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VOLUME Vili. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C.. JULY 14, 187*. NUMBER 20. when the last-named approached the house was open. ton—have left Washington for the summer, to sojourn The True Inwardness of the NcCarthy- THE PSEUDO-LABORING MAN. / THE CAPITAL, It was a memory to cherish, that of a dinner party along the New England coast, where they will find a Ten Broeck Race. As the summer heat breeds bugs of all sorts, mag- PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY gotten up by this poet, philosopher, statesman and delightful change from the torrid zone that at present A pretty fair Insight into the jockeying system of gots in good meat and Insects in the air, it disports cook. To see him as wo have seen him, in the kitchen, encircles Washington. the turf is to be seeh in the Inside history of the Molly itself by breeding into work and existence a peculiar THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY with apron on, superintending the preparation of a McCarthy-Ten Broeck race. It originated and was car- phenomenon of Communism. This phenomenon is a First Assistant Postmaster-General Tyner and Mr. »27 R Mtrnet, Washington, II. C. dinner, and then In exquisite evening «dress receiving ried out on the job plan of the turf. It 'seems that greasy-looking, hook-nosed human being, who strug- Blackfair, representatives from the United States to his guests, composed of the leading men of the hour, Winters, the owner of the mare, wished to breed her gles under the weight oi dirty clothes and the name DONN PIATT, . .' . EDITOF. the international postal convention, will return in made up a scene never to be forgotten. to Ten Broeck. Budd Doble has the finest palace of Isaac Cohen, and causes his thin audiences to August. Until their return General Key will be TERMS: Per year, (including postage,) $2.80; six John was on tho best terms with the press. The car stable in the country, and Winters consulted with wriggle under his broken English. ; necessitated to remain in Washington. months, &S. 50; three months, 7.5 oents—in advance. Bohemians of Newspaper Row echoed his praise. And him as to the price of transportation lor Mollie to the This fellow, who lives by the marvelous mercy of Single copies, 5 cents. what a heart the man had ! How many struggling Judge Sanders Johnston and family leave lor OrkJ East. Doble, with his weather eye skinned for the an omniscient providence and the kindness of his CLUBS: Ten copies to one address, $20 In advance pen-drivers, artists, actors and stranded politicians ney this week, where they will spend the summer. dollars of our daddies, said that if Winters would turn boarding-house keepers or dupes, is energetic in his •m i h one copy free. Twenty copies to one address,$80 were made to forget their poor estate in his generous the mare over to him he would essay to make a match assaults upon all things respectable. But a few weeks in advance, with one copy free. bounty. between her and Ten Broeck, and that there was ago we received from him a long epistle comme nda- JOHN CHAM BERLIN. A SAVIOR SELF-APPOINTED. lashings ot money" for both in the scheme. tory of himself and of THIS CAPITAL, and designed D. P.—and please bear in mind we refer to Divino We are witting with fierce rapidity this hot Satur- Arrangements were openod by a florid series of ad- for publication. It was never published, and he has day afternoon in response to the howl for copy. The SOCIAL GOSSIP. Providence, and not the gentleman who seems to be so vertisements In the Pacific slope journals that a race ever since howled in the anguish of improfitable am- promise of rain has not been fulfilled, and the sun prejudiced against the national round dancer—-D. P.. for ten thousand dollars would take place between bition against us. Spreads himself, putting on his holiday attire to make The Late Welcker. we say, serins to have appreciated our loss and sent Mollie and Ten Broeck. Doble was careful to keep This flannel-mouthed foreigner—a being who has us a substitute. Of all men planned by nature, and humanity put off its own, or to take out its sweet shady, and used a friend, one Conley from New York^ When honest John Welcker died all who knew pleasure on the departmental clerks as they troop no title to the rights of an American—a thing.that made capable through experience, to fill the place left to boss matters. Conley saw John Harper and the him—and that meant all who knew the national capi- down the boulevard one hour earlier to-day. A small, was loreed, like the rats in the Holland ships, from tal—regarded bis loss a national calamity. vacant by honost John Welcker, geflial John Cham- latter, for a bonus of $25,000, agreed to let his horse go his own country ; a diminutive entity, probably never berlln is the man. He has the same odd combina- old man, with a large, old market basket, keen eyes, And such it was. Every year since demonstrates a ¿rook in his shoulders and a grey beard on his face« against the mare. Conley then hastened to Louis- even naturalized ; climbs up to a board rosttum of the fact and deepens the regret. He gave to Wash- tion of shrewdness and simplicity, the same kind ville, hired the track, and fixed the day for tbe 4th of cheap manutacture, to shoot oft his Ignorant lips about manner and good heart. enters the sacrilegious sanctum and asks abruptly: ington a restaurant that was at once a principle and a " Is my friend Colonel Piatt about?" July, calculating on the largest attendance on such American matters and American newspapers. Last As if there were a fate shaping our culinary ends, romance. It was world-famous not only for its rare He is informed by the office boy that the Colonel an occasion. night, among the many idiocies he stated, we heard old wines, choice viands and artistic kitchen, but for the man appears, and not only the man, but the house has just stepped out to Mac-a-check and may not re- The president of the jockey club, pleased at hearing the following : that subtlo something which almost defies description, looms up ready lor his use. The old Washington Club turn till late in the evening. of such a grand race on his grounds, and seeing the evl. • The press of this oity Is thé most corrupt and sub- Inits delicate color and shading, wiiach the romance of House, on New York avenue between Fourteenth and dent squareness oi the deal, did not pause to look into sidized of any in tho limits of the United States ; and 'Is there anyone here who will publish this for that THE CAPITAL, Star, etc., have published articles illfe throws around certain localities and 'makes in as- Fifteenth streets, is admirably adapted in locality, the genuineness of the affair, but joined earnestly in me ?" he asks, drawing from his hatband a lithograph about him that is a Lie, and that they have misrepre- plan, room, finish and furniture for a first-class restau- the matter, regarding it as a final settlement of the sented htm by publishing one half of what he has 'soeiàtion a joy forever. In those rooms gathored the copy of a manuscript. «wits and beauty or the capital at a period when every i rant, it is superior In every respect tottoe old "Welcker horse-flesh rivalry between California and Kentucky. said, placing him in a false light before the working establishment, But we only ask that in its manage- is it an advertisement?" we chip in. "Transient community, whereas if they had published all he •Siour. was fraught with stirring events, and where in-. Tbe press was kept aglow in the meantime with con- said it would hof made everything plain, and hewould ment it may be half as good. advertisements must be paid lor in advance, invaria- tinual exciting items on the subject of the race. To hoi been placed satisfactory before the workingmen trigues of love wero mingled in with intrigues of bly." ": . ,'-•• ' . State ; where fortunes wore lost and won, Cabinets John Ohamberlln gives bond and security that It insure things financially, Frank Harper, owner oi Ten hof dees deestreot." It is an advertisement from the Prince of Peace. •created and characters played with to their peril, asili will be as good by being alive. The man who discov- Broeck, was paid $5,000 to keep him away from the This fellow talks of working. If he is capable of ered the blue-grass mutton., and so cooked that luxury From Heaven, where there is no marrying nor giving meeting at St. Louis, where he had been entered. doing so his 'proper sphere is In the workhouse. We the great enemy of man were amusing himself with in marriage"—("Thank God for that!" we innocently poor mortals, and gambled Upon their hopes and fears, that it equaled the best English mutton, is a man The race was a farce—neither horse nor mare were are not disposed to Know-knothinglsm, but the specta- Upon whom we can wager large sums. murmur "—) " where the streets are of jasper and the in fit condition to run four-mile heats—neither Indeed cle of a lazy, unknown, ignorant fellow, coming from ambitions and meanness, loves and hates, as so many blessed rest.