VOLUME VI. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., OCTOBER 8,1876. NUMBER 32.
last Friday. It was not Intended for publication, doubt it. Miss Laura Don enacts the character ris, well known here, Miss Mitchell's leading man. THE CAPITAL, and we therefore suppress the writers name: NEW BOOHS. most exquisitely, and by her natural beauty and ele- One hits the nail cleverly by characterizing Harris " The whole matter of the income tax was a hard IRANHOE AND OUR MUTUAL FRIEND—Condensed PUBLISHED WEEKLY, gant style, forms the striking contrast probably In- as " a glorious actor. In his line he has no superior. Classic«. Published " problem. The law was crude and careless,and no tended to he shown between the young girl Jovita He paints from nature, and never mistakes daubs York. Robert Beall, 498 Pennsylvania avenue, two assessors took the tame view of it. Lawyers Washington, D. C. EY THE and the old stager, the Duchess, in whose production for pictures. He well earns the abundant applause took contradictory views and merchants were left in on the stage the author has quite successfully done bestowed upon him." It seems like tearing the sacred veil to blot a line Capital Publishing Company, grave doubts as to their duty. Unless a man had a what no one ever dared to attempt before, and so from one ot Scott's novels, and especially to lay vio- fixed, accurate income, he waa in a complete fog. cleverly has he managed it that beyond the tawdry, Mh. T. J. HIND, the Alexander Morton of the com- lent hands upon Ivanhoe. Yet Messrs. Holt & Co. 927 D street, Washington, D. 0. Many made up their return faithfully, giving the true-to-life make-up of the actress as the Duchess pany playing The Two Men of Sandy Bar at the Na have boldly issued a ukase that the popular writer law the benefit of the doubt; many, equally well there is nothing repulsive about it. This is the gene- tional last week, is about the oldest actor In years of our fathers and the most popular writer of their disposed, refused to return and bore the penalty; posterity must be boiled down, evaporated, con- BONN PIATT and B. G. L0VEJ0Y Editors ral verdict, and the just one. It Is the verdict that who has visited Washington since Matthews, and ex" many worthy and wealthy men, to my knowledge, results from a common sense view of the case, and ceedingly clever and true to life. densed. The gentlemen employed in the perform- who had country plac?s, removed their voting power TERMS: $3.50 per year (including postage) in there is never a discord between reason and common ance of this ungrateful task has acquitted himself advance. to their country homes, and left the rustic assessors, sense. Miss Waite'evinces an ability in this charac- THE complimentary benefit to Miss Clara Cole, at very creditably. It is evident, too, that he is a pru- CLUBS: Ten copies to one address, $20 in ad' to whom an income of five or ten thousand dollars ter well in keeping with her Impersonation. She Ford's Opera House last night, passed off very suc- dent man, for he has prefaced his new departure vance, with one Copy Free. Twenty copies to one seemed fabulous, to fix a small amount on which disguises nothing, yet so subtly conceals her art that cessfully to a fine audience. Miss Cole is a fine ac-with the following quotation from Rob Roy, which address, $35 in advance, with one copy free. they paid a penalty. sympathy for the Duchess is engendered instead of tress, lacking only vocal volume, perhaps. She was must at least appease the indignant ghost of the ' 'The result of the law was demoralizing to a sad disgust. well and ably supported, markedly by Mr. George Wizard of the North: ROKTESTS OF INSIDE. extent. I am amon# those who believe the first In summing up all things altogether, we can un- A. Parkhurst, the old dramatic stand-by, and "The Library of Osbaldistone Hall was a gloomy PAGE 2• year's income of Governor Tilden was an honest Messrs. Dennis, Hazelton and Leach. room, whose antique oaken shelves bent beneath the -Gossip by Roberts, &c. qualifiedly characterize The Two Men of Sandy Bar weight of ponderous folios,so dear to the seventeenth PAGE S —" An Eccentric Lady," " Tom Mar and fair one; as to the after years, I happen to as a dramatic success. Never has a play met with century, from which, under favor be It spoken we shall," &c. know the facts. He was startled by the inconsisten- more earnest applause than this one in Washington, have distilled matter for our quartos and octavos, PAGE 6 —" Mrs. Perry's Peril." cies of tbe law and the absurdities of the rulings and which once more subjected to the alembic, may and never does a play meet with colder and more in- LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. should oar sons be yet more frivolous than ourselves, PAGE 7.—" Tenement House Life in Edinburgh and cross-decisions under It. As a lawyer he saw different audience than in this city. The audiences fall be still reduced into duodecimos and pamphlets." " The Vanderbilt Guard," 4c. the impossibility of any correct and fair return, and but little short of the hypercritical, and praise from The idea of these condensed classics is to furnish the went to A. J. Bleecker, the assessor in his district, Fire and Loss of Life. such a source is indeed praise. This is of a heal thy, hasty or the reviewing reader with the bone and told him his difficulty, asked him to go to his office NEW YOB if, Oct. 7.—The Bremen packet ship nervy sort, with blooq and bone, and will live sinew of a literary creation. It is presumed that a EVENTS. and consult bis books and to confer with his clerk, Europa, which for several years has been engaged tbrough a lcn< natural life of popularity and suc- long novel abbreviated to respond to the shortness who had full charge of all his matter», and then to In the kerosene carrying trade between the United cess. of life and the hasty appetite for mere mental ex- make np a full assessment, on which he would pay States and Germany, was placed on the large bal- —The Colorado election eame off last week, citement, will be popular among a large class of the penalty, rather than run any risk of being criti- IT WAS the luck of the Opera House to again be ance dry dock at the foot of Rutger street on Friday and contradictory dispatches have been coming readers, and to young folks this edition will be a god- cised. In this he was more honest, open and fair victimized last week by one of the poorest compa- afternoon, for the purpose of receiving a general on ever since. The Republicans claim the State send ; but we cannot enter into the sensations of that than most wealthy men, and deserves praise rather nies in the touring business, that, under the sign of overhauling. A large force of caulkers, ship-car- man who can find or steal an hour a day from money in toto. The Hew York World, receives dis than blame." large posters and bogus stars, fooled the public into penters and. blacksmiths were put to work this making who would regard the offer of a condensed patches that their governor and congressman are Its first night's performance, petered out after fonr morning. These men were scattered all/over the or expurgated Scott or Dickens in any other light elected. This seems to be the most truthful exhibitions, when, like the festive Arab, it packed vessel, and were busy at about 11:30 o'clock this than that of an insult. statement yet received, and whatever may be GBEEN-EOOM GOSSIP. up its duds and skipped away. forenoon. The ship-carpenters and caulkers were declared as the final result, the ran has been This show, managed by one Leavitt, and called In the lower hold boring the sides, to see whether This issue would never have been attempted with- "Madame Rentz's and Mabel Santley's Lady Min. the planks were sound, while the caulkers had out a demand, and the demand must be the result of much closer than was expected or dared to be BRHT HARTE'S play came down to us last week, strels," or words to ihat effect, Is a weak, dish- brought their oakum, oil and pitch Into the lower an overstocked market of new books. The health- hoped for. advertised by abuse and popularized in a manner water edition of the Theater Comique, and will, hold, so as to have it close at hand when required. iest result to be expected from the enterprise will be through the reputation of its impersonators and the after a brief life, finish up, with dying gasps, before either more careful labor and brevity among oar —The correspondent of the Cincinnati Coni- name of its author. It was presented with good Aaship-c&rpanter named John Casey was with the January. It is a catch-penny business, and can book-makers or the establishment of a higher stand- mercial who is at the South and enlightening appointments at the National, moved easily and rest in the foretold of;the vessel, occupied in testing nsver exhibit a second time in any city. ard of literary enjoyment, which will bring readers the Republican mind through that journal, writes undoubtedly a success. the planks. He struck a match for the purpose of to the sound conclusion that much time spent over We anticipated its success, not only from the large MATT MORGAN'S.—After all the virtuous howling lighting a pipe, and having - done so, threw the a good bonk is better spent than a little time over a that he has no doubt about South Carolina going match on the floor. A large pile of oakum laid for Hampton, if not for Tilden. ability of the playwright, but so convinced by the —some of it honest, most of it clap-trap for adver- great many indifferent ones. style of criticism it received in New York at the tisement sake—Matt Morgan's exhibition at the close by, and the match falling on a thread of hemp This happy event cannot be consummated nn- set the pile on fire. Casey, in endeavoring to THE LAUREL BUSH—An Old-fashioned Love Story. hands of the critics of the metropolitan press. Waiv- Theater Comique last week was far removed from By the author of "John Halifax Gentleman," &a. less the colored men vote the Democratic ticket, ing the question of bribes and bribery, a qnestiou immorality or anything pertaining to the immoral. smother the flames, was so badly burned that his New York, Harper Brothers, publishers. Robert and many will vote that ticket, the writer says, tbat belongs by right of declaration as the shuttle The tableaux, as presented, were very much like life is despaired of. He wassenttoBellevueHospital. Beall, Washington. because of dissensions in the organization and cock to th e battledoors of the playwrights and the paintings, so shaded, so mellowed by the artists The flooring of the vessel having|become saturated This is an old-fashioned love story. Old fashioned with kerosene, benzine, and other highly combusti- the unregenerate character of the nominations fo New York press personally—waiving this question framing and back-grounds, that the most prurient because it Is a picture of two faithful lives with a ble liquids, in a moment caught fire, which spread long parenthesis of disappointment thrust between office. It seems, then, tbat if we are to have " entirely, it is still evident that precisely as faint failed to find anything savoring of indecency abo ut praise damns, so does studied abase, prepared with them. Indeed the majority of tite audiences were with lightning rapidity, and in a second the entire a hopeful beginning and a happy ending. Old fash- united South," it is because the freedmen, for care, convince the impartial that there is something disappointed. hold, from stem to stern, was a mass of fire, which ioned because the characters are all pare, the senti- the first time since they were crowned with citi- gained constantly. ments are all good, the observations are all true and in the abused of genuine worth to require so exten- It may not be the nosiest work of man, nor a the reflections are all wise. Old fashioned because zenship. are going to exercise the liberty of con sive ill-treatment. lolty ambition, this of Matt Morgan's traveling over John Sever, a workman, residing in Brooklyn, was It is a tender, pleasant likeness of everyday people, science at the polls. Hence when we saw the metropolitan pr^ss devo- the country with nude .female e,yyblt^ but n wo- badly burned, but the worst was to come yet. The full of naturalness and healthlnes?. ting column articles to underrate an almost uuat- man can take part in them with the satisfaction of n-bmerqus Workmen in the hold of the shipjwere cut —The killing of a woman has something more tempted drama, it wis apparent that a much more far more self-respect than she retains as a can-can off from the air, and they were like in a tomb filled horrible about it than the murder of a man positive spirit than the critics'love of the dramatic dancer. with fire. Several of their number who were at ROOSE'S ILLUSTRATED WASHINGTON—a very neat profession was at work in the instigation of such on- work amidships were completely surrounded by the and aheap collection of plates of the buildings of Why we do not know; for they can be better The regular winter season of the Comique opens Washington dedicated to public uses. slaught. Then, too, the well substantiated proofs of flames, and those who were not In the midst of the spared just now, so political economists say, be- this week. Immense bill. Big thing all through. This little publication is very creditable to Mr. bribe-begging on the part of some of the critics dead- flames were exposed to the deathly fumes which cause they are in the majority and are consumers See advertisement. Boose, and together with his Guide to Washington ened the general effect of their lines, as it disgraced arose from the fire. The^firemen were promptly on and its vicinity, commends itself to the. Centennial and not producers. THE benefit tendered Mr. Harold Forsberg by the the name with a tarnish that shall ever blur the good hand and succeeded in extinguishing the flames in visitor. However, there was a shocking case of faith of that branch of journalism in New York, and leading citizens of Washington, on Friday night about half an hour. They at once caused strict We have received from J. Kuhn, 407 Tenth street, turned the public sympathy of those who looked to last, at Ford's Opera House, was an unqualified search to be made in the hold of the vessel, and soon murderous assault last week on a Kentucky " The Whippoor-will," ¡consisting of musical exer- the newspapers for their opinions in favor this time success iu every sense of the term. The play was found, in various parts of the bark, the bodies of female, by her lover, because she refused to cises for schools, and replete with ropular scngs. of the dramatist. Dora, dramatized from Tennyson's touching poem, five meu. The victims were all ship carpenters, and accept him. The assailant was a grandson of " With Farmer Allan at the farm abode, The Two Men of Sandy Bar, as presented in this were employed la making some repairs in the hold President Harrison, and after the attempted im- William and Dora." of the vessel. city last week, is the most thoroughly original Amer- The Weather To-day. molation of a human sacrifice on the shrine of his Mr. Forsberg's rendition of Farmer Allan was ican play on the boards. It Is indeed th« only drama For Lower Lake region and Middle States, falling love, endeavored to shoot himself with a rifle powerfully true, unforced and earnest. The acting American in general and detailed character so far Fereign News. and stationary, succeeded by rising barometer, o( Mr. Hazelton as William deserves credit, and that would not go off, and to drown himself in a produced. ROME, October 7.—The Italian chamber of depu- warmer southwesterly winds, veering to colder Miss Clara Cole as Dora guaranteed the popularity water tank that was suffering from a drouth. He In some respects the fault found with it is merited. ties have been dissolved and new elections are northwesterly and generally clear weather, except she has won as an actress. was fished out of its shallow depths by his sonsj It is lather badly put together, poorly connected and ordered to be held at the beginning of November. light rains in former. and awaits the issue of his cowardly brutality each act has a Bohemian habit of roaming iff on its THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, BALTIMORE. —Mr. LONDON, October 7.—Renter has the following dis- • Something for the Ladies. and the verdict of a Kentucky jury. own responsibility—personal responsibility—and Sothern commenced a two weeks' engagement at patch from Belgrade: " It is stated In diploma tic taking care of itself without caring much for the circles that M. Rlstics, the Servian minister for for- Messrs. Wiswall St Gwynn, 705 Market Space, have a this beautiful temple of the drama on Monday most elegant assortment of ladles' goods of every de- rest. But each act takes care ofitselfso well that the eign affairs, is making great efforts to obtain peace —Kilpatrick turns out to be something of a evening last. The first three nights he appeared in scription and at prices which will put even dull times interest of the audience never flags,and each a perfect or an armistice. prophet after ail. When he said Eepublican suc- his inimitable character of Lord Dundreary, and to the blush. Their line of fine linen handkerchiefs, picture, succeeds in pleasing to the end- The plot' PESTH, October 7.—The Huugarian premier de- cess in Indiana depended on " a bloody shirt cam- the remainder of the week in Robertson's comedy of silks, cashmeres. In all the' desirable shades; curtain and its delineation, through circumstances and its Home, said to have been written expressly for Mr clared in the Diet yseterday that all the guarantee- laces at greatly reduced prices, all wool blankets, gent's paign with money," we, of course, supposed it re- clever actors, is beautiful in its simplicity and power- ing powers were acting in harmony, and that the Sothern. It was not a " sweet home," however too dress shirts, and In fact everything In the dry goods quired more shirt and more money than could be ful by reason of its want of everything that strains Russian government, in consequence of the under- much mother-in-law there, and the first act i: line of the best grades and manufacture. We hope the for effect. The play is much like a panoramic series standing with Oonnt Andraesy, had adopted ener- ladies will read their advertisement, and after making afforde d for one State. However, it appears that marred by the beastly presence of a drunken sot of pictures by a master-hand, badly tacked together getic measures against the exodns of volunteers and up their' minds -which particular counter to assault, there is a revelation in the withdrawal of Wol- who holds the boards to the almost entire exclusion bv a mechanic. When the few additional touches had prohibited any more furloughs to soldiers. storm the establishment early to-morrow morning and cott, the independent candidate, in favor of Gen of Duudreary and the rest of the company daring the convince themselves of the truth of the above state- hall have been given it, iraking it more dependent COPENHAGEN, October 7.—The king of Greece left eral Harrison. Independent candidates and whole act. As first impressions are generally re ment by taking possession of the store and examining aeh act on the other individually throughout, it will garded as the most likely to influence us in lorming here yesterday on his way home. its rich stock of dry goods. patriots are to be regarded with suspicion then be beyond the criticism of the most bypercriti- our opinions, we fear Home will suffer In the opin ATHENS, October 7 —Demonstrations have taken generally, and this last illustration of the frailty il. ion of the public, which has literally a "Hill place at Pstarus, Zante and the Piraeus in behalf of Gents' Furnishing Goods. of the eclectic mind in a run for office fixesth e One strange feature, however, is a mistaken idea, Gate" at its entrance, which that mother should the Greek population of Turkey, and urging the gov- Gentlemen will be pleased to lenow that Mr.William S. seal of doubt upon the minds of even credulous mutual mistake of the author and the leading blow up. The play is, however, nearly redeemed by ernment to make military preparations. This move- Teel, merchan t tailor, »35 Pennsylvania avenue, is now receiving a large, selected stock of gents' line under- men. Independent candidates must, in this character—ihat in which they both err by regarding the flue acting of Mr. Sothern in the last two acts ment is becoming general. wear, gloves and neckwear iu great variety and finest Colonel Culpepper Starbottle as a Souther» charac- This week Mr. Sothern appears in Davy Garrick campaign, be looked at through a cautious at- quality, and everything that is really useful or orna- ter. This chaiacter, as Stuart Robson reads it, is Cuba. mosphere, that suspends a placard around their and a new play called the Hornet's Nest. mental In gentlemen's goods. Teel's has long been HAVANA, October 6. via Key West, October 7 — necks with the inscription, " For sale to the not the counterfeit of anything Southern. It is en recognized as the leading tailoring house In Washing- irely removed from anything mad everything Amer- EVANGELISE.—This very beautiful extravaganza, Captain General Jovellar unexpectedly returned to highest bidder." ton, and the best Imported goods, and none others, can ican altogether, being instead an almost perfect rep- slightly of a burlesque on Longfellow's grand hexa- this city yesterday morning. His sudden return, always be found on his counters. Mr. T. makes a resentative of the old buck of the days of Addison meter poem, will be produced at the National this after the papers had said that he went to make ar- specialty of fine dress shirts, and no gentlemen who has —As was anticipated, Georgia went Demo- and Steele, and so accurately identical therewiih week by a clever, capable troupe. The entire affair rangements for the winter campaign, is the cauee of worn one of these elegantly-fitting garments will wear cratic last week. Independent of the fact in a party that the short clothes and rapier are not at all is an extravagant sort of opera bouffe, with Evan- much comment. There are rumors of his displace- any other. light, the result must be regarded as a blessing missed, so well is the idea of such an impersonation geline and her lover transported from one land to ment, but the Diario denies the trath of them. This THE enterprise of Mr. John M. Keeler, merchant carried out by the manner and pronunciation of another—from Dan to Bersheba, from Africa to Om- change would make the present precarious situation from a State and national standpoint. Republic tailor, No. 5 North Calvert street, Baltimore, will com- still worse. General Jovellar, when he started can victories in Georgia have ever redounded to Robson. aha, from Alabazam to Bombazee, and back again mend itself to the public as one that will supply a much without change of cars. They finish up in Africa, from here, took $150,050 in gold with him to pay the benefit of such men as Rufus B. Bullock and It is, perhaps, as well that Robson should continue needed'and long felt want In this community, and Bal- where they are first arrested on the charge of being some of the arrears to the troops. carpet-baggers of his ilk. They meant mal-ad- it as he has begun, for the character, through his able timore can congratulate Itself in having among her acting and rare ability, is growing to a popularity sec" Fenians, and then discharged when they prove their Two battalions of Spanish troops are reported to business firms one house la which fine custom gar- ministration and corruption, because public affairs ond only to the inimitable Colonel Sellers of Ray- identity as the two orphans. They have their have revolted for not receiving their arrears of pay. ments will be made to order for customers without were at the mercy of ignorance and corruption. mond, which, however, it never can by any possi- choice to return to Canada on foot or in a balloon, [NOTE.—It will be seen from the above that the their purchasing thé cloth In or of the house. This Is certainly a great convenience, and a great saving of Since the hegira of thelight-baggaged brigade from bility of fate or circumstance equal. and select the latter method. This is the first time information from Europe of Jovellar's being re. money in one's purchasing a suit of clothes, and we are the empire State of the South she has been rap- When we speak of a new play of this sort one a balloon was ever brought oat on the stage, and to lieved has not been published in Cuba ] those who favor inflation should be a very attractive sure that Mr. Keeler's efforts to cater to the wants idly progressing in every material feature. Let thing is necessary: that the complimentary notices of and interests of his customers will be appreciated by spectacle. General Sherman and Secretary Cameron. South Carolina be contrasted with this great the company—when compliments are due, as in this them. See advertisement. The " Heifer Dance," by the two Sitting Bulls of ROCK ISLAND, Oct. 7.—General Sherman and State to-day, and will any one doubt wherein case—should be expressed qualifledly ; in such a manner, we mean, as will not lead the public to «up. the company, is also of much interest at this season Secretary c f War Cameron arrived from the West WE CALL the attention of all to the advertisement in Democracy has its advantages over Republican- pose that the play's success is due to the players. of Indian warfare. this morning, and spent the day here as the guests another column of the grand concert to be given at Wlllard's Hall on Wednesday evening, October 11, at 8 ism in the land of cotton? Now, the acting of EbeuPlympton, as Sandy Mor- of Colonel D. W. Flagler, commander of the THE OCTOROON —This ancientplay of Boucicault's o'clock, for the benefit of the Savannah sufferers. This ton, is wonderfully genuine and marvelously beauti arsenal. In the afternoon, while riding, the horses The election of Alfred H. Colquitt over Jona- will be produced at Ford's this week. It Is the sort Is not only a commendable, but a christian enterprise, fnl. It fits the able character he impersonates most became unmanageable and threw the party out of than Norcross for governor is not merely a party of show that will attract the Centennial visitors. their carriage, Inflicting serious but not dangerous and we hope the hall will be packed, for really now is exquisitely. But the merit is no more in the actor the time when we should all do the utmost In our power victory, it is the pledge of continued economy, Its characters are the quaint, impossibly acute and wounds on Colonel Flagler, and bruising the others than in the characterof the impersonation. So also and to the fullest extent of means to help our lufferlng reform, progress, rehabilitation. ItisaSouthern noble Yankee, the brntal, red-shirted overseer, the of the party. This evening General Sherman and of The. Hamilton as John Oakhurst, but that The. drunken redskin, the pretty octoroon, the genteel and afflicted brothers and sisters of Savannah and State, contributing all the assistance due to the Secretary Cameron left for Chicago. relieves the lackadaisical romantic mind of the gush planter and the jovial steamboat-man. It Is a drama Brunswick. revival of the trade, industry and, prosperity of this character.by giving us the John Oakhurst of well known and highly respected by the oldest in- 80,000 Democratic Majority In Georgia. THE enterprise of Mr. E. G. Davis Is only equaled by the whole country. It is a new indorsement to actual life—a cold, heartless, calculating fellow, habitant. h's success as a first-class business man, and In his new whom it has suited the author of the play to save ATLANTA, GA., October 7.—The Democratic ma- United States bonds and United States credits. The plantation melodists in this play are peculiarly jority in ninety-two counties is 70,000. Forty-five efforts to extend his trade and cattr to the wants of our- and modify in the end into a respectable man • It will be felt in its good effects upon "Wall street fine, and add the most of interest to it. By the bye, counties to hear from will make the majority 80.000 people In establishing a branch house at 924 Seventh whereas his trne finis is found in the outcasts of and upon the 'changes of the old world. "YOn Boyle" debuts, or continues to debut, in the at least. street, with Mr. S. C. Dickinson as partner and head or Poker flat, with that sickly tableau of an erupted Octoroon. the new firm, we wish him the same measure of success derringer and a dead man, thin lips defiant, but Legislature—Senate: Forty-three Democrats, one tbat has heretofore crowned Ills efforts. In making Mr. —In addition to an editorial on the unsup- Republican. House, all Democrats except six Re- ported slander of the New York Times in re- clothes ragged, and his epitaph autoblographifd on IT WILL be interesting, and at the same time as- D. the manager of the new firm, Mr. Davis has given the coat-of-arms of his trade-a playing card. suage the mental suffering of those dear, sympa- publicans, including three colored. another evidence of his sound Judgment and sagacity spect to Mr. Tilden's income return, the New as a business man. Hop Sing, Washee Wasbee.is something new, and thetic croakers of New York who have condoned York Nation has the following reference to that Pool Selling. Parsloe brings it out by his ability, as one of the with Stuart Robson " for being swindled by the ex- NEW YORK, October 7.—The following 4s a fair MADAME EMMA SouLfi, our leading dressmaker, subject, which we republish, because of the • tortionate price Bret Harte placed upon his play," strongest cards in the game. But two things strike average of pools sold to-day at Morrissey's pool- is again to the front with all that Is new and novel source from which it comes, as well as the rea- to know that in one week alone here at Washington, us in connection with this celestial son of a bland rooms, on the Indiana and Ohio elections : Indiana: in mantuamaklng and millinery goods. Her par- by no means much of a place for theatrical patronage, sons given by its correspondent for acquitting and childlike smile: tbat, as a novel character, he is Williams, $100; Harrison, $10o. Ohio: Birnes,$100. lors, 1107 Pennsylvania aveaue, over Gait's, are the he has taken in $1,200, lacking bat fifty dollars of one Mr. Tilden in any case of dishonest practices: not brought out sufficient, and tlmt bis card business Bell, $40. Result in New York State: Tilden, $1,000; center of attraction for ladles. fourth of the sum total of the cost of the drama. in the second act is foreign to the plot and savors Hayes, $750 Presidential election : Tilden, $750- We wrote three weeks ago to a leading merchant somewhat of clap-trap, to fetch out the "Heathen Very Cheap. MAGGIE MITCHELL, with her troupe, finish a two, Hayes, $1,000. in this city, who was an active Eepublican during Chinee" and his tricks in the game that exceeded You can buy a good business suit for $10 at Roman & weeks' engagement in Providence next Saturday.' and after the war, asking for information as to the his comprehension, and continue him in public no- Sculling; ftace. Cox's, clothiers, 507 Seventh street. Maggie opened in Albany on the 17th of September practice among the men of his acquaintance and toriety. LONDON, October 7 —R. W. Boyd beat J. H. Sad- and did a splendid business, bringing out the new " WHEREVER you find many men, you flnd many standing in the matter of making returns to the as ler by five lengths in a sculling race on the Thames, The romantic daughter of the rich ranchero is a play of Mignon, dramatized from Goethe, by Mr. minds," exclaimed a public speaker. " 'Taint so, sessors under the income-tax law. Owing to bis ab- from Putney to Mortlake, to-day. The men started type of Spanish-American female civilization that Runnion of Chicago. The Albany papers speak in by jingo!" responded one of the auditors. " If you'd sence from the city, we received the answer only even in the betting, which had previonsly been six may be found fifty miles from Sandy Bar. but we special terms of commendation of Mr. William Har- only ask this whole crowd out to take a drink you'd to four in favor of Sadler. flnd them all of one mind." 1 THE CAPITAL.- OCTOBER 8, 1876.
For THB CAPITAL. who forget for the time being it is not real. His A Dntchman'a Advice. of thousands where boys have been led astray by LADIES' G00HS, ' FADED THE FLOWER OF THE HODE." speech has an immense amount of red and col- [From the Zanesvllle Courier.] the perusal of such abominable trash as dime novels ored light» from the side scenes, that shed a dra- Dish talk about der Shinyman, and weekly illustrated papers. Parents cannot be too careful to keep such mental poison from their BY FBANCHS MAIlia COLE. matic glow over rusty and worn-out figures of It lsh too pad ter see ; children, and the publishers who issue it ought to be speech. He says, " Every man who attempted Der heathen Yankee blajs more drloks 719 FALL AHB WINTER 719 If love Is a light, light sleeper. Don ony mean Shlnee. indicted. It is as dangerous as the obscene litera- And youth's a long mistake, to tear down the old flag was a Democrat." He Ton dink heish yonr terest frlent, ture which is prohibited by law. Sane heart, shall I dare to keep her FANCY ÄND MILLINERY GOODS, would perhaps have hard work to prove that; TJnd loofs you efry bit, Flower for folly's sake ? Warn, heart, for my wild kiss settled and he forgets that there were thousands who Ef he don't peat yon pOOty quick, A Chnrch Choir on Strike. NOW SSADY, AT I ton't be Yawcob Schmidt. Into the dust and strains fought for that same flag who were Democrats. At Heywood, in Lancashire, Eng., the parish I>AVIS', Of the poor, lifeless, dispetaled The sentence about " clutching from shrieking, .Yon comes to my saloon von tay, chnrch choir consider themselves aggrieved because 719 Market Space, corner Eighth street. Show of the suns and rains ! shuddering, crouching mothers,babes from their Mlt tears all in hlsh eyes, of an edict recently issued by the rector prescribing "DECEIVING EVERY DAT LARGE ADDITIONS Who recks if for happy pastime -LV to our all already complete stock of FANCY GOODS Und says I am his teaieet frlent, certain new rules to be observed by the members. breasts, and selling them into slavery,i? is not 5 and STAPLE NOTIONS, at Lush June begat It red, This somewhat formidable document, it seems, com- *, To name at the summer's class-time strictly original with the Illinois orator, but a Yich gifs me much surbrise ; »AVIS'. He treats me den mlt lager beer; prises twenty-four clauses, and the choir not un- ÜELT HATS FOE CHILDREN, MISSES AND LA- This as her sweetest dead ? dripping from Uncle Tom's Cabin. He says X d.es, in all the new shapes and colors, Just received I feel the cling of her hand on I dinks about der pay, reasonably regard it as an unnecessary interference The bloom drained of its light, every man who fought for the South was a Demo- Und shakos him quickly mlt der hand, with their private and personal freedom. Among »AVIS'. 1 Aud envy Its soul abandoned— crat. Well, if they were, he must admit they Und knows him right away. the rules prescribed are the following: Each mem- OVELTIES IN TIES, JABOTS, BOWS. NECK ber of the choir must " be admitted members by a N Killed by her throat's sweet white. fought well, and for nothing but what they im- liUJ'FLlNGS, &c., just received at 1 He trinks a tozen glass of beer— proper dedication; their surplices must be after a Dead rose, with her fitful scorn in agined to be right; while the loyal Republican DATIV. I dinks so, anyhow— < ' certain pattern; and, so long ad cassocks are not Each fold, through dust and strains -£iA - ^FRINGE eleganS ANt Dassortmen GIMPS, new tgoods of ,blac very elieapk sil, akt I search, with a sane heart warning, fought for the " old flag," for a good bounty, of Und told me how my vamily vas, worn, each member must appear In dark dress and »AVIS'. . Kissing her bluest veins. • from five hundred up to fifteen hundred dollars, Und how vas been my vrow; black necktie." They are not to 11 carol sing " in the E CALL ESPECIAL ATTENTION TO OUR COM- Since love Is a nervous sleeper, plete stock of LADIES' UNDERWEAR, which we the Republicans' patriotism paid. He ssys: He drea ts me mit my own cigars, streets, nor must they frequent public houses or arWe ottering at a very small advance on manufacturers' And yo uth's a long mistake, Und ven my pill I sthate, "other places of gambling resort." prices. These goods are of the very best manufacture, " We must never forget any hero, living or and are well worthy the attention of customers. Don't I wake the god, and keep her He told mlt a lubing smile— Flower for folly's sake 1 dead." That sounds well; but what is the Another rule is a dig at the Dissenters: "Mem tail to examine before making your purchases, at reality ? How many thousands of men, maimed Yoost put him on der shlate." bers of the choir are not to sing in Dissenting schools »AVIS', or chapels, or for the promotion of dissent from the TOB LOT. OP TWO-BUTTON UNBKEslEIJ^KiD For THE CAPITAL. and crippled, are there to-day that cannot get Und den he says—" Good py, dear friend," at cents per pair, at doctrine and discipline of the Church of England, O GLOVES 50 " A PEBJTJEED VILLAIN." the slightest recognition from a Government Und valks out pooty quick ; »AVIS' O do not broach, Und den I tole myself It vos either directly or indirectly." It is not quite clear AVING PURCHASED SILKS, BLACK AND COL- That stern reproach, they helped to maintain—positions given to fa- how the vocal efforts of the church choir could be H ORED VELVETS, &c., before the recent advance, Yon schneakin Yankee drlck. we offer them to our customers at old prices, at Fray waive the sentence said in Ire. vorites who never smelt powder? How many Und den I learn a lesson g30t— employed toward subverting the doctrine and dis- „„, »AVIS'. No song's complete, cipline of the establishment; but the reotor appears PELLULOID CORAL GOODS,IN GREAT VARIETY, widows and orphans of these " dead heroes," I learns nm not too late— Vy at very low prices, at However sweet, to &ee a potency in song which others may fail to (over which so' many " words " are wasted, Yen some von blays yon von mean drlck, »AVIS'. Without the ripper of the (liar.) where actions would be better,) are asking from • •* Toost pnt nm on der shlate." discern. Having received printed copies of the new ARGAINS IN JOB LOTS, ¿sc., PLACED ON THE They tell in rhyme regulations, the choir held a meeting and deter- B counters every day, at »AVIS', Of the golden time the Government a chance to earn their bread, Ef friends M go back " on you ven sthamps mined not to resume their duties until the rules were ocl-3t5 flo Market Space, corner Eighth street. " When naught was naughty. O i What fun ! and have " No Thoroughfare" flaunted before No longer you haf got, withdrawn. Accordingly, on a recent Sunday But, beauty, haughty, their eyes, while they see others getting what Is Ten cruel venoms comes apout, morning, the choir seats were vacant; and in the Lessen naughty, Mme. L. P. Jeanneret Und plshness goes to pot, evening notices were posted on the church doors in- Leaves you nothing—seethe pun ? theirs by right? viting volunteers to form a new choir.—Ex. Would'st have ine prate, A widow is treated almost like a criminal if Und insult makes yon feel so had, Petter keep sthill und vait; WILL OPEN A CHOICE ASSORTMENT OF In priestly state, she tries to get a position. It is a well known And say my passion from a book 1 Some oder tay you makes nm righd, A Comical lawshit in Athens. Oh Ì let me speak 1 fact that in the " clutching shrieking babes" Ef you've got um on der shlate. Though lies do leak business Northern men were employed as over- Ooera managers sometimes complain of small FRENCH BOBÏŒTS AMD For dings go up und dings come town, Like tear-drops from my «oul's out-look. seers when the "poor white trash" of the atuiiencee, but soldom indeed has Lucrezia Borgia And dampen not Time slauks 'em on der cope; South looked down on the position. A North- been put up for the enjoyment of a single visitor* A EOOT® HATS My ardor hot, Und py uud py your tay vill come, lover of music and a tradesman of Athens, attrac- u For love is shy of grim rhcumatix." ern man could use the whip and get-more work Und you vill haf der " soap." ted by the announcment of Lucrezia Borgia, visited Hlsadllppant treasure out of slaves than any Southern man. The very No matter vat may happen yon, an open air theater oonstructed by the Athens and Beggars measure ; » last slaver that was fitted out was from Massa- Dot wrongs you shmall or great, Pireens Railway Company. This company under- SATURDAY, OCTOBKB 7,1876, Seek It not by mathematics. In plshness, loof, or oder dings, took for tenpence to take passengers to their theater Ah, lovely girl, chusetts, and the slave trade business was a Yoost put um on der shlate. and bring them back, besides giving them an ope- Condemn the churl lively one in that loyal State. That damned his soul for thy sweet sake. Und now I tells dem beoples all, ratic performance in the bargain. Anthony Damas- His picture of the going off of the troops is chino took a ticket, but found to his astonishment 83 ST. CKAELES STBEET, BALTIMORE. Then read Tom Moore, good and true. I sat in a window in Broadway, Tat dose shmart chaps haf beat, ocl-lino8 Bead o'er and o er Some tay I dinks you'll settle up, that he was the entire audience. He waited, he New York, and watched regiment after regi- The lines on " Lying " and " The Snake." Mlt dose vat lie nnd sheat. wandered, he hummed, whistled and pondered when FALL OPENING. FLIP. ment go by, brave, hearty men, with their backs Ef you'll took my good advice, the curtain would rise; but at last, on the plea of to their homes and facing the cannon ; the wife, Und learns to vatch und vait, wet weather, he was informed no performance GOSSIP BY ROBERTS. with her child in her arms, or the sister, perhaps Und ven a rascal tooke yon in, would be given. 1876. There Is nothing more pleasant than, on a some one dearer, following along to see the last Yoost put him on der shlate. Anthony Damaschino took legal proceedings, and bright October day, to stroll around through of the loved ope. I saw one friend after another the lower court ordered the railway to refuud the price of the ticket; the decision was appealed against the parks and upper portions of the city. I dart out of the crowd assembled, and cry, " God Fortifications About Paris. MRS. J. P. PALMER The French government deserves great praise for and the supreme court has now given jadgment to don't think we hardly realize what a beautiful bless you, John, and bring you safe back 1" I the effect that M. Damaschino is not entitled to the the energetic manner in which it has urged forward Wili open on THURSDAY NEXT, OCTOBER 5,1876, place we live' in, particularly if our ideas are thought of the old mother at home sobbing her and completed the new line of forts surrounding reimbursement of his railway'ticket or to any dam- French Pattern Bonnets and Hats, wi th all the, latest bounded by crossing the Avenue in muddy heart out for her boy gone to " the war," and I Paris. Oonsiderlng the open character of the French ages, but that he can recover the twopence paid for Parisian novelties. weather, during its present torn-up state. I cried, too, not stopping to think whether they frontier, since the late war it was scarcely possible admission to the theater if he is ready to swear that " in his belief the reason why the performance did Ladies of "Washington and vicinity are respectfully came across two strangers in an up-town park, were Democrats or Republicans. to avoid protecting Paris from the danger of a sud den attack. The new forts are all armed with not take place was not because the rain had wetted Invited to be present. and the lady making some inquiry of me, I The procession of the " Boys in Blue " in In- breech-loading guns, France having, at length, de the seats, but because there was no spectators to sit MBS. J. P. PALMER, entered into conversation with them for a few dianapolis lately shows that Democrats had a in them." Whether bur opera goer commits him- cided in favor of this species of artiilery. The only 1109 F street, between Eleventh and Twelfth. moments. They said they liked the Washington hand in the fight for "the old flag." I saw the great power adhering to the old system of muzzle- self to this statement or not, it seems he will have to ap2-ly3 people, they " were so hearty and free." I do remnants of the gallant Sixty-ninth of New loading guns is Great Britain ; but, of course, Wool- pay costs on both sides.—Exchange. think Washington and its people deserve that Y.ork, almost every man of which was a Demo- wich and Portsmouth being less open to an attack !V1 iss E, A. SVIcCormick, character. I don't think there is any city in the crat. There were hardly fifty left who could than Paris, the question of muzzle vs. breech-loaders MISCELLANEOUS. Is not of vital importance. At the present moment, Union where one meets with kinder hearts and walk, aud the wagons ef maimed, crippled men when so much indignation is being expressed at the 033 NI&TH STBEET, (St. Cloud Building,) more sympathy in trouble than here. In New told a sad story. Their flag was in ribbons. And atrocities of war, it is very much to be desired that H. E. 0FFLEY & CO., York people live in long blocks of houses for yet in his speech the Illinois orator insults those some conventional understanding should be arrived BANKERS, years, not knowing or caring anything about men. at by civilized nations in order to exempt great cen- Will be In constant receipt of all the their nest-door neighbor. They see the doctor's We have too much party cry. I don't sup- ters of industry from warlike operations. If this WASKLN GTON, D. C. cannot be accomplished, and war must still occur NEWEST DESIGNS IN IMPORTED BONNETS, carriage stop at the door and have a dim percep- pose one party holds all the good, nor the other from time to time, then in that case a system of de- Bank of Dojposit, Exchange, Collection, dc tion that "some one " is sick. After awhile the all the bad. If our elections were conducted tached forte sufficient to prevent bombardment UMTRIMMED STRAWS AND CHIPS, hearse drives up with its solemn train of car- more on the basis of the Government's welfare around the principal European capitals, in the same United States Gold and Silver Coin and Coupons FLOWERS, LACES, (fir , riages, and they know some one is dead, but than on strictly party success, the country would way as around Paris, would be a great desideratum. boughtand sold. Foreign Coin and exchange. Govern- there is no feeling except that of annoyance that be better ; but it is useless to expect that. We, In former times it was not so necessary to fortify ment Bonds, all issues and denominations. FOR THE SPRING AND SUMMER. large towns as at the present day, enormous popu- their carriage has to wait for them a few doors all of us, will vote for a man even though we District Columbia securities dealt in and loans nego- lations were totally unknown, and the proportion of The ladies of Washington aud vlclnlt y are requested below, in order that the funeral proceedings know him to be incompetent, if he belongs to tiated. armed to unarmed meu was greater formerly than Collections made at lowest rates and drafts cashed to call aud examine before purchasing. may not be disturbed. But here, in sickness, our side. at present. It Is impossible to foresee at what point and Issued on the principal cities. apr9-lyS sorrow and trouble there are always kind hands I did not mean to devote so much space to the contest between fortifications and long range guns will cease; all that oftn bo done is to meet every Strict personal attention given to orders for Invest- to help and hearts to sympathize. I often politics; but Mr. Ingersoll's speech is called the ment Securities, and information concerning them MISCELLANEOUS, warlike invention as it arises with a. corresponding wonder if people of means realize how much " campaign speech." It is a good one of its cheerfully sought and furnished. decSO-tfg antidote. Taking; this rievr of the case the French TEINWAY'S LAURELS. good they could do. How many there are strug- kind, and well delivered would be very taking government had no option, seeing that the fortifica- THSE JUDGES AWARD HIM THE HIGHEST HONOR gling along, fighting the battle of life, only need- with an excitable audience; but in my humble tions of Paris were useless, but to erect others which OF THE FORTY COMPETITORS. ing friendly pulls to put them on the road lo opinion it amounts to this : " The Republicans would at least save the oapital from the miseries in- PICKLING AND PRESERVING. success. We may give money in an ostentatious are angels from heaven, pure and undefiled ; I cident to a bombardment.—Paris American Register. PHILADELPHIA, September 27. The agony of exhibitors as to the awards is over. Ow- way to charitable institutions, thereby puffing am a Republican. The Democrats are devils PUKE OIDER VINEGAR. ing to the fierce competition among piano manufac- ourselves, and build monuments, but the best from the lower regions; I am not a Democrat." A LKTTHR was lately thrown into the London post- WHITE WINE VINEGAR, turers, the greatest interest was manifested to know office containing £10,000 in bank notes without any MUSTARD SEED, white and black. way to leave our " memory green " behind us I had a hearty grasp of the hand the other day CELERY SEED, who had carried off the highest honor. STEIN WAY & address. The astonishment of the olerk in the dead SPICBS OF ALL KINDS, -whole and ground, SONS, as usual, are the victors. The judges at Philadel- is to give our help to individuals as we go along from General Rusk, the handsome and popular letter office who opened the letter, at so large a sum PURE WHITE BRANDT, for peaches. phia have indorsed the verdicts of the juries at Paris the highway of life. I would rather know I member from Wisconsin. It is to be regretted We have just received our first installment of pickled being, as it were, presented to the public treasury, Cucumbers, pickled expressly for .us, which we will and at London. Forty different makers, comprising had made one person happy, that I had brought he is not a candidate for the next' Songress; the may be imagined. It appears, however, to be no furnish to consumers at less cost than the same goods all the most noted at home and abroad, competed ,and sunshine into even one person's life, than have Cave of the winds, particularly the Bepubliwn uncommon occurrence in London for money to be can be prepared by private parties. Call and see our lhe American STEINWAY IS THE BEST. The fol- new store. towing extract, which will serve as an illustration, tells throw* away in this manner, although rarely of B. W. BKED'g SOWS, my name attached to the largest institution in side, cannot afford to l«e s»ch m as the "Wis- why the judges, in their report, recommended the oourse in such large sums as in the case specified octl-3mos8 1216 F street northwest. the world. consin Rusk; but if rumor is trae, what the awarding of a Diploma and Medal to Steinway: above. The state of mind of a man who could act "jFor Greatest Concert Capacity in Grand Pianos, Now that balmy October days are come, the Cave loses his own State will gain, should they ia the way described must be very extraordinary; ^OULANGERIE FRANÇAISE. sound of the tack-hammer is heard in the land, throw the governor's mantle on him. as also Highest Degree of Excellence in all their styles, apparently money was a drug in the city on the day FÉLIX DESFOSSÉ, viz: Largest Volume, Purity and Duration of Tone and the splash of whitewash ornaments our best Dr. Mary Walker got on the rampage Mie ether that the owner of ¿10.000 put them in the public let- The well known and ONLY French Baker in "Washing- and extraordinary Carrying Capacity, with precision ter-box without inscribing their destination on the ton,has removed to No. 2012 H street, between Twentieth and durability of mechanism; also, Novel Disposition clothes. The feminine housekeeper goes around day. While pursuing her '' what is it" way, two and Twenty-first streets, near Pennsylvania avenue, with sleeves rolled up and determination in her little children playing in frent of their residence envelope. Any person, however, who has seen the where, in a house expressly built for the purpose, he of the Strings and Construction and,, Bracing of the careless way in which letters are posted in London has greater facilities than before for the manufacture Metal Frame eye; while her lord and master quakes in his called out, " Shoot those pants;" whereupon the of the best French and American Bread. towards the hour for dispatching the mails will FRENCH BREAD A SPECIALTY. After this follows a minute description and com- shoes and pretends to be deeply interested in the irate Doctor crossed the street aad administered scaroely be surprised even at this act of carelessness. LIBERAL TERMS OFFERED TO HOTELS AND mendation of six of the principal and most valuable of DEALERS. Steinway & Sons patents. morning paper when the partner of his bosom a " tongue lashing" suehas the fair Mary is Capa- A crowd of persons, principally boys, fling the letters N. B.—French Bread is recommended for persons of says, shiveringly, " it is getting chilly, we must ble off. Arelativeofthe children cameto theirres- over the heads of other boys into the letter-boxes, delicate health, especially for those suffering from dys- W. G. METZEROTT & CO., pepsia. jy2-ly3 octl-tf3 Sole Agents, 925 Pennsylvania avenue. have the stoves put up." He knows what that cue, and said to the festive Doctor," If you dress and a scene of donfusion ensues which cannot be means—that he will be asked to stay home a day in such a conspicuous manner you must expect described. It is easy to comprehend that a junior EW STOKE ! :N"EW GOODS !! ]STEW olerk told to direct a letter containing money at the WEDDING INVITATIONS FIRM!!! from " office and help to put up the stoves," and to have remarks made." " Madam," says Dr. last moment might forget to do so, and the boy sent FOB THE SEASON OF 187«. N that a day of trial and tribulation and consider, Mary, " do you suppose I would array myself The undersigned respectfully informs his old custom- with it to the post-office would no more dream of ers and the general public that he has removed to his able profanity will follow. Stoves are things in the ridiculous and disgusting manner in" looking to see if the letter was addressed than he ELEGANT STYLES In our Sample Books, of whioli new and spacious bnildlng, erected especially for his would of flying through the air. On his arrival at we Invite Inspection. business, at that always blast our dearest hopes. No matter which you are dressed?" and she gave ber man DEHPBET, how carefully the pipe, etc., are put away when tie atwitch and shook down her pants, the fringe the post-office the letters woald be flung into the let- Stationer and Engraver, 018 Pennsylvania Ave. NO. 1113 F STREET. BETWEEN ELEVENTH AND terboxes in the manner of missiles darted at the TWELFTH STREETS NORTHWEST,: the beautiful spring is upon us, they can never at the bottom of which waved gently in the A great reduction in the price of invitations from heads of invisible enemies. If the approaches to last season. seplo-tf2 where he has opened an entire new stock of the most be found when wanted. breeze as she wended her way to post a letter the London letter-boxes were guarded by police, and fashionable assortment of To see a woman drive a tack is something to Tilden. something like order and method introduced into the $5 tO $20 P6r ^ at Sa.mples_ worth 3 I free. STINSON & Co., Portland, Moine WALL PAPERS, WINDOW SHADES, worth observing. She will first proceed to fil] " Only a woman" says somewhere that vast orowd thronging to the p&st-office towards post- sepß-lyß UPHOLSTERING GOODS, OIL CLOTHS, BEDDING, &C. her mouth with material, then take one, stick though there are plenty of Heralds, Tribunes, time, we suspect that there would be fewer cases of letters thrown into the boxes without address.— SUMMER EES0ETS. I have also associated with me in business my fwo it in the offending carpet, and firmly clutching etc., there are but few daily Chronicles, in re- sons, J. E. and W. F. Clark, under the firm name of American Register. L. F. CLARK & SONS. We expect in the future to the hammer in her right hand, prepare to come sponse to which a grateful country says, " Oh, supply our customers with greater satisfaction, hav- ing made our arrangements with the principal manu- down on the innocent tack; but, alas for female Lord, we thank thee." WHITE SULPHDR SPRINGS, facturers of our line of goods, giving us facilities which calculation ! misses the tack and pounds her fin- There was quite a romantic ceremony per- A Boy Who Has Enough of J>imo Novol no other house in this locality can command. Heroism. ocl-lm2 L.F CLARK. ger instead. The hammer is dropped, and the formed at Mount Yernon a few days since. A WEST VIRGINIA. injured member is instantly thrust into the femi- The Omaha Bee says: A telegram was reeeived young couple, centennial visitors in our city, by Marshall Snowden last evening from a Mr. Dar- DUNCANSON BROTHERS, nine mouth. The offspring, who is upsetting were married in the old room where years ago kin of New York city, telling him to arrest his run- Whose elevation is 2,000 feet above tidewater and fa- the tacks, is slapped, and other means found to the Father of his country whispered sweet away son Thomas, who had telegraphed home for mous for its ALTERATIVE waters and fashionable patronage, is now open. relieve the feelings, when business is proceeded things to his good Martha. The ceremony was money. Policeman Byman found the boy sitting in the Western Union office crying. He was there CHARGES TO FIRST JULY—Monthly, $2 per day; AUCTIONEERS, with again and the tack again stuck in its place. performed in the presence of a number of Weekly, $2.50 per day. awaiting an answer to his dispatch. This time the hammer hits it, but knocks it on strangers.also visiting there. Let us hope that FOR MONTHS OF JULY AND AUGUST-Monthly, It seems that the boy, who is a bright youth, had, •one side, a blow being given sideways to in the journey of life they are now to !.8S per day; Weekly, $3 per day. according to his own story, been accustomed to read Extensive improvements made since last year— Straighten it, which knocks the point clear off. Corner of Klntb and B streets northwest. take together they will remember the vir-dime novels and sensational stories «during his leis- among others, the erection of the PEYTON HOUSE, a Another one is tried, and often a succession of tues of Washington, (George, I mean,) and ure time in his father's store, and becoming fascina- large Hotel with all modern Improvements, and| which Silk Hat. ing convinced that the actual experience of these modern improvements. Six daily mails and telegraph Bob Ingersoll has made a speech—"word down behind the counter and gets the mascu- office. Fifteen to twerfty first-class steamers land daily, paintiDg" I believe they call it. It is one of things is not as pleasant as it is to read about them except Sunday, 150 yards fromthe door., Superior beach line "lemon" out of a black bottle. in print, he concluded to reiurn home. He there- for bathing at door-steps, and good from May until those kind of water-spouts of words that take the November. Boating, fishing and driving especially ROBERTS. for© pawned his revolver, with which he had armed attractive. Send for circular describing hygienic The Fall and Winter style of the Dunlap Silk HAT eye and look well on the surface, and like the himself, for $2.60, and used the money to telegraph advantages. Ac. H. PHOEBUS, PKOPBIBTOB. au6-tf# •will be Introduced to-day by their agents, tableaux at the end of a spectacular play, with home. His father had been telegraphed to, and the MATCH factories are the best place« to look for (hi i) a day at home. Agents wanted. Outfit and WII.LETT & Rl'OFF, little cupids starting out of roses and angel» fly- amateur pugilists. The employes are constantly money will probably be forthcoming to send the boy 1 terms free. TRUE & OO., Augusta, Maine. ing around in the air, takes with the audience, engaged in boxing matches. home again. This is but one instance out of the tens sepG-lyfi selt-tfl ms Pennsylvania avenue. 1 THE CAPITAL.- OCTOBER 8, 1876.
AN ECCENTRIC LâfiY. tion from a friend or relative; but this did not hinder board walk that surmounted the bluff. Struck with That " Truth is stranger than fiction " is an axiom every ill-conditioned passer-by from boasting of his in- his commanding presence, his panoply and defiant GB00EEIES. PLUMBING AID GAS-FITTING. of which the jastice is generally- acknowledged bnt timacy with the House of Mezrab, and recounting air, his hand involuntarily sought his pocket and so seldom realized, that whenever we hear of some the untruths which he invented,pour sefaire valoir, drew forth a silver half dollar, which he proffered eyent rather ont of the common coarse occurring to or to sell his book or newspaper at a better profit. the Aboriginal. Instantly the .severity of his coun- 1423 NEW YÛEK ATEME. 1423 any of our friends, we find ourselves involuntarily She understood friendship in it« best and fullest tenance relaxed into a smile, and, as he suspiciously describing it as being " like a romance !" And yet sense, and for those who enjoyed her confidenoe it accepted the-glittering c«in, mute tribute to his sav- the wildest work of fiction ever penned has rarely was a treat to pa»» the hours with her. She spoke age majesty, he gathered tighter the folds of his contained incidents more extraordinarily improbable Frei'ch, Italian, Q-erman, Slav, Spanish, Arabic, blanket, and bowed his thanks with all the native than these which have marked the career of the Tnrkish and Greek, as she spoke her native tongue. dignity of a Scipio or a Jugurtha—Timeo Banaos, THOMAS M. SHEPHERD, heroine of our present story, an«J which, little edify- She had all the tastes of a country life, and occupied et donaferentes—at a loss to understand the offering, jtog in many respects although they be, may nover- herself alternately with painting, sculpture, music, and yet too polite to decline it. When it was ex- G. G. CORNWELL & SONS, erei ess serve or with the garden flowers, or poultry, or with her plained that the Indians were great beggars, and " To point a moral and adorn a tale." thoroughbred Arab mares, or in carrying out some their courtliness served only as a cover for their cu- improvement.' She was thoroughly a connoisseur in pidity, he became very much disgusted, and, like a Jane Elizabeth, Lady Ellenborough, if we may FINE GEOCERS. PLUMBING, STESIVI ÄffD GAS tzust the matter-of-fact pages of Lodge's Peeragé, is each of her amusements or occupations. To the last true iconoclast, smashed to pieces the beautiful the only sister of the present Lord Digby, being she was fresh and young; beautiful, brave; r&fined image by damning the Aborigines in most unexem- daughter of the late Admiral Sir Henry Digby, G*. and delioate. She hated all that was false. Her plary manner. Time did not appear to have con- O. B., great-grandson of the fifth Lord Digby ; her heart was noble; she was charitable to the poor. quered his resentments, nor mellowed past bitter- FLOUS : mother was a daughter of Thomas 'William Coke of She regularly attended the Protestant chureh, and ness respecting his antagonisms with General often twice on Sundays. She fulfilled all the duties Holkham, the veteran M. P. for Norfolk, and well- James Watson Webb, and although his allusions to. BBLS. "WHITE BLOSSOM," known agriculturist, afterwards created Earl of of a good christian lady and an Englishwoman. She Mr. Clay betrayed penitence and contrition for his GAS FIXTURES, is dead. All those who knew her in her latter days once hostile attitude toward the Kentucky states- The largest and best assorted designs In the city, con- Leicester. She was born in April, 1807, and when lit- MINNESOTA PATENT PROCESS, 4)9.50 FER BBL., sisting of Chandeliers In crystal, bronze and gilt; ex- will weep for her. She had but one fault (and who man, he in nowise songht to conceal his feelings of $2.40 PER SACK. quisite Toilet and Newell Lights; portables ana reading tle more than seventeen, was married to the late Lights, Pendants, Brackets, &c., In endless variety, at Lord Ellenborough (the Governor G-eneral of India;) knows if it was hers,) washed out by fifteen years of enmity toward General Webb. Referring to his WENGER'S PATENT PROCESS, «2 PER SACK. Philadelphia wholesale prices. but the union was dissolved by act of parliament in goodness and repentance. Let us hide it, and shame famous duel with General Webb he said it was his 1830, "on account of har elopment with Prince those who seek to drag up the adventures of her intention, although he had avoided proclaiming it, MANTELS wild youth to tarnish so good a memory. Requie»' to kill Webb if he could, regardless of his own risk 50Q BBLS. WELCH'S, METZ, RAYS', Of the newest and most elegant styles in marble, slate Schwartzenberg." She married as her second hus- 1 and carved walnut, and at the lowest prices. band, two years later, Charles Theodore Herbert, cat in pace. * but that General Webb owed his life to his own awk- ST. LOCTIS, SWISS PROCESS, STAR FLOUR, AT LOWEST RATES. Baron Tennigen of Bavaria. But,Lady Ellenborough was not dead. It will, of wardness. "I should have shot him somewhere else," said he, "if he had only stood straight on his In silver, gilt, bronze and nickel, of handsome design course, be obvious that along with Lord Brougham, and finish. It is probable that this alliance lasted but a short legs. Alter I learned where he had been wounded, time, at least if any credence may be attached to the she had been privileged to read the obituary notice NEW MACKEREL: of her own career; and she is probably destined to I proposed we should both sit down and take another account of a correspondent of the Vienna German A dozen different styles, Including tfco " Mayflower," see many more summers and winters in her Arab round, but he would not consent, and so the affair NO. 1 MACKEREL, $2.75 PER*KIT. Gazette, who writes thus from Beyrout in 1872-3 : " I NO. 3 " $2.00 «• " Silver Palace," " Social," -'Boyn ton's 1878," "Balti- home. ended, much to my chagrin 1" morean," " New Balto " and others, nut up in the best met to-day an old acquaintance, tne camel driver. NO. 8 " $1.60 " manner and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Sheikh Abdul, and he told me that his wife has died It is evident from the tenor of the last few sen- One cold, stormy evening, while engaged in con- GEORGE BANK COD RECEIVED EVBRY WEEK. Abdul spoke well of the woman. Her name was tences of the.foregoing letter that the " one fault" to versation with several gentlemen seated in the office POTOMAC ROE HERRING, (salt.) which the writer alludes was the elopement of Lady of the Winslow House, then a famous tavern in St. I desire to call special attention to the " EMPRESS' once known all through Africa. Sheikh Abdul is the SCOTCH HERRING, 50 cents a box. Range, which cannot be excelled by any range in the Ellenborough with Princ-3 Schwarzenberg, and that Paul, Tom Marshall wearily ascended the stairs and OREGON SALMON, (salt.) ninth husband of Lady Ellenborough, whom I met market for cooking and baking, also for heating ,storiel s Mrs. JBurton entirely disbelievees in the half-dozen or appeared on the scene. Approaching the large stove WHITE PISH, in kits, i and J bbls. above. Also on hand the " Defiance," "Cbllso," Spar- for the first time about thirty years ago at Munich, tan" and other ranges at very low prices. just after she had eloped with Prince Schwartzen- more of apocryphal husbands intervening between which sent forth its gratefnl heat, he held out his berg from the residence of her first husband,. She Lord Ellenborough and the Arab sheik. At any rate, benumbed hands, and, shivering to the very mar- GAS STOVES then went to Italy, where, as she told me herself, the eccentric lady is entitled tp the benefit of the row, tragically exclaimed—"Poor Tom's a-cold. For heating and cookinting complete wi-witt h furnitnr Etnas, Monitors, &e., fo>rr tue sick room. she was married six times in succession. Each and doubt; and public curiosity respecting this extraor- He was really in a pitiable plight, suffering from an G. G. CORNWELL & SONS, all of these unions were dissolved after a short dura- dinary woman must remain unsatisfied until the extended debauch, and presented as he stood there FURNACES. tion. In 18 iS I mother at Athens, where she con- period shall arrive when her friend and confidante, a most melancholy spectactle. In a few minutes he FINE GROCERS, I am prepared to furnish any styles of furnace, either portable or set in a superior manner in brick, at reason- cluded an eighth marriage with the Greek colonel, Mrs. Burton, will be at liberty to publish the auto- thawed out sufficiently to peer around the room, in able rates. Count Theodoki; this, however, also lasted only a biography committed to her charge. his quaint, inquisitive manner, when, observing our ®® [5® B»
only after they had been detected in a large amount Ifthereisa gradation in political sins we loyalty, who sued General Dow for illegal THE public mind is wrestling with the dilem- THE CAPITAL. of double voting that he yielded to the will of the are fully persuaded that the worst in the cata- appropriation of sugar, plate and other prop- ma of whether to believe everything or nothing honest majority. It was oñ that occasion he asked» erty, by officers and soldiers. Judgment by de- that is published in the newspapers^ Next to withahnmorof his own,'Why it was we always logue is that which strikes at the charity', for- WASHIKGTON CITY. giveness and fraternity which are essential fault was rendered against General Dow, and Mr. Tilden, the worst abused representative of Insisted upon taking extraordinary precautions to the Democratic party is the House of Represen- secure an honest vote whenever he happened to be a to healing the wounds of civil war and unit- suit on the Louisiana judgment was brought tatives. One of the inscriptions on the bloody candidate.' They were never needed in a Republican ing a divided country in the bonds of a com- in the circuit court of the United States. SUNDAY MOBNIM, OCTOBER 8, 1876. shirt is the "reckless passage of Southern daims State convention In Massachusetts before. When he The only question before Judges, Clifford •boasted to two of his colleagues at Washington, in mon hope, a common aim and a common at the last session." In answer to this charge a and Clarke was the validity of the judgment. Average Circulation, 10,100 Copies. 1874, 'That he knew what they were telegraphing to destiny. denial has been furnished ; but somehow or Boston, that he got their telegrams before they did, And that unforgivable sin Judge Hoar is These two gentlemen agreed to certify the other it generally happens that they who come that he had a man who read them on the wires by guilty-of, proud of. case to the Supreme Court of the United across the slander pass over the refutation. The THE CAPITA!. the click and brought them to him," and the House States, and did so. statement deserves republication, however, and Can always be found on sale at the newsstands of Represen ta tives passed the resolve offered by Henry L. Pierce to protect the telegraph from his It is also alleged by our contemporary that is one of those propositions whose truth or in the following cities: depredations; and If, as the newspapers inform ns, EX-SPEAKER BLAISE A>D THE Sl- it is stated on good grounds that after Mr. falsity is capable of being tested by the incredu- AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, NEW York. PBEME COURT OF THE UNITE» NEW YORK NEWS COMPANY, '' he employed such an agent as John 1) Sanborn to STATES. Blaine's assault on Judge Clifford and the in- lous. It appears that 119 of the 140 claims in- 8-BAND CENTRAL HOTEL, " dog the steps of Mr. Pierce in New York and find out troduced last winter were old, and many were NEW YORK HOTEL, " his business here, General Buler showed that he It is very gratifying to every American, in tegrity of our national judiciary and the Su- ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL, " presented by Northern members. Of the 109 CONTINENTAL HOTEL, Phlladelphl a. regarded aB legitimate weapons of political warfare contemplating the present or reviewing the preme Court, Judge Clarke complained to FAEKER HOUSE, Boston. means which In private or professional life he would cases reported favorably by the committee of the J. It. HAWLEY, Cincinnati, Ohio. past, to feel that one of the co-ordinate him of the injustice he had done Judge Clif- WILL GRAY. St. Louis. Missouri. undoubtedly think base and dishonorable, on a level ford in his Boston speech, and explained to Forty-third Congress (Republican) the amount FALMER HOUSE, Chicago. with listening at key-holes or picking pockets. I do branches of the Government has not partaken C. H. QOIMBY, 'Wheeling, West Virginia. him the character of the case and the points recommended to be paid is $5,881,000; while the C. 3?; JOHNSTON, Richmond, Virginia. not believe the Republicans of our district wish to of the frailty of the times. It is almost need- 52 e>ses which were reported favorably by the J.T. ELLYSON, " employ such agencies." involved in the decision. C. C. HALEY, New Orleans,Louisiana. less to say that we refer to the Supreme committee of the Forty-fourth Congress (Demo- W. BCOTT GLOBE, Louisville, Kentucky. We have here a man disgraced in the House, J. A. BOYS, Detroit, Michigan. There are many charges here against the Court of the United States. cratic) amount to $215,301, of which only §¡74,453 C. C. BIOHTEE, Charleston, South Carolina, where he was the opposition leader, and de- "WHITE A BAUER, San Francisco, California. Essex statesman and not "inconsolable This great conservative element of our was actually passed by the House. J. T. COX, Alexandria, Virginia. feated in a Presidential convention, where he M. A. CROWN'S, No. 18 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore. widow " that we had not before heard of, and system may have been shaken by some of And at all the hotels and news stands In Baltimore. was supported by an organized ring of cor- we do not propose to indorse or refute them ; the terrible shocks before which legislative THE ACTION taken by some of our public-spir- Also, at but we do say that they furnish the picture of ruptionists, assailing with all the venom of Reading Boom New York Herald, 61 Avenue de l'Op- and executive integrity crumbled to pieces. ited citizens—and we regret they are so few—to a bad man if they are true, and Judge Hoar Its bench was threatened with the invasion disappointed and enraged ambition the only give a warm and hospitable welcome to the °Beading Booms Robert C.M. Bowles, 449 Strand,Lon- existing branch of the American Government don. —————— says they are true. .Granting them for the of a Williams and a Cushing. Its decisions, "Army of the Tennessee," cannot be too highly sake of argument, as proved by satisfactory involving party questions in one'or two in- that has never been contaminated by the commended. JUDGE HOAK AHD «EMERAI. BUTEEK. evidence, we are lost in amazement to learn stances, have been assailed by the ingenuity presence of bribe-takers and corruptionists. This is the first reunion of the kind ever held When a battle was about being fought be- that Judge Hoar, accepting the standard of of intellectual antagonism. Two of its mem- We dismiss from consideration the politi- at Washington. Our guests come to do honor tween two armies on the frontier an Indian reform and honesty, standing before his con- bers, the late Chief Justice Chase and Associate cal atmosphere that surrounds this disgusting to the memory of their old commander. General McPherson. A statue which is to be one of the chief was invited to enter into the festivities. stituency on the stump, like a rotating figure exhibition, and only regard it as an illustra- Justice Davis, were more than suspected of ornaments of our parks is to be unveiled, and He respectfully declined with the remark, in a Dutch hand-organ, and inviting inspec- p olitical and presidential aspirations; but the tion of the low moral condition to which the American people have fallen, when an ex- many American citizens will visit Washington " Bed man sit on mountain top and see white tion from all sides—we repeat that we are personal purity, the individual integrity and for the first time. It is our duty to see that Speaker, an ex-candidate for the Presidency, man kill each other." Inspired by the same lost in amazement to learn that Judge Hoar, the conservative spirit of the bench have with- these gentlemen leave with the best impressions. philosophical idea, we contemplate the divis- under these circumstances, and gazing on the stood the passions of civil strife, the temptations a present senator and a lawyer, can falsely Our people have been misunderstood long ions of the Republican party in Massachu- character he has given General Butler, should of a corrupt epoch, the persuasions of false and maliciously misrepresent a case involving enough. It is time we were doing something to setts, and wait for the happy moment when say in the same letter, "with no personal friends and the threats of vindictive enemies. the integrity of a judge of the Supreme throw off the burden of false accusation that the triumphant spirit of Democracy, chastened hostility against General Butler," &c. When we contemplate this American in- Court and of the court itself, and can do it has long Iain upon us. It is in our power not by the tragedies of the field, will return from A strictly honest man must feel stitution with feelings of pride that are multi- with impunity amid the plaudits of a follow- only to silence the voice of the capital-mover, but to awaken an interest throughout the country in its victorious banquet and with due solemnity himself personally hostile to every plied by the contrast afforded in the melan- ing, not o/ a few, but of a host of citizens proceed to bury the dead of both its enemies. and voters, made up of cultured New Eng- our beautiful city. We trust, therefore, that dishonest man; for he who can blacken an op- choly reflection of how feeble have been the our people will respond generously in every It appears that the Republicans, dissatisfied ponent in public and offer to shake his hand other two branches of our political trinity, landers, in a Boston hall, and of hard-fisted Buckeyes under a western sky. Blaine vs. way to the demand of two days on their time with the regular nomination in the seventh in private is a hypocrite of the worst dye. we cannot but recall and apply the beautiful and good-fellowship. congressional district of Massachusetts, gath- When the notorious Whitley was on the wit- lines of England's sweetest poet: The Supreme Court of the United States. ered together in sulking conclave and con- ness stand in the Babcock trial he said that " As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Issue : Integrity, honesty and intelligence- is the case presented for public opinion to " HE speaketh not," they said. The voice) cluded to place a candidate in opposition. he recognized a distinction between a com- Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Senator Conkling has at last been heard. On Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, give verdict and judgment. They said that they were " profoundly im- mittee oath and a court oath. Judge Hoar Tuesday night he addressed the Republicans at Eternal sunshine settles on its head." pressed with a conviction that the character seems to have caught something of Whitley's Utica, and gave them both a rebuke and good and political record of Benjamin F. Butler subtle spirit, for he refines between the private We must not forget, however, that even MINOR NOTES. advice. He told them that personal abuse ofthe make him an unfit candidate for a representa- and public character of a man, and tells his supreme court judges are but men. candidate was out of place, in bad taste and It is the first duty of every American citi- tive in Congress when the Republican party, .virtuous constituency that General Butler is a THE CAPITAL exhausted its sphere in the direc- availed- nothing. " Knowing personally each of under foe.leadershi p of Rutherford B. Hayes good fellow personally, but is a bad fellow zen, from the" humblest to the greatest, to tion of awakening the people of the District to the presidential candidates," he said, " I prefer and "William A. Wheeler," &c., &c. publicly. Why? Because the traits which give them countenance, support and en- the necessity of action in behalf of a new gov- to treat them as deserving of support or opposi- Next to the profound impression of one Judge Hoar ascribes to him, and which are couragement in the future. In the past the ernment by a serieB of articles which, if not dis- tion because of the political sentiments they em- man's unfitness must necessarily, in " concate- enough to damn him, render him an "ob- test has been applied, the experiment has tinguished for more than ordinary suggestive- body and the political organizations they repre- ness, were inspired by a sincere and earnest de- sent." nation accordingly," come the profound im- jectionable candidate only." Could moral been made. When all the other bodies would have shot from their orbits and given every- sire for the good of this community. We have This position of the senator, while so highly pression of another man's fitness ; and these hypocrisy go further? Could any political thing over to destruction, the Supreme Court, received no news that any vigorous action has commendable, is not at all in harmony with the bolters of deep, convictions concluded that juggler who compromises right and expe- like the sun, restrained these eccentrics in been taken by any combination of property hold- organs ofthe party, and is calculated to mislead Judge Hoar responded' to the standard of diency furnish a stronger exhibition of a pres- their circuits. It was, is and will ever be the ers and tax-payers for the end we have in view. the great unwashed. For if the press calls Mr. "the Republican party under the leadership tidigitáting conscience? The next feature of central power of our revolving system. It is The subject of a new government of course Tilden a scoundrel and Mr. Conkling indorses of Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. divides itself into branches, about which certain Judge Hoar's letter is a comic one : not enough, however, to recognize existing him as a man to be spoken of with language of Wheeler." Judge Hoar is also pro- " When a public servant cannot bring a character callings and professions have the best right to he merit; if we wish to perpetuate it we must respect, the average voter may well ask with foundly impressed with General Butler's un- from his last place it is wise to use some'caution in heard and the best capacity for meeting the de- Mrs. Maloprop, " is he, like Cerberus, two gen- accepting his advances to a new engagement, how- surround it with influences calculated to make worthiness aud his own worthiness, for in his mands of the occasion. Possibly it is the best tlemen in one'/" ever pressing, and the representative whom the the path of duty safe as well as honorable, plan for gentlemen identified with certain pur- letter of acceptance' he introduces the ex- voters ef the sixth district could tolerate no longer and we must exile from the imagination the suits to tabean independent action. If Super- pression above quoted, so uncomplimentary might live among us a year or two at least before THE death of James Lick, the California idea of a Supreme Court judge ever willfully intendent Wilson, Mr. Charles B. Young and to the Essex statesman, indorses it and -insisting that the seventh district should repeat the Croesus, instead of being the forerunner of experiment." and knowingly being guilty of official weak- Mr. Wright would constitute themselves a com- says, "I am that other man you are looking his once designed public beneficence, will doubt- Evil communications corrupt good man- ness or wickedness. mittee on public schools we might have an im- less be the signal for a scramble among hungry for." ners. The " bigotry" of the South has trav- proved system secured. heirs and occasion a long and bitter litigation. As we have already hinted, we have no per- Public sentiment,. a cautious, jealous and eled to the North and invaded the palladium It will be remembered that he intended to sonal interest in this little unpleasantness ex- virtuous public ^sentiment, has set its seal of The institution of a respectable and efficient of all the charities. Who expected General Board of Health belongs to the medical society shower blessings, with a full hand, upon the cept as a looker-on; for the frequency of con- disapprobation on the eligibility of a Chief Pacific coast; that he had dedicated immense Butler, coming from one Massachusetts con- Executive to a third term, or a judge of the of the District. We had a conversation last flicts between the swallow-tails and short week on this subject with three of its members, Bums to educational purposes, and appointed gressional district into another, to be subject Supreme Court to the Presidential candidacy. hairs do not diminish the zest of the enter- and learn that the profession submitted an ad- trustees to secure the proper fulfillment of his tainment. to the pains and penalties of carpet-bagism? If that distinguished member of the .bench, wishes; but having quarreled with this fiduciary How differently Judge Hoar looks upon mirable system to Congress at the last session. The letter of Judge Hoar, however, is an the Hon. David Davis, has lost an element of One of these gentleman, however, will agents, and hesitated about the very charities he epistle about which we would like to make a strangers without character going into the the universal respect which he has enjoyed, revive the matter at the next meeting of the had spontaneously suggested; having exhibited few remarks, if they are in order, and we South? General Butler a carpet-bagger in it is due to'the fact that his name has been society. We trust that the medical men of the a wavering mind and a not praiseworthy re- suppose they are, at a time when the Repub- his own State ! Will wonders ever cease ? bandied about in political atmospheres. The District will not be behindhand in performing pentant mood, his prospects of being immor- lican party is a candidate for popular favor on The last paragraph of Judge Hoar's letter people believe that a judge of the Supreme the duty of good citizens. The legal gentlemen talized as a philanthropist are not altogether the basis of reform. which demands our attention is the follow- Court has nothing to wish for, and cannot have made many rash promises of cooperation certain. His conduct furnishes a melancholy contrast to that of the late Johns Hopkins. In the first place the Republican party is ing : appreciate the theory that he has anything to and more wise suggestions. We have been not under the leadership of Rutherford B. " What has changed all this and brought in a hope for. When a man is elevated to that promised the views, in writing, of more than House of Representatives controlled by ex-Confede- one lawyer whose opinions are deserving of the Hayes and William A. Wheeler. The former rates ? What influence has stopped the triumphal bench—and none, as yet, has been unwor- COMPLAINT is being made at the non-appear- thily advanced—it is presumed that he has highest consideration; but we are afraid that is doubtless a gentleman of conservative emo- march in which the Republican party has been ac- where actual work is concerned you might as ance of the planet Yulcan. This breach of en- customed to go to easy and assured victory, and has reached tiie highest summit of republican tions ; the latter was guilty of conservative well expect a cartwheel to turn without grease gagement on his part is only to be excused out substituted a struggle for existence? What has re- greatness. He is not merely a lawyer and a of consideration for his lameness. utterances in his letter of acceptance; but vived the almost extinct hope of Southern rebels as an attorney to labor without a fee. neither nor both represent the leadership of judge; he is one of the guard of honor to the and their Northern allies of regaining their lost However, we again appeal to our citizens to the Republican party. Zachariah Chandler power ?" Constitution of our country, one of the con- [Communicated.] servators of our bill of rights, a watchman on be alive and doing. It is much better to pre- Paving: tta« A venae. is the leader, and of him we are in doubt Judge Hoar, whatever else we may call him, our outer tower. The reader of the Vicar of vent mistakes and anticipate ertors than to grum- A very important improvement in paving the Ave- whether to speak as Secretary of the Interior is not a fool. He knows that there can be Wakefield will recollect the ingenious plan of ble after they have been committed and cannot nue has been suggested to the.paving commission. or chairman of the national executive com- neither voters nor respectable candidates at be reversed. If the District is at the mercy of It is the universal -practice to lay all concretes of a Mr. Primrose to preserve his wife in the ways mittee, since the two positions of Cabinet the South who were not in the Confederate misgovernment and corruption again we will uniform thickness; in the middle of the street, where that a woman should walk in. He wrote a the wear is much the greatest, and at the sides, officer and wire-puller are so incompatible service. He knows that the old men and the have to blame ourselves. There are moneys to list of her many virtues and suspended them where the wear is hut a trifle. This is an obvious that it is hard to recognize the same man in young men of [that section are all ex-rebels. be raised in the future, gentlem en, which may in a frame over the chimney-piece. The and serious error. An examination on any of the both places. He and his party have thought fit to remove either redeem the honor of the District or be nnmerous concrete streets of the city will show at a happy thought should be utilized in respect Under the leadership of the great Michi- their disabilities and invite them to the en- squandered ta its prolonged bankruptcy. glance that much the greatest wear is in the middle, to our Supreme Court judges. Until they gander the presidential nominee has been si- joyment of suffrage; invite, we say, because decreasing towards each side to the curb, where its are actually bad let us hold before them their effects can scarcely be seen. Doubtless if these lenced in his speech and stultified in his re- the constitutional right is regarded as a Re- own mirrored characters. In the inception THE New York World and New York Bun ot streets had all been laid one half thicker in the mid- forms. The administration in office is as an- publican boon. If, then, you have ex-rebels dle, decreasing towards the sides, while the amount of this patriotic scheme we are met at the last Tuesday published the/ac-sitni'Ze of a letter tagonistic to the administration that hopes to for voters and ex-rebels for candidates, how alleged to be written by Governor Hayes' pri- of material used would have been the same, the wear threshold by no less an antagonist than Mr. be in office as the spirit of evil is to holy can you help having ex-Confederates for con- vate secretary, acknowledging the receipt of the would have been at least one half longer. The im- Blaine.- And Mr» Blaine's attitude towards provement proposed is to lay the concrete on the water. Not only has Governor Hayes been gressmen ? Granting for the sake of argu- resolutions of the American Alliance indorsing the highest court of the land is thus explained Avenue the thickest where the wear is greatest, to packed away like a parlor carpet, in camphor ment that it was magnanimous not to exile the nomination of that gentleman to the- presi- decrease in thickness to the curb. The Grahamite and by the New York Nation: and darkness, but the nominee for the Vice every young man and old man of the South; dency. The note of course expresses gratifica- pavement is laid two and a half inches thick, uni- tion. form from side to side; the Neuchatel is laid one Presidency has been commanded to go forth granting it was more than magnanimous, it In a recent speech at Boston the ex-Speaker The American Alliance is of course in direct and three quarter inches, uniform throughout. It in the by-ways and proclaim from the house was godlike, to obliterate the past in con- and ex-candidate referred to the prophetic will be seen that both of these pavements are thin, tops that the principles he espoused in his ferring citizenship, what shall we call the antagonism to the secured privileges and future and especially the last, and if they are continued to robbery of the Treasury from the horde of hopes of adopted citizens. Any man who es- letter of acceptance are false and the pledges spirit that assails these invited guests at the " rebel claimants," and instanced a case de- be laid in this manner on this heavy traveled street he gave are to be broken. After a pronounced national hoard with the most ungenerous sus- pouses its doctrines must do so from honest con- they will be worn out in the middle, where the cided in the United States circuit court at victions that are ready to sacrifice a certain num- wear is the greatest, while the portion near the rail- position in favor of conservative action to- picion and vilest vituperation? Portland, "against General Neal Dow, for road will not be much worn, and near the curb wards the South, after an unequivocal recog- ber of political friends and supporters. It is not Judge Hoar has assigned to General Butler sugar seized by him in Louisiana for the use slanderous to accuse Govorner Hayes of mem- scarcely worn at all. TJpen this plan of laying th nition of the charitable policy necessary to be thickest where the wear is the greatest, the amount some very unenviable traits. The "widow " of his soldiers." Again in Ohio he gave the bership in an organization -which doubtless con- exercised towards that section, the would-be of bituminous concrete material to be used would be never made pretensions to supreme goodness; history of the case, said that judgment was tains some very good, very ignorant and very the same. It would therefore cost the contractors Vice President appears on the stump wav- but we do say that the man who wears the rendered against Dow personally, who had foolish men; it is only damaging to bis chances the same as at present, while the wear would be at ing "the bloody shirt" in a maniacal way garb of political purity, upon whose tongue offered the owner a receipt for the sugar if he to speak it of him. Now it is paradoxical for a least one half longer. The proposed improvement that Morton himself might envy. proved his , loyalty, which he refused to do, leading Republican ; for every such an one is the would therefore be no extra cost to the contractors, fine sentiments of morality hang in clusters, aud as they are under heavy bonds to keep the pave - For these and other reasons we say that the who praises himself in the degree that he that he got judgment in a Louisiana court, high priest of universal suffrage and the doctrine ment in good order for years, if it lasts one half Republican party is not under the leadership abuses his opponent, who is ready to assume that the United States court affirmed the judg- that one man is as good as another and a little bet- longer it would be greatly to their advantage. It Of Hayes and Wheeler, that Judge Hoar knows the responsibility of legislating for the happi- ment, that this judgment was "warmly dis- ter too—it is, we say, paradoxical for any leading would also be of corresponding advantage to the Government and the property-owners who .pay for it, and that knowing it, he is a hypocrite in ness of a whole people and the fate of a na- sented from by Judge Clarke of New Hamp- Bepublican to stand in the attitude of qualifier of any political gratuity. The doctrine of the work. The expense upon both is heavy. There have endeavoring to establish a false impression. tion, who is certainly experienced and en- shire," who had been "brought up in the party has been to let go the brakes and trust to been serious doubts as to the durability of both of This typical reformer of the Republican party lightened in public affairs, such a man, who lifts true faith," but he was overruled by Judge these pavements, and very much on acoonnt of their Clifford, who is an "ingrain, hungry Demo- luck; therefore it will be inconsistent in and in- being so very thin, and if they should fail mainly on is somcweat proud of his parts of speech, and his voice in behalf of perpetuating the evil jurious to the presidential nominee whose indulges in the brevity of biographical cen- crat, double dyed and twisted, dyed in the this account, It cannot be for want of warning in passions of civil war, who strives to load pos- friends ar« securing the free exercise of the bal- time. Another Important improvement wonld be to wool, and course wool at that," and added, sure occasionally. Of these gifts and this dis- terity with the sins of their ancestors, who lot to the contraband, to be recognized as the raise the pavement gradually up to one inch higher position the following enumeration of General would bequeath hatred from sire to son, who in his opinion, that Judge Clifford had earned friend of a sub-party that has for its object the at all cross streets, so as to run off water and mud Butler's objectionable deeds and characteris- would prefer success of party to the blessings the case for eight years, " and never affirmed and slush in winter and keep the crossings passable. limitation of suffrage among our naturalized Pedestrians have rights as well as wheelestrians. tics is an illustration: of a Union beloved by all and a Constitution the decision untilhe in his ignorance believed citizens. A. w. " With unquestioned ability and unbounded au- protecting all, such a man is worse than the in a Democratic triumph." dacity the methods by which he pursues the object« General Butler whom Judge Hoar has drawn FISH CULTURE : A. B. Mullett has been ap- "MARBIACB is promotion," says George Eliot. of ambition seem to be pernicious and evil. At the The truth of the case, according to the as unworthy of the suffrages of the men of Nation, is that the plaintiff was Mr. Bradish pointed superintending architect of public build- In the eyes of such a leasoner a man with his third last State convention at which he sought the nomi- Massachusetts. wife would doubtless pass for a brigadier general.— nation for governor, and led his own forces, It was of New York, a gentleman of unquestioned ings now in the course of erection. Ro cluster Democrat. 1 THE CAPITAL.- OCTOBER 8, 1876.
FASHION NOTES. LOCAL ITEMS. French Spoken After a Few Months' Study, AMUSEMENTS. EDUCATIONAL. Was it not Canon Kingsley who wrote that " men Through an oral mode, by which learners may spealx more correctly and pronounce more perfectly and in a mnst work and women must weep?" He should The German American Savings 'Bank, corner shorter time than by going abroad. "Y^ILLAED HALL. ROFESSOR EDWARD POINTIS, have substituted the word " dress " for weep, and Seventh and F streets, pays interest on deposits. Safe Professor J. B. Cantel of Patapsco Institute has some the truth would have been reached. Since the spring deposit boxes for rent. P1 (" LAUREAT" OF THE "CONSERVATOIRE" original views of the best methods of teaching foreign OF PARIS,) begs leave to inform the lovers of music of '61 there has never been so great a depression in GRAND CONCERT. "WELLS' EUREKA is entirely d erent and superior TO languages, which deserve the attention of those Inter- that he is prepared to give private lessons on piano at business of every sort; never such croaking as a his or the pupil's residence. The Professor brings with, any 15 cent article. All drug stores have it. ested in the smbject. The efficiency of his system is him the highest recommendations, and among tliem present; and yet—strange contradiction—there has fully illustrated by quite a number of ladies, educated BENEFIT OF THE SAVANNAH SUFFEREES. that of the President of the " Conservatoire" of Paris, never been an autumn when Europe has sent from "PAPETERIE, cheap, at Parker's, 527 Seventh street. at Patapsco Institute, now well known in Washington the highest musical institution of France. Adults will derive a great advantage, from the fact that Professor her looms fabrics so costly or so sumptuous. Silks- society as speaking French fluently. VXDNESAAY, OCT, 11, 1876, THE pharmacy of F. W. Koss, is one of the best in Pointls being fluent In both languages, French and Eng- are in greater and richer variety, ribbons are in His method of instruction is both practical and theo- lish, it will afford them a good opportunity to make a the city, all prescriptions are compounded by himself, At 8 o'clock p. in. practical use of the French language. For circulars softer and more expensive silk; while the French corner 7th and Boundary streets. ap23-ly retical, but for those anxious to speak in a short time, apply at Metzerott's or Ellis' music store. And for per- it is from the outset made chiefly oonversational, with sonal interview at 2007 H street northwest. oct8-3mos8 Fleuristes are in despair because America demands Mr. J. REMINGTON FAIRLAMB, more tine flowers than they can supply. Economy Ladies' Extra Fine Hosiery. just so much theory as is advantageous to each learner, thus making the study of French an agreeable as well Miss EVA MILLS, Mr. HERIJDON MORBELL, is our pet theory; extravagance our darling prao- Large variety extra fine fall hosiery, for ladies and FRENCH SPOKEN as a useful pastime. Miss SALLIE FL1NN, Mr. 8. W. KEEN, tice. children, have last been opened at Wolford & Shil- Miss EMMA KAUFMANN, Mr. C. BEALL. berg'p, 817 Market space. Professor Cantel's mode of Imparting a correct pro- The most decided innovation of the season is in nunciation, the result of twenty years' experience and AFTER A FEW MONTHS' STUDY. colors—pale neutral tints have^been displaced by the WELLS'EUREKA TOOTH POWDER contains no acid earnest stady, is simple and easy, yet so perfect that Tickets, - SO Cunts, Classes on HISTORY AND LITERATURE for ad- most brilliant hues. The most sanguinary red is the or anything injurious. Price 25 cents. some of his pupils have, from the purity of their ac- For sale at Metzerott's and the principal bookstores. cent, been taken for natives while traveling in France, Its vanced scholars. color fort â la n>ode; dresses, bonnets, hats, stock- FOR fine "wine, old whiskies and best grades of cigars ings and even parasols have a dash of this glaring The professor brings with him the highest recom- go to Peter Welcker's, Fifteenth street, opposite the RATIONAL THEATER. PROF. J. B. CANTEL, cardinal red. For parasols there is a raison d'être, Treasury. Mr. W. has a large stock of Robinson county mendations, and among them that of Professor Henri sepl7-3mosS 221D street northwest. for the shadow thrown by the sun's gleams through Tennessee, and old Bourbon whiskies. Masson, who, previous to his departure for France, in- troduced him to the special favor and attention of his COMIC OPERA SEASON. the silk is very becoming. Mr. Willian, wh<5 gives MEDIO AL.- numerous friends and patrons. Rice A Goodwin's American Comic Opera, ns a greater variety, and at lower prices, than one Shawls and Cloaks. A large assortment shawls and cloaks, of the latest For circulars applv at Solomons & Chapman's, 911 ISTANCiELINE., can find this side of New York, displays extraordi- patterns, just opened, at Wolford & Shilberg's, 817 Mar- Pennsylvania avenue. And for personal interview at BRIGHT MUSIC, VIVACIOUS DIALOGUE, FUNNY nary talent in all of his selections for our fair belles ket space. 221E street northwest. INCIDENTS, LUDICROUS EFFECTS. For the Bath, and handsome matrons. In Over thirty singing people In the cast, led by the fa- BONNETS LADIES, Wells' Eureka Tooth Powder is composed Card to the Public. vorite prima donna, Sponges, Soaps. Towels, Bru •••lies, Sea I hereby notify my friends and the public that I am MISS ANNIS MONTAGUE, Salt and Perfumed Waters. the novelties are the steep crowns, à la Mother entirely of imported articles. Price 25 cents. in no way connected with the store 720 Seventh street, And the charming Singing Comedienne, G-oose, the Dimitre, the Sangalli, the Russian Jaque, IF YOU would please your wife, go to J. C. Parker- nor responsible for any transaction done at the above MISS KITTY BLANCHARD. Piccolino and the old hat ever new, Marip Stuart. 527 Seventh street, and secure for her some of those ele- place. Grand Chorus, Augmented Orchestra, Most Beautiful gant designs of papeterie, to write to you while you Other shapes are shown, exceedingly rich and ele- S. KATZENSTEIN, Scenic Display, an army of Juvenile Continentals, led are at the Centennial. by little Llllle Granger and the Infant Cornet Flayer, Soda Water, gant, with oddly-trimmed crowns and close-clingin 310 Seventh street, near Pennsylvania Avenue. fronts. No face trimming except a twist of tulle or Tommy Fish. " DOLLY, have you tried theJCroole Hair Oil prepared STUDY your interest, and go see Parker, 527 Seventh Drawn, ice cold, with fruit and Cream a coil of velvet. Contrasts of coLor or two shades of ttyrups. at Cudlipp^s Pharmacy, Seventh and N streets north- street, when you contemplate purchasing your station- EVANGELINE MATINEE SATURDAY. one color are en regie.. Virot, the queen of the mil- OCTOBER IS—MAGGIE MITCHELL. west ? If not, do so at once—it is an excellent dressing, ery goods. In preparation—WANTED, A DIVORCE. linery world, displays several chapeaux. One of and only 25 cents a bottle." " No, but I used the Orris It3 olive velvet, olive ostrich plumes, bronze feather Tooth Powder prepared by him, and will go and buy JOHN H. KENNY, our fashionable lace dealer, has jus buckle, bronze chenille fringe drooping over rim, bottle of oil, as I can relyupon what I get at Cudiipp's, returned from New York, where he purchased a large CHORD'S OPERA HOUSE. Mineral Wafers, white tulle ruche. The other a dark green velvet, Seventh and N streets northwest." and elegant assortment of laces, embroideries, Paris cardinal silk crown, rich Impion feather held by novelties, cloaks, suits and almost everything neces- MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, Vichy, Kissingen, Seltzer, Congress, WELLS' EUREKA gradually removes tartar and all sary for making a lady's outfit fashionable, attractive Haththoru, High Rock, Geyser, Ex- steel buckle, twist of cardinal and green velvet in- Dloh Bou.lcault's Great American Drama, impurities without the least injury. Price 25 cents. and stylish. Mr. Kenny was for many years the lace celsior, Bedford, Blue Lick, Fried- side. Tuvee, who is the rival of Yirot, has a divine THB OCTOROON; erlcksliall and Buffalo Springs. buyer for the firjn of A. T. Stewart & Co., New York, THE OCTOROON; chapeau du soir of cream colored velvet, high crown, THE "Hole in the Wall" on Louisiana avenue, oppo- and the many rare opportunities afforded him of fa- THB OCTOBOON; light blue pepings on the rim, with a bouquet of tea site the city hall, is well stocked with the best known miliarizing himself with the lace trade were cultivated THE OCTOBOON; THE OCTOROON; roses, ferns, forget-me-nots and sumac below the brands of liquors and cigars. Its proprietor, Mr. Frank to their fullest extent, and lie is consequently at pres- crown, and is the most perfect bonnet ever imported Hagerty, will always be found ready and willing to ent one of the best judges of laces in this country. Or, Former Life In Louisiana. serve his friends and patrons. Or, Former Life In Louisiana. here. Or, Former Life in Louisiana. THE Irving Circulating Library has been removed I. L. BLOUT'S opening and exhibition of Paris bon- Or, Former Life In Louisiana. Le Chevalier—and how graceful her work is—has from 1321F street to 1509 H street. 1 his library con- Or, Former Life in Louisiana. PHARMACIST, 703 FIFTEENTH ST. nets and hats next Thursday promises to be very at- created, among an hundred others, a bonnet of tête tains many rare and valuable works of literature,«and nov2l-ly3 tractive, and ladies in quest of novelties in millinery THE FAMOUS JUBILEE SINGERS, de Nègre, (the new color with France, but an old our people will find it a real treat to consult it if they THE FAMOUS JUBILEE SINGERS should not fail to call that day at 710 Seventh street color with us,) velvet, cap crown, knife plaitingsofa wish to find interesting reading matter. THE FAMOUS JUBILEE SINGERS, northwest. THE FAMOUS JUBILEE SINGERS, lighter shade silk combined with Tillent, (a new IT IS acknowledged by all, and denied by none, that THE FAMOUS JUBILEE SINGERS, name for yellow,) silk around the crown. Plumes of A TAMPHLET, entitled " How to see the Centennial J, C. Parker, 527 Seventh street, has the largest and In New Plantation Melodies. Tillent tipped with bronze completes this distingué in Five Days," can be had at Brad. Adams', 812 F street. In New Plantation Melodies. most complete stock of stationery, blank books, novels, Price 25 cents. Don't forget his Centennial trip, Octo- »8 OCTOROON MATINEE SATURDAY. head covering. pens, pencils, &c., in the city. Barroal sends a decided novelty in black velvet ber 16,17,18 and 19. NATURE is giving us hints that suggest warm colors, rpHEATER COMIQUE, covered, plain, steep crown encircled with coque THE well-kept restaurant of Dan. O'Brien, opposite feathers mixed with jet. On center of crown, and and cardinal red will certainly be painted OD the Eleventh street, below Pennsylvania avenne. the Baltimore and Ohio depot, is growing immensely leaves when nature takes her paint brush in hand. trailing down the back, is a cluster of soft blush FIRST WEEK OF THE SEASON—AN ENTIRE NEW popular, and its close proximity to the depot givi s it While interviewing the windows at 439 Seventh street, COMPANY. roses ; the edge is corded with blush pink chenille, superior advantages. Travelers can lunch or get a we saw in Mr. Markriter's a rich style of wall paper Popular prices of admission—Orchestra* 50; Orchestra first-class meal at this house, and almost step from the Circle, 35; Parquet. 35; Gallery, 15. and the inside filled in with a knot of velvet, in with back grdund of deep-clyed cardinal in velvet, with MONDAY. OCTOBKR 9, NIGHTLY, AND MATI- which is a band of tea-colored roses. dining-room into the cars. sprays of gold-tinted leaves. It was elegant. There NEES WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY. Pronounced by the profession the safest and most NOTICE : Arrangement has been made with the As- effectual IN COSTUMES New Dress Goods. were some bright pictures that really had myrtle green sociated Press for telegrams with regard to the elec- are importations from the famous Deschamps and Wolford & Shilberg, 817 Market space, open to-mor- and tillent in their foliage. Beal artists do not over- tions In the States of Ohio, Indiana and West Virginia, TOOTH AND GEM WASH look these attractions, and Mr. Markriter's selections and the returns will be given from the stage on Tues- ï)aydon—houses so well known that in Europe and row a most magnificent variety of fall dress goods, In day night, October 10, the day of election in said States, For healing and hardening the Gums, preventlngDe- American their name on a costume gives it an im- the latest novelties of the season. The styles surpass in paper-hangings demonstrate this. Identically as they will appear In the Wednesday morn- cay, beautifying the Teeth and perfuming the Breath. anything exhibited heretofore in the District. ing papers. The following Dentists and Physicians can testify to portance scarcely second to that of "Worth. LACKEY, the tailor, 922 F street, has a fine assortment Yankee Locke will appear in his great sensational Its merits: Drs. W. H. Hoopes. H. H. Keech. C. E. Deschamps has fashioned a suit of navy blue with drama of TRUMPS; OB, HIGH, LOW, JACK AND THE Duck, A. Price, Wm. Witt. S. H. Williams, O. H. Bur- EUREKA TOOTH POWDER is prepared only by E. H. of piece goods, and is making them up in the best style GAME. Also, will appear the following variety talent: ton, Bernhard Meyer, A. P. Gore, W. G. Rider, T. C. plain silk sleeves. Polonaise, diagonal front, trim Wells, dentist, of this city. at gold prices for greenbacks. Delevantl, Alfredo and Dohrn, Freeman Sisters, Sig. Norton, E. A. Marls, Thomas Sapplngton, Prof. B. med with knife plaitings and bands. This suit was Giovanni. Lizzie Barrett, Boyd and Wade, Minnie Far- Rldgway, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C. reil. Will H. Morton, and a host of others. lt»5 sold before the opening fairly begun. Daydon sends THE Northern Liberty Chariot Company has made I Have Just Opened The finest line of overcoats ever offered for sale in R. I. AUTENBACH, Chemist, one of light gray cloth, with silk points of a darker a ehange in its route, and also increased the fare Sole Proprietor, from five to six cents—five tickets for twenty-five cents, Washington. Silk-lined overcoats from $25 to $45 EDUCATIONAL. N. E. corner Eutaw and Saratoga streets, Baltimore* shade, and trimming of silver fox fur. The most beavers and numerous other styles of overcoatings elegant nouveau te is a carriage robe of black ma- twenty tickets for one dollar. By referring to the ad- For sale in Washington bv vertisement in another, column the new route can be satin-lined and trimmed in best manner imaginable, CHARLES STOTT & CO., Druggists, 408 Pennsylvania telasse trimmed with cardinal sHk pleating?, over from $30 to $75. avenue. seen. LAW DEPARTMENT J. HILLIS MASSEY, Chemist, corner Fourteenth and I whiqh falls rich chenille lace. In style it is called KATZENSTBIN, streets northwest. Continental, and the overskirt is draped a la tunique. CAPTAIN DEATLEY, 1220 E street, is furnishing hotels The Fashionable Clothier, 310 Seventhstreet. BUTLER & CLARRIDGE, Chemists, corner Third It is rather bizarre, but very distingue. The black and families with first quality of salt water oysters in street and Indiana avenue, and all druggists through- quantities to suit their wants, from a pint to a bushel, or ALL THE latest publications received as soon as is- OF out the United States. dec6-3 silk suits are endless in variety and beauty. They sued, at Parker's, 527 Seventh street. hav e overskirts in the style known as scarf drapery any quantity desired. The captain is also making his West End restaurant an institution very largely known * BETHESDA WATER in material ; some of 6ilk, others in velvet. Chenille Coal. for its delicious oysters and fine table generally. Cures Diabetes, Brlght's Disease and all other affections fringe and rich lace are the favorite trimmings. The season of the year is now upon us when orders of the kidneys. for coal and wood are in order, and those who have to CHARLES STOTT A CO. IN WRAPS THE gentlemen's dining saloon, corner Seventh and UNIVERSITY OF GIOBGETOWH. 406 Pennsylvania avenue, E streets, is now one of the popular institutions of buy large or small quantities always feel an Interest in dec5-l Agents for D. C. and Virginia. the long coat style is the leading shape. They the prices of fuel, and as Messrs. Thomas W. Riley & are made of basket matellassé, fur, beaver cloth,,rich Washington, and under the efficient management of Mr. Dave Hagerty its future is an assured success. Sons advertise with us to furnish coal below panic silk and Lyons velvet ; they are most all of them This is a saloon at which gentlemen can get just what prices, we refer our readers to their advertisement. ST. CLOUD DRUG STORE, edged with the fur of the black beaver, lynx and they call for, and served in a style that would tempt WE call attention to the advertisement of It. Tallant FACULTY 5 new Australian marmot. Indeed fur-lined and fur- the most confirmed epicure. & Co. This firm has all the machinery and facilities REV. P. P. HEALY, 8. J., JOHN T. COLE & CO., finished coats will be the popular favorites with the for supplying the wants of our citizens with fine mat- A Careful Study President, and Lecturer on Ethics in its relation to haut-ton. "We would like to say with " every one tresses from their factory, 419 Eleventh street. We also Have just opened a fresh stock of Of where best to place real estate and personal prop- Positive Law. who can afford to buy a coat;" but haut ton has a wish to make correction of last week's error in local. erty for insurance leads t<^ the conclusion that a relia- HON. RICHARD T. MERRICK, L.L.D., gilt edge to it, a prestige which can only be equaled The number should have heen 419 Eleventh street, In- DRUBS AKD A FULL LINE OF TOILET ARTICLES ble home fire insurance company ought always to be Lecturer on Constitutional Law and the Law of Nations. by the crème de la crème ; therefore what the haut- stead of Tenth street. selected, especially one so efficiently managed as the HON. ETA.LBERT E. PAINE, L.L.D., AT THEIR ^ton will wear is of greater importance than the tout Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington and Lectnrer on Pleading, Evidence and Practice at Com- le monde. WHAT SHOULD INTEREST THE LADIES.—TO dress mon Law and Equity Jurisprudence and Pleading. New Store, Corner Ninth and F Streets. Georgetown, D. C., (office over )Bank of Washington.) our boys well and comfortably Is not so serious a ques- Children's cloaks are in beautiful styles and satis- A s this company is particularly distinguished for its . EDWARD S. REILY, ESQ., tion, since such houses, as^Boblnson'& Co. have a com- Lecturer on the Elements of the Common Law, (Includ- factory variety. prompt payment of losses, and as they insure at low plete assortment of the very best styles for boys. Noth- ing the several branches of the Law of Real and Physicians' Prescriptions filled with accuracy and IN NOUVEAUTBS rates, parties will do well to call there and obtain ing escapes their attention in all the details of perfeet Personal Property,) and the Law of dispatch. there are a thousand beautiful creations from the policies. Crimes and Misdemeanors. outfits. Soda and Mineral Waters on draught. Also, Pure artists' fingers : but we have not space to enumerate M. F. MORRIS, ESQ., FOUL BREATH and spongy gums cured by Wells' FINE TEAS, coffee, sugars and fresh groceries are al- Lecturer on the History of Law. Wines and Liquors for medicinal purposes. all, and we will only make mention of the new Eureka Tooth Powder. Price 25 cents. ways objects of interest for housekeepers, and as Mr. CHARLES W. HOFFMAN, L.L.D., jy30-3ms2 belt, the Maréchale ; it is of two cords of oxidized John Dowling, grocer, corner of Seventh and I streets" President of the Moot Court and Dean of the Faculty. silver, fastened around the waist by a clasp to F. W. KOSS, druggist, has had a long experience and always keeps the best of these articles, his store is an Lecture Hall, 915 F street northwest, Gonzaga Build- match, and is the most stylish brought out since the is a graduate of the Maryland College of pharmacy. attractive object for them. J rage for belts. Corner 7th and Boundary streets. ap23-ly Lectures will be resumed Wednesday, October 4, 1878. BROWNING'S BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, indiges- Opening Lecture at 6:30 p. m. Among the daintiest things Mr. Willian, in his To the Lovers of Music. tion and constipation. For sale by the druggists. tf search for novelties, imported, are fichus of silvery It is with pleasure we call the attention of the music Fees payable half yearly or monthly, in advance, at student's option. NEVER FAILS TO CURE RHEUMATISM, GOUT AND white gauze, rounded and trimmed with pink and loving portion of our readers to the card (in another NEURAL6IA. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. SEND blue crèpe de chine. They are beautiful, and column) of Professor Edward Pointls. Professor P. is CITY ITEMS. New students, undergraduates and friends of the school are invited to be present at the openin g lecture. FOR A CIRCULAR TO are called The Hebe—in honor of the goddess of not only a graduate, but a "Laureat" of the "Conser- vatoire de Musique de Paris," the highest musical in- Circulars containing full information as to course, HELPHENSTINE & BENTLEY, youth. FOR Weber's Cincinnati lager and steamed oysters go DRUGGISTS, WASHINGTON, D. C. stitution of France, where pupils are taught, beside the to Mades', 300 Pennsylvania avenue. terms, &c., may be had at the bookstores of the Messrs. FRINGES AND BRAIDS science of music, the ability to impart the same. Morrison and Robert Beall, or upon application to the mysj-tf are more than ever a la mode for elegant toilets. PLEASE compare Wells' Eureka Powder with all Secretary at the^Lecture Hall from 5J to 7 o'clock p. m, Professor P. being a thorough French and English others and see its superiority over all. Only 25 cents. The Aimée fringe, twelve inches long, in all colors, scholar, his pupils will have the golden opportunity of dally, or by letter. forms a scarf-tunic in Oriental fashion, and fastens By order of the Faculty. SQUI8BS PREPARATIONS learning in a practical manner "La Belle Langue." First-Class Scouring and Dyeing. AND at the side ; it is of silk net-work and chenille. The For circulars apply at Metzerott's or Ellis' mnslc B. T. HANLEY, ENGLISH EXTRACTS, new braids are in black and also embroidered in stores. And for personal interview at 2007 H street A. Fischer enlarged his establishment by removing set)24-4t3 Secretary and Treasurer. With full line of Pharmaceutical Products, Camaïen shades or else with colored flowers, and northwest. to his new building, Special attention given to compounding Physicians* give a perfect finish to cashmere and faille toilets. 906 G Street, 3 Doors West of Ninth Street, Prescriptions. Also Soda, Vichy and Kissen gen on There are Oriental and Breton braid, and the Valois J. H. SQUIER & Co., bankers, 1416 Pennsylvania draught. JOS. N. HODGKINS, avenue, pay 6 per cent, interest on deposits, payable on 2006 Seventh street ÜST. W., 3 doors above Boundary st. embroidered with fieurs-de-lis or threaded with Just a few steps from his former place on Ninth street GEORGETOWN COLLEGE. demand. Special rates on time deposits. Interest paid ap23-8 silver. where he is ready to do any work in his line In his January and July, or credited. sep3-tf superior manner. FLOWBRS IK'XIEB.SCK' OFKnni:. MASI & MASI, Kid Gloves and Shoes, Crape Yells cleaned at a very were never so beautiful as now. Of course, cardinal THE exhibition of Paris bonnets and hats and nu- 'CORNER FOURTEENTH AND L STREETS NORTHTVEST, short notice. Ladles' Dresses cleaned without taken red prevails, but there are clusters of autumn roses, merous novelties in millinery, to take place at I. L. Blout's establishment, 710 Seventh street northwest, apart, and spots removed without cleaning the whole DISPENSERS OP a rich scarlet sumac with a dash of the golden rod. CLASSICAL DEPARTMENT, next Thursday, will prove an interesting feature, and garment. Gent's Clothes cleaning and dyeing Pure Drugs and Chemicals. There are asters, and jacque-minot roses, and there will no doubt be appreciated by the ladies. pecialty. marl9-lyl SEPTEMBER 5. are flowers wrought in feathers and chenille so per- SPECIALTIES: MEDICAL DEPARTMENT, ALL THE LATEST CHEMICALS AND PHAR- fect in their semblance to nature that one looks and To the Ladies." SPECIAL NÖTIGES. MACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS AND Superior kid&love cleaning, I2}c per pair. marvels. OCTOBER 2. PHYSICIANS' PRESCRIPTIONS. ap23-l LINGERIE BISHOP GROSS increases in attractiveness, and never was more lace Kid gloves beautifully dyed to look as well as new, I.AW DEPARTMENT, MISCELLANEOUS. 80c. per pair. and embroidery used to meet the wants of luxurious SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, OCTOBEB 5. women than now. Mr. "Willian has imported all of Feathers handsomely cleaned and curled, 25 and 50 REV. J. F. HEALY,'S. I., the leading sensations among them—graceful sleeves cents. Will preach for the sufferers of that city at the W. S. BOOSE auglj-2mos3 President. with a cuff formed of delicate pleatings; collarettes Ladies' dresses cleaned without being ripped. CHURCH OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, and sleeves for wearing under square bodies, com- Whole- An entire suit of gentlemen's clothes handsomely CORNER EIGHTH AND N STREETS, Cigars and Tobacco sale deal- posed of fine insertion, of fine embroidery and a LLE. V.PEUD'HOMME'S er In im- frill of the same edged with lace. Petticoats for cleaned, steamed and pressed for $2. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, AT 7 P. M. ltl M ported and full dress have two deep flounces and the broad Office of B. C. Douglas, under National Theater, tf French Classes, consisting of a course of Ora^ and ma nuf actu rer CHANGE OF ROUTE OF NORTHERN Practical Instruction. of the Cactus, La Bulgare pleat at the baek ; they are made of the THIRTEEN SODA TICKETS FOR $1.00. Cocoanut Manola, La Roose, LIBERTY CHARIOT COMPANY. Morning and Afternoon Classes for Young Ladies and most costly material as well as of ordinary nain- Quince, Currant, Cherry, Banana, Coffee, Tea and Pennsylvania and Stockton Cigars On and after SATURDAY, the 7th instant, the route Little Girls, connected with two of the best English Agent for the Am- thirty other syrups drawn from the largest and finest sook. The most popular chemises are of batiste or of the N. L. Chariots will be as follows: Commencing Schools in the City. brosia Fine Cut. The apparatus in the city. H. M. Plnkard, 477 Pennsylva- at corner Twenty-second and G streets northwest; trade supplied directfroxn cambric without sleeves, and buttoned on the shoul- the factorjbat the very low nia avenue, Dr. Clark' old stand. ap23-ly thence east to Seventeenth street, to Pennsylvania Evening Classes for Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Avenne. der. The upper part is prettily embroidered or avenue, to Fifteenth street, to G street, to Seventh Girls, Mondays and Thursdays, at 908 Twelfth street, it New York and Baltimore edged with lace. street, to D street, to New Jersey avenue, and terminat- prices. Health, the Greatest Blessing on Earth« ing corner Third and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, commencing at 6} p. m. Hem-stitching and embroidery has taken the «»-Retail branches at Willard's, The luxury of a genuine lunch can always be appreci- and return by same route. Visitors are always welcome on class evenings. Gen- place of lace on collars. Neck handkerchiefs, with Transfer car from corner Seventh and G northwest eral re-opening of the classes October 2. Metropolitan, Arlington and Impe- ated by those who have indulged in a French roll and to and from Northern Liberty market during market rial Hotels. trimmings to match the pocket handkerchief, will a glass of genuine olaret, such as can only be pur- hours. oct8-3 N. B. Private Classes formed at any time. For busi- ness arrangements see Mile. Prud'homme any week day be entirely the style for young girls. In the last chased of Felix Desfosse, the popular French baker, oct8-tiS named article there are lovely designs in lace and lately removed to No. 2012 H street northwest, and now EXCURSIONS. except Saturdays, between 2 and 3 p. in., at 008 Twelfth street, or send your name and address. sep24-4m2 embroidery for evening wear, and others of fine well known as importer of pure French clarets. The 3Ä" JBT JUS, jm^ SB JE B m batiste, with frilling for day use. Claret of Felix Desfosse has won, as it richly deserves, Of course we have only given what our heading the encomium bestowed on it by our oonnoisseurs, TC H JE AIÏ05ITECT, told the reader—notes. If we had space we would and is sought after by most of the veteran officers of .25. HOLD OFF $4.25, enlarge on them ; tell of the dainty ties, of magnifi- the army here, and old-time citizens, who desire Has removed to MOS PFJVIV'A AVENUE. dee5- cent fans, the tulle scarfs, the lace bodies, and the strength without intoxication. As a pure wine, with FOR THE DISTRICT DAY. WASHINGTON FEMALE SEMINARY, thousand and one other things which are considered ent8 Sam e8 essential accessories to the toilet of a beautiful wo- body and flavor, it has po equal In the city. In addl- • BRAD. ADAMS will give the Grande.Centennial Ex- A Boarding and Day School $55o$77o^"~--"-. YIOKERY. Augusta' ß'-. Maine . P. man ; but we have onJy written briefly, that he who tion to "his unapproachable claret, Mr. D. has, at the re- cursion of the season to Philadelphia DV the Baltimore aug20-ly3 runs may read, and cannot conclude better than by quest of his amateur patrons, procured a stock of and Ohio railroad, OCTOBER 16,17,18 a"nd 19, the Dis- — FOR — trict Day and Grand National Tournament Day. marveling at the throng -which filled Mr. Willian'« Cognlac, Old Sherries and Port Wine that defy equality LL KINDS OF GENTLEM EN'S CAST OFF WEAE- rooms on "Wednesday. There were Centennialists Tickets only $4.25 for round trip, good for ten days YOUNG LADIES AND CHILDREN, In the city His Old Bye, of 1869, he feels confident, children between 5 and 12 years half price, for sale at A lng apparel can be sold to the very best advantage and our own citizens, who declared they found goods by addressing or calling on JUSTH, 610 D street, be- in greater variety and at lower prices than New York needs no recommendation, as it has received the Will be reopened at 1023 Twelfth street northwest. tween Sixth and Seventh northwest. Notes by mall or Philadelphia. But why should we marvel ; for highest praises of the connoisseurs of the city. BRAD. ADAMS', 812 F STREET, MONDAY. Sept. 11, 187«. Persons wishing to enter their children as boarders should apply without delay, promptly attended to. Cash paid. marsi-tf3 does mot the twenty-five years experience Mr. "Willian N. B.—Our iMend begs leave to suggest as the " Relish opposite Patent Office, and at Brad. Adams' Branch has had in importing goods entitle him to crown each as only a limited number will be taken. Circulars at END 25c. to G. P. ROWKLL 4 CO., New York, for of the season " his white claret with raw oysters, " a la Store, 1411 Pennsylvania avenue, next Wlllard's Hotel. the principal bookstores and at 1027 Twelfth street S Pamphlet of loo pages, containing lists of «.000 news- opening with the success he so richly deserves ? Train leaves B. and O. Railroad depot at 8 a. m., 1:40, 7 northwest. Mrs. Z. D. BUTCHER and Miss M. C. papers, and estimates showing cost of advertising. QlROFLd. I sance Mignonette." nd 19 p. m. ocl-3tS DOUGLAS, Principals. aug27-tf8 xurs-lTl 1 THE CAPITAL.- OCTOBER 8, 1876.
The following charming lines come from the Rlc in the little sitting-room were still undrawn. I watcher overtook me now, what would be my Grande to our readers.] was sitting on the hearth rug, with baby on my fate? SEWING MAOHINES. " DOLCE FAB HIEHTE." lap, amusing her with my watch and glittering God was merciful Indeed to me, and gave me appendages, which were an unfailing source of BT G. O. FBEHMIN. power to proceed in my awful anxiety. pleasure to her; as she stretched out her little MACHINE, Heaven's portals could hardly have been more IHI REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has sprung rapidly Up In the woodland where the long green hills hands to grasp them, I was suddenly rapturously reached than the barrack gates, as I into favor as possessing the very best Combination of eooS qualities, namely : Light running, smooth, noiseless, rfnid Hem In the brook that dips and sings to me, attracted to the direction of the window, r la In fluttering swifts as down It runs and spills flew inside of them. I saw a group of men durable, with the perfect Lock Stitch. ' "P > JtB heart out In the sea. through which, to my unutterable horror, I standing in the doorway, and toward them I distinguished distinctly the face of a man gleam- rushed, recognizing, to my unutterable thank- It Is a Shuttle Machine, with Automatic Drop Feed lie. 3?he sugar maple and the sumacs glow sign beautiful and construction the very Best. Like dying embers In the amber haze, ing upon me. In that swift, momentary glance fulness, among them my husband. Forever fanned by fragrant winds that blow I could see that it was a ptle, sinister, malevolent His amazement may be better imagined than THE REMINGTON SEWING MACHINE has received pre- at aa F a r Through all our autumn days* countenance, with small, hungry eyes. My S.«,Tt (? ?7 , ' i throughout the United States, and described, as hif^eheld us; and I could not do without effort took the grandMedal of Progress-the htgh- Far o'er the purple brows of distant hills heart beat wildly, but I dissembled my terror more than point behind me. I believe poor poslttan of Medal that Was awarded at the fate Vienna'Ex- The opal vapors drop like bridal veils, well, I suppose, as had I done otherwise baby Arthur must have thought I had gone suddenly While dragon-flies In myriads o'er the rills Dart forth In gleaming malls. : and I might have fared differently. So rapidly raving mad. I only heard the! r voices murmur- The REMTNGTON WORKS also manufacture a new had I comprehended the necessity of appearing ing around me, and I felt baby lifted out of my Double-Barreled Breech-Loading Shot-Gun and the Cele- Deep In the tasieled corn the reaper stands brated Remington Rifles, renowned throughout the world not to have observed him, that I hardly stopped arms, though they told me afterward I held for Military,Hunting and Target purposes; all kinds of And pulls his sickle through the trembling stalks, Pistols ; Bine Canes, Metallic Cartridges, &c. While singing round him many merry hands speaking to my baby, but a thousand projects her so tightly they could scarcely separate us. Bind up the sheaves In shocks. for escape from my present position revolved The next thing I knew Arthur had laid me on AGRICULTURAL IJCPLEMENTS.-Improved Mowing Machines, Steel Plows, Steel Hoes, Cultivators, Road Scra- The measured strokes that sounding strong and true themselves through my whirling brain. How sofa in a bright, warm room, and that we were e 8 idl Patent Excavators, Hay Tedders, Cotton Gins, Iron Gome up In muffled echoes from the wood. could I escape from that little, room, with its safe—Arthur, baby and I—and together. But Proclaim the axmen busy as they hew dark, unshaded window ? Furtively I looked j the servants. I conveyed to Arthur, as cohe- Deep in its solitude. again, and was infinitely relieved to find that the rently as I could, the events of the afternoon, «»-GOOD AGENTS WANTED. Send for Circulars. Anon, the winding of a distant horn apparition had vanished for the present, at and my conviction that nothing short of murder PKOTCIPAL OFFICES-E. Kemington & Sons; Eemington Sewing Machine Oo. Gomes faintly borne upon the languid breeze. had been committed. In less than five minutes Hinting that noon hath closed the golden morn, least from its late close proximity to the win Bemington Agricultural Co., Ilion, N. Y The toiler's hour of ease. dow. he was off, with some of the others, to the cot- B I H CBS: tage, where the awful scene presented itself to 5^ ?f °™ —281 and 283 Broadway N. Y., Arms. Çieirtmit street, Sewing Machines, When, suddenly, with one great puff of wings, I got up at last, still chattering to my uncon- Madison Square, New York. Sewing Machines. Baltimore, Md., 47 N. Charles street. Sewing Machines their view as they entered. Chicago, 237State street, Sewing Machines and Arms. Indianapolls, Ind., is E. Market st., SewlnglMachinea A cloud of birds swarm up from ofl the wold. scious child, and moved slowly towards the door, Boston, 502 Washington street. Sewing Machines. •«'¿V «08 ».Fourth street, Sewing Machines And surge away with noisy chatterlngs even pausing for an instant at the table, partly to In the passage from the kitchen to the entrance Cincinnati. 182 West Fourth street, 8ew!ng Machines. Detroit, Mich.,l»l Woodward ave., Sewing Machines. O'er field and fell and fold. Utica, 120 Genesee street, Sewing Machines. London, E.C. England, 64 Queen Victoria St., Arm gather strength to proceed, as my limbs were hall lay the dead body of our unfortunate cook. Atlanta,Ga., DeGlve's Op. House, Marietta St., S. M. and Sewing Machines. ' The butterflies drift down the noon-day tide tottering beneath me, partly because I dreaded A blow from some heavy weapon bad actually And listless cl lng to swaying thistle plumes, The pollen dusted bees roam far and wide lest the lurker without might still be marking smashed in the back of her head, and life was WASHINGTON OFFICE, 521 Seventh st., To All their waxen rooms. my movements. I had scarcely strength left to quite extinct; our other servant was found in Jy4-6 an insensible state, but after some time re- SEWING MACHINES. So, all day long, here let me idle be. turn the handle of the door, but once on tbe With naught to fret the mind or thing to do, other side of it, I rushed across the hall and covered sufficiently to be able to give the particu- EEAL ESTATE, ETC.* But watch the wings of birds so silently gained the kitchen, where I found my two do- lars of tbe attack, and a description of their as- MISCELLANEOUS. Skim through the tranquil blue. mestics seated at their tea. I briefly told thein sailant, who proved to be none other than the Far o'er the spires lhat point like spikes of gold of the fright I bad got, and was not much reas- monster who had glared in upon me that very To those clear pools of light where clouds are riven, s«red on finding that both were, if poBBible, afternoon. PRESERVE YOUR HEALTH! Pointing to other worlds above the mold— »n^ilfj'ilt!41» necessary that von should Inhale fresh greater cowards than I was myself. It seemed that after I had seen everything was and pure air In the rooms vou dall v and nightly occupy, The mystery of heaven. Ibis can only be done successfully and without dan. The sound of a whistle at no great distance secure the servants had gone out to the coal Cou Here let me lie—a little while to feel ehs, Colds and their probably The J oy of other years return again— from the cottage roused me to tkg necessity of house, and during their temporary absence from attendant evils, By purchasing and using the A calm and'melancholy pleasure steal instantly making every place as secure as possi- the kitchen door the ruffian had slipped in, se- rfEW PATENT Athwart the sense of pain. ble. Accompanied by the two trembling ser- creted himself in a cupboard in the passage, and vants, and with baby in my arms, I began my Southeast Corner Seventh and E Streets. Knowing the years roll on as He decreed: thus been actually locked in the house with our- Which,besldef¡being actually ornamental to the win- Tides ever ebb and flow: moons wax and wane: tour of inspection. At last every bolt was drawn, selves 1 Imagining, it was supposed, that dows, ate entirely different0 eimlt frot m all others In their While our last summer sleeps within the seed P their ingress and egress every shutter closed, and nothing remained to -G®- EXCHANGE OF BE4L ESTATE AB'SPE- To bud and bloom again. Arthur would not return, and knowing that we of air to and from the room. ^is*«« mB? the„emPloy>nent of the " Patent Transparent Ven- be done. I found, on looking at the clock, that had a good deal of plate in the house, he had ar- ™at"1'" "a current of air Is created n«ar the window, And grant, that at the close of life's short lease, it was little past five, so that a long evening was CIALTY. which imparts motion to the volume of air in the room When autumn on my brow her linger lays, ranged to begin operations after all was quiet, 1 fr om e: lBtln ln uritl ???4 ^S?f ithe» fou, ali r n?1 yi es, by constantly Like to the dyifig summer it may cease before me. Hot a sound was to be heard; noth- and the first scream that I had heard had been 25 ?1 .' * ' supplying pure air In lfe place, which operation Is so uniform, and may be regu- With Indian summer days. ing fTesh occurred to alarm us in the least, and elicited from the unfortunate servants at whose lated witc. such precision as to always issue a healthful September on the Rio Grinde, l«7fl. PKOPEBTT SOI,». 0 M reln he 8 at last I grew almost ashamed of the panic I had bedside he had suddenly made his appearance. shuih!?*t of3?f at an; y i.time ,TiP if desired" ™. current of air may be given way to, merely from having seen a man The miscreant had struck down the cook while These Ventilators may be applied to windows of all MBS. PERCY'S PERIL. HOUSES RENTED, descriptions, and are stationary. They arevaluaMB glance through the window; Very probably he she attempted to escape, which, happily for her- ror use In school-rooms, public halls, hospitals, invalid Arthur Percy, captain in Her Majesty's dra was »¡»me strolling vagrant who had been at- self, the other servant was too paralyzed to do. chambers, sleeping apartments and rooms in general. goons, is my husband, and the adventure I am RENTS COLLECTED. These Ventilators are on exhibition at tracted ky the bright light of the fire to look in, The scream I had heard as I left the house must 1303 F Street, near corner 13th northwest, about to relate befell me about eighteen months without the intention of doing any harm. have been the last dying one of the poor eook, Washington, D. C., The p»tronage of the public is respectfully solicited. be after our marriage, when the regiment was quar< sepl7'tf8 ^jJgB^SffiR' «en in operation at the Billiard So I reasoned with myself, and so I tried to re- whom the murderer had pursued and overtaken Kooms ofMUIer & Jones, over National Tlnater. Call tered in Ireland. SSktliSP""!them> „ „ GEO- WAGNER, assure my servants. Under any circumstances I before she could gain my door, which was, no mars-tfs Inventor and Patentee,Washington, D. C.. A detachment was stationed in one of the most was glad to feel that we were safely shut lip for doubt, the point to which she was flying for suo MONEY TO LOAN unquiet parts of that country, which I refrain, J. C. NAiJUEY, the night, and determined to go soon to my room, cor. Not a moment too soon had I gone. An AT for obvious reasons, from naming. Arthur was whero I felt less lonely than In the empty dress- accomplice had been admittted by the front HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER, 8 PER CENT INTEREST ON FIRST CLASS ordered to take command of it, and BO I, of ing-room. door, which was found wide open, my bed- (Formerly of the firm of Nalley A Hodges.) course, accompanied him with our baby, an in- Had there not been a chance of Arthur return- room door shattered, but nothing touched, my IMPROVED Particular attention given to fant of about five months. We thought our ing, I would have proposed that the servants flight having doubtless saved them. The tracks KALSOMINING, GKAINING AND INTERIOR selves very fortunate in having secured a small, DECORATION. should sleep in a bed there happened to be in this of their pursuing footsteps were discerned easily Real Estate in Washing- No. SOD K Street Northwest. but extremely pretty cottage at an almost nom- dressing-room ; but, as they assured me they when the blessed morning light of Christmas ma7-l inal rent, distant about one mile from the bar were not at all afraid, now that nothing more day shone. They had evidently gone in pursuit ton. racks. had been heard of the man, and I knew it would of me, but probably my safety was due greatly I .cannot better describe the cottage than by be a great nuisance to Arthur, if he did return, to the whiteness of my garments, which must CiRCULATENQ LIBRARY, telling you that it was called " The Bungalow,1 D. F. HAMIM & CO., I concluded that it was wiser to let them sleep have rendered my flying figure almost invisible NO. ItOS H STREET NORTHWEST, and, like its namesake, was a long, one-storied in their own room, though it was some distance against the snowy ground. General Life and Fire Insurance Agents, building, with a veranda in front of the princi- from mine. WASHINGTON, D. C. The police were soon In quest, and ere many 940 F street N. W., Washington, D. C. New Books and Periodicals received as soon as pub pal windows. A small entrance hall, in which my21-tf5 lsnea I went to my room at about 9:30 and pro- hours elapsed the retreat of the assassins was dis- - ; nov28-iyi were two doors, was the first thing observed on ceeded to undress, after which I put on my covered. A desperate struggle ensued, and R. TAXjLAWT & CO., QHROMOS FRAMED TO ORDER, entering ; one led to the drawing-room, dining- white flannel dressing-gown, placed my candles recognizing in one man an escaped and notori- 8 CENTS PER FOOT. room and three bed-rooms, while the other led behind me, and seating myself in front of the ous convict, and in the conflict, feeling his own directly to the kitchen, servants' room and into fire, began to read. life was in danger, the constable fired at him, Upholstering & Mattress takers, WINDOW CORNICES $1 PEE PAIR a passage leading to the outer offices. VELVET AND FAVCT MATS. PASSEPARTOUTS, In spite of all my assurances to myself and my and the miserable corpse was conveyed to tbe N. CiS'CliE, Äo. 1304 II Street n. w. Our establishment consisted of two women servants, I felt strangely nervous and restless. police station, where our servant identified It as WORK PROMPTLY BONE AT THE LOWEST RATES. PICTURE FRAME FACTORT. . <-'ome and see the handsomest imitation velvet frame servants and one man; the latter, being a sol- My book was a very interesting one, but it failed the murderer of the cook and the assailant of in the Cliy lor cabinet cards, either stands or hangs— dier, returned every night to the barracks, which to obliterate from my mind.the horrible remem- herself. The wretched man had, with his com 419 Eleventh Street N. W. selO-tfl only 35 cents. mv?-6 happened to be the nearest habitation to us, and brance of the face at the window. Perhaps he panion and accomplice, escaped only two days L1YEEY STABLES. not even the humblest dwelling breaking the was there still—perhaps he was watching for before from prison, to which the latter was safely F. A. BEUY£R & CO., SJ1.7ÏÛ, loneliness of the way between them and the Arthur's return to waylay and murder him. All escorted back by a couple of policemen. The J. L. SMITH. Bungalow. ma! Estate and General Agents. sorts of wild visions presented themselves to my funeral of our poor servant took place a few days Claims prosecuted before the Departments and X have already said that the distance from against the District of Columbia. Money Loaned and KEYES Sc CO. mind; Once baby moved slightly, and it made afterward, and the Bungalow was finally deserted Loans Negotiated. Legal Documents of all Descrip- them was about a mile, and the road, which was me start nearly to my feet with terror. I was by us. The other servant recovered completely, tions Carefully Drawn. Houses for Kent and Collection partly moss-grown, lay through a narrow sort of of Kent a Specialty. thoroughly upset, and the only thing that con- and the policeman, who had been wounded by Office 1137 Seventh street between L and M northwest. COACHES, OPEN BRETTS, LIGHT WAGONS, SAD- lane, enclosed on each side by very high hedge«. soled me was that I had begged Arthur not to the convict rather severely, was reported con- sepl7- 0mos5 F. A. BEUTER, Justice of the Peace. DLE HORSES, DOUBLE AND SINGLE These hedges were a continual horror to me. return. He was, no doii»t, safely at the bar- valescent before our departure. BUGGIES AND ALL OTHER * Scarcely ever did I see Arthur start in the morn- Hosea 8. IVloulton, racks, little dreaming of my state of mind. It I never saw tbe Bungalow again, and very joy- VEHICLES PROMPTLY ing without visions arising of desperadoes con- was snowing heavily still. I knew it by the fully did I enter the steamer which conveyed us 1331 Seventh st. between N and O sta. N. W., FURNISHED. cealed behind them, dressed in the inevitable dropping that came steadily down the chimney. to dear old England.—Hartford Times. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, long-tailed, ragged coat, tbe high-crowned, nar- REAL ESTATE AGENT AND- COMMISSIONER Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the Stable, The atmosphere seemed to choke me somehow. row-rimmed hat and the murderous weapon, all OF DEEDS. day or night, will receive prompt attention. And ever and anon I found myself listening in- Close Carriages for "Wedding Calls and Receptions. of which things I invariably associated with an The Edwin Forrest Home. Special attention given to the prosecution of Pay, tently. Pension and Bounty Claims against the Government. Irish ruffian. On Monday " Spring Brook." otherwise the jEd- apr30-3 The hall clock struck eleven, every stroke win Forrest Home, on the banks of the Delaware, The dragoons had been sent to quell some ris- vibrating through me. Still I sat on, my fire Samuel O. Mills. ings and to support the authorities, consequently was opened, in accordance with Mr. Forrest's will. growing dim, and myself feeling cramped, cold they were not regarded by the natives in any The home is a monument to the noble impulses of BGASDIKG AKT» LIVERY STABLES, and almost immovable. What was I so afraid the deceased actor, who desired to do something for JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, UNITED STATES COM- friendly light. MISSIONER AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Wllla rd's Hotel Stables, corner Fourteenth and DstreetS, of? I asked myself a hundred times. I could the amelioration of those of his profession whom As the weeks went on, and every afternoon
TENEMEXT-HOIIBE LIFE IN EDIN- slowly. I saw the hordes of dirty children playing TIMELY POLITICAL MAXIMS. TO TRAVELEBS. HOTELS AND BrESTAUEAlJTS. BURGH. in'the street and dirty closes, and I looked up at John Knox's house and wondered whtther his spirit From Anthers who are not Unknown to the BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. could rest in peace with such misery sitting on his American People. C. C. WILLARD, BtaooSsins Condition of the Pauper Popula- very doorstep. There Is no Instance of the errors ot a government SEPTEMBER IT, 1876. being rectified by those who adopted them. tion—A Graphic Portrayal ol the Misery If I show the dark side of a beantlful town it is A- M. Leave "Washington. Endnred by 66,000 Human Beings—Kate because I love humanity better than places, and be- PATBICK HENRT—1768. 5:00 Baltimore,Ellicott City and Way Stations. EBB1TT HOUSE, lieve that mankind is best helped by telling the truth, 6:40 Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stationc, Point Field's Investigations. There is a chance that in the quick succession of of Rocks and intermediate stations. Main even if the truth is unpleasant to kindly hosts. stem. [Correspondence of the Graphic ] despots a good one will sometimes arise. But 7:10 Baltimore and Alexandria Junction. Sim day x. T. WASHINGTON. D O. EDINBURGH, August 28.—"You've a beautiful bodies of men continue the same, and have generally stops at Annapolis Junction. 8:10 NEW I'©BK, PHILADELPHIA AND BOSTON EX- town," said I to a prominent citizen of literary pro- proved the meat unrelenting of tyrants. PBESS. Fulman Parlor Cars, (Sunday to Balti- «• THE VANDERBILT GI ARD." RICHABD PBICB—1776. more only. Stops at Way Stations.) clivities, who was hurrying out of town to escape 8:30 Baltimore and Way Stations. HOTEL, from the Albert Memorial celebration. All men possessed of power may be expected to 8:40 Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Pittsburg Express. Frederick, Hagerstown and 'Valley " Aye, beautiful enough," he replied, " if you look The Manner of the Reporters' Vigil in prolong it beyond the due time, and to Increase It Road. Parlor and Sleepers. No connection for Wanhlrgton Place. Chisago on Saturday. on the outside, but it's a whited sepulchre and noth- beyond the due bounds; neither of which can be 8c45 Point of Rtcks and Way Stations. Harrisonburg WASHINGTON, ». C. ing else. There's a deal of wickedness hidden The Commodore has been ill so long now that the attempt without'danger to liberty. and Way Stations, valley Branch, Piedmont English papers are beginning to comment upon the and Way Stations. Main Stem; Hagerstown. away." Bergh's Political Disquisitions, published in Phil- 9:35 NEW YOBK AND BOSTON LIMITED EXPRESS. " I thought you Scotch were a highly moral peo- attention New York papers have given to the pro- adelphia in 1774 under patronage of Congress. Baltimore and Philadelphia and all Eastern no28-tf2 J. S. PIERCE, Proprietor. gress of his illness. It will probably amuse them to cities. No steps, except at Kelay, for through ple," I rejoined. Men in all ages and nations have shown an aston- passengers. Sunday to Baltimore, Relay and know just how this campaign has been conducted, Annapolis only. *f And so we are. It's the Irish that come over ishing credulity in their faithless fellow creatures; and the facts will not be uninteresting to New York- P.M., THE CARROLLTON here and malre mischief." they have hoped against hope; they have believed 12:15 Baltimore, Way Stations, Ellicott City and An- ers. napolis. BALTIMORE, LIGHT AND GERMAN STB., How the Scotch hate their Celtic neighbors! There against the sight of their own eyes. BBBGH. is no love thrown away upon the English. The con- 1:40 NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND NORFOLK EX- Mr. Stewart's sudden^eath had taken everybody PRESS. Alexandria Junction. On Sunday all quered are not in the habit of wasting much affec- We know bv infinite examples and experience that Way Stations and Baltimore only. by surprise, and the obituary notices were scanter tion on their conquerors, and nothing enrages a men possessed of power, rather than part with it, 8:30 Baltimore and Way Stations. Frederick via and more hurried than they should have been. Relay. Scotchman more than to be tafcen for an Englishman; will do anything—even the worst and blackest—to 4:30 BALTIMORE AN» LAU*EL EXPRESS. R. B. COLEMAN. Proprietor When, soon after, (in April last,) the Commodore's nov80»lyl but he remembers that Scotland gave England a king keep It. BUBQH. 4:3o Frederick and Point of Rocks, (via Metropolitan alarming illness was reported, it was generally re- Branch.) Connects on Saturday for Hagerstown an d that the queen of Great Britain passes moat of and Winchester. HJlff I036Ì «> 1ÊO Be 3C, 9 solved to be oh time with him, as a matter of busi- To take the character of man from history, he Is a her time in the Highland», dooming ministers and ¿:45 Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. Fred- GEORGETOWN, D. C. ness merely. Comprehensive biographies were pre- creature capable of anything, the most infernally erick. V. SHINN Proprietor. dispatch agents to thirty-six hours of hard railroad 5:30 Baltimore and Way Stations to Annapolis Junc- pared and put in type, and now lie deep In dust on cruel and horrid when actuated by interest or pas- This hotel is conveniently located, being situated on travel in order to obtain an audience with the head tion. the line of the Washington and Georgetown City Pas- the' galleys. Reporters were assigned in April to pay sion, and not in immediate fear of punishment from 5:45 CINCINNATI AND LOTJISTI&LH EXPRESS. (Ex- senger Railroad, the cars of which, from the Railroad of the government. cept Saturday;) Hagerstown and Winchester. and Steamer Depots, pass the door every two or three daily visits to the Commodore's residence and In- his fellow creatures. Who would trust such a mis- Sleeping cars to Cincinnati and Louisville. I did not dream the feeling of nationality was so minutes. The guests of this House can reach any of quire after his health. These visits were usually chievous monkey ? BBBGH. 0:50 Point of Bocks and Way Stations. the Public Buildings of the National Capital, or any strong until I faced it, yet it pales into nothingness made at about 11 o'clock at night. If the probabil- 7:oo PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE EXPRESS. place of amusement, &c., by a pleasant ride of a few when compared with the intense animosity towards 7:15 Baltimore and Way Stations. minutes. ities, as reported by the attendants, were favorable, A people that has lost Its regard to its own rights 7:85 Pittsburg, Chicago and Columbus. Board per day, $2. By the month at reduced ratea. the Irish^ $20 Baltimore, Alexandria Junction and Relay. sep36-tf8 that was all; If not, the reporters remained in the so far as to submit to its rulers taking bribes, is IO:OONEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA NIGHT EX- Desirous of learning whether the vice of Edin- neighborhood until midnight or later for further In- enslaved. RICHABD PBICB—1776. PRESS. Sleeping cars to New York. burgh was due to a foreign element, I made inquiries formation, until it was " safe" to leave. About the 10:05 Baltimore and Way Stations to Annapolis Junc- HARYEY'S We must shut the door against oorruption In that tion. and had placed in my hands a pamphlet published middle of June, Mr. Vanderbllt's condition getting 11:45 ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI AND CHICAGO EX- place where it Is most dangerous—the servants of in 1869 by the well-known booksellers, Edmonston & more precarious, a more careful system was adop- , PRESS. On Sfcttrday to Louisville. Sleepers. Old Established Xtedfes' and Gentlemen's the people. EDMUITD RANDOLPH—1788. 7:10, 8:10, 8*0, i:s8 a. m.; 1:40, 4:4S, 5:30, 5:45,7:00,7:15, Douglas, and written by the author of "The Eng- ted. At About 8 o'clock every evening reporters from 7:35, 9:20,10:00, lo:fs and 11:45 p. in., daily. lishwoman in America." Therein I learned a dif- The World, Sun, Herald and Times came into Wash- It;is the experience of ages that professions of dis- All other trains dally, except Sunday. ferent story. The writer had visited the worst slums No connection on Sunday for Hagerstown, Valley OYSTER SALOON AND RESTAURANT, ington place and made individual call* at the house, interestedness and of attachment to rectitude cannot Branch, or for New York and Philadelphia at 8:10 a. of London, Birmingham, Quebec, New York and m. and l:4o p. m. 1016 Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh lounged about the neighborhood till midnight, amid solely be trusted to by an enlightened and free peo- other towns in both Europe and Amerlea, and sol- For further information apply at the Baltimore and street, Washington, D. C. suspicious policemen and distrustful housekeepers, ple. PATBICK HBNRY. Ohio ticket offices, Washington Station, and 485,601 and emnly declares that there are strata of misery and then made another Inquiry and sent from one to 603 Pennsylvania avenue, aud til Fifteenth street north- The largest Oyster House In the United States. All west, where orders will be taken for baggage to be brands of the finest oysters that thebrlny deep can pro- moral degradation under the shadow of St. Giles' twenty lines of report to their respective offices as Cseear tells us he feared Pompey's tyranny If he checked and received at any point in the city. duce are served with every imaginable dish that can be crown and withiu eight of John Knox's house more the result of the evening's lafeor. The weather was himself resigned the dictatorial power. BBBGH. THOS. R. SHARP, called for. concentrated and unbroken than are to be met else- Master of Transportation. The Ladles' Saloon Is one of the handsomest In all Its warm and pleasant, and families living in the neigh- J [Though Ckrwar gave innumerable proofs of that L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. appointments, and Is conducted especially for them. where. In this opinion the Rev. R. Maguire, rector borhood passed several hours each evening on their GEO. S. KOONTZ, General Agent. febl-tl 5 Open from 6 a. m. until midnight. lawless ambition^whlch [afterward overthrew the Oysters, Terrapin and Game a specialty. of St. James', Olerkenwell, ooncurs. Here the very front piazzas. The newspaper idlers made some core of vicious wretchedness is the High street, with liberties{of his country,lyet{the;too credulous people, GREAT HARVEY A HOEDEN, Proprietors. pleasant acquaintance»—In one Instance with a fam- with their own hands, put;into his the sword with 1876. PENNSYLVANIA 18762 Holyrood Palace at one end and the high-hanging, ily of lady sehool teachers, who thereafter kindly sat ROUTE "Harvey," the inventor of Steamed Oysters. which he stabbed liberty to the heart. BBBGH. sep24-tfS picturesque castle at the other; with the courts of up many evenings until 12 o'clock hospitably enter- TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. law, the parliament home, the city chambers, the taining alfresco. The Romans had become slavish enough to sup- Double Track, Steel Rail., Splendid Scenery, assembly halls of the established and free churches, port the man ¡who they knew, or ought to have Magnificent Equipment. WASHINGTON RESTAURANT. the cathedral, and other prominent buildings studded The Commodore's house in Washington place is known, was laying measures for subduing their SEPTKMBEB 17,1876. down the whole of i»s length. When the Old Town bttween University place and Broadway. It Is a country. BBBGH. Trains leave Washington, from Depot, Corner of Sixth substantial brick structure, trimmed with brown- aud B streets, as follows: ' constituted the principal part of Edinburgh High For Pittsburg and tie West, 6 a. m. dally, with Parlor street was the most aristocratic quarter. Now it Is stone,land before the old and wealthy citizens moved Where there is honesty opposition necessarily Car to Pittsburg; 7:10 p. n. dal'y, with Palace Car to Meals at all Honrs. up to Fifth avenu«, was in a select and stylish part arises to the government In all free States; there- Chicago, and lnso a m. dally, except Sunday. called the Via Dolorosa. Yet it is still, by necessity BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD- of position, a great thoroughfare, through which of the city. Not much can be said for the neighbor- fore, a constant, unvarying legislative majority is a For Canandalgua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Oysters a Specialty. hood now. phenomenon which no natural or. moral principle and the North, e a. m. dally, except Sunday; and 7:40 royalty or its representative must needs pass. " Of p. m. dall», except Saturday, with Pa'ace Cars to all the dark and desolate places of the earth the Old On the 4th of August the Comipodore had a severe can account for. It is a monstrous and obBcene Watklns. For Erie, Canandalgua, Buffalo and Niagara ALL THE LtrXUBIES OF THE relapse, and his death was momentarily expected. birth from the prolific ferment of corruption. Falls, 11:50 a. m. dally, except Sunday. SEASON. Town is about the darkest and most desolate," writes For New York and the East, »Uo p. m. dally, with Pal- the Rsv. Mr. Maguire. That evening nineteen reporters met In the street, THOMAS PAINB—177S. ace Cars attached; Limited Expreis of Pullman Par- and stayed there from 8 p. m. until 3 a. m. Their lor Cars, 8:38 a. m. #ally, except Sunday. For New Where the people are sufferers by their governors York and the East, 8:0« a. m„ and 1:40 p. m, daily, Cor. of Ninth and D Streets northwest. From a report made on the condition of the poorer presence and inquiries, as the Saturday Review would those governors have failed of the main design of except Suaday, with Parlor Oars attached. ocl-tf2 classes in Endinburgh, Issued in 1868, 1 learn that the infer, necessarily annoyed the attendants at the For Philadelphia, S'-tG a. m., and 1:40 p. m. dally, ex- their ¡Institution, and it Is of no Importance what cept Sunoay, and 7:00 and 8:40 p. m. dally. Limited population cf a village is crammed Into the six or house. The fear of Mr. Vanderbilt's Immediate other ends they may have answered. BBBGH. Express 0:86 a. m. dally, except Sunday. AUGUST KOCH'S seven stories cf one house. These tenements are death soon wore away, but each of the five morning Accommodation for Baltimore, 4:20 p. m. dally, except Sunday. dark, dirty, and are never repaired. They are with- newspapers deemed it a wise precaution to assign ~ In almost every age and country the government out gas, or water-pipes, or sinks, or temporary re" For Pope's Creek Line, 8:0S a. m. and 4:20 p. m. dally, two men to the watch. Of course with suoh a proi has been the principal grievance of the people, as except Sunday. JUST OPENED, ceptacle for ashes. The only entrance to them is by pect the business was systematized. Two rooms appears too dreadfully manifest from the bloody For Annapolis, 8:00 and ll:S0a. m. and 4:20 p. m., except one long, dark stone stair, and they return the enor- Sunday. were hired in the University bnilding, one to sleep and deformed page of history. BBBGH. ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAIL- 933 D STREET. mous profits to their humane owners of from forty- WAY AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASHINGTON in and the other for a sitting room. Arrangements Every Dellcaey In Season. five to sixty per cent. One roof covers a population The people must maktf their selection between RAILROAD. were made with Drs.Linsly and Eliotwhereby those For Aluxandrla,8, 7, 8, 9,10,11 a.m.; 1. 8,4:20, 5,6,7 and sepl7-4t5 A. KOCH, 033 D street*. of 240, 248, or 290 persons living in frightful dens, uu" economy and liberty on the one hand, and profusion 11:40 p. m. On Sunday at 0 a. m., 1, and 7:00 p.m. gentlemen agreed to eome or send to the door of the and servitude on the other. JEFFBBSON. ventilated, and often without "direct "light; 13,209 For the South, via Richmond, 11:40 p. m. daily, except Commodore's house every night at 8 p. m., 10 p. m.» Sunday, and via Lynchburg, 7:15 a. m. and 12:00 p. m AMERICAN HOUSE, families, comprising not only the vicious and abject, 12 midnight and 2 a. m. Fifteen minutes before Economy and industry are essential to public hap- daily. Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6, 7,8, 9,10, but large numbers of the poorer laboring classes, piness. Bad government takes away the Incitement Corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and Seventh St.« those hours the squadron moved upon the house, to industry by rendering property insecure and 11 a. TO., 1,8,4:20, 5,«, and 7 p.m. On Sunday at 7 and 10 live in single rooms, and of these single rooms 1,630 Trifling incidents created great excitement among a. in., and 8 p. m. unprotected. JOHK MABSHALL—1788. Tickets, information. Sleeping and Parlor Oar accom- At the junction of the Avenue an<^ Seventh Street are inhabited by from six to sixteen persons. Ac- them. One industrious watcher saw a package of ir. T. Sun. modations can be procured at the offices: Northeast Railways, affording direct communication with the cording to the preceding census 120 of these shelters mourning goods carried into the house, and he was corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, were reported to be without windows, and 900 were northeast corner Sixth street and Pennsylvania ave- different steamboat and railroad lines. Board, $2.00 not satisfied until he learned that the Commodore MISCELLANEOUS. nue, and at the Depot, where orders can be left for the per day. damp, dark cellars. In this vile way are housed had that day sat up, eaten two boiled eggs, a water- checking of Baggage to destination from Hotels and 66,000 persons, or more than one-third of the popula- Residences. my28-tf2 SCHOFIELD & DUFFY, Proprietors. melon, and drank two bowls of milk punch. FALL STYLES FRANK THOMSON, D. M. BOYD, JH„ tion of the wonderfully beautiful town of Edin- The midnight or 2 a. m. report was and is a pecu- Gen'l Marnmner. Gen'I Passenger Agent, burgh. Arlington Brewery, [ liar spectacle to the passer-by. The troop draws NOW READY. Facts are stubborn—stnbborn as John Knox op- itself up in front of the' house and waits, not too IRGIN1A MIDLAND RAILROAD. posite, whose bouse is the well which supplies High long in silence. One of the attendants opens the y D. M. 0GDEN, BREWER AND street with water. Under the house of the. great door and comes out on the steps yawning and stretch- THE GREAT THROUGH LINE SOUTH AND reformer is a whisky shop, and those who see how iag his arms. The watch opens to right and left and DRESS HATS BOUTHWEST. difficult of access is the well and what slaves it surrounds him. A slight pause ensues while the PROPRIETOR. makes of feeble or delicate women, can hardly won- yawn is completed. der that a large percentage of the population should mOM $5 TO $1. " Well," says somebody. ALSO, And the only line running a through sleeper from take more kindly to whisky than to water. "It.is Washington to New Orleans without change. AND XXX ALE AND POSTER. " He is about the same, gentlemen." FINE SOFT AND STIFF FELT HATS OF THH MOST impossible for these people to be clean in their (Another sleepy pause.) APPROVED PATTEBNS. dwellings, clothes or persons under present circum- " Has he been sleeping all night T" BOYS' AND CHILDBEN'S HATS, NEW SHAPES. CORNER T1VENTT-SEVENTH AND K stances," declares the writer of " Notes on Old Edin- ARRIVE AT B. &. P.DEPOT. " He is sleeping now, but he has been dozing ear- Fine assortment »f SILK, ALPACA AND GING- LISA YE B. & P. DEPOT. burgh." " Oh, God only knows what it is to slave A. M. A. M. lier in the night." HAM UMBRELLAS. Mail...... 7:15 I Express...' 0:35 STREETS. after the water! It's killing me; and in the glen we HER <£ GREEN, Hatters, p. M. P. M. "Do you think he is as weak this week as he was came* from the bonnie burn (stream) ran by the 1419 Pennsylvania avenue^above Wlllard's Hotel. Express .-...12:00 I Mail 8:50 last week ?" door." Such were the words of a poor woman sob" opt24-lys Ogden's Celebrated Ale. " I cannot see much difference, but he is growing bing at the thought of the misery about her. Mind All Trains make close connection at Gordonsville weaker all the time." you, all these people are Scotch, not Irish, as my J. F. ELLIS & CO., with the C. & O. Road for Richmond and the South, and A wide awake hand, but new at the business, step Staunton, White Sulphur, Charleston, Cincinnati and friend intimated when calling Edinburgh " a whited 60LX AGENTS FOB THE aliUthe West. sepulchre." Many of them are as honest as they up. are poor. Missionaries.and medical men appeal to " When do you think he will die, doctor ? Some CELEBRATED CHECKERING AND the rich in vain. The same houses,, if gntted from one has got to die pretty soon. We are tired of wait' ing here." • Passengers for Manassas Branch will take a. m. train, cellar to roof, and supplied with water, gas and a re- dailv, (Sunday excepted.) " Really I cannot tell anything about that. He FAMOUS WEBER PIANOS, ceptacle for rubbish, would yield a certain return of AND THE Passengers for warrenton will take a. m. Train may live as long as you or I." daily. from eight to ten per cent. 1 Through Sleeper leaves dally on p. m, Train. " What is your patient eating now, doctor?" Smith American Organ. Baggage called for and checked to destination. Dr. Foul is has proved that philanthropy can be " Eggs, watermelon, grapes and very light food." OFFICE 601 AND 603 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. ocl-8 H. L. PEYTON, Agent. made to pay by renovating Warden's Close in the A longer pause. Pianos and Organs Carefully Tuned and Repaired grassmarket. The restored building, now rendered " What does he drink ?" . by Skillful Workmen. Satisfaction Guaranteed. A MERICAN LUSTE MAIL STEAMSHIPS habitable to human beings, returns fourteen per "Milk punch." cent. ONLY USE "Good night,¡doctor; good night; much obliged," 937 Penn. Avenue, near Tenth St. This is little compaied with the forty and sixty say the reporters as they leave and hurry to the CABBTING THE AMERICAN FUG. per cent, wrung out of the miserable wretches in district telegraph offices to send the latest intellt Sailing every THURSDAY from PHILADELPHIA for High street, Cowgate and Cannongate, but when DANZXX LOU6HRÀN, gence down town. QUEENSTOWN AND HYEPROOL. it is remembered that consols pay far less, and that JOBBER OF Cabin, Intermediate and steerage accommodations This has gone on for two months with little varia- jy23-lv8 the kingdom of Great Britain has lost £300,000,000 unsurpassed. in foreign securities that yielded more moderate in- tion. CIGARS AND TOBACCO, The habitues of the neighborhood in which the Rates as low as by any other First-Class Line. 00AL AND WOOD. terest, it seems incredible that the moneyed class of PETER WRIGHT & SONS, Commodore lives are all acquainted with the Yan- a town like Edinburgh should not see the duty and No. 1408 Pennsylvania Avenn e, Opposite General Agents, Philadelphia, H.A. CLABKB. JOHN. T. GIVEN. derbilt " guard." The policemen who have the SHERMAN & CO., (Bankers,) 142» F street, Washing- the righteous speculation that lie next them. Wlllard's Hotel. ton, D. C. au28-iv Washington place "beat" have come to love the Think of a respectable artisan with a family of mblo-ly guard, and when a disorderly house is to be " pulled' young children being obliged to occupy a miserable COLUMBIAN Coal and^ Wood. in the neighborhood, give them sufficient informa- GEO. A.. BARB, apartment from the windows of which could be seen tion beforehand to enable them to witness the per- three debased women sitting in broad daylight ab- formance. In the sitting-room in University build' solutely nude! "What can I hope for my bairns," CLARKE~& GIVEN, ing the reporters used to enjoy themselves long ago, said the artisan, " when they can't get a breath of CARPENTEE & BUILDER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN Fenny-ante was the favorite game, and served to fresh air without seeing such as yon ? I'd rather keep most of the crowd bankrupt. Songs were sung, WOOD AND COAL. they were in their graves than grow up here!" BANE NOTE COMPANY, stories told, and mildly convivial scenes enacted Do you marvel that these unfortunate creatures Shop 505 Hen Jersey Avena«. Dally arriving, cargoes of select ANTHRACITE and that oftentimes brought the janitor out of bed with maï-i BITUMINOUS COAJL,» for families, steam and manu- call themselves "God-forgotten," and that a third of a meek remonstrance. All this is over now though, facturing use. the population of God-fearing Edinburgh never en- JOSEPH BOSS, as there was some difficulty in collecting the rent KINDLING AND CORD WOOD. ter a church ? Bear in mind that out of one hun- from everybody but The World and Sun men, and the 431 Ninth street, between D E northwest, 908 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, dred and forty-five families visited by missionaries room is vacant. COAL STANDARD-TON, 2,240 lbs. one hundred and forty-three were Scotch, so Ireland Occasionally one of the " guard" attempts to learn PRACTICAL; TRUSS-MAKER, Best Quality, Fair Prices and Fair Dealing. is not the cause of this plague spot. something directly from the Commodore's lips. On This third of Edinburgh's population is declared SOLE AGENT 'JFOR THEJ one occasion when the doctors were delayed in com- NO. 424 TENTH STREET WEST, to be more drunken and more dirty than the danger- ing down to meet the reporters and make their re- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FOR THE BEST ELAS- Between D and E streets north ous classes elsewhere and to be sapping Scottish na- TIC TRUSS, WITHOUT METAL SPIRNGS. WASHINGTON, D. C. port, the Commodore remarked, with rather a grim tionality. humor, " I am exceedingly sorry to keep the gentle- Patented 1873. Manufactured by the Pomeroy Truss BRANCH YARD, corner Twelfth and C streets north, " Is it God's elect ye are seeking here ?" shrieked a Company. 746 Broadway, New York. men of the press waiting." It is understood with A complete assortment of Hard Rubber and all other west. frightful old hag at a woman missionary. " It's the kinds of Trusses, Elastic Silk Stockings, Shoulder the attendants that they shall be prompt in their We are prepared, with every facility, for DEPOT at Potomac Bridge corner Maryland avenne divil's elect you'll find!" Braces, Supporters, &c., constantly on hand. and Thirteen-and-a-half street. sepS-tfl 11 reports under penalty of being rung up. About a Ladies will be waited upon by Mrs. Ross. Do you think the missionary viould dare to mock week ago, at midnight, the "guard" formed in sin- je25-lv2 me by telling me of God's love ? Could he have the gle file, and, in command of a Sun reporter, marched Great Eednction in Pric of Coke. face to do it here?" Such were the words of a to the house, every man whistling the " Mulligan SATE YOUR CARPETS FROM DELIVERED TO ALL PARTS OF THE CITY AT wretched mother whose three fatherless children lay Guards." The doctor was late in coming out, and MOTHS ENGRAVING AND PRINTING THE SAME RATE. on.straw which served for a bed in a cellar. the reporters forming in line on the sidewalk, whis- By having them cleaned and restored to their original New schedule—Full load of 40 bushels for $2.6». 'fl know the lapsed and wretched classes well," brightness, with or without removing from the floor. [Smaller loads, s cents per bushel; cartage, oo cents.] tled the Dead March in "Saul" until he came, which APPLY TO writes Dr. Guthrie. " I believe if I were as poor as Carpets dusted at five cents per y^rd, and stored was not long.—New York World. during the summer free. Office of Washington Gaslight Company. they I shonld be as deceitfnl. Circumstances make Ink and grease spots a specialty. people what they are much more than many suppose. Washington Patent Carpet Renovating: Co., 413 Tenth street northwest, ill First street northwest, 1414 PENN'A AVENUE, opposite Wlllard's. BANS NOTES, BONDS AND COMMERCIAL WÖBS or to 110 Bridge street. Georgetown. . There is not a wretched child in this town but if my DISRAELI'S new title,' " Beaconsfield," is pro* nov21-8 children had been born and bred up in its unhappy nounced, in England, Beckonsfleld. This adds H. W. PADDON, circumstances they might have been as bad." another to the many family names of which the LOOK OUT FOR PAINT! DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Who doubts it ? Seventy per cent, of the youths spelling is no guide to their pronunciation. The OF EVERT KIND, AC. sent to the reformatories become decent members of " upper-ten " ought certainly to favor a spelling re- TJ. Gr. BOWEN, WOOD AND COAL, society. Crime is an accident for which society is form. What an absurdity to perpetuate snch ortho- 1323 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest., responsible. graphical puzzles I How can any ordinary mortal WM. H. PHILIP, President. YARD, CORNER EIGHTH AND BOUNDARY On last Sunday evening I walked through High be expected to know that Beanchamp is Beecham; House and Ornamental Painter and Glazier, GEO. T. JONEB, Vice President. STREETS NORTHWEST. JOHN W. WATERS, Secretary. street. I saw the well, I saw the swarm of women Cholmondeley, Ohumley; Mainwaring, Mannerlng; Imitations of all kinds of wood and marble, kalso- Special attention given to orders from the country. and children waiting for the water, which came so St. Leger, Sellinger; Marjoribanks, Marchbanks ? mlnlng wall«. Jobbing promptly attended to. apio-l J. M VAN BUSKUtK, Treasurer, apr23-8 1 THE CAPITAL.- OCTOBER 8, 1876.
CAPTAIN CELSO CESAR MORENO, a well-known MISCELLANEOUS. CLOTHING, gentleman in this city,for his independence and entire THE CAPITAL. lack of clannish sentiment where he discovers his fellow-citizens in the wrong, lets a ray of light fall on the Italian department of the Centennial Exposition Y CHOICEST GOODS, SUNDAY MORNING, 00T0BEE 8, 1876. in the following letter to the North American of Phila- delphia : (SUCCESSORS TO JOHN T. MITCHELL,) TO OR»ER. BLACK SCOTCH SUITS, $25, $30, $35, 840. " There is a great deal of complaint and ill-feeling BECOBD OP THE WEEK. among the Italian exhibitors in Fairmount Park. TO ORDER. CASSIMERE BUSINESS, $20, $26, $30, $35. The causes are that the custom-houses have enor- mously taxed their objects of art and merchandise, 931 Pennsylvania Avenue, TO ORDER. DRESS CASSIMERES, $40, $45, $50, $55. THERE is a noticeable falling off in the number and caused needless delays to the detriment of their TO ORDER. BLACK CLOTH SUITS, $40, $50, $60, $?0. txf tramps as the time for election comes along. interests and renown. " The Italian exhibitors are of opinion that the TO ORDER. BEAVER OR PIQUE SUITS, $30, $40, $50, $60. Italian government was very unfortunate in the "Will open during this week a large stock of V THE Marine band ceases to blow in the Smith choice for the commissioners at our Centennial ex- TO ORDER. FINE DIAGONAL SUITS, $40, $50, $55, $65. sonian and President's'grounds. Too cold. hibition. Mr. Gianelli, the general commissioner, is not the right man in the right place, being an in- TO ORDER. FRENCH WORSTED SUITS, $40, $45, $50, $S5. COLONEL CALVIN SAYKE has returned to Wash- competent and unknown person both in Italy and in PALL AND WINTEE DEESS GOODS, the United States, and his conduct has created sus- TO ORDER. BUSINESS TROUSERINGS, $6, $S, $3, $10. ington after a brief trip to his home in Montgomery picions and disappointments among his countrymen TO ORDER. DRESS TROUSERS, $10, $12, $14 $16. Alabama. who are exhibitors. Carefully selected during the past week from the "If Italy has not been adequately represented at our latest importations, embracing all the new fabrics and TO ORDER. [ BLACK DOESKINS, $12, $13, $15, $16. "WHEN a Sunday escapes a rain storm nowa- exhibition, the blame lies entirely upon the Italian styles. commissioners, who, with the exception of Signor days the event should be noted down in the journals Guiseppe Dassi and Professor Emanuele Caroni, SILKS, VELVETS AND I)A MASK GOODS IN ALL of the land as a remarkable fact that Sunday wasn't are men below their mission. THE NEW SHADES. cloudy. " The majority of the Italian exhibitors have come CLOAKS, SHAWLS AND SUITS. to the conclusion to bring a complaint before their LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERWEAR IN OVERCOATINGS ! OVERCOATINGS ! THE Israelites of Washington have subscribed government and the chambers of commerce as soon GREAT VARIETY. as they reach their native land; meanwhile they are $1,000 for the Savannah sufferers. That Saffron preparing a collective protest against the Italian While the Avenue is in its present condition all John has brought more money into Savannah than commissioners, to be made known to the American carriages will have to come to the D street entrance. H^SEVENTY^t has circulated there for many years, we fancy. people, stating that their hopes have been deluded, their interests neglected and their rights trampled MITCHELL