VOLUME VI. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., JUNE 25,1876. NUMBER 17.

—The Democratic convention for the nomina- likely to pass the other, providing that such contri- LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. Senator Keinan of New York was serenaded at THE CAPITAL, tion of the President and Vice President meets butions should be punished by heavy penalties. the Lindell House to-night, and made a speech ad- Here, then, was an officer of the Government not vocating the nomination of a man who can wrest at St. Lonis next Tuesday. In this connec- St. JLouis Convention. PÜBLISHED WEEKLY, only advising, but endeavoring to compel, a subordi- ST. LOUIS, June 24.—Part of the Nevada delega- the Government from the party of corruption and tion we quote from the Evening Star the follow- nate to perpetrate an act that the representatives of place it in the hands of those who will administer it THE tion arrived last night. The delegation is unpledged, ing for the information of readers who keep the people without distinction of party had already but the members of it favor Tilden in preference to in the interest of honestv, reform and justice to all. Capital Publishing Company, slates and make prophecies: branded as reprehensible and worthy of punish- any one else but Hancock and Hendricks. They say Henry W. Watterson of the Louisville Courier- The method of voting in the Democratic national ment. they have many admirers in and west of the moun- Journal was serenaded at the Southern Hotel. He convention, which meets at St. Lons on Tuesday Finally, I have reason to believe that the same tains, but there seems to be a general preference for responded in a speech. Hon. Dan. Voorhees and 927 b street, Washington. D. 0. next, will differ materially from that of the Repub- means will be applied to extort money for the fall Tilden, he being regarded as the representative of others made brief remarks. licans at Cincinnati last week. Ae Democratic campaign. It behooves all honest men to make in- reform and as most likely to carry the Democratic The New York delegation had a meeting to-night convention has fewer members than that of the Re- creased exertions to counteract these radical rascali- party to victory. All the delegates from the Pacific and elected Senator Kernan chairman. There are fflONN PIATT and B. 6. LOVEJOY Editors publicans, for the reason that the Democrats do not ties. W. H. BABCOCK. slope seem anxious to have the Chinese immigration still twenty-two members of this delegation absent. admit delegates from the Territories, as was done at question discussed, and there will no doubt be an Several other delegations also held meetings, bat TERMS: S2.S0 per year (including postage);iii Cincinnati. The only exception to this rule regard- effort made to incorporate into the platform of the owing to the fact that none of them were complete Mrs. Governor Hayes. t^dranci. ing the Territories will be Colorado, which will be convention a plank on the subject. in numbers, no formal action was taken. [Columbus Correspondence N. Y. Herald ] CLUBS: Ten copies to one address, $20 in ad- represented at St. Louis, and the reason for this dis- Individual members desire an acknowledgment The ladies of the land will have no reason to re- Virginia Midland Railroad. vance, with one copy free. Twenty copies to one tinction is that it may be admitted as a State in time that the people of the Pacific States are right in their gret the appearance there of Mrs. Hayes. This lady, RICHMOND, VA., June 24.—A bill of complaint has ^address, $35 in advance, with one copy free. to vote at the election. Thus the Democratic, con- opposition to Mongolian immigration. A small por- who commands the profound respect and enthusias- been filed in the court praying for the vention will consist of 738 members. Its votes, how* tion of the Ohio delegation have also arrived. The tic admiration of cultivated society here, will bril- appointment of a receiver to administer the affairs CONTESTS OF INSIDE. ever, will be cast by States, each State being entitled delegation is instructed for Allen, but the.members liantly meet all the requirements of that large sphere. of the Washington City, Virginia Midland and Great "PAGE 2.—Gossip by Roberts. to the same number of votes as it has representa- now here say they would accept Thurman, or, per- Mrs. Hayes is an uncommonly handsome woman, Southern railroad, formerly known as the Orange PAGE 3.—Miscellaneous. tives and senators in Congress,instead of double the haps, Hendricks. but is not of that type of delicate beauty that is and Alexandria railroad. The suit is brought by PAG® 6.—New York Letter. number. Thus, while there are 738 members, the The Maine, New Jersey and Georgia delegations most characteristic of our countrywomen. She is George W. Scott, an Irish gentleman, who lives in PAGE 7.—" One of Garibaldi's Englishmen," 4c. total number of votes that may be cast in the con- arrived this morning, and numerous others will come at once a paragon in those domestic duties that are New York, and who has never been naturalized as vention is only 369, each delegate having but half a in this afternoon and evening. There have also ar so essential a part of every ^American woman's life, a citizen of the United States, in behalf of himself vote. This is the reason why in the reports of the rived some seventy gentlemen from Arkansas who and a leader in the more brilliant social festivities and all other creditors of the company and the va- EVENTS. Democratic convention we shall see half votes cast will hold a meeting or sit in convention here and of this charming capital. In the number of her an- rious corporations which said corporation and other for different candidates. Two thirds of the whole elect delegates to the national convention. number of votes will be necessary to nominate a cestors the Governor's wife counts settlers at Chilli- parties alleged to be interested. The plaintiff claims —The appetite for Wood seems to be growing LATER. candidate for President if the two-thirds rule is not cothe who came from Connecticut; other settlers to be the holder of first and second mortgage bonds in Turkey. The regular troops of that persua- ST. LOUIS, June 24.—This has been a very busy suspended, and the candidate who gets 246 votes will from , and her father was a physician of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad Company, day at the hotels. Delegates have poured in by sion recently butchered twenty thousand per- be nominated. from Kentucky. Her maiden name was Webb ; she which he sets forth as being past due. He also sons in Bulgaria. is a strictly religious woman, in which the eye of every regular train, and several special trains have charges that the trustees named in the first mort- arrived heavily laden with delegates and friends of —The supreme court of Brooklyn, in general fancy may find her Connecticut ancestry. A wo- gage, one G. B. Lamar, is dead, and that the trust .—War must have its place among the mission- the various candidates. But few full delegations created by said deed hereby devolved upon George term, last week reversed the decision of Judge man devoted to domestic duties, a trait characteris- ary and civilizing agencies. China, wrapped in tic of Pennsylvania, and in her beauty, her conver- have arrived, and it is therefore difficult to ascertain |Collins, Esq., of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, .-a cloak of deceit and separating itself by a social, Dykeman in the case of Moulton vs. Beecher, sational aptness, her social tact and grace, one sees what is the real position this or that State will take and that Mr. Collins, as soon as he was informed of in the convention, and conversation with individual •(religious and political wall from the progressive argued at Poughkeepsie, and unless Mr. Beecher a result of the dashing Kentucky blood. Mrs. the fact that the trust had so devolved upon him, members discloses only to a degree the opinion of the refused to accept; so that the plaintiff claims that ¡part of creation, has just sent students to Berlin takes it up to the court of appeals we shall have Hayes, like her husband, is perfectly artless and another installment of scandal very soon. sincere. The first thing that impresses itself upon whole. Prominent delegates from Michigan say he has the right to apply to a court of equity for re- to study tactics in the school of Yon Moltke. those who meet her for the first time is the entire their delegation has had no conference yet. They lief. The bill further charges that the Baltimore absence of anything artificial in her manners and are without instructions and will vote as the best and Ohio Railroad Company is the owner oi a large —Senator Lot M. Morrill of Maine was last interests of the party seem U> indicate. THE FOLLOWING letter addressed to the Hart- conversation. You know that she is genuine by in- amount of bonds of the said corporation as well as -week appointed to succeed Mr. Bristow in the stinct. She unites the ease and grace of the most It is claimed, however, that 18 out of the 22 dele- of the capital stock, but while it permits an organi- Treasury Department. This gentleman brings ford Times explains itself and needs no com- ment. "We have had a personal acquaintance refined society with the warm cordiality of Western gates are for Tilden. Most of the Indiana delega- zation of said company under the laws of Virginia, to the duties of his office the experience acquired life. Every person who approaches her is charmed tion have arrived, and they assert they are for it in fact controls the same and directs how all the with the writer for many years, and anything he as chairman of the Committee on Appropria- with her conversation. She talks well upon every Hendricks first, last and all the time. revenues of said company shall be disposed of, and tions, and which must be invaluable to efficient writes is worthy of every confidence. He forci- subject without the slightest reserve, and she pos- Furthermore, they will listen to no compromise, that it so manages and directs the same in utter dis- performance of his new functions. bly photographs the evil which civil-service re- sesses a magnetism which, despite Mr. Henry Ward nor will they agree to any arrangement looking to regard of the rights of the plaintiff and others simi- form aims to correct, and gives a lively picture Beecher's opinion to the contrary, is one of the most giving Hendricks the second place on the ticket with larly situated. —The President last week nominated Mr. of the sort of slavery that Republicanism en- powerful attractions of human nature. Tilden. Whether they would favor Hendricks being placed second to any other man than Tilden is not Foreign News. •George P. Fisher to 1he Deleware attorneyship. deavors to establish at the capital: You can picture the future lady of the White known and does not seem to have been discussed. VIENNA, June 24.—The Political Correspondence In the scandal which recently attached to the House presiding at a reception with a dignity and WASHINGTON, D. C., June 15. In reply to a question whether the Indiana Demo- to-day publishes intelligence from Belgrade, stating -office in this District, Judge Fisher's name was elegance to which Washington society has long been To the Editor of The Times. crats would support Tilden if nominated, it was that all arrangements have been made for the entire a stranger, and romping with her children in the mot mixed up. He was and is regarded as the I presume it will interest your .readers to know stated that the leading Democrats would, but there Servian array taking up its strategical positions on nursery with all the freedom and delight of a de- •victim of a too confiding nature, and possesses why it was that the Democratic majority was slightly was much apprehension that the country press\ the 27th of July. Should a rupture with the Porte voted mother. In person Mrs. Hayes, as has been the sympathy of a large class of District people, reduced this spring, especially as the cause then would not, and if there should be anvthing like a ensue, which appears very probable, though by no said, is unusually attractive. She is of medium operating is likely to make itself felt with even bolt, the effect would be very disastrous én the means as yet unavoidable, warlike action is scarcely •¿rrespoctive of party. height, with a graceful and well-developed figure, greater force in the approaching presidential elec- I election in that State. likely to commence before the first days of July. It dark hair, which she we.\rs in simple but very —The late developments in regard to the Cald- tion. Charges of extortion oa the part of officials I It is asserted that Pennsylvania will give Tilden is possible that Prince Milan will leave the capital becoming braids, falling^IW cy-jr her temples, iu and of using money so extorted to control elections bût two vttjes, that three-fifths of the delegates are the beginning of next week and issue a proclamation well dispatch show that it was concocted in this contrast with the more modern style of frizzing and are often loosely made, but I happen to be able to for Hancock, and that these, in the event that it resembling a war manifesto, and then join the army •country, sent to London and returned as the cropping; brown and expressive'"eyes, regular prove that the Administration did formally levy appears that Hancock cannot be nominated, will go at Belgrade. ^spontaneous act of Caldwell desirous of coming features, a good color and a peculiarly sweet mouth black-mail on its employes, requiring an official re- to Hendricks. to the rescue of an injured man. The result re- and chin. Her face has much character, and ex- BACIIABEST, June 24.—Prince Charles has issued port of the reasons for refusal, when persisted in, by Itis claimed that Illinois,which has heretofore been a decree convoking an extraordinary session of both lieves Mr. Knoitfrom the slightest suspicion of discharge. I subjoin a statement of the facts in my presses at once firmness »and amiability. The sim- plicity and excellent taste of her toilet have been reported 23 for Tilden, will give 27 for Hancock, 11 chambers of Parliament for the 2d of August, unfairness; in fact, his prudence is more than own case. for Tilden and 4 for Davis. matters of remark among the ladies during the Centennial. -vindicated. For some time previous to the Connecticut elec- The Hendricks men claim that the vote of Davis official life of her husband, while she has been the , June 24 —The jury in group eleven tion I (being then a first assistant examiner of will go to them ultimately. leader of society at the Ohio Capital. She is faithful on jewelry, silver-ware and bronze ornaments ex- —Upon the good health of individuals the patents) was subjected to importunities from a set A prominent member of the Illinois delegation in her religious observances, and is distinguished for pect to complete their labors next week. Out of one peace of Europe often depends. The cable an- of persons calling themselves the Connecticut Re- states that he intends to make a speech in the con- her numerous and judicious acts of charity, while at hundred exhibits about twenty-five will receive nounces that Prince Bismark has gone to Kis- publican committee, whom I afterwards found to vention and bring charges against Tilden of a very the same time she is always the life and soul of medals. America and Japan will probably take the be in league with, or agents of, Secretary Chandler. damaging character. He says Tilden does not de- «engen for the treatment of chronic inflammation social entertainments in which she takes a part. In lead in receiving prizes. They demanded that I should either vote with them serve the respect of the nation, and is anything but -of the veins of the legs. It will be recollected that short, her friends declare their belief that her quali- The heat in the building to-day is very great. It is or pay them money to be used (as they said) for a reformer. the Prince of Wales was recently suffering from fications as the lady of the White House are only tempered outside by a strong breeze; several per- sending home voters. I refused. They then threat- John Morrissey arrived to-day, and has been a equaled by her husband's fitness for the duties of sons are reported overcome by the heat, but none the same complaint. To the truism that " un- ened to report me, and produced'a long list of em- center of attraction. He is very pronounced in his the high cffice for which he is named. seriously. The attendance is less than yesterday. easy rests the head that wears a crown " will be ployes with my name at the head, and a space op advocacy of Tilden as the best, strongest and most posite for my response. I replied, " You may report added uneasy walks the prince with veins in his Fish Diet at Norfolk. available man. Base Ball. that I shall neither vote with you nor pay one cent." «egs. Writes a correspondent from Virginia: The lazi- There have been several quite heated disputes CHICAGO, June 24.—Chicagos 16, Mutuals 2. This was taken down and underlined with a flour- ness of the Norfolk people is due to the same causes between the Tammany and anti-Tammany men, CINCINNATI, June 24.—Bostons S, Cincinnatis i. ish. —The President sent a message to the House that made Adam's time hang so heavily on his hands some of them of a rather exciting character. The LOUISVILLE, Tune 24.—Louisville 7, Hartfords, 2. I Not long after this the chief clerk sent for me, and last week urgipg immediate action on the appro- before Eve found something for him to do. The city Tammany men are hot for the defeat of Tilden at ST. LOUIS, June 24.—Browns 8, Athletics 3. informed me that I was " charged with having re- priation bills. The further serious delay of lies in a locality so favored by nature that the ne- all hazards. McGearyol the Browns split one of his hands fused to vote or pay a political assessment." I finishing business and adjourning will rest with cessity of laboring for a living is far less apparent They assert that he cannot carry New York, and badly. replied that that was certainly true. He then said than it commonly is elsewhere. It is a place of lim- that his nomination will defeat the party. Mr. the Senate. Both • bodies will be more or less that the Secretary (Zachariah Chandler) wanted a Marriage. ited ambitions and unbounded contentedness. Morrissey and his friends, on the other hand, con- stubborn. There is room for dignified and grace- report as to why I so refused. He handed me a slip NEW YORK, June 24.—Robert* Dale Owen was Therefore its population is naturally composed, for tend that Tilden's reform record will enable him to ful yielding on the part of the House in the mat- of paper, saying, " This has come from the Secre- married at Lake George yesterday to Lottie Wal- the most part, of philosophers; and a philosopher sweep New York by a larger majority than ever, as tary. You will confine your report to the two points ton, an artist of middle age ter of reducing salaries. Economy in that direc- may

For THE CAPITAL. Great excitement is felt in our Treasury De- MISCELLANEOUS, DEY GOOBS. A SCENE IN TEXAS. partment about the coming in of the new Sec- SHIBTS, The herder on the mountain side "With curses casts him down; retary. Although his name is Lot, there is not A scowl is on his manly brow, much of him. He "'as the smallest man in the One Hundred Refrigerators I And on his cheek a frown; . Fog-bank. He ai:d Dawes, the diminutive AT FACTORY PRICES DR Y GOODS TAYLOR I HUFTY, Sullen gazing down the vale could both sit in one chair and hardly be aware There something strikes nis eye, T0 CLOSE OUT STOCK FOR For to his miistang rushing of the presence of the other. The tidal wave R That quietly grazes by, of New office-seekers will sweep over CENTENNIAL SUMMER that vast Government asylum, the Treasury, He springs upon the startled steed. 933 Pennsylvania Avenue» And spurring with loose rein. hope it will not be a case like Alexandria, after Improved Summer Qaeen " Oil M Headlong he dashes down the hill j the organization of the present CongresB, when And on across the plain ; the rush here was so great that no one was left Stove, Y AX OCR HEW STORE, With Jaws hard set and. flashing eyes, to turn out the gas. Flushed face and quickened breath. .'(Formerly occupied by Yates & Mitchell,) He rides like one that rushes on Mr. New also talks of resigning. There is an I vfould respectfully call the attention of the public and especially the trade In this Centennial year to the HAVE REDUCED THE PRICES OF THEIR- To victory or death. old proverb or song, " It is better to be off with most perfect and the only one entitled to the name of We are Dally receiving the Latest Novelties in " Oil Cook btove." The sun strikes hot upoii his brow; the old love before we are on with the new." This Stove was patented October 20,1874, and was first introduced to a limited extent late last season, and G Spattered with foam and mud, This is a paradoxical case where the old is the feeling much encouraged by the universal praise be- The clanking spurs upon his heels, stowed upon it, I have it this year so much improved (FOREIGN AND BOHESTIC DRY GOODS new, and I think he had better stick. He has and simplified that I now propose to place it within At every stroke draw blood J got his department down now on an equality tbe reach of all in want of an Oil Cook Stove, without The gentle stirring summer breeze fear of its having the shadow of a rival. CELEBRATED Swift grows into a gale. with any of the State prisons of the country, and The advantages possessed by this Stove over all other For Summer "Wear. so-calJed Oil Cook Stoves are: The tall tops of the prairie grass another man might not be found who would care 1st. It Is perfectly odorless, can be burned in a close Our assortment Is Large, Choice and Varied, Strike in his face like liail. room all day without any smell. and at prices that compare with New York rates. to make a prison out of his bureau. The railing 2d. It Is so simple that the most inexperienced can We invite an inspection of our elegant line. has been erected and paid for, and it would be a manage 11 without trouble. Through river broad he holds his course, 3d. It Is made of strong and durable material, so that, ! Summer Silks in Checks, Stripes and Plaids. Nor bridge nor ford he seeks; pity to disturb the man who draws a comfortable with care from rust, it will last a long time. I Grenadines In Black, and all the new shades in The waves he leaves behind are tinged 4tli. It is economical. You can cook, bake, broil or ¡Stripes and Plaids. salary to lock and unlock the large gate to let in roast at about three fourths of a cent per hour. I Brocade Grenadines in all the New Colors. DOUBLE-YOKE *With blood and foam in streaks; officials of the department. 6th. It is the only Oil Cook Stove that will keep flat Black Silks in Taffeta and Gros Grains of all His long lialr streaming wild behind, irons sufficiently heated to do continuous Ironing celebrated makes. A lady living out of the city was here for a baking and roasting perfectly. Jaconet! and Organdie Lawns, new styles. And shirt of scarlet hue, 6th. It can be used anywhere, in doors or out, if pro- Toile Nets and Linen Batiste, new styles, for Smoke In the hot blaze of the sun day; she had a friend she particularly wished to tected from the wind while burning. Overdresses. As swift he rides in view. 7tli. It is the only stove made which has its wick Navy Blue and Brown Foulards in Plains and see on a matter of important business. Not tubes surrounded and ratchets covered by water. Stripes. It Is protected by the aforementioned patent of the All Wool Debages in Plain and Stripes. SHIRTS His steed upon Its haunches thrown, knowing her address, she went to the Treasury "United States"—any infringement on the same will Llama Lace Sacques and Shawls of most ex- He vaults to earth in haste, to see the daughter of her friend and get the be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. lulslte Patterns and the latest shapes. White Goods of every description. And with a savage oath exclaims: address. Arriving at the gate of the prison bu CHRIS. RIESSNER, Best Assortment of Fine Hosiery In the city. " Haln t had a dog-goned taste 715 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. Ladles and Misses' Summer Underwear i AS FOLLOWS : Of whisky slnc.e I bust my flask; reau, she asked to see Miss , and was told - jel8-»m8 great variety. Sun Umbrellas, Newest Style Handles. Stranger mougbt you hev some V she could not see her. . She then asked if she Kid Gloves. Thar now, I knowed I was in luck, Ladles Linen Suits, Beautifully Embroidered could send a note in. "Yes, but no answer and of the Latest Patterns. When fust I seed ye come." could be returned." Finally she found, by a OPENING. QUALITY No. 1, $24, FORMERLY S30„ good deal of cross-questioning, that only on an W0LF0RD & SKILBERG, For Tux CAPITAL. 817 MARKET SPACE, A DAMPER. order from the head man, our old friend New, Junll-tfe Third Door from Ninth street. QUALITY No. 2, $33, FORMERLY $36„ From nature's beauties I had drawn could she communicate with the lady. The busi- PLUMBING AND GAS My metaphors: the smiling dawn, ness being imperative, she went to Mr. New's 719. GREAT INDUCEMENTS 719 The azure sky, the blushing rose. FITTING. QUALITY No. 3, $39, FORMERLY $42„ All sweets that eye or fancy knows, room, and was told he was busy just then and OFFERED TO BUYERS OF And racked my brains, earth, heaven and air, and could not see her; so she walked around QUALITY No. 4, $42, FORMERLY $48„ For objects which I might compare the building, then went back and found that ttie Fancy and Millinery Goods. With varied charms of lady fair. elderly gentleman with the youthful name had THOMAS M. SHEPHERD, At last, when I already guessed gone out. She had wasted two hours and waited Late of the firm of A. R. Shepherd & Co., desires to OUN-UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS AND ALL KINDS TAYLOR & HUFTY, The love, that by her fluttering breast, make known to his numerous friends In the District of U of Straw and Chip Goods at cost, at an hour more, and was compelled to leave in Columbia and vicinity that, having retired from the And glance half shy, half sweetly bold. order to catch the train, having some other late Arm, he has established himself In the business of SATIS'. Which e'er had been so strange and cold, 933 Pennsylvania Avenue^ things to attend to. PLUMBING, STEAM AND GAS PITTING, MARBLE And lips that trembled to be pressed, m ay 7-s m OR Was now, I thought, all but confessed; It is very hard to please people. The truly MANTELS, GRATES, CHANDELIERS, &C., She smiled and said: " Pull down your vest,." loyal have been howling all the session that the At 1423 Hew York avenue nortlurest. ECK-TIES, SCARFS, SASHES, JAPANESE FANS. LADIES' GOOBS. Here he will be pleased to receive his friends and the j N Flowers, 3 New York avenue, near Fifteenth street. tions, Laces, Nets. Ruffling, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Ex- gotten up last session by a Republican Congress WASHINGTON, J une 16, 1878. jei8-tf3 clerks pai d, I suppose, as they generally pay for and signed by a Republican Speaker, yet now tracts, Soajis, Notions, &c., at lowest market prices, at OViERSKIRTS AND BASQUES, most of the political sprees gotten up here. In »AVIS', the truly loyal are shrieking about it, and crying De Beaulieu Institute, 718 Market Space, corner Eighth street. AND LADIES' UNDERWEAR- the mor ning papers it was a "large and enthu in hoarse tones, " Electioneering dodge." If it A THOROUGH PARASOLS AND SUN UMBRELLAS AT HALF- siastic meeting," but, as an eye-witness, I can French and English Scliool for Young; 1 had not been passed the 1.1. would have told the PRICE. truly inform you it was a large procession of soldiers of the country "it was plain to be seen Lkdies and Uttle Girls, Also Afternoon and Evening French Classes for Ladies | RESS ELEVATORS, CHATELAINS COMBS, FLOWERS, HATS, RIBBONS ."AND MILLINER'S^ men and boys, where age did not matter so they how little an ex-Confederate Congress cared for and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls. D Shetland Shawls, Sash Ribbons, at could walk, who paraded three abreast and three Ill V. PRUD'HOMME having leased the house No. . GOODS LESS THAN COST. the Union defenders." 9lo Twelfth, between I andK streets, will reopen on the »AVIS'. feet apart, so as to make a nice show. Three The convention at Cincinnati " gave the wo- third Monday of September next her French and En.sr- | JUST RECEIVED— lish School for Young Ladies and Little Girls. French stands were erected very close to each other, men ten minutes," and that the women were will be the language of the school, and the better to A large assortment of HAMBURG EDGES and ECRU-' and three men spoke all at once. The whole attain this purpose M'lle Prud'homme will be assisted satisfied shows that leap year has had a beneficial by a French lady, who does not speak English. Able LACES selling at reduced price. thing resembled the Cave of the Winds when in and experienced teachers have also been secured for I RINGES, BUTTONS AND TRIMMINGS IN GREAT effect on the female mind. If I was a man I the English Department, as Ave 11 as special masters for I F variety at full-tide session, as all talked at once, and no Mathematics, Greek, Latin, Elocution, Writing, Draw- | CORSETS AND KIB1 GLOVES IN GREAT" should so lik% to be a husband of one of these ing, German. Music and Dancing. Arrangements will 1 »AVIS', one really listened. All the rejected candidates running-round, filibustering, convention-talk- be made for Young Ladies who desire to devote some of I jell-3t5 719 Market Space, corner Eighth street. VARIEXY. their morning hours to the study of French alone, also [ said how glad they were that they were not ing, ballot-wanting women. Most of the hus- for Parents who only wish thçjr ¿laughters to join the I HUMAN HAIR VERY LOW AT nominated, but that some one else was, and English Ddpartment* or take up some special branch of | bands have long hair, (convenient in case of a sturdy in the Institution. For terns and particulars, see I RARE BARGAINS ! after being told this three or four timles over family difficulty,) and look as if they never went M'lle Prud'homme after the ltet of September next, at 910 S. HELLER'S, the ratifiers dispersed, and those of them who Twelfth street. jel8-ly2 round the house whistling or performing any JeH-tf3 715 MARKET SPACE. were not so "enthused" as to be conveyed other act of masculine levity. It is a matter of J. H. BERRY & CO. BRODHEAD & CO., to the station-house, went to their homes with wonderment in these days of quick marriages JUST RECEIVED sore throats, but with a consciousness of having and quicker divorces, to see a couple who have 939 PENNSYINAIA AVENUE, done their duty, and that is all the average been married a few years civil to each other; Between Kiufh and Tenth Streets, FRENCH CHIP loyal American cares about. much less possessing any affection for each other. Florists mi Landscape Gardeners. Offer extraordinary inducements in Dress Linens, Pique, Swiss, Victoria Lawns, Nainsook, &c., &c. CAVALIER'S PAMELAS The late war was responsible for a great deal And it is wonderful what strength real devotion Black Lyons Silk 75 cents per yard and up, including of bad poetry, and the centennial has caused a Bellon's, Bonnet, Guinet and Ponson's celebrated AND will give. I witnessed an evidence of this fact GREENHOUSES: makes. large amount of stuff which, by the grace of the other morning. Iron Mesh Grenadines. cents, and up. OTHER DESIRABLE SHAPES. God and christian charity, we call poetry; but Between Twenty-fourth and Twenty.fifth Linen Lawns In beautiful designs, 2o cents, and up. The well-known Washingtonian, Washington Sts. X. W„ near National Observatory, Beautiful Lawns end Cretonnes, 12J cents. ALSO A NEW ASSORTMENT OF I think the coming campaign is going ahead Linen Towels, $1 per dozen, and up. Nailor, having taken his wife for an early morn- Balbriggan Hose, $3 per box, (50 cents per pair,and up.) of anything. The Republican ticket may be 1 Androscoggin Bleached Cotton, cents. Traveling and Shade Hats». ing drive, was about to help her out, when the STORE : Wamsutta Bleached Cotton, 12J cents. called the poetical ticket—Hayes and Wheeler Elegant 3-Button Kid Gloves in all colors, $1.35. FINE FLOWERS, FEATHERS, SILKS, RIBBONS, &C». horses started; he held on to the reins and allowed 517 Tenth St. next door to Medical M tiseiim. 1-Button Kid Gloves, 50 cents. v Special attention given to orders. can keep the rhymers busy. That was Blaine's Bed Spreads, $l and up. himself to be dragged one block on the street, Hamburg Edging, 5 cents per yard, and up. / chief recommendation, and if he had been nom- BOUQUETS, 'WREATHS, CROSSES AND ALL FU- 1 MBS. J. P. PALMEB, and only when he lost consciousness did he let Ladies and Gent's Underwear at agents's prices. inated and elected the administration would have NERAL DESIGNS MAOE TO ORDER. No. 1109 F street, between Eleventh audit go ; the knowledge that his loved one was in the jell-lm3 Twelfth. been spoken of in after ages as the poetical era. BRANCH STORE, ap2-lys carriage gave him strength to hold a restraining 1205 F St., bet. Twelfth and Thirteenth sts. Dr. Pope would have been installed in the IMPROVED SODA hand on those powerful horses. This is leap White-House as first doctor in waiting to his BRODHEAD & CO., Miss E. A. McCormick, year, and if I see a youth of promise, that I 939 Pennsylvania ave., bet. Ninth and Tenth sts. majesty and poet laureate, and in answer to the WITH ap2-3mos* think will, after five years of matrimony, hang simplest inquiry, would have chopped into on to me at the risk of his store clothes, in case SPECIAL BARGAINS 522 NINTH STREET, (St. Cloud Building,>, poetry in a manner astonishing to even the late of danger, I shall intimate to him that " Barkis GRANULATED ICE. Silas Wegg,and told us all about "Jamie." NOW OFFERING IN is willing." Will be in constant receipt of all the His late effort in that line was simply sublime, KOLE'j, corner Seventh and E Streets. Alexander Shepherd has an elegant yacht fit- DRESS GOODS. and attracted attention all over the country. jdn-tfl NEWEST DESIGNS IN IMPORTED BONNETS, ting up for his summer enjoyment. Whatever When he wrotf the " Essay on Man" he was •ur friend Aleck doeB he does thoroughly and ROBERT I. FLEMING, UMTRIMMED STRAWS AND CHIPS, young, and only wrote blank verse, but of later Just received, Rich Stripe, Checked and Plain Blac k nicely. He rushed our improvements through Grenadines, Stripe Summer Silks, at 75 cents, 87J cents years has developed a Tennysonian vein.- FLOWERS, LACES, & on a lightning train and used up a lot of money, and$i; Superior Plain Black Silks, Fine Brown, Steel It is very amusing to read the remarks of dif- : Gray and Black Double-Faced Mohairs; loo pieces but we have something to show for it all. I CARPENTER AND BUILDER, | Beautiful Lawns and Percales, fast colors, at 12$ cents; FOR THE SPRING AND SUMMER. ferent correspondants to papers. We are told of : 500 yards Handsome Lace Stripe Jaconet Muslins, at wonder that more of the wealthy men of Wash- 20 cents, worth 37J; 20 pieces Fine Brown and Gray conversations taking place openly, by promi- Dress Linens; 600 yards Fine Stripe and Corded The ladies of Washington and viclnlt y are requested*! ington do not have yachts. It is one of the Piques, at 12$ cents; A small lot of Flue Lace Shawls nent Democrats, men who are supposed to be 303 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, and Sacques at about half the importer's prices and to call and examine before purchasing. pleasantest ways of passing the summer. It is the principal wire-pullers in the coming conven- very cheap, with lots of all Fancy Dress Goods at low apri-lyS the only place I know of where water and | prices, (many at cost,) to close them out this season. tion. They (according to our informers) say to beautiful scenery are so available that so little BETWEEN C AND PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, | J. W. COLLET'S each oth er in loud tones, " Yes, this ticket has Cheap Corner, 801 corner Eighth St. and Market Space. BARGAINS ! of this sport is indulged in. WASHINGTON, D. C. Je4-4t2 BARGAINS ! ! killed us; in order to head them off we must je4-tf3 Washington has some very nice resorts in its In order to reduce our large stock of HATS we offer- nominate so-and-so; yet if we do they will kill iany inducements. vicinity, but somehow the Washingtonians Wai¡- i Q , Important to Cash Buyers! Imitation CHIP HATS from 75c. to $1.25. us in such a quarter." Tbese-stage asides might SU di lUn Cl I W U lUUlll YoYou uca can bn eb wele well dressel dressed dan and dSav Save emone money by yb ycallin calling g Shade and Traveling HATS, 50c. pass muster in a theater, but as a general thing don't seem to appreciate them. Piney Point on LEWIS, " THE POPULAR HATTER " and gentle- French CHIP HATS* $1.50 up. men's outfitter, 920 Seventh Street, bet. I and Iv, before FANS—the best assortment in the city—from 5c. up. men of common sense don't talk private busi- has just opened. No nicer place can be found purchasing your Supplies for the SUMMER I We have KID GLOVES—2, 3,4, and 6-buttons, in all the fash- anywhere. The grounds have been improved x-HJEiram, just received a FULL LINE of Gentlemen's Genuine ionable tints. ness, political or otherwise, in hotel lobbies or Mackinaw Straw Hats from $2 to $4.50. Gentlemen's l Black French LACES for trimming purposes, very and the house handsomely furnished entirely White and Brown Ventilated Straw Hats, $1.50 to $2.50, cheap. in the street. Still I suppose th'e papers must Gentlemen's Brown and Garnet Derby Straw Hats, new, all the furniture being ordered from Bos- CONFECTIONER AND CATERER, $1.25 to $2.oo, Gentlemen's White and Brown Canton be filled with something, and of course cannot Sailor Straw Hats, $1.00 to $2.00, Gentlemen's Pearl MRS. M. J. HUNT, always be hampered by facts, and a story well ton. Mr. Jillard, well known here, is to have Stone and Drab StiffFelt Hats, $1.50 to $3.50.' Gentle- No. 520 Tenth street, between E and F, men's Fine Soft Pearl Hats with Black bands, $2.50 to mar2C-ti5 681 and 633 D street. told is sometimes • more readable than stern re- entire charge of the house. Every arrangement $3.50. Boy's Fashionable White and Brown Straw Hats at has been made for comfort, and the prices are 50 cts,75 cts., $1.00 and $1.25. Boy's and Children's'Dress ality. I like the New York Herald for that; Begs to announce that he has Increased his facilities, Hats in great variety. Also, Garden, Play and SCHOOL MERCHANT TAILORING, ET0. very moderate, and in this centennial, patriotic HATS, from 20, 25 to 30 cts. Our Furnishing Stock is we don't always know that what we are read- and is prepared to furnish now Complete! Gentlemen's White Shirts, linen bo- ing is true, but it is told so well that even as a year let us patronize our home resorts. soms, from $1.00, $1.50 to $2.co. Gent's India Gauze, Silk, WEDDING, BALL AND SUPPER PARTIES AT Lisle Thread. Jaconet,Summer Merino and other Sum- lie it is enjoyable. Every one can visit the centennial now. Col- mer UNDERWEAR, at Popular Prices. TwentvNew SHORT NOTICE. stvles Fancy Striped HALF HOSE. New styles NECK- For the newspaper profession I have a warm onel S. R. Hamill, who is always trying to think WEAR, GLOVES, HANKERCHIEFS, SUSPENDERS, ^JC A. JL ^ JK&^Parties will find at his saloon all the delicacies &c., &c. Complete stock of Trunks, Umbrellas, Vali- liking ; therefore I am always sorry when I see of something else, has arranged matters so that the season affords. Good accommodations for table ses and Bags,cheap,at LEWIS', 920 SEVENTH STREET, 165 Bridge street, Georgetown, J>. C., for ten dollars, hard or soft, one can go to Phil- bet. I andK. . je4-4t6 Has now on hand for custom make one of the finest andk sheets called newspapers by courtesy disgracing boarders. oct3-tf3 best selected stocks of French and English goods, an<$< the profession by their constant pandering to the adelphia and back and stay two days at a good which he guarantees to be as represented. Fit guaran- lowest tastes. No one likes to crack a joke or hotel. Next to going for nothing (which would CHEAP LUMBER. KER & GREEN, teed. Having a large stock of SPRUCE LUMBER, we have Agent for Vinton & Hutchinson's Fine Custom Shirts*. give a hit better than I do, and no one is more suit me better) nothing can be cheaper. concluded to sell at the following reduced prices. This apr30-8mo63 Lumber is water-seasoned, and of the very best quality: willing to take one or enjoy a joke, even if the ROBERTS. 2x3, 2x4 and 3x4, any length, $15 per thousand ; Hatters and Furriers, laugh is against me. But some persons find 1x6,16-feet rails,$15 per thousand; Inch boards, $15 per thousand; SCHECK & HEIL, it hard to draw the line between wit and vul- 3-inch joist, $13 and $15 per thousand; above garity, and can only be funny at the expense of A Shark with an Interesting: Stomach. 2-inch joist, $14 and $16 per thousand; 4§ feet pickets, (palings.) $15 per thousand; Pennsylvania Willard's Merchant Tailors, common decency. Articles filled with low The Morgan City (La.) Register, Jane 3, gives an 40 M feet rough, 3-inch, $7 50 per thousand; acconnt of the capture of a shark by Mr. Hamilton, 2x3 and 3x4, second quality, $12.50 per thousand ; coarse allusions may, like a vulgar play, raise a f spruce sidings, 6 or I inch. $15 per thousand. Hotel. CORNER SIXTH AND H STREETS NORTHWEST, assistant keeper of Ship Shoal Light, the contents of A large stock of Lunraer of all kinds always on hand, laugh from the boys in the gallery, but the sober- the stomach of which were miscellaneous and in- at lowest market prices. Will open April l,one of the finest assortments of goods,. minded and better portion of the community T. EOW'D CLARK & CO., ever opened in this city. nov28-l teresting. The Register says; "On cutting it open YARD. WHARF AND PLANING MILL, 1 All the leading styles of Cassimere Dress.Hats. deprecate it, and wonder that the presiding edi- there was found on its stomach, among other articles, Foot of Fourth street east, near United States navy- Various kinds of Straw Hats, Genuine Mackinaw, WILLIAM HART, tors allow such trash to be published. Things a watch, two metal buttons and a buckle, which had yard. jelL-3m8 Milan Braid, Leghorn. &c. Hair Cloth and English Linen Hats. of this kind do not hurt the assailed so much as evidently come from a pair of pantaloons. The • WHITING'S American and English Silk Alpaca and Gingham Merchant Tailor the writers and the newspaper that allows its monster had probably made a meal off of some poor- Umbrellas. unfortunate. The watch is full jeweled, a patent Ladles Parasols and Sun Umbrellas. columns to be used for such purposes. These Umbrellas and Parasols covered and repaired in the SIS NINTH STREET NORTHWEST.. lever, gilded and numbered 85,538. Captain Wil- Straw Hal and Bonnet Bleacliery, -beit manner. oc24-ly remarks are called forth, my dear CAPITAL, by liams claims the watch and sent it to this port with A large and select line of Imported Goods, "Which will • articles I have read lately in papers that are the Mr. C. S.Wilson until he comes in. It was shown he made to order promptly In the latest styles, as I have SPRING SHAPES NOW READY. W. E. CLEVER, the best cutter In the city. nov21-tfi scavengers of newspaperdom and degrade an us oy Collector E W. Holbrook. The jaw of the VETERINARY SURGEON. shark, when thoroughly cleaned, is to be presented I No. 617 Louisiana Avenue,bet, Sixth and 7th sts OS. T. K. «PLANT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, COM honored profession. i 924 Pennsylvania Avenue. to Collector Holbrook as an ornament for his office." . Strict attention paid to the examination of horses J missloner of Deeds and Notary Public, 788 E street.. may28-lm01 for purchase. nov21-8 Depositions a specialty. jyl8-tf& 3 THE CAPITAL.-- JUNE 25, 1876.

Charles II.'s Bar-Sinister Dukedoms. What Shall We Do with John? Extraordinary Suicide. GE00ERIES. GROCERIES. [From the New York San.] [From the'Christian Union.] . LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 11.—James A. Moore, aged Amazing vitality about the Merrie Monarch's The population of Ireland is, in ronnd numbers, about 35, liviiig on a farm near the Farmers's Insti- •stock in England. Its members increase and multi- about 5,000,t)00, that of China is nearly 500,000:000. tution, about 15 miles fouth of this city, committed N.T. METZGER & BRO., The petty immigration from Ireland to the Atlantic suicide at the Lahr House in this city last nigh*? THE AMERICAN COFFEE COMPANY, ply and flourish exceedingly. Of the twenty-one 417 Seventh street northwest, •dukedoms, Charles II. contributed, to use Defoe's coast has produced serious political complications. He leaves a wife and three children. No cause is words, " four to the peerage by his own efforts, and What will be the outcome of the Chinese immigia known for the deed. The manner in which it was y. IF. Cor. Thirteenth and F Sta. DEALERS IN FINE FAMILY GRO- •there is not the least likelihood of any of them be- tion to the Pacific coast ? Already the Chinese are accomplished is, perhaps, unparalleled in horrid in- CERIES. coming extinct." estimated as constituting a fifth of the California genuity. He earne to the Lahr House Saturday, These bar-sinister dukedoms are Buccleuch, Graf- population. And the end is not yet. When such a said he was perfecting an invention, and would CLARET. ton, St. Albans and Richmond. In point of posses- reservoir begins to overrun its banks, no one can tell probably stay a week, but would visit his home COFFEES: sions and influence, the first is by far the most im- from the size of the rivulet at first how large the Monday, and prepaid his bill t^l that time. He CLABET. FINEST OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA COFFEE, GEN- stream will become. called at the machine shop cf Harding & Sons, had CLASET. UINE MOCHA COFFEE, MARICAIBO portant. The Duke of Buccleuch is the direct de- COFFEE, RIO COFFEE, scendant of the Duke of Monmouth, Charles' unfor- Moreover, John differs from Pat in some very im- a large new broad ax and two bars of 3-inch wide by 1- Freshly roasted or green, at reduced prices. tnnate son by Lucy Walters. From time to time portant particulars. He has an intense and very inch thick iron, 16 inches long, which he had riv- St. Margeanx, rumors have run to the effect that Charles was in narrow patriotism. He has no idea of ever becom- eted to the head of the ax. On either side, fastened St. Julien. TEAS: reality married to this lady. Such reports are ing an American. This is not his hive; he comes to these bars in the shape of a handle to an ax, he St. Estephe. We have a very large and carefully selected stock of had a system of wooden bars 8 feet long, the ex- Teas, comprising the verv finest GUNPOWDER, IM- •alluded to in Evelyn's memoirs. Charles II. sol- ¿ere simply to gather honey. He has no notion of Medoc. PERIAL, JAPANESE AND OOLONG. emnly and publicly denied the allegation. He even remaining here, still less of leaving his children here treme end of which was fastened to a cross-piece, St. JEmillioii. wrote this denial in the council book, and it was after him. He retains his customs, his habits of secured to the floor by hinges. The ax was raised TABLE LUXURIES: Attested by members of the privy council. The fact thought, his civilization, his religion. He wears the and held to its nearly perpendicular position by a PKICES TO STJIT ALL, Such as •of his having gone through this formality tends to same dress, unless our American barbarians compel double cord fastened to the wall. Between the SPICED MEATS, SPICED OYSTERS, cords stood a candle, arranged so that when the can- SARDINES. OLIVE OIL, ¿show that the report had assumed a serious charac- him.to change it; he eats the same rice; he brings CHOW-CHOW, SALAD OIL, ter. hither his temple; he worships Joss. His supreme dle burned down to the cords it would burn them QUALITY GUARANTEED. SAUCES. PICKLES, PRESERVED GINGER, off and the ax fall. Where the ax would strike he SPANISH OLIVES, GINGER SYRUP, &C., AC. Monmouth's mother was the daughter of a Welsh self-conceit is not in the least abated by a compari- placed a small box, open on one side, in which, when .gentleman, but " having little means and less grace, son of his junks with our American marine, nor by found, was his head with some cotton which had CATAWBA WINE, CHEESE: •came to London to make a fortune." The famous his inspection of our railroads and telegraphs. He been chloroformed. His chin was held up from his ENGLISH DAIRY CHEESE, EDAM CHEESE, Algernon Sidney, then a colonel in Cromwell's army, publishes a newspaper in San Francisco, and hab- NORTON'S PINE APPLE CHEESE, NEW neck by a stick up across the box, through holes on $1.50 per Gallon. tiad agreed to give her fifty broad pieces, (as he told itually calls us " barbarians " and his own country- YORK FACTORY, (very fine.) either side, holding his head flrmly in position. He ihe Duke of York,) but being ordered hastily away men "celestials." As yet the nineteenth century TOMATOES, was strapped tightly to the floor with two straps, with his regiment he missed his bargain. She went does not appear to have thawed out his intense na- BUTTER: one around his legs, another about his arms and Always on hand the FINEST GILT EDGE. into Holland. There she formed the acquaintance tional prejudices in the slightest. His habits are not Three-lb. Cans 15 Cents each. breast. The straps were both screwed to the floor, of his broiher, Captain Robert Sidney, "with whom over cleanly; his quarters are of a kind to breed pes- rendering it impossible to move. It is supposed that SAUCES: '--she remained for some time, till the king (then in tilence ; his vices—prostitution, gambling and opium- he set his ax, lit the candle and strapped himself to CORN, LEA & PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE, HAL- •exile in that country,) hearing of her, got her from eating—are the more deadly because the less out- FORD'S YORKSHIRE RELISH, MUSHROOM, the floor, put his head in the box with the chloro- ¿him." breaking in flagrant forms of disorder; and he luxu- WALNCT and TOMATO CATSUPS. formed cotton and was probajjly insensible when $1.50 per Dozen. Very soon after she left Sidney her son, afterward riates on wages on which an American laborer would the ax fell. The ax and fixings would weigh about «the Duke of Monmouth, was born. He very much starve to death. SYRUPS: 50 pounds, and would fall a distance of from 10 or 15 PURE MAPLE SYRUP, SILVER AND GOLDEN resembled the colonel, even to a wart on his face, We do noc wonder that our Paciflc-coast brethren feet. His head was completely severed from the EVERY CAN GUARANTEED. DRIPS. However, strange to say the king persisted in own- are perplexed by the problem, what shall we do with body, and the ax buried in the boards beneath. ing him, though every one believed Sidney to be his him ? We do not wonder that they are annoyed, and STAR. WINES: ¿father. Ultimately Lucy Walters, or Waters, " fell even indignant at Ofcr apathy. We are apathetic CLARETS, such as MARGEAUX, BORDEAUX and STAR. all the popular brands. SHERRIES, PORTS, •very low and went to Paris." Evelyn speaks of because Vre are ignorant. John has no quarters in Silencing- Swipes. MADEIRA, ANGLICA AND CATAWBA. • having seen her there, and says that" she died mis- New York city ; we believe he has no temple here; [From the Solano Republican.] STAR. erably, without anything to bury her." Such was his competition has not lowered the wages of our "Mr. Swipes, won't you split up a little wood and This celebrated brand of pure old Rye Whisky can WHISKIES: the ancestress of the Dukes of Buccleuch. The workingmen, nor his presence'introduced any anom- go and borrow a brass kettle before you go up still be had at the above establishment for Our Whiskies, from their purity, are especlall y recom- •descendant of the courtesan who died destitute is alous element into o.ur political or social fabric. town ?" mended to the public for either medicinal or social purposes. to-day the greatest land-owner in the United King- But 500,000,000is a large population; a very respec- " What in thunder do you want me to do that for?" ONE HOLLAR PER BOTTLE. SCOTCH AND IRISH WHISKIES, JAMAICA RUM, dom. table fraction of that population will have to cross " 'Cause I want to preserve some cherries to- ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE. OLD TOM GIN, &C. Monmouth was beheaded in July, )S65. His titles the Pacific ocean before wages are equalized in the day." were attained, but his wife had herself been sepa- two countries. Water does not more surely seek its 14 Cherries?" FINE CIGARS: level than wages; and there is not the least assur- < We solicit a call, and guarantee satisfaction in rately created Duchess of Buccleuch, and her son " Yes, cherries!" price and quality. .••succeeded to his mother's titles. This lady was a ance that the Chinese wave will stop at the foot of "That's just you, Mrs. Swipes. You're always H. C. BOWERS, the Sierras, or yet of the Rocky Mountains, or even •daughter and heiress of the Earl of Buccleuch, and spluttering and fooling around with some nonsense K. W. CORNER OF THIRTEENTH AND F N. T. METZGER & BRO., the greatest fortune of her day. She was married in the valley of the Mississippi. The question, like this." STREETS. ap0-6mosl to Monmouth at the age of 12, he being then 11. She " What shall we do with John ?" may very soon, if " Nonsense ? Well, I guess you like preserves as 417 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. >it was to whom Scott alludes in " The Lay of the it does not already, concern all the people of the well as anybody." novl4-ly2 • • ~ '' • -Last Minstrel" in the lines: United States. "I don't either." G. G. C0RNWELL & SONS, " In pride of youth in beauty's bloom First—Evidently we cannot turn him back. It "If you wasn't too lazy to split the wood you'd Butter! Butter! Had wept o'er Monmouth's bloody tomb." may be well doubted whether we have the right to like them." She was a good wife to a bad husband, for whom do so. The descendants of the European Pilgrims "Mrs. Swipes, now do be sensible. You know FINE GROCERS, •••she had slight cause to have " wept." Monmouth of the seventeenth century have no charter right this preserving business costs money for sugar, fruit, AT STILL LOWER PRICES. -deserted her for Lady Henrietta Wa#tworth, daugh- from the Most High to refuse a home on their shores cans, wax, firewood and the deuce knows what all. ter of the celebrated Earl of Strafford. For this in- to the Asiatic pilgrims of the nineteenth. But if we But some way or other you never do think about ex- MIS Pennsylvania avenue, opposite WH. fidelity the best excuse is that he was married when had the right we have not the power. These great pense, for you're always buying ribbons, ruffles and lard's Hotel. Good Butter by tlie Roll, •a mere boy, and the union was entirely a matter of migratory movements are not amenable to acts of flummadiddle; but when I want anything, such as • " - CANS, Some of the most interesting memorials of Mon- able to withstand the pressure. " AT $3.00 PER DOZEN. G. H. Mumm & Co., Keims, we are indeed " barbarians," and, if it is pursued mouth are in the possession of the Countess of The brain, which is the great electrical center of all Ch. Farre, Reims, Home, daughter and heiress of Walter Scott's long enough, will give us an immense population vitality, becomesoverstimulated with unhealthy blood, foreign in thought, hostile in feeling, pagan in reli- and fails to normally perform its functions. Hence George Goulet & Co., Reims, friend, Lord Montagu, the Dake of Buccleuch'« there is dullness, headache. Impairment of the mem- ¡uncle. Among these is t&e richly-laced night-cap gion. ory, dizziness,gloomy foreboding», and irritability of G. G. C0RNWELL & SONS, Giesler & Co., Avize, (Champagne,) temper. When the blood Is diseased the skin manifests and gown the Duke of Jlonmouth wore the night Third—"ihe only other course is that of assimila- discolored spots, pimples, blotches, boils, carbuncles, De St. Marceau & Co., Reims, before his execution. The duke s servants still wear tion. It may be very inconvenient to have such an and scrofulous tumors. The stomach and bowels, sooner or later, become affected, and constipation, FINE GROCERS, Chas. Heidsieck & Co., Reims, the liveries of the same color as those worn by the incongruous population on our shores, but it cannot piles, dropsy, dyspepsia or diarrhoea is the inevitable Duke of Monmouth, and not the Scott colors, be helped. Wisdom as well as philanthropy says, result. Heidsieck & Co., Reims. make the best of it. This means, first, a just and SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT. although they have always called themselves Scott equal legislation; a condign punishment of every A sallow color of the skin or vellow-brown spots on my9*3 instead of Crofts, the name by which the Duke of blow leveled at a Chinaman, of every insult flung at the face and other parts of the body ; dullness and Monmouth was first known. The peerage contaius a Chinese woman; a rigorous enforcement of the drowsiness, with frequent headache ; dizziness, bitter laws that forbid gambling and prostitution; a strict or bad taste in the mouth, dryness of the throat, and Also, in Native Champagnes, mo worthier member than the present Duke of Buc- license of opium selling, or, better yet, a prohibitory internal heat ; palpitation of the heart, a dry, teasing cough, sore tnroat, unsteady appetite, sour stomach, OB CI PLEASANT VALLEY, STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW cleuch. He is a model of what a great nobleman law; an inflexible execution of sanitary measures, raising of the food, and a choking sensation in the .-should be, and is beloved and respected accordingly for the protection of health and decency. It means, throat ; sickness ana vomiting.distress, heaviness, and YORK; SANS PARIEL, SANDUSKY, OHIO. throughout his territories The annual valuation secondly, faith among christian people that God a bloated or full feeling about the stomach and sides ; made man in His own image; that Christ died for aggravating pains in the sides, back or breast, and for taxation of his Scotch estates is £181,000, and about the shoulders ; colic pains and soreness through the human race; that the divine love embraces the bowels; constipation,alternating with diarrhoea; STAPLE AND FAfeCY GROCERIES altogether his income can scarcely be less than $300,- Mongolian as well as Anglo-Saxon, Chinaman as piles, flatulence, nervousness, coldness of the extremi- DUFF GORDON SHERRIES, «00. Among his English estates is a very large prop- well as American. It means faith showing itself by ties, rush of blood to the head, with symptoms of apo- works. It means christian schools and missions for erty in Lancashire, and. in conjunction with the plexy ; numbness of the limbs (especially at night,) and OFFLEY PORTS, the "heathen Chinee;" a literature prepared for chills, alternating with hot flashes ; kidney and other Northwest corner Fifteenth and I Sis. BRANDENBURG FRERE CLARETS, Duke of Devonshire, he has had mnch to do with him ; a press at work for him. It means more men urinary difficulties, dullness, low spirits, and gloomy forebodings. Only a few of these symptoms will be CRUSE ET FILS CLARETS, the lise of the wonderful new town of Barrow-in- laboring for his elevation through the gospel with present in any case at one time. LALANDE'S CLARETS. Furness, in that county. No man is more strongly the enthusiasm of consecration which Drs. Williams ENGLISH ALES, &c. • BURGUNDY WINES. TEE A TMENT. —Take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical WHITE WINES, impressed with a sense of the dictum that "prop- and Doolittle and Nevins carried into their work in Discovery, with small doses of Pleasant Purgative Pel- BASS & CO'S^BURTON ALES, NO. 3 STRONG. China. It means a broad and generous support to lets, which act as an alterative on the liver. For Liver BURTON'S MALTHOPTONIQUE EXTRACT OF CATAWBA. erty has its duties as well as its rights." CALIFORNIA WINES. those forms of home missionary work which are en- Complaint and the various affections caused by a dis- MALT AND HOPS. Altogether Charles had six natural children to deavoring to provide a gospel for this people, and eased liver, these remedies are unsurpassed. The Gal- which are impeded far more by Anglo-Saxon barbar- den Medical Discovery does not simply palliate the dis- R. YOUNGER'S SPABKLIDG SCOTCH ALE, BOT- whom he gave the highest rank in the English peer- ease, but it produces a lasting effect, By its use the TLED BY TRAIN & CO. age. The Dukes of Northumberland, Southampton ism and christian apathy than by either paganism liver and the stomach are changed to an active, healthy and Grafton were his children by Barbara, daughter or stolidity among the Chinese themselves. We are state, the appetite is regulated, the blood purified and MCCULLAGH'S IMPERIAL PALE ALE. OLD FRENCH BRANDIES, of William Tillers, and grandniece of George Duke never weary of hearing sung the praises of this won- enriched, and the entire system renovated and restored GUINNESS EXTRA BROWN STOUT, BOTTLED BY of Buckingham, favorite of James I. derfnl age. But it is a wonderfully recreant age if, to health. FOSTER & SON. HOLLAND GIN, The Discovery is sold by druggists. It. Y. Pierce, M. Evelyn says of the Duke of Northumberland after all the experience of the past of gospel power GINGER ALE, BOTTLED BY CAKTRELL & COCH- IRISH WHISKY, under date of 24th October, 16S4: "I dined at Sir in heathen lands, we sit down in despair before D., Proprietor, World's Dispensary, Buffalo, N. Y. SCOTCH WHISKY, Stephen Fox's with the D. of N. He seemed to be a heathenism in our own. RAN, BELFAST. JAMAICA RUM, young gentleman of good capacity, well-bred, civil CINCINNATI AND NEW YORK LAGER IN BOT- ST. CROIX RUM. MISCELLANEOUS. PEACH BRANDY, and modest. Of all his majesty's children (of whom TLES. APPLE BRANDY. be has now six dukes) this seemed the most accom- A Corpse 011 a Spree. plished and worth the owning. He is extraordinary CHAMPAGNE, CIDER, PINTS AND QUARTS CORDIALS. [From the Kansas City Times.] < LIQUEURS, bandsome and well shaped." Subsequently he BITTERS. speaks of him as a splendid horseman, quite surpas- There is in Leavenworth a tall, blonde youth, LUMBER ! sing all others in that respect. He died childless in Henry Arnold Green, who, by the free use of his C. C. BRYAN. 2716, when all his honors became extinct. little pistol and his wild, drunken sprees, made jc4-6mos6 FRESH SELTZER WATER, His brother, Duke of Southampton, (who on his himself famous in this city about a year ago. He is mother's death succeeded to her dukedom of Cleve- part owner of the Leavenworth Appeal. He re- land also,) married and had several sons, but they ceives regularly a large income from his English es- rsr E W STOCK! JOHN R. KELLEY, (AFOLINAKIS SPRINGS.) ail died childless, and these dukedoms also became tate, which he devotes to the gratification of his Dealer In extinct. So that the only son of Charles II. by the whims. On Monday last Green felt more than BITTER WATERS, Duchess of Cleveland, whose descendants enjoy a usually funny. He had seen a funeral procession, First-class BEEF, LAMB, VEAL, MUTTON, ¡¿c. PULLNA, dukedom to this day, was the Duke of Grafton. and it pleased him to nave a little funeral all to him- The first duke of that ilk married the heiress of self. Having first secured the services of a hack- NEW PRICES! CORNED BEEF A SPECIALTY. HUNYADI JAN08. Bennett, Earl of Arlington, whose possessions they man, he directed him to drive to an undertaking es- have ever since retained. The principal seat is at Stalls 628, 620 and 130 Center Market, Ninth-street Euston, in Northamptonshire. tablishment, and there he ordered a hearse and Wing, and 206 and 208 Northern Liberty Market. Also offer all the leading Brands o horses, and an empty coffin. Marketing delivered free of charge to all parts of the Charles had a son by Louise de Querouaille, cre- NOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD, WHEN city. P. O. Box 713. riovi'4-8 HAVANA AND KEY WEST CIGARS ated Duchess of Portsmouth, to whom he gave the The coffin was put into the vehicle, but before the name of Lennox, and created him Duke of Rich- doors were closed the Englishman said that it was PRICES ARE DOWN. AT AGENTS' PRICES. mond and Lennox. By the marriage of the present W. w. SIMPSON, duke's grandfather with the heiress of the Duke of hft pleasure to "get in there himself." After in- Gordon, Gordon castle, with a vast estate, passed to structing the hackman to follow a certain line of WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN the Duke of Richmond. This family can scarcely procession at a given distance from the hearse, he I am receiving anew stock of White and Yellow Pine boast, in the male line, of one eminent member, but crawled inside, and, lying down beside the coffin, Lumber, J oist and Scantling, Lath, Pailings and Build- Flour, Grain, Feed, Lime, Plaster, Cement, k., ARE (THE SOLE PROPRIETORS many eminent persons—Fox, the Napiers, Lord Ed- lighted a cigar. The procession then moved off to ward Fitzgerald, etc., have sprung from daughters Cherokee street, at a funeral pace, the hearse in ing Material in general, and am able to sell at greater 1227 SEVENTH ST., BET. M AND N STS., N. W. OP of the house. front and the hack following. As they went down reduction in prices than ever. Parties about to build Cherokee street toward the river, the knight of the Prime Western Oats, Timothy Hay and Rye Straw The Duke of St. Albans, who holds the two hered- always on hand and delivered in quantities to suit, at OLD STAG WHISKY, itary patent places of grand falconer and registrar black plumes produced two bottles of whisky, which will find it to their advantage to call and examine my low prices. my28-lmo8 of the court of chancery, and has, farther, a hered- he placed along side of the coffin, and proceeded to stock and prices before purchasing elsewhere. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. itary pension, is descended from Caarles' son by Nell wind up a two days' spree. Presently they came in Gwyn, who married the daughter, and eventually contact.with a large crowd, who were on their way GEORGE H. JOHNSON, BENJ, J. CADY, to be heiress of Aubrey de Yere, twentieth and last to attend a festival, and who made comments on the HALL HUME, corner Fifteenth and R streets northwest. fcan oi uxtord. His grandson, Topham Beauclerk, strange funeral procession. my2l-3mos3 FLOUR AND FEED DEALER, was Johnson's friend, so often alluded to in Bos- The English corpse, becoming anxious to know by feb20-tfl 807 MARKET SPACE. well s memoir. The i. nth duke married tbe cele- WT.aij antllority he was delayed on the highway, 8. £. cor. of Second and C Sts. N. £., brated Mrs. Coults, nee Mellon, but had no children called loudly for the driver to stop, and while so do- E. a. GIJNSON & CO., fcyker, and only derived a life interest in a portion WASHINGTON, D. C. W. H. MÖHLER, ° ^ealtb -which she bequeathed, in accord- ing turned.over in his narrow apartment, and, with a loud crash, forced a portion of his body through ance with the verbal wishes of Mr. Coitts, to his All kinds of mill feed kept constantly on hand. Rock one of the large oval panes of glass on the side of the 1107 F STREET, NEAR ELEVENTH STREET, salt, lime, plaster and cement. For quality and quantity CON TR AC TOB AJVD CONCRETE PAVEB, nearse. The crowd couldn't stand a corpse break- my prices can't be beat. Give me a call. ap30-l ¡¡¡$1SiiM gpsls has not been more remark- ing out of its coffin, jumping through the side of the able for intellect than that of the Dukes of Rich- nearse, and calling: tor the driver to stop further pro- Booksellers and Stationers. LL KINDS OF GENTLEMEN'S OAST OFF WEAE- Office corner Eighth and O streets northwest. Resi- m0,hd«rvl'rf ™ ?mrles « •s des^endanmhive, ceedings. They fled in all directions. After once A dence 1608 Fifth street northwest. P been more getting inside, the author of the adventure was ing apparel can be sold to the very best advantage Orders received at W. W. Simpson's feed store, 1227 Xullness as he was writ'. as distinguished for FOLEY'S BANK GOLD PENS FINEST QUALITY. by addressing or calling on JUSTH, 619 I) street, be- Seventh street northwest. driven to Shawnee street, and then he returned the decl9-8 tween Sixth and Seventh northwest. Notes by mall my28-tf3 hearse and coffin to their owner. promptly attended to. Cash paid. mar2l-tf2 4 THE CAPITAL.-- JUNE 25, 1876.

agents. Yet, as there are many good, honest a way, under such circumstances, may be Speaker and those of a pauper^ecause we discoun- EVERY WEEK our circuit judge, who is so pro- THE CAPITAL. and patriotic men still in the Republican credited with enough courage to do right tenance anything but the quiet, unobtrusive pro- lific in original suggestions, furnishes THE CAPI- party, they have a following that may form where General A. Grant is a party or Gen- fessional devotion to the 9ick room, that we pro- TAL with an adornment to its minor columns. WASHINGTON CITY. the nucleus of the hosts of victory. For this eral B. Butler an attorney. We feel that to test against Dr. Yerdi riding into national notice Week before last Silence was the Judge's hobby; reason the contest will inevitably be a hard- further listen to these complaints is a reflec- on the " cerebral depression " of Mi. Blaine: this week Solitariness occupied the energies of fought battle, and under no circumstances tion on the bar and the community, Who " Yee, his broad wing hath raised thee no bad hack, his inventive genius. A judge, clerk, crier, jury t SUNDAY MOENBTG, - - - JUNE 25,1876. can the Democrats cease from labor; every neither favor nor support the onslaught. A swallow twittering on an eagle's back." two lawyers and one witness are enough essen- hour and every means must be employed, or Judge Wylie's chief judicial defect is No w we have always regarded Dr. Pope as a tially to run | court. Judge Homphrevs appre- an inglorious defeat will leave them like an occasional hastiness of temper, with which man of a less ambitious vein than Dr. Yerdi; yet ciating this fact, had one entrance to the court- Average Circulation, 10,100 Copies. the Bepublican of the 15th says " Dr. Pope was Bonaparte at Waterloo. the bar has borne patiently, and which the room locked up and the other guarded by» asked by a journalist what he thought of Mr. judge, by an appreciation of his office and an bailiff. We met two or three lawyers who ha& THE CAPITAL Blaine's condition, and he wrote on a piece of vainly attempted to gain admission through the JUDGE WTLIE, ALBERT GRANT AND exercise of his will, has of late years almost Can always be fonnd on sale at the news stand: paper the following four lines : ante-room dediaated to the uses of the bar an