some seasons the favorite of the young peo in the stormy days of the commonwealth, where Addison lived and died under the hard rule of an It is a S©ttle Machine, with Automatic Drop Feed. De- Thus run my thoughts: How checkered Is my life— pie. The United States and the Union are both sign beautiful and construction the very best. large and handsome buildings, but the latter par- uncongenial spouse, where Charles James Fox To-day brings peace; to-morrow may bring strife. played as a child and grew famous as a man, and Yet o'er this peace lingers a shade of gloom, ticularly is mostly frequented by a class of peo- where, for thirty years, the deepest wisdom and the THE REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has received pre- As over life flits shadows of the tomb: miums at many Fairs throughout the United States, and ple who have wealth without refinement. "While brightest wit of England gathered around hospita- without effort took the grand Medal of Progress—the high- Beyoi\d the care to-morrow liiay make mine est order of Medal that was awarded at the late Vienna Ex- The little star of hope may trembling shine. walking on the piazza of the hotel I happened ble mahogany and revived glorious memories of the position. Thus o'er the day stealeth the shade of nlglit; to overhear this remark from a very beautiful past with the rarest genius of the present. The late Lord and Lady Holland took a pardonable pride in Thus through the darkness we behold the light. pair of lips, "Oh ! damn it he has torn my dress," The REMINGTON WORKS also manufacture a new the associations connected with their dwelling, and Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Shot-Gun and the Cele- To-day brings rest—the christian's holy day. occasioned by some one stepping on her dress. added to them by throwing open their doors to all My thoughts, no longer mine, wander away While yet suffering from so severe a shock to the literary and scientific notables of the time. To In search of something, ever on the wing; Growing more restless in their wanderings; my respect for beauty, a lady passing me re be invited to dine at Holland Honse was an honor Stopping, like bees, where memory leaves a flow'r, marked to her companion that " Poverty is no more coveted than a presentation at court, and AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS.—Improved Mowing many a nobleman with stars upon his breast, and Machines, Steel Plows, Steel Hoes, Cultivators, Road Scra- To cull Its sweets; then for a little hour disgrace, but damned inconvenient." However, I pers, Patent Excavators, Hay Tedders, Cotton Gins, Iron Roaming again o'er scenes, some bright, some drear; will say that both these " observations" came perhaps the garter round bis knee, was unable to Bridges, &c. Yet ever roaming—for thou art not here. gain admission to those unique Reunions where from comparatively young ladies : and while brains, not blood, were the Open Sesame. My Lady, J9-GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Send for Circulars. Wishes, desires ? They are necessities. there are, of course, some such people, yet and not My Lord, was the dominant power in the Looking beyond tbfe present, the heart sees Holland household, and innumerable are the anec- PRINCIPAL OFFICES —E. Remington & Sons; Remington Sewing Machine Co. Its autumn strewn with mockeries of things by far the greater number are very well bred, re- Which take their flight while we admire their wings 1 fined persons. dotes told of her imperious nature, and the magnifi- Remington Agricultural Co , Ilion, N. Y cent style In which she managed her husband and Hope without hope of blossoming will die, -) THE DIFFERENT BELLES. BitANCH OFFICES :-28l and 283 Broadway N. Y., Arms. And thus make true our hearts' vague prophecy, enforced her whims and caprices upon her guests. (¡Philadelphia, Pa., 810 Chestnut street, Sewing Machines. Madison Square, New York, Sewing Machines. [•Baltimore, Md., 47 N. Charles street. Sewing Machines. Unless some genial Influence appear This has been a season unusually productive She was, it seems, originally a Miss Elizabeth Vas- Chicago, 237 State street, Sewing Machines and Arms. Boston, 562 Washington street, Sewing Machines. Indianapolis,Ind., 72 E. Market St., Sewing Machines. To make an Indian Summer for our year. of belles, and from the opening Saratoga has soll, an heiress of a gentleman who belonged to an Cincinnati, 182 West Fourth street, Sewing Machines. St. Louis, Mo., 609 N. Fourth street, Sewing Machines. ALMONT BARNES. American royalist family and held large estates in Utlca, 128 Genesee street, Sewing Machines. I Detroit, Mich., 191 Woodward ave.. Sewing Machines. been blessed by numbers of pretty girls. Miss Atlanta, Ga., DeGlve's Op. House, Marietta st., S. M. London, E. C. England, 54 Queen Victoria St., Arms Goicuerra of New York, a Cuban exile, is the Jamaica. In 1786 she married Sir Godfrey Webster, a I and Sewing Machines. LETTER FROM SARATOGA. young baronet who owned the famous abbey in Sus- beauty of of the place. Miss Sherman, a neice sex which derives its name from the battle that WASHINGTON OFFICE, 521 Seventh st., SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., August 15, '76. of the General's, though of an entirely different gave England to the Normans. Three children MYDEAR CAPITAL: There is a certain time of type, disputés the honor, and it is generally con- resulted from this union, one of them afterwards j.v4-S SEWING StiCHINES. the day, even in this paradise of watering places, ceded that her right to the title, the belle of becoming the wife of Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew, •which, hangs heavy en one's hands when the Saratoga, is well founded. Although possessed son of Lord Exmouth, the hero of Algiers. In 1794 REAL ESTATE, ETC. _ MISCELLANEOUS. tho Websters went abroad, and while in Italy made young ladies quit flirting and the beaux, for of a rare type of beauty, her manner has done want of something better to do, lounge about the acquaintance of Lord Holland, then a hand IMOIVlüY TO LOAIN more than aught else to win her the attention some young man of twenty-one, engaged in airing the <21ub House or pool-rooms, cursing a fashion which is at present bestowed upon her. Mrs. his morals and spending his money in a continental PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH! that requires three hours preparation for a lady's tour. He was smitten by the physical and intellec- ON To do this it is necessary that you should inhale fresh Sherrill and Misj Sherrill are at the United and pure air in tlierooms you daily and nightly occupy, toilet. During this time, which is just before States, and seem to have won to themselves tual charms of Lady Webster, then a blooming - This can only be done successfully and without dan- matron of five and twenty, and, judging from what ger of contracting Coughs, Colds and their probably tea, the newspaper world mysteriously disap- hosts of friends. Miss Grundy of the New York attendant eyils, By purchasing and using the pear only to bring forth some wonderful account transpired subsequently, his passion was promptly Real Estate Security Graphic, and her mother, are at the Union and enthusiastically reciprocated. Sir Godfrey, as xSTEW PATENT of Saratoga life, which, because it is wonderful, gathering little chit-chats for their interesting is usual in such cases, was in happy ignorance of SUMS TO SUIT. is not the less true. Well, it was while under- letters. the little performance going on under his too confid- Transparent Ventilators^ going one of these struggles to kill time that I ing nose. The following year he was obliged to I hate to tell, but then I must, the official dig- Which,besides being actually ornamental to the'win- remembered certain letters in your columns from nity of Washington is represented by the most return to Europe to attend to important business. dows, are entirely different from all others in their His wife, unable to accompany on account of her CHARLES H. MOULTON, manner of operating to permit their ingress and egress Cape May, 'White Sulphur and even from Piney honorable Senator Bruce and the would-be most of air to and from the room. Foint and Fortress Monroe, and thinking it confinement, remained in Italy, and when she By the etaploymentof the " Patent Transparent Ven- honorable Senator Pinchback. His excellency, rejoined her husband in 1796 it was only to tell him REAL ESTATE BROKER, tilators " a current of air is created nfar toe window, which imparts motion to the volume of air in the room somewhat of a shame to neglect this hav.en of the ex-governor, addressed the voters of this that she had decided to be his wife no longer. Sir 806 F street northwest, and cleanses Jt from existing impair!ties, by constantly every luxury and pleasure, which nature and art Godfrey sned Lord Holland, laying his damages at carrying off the foul air and suHtoing pure air in its county on the political outlook, and though not place, which operation is so unlforta, and may be regu- have both combined to render as perfect as sufficiently anxious to hear him and to mingle $50,000. The jury awarded only $25,000, which the iny28-3mo6 Le Droit Building. lated wltn such precision as to always issue a healthful seducer was very able and willing to pay. Sir God- atmosphere in the room. This current of air may be things may be in this world, while devot- with the crowd of hotel waiters, who are a host shut off at any time, If desired. ing so much space to comparatively insignifi- frey having obtained a divorce with his money, the MONEY TO LOAN These Ventilators may be applied to windows of all in themselves, yet I have no doubt his eloquence other parties legalized their connection, and ever descriptions, and are stationary. They are valuable cant places, that I resolved to send you a short AT for use in school-rooms, public halls, hospitals, invalid was roundly applauded. Blessed by such awe- afterwards lived serenely in the holy bonds of mat- chambers, sleeping apartments and rooms in general*. account of" our way of living." inspiring presence, we are apt to overlook such rimony. Lady Holland's son by her first husband, 8 PER CENT INTEREST OUT FIRST CUSS These Ventilators are on exhibition at On account of the much-complained of hard a man as Mr. Hamilton, who is the son of Alex- thongh often solicited, declined all further acquain- 1303 F Street, near corner 13th northwest,. tance with his mother. Her son by the second hus- Washington, D. C., times this season has not been very remunera- ander Hamilton. This gentleman, who is now IMPROVED And may also he seen in operation at the Billiard- tive to the hotels and vast array of boarding- band died childless, but her daughter, Lady Lilford, Rooms of Miller . & Jones, over National Theater. Call in his four score and ten years, has, I believe, an.d examine them. y GEO. WAGNER, houses. I say vaBt array, for this is a town of left a large family. Holland House now belongs in some claim on society for his own merit, being fee simple to the widow of the son, who is hardly Real Estate in Washing- mar5-tf2 Inventor and Patentee,Washington, D. C. fifteen thousand inhabitants, and in summer the author of several constitutional works. likely to keep up the traditions of the place after every one takes boarders, so that you can get such an expose of the matrimonial eccentricities of ton. THE HATHORN SPRING. Stag's Head Range.. board of them almost for the asking of it. There her mother-in-law.—Boston CaurUr. I know, Mr. Editor, that I have tried you by The QUICKEST BAKER, most ECONOMICAL a re at present about twelve thousand visitors in HEATER AND CHEAPEST RANGE in the market. " my prattle beyond all hope of pardon, and my D. F. KAMLINK & CO., the different hotels, many of whom are attracted readers will never forgive me for having been so Outsiders not Welcome. h ither by the August meeting of the Saratoga General Life and Fire Insurance Agents, BANQUET HOT CLOSET RANGE, pokey," but really I cannot close without say- There were a score or more of women gathered Something entirely New, Cheap, Good and Handy; just, Eacing Association, which ends on the 19th in- 515 Seventh street N. W. Washington, 1). C. ing at least a word about the Hathorn spring. I together at Mr. Johnson's house. - Mr. Johnson is içy21-tf5 THE RANGE every housekeeper will buy. Also, stant. do not intend to " drum v this spring, but I feel agood-hearted man and a respectable citizen, though There is still a great interest taken in these he is rather sceptical about some things. The SANFORB'S NEW CHALLENGE as if I owed it as a part compensatien for the meetings by the fashionable world as well as by woman had just organize! the Foreign Banovelent Hosea B. Moulton, stupidity of this letter to give you some in- Society when Mr. Johnson entered the room. He HOT AIR FURNACE, the betting fraternity, that follow the races 1331 Seventh st. between N and O sts. Ji. W., Superior to all others, at the sole agencv of formation that is really worth knowing. This was at once appealed to to give a fewdollars as a foun- through the country season after season. Yet ATTORNEY-AT-L AW. JUSTICE Or THE PEA^E, HOFF & THOMAS, water is, by all who have any knowledge of such dation to work on, and Mrs. Graham added : "It REAL ESTATE AGENT AND COMMISSIONER there lacks that enthusiasm displayed over the would be so pleasant in after years for you to remem- OF DEEDS. 920 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE N. W., matters, either experimentally or theoretically, Where can also be found a complete assortment of feats of Longfellow, Basset, Kingfisher and Fel- ber that you gave this society its first dollar and its acknowledged the best in the place. Accidentally Special attention given te the prosecution of Pay, Cooking and Heatingr Stoves at lowest prices. Examine lowcraft. Why it is so is a conundrum difficult first kind word." He slowly opened his wallet, Pension and Bounty Claims against the Government. them before purchasing elsewhere, it will pay you. discovered in '68, while digging the foundation apr30*3 sep5-ly3 of solution, unless it should be attributed to the drew out a ten-dollar bill, and as the ladies smacked of the Congress Hall ball-room, Mr. Hathorn their lips and clapped their hands, he asked : > caprices of society, which are ever demanding Samuel C. Mills, C. MLLEY, bought out his partner's share for $50,000. Its * Is this society organized to aid the poor of for- J. novelty. This is all the more strange, as the best components are very similar to the Congress, eign countries?" HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTEB, time of these old racers has been «beaten; JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, UNITED STATES COM- only stronger and possessing certain ingredients "Yes—yes—yes!" they chorused. MISSIONER AND NOTARY PUBLIC. (Formerly of the firm of Nalley & Hodges.) Brother to Basset, in the Kenner stakes this which the other does not contain and which en- " And it wants money ?" Particular attention given to meeting, beating Basset's famous time in '71. " Yes—yes !" No. 486 Louisiana Ave., Washington, I>. €. hance its therapeutic properties. I notice par- KALSOMINING, GRAINING AND INTERIOR THE RACES. "Well, now," said Johnson, as he folded the Dill DECORATION. . ticularly those who visit Saratoga year after . a tempting shape, " there are twenty married Special attention , riven to Pensions and the Collec- Early in the morning—at least early for Sara- tiorfof Claims. ma r26-ly 8 No. 509 K Street Worth west. ma71 toga—drivers of every description and every year always drink from this spring, which is a women here. If there are fifteen of you who can sufficient recommendation of itself. make oath that you have combed your children's CHARLE8 A. HINCKLEY & CO., style of turnouts, from the four-m-hand down hair this morning, aired your chambers and dusted IRVING READING R&0MS AND to a country wagon in its holiday rig, began to Now then I will stop, but I warn you the very first time I see a letter in your columns your parlors, I'll give this tea dollars." Real Estate Brokers and Insu- surround the principal hotels and commence 'Ihave," answered two of the crowd, and the CIRCULATING LIBRARY, from some minor summer place I will imme- such a yelling confusion as only those who have rest said: rance Agents, NO. 1321 F STREET NORTHWEST, been surrounded by New York hackmen can diately "bore" you with another letter. " Why, now, Mr. Johnson !" Room 31, I.e Droit Building, 802 F Street, BOB BOY. "If fifteen of you can make oath that your hus- Washington, B.C. WASHINGTON, D. C. conceive. "Take you right out to the race- Money loaned on real estate, houses rented, rent New Books and Periodicals received as soon as pub bands are not wearing socks with holes in the heels, l v track, only twenty-five cents I" *' Drive you collected. novl4-lv2 lshed° ""' . novS8-iyi Origin or Names of Slates. this money is yours," comtinued the wretch. right up to the grand stand—going rightaway 1" "Just hear him!" they exclaimed, each one look- QHROMOS FRAMED TO ORDER, ring in your ears all morning. Then off they Maine takes its name from the Province of Main, ing at the other. E. W. WHITAKER, 8 CENTS PER FOOT. go; the New York swell in his tandem, the in France, and was so called in compliment io the " If there are ten pairs of stockings in this room General Claim and Collection Agent. newspaper man in an omnibus, all in high spirits Queen of Charles I, Henrieita, its owner. that don't need darning I'll hand over the money !" WINDOW CORNICES $1 PER PAIR and racing with each other to the track, which is New Hampshire—first called Laconia, from Hamp- he went on. VELVET AND FA1SCY MATS. PASSEPARTOUTS, v shire, England. DISTRI'CT CLAIMS A SPECIALTY. s. CASTLE, No. 1304 II Street n. w. about a mile from the village, over one of the " Mr. Johnson," said, Mrs. Graham, with great PICTURE FRAME FACTORT. Vermont from the Green Mountains (French, verd dignity, " the rules of this society declare that no SO. 715 FIFTEENTH STREET, OPPOSITE CoSie and see the handsomest i mitation velvet frame • prettiest drives in the place. Arriving, you are mont.) ' • . ^ m the city for cabintt cards, either stands or hangs- fo r an instant bewildered by the scene. Instead money shall be contributed except by members, and novH-8 RIGGS & CO. only 35 cents. my7-5 Massachusetts, from the Indian language, signify- as you are not a member I beg that you wilt with- of what you had pictured to your fancy, depend- ing the country aboat the great hills. draw and let us proceed with the routine business." T. J. BICKSLER, 00AL AND "WOOD. Bhode Island gets its name from the fancied resem- ing for the ground-work of your picture on some —Ex. 4B6 Lonisiana avenue, Washington, B. C., race-track at home, you are^greeted with that blance of the island to that of Rhodes in the ancient H.A. CLARKE. JOHN. T.. GIVEN., luxury, refinement and fashion which until re- Levant. How She Beads a Newspaper. Southern Collection and Claim cently was only to be found at the Goodwood Connecticut was Mohegan, spelled originally [From the YonkerB Gazette.] Agency, Q,uon-eh-ta-eut, signifying "a long river." Somebody says that one who will watch a woman Coal and and the Derby. Thousands of pretty girls, Collects Claims and Accounts, Rents, &c. ood. New York was so named as a compliment to the read a newspaper will get some new ideas on the LANDLORD AND TENANT BUSINESS dressed in what one might almost call ball-room liuke of York, whose brother, Charles II., granted characteristics of the gentler sex. She takes it up In the District of Columbia, a Specialty. nov21-5 costume, are gayly chatting with their beaux, him that territory. hurriedly and begins to^ scan it over rapidly, as betting gloves, candy, and even indulging* now New Jersey was named by one of its original pro- though she was hunting some particular thing; but FOR SALE, RENT OR EXCHANGE. CLARKE & prietors, Sir George Carter, after the Island of Jer- she is not. She is merely taking in the obscure par- VEN, and then in a French mutual, to keep alive the FURNISHED AND UNFURNISHED HOUSES. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN interest; while the older ladies, even more su- sey in the British channel, of which he was gov- agraphs which she half believes were put in out-of- ernor. the-way places for the sole purpose of keeping her Good Farming, Timber amd Mineral Lands in Mary- WOOD ANO COU. perbly dressed, smile fondly upon the scene be- land, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Iowa. Also, Pennsylvania, as is generally known, takes its from seeing them. As she finishes each one her unimproved property in good locations in this city, and Dally arriving, cargoes of select ANTHRACITE and fore them and recall the days when they were name from William Penn, the word "sylvania" countenance brightens with the comforting reflec- on terms and prices that "will give satisfaction. Apply to BITUMINOUS COAL, for families, steam and manu- facturing use. belles and their husbands the catch of the place. meaning woods. tion that she has outwitted the editor and the whole GEORGE A. ARMES« Every one goes there to enjoy themselves, and Delaware derives Its name from Thomas West, race of men, for she cherishes a vague belief that novM-lyl 714 Tenth street. KINDLING AND CORD WOOD. to al 1 appearances are very successful. Lord De la Ware, governor of Virginia. newspapers are the enemies of her sex and editors COAL STANDARD-TON, 2,240 lbs. Maryland received its name from the Queen of its chief oppressors. She never reads the headlines, The races themselves are like all races, differ- Charles I., Henrietta Maria. and the huge telegraph heads she never even sees. WILLIAM F. LUTZ, Best Quality, Fair Prices and Fair Dealing. She is greedy for local news, arid devours it with the ing only in the number of the horses and their Virginia got its name from Queen Elizabeth 1223 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, speed. The races over, away goes everybody unmarried, or Virgin Queen. - keenest relish. Marriages and deaths are always NO. 424 TENTH STREET WEST, interesting reading to her, arid advertisements are back to their respective hotels, where they find •The Carolinas were named in honor of Charles I., "WASHINGTON, 1>. C., Between D and E streets north, and Georgia in honor of George II. exciting and stimulating. She cares but little for the dining-rooms thrown open, and everything BRANCH YARD, corner Twelfth and C streets north- Florida, gets its name from Kasques de Flores, cr printed jokes unless they reflect ridicule upon the west. that can tempt the appetite awaiting them. "Feast of the Flowers." men, and then she delights in them and never for- ENGRAVER Oil WOOD AMETAL In the afternoon general flirtation on the gets them. She pays particular attention to any- Manufacturer of DEPOT at Potomac Bridge corner Maryland avenue Alabama comes from a Greek word, signifying and Thirteen-and-a-half street. sep5-tfS broad piazza or in the extensive courtyard, "the land of rest." thing enclosed by quotation marks, and considers it DATING AND BANK STAMPS, while selections from the old masters are being Louisiana was named in honor of Louis XIV. rather better authority than anything first-handed: VULCANIZED INDIA RUBBER STAMPS, «oiklk; The colnmns in which the editor airs his opinions in played, not by a brass horn, a drum, two fiddles Mississippi derived its name from that of the great SEALS AND SEAL PRESSES. DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY AT leaded hifalutin she rarely reads. Views are of no THE SAME BATE. and a fife, but by such orchestras aa Gilmore's river, which is, in the Natchez tongue, " The Father of Waters." importance in her estimation, but ficts are every- New schedule—Full load of 40 bushels for $3.40. and Burnstein's of New York and Stub's and thing. She generally reads the poetry. She doesn't Special Attention given to Theatrical Cuts. [Smaller loads, 7 cents per hnshel; cartage, 60 cents.} • Arkansas is derived from the Indian word Kan- Steel letters and figures to stamp on steel, iron and APPLY TO Hall's of Boston. sas, "smoky waters," with the French prefix of always care for it, but she makes a practice of read- wood. Stencils and Burning Brands. Bar and Hotel Office of Washington Gtislight Company, Here, then, when the hour of five shall have "erk"—a bow. ing it because she thinks she ought to. She reads Cheeks, and all kinds of materials for marking clothing. £tories and sketches and paragraphs indiscriminately Visiting, Invitation and Wedding. Cards Furnished. Tennessee is an Indian name, meaning " The sep5-lv5 413 Tenth street northwest, 711 First street northwest, arrived and the belles retire, some to prepare for and believes every word of them. Finally, after she or to no Bridge street. Georgetown. river with $ big bead." a drive, others to arrange those mysteriea.of a has read all she intends to she lays the paper down Kentucky also is an Indian name—" Haintuckae," II. W. PADDON, woman's toilet, comes that dull and stupid time with an air of disappointment and a half-contemp- signifying "t a the head of a river." National Saloon. tuous gesture, which says very plainly that she of which I spoke—duller by comparison with Ohio is'the Shawnee name for " The beau-river." DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF thinks all newspapers miserable failures, bnt is cer- the rest of the day. However., the enjoyment of Michigan's name was derived from the lake, th® xrxtsnrMD, tain that if she had a chance she could make the WOOI> AND COAL, the evening more than compensates for these Indian name for fish weir or trap, which the shape only perfect newpaper the world had ever seen. brief hours of ennui. All is life again—music of the lake suggested. CONFECTIONER AND CATERER, YARD, CORNER EIGHTH AND BOUNDARY and dancing, promenade concerts and moon- Indiana's name came from that of the Indians. STREETS NORTHWEST. From a Pbjsician. Special attention given to orders from the country. light—when there is moonlight—strolls. . Illinois' name is derived from the Indian word No. 520 Tenth street, between E and F, apr23-3 " Illinl" (men) and the French affix " ois," making GKEAT BEND, SUSQUEHANNA CO., Pa., Nov. 22, 1875. Thus ends the day, varied by new faces and " Tribe of man." Messrs. SETH W. FOWLE & SONS, Boston. new scandals. Begs to annoiince that he has Increased his facilities, B. G. JLOVEJOY, Wisconsin's name is said to be the Indian name GENTLEMEN : For nearly two years my wife was troubled with a lung difficulty. After enduring the and Is prepared to furnish THE HOTELS.' for a wild, rushing channel. trial of much medicine, she was persuaded to use DK. ATTORNEY & OOUNSELLOiE-AT-LAW Missouri is also an Indian name for muddy, having "WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD CHERRY. After using WEDDING, BALL AND SUPPER PARTIES AT Of the hotels, Congress Hall, Grand Union and No. 342 D street, opp. City Hall. reference to the muddiness of the Missouri river. two bottles she experienced great relief, and after she SHORT NOTICE. the United States are the principal, and I may had taken six bottles she was free of cough. I with marl8-tf2 Kansas is an Indian word for smoky water. safely say that these three surpass in grandeur pleasure commend DR. WISTAR'S BALSAM OF WILD £3~Partles will find at his saloon all the delicacies ER Iowa signifies in the Indian language "the drowsy CHERRY. J. T. PAYNE, M. D. (HF FN OP P DAY at home. Samples worth aad eifgaoee any hotel in the world. Congress the season affords. Good accommodations for table $J III (Dill free. STINSON & CO.,Portland,Maine ones," and Minnesota " a water." 50 cents and $1 a bottle. Sold by ail druggists. boarders. " oct3-tf3 sepfr-lyfi THE CAPITAL.--AUGUST 20 1876.

AJTECDOTE OF CTTBSAN. Death oil the Stage, altitude of the statue. It is understood that a stair A short time after the celebrated trials of the [fcrom an Exchange.] case will be placed within the right arm, bv which TO TEAYELEES. HOTELS AND EESTAUBAHTS, united Irishmen, In Dublin in 1708, over which Now that the simulation of death on the stage is a ascent can be made to a balcony rnnning around the the Irish Jeffries—Lord Norbury—presided, and matter of every-day conversation, it may not be oat edge of the flimbeau. The height of the complete JJALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD C. C. WILLARD. of place to glance at a few of the, many cases whert throughout which counselor John Philpot Cur- arm is thirty-five feet. Of course the statue 1 death, or at least its sadden approach, has occurred upright. The left arm is bent so as to enfold and CHANGE OF TIME-JULY T, 1876. Tail took no inconsiderate part on behalf of his on the stage, often from excess of feeling, or the ex- hold lightly toward the body a set of tablets upon unfortunate countrymen—the latter was ap- citement in the realization of character. LEAVE WASHINGTON: which the Declaration of Independence is supposed 5 a. m„ Baltimore, Elllcott City and Way Stations. HOUSE, proached one day in the streets of the metropolis to be inscribed. The head is surrounded by a dia- 6.40 a. m., Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations, Peg Woffington, acting Rosalind, (May 8) 1757,) Point 01 Bocks and Intermediate stations, main stem by a peasant of the better class, seemingly in great dem, from which projects a circlet of prongs that became paralyzed on ottering the words in the 7:10 a. m., Baltimore and Alexandria Junction. eatch the sun's rays and construct a brilliant nim- 8:10 a. m„ New York, Philadelphia and Boston-Ex- WASHINGTON. D O. grief, who thus addressed the man of the law: epilogue: " I'd kiss as many of yon as had beards press. To^Cape May Tuesday, Thursday and Saturda bus of glory out of them. Its estimated cost is $125 Mr Curran," said he, " I am directed to apply that pleased me." by boat, via Nqw Castle, and daily except Sunday b 000, half of which has already been subscribed. Both rail Pullma• n Parlor Cars. (Sunda!y tMo BaltimorRe oulij to you, and to request your professional services More famous was the case of John Palmer, the „, , (Sunday to Baltimore only IMPERIAL HOTEL, pedestal and statue will be completed in two years stops at way stations and connects for Annapolis.) actor. He had a wife and eight children, to whom 8:10 a. m.. Cincinnati, St. Louis: Pittsburg Express. in a case now docketed on the pleas side of the from now, and it will be the joint enterprise of France he was much attached; but within a short period of Frederick, Hagerstown, Valley Hoad. Berkeley, Deer four courts, and which was brought up on ap- and America. Park and Oakland. Parlor and Sleeper. time Mrs. Palmer and a favorite son both died, and 8:20 a. m., Point of Hocks and Way Stations.. WASHISGTOÎf, ». C. peal from nisi prius of the county South. The 8:30 a. m., Baltimore and Way Stations. the shock greatly affected the unfortunate widower's AN INDIANA youngster was reciting her Sunday- 6:35 a. m.. New York Limited Express. Baltimore and appellee is an overbearing, selfish and aggrandiz- nervous system. On August 2,178S, he was playing Philadelphia. (Ou Sunday to Baltimore only.) school lesson, which was about Solomon and the 12:16 p. m., Baltimore,Way Stations, Elllcott Cltv ing Englishman who five years ago purchased the principal role in Bepjlmln Thompson's transla- queen of Sheba. " Whit did the queen bring to and Annapolis. J. S. PIERCE, Proprietor. the adjoining farm to mine, and not feeling satis- tion of Kotzbne's play. The Stranger, at Liver- 1:40 p. m.. New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Ex Solomon ?s' asked the teacher. " Costly gifts," was press. Sunday all Way Stations and Baltimore only pool, and in the fourth act he had answered, " I love NEW HOTEL. fied with the metes and bounds cqntained in his the answer. "What did Solomon show her? 3:30 p. m., Baltimore and Way Stations. her still," to the query of Baron Steinfort (White, 4:30 p. m., Baltimore and Laurel Express, Elllcott •deed of conveyance is, and has been ever since, "His wisdom and his breeches^" was the startling City, Fredirick and Way Stations via Relay. field) respecting his wife; and then, to the question encroaching upon my little patrimony upon reply. The answer on the lesson paper read : "His 4:35 p. m., Frederick and Point of Bocks, (via Motro- as to his children, he gave the reply; " I left them at poll can Branch.) RI CCS HOUSE, which my forefathers first saw the light, and wisdom and his riches." 4:45 p. m:, Baltimore, Annapolis, and Way Stations, a small town hard by;" but the words, falteringly 6:25 p. m., Chicago, Cincinnati and Lonisville Express, PLUMER A- SPOFFORD, Proprietors, •upon which I have raised twelve children. His nttered, had scarcely passed his lips when ha fell INDULGENT PARENT—Well, Johnny, what did you except Saturday, daily to Berkeley, Deer Park,Oakland being of the ascendant party, trooly loyawl, and and Columbus. Louisville by 11:30 p. m. train on Sat- Fifteenth and G streets, Washington, I». C. dead at Whitefleld's feet. We read in Doran's think of. base-ball? Johnny-Not much. A man urday. Hagerstown and Winchester. Sleeping cars to m y 14-2 possessed of some means, he has, through mali- Their Majesty's Servants that to support the Chicago, Cincinnati and Louisville. without any uniform said '' strike " and a man with 5:45 p. m.. Baltimore and Way Stations, (connects for cious prosecutions, coupled with an inveterate theory x)f some pious persons the story was invented a club in his hand s*id " you better say ' ball' and Annapolis Sunday.) that Palmer was stricken after uttering the quota- 7:00 p. m., Philadelphia and Baltimore Express. THE CARROLLTON hatred, beggared me in litigation, so much so that I've a notion to punch your head." Then a man got ' i:05 p. m , Baltimore and Way Stations. tion, " There is another and a better world!" Pal- the homestead is eaten up with incumbrances, hit with a ball where his coat-tail ought to be, and 8:20 p. m., Pittsburg, but no ionnectionlbeyond Mar BALTIMORE, LIGHT AND GERMAN 8TS., mer, the original Joseph Surface, was a great actor tlnsburg by train leaving Sunday night. Way Sta- my crops are sorely neglected, and I am thereby the crowd said " water." Then when the game was tions on Metropolitan. Sleepers. in his day. A tablet, inscribed with his last reputed over one side said they would lick that umpire. 9:00 p.m., Baltimore, Alexandria Junction, BeHsvllIe. compelled to admit that I have not even suffi- words, has been erected to his memory in the church- Laurel, Way Stations between Washington and Alex BALTIMORE. CHARLES LAMB, when speaking of one of his rides andrla Junction. cient means to give you a retainer." yard of Walton, near Liverpool. 10:00 p. m., New York and Philadelphia Night Express, K. B. COLEMAN. < Proprietor •n horseback, remarked that" all at once his horse Sleep,ng Cars to New York. nov30-lyl Curran took in the situation at once as one o Another remarkable case of the same kind is that stopped, but he kept right on." 10:05 p. m.,Baltimore aud principal Way Stations. of Moliere. He was acting the sick man in The 10:40p.m.,Martinsburg and Way Stations, Metro- TXMI KOI»T « AC JE AC.M those cases out of which sprojit much of what politan Branch. GEORGETOWN, D. C. Malade Imaginaire, and on the fourth night of the 11.30 p. m.. Cincinnati and St. Louis Express, Chicago, is termed agrarian outrage in Ireland. He told run he appeared weak and ill. When he came to MISCELLANEOUS. Columbus, Sandusky, Newark, Berkeley, Deer Park aud V. SHIN'N Pranripr.. , the farmer, however, to expect him at the farm Oakland. Saturday for Louisville. Sleeping cars. „Pishotells conveniently located, being situated on the place where he was supposed to fall dead on the 7:10,8:10, 8:10, 9:35 a. in.; 1:40, 5:25,-5:45,7:00,7:05,8:20,9:00 »ne of the Washington and Georgetown City Pa¡S the following Sunday, which, true to his engage- stage, he acted the part so naturally that even the COLUMB IAN lo:oo, 10:05 and 11:30 p. m., daily. singer Railroad, the cars of which, from the Railroad All other trains dally, except Sunday. MiiSteamer Depots, pass the door every two or three ment, his expectations were fully realized. audience became alarmed. He was at once carried No connection ou Sunday for Hagerstown or Valley minutes. The guests of this House can reach anv of to his house in the Rue Richelieu, and before his Branch, or for New York and Philadelphia at 8:10 a. the Public Buildings of the National Capital, or Jnv Curran moved over every acre of the land in m. and 1:40 p. m. minute/. amusement< &c" by a pleasant ride ¿f a few dispute, and saw the sorry condition to which friends could be summoned he expired in the arms For further Information apply at the Baltlm*re and of two strange priests who were lodging on the floor Board per day, »3. By the month at reduced rate». this once affluent farmer was reduced through BANK NOTE COMPANY, Ohio ticket offices, Washington Station, and 485,601 and 6Gp«0"tl8 above and who were hastily called in. 603 Pennsylvania avenae, and 613Fifteenth street north- the pugnacity and encroachment of a rapacious west, where orders will be taken for baggage to be A striking case in point was that of Moody, the checked and received at any point in the city. AMERICAN HOUSE, neighbor. He • told the farmer that his case actor. He was performing Olaudio in Measure for THOS. B. SHARP, 808 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUEr r .. ™ „ , _,. Master of Transportation. would come up in a week or ten days, and Measure. When Isabella commanded him to pre- L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh St., scarcely knew what to do in the premises. pare for execution, and he began to answer:" Ah! but GEO. S. KOONTZ. General Agent. febl-tl5 At the Junction of the Avenue and Seventh Street After some research into the recesses of his to die, and to go we know not where!" he fainted, GBEAT 1 on ß and shortly afferwards died before he conld be car- 1876. PENNSYLVANIA 10 4 O Hallways, affording direct communication with the WASHINGTON, D. C. BOUTE different steamboat and railroad lines. Board, »2.0® fertile cranium, he at last hit upon an expedient ried from the stage. as a substitute for legal argument. The farmer TO THE NOBTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. per day. Samuel Foote was seized with paralysis, in 1777 my28-tf2 SCHOFIELD A DUFFY, Proprietors. •was raising a blooded colt, which stood in a while acting in his comedy, The Devil Upon Two We are prepared, with every facility, for Double Track, Steel Rails, Splendid Scenery paddock, alongside of the farm-house, and upon Sticks. He rallied, spent the summer at Brighton, Magnificent Equipment. it which the family bestowed much caressing and and was ordered by his phj sician to France. But at THE BON TOtf," endearing expressions; which the dumb creature Dover he was seized with a shivering fit while at ENGRAVING AND PRINTING JULY IO, 1876. breakfast, and breathed his last in the course of the Trains leave Washington, from Depot, Corner of Sixth seemed thoroughly to comprehend and re- aud B streets, as follows: afternoon, October 21, 1777. For Pittsburg and the West, 6 a. m. daily, with Parlor 904 F STREET, ciprocate. BANK NOTES, BONDS AND COMMERCIAL WORK Car to Pittsburg; 7:40 p. m. dal'y, with Palace Car to Edmund Kean, too, may be said to have died in Chicago and 11:50 a. in. daily, except Sunday; It appeared that during the week previous, armor. He appeared for the last time as Othello, and, BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD- Ol>j)o<,ite Masonic Temple, OF EVERY KIND, AC. For Cauandaigua, Bochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and while the case was actually of record in the in the passage beginning " O, now, forever, farewell, and the North, 6 a. m. dally, excont Sunday; and 7:40 the tranquil mind ! Farewell, content!" his articula- p. m. dallv, except Saturday, with Pa'ace Cars to four courts, the appellee, with the facts in the Wit H. PHILIP, President. tion gradually died away, and he whispered to his Watkins. For Erie, Canandaigna, Buffalo and Niagara case, presented the Lord Chief Justice with a GEO. T. JONES, Vice President. Falls, 11:50 a. m. daily, except Sunday. son, " Speak to them, Oharles, I am dying." For New York and the East, u:40 p. m. daily, with Pal- pipe of excellent Madeira wine, which was JOHN W. WATERS, Secretary. ace Cars attached; Limited Express of Pullman Par- FIRST-GLASS" GOODS, NO] CREDIT. gratefully received and placed in his lordship's A more recent instance may be mentioned in the J. M VAN BUSKIRK, Treasurer. lor Cars, 9:35 a. m. dally, except Sunday. For New case of Harley, whose last words marked his identity \ ork and the East, 8:05 a. m., and 1:40 p. m. dally, E. W. W GRIFFIN, Proprietor. cellar. This fact came to the ears of Curran, except Sunday, with Parlor Cars attached. with the old Shaksperian drolls. Though not actu- For Philadelphia, 8:»5 a. m„ and 1:40 p. m. daily, ex- probably on account of his being much sought ally dying on the stage, he was conveyed from the cept Sunday, and 7:00 and 9:40 p. m. daily. Limited METROPOLITAN WINE ROOMS. slatOantels, grates, Express 9:85 a. m. daily, exccpt Sunday. after as a connoisseur of good vintage, and upon theater in a state of insensibility, after playing Accommodation for Baltimore, 4:50 p. m. daily, except this knowledge he advised the farmer to take Lanncelot Gobbo, when he quoted Bottom's words, _ Furnaces, Ranges, Sunday. " I have an exposition of sleep come over me," and For Jope'4 Creek Line, 8:05 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. dally, Finest Liquors and Cigars i}is colt into the castle yard—newly bridled and except Sunday. saddled—on the following "Wednesday morning, 'from that moment remained speechless to the end. Latrobe Stoves ana For Annapolis, 6:00 and 11:50a. m. and 4:20 p. m„ except IN THE CITY. Poor Olara Webster was fatally burned on the Sunday. " when his lordship and family were wont to drive House Furnishing: ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- Corner Sixth 'and C streets northwest. stage of Drury Lane Theater during the ballet; ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON to the park, und there, in the presence of the BAILBOAD. 3 3 while old play-goers may remember that Mrs: Goods. For Alexandria, 6, 7, 8, 9,10.11 a. m.; 1.3, 4:20, 6,6,7 and Jy- -"' JOHNNIE CLARKE, Proprietor. spectators, present the pony to his lordship's Glover was speechless on the occasion of her fare- 11:40 p. m. On Sunday at 9 a. m., 1, and 7:OO p.m. teran VIRG. MEDLAN*D & G. S. R.R. " Be witness for me, ye celestial hosts. lordship will ask if you have any person in court CELEBRATED CH1CKERING DOUBLE DAILY TRAINS BETWEEN BALTIMORE who can vouch far your veracity, when you Such mercy and^such pardon as my soul AND AND THE SOUTH AND SOUTHWEST. Accords to thee, and begs of heaven to show thee, Commencing SUNDAY, June 18, Passenger trains must say at once, that you know counselor Cur- May such befall me at my latest hour." FAMOUS WEBER PIANOS, will run as follows : Tan, and that he will say a good word for you." Mr. James Bland, well known for his clever as- AND THE SOUTH BOUND. Mail train. Express sumption of the monarchs in Mr. Planche's extrava- The farmer followed Curran's counsel to the' Smith American Organ. Leave Baltimore 1 6.25 a. m. 10.05 p. m. ganzas, expired at the stage door of the Strand The- " Washington .... ietter. The pony was presented and accepted. u I 8.20 " 11.33 " ater immediately after entering for the purpose of Alexandria 1 8.50 " 12.00 a. m. Piano« and Organs Carefully Tuned and Repaired Gordonsville.... ! 1.10 p. m. The trial was called from the calendar. The self- discharging his professional duties; whilst Mr. Bar- 4.05 " by Skillful Workmen. Satisfaction Guaranteed. " Charlottesville 2.00 " 6.00 » sufficient Englishman was all smiles, confident of rete, a recent talented actor of old men's parts, Arrive at Lynchburg |1 5.00 " 8 40 " died in a cab that was conveying him h»me, he Danville .. 7.57 11.20 p. m. success; for although the very atmosphere of Dundee..., 8.00 12.25 having played in the farce, and being afterwards Ireland at that time was impregnated with penal 937 Penn. Avenue, near Tenth St. NORTH BOUND. Mall train. ) E POT N? H2 IU.HLGÏ' ST. dressed for Polonius. Express. statutory enactments, there was not a scintilla of Leave Dundee daily |i 9.00 a. m. JOSEPH BOSS, 4.05 p. m. justice administered to an Irish litigant. Poor James Rogers may almost be said to have Danville...e . 9 03 4.15 " died on the stage in 1863. He continued to exert his Lynchburg.urg . J 11.40 8.35 " As was predicted by Curran, tHe decision be- 431 Ninth street, between D Charlottetesville..s . J] 2.45 p.m. 12.08 a. m. BALTIMORE, MD, mirth-creating powers to the very last, and when his E northwest, GordonsïVlM viRMWWte ^. 3.40 " 12» " low was about to. be confirmed, in consideration powers were absolutely exhausted. On the evening An ive at Alexandria | 7.55 5.40 " ,jy23-lV8 PRACTICAL TRUSS-MAKER, Washington j 8.30 6.10 " of the pipe' of wine and the known social status before his death he had struggled through the part j Baltimore j 10.20 5.50 " SOLE AGENT .FOR THEJ LIVEBY STABLES. of the appellee, when, to impart 'a show of im- of Effle Deane, in a travestie at the St. James The- ACCOMMODATION TRAIN, daily, except Sunday, partiality, the usual -question was asked. The ater, and on his return he was so completely ex- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE BEST ELAS- leave Washington 4.20 p. m., Alexandria 5.00 p. m., ar- TIC TRUSS, WITHOUT METAL SPIBNGS. rive at Front Royal 9.35 p.m. Leave Front Royal 3.30 farmer, as per agreement, replied, "that Mr. hausted that he was unable to make any farther ef. a. m„ airive at Alexandria 7.50 a. m..and at Washing- HE PALACE BOARDING STABLES, fort, and rested in an arm-chair throughout the Patented 1873. Manufactured by the Pomeroy Truss ton 8.30 a. m. Good conneetion at Manassas Junction Curran knew him and expected that he would Company, 746 Broadway, New York. with Mall train to and from the South. Leave Front night without taking his clothes off. The next A complete assortment of Hard Rubber and all other Royal I11 the morning, go to any point 011 main line as 1333 E STREET SOBTHWESI. -speak a good word fot him." The court, as his morning, fancying he had recovered a little, he took kinds of Trusses, Elastic Silk Stockings, Shoulder far as Charlottesville, and return to Front Royal same Braces, Supporters, 4c., constantly on hand. day, giving many hours' stay at Warrenton, Orange, usual at term time, was crowded to excess, the his violin and played over a song he was going to Ladles will be waited upon by Mrs. Ross. counselors and barristers in their silk gowns, introduce into the burlesque; but as the day ad- je25-ly2 MANASSAS DIVISION, Mall Train—Passengers leave vanced he became so weak and breathed with such Washington 8.20 a. m. Alexandria 8.50 a. m., aud arrive BESTICARE AND ATTENTION GUARANTEED all observing the strictest decorum in the pres- CHEAP LUMBER. at Strasburg 4.40 a. m. Leave Strasburg 6.35 a. m., ar- ence of His Majesty's avenging angel. difficulty that he felt compelled to send a message to rive at Alexandria 3.30 p. m. TO HORSES TAKEN TO BOARD. the theater stating that he should be unable to play. Haying a large stock of SPRUCE LUMBER, we have WARRENTON BRANCH-Connection to and from concluded to sell at the following reduced prices. This Warrenton with Mall Train only. THE BEST ARRANGED STABLES IN THE CITY, The eyes of those present became immediately Clasping his wife's hand, and turning to a friend, he Lumber is water-seasoned, and of the very best quality: At Washington, close connections with North and HAVING A CLAY FLOOR FOR THE FRONT averted toward the bench occupied by Curran, said, with a feeble effort to cheer them with a smile, 2x3,2x4 and 3x4, any length, $15 per thousand ; » est. At Danville, twice dally, with South and South- 1x6,16-feet rails,$15 per thousand; west; at Lynchburg, twice daily, to South and West; FEET OF THE HORSES. -his being then at the zenith of his forensic glory, and in his peculiarly characteristic manner, " The Inch boards, $15 per thousand; ™ , T. -ily eonnections at Gordonsville with Ches. & little raflle is over," and soon after expired. The last 3-inch joist, 813 and $15 per thousand; Ohio B. H.. eastward to Richmond and westward to but not a move from the counselor. He seemed 2-lnch Joist, $14 and $16 per thousand; Staunton, White Sulphur and all the various springs on STABLE PERFECTLY NEW. to be napping, at which semblance the judge or- words suggested to Mr. E. L. Blanchard the follow- 4J feet pickets, (palings,) $15 per thousand; that line. x. ing lines: 40 M feet rough, 3-inch, $7 50 per thousand; Elegant Parlor Cars will be run with the d»y trains be- dered the marshal to see what was the matter 2x3 and 3x4, second quality, $12.5« per thousand ; tween Baltimore and the White Sulphur Springs, leav- I spruce sidings, 6 or 7 inch, $15 per thousand. ing Baltimore at 6.25 a. m. J. W. WILLIS, with Mr. Curran, arid if he was really asleep, to ' These were the last words flowing A large stock of Lumber of all kinds alwayson hand, Both trains from the South connect with Ches-A Forth from thè actor's breath, at lowest market prices. Ohio at Charlottesville for the West. This is the only je4-3ml PROPRIETOR. so notify the court. The jester who told life's story T. KB»"» CLARK every description, ean be had at the prices the same day or night, will receive prompt attention. Similar cases are not uncommon. Hughes died on are sold for here. .»»-The Grand American Restaurant Sailing every THURSDAY from PHILADELPHIA for your permission, I will repeat what the fairies « Close Carriages for Wedding Calls and Reoeptlona. " have caused me to dream of. " "Well " said his hearing of the success of his play, The Siege of is situated between Horticultural and Agricultural QUEEN3TOWN AND LIVEPROOL. lordship, being in a goo

ANTI-FILIBUSTER.—Now that such a howl is FIRST WARD SOCIAL CLUB Jenny Eind. Desires to inform the citizens of Washington and w raised about lost time and hours of wealth wasted Many touching and beautiful things are told of Georgetown that they will give a First-class Excursion All Kinds of Furnitnre at Factory Prices, * summer resorts, leaving Sixth street wharf b y our lately deceased first session of Congress, let Jenny Lind. A quarter of a contary or more has Pronounced by the profession lhe safest raid most , TUESDAY, August 22, at 8 o'clock p. in., on the steamer effectual t he incoming one examine carefully that instrument passed since she was in this country, and yet people JANE MOSELY, returning THURSDAY, a a m. Pos- ' of expedition of business exhibited for several weeks itively no Uquor allowed on the boat. Tickets for TOOTH ASD G I'M WASH love to read and hear incidents of her stay here round trip only $!. Come one and all and spend a day i n the cloak room of the House, and learn wisdom Harper's " Easy Chair" tells the following bit of at Point Lookout. Tickets for sale at all the principal For healing and hardening the Gums, preventingDe- Hotels, Music, Book and Drug Stores, at the office of EXAMINE MY STOCK BEFORE PURCHAS- and act wisely bylndorsing it for use next December. reminiscence: "One of the young enthusiasts of ING ELSEWHERE. au2o-lmo8 cav. beautiiyiog the Teeth and perfuming the Breath. the Treasurer, 1404 Pennsylvania avenue, opposite WU- the following Dentists and Physicians can testily to The instrument referred to is the self-registering, time (whose name the Eisy Chair does not say was lard'sUrA , inandd at the boatboat,. Esputa's Band is engaged for its merits: Drs. W. H. Hoopes. II. H. Keech. C. B. electrical vote register, registering the ayes, nays Curtis) had arranged with a gardener,who was used the occasion. Duck. A. Price, "Wm. Witt. S. H. "Williams, O. H. Bur- CHARLES M. EL WOOD. Secretary. ton, Bernhard Meyer, A. P. Gore, W. G. Rider, T. C. total, (pro or eon;', >and the majority, by subtraction to furnish bouquets to jeunesse doree, to make the WILLIAM J. WEBB, Chairman. , BQSWELL & CO., Norton, E. A. Maris, Thomas Sappington, Prof. R. simultaneously, thus obviating the long and tedious fittest and finest'of all possible bouquets as a final JOSEPH BURNHAM, Treasurer. Kidgway, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, I). t. counting by the Speaker, and addition, subtraction offering to the diva. But as she would doubtless R. LACTE NBACH, Chemist, EDUCATIONAL. Furniture, Sole Proprietor, and vocal music incidental thereto. Hours are have scores of them, how was this one to he dis- N. E. corner Eutaw and Saratoga streets, Baltimore. wasted daily by this old-fashioned business, and this tinguished, even if she should choose to carry it ? For sale In Washington by invention will, if put into use. by saving time, actu- For there was the harrowing possibility to this CHARLES SIOTT & CO., Druggists, 408 Pennsylvania . ally save hundreds o£ thousands of dollars to the rdent youth that there might be others which she GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. and Upholstery Goods J^HILLl's MASSEY, Chemist, corner Fourteenth and I country annually. would prefer to carry. After due meditation it was streets northwest. _ , , • . , decided that the skillful master of flowers should BUTLER & CLARRIDGE, Chemists, corner Third« street and Indiana avenue, and all druggists through- THERE'S MANY A SUP.—Peter Mosely, a negro construct a bouquet of pure white rose-buds, mast- Decorations,* out the United States. dec5-3 ma n from North Carolina, arrived in Washington ing them in the mode of the day, with a cross of last week on an ante-matrimonial tour and settled xfeep red buds in the middle—a composition which CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT, BETHFSDA WATER Thursday for the day of his marriage. While he could be recognized from the hall at a glance. The SEPTEMBER 5. 313 EIGHTH STREET, NEAR PESNSYE Cures Diabetes, Bright's Disease and all other affections •was engaged in purchasing chickens for, the wed most careful and detailed instructions were given of the kidney. CHAKI i5S STOTT & co. ding festival, a colored man and brother, one Harris for the delivery of the flowers at Mademoiselle MEDICAI. DEPARTMEST» VANIA AVKXI'K. 406 Pennsylvania avenue, jy30-8mos5 - by name, entered into a dispute with him, and ended Lind's hotel, and the youth awaited the desired but OCTOBER 2. dec5-l Agents for D. C. and Virginia. it by stabbing him through the left side in the region most doubtful evening. He was promptly in his LA'» DEPARTMENT, Parents Read This and Save of the heart. Mosely fell fainting in his blood, and seat, with an opera-glass of remarkable power, and Time and Money. 8T. CLOUD DRUG STORE, Harris struck out towards the country at a rapid when Jenny Lind came on he raised his glass, OCTOBER 5. W. W. WALKER, Esq , New London, writes : rate. He was pursued by officer Brooke, who bor hoping to see that she carried his flowers first of " SIX MONTHS' instruction at Glenwood, TIL REV. J. F. HEALY, S. I., rowed a buggy for the purpose from Mr. Michael all. Bat seeing that it was not so, the ready optim- GREAT OBJECT-TEACHING SCHOOL OF MARYLAND. JOHN T. COLE & CO., augi3-2mos3 President. have found to be equivalent to a COURSE OF 1WU Shea, captured near the boundary and lodged in ist thought how much more touching it would be if YEARS IN OTHER SCHOOLS." Scores of letters equally commendatory. •Have just opened a fresh stock of jail to await further developments. He seems to be they were the last she carried. So he was then fear- •very well satisfied with the results of his collision ful that his flowers woul i appear in the unmeaning ROCK HILL COLLEGE aul3-lmo5 Glenwood. Howard Connty. Md. DRUGS AND * FULL LINE OF TOILET ARTICLES and as is the style of the negro assailants, evidences Intermediate parts of the concert. But all was as he AT THEIR no nervous excitement over the matter. wished. When, after an anxious and exciting de- EEÏ-ÏCOTT OTT, MD. 1876. 1876. anil F . treeís. Mosely is not dead, but his; wound is very seriou lay, Jenny Lind appeared, fnll of emotion, and Sew Store, Corner Ninth greeted by the audience -with pathetic earnestness and may terminate in a ease for the coroner and The student may pursue either of three courses, viz.: FALL ST^JL-ES trial for life. of feeling, to sing Mr. Cranch's song of farewell, she Tlie Scientific, the Classical or the Commercial courses. carried the flowers of the enthusiast, who is also a JUST RECEIVED Physicians' Prescriptions filled with accuracy and STUDIES RESUMED ON HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—A farmer from Sandy friend of the poet, and she held them while she sang. AT dispatch. Springs, Maryland, Kawlings by name, while in this That young lounger of those days has always de- Soda and Mineral Waters on draught. Also, Pure A. T. WHITIKG'S, Wines and Liquors for medicinal purposes. city on a centennial visit Friday last, partook too clared that he had peculiar and personal interest in MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 4. Pennsylvaiiania avenue. jy30. ams2 extravagantly of bad whisky, and was rendered Oastle Garden,and it is vain that the young loungers men tally, as w£11 as physically, incompetent thereby. of these days try to persuade him that there have I'liY JL>A. W'S been singers since Jenny Lind. He listens with pa- Board and Tuition S2G0. S His condition and his wealth—he had $200 in his Graduating: Fee $5. AND tient cburtesy. He bears with the warm assenta- possession—awakened the cupidity of a couple of ENGLISH EXTRACTS, roung fellows of the "Division", neighborhood,! tions and enthusiasms of the young men. It is all BALSAMIC COUGH SIRUP. whither he had turned his uncertain senses, one of very natural and right, but then he knows!" t BROTHER BETTËLIN, President. With full line of Pharmaceutical Products, SDecial attention given to compounding Physicians' whom decoyed him to an out of the way locality AUo s