VOLUME IY. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., NOVEMBER 1,1874. NUMBER 35.

THE CAPITAL, what's the use f He popped one day, as we came is anything the girls do love it is dancing the up out of the surf last summer. It was the most It is perhaps a good thing that the Democrats have german. Those germans are certainly very carried Ohio. At all events, it ia a good thing that LATEST BY TELEGRAPH. ridiculous thing in the world. My bathing dress PUBLISHED WEEKLY recherché and charming, among the most pleas- the back of Republicanism is broken. The concern stuck to me—as the thing will, you know -so he ant entertainments given in Washington. is on the down grade. Its fate is [inevitable. It is BY ins The Reported Affray at Yorktown. proposed to» all there was of me; and brother going out like the wick of a oandle, ancl the candle RICHMOND, Va., October si.—The account of an affray CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, Joe said, when he heard of it, that Harry We hear from all we meet "the Stewarts are will leave behind it the better fragrance of the two. at Yorktown was grossly exaggerated by parties from couldn't claim that I had obtained his love under going abroad." How much they will be re- Whether it has done the country more good In the that locality. The following has been received In rela- suppression of the rebellion than ill in its subsequent tion to it: 937 D Street, WnsbiHffton, I>. C. false pretenses." gretted. We hope, however, their absence will career of knavery, public demoralization and heart- FORT MONROE, October 31.—There was a disturbance "And did you accept f" only be for a limited time, and Washington will less rascality towards a conquered and helpless yesterday between two factions of colored men at a D1NN PI ATT Editor. soon again claim those who have been socially " Of course I did. I had to. He held to my people, is fast becoming a serious question. Whether political meeting In Yorktown. Several shots were hands right on the beach, before everybody, in one of the most delightful families in our city. flred, two of them taking effect, causing painful but it were not better to go back to the good old days of not dangerous wounds. the most ridiculous manner, and I said, • see slavery, Southern arrogance and nigger in every- TssHe.-S9.S0 per year in advance. Mrs. General Jeffries' house was pleasantly papa,' to get clear of him." breez», rather than continue Republican rule for Clubs: Ten copies to one address, 820 In advance, with filled with young folks on Thursday evening Foreign News. "He did not go, did he?" another series of years, can no longer be a serious one copy free. Twenty copies to one address, $35 in last, it being tho occasion of a very enjoyable LONDON, October 31.—AJdlspatch from Ilong Kong advance, with one COPY free. "Yes, right away, and papa said he settled question to any one who has any prejudices In favor says the latest advices from Pekin and Yeddo are of a party in honor of her cousins, the Misses Kissaru of Integrity as against dishonesty, or who does not pacific nature. It lis the general belief that war will be that young man's hash, (wasn't it coarse?) when of New York. believe that the republic can bo safely administered avoided. The Japanese government Intimated that the CONTENTS OF INSIDE. he asked him what he had to settle on me. Pa by a set of men who have either never known or Chinese residents 111 Japan would not be molested If Second page, " Green-Boom Gossip." said II: irry had nothing but a guitar and a swal- Hon. Hamilton Fish spent last week with his have forgotten the fact of a future state of rewards war was declared. Third page, " Scraps." low-tailed coat. Think of supporting me on a family at Cold Spring, on the Hudson. Mrs. and punishments. The Fall Mall Qaselte prints a rumor that tho Carllst war department Is negotiatlug with tlic Madrid gov- guitar and a claw-hammer. It was so funny I Fish and daughter will be in town this week. Sixth page, "The Cossack's "War-Song," It is not, however, to the purpose now to discuss ernment for an armistice. " Foreign Relations." and " Louis Philippe and couldn't help laughing, though I was sorry for Colonel Hamilton Fish, jr., was in Albany last the merits of political parties. They are all bad BERLIN, October 31.—A ministerial orderjlias been ls- Gouvernenr Morris." Hal, I tell you. He looked very blue when I week. enough and there is no saving grace in Israel. Prob- eued to carry Into effect the sentence of Kullinan at St. Seventh page, " Gay Baltimore Gossip." told him I never could marry without the con- ably nobody was more astonished at the late results George prison, near Bayreuth. Mr. Thomas Winans,the well-known million- The Berlin Post says the published version of the cor- sent of pa. He told me I was a heartless coquette, than the Democrats. In this county, particularly, aire, of Baltimore, was at the St. Nicholas last they were highly jubilant. It is so long since they respondence betweeiT Herr Von Bulow and Count Von and said I was Lady Clara Vere de Yere." have electcd anybody that the sensation was novel. Arnim contains numerous Inaccuracies, especially as SOCIAL GOSSIP. week. Mr. Winans' family have left their cot- to that part of the letter attributed to Von Arulm "Why, who was she?" So they had a jollification. A I,it of ihem last night tage at Newport and returned to Baltimore. which refers to an allegedconsplracy with a near rela- " I'm sure I don't know, Some dreadful harnessed up and made a foray upon General Ban- Autumn die3 like a dolphin. That is poetry tive of the emperor. character, I suppose." We were truly grieved to hear of the death of king's residence for the purpose of serenading that so far as we are concerned, for we never, as we Mrs, Charlton's (née Campbell) only child ; we gentleman. They shot off their music and demanded Rowing Challenge Accepted. have said before, saw a dolphin die. We never " So you will do as I have done—accept a bank speechs in return. Colonel Piatt was in the field, crave permission to tender ever dollars. The race to take place either here or at Spring, tifully, like the late Joe Kirby, when he folded talk that way ?" It is stated, on authority, that Vice President for a moment lost sight. He addressed them as " my field, Massachusetts. the star-spangled banner about him, and rolling " He'd be right mad. He's just as sentimental Wilson will sail for Euiope in the spring, at the fellow-citizens and gentlemen of the brass band." to the footlights, expired in colors. This color- as poor little Fred, used to be with his B's.' advice of his physicians. Mr. Wilson goes to There was a brass band there, as was beforo stated, New York Items, Florida next month. NEW YORK, October 31.—The Jury In the ease of Mrs. ing business sometimes precedes or accompanies '* B's—what were they ?" and this brass band had come several miles into the dissolution. We don't wish to be political in country for the purposes of a serenade. It was, there- Merrlgan, charged with the murder of Margaret Him- " Don't you remember your brother Joe said Miss Kate Wise, daughter of Commodore Wise mll in Brooklyn, camellnto court tills morning and In- this column, but the Administration has been fore, eminently appropriate that their presence and Fred, run on buggies, bouquets and Byronics. and grand-daughter of Ed ward Everett, is shortly identity should be recognized by the orator. The formed the Judge that there was no possibility of their turning all sorts of colors during the last few .agreeing, on which they were^dlscharged. A motion to But makes believe he is very young, and to be married to " handsome Jack Miller " of the tact displayed under such a delicate conjuncture of days. The Republican party is artistic in the admit accused to ball was laid over. skips about in the most ridiculous manner. He navy. circumstances was really very fine. HMIss Nellson brought her engagement at the Lyceum way of colors. From the red tinge of battle to wrote me some poetry the other day, just like To have referred to his "fellow-citizens" merely Theater to a close to-night, and goes to Philadelphia, the darker shade of abolitionism, until now, that Tucker Blake. I said it was sweet, although I Young men have all taken the idea they need would have been invidious, for all fellow-citizens where she appears Monday nlglit. it looks blue over election returns, we have had could hardly keep from laughing in his face. But wives, and weddings alone have* prevented were not brass bands, nor the reverse. The French Booth's Theater was besieged by a vast multitude to- night on the occasion of Charlotte Cushmau's reappear- every variety. Washington from being at this time positively band, who were hero some years ago, were not fel- that's the sort of man for a girl to marry. We ance as Meg Merriles. The receipts are estimated over But the autumn dies gorgeously, as one could go to Europe, you know, for a bridal tour. "dull." low-citizens, although they played on horns and thirty-six hundred dollars. triangles and one thing and another with a degree of realize last week by a drive through the Soldiers That's the sort you'll have to marry, and give We heard Miss Myers, last winter's lovely dé- success that was remarkable. But if one had been Home, where, under the hazy sky of the Indian up the poor lieutenants and middles." Fire in Baltimore. butante, received more favors the season gone by addressing that musical organization, and hailed BALTIMORE, MD., October 31.—Shortly after eight summer, the forest trees were BO beautiful that "I don't know—I suppose so; but I feel now than any of her fair rivals. them as " my fellow-citizens of the French band," It o'clock to-night a fire broke out In a four-story brick the scene stretched out before one was not like being all my life a sister of the Holy Bangs, might have awakened the old Know-Nothing ele- building, Nos. 11 and 13 Edwards street, occupied by landscape, but a dream of beauty. as THE CAPITAL calls us. Let's go." It is a matter of speculation who will be the ment, which it will be remembered was continually Gunther & Fink as a furniture manufactory. The firm belle par excellence in the coming social cam- preeisting that none but Americans should be puton had some #4,000 worth of finished work on hand, whleh, To the city, in this beautiful weather, are re- And as the two passed Jones, he saw a couple paign. guard to-night. with the bull'dlng and other stock, was completely de turning tho fashionable birds of passage that du- of sweet creatures whose faces were full of inno- stroyed. Between 300 and 100 workmen are out ¡of em- Colonel Piatt's salutation, however, upon the oc- ring the summer found refuge in the country and cent simplicity. ployment. The latter lose all their tools. Tho total Judge Bradley of the United States Supreme casion referred to, was in high artistic taste. "My loss Is estimated at $15,000; Insurance, $5,000. by the sad sea waves and upon the mountains The worshipful club of the Kit-Cats are here, Court returned to Washington last week. fellow-citizens and gentlemen of the brass band !" We meet them in our drives and upon the and Brown's Young Man reports the members It was repeated at various Intervals of the speech, in The family of Senator Fenton will spend the streets, and we must confess that they do not in good health and spirits, ready for the season's order that the precise point.might not escape atten- Scandal in High Life. winter in Italy. They are now in England. ticn. There are frequent kinds, descriptions and seem as gay and smooth of plumage as they are work. The air is full of gossip and scandal. A prominent young merchant of this city, whoso name classes of bands. There are Ku-klux bands and so- f» Now York Yacht Club, while among much reluctance. We are not in the habit of coast, tr we recall the song aright. Then there Is a ledge of the " manly, art," was lately married to a beau- a face of care, an anxiety that is not usual. the scandals is one connecting the nation's capi- admitting articles commenting upon ourself, for band that goes around your hat. Bat these were tiful blonde of Baltimore. Owning a nice establishment The fact is that the commercial crisis reatbes in we can do that so much better than when done not brass bands, and it would have been incongru- 011 K street, they went, as all y.ung couples desire, to tal with the city of Cincinnati, that is being whis- housekeeping. Business bting good, Ills wife a model by others. But this is from a witty gentleman ous to get the various specimens of the article mixed upon the domestic circle, and many a man who pered throughout the Union. With these, how- of affection and no mother-in-law quartered on him, ho who is known as " The Liberal Party," he hav- up in this sort of way. had a floating indebtedness that he thought he ever, we have nothing to do, but through the Imagined it was destined for him to reach the very acme ing been the first to organize and the last to leave There was also a peculiar delicacy in this recogni- could, by a little exertion, meet and extinguish, Kit-Cats our readers may expect to learn of all of happiness. "There Is nothing half so sweet In life as that famous movement. We hope to have others tion of the presence and effective influence of the in- love's young dream." finds now that it is likely to carry under his en- the fun, folly and fashion of this great social and from the same source on more Important subjects: dividuals thus italicised, as it were, in speech. As Upon awakening a few mornings since lie discovered tire property. This was threatened last summer political center. • CINCINNATI, Oct. is, I874.ll if a gentleman in. rising to make an after-dinner that his wife had, without disturbing lilm, gone, as he when he carried his family to Saratoga, and he speech before the butlers who opened the wine and fondly Imagined, to superintend the dainties being pre- had sorrows and misgivings about the propriety From Brown's Young Man. (EDITOR CAPITAL : As the smoke of battle lifts the stewards who handled the viands had retired, pared for breakfast. Hastily dressing, thinking all the of the expenditure. But the hope, not of rest Hear ye! hear ye! hear ye 1 to the gossips of from the field we are able to take note of the dis- should say: "My fellow-citizens and gentlemen of while of the lovlug and sweet-tempered little wife who would greet lilm with a kiss, he went down the stairs the land, to the truths of Dame Rumor. Like the coikscrews, and those of you who appear on this for a fashionable summer resort is the hardest asters that have occurred in the late strife of politics two steps at a time. What were Ills feelings, on reach- working place known to the civilized world- all the rest of her sex, she has a penchant for and see what necks are broken, and which dog is' interesting occasion with clean linen aprons and nap- ing the cosy dining-room, to see his wife dressed as tut the hope, we say, of getting his eldest out of meddling with other people's affairs. What an undermost. Oar election was held last Tuesday kins on the left arm." Certainly this form of salu- though for a Journey, and her eyes red from weeping. tation could not fail to bring down the house. the way of her sisters, who are crowding close excitement she has created by circulating the re- The disturbing elements that entered chiefly into the Upon recovering from his astonishment he inquired the There was also a felicity of expression displayed cause. She responded by saying : upon the skirmish line, induced him to increase port of an engagement existing between a wealthy row were a good deal of lager beer, a «mall amount lof temperance and general morality, a weak dash of recognizing that common brotherhood of all man "I want you to procure me a tlckct to Baltimore." rather than lessen his indebtedness, and now the journalist of New York and one of our own " Why, my dear," he said, " have you heard anv bad Republicanism, a ton or two of Democracy, finance kind as existing between " my fellow-cltizsns " and autumn comes, "the saddest of the year," for the prominent belles. Well, believing with many news from your family S hard money, sonthern troubles, white Ieagnes and 'gentlemen of the musical instruments." Cer- campaign was a failure and the daughter grows others this "nice little story," we attired our- tainly, because a man blows a brass bugle or larrups "No, sir; but It Is too bad to think that my affections Bonn Piatt. have been bestowed upon one who during hl sleep mur older and the debt heavier every day. self in our holiday regalia with the intention a bass-drum he should not therefore be put outside 4 ' Bonn has been making a sensation here. I think murs the name of Kate. Who Is tills 'Kate,' and why of the pale of the human race. Yet how few, in ad- of laying at the feet of our friend and journalistic it was Tovelles who observed: " He had a brother," didn't you marry her Instead of deceiving me In the The matrimonial market never was so dull as dressing a promiscuous audience, ever bestow a mo- brother our hearty congratulations. We ap- J>ut in this election it was a brother-in-law. Piatt's manner you have? Oh, Harry! I loved you too much during the last summer. To use the commercial ment's thought on those who clash the cymbals and proached so gently, so kindly, to tell him how relation of that description was the Democratic can- and was too happy, to be thus .rudely awakened to the phraseology in its quotations, goods considered sound the harp, the psaltery and sackbut over fact that your love belongs to another." we wished him a life long and happy with the didate for Congress. Hon. Job E. Stevenson was his heretofore iu fair demand have been found heavy Egypt's dark sea. And for the orator, in the height The effect of the speech caused our young fair one selected as his bride, when behold! he opponent. Job is a good fellow in the main. He is friend to on the hands of holders, and will have to be car- a man of ability, and very many good thing» might of fervid eloquence, to remember that the " gentle- drop ill a chair overcome with laughter. turned and told us our sentiments so finely men of the toot-horns " are fellow-citizens shows a "'Tls nothing to make a Jest of." she said, and the ried over to another season. Bidders were few be said abont him, and the trnth told in each in- pressed, our feelings so beautifully portrayed, gentleness of soul, a sweetness of philanthropy sel- tears began to flow freely. and slow in their advances, seeming to fear a stance. The general result, however, to Job last were all lost, as he was not thusly inclined. Tuesday, was a black eye, a nose oat of joint and a dom met with in this cold, cold world. As soon as he recovered from his laughter he ap- further decline in the market. The more deli- proached her and, putting Ills arm around her waist, Imagine our feelings! If the venerable madame frame of mind contemplative of that bourne from It remains, however, to say that the " gentlemen cate articles heretofore most in demand seem to had been within choking reach, doubtless so- whose undiscovered conntry nobody ever goes to of the toot-horns" thought that Colonel Piatt was suffer more thin coarser fabrics, that would stand Congress. In point of fact the game was played a My dear, you are not mistaken; I do love the Kate ciety would have owed us some gratitude. But getting personal. Several of them were said to have whose name you lieardjme call In my dreams; for often ? better wear and tear. Specimens carried over little too fine. Job thought it was to be a walk-over been ipon the streets next day in company with alas for us, she was invisible, doubtless hidden in In my old bachelor quarters have I with Kate ' sat and. from a former market seem to be in a worse He made the fatal mistake of underrating his an- l.rge sticks. "Brass bands" and "musical instru- Impotent of thought, puffed away care and sorrow from some corner chuckling over our discomfiture. tagonist, and while be slept the enemy sowed tarw. condition than any other, and handled goods are ments " were well enough, but." toot-horns ' was a my heart,' and you, like a sensible woihaii, are not Now for some of the truths: The first step was, Job challenged the Democratic phrase of too indiscriminate compliment. afraid of the smoke injuring the curtains or wish to de- almost in as poor demand as the second-hand candidate, Banning, to public discussion, there was prive your husband of one of the pleasures of life; ex- Since last season we have had a change in Ger- I understand that the copyright of Colonel Piatt's article. much flourish of trumpeM over it.' The challenger pressed a wish to get me a box of choice cigars, and as man ministers. The present one, Baron Schwartz speech has been secured for McGuffey's sixth reader, is doubtless the more »Xpert debater of the two, and the'Kate' is acknowledged by all good Judges of the The fact is, to drop our quotations, the times and will be introduced into our common schools, as Sanborn, is reported to be remarkably handsome thought to have an easy victory and discomfit the weed to be a superior brand, I was dreaming that I told are too hard and our girls are too extravagant a commanding specimen of Western eloquence. a bachelor and rich. How numerous his attract foe amid the jeers of all beholders. This little pro- you to go to Flnley's, No. 815 Pennsylvania avenue, and purchase me a box." to admit of a lively feeliDg in the market. We tions 1 What a glorious chance for an American ject failed of success. Banning declined, and Job beg pardon, but the temptation to slide into the girl whose papa has just struck "ile" some- had fall No. 1. The explanation was satisfactory, and ended, as all AMUSEMENTS. such misunderstandings should, "In smoke." Wives market is so great that we can scarcely resist. In where. Of course in such a case money is no It was generally known that Colonel Piatt was TIIE NATIONAL will present a most tempting feast wishing to please their husbands, or girls their lovers modern matrimony there is so much that resem consideration; but the title and position 1 Why, here. W1j/n D. P. is about, somehow it is generally of amusement In M'lle Marie Almee, the queen of opera should present them with a box of Flnley's "Kates." bles the market that one naturally mixes the two it is positively dazzling 1 We do hope those known .A. communication appeared in the Commer- bouffe and the French opera bouffe company. Tlic re- All the lovers of a good smoke know the brand too well We know well enough that when a suscepti- cial m® day soliciting the Colonel's views on the pertoire offered by tills company for the week Is enough for us to " say a word to the wise." society girls who dote on foreign husbands will apmffaching crisis. Job went and did it. The Col- ble youth falls in love with arfair girl all pruden- to draw crowded houses every nlglit, and those who fall not ruin their prospects by scaring his lordship on« replied over his own signature. This reply was to see Almee will have cause to regret It forever. THE THRONG ON BROADWAY, NEW YORK.—Ainong tial reasons are thrown to the wind. But as this out of his senses with their aristocratic canines Entirely courteous; it was very complimentary to all the thousands of people who dally throng the side- walks on Broadway, intent on accomplishing some ob- infatuation is generally for a girl who is either How fortunate some people are to possess hide ; Mr. Stevenson, while declining to support that gen- AT FOHD'S Opera House we are to have this week Mr. ject—generally to secure wealth—how few there are who well provided for or has great expectations, there tleman, upon reasons purely of a public nature John McCullough, who Is claimed to be the only actor blood in the family, even though it does^nly seem to have a knowledge of the fact that an opportu- snch as might justify a man in refusing to vote for on the English-speaking stage capable of wearing grace- are certain cool-headed pa's and ma's to be COK- exist in the veins of a dog. nity is afforded them by the Masonic Relief Association his beet friend. fully the mantle dropped by Forrest. We arc to have a sulted. And, strange to say, our girls are get- feast of high old tragedy. Mr. McCnllough being sus- In Norfolk, Virginia, of obtaining a competency for ting to be rather prudent in that direction, In the canvass that subsequently ensued a vicious- tained by Miss M. Conway and Mllncs Levlck. life. An investment of a small amount In tickets to the How much weeping and wailina^since the Grand Gift Conocrt, to be given on the 19th of Novem- no girl ever was known to marry for love itA s ness of personality was displayed thatclearly showed announcement of Senator JonesJ^engagement the wisdom which induced Banning to decline the THE grand art exhibition to be given at Lincoln Hall ber, may resul t In obtaining a fortune. For particulars rather alarming to have them continually takingis send for circulars to Henry V. Moore, Secretary M. R, to Miss Sullivan of San Francis^. We extend discussion that had beer, proffered. during the off-nights will be well worthy of the support A., Norfolk, Virginia, or an authorized agent of the as- into account the lover's lack of a balance in bank- Piatt was not a party to this record, and not in of all who appreciate a first-class show. our sympathy to those unsuccepfTul manceuverers, sociation. er the means to continue the comforts and luxu- the light, otherwise than by reason of his relation anxious mammas and willing daughters. How THE Theater Comlqne Is still doing a first-rate busi- ries thrown about her by affectionate parents, ship to the candidate. But Job was ¡heedless He could Mr. Jones be so cpfiel, after all the sweet ness, and the reputation it has already gained is being Important to Travelers. uia Jones was reading the New York papers in went for" Piatt. He. however, came back. About smiles and pretty little sayings, composed with fully sustained. When you visit or leave the city of New York, save Lafayette Square, while smoking his cigar, and that particular spot it was found too warm-nay annoyance and expense of carriage hire and stop at the the greatest danger of getting the brain fever THE METROPOLITAN THEATER.—This week is an- heard on the farther side of a pine the voices too hot! A hornet's hest Is not conducive to com- Grand Union hotel, opposite the Grand Central depot. from over-exertfon, by those light little heads fort. Bees are a good thing-in the garden, making nounced the first appearance of Miss Kitty Smith the w two young ladies who had evidently sought It has over 350 elegantly furnished rooms, and Is fitted who never tbiak of anything except the latest honey and wax and things. In your hair, and wax- charming vocalist, together with the regular company up at an expense of over $000,000. Elevator, steam and the place for a confidential chat. of twenty-flve artists, Including Miss Josie Farran and improvement in the Boston step. Well it is dis- ing you, they are not positively delightful all modern Improvements. European plan. The res- I'He's dead in love with you," said one. II. W. Eagan, in the Parisian Can-can. taurants, lunch counter and wine rooms are supplied couraging, but there is a consolation for the Job may not have been stung, or may not be sore or with the best the market can furnish. The cuisine is I know it, and I like the dear fellow. He's THE great "Miltonlan Tableaux " to be given at Odd numerous disappointed; Nevada will send a sena- anything of that sort, but he has not done himself unsurpassed. Rooms for a single person, $1, $1,50 and he easiest waltzer iu Washington, and so good. Fellows' Hall, commencing to-morrow and Wednesday tor incomparably richer than Mr. Jones. Mr credit in the campaign. The additions to his fame per day; rich suites for families proportionately low, and Saturday matinees, is pronounced by Judges the $2 as an urbane and elegant gentleman have not been so that visitors to the city and travelers can live more Sharron is a widower, which, instead of detract Isreat moral wonder " of tho nineteenth century of »J? 1 believe if 1 were t0 ^row my glove out made manifest in his public utterances during the last luxuriously for less money at the Grand Union than at ing from his many merits, only serves to render •the window and tell him to jump, he'd jump two or three weeks, and he has gone under. He will any other first-class hotel Iu the city. Stages and cars him more valuable to those young ladies endur- pass the hotel every minute for all parts of the city. he got caught on the area railing." doubtless come to the surface again, for he is a man PERSONAL.—J. E. Dunham and Hon. 8. W. Kelloze- ing single blessedness. novl-Iys- G. F. & W. D. GARRISON, Managers. 'I don't believe it; he climb down the vines i of too much force to be permanently squelched; but Bridgeport; G. H. Rea, New York ; G. W. Kendall, New yatch him spoiling that nice suit of his. But he he will have learned by that time that no good cause Orleans; D.Heeudeob, Pittsburg; L. A. Blgelow, Bos- Some of our energetic society beaux have been ton, are at Wlllards. W. H. IIARROVER, 313 Seventh street, has one of the Js devoted." hat T ^ Simp,y abUilng an opponent, and best assorted stocks of stoves, ranges, hot-air fur naces, making arrangements for the army and navy tnat there is a vehemence of denunciation and "Ain't he?" (slight slip of grammar,) "but. 4c., 4c., that can be found in this city. Persons in need germans. How delightful the news, for if there coarseness of language which kicks hardest the man WE ARE indebted to; our enterprising stationer, Brad of any of the above articles, or anything In his line, who employs it. Adams, for LippincoWt Magazine,Godey's Lady's Book will find all that Is desirable In style and finish at this and Atlantic Monthly. establishment. 2 THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBEK 1, 1674.

GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. to Sir Thomas Clifford, a young and handsome gen- DEESS GOODS, ETO. tleman, she readily accepts the latter as tier suitor, WINES AND LIQUOBS. During the past week we have bad at the Na- and engages herself as his wife. Shortly after Master Walter removes his household to town, and being DTi Y GOODS, tional the Union Square Theater troupe from summoned away by business of an urgent nature, THOMAS RUSSELL, New York, headed by Miss Charlotte Thompson. leaves Julia to the care of her lover. Carrieid away CARPETINGS. • " Jane Eyre " and the " Geneva Cross " were the by the gayeties of a city life, the young country girl two pieces relied upon to draw. Wo wish we behaves in such a manner as to cause Sir Clifford to FALL TRADE FULLY COMMENCED. IMMENSE could record the fact that they did draw money release her from her engagement. The remainder of STOCK. WINE AND SEGAR MERCHANT, W. W. BURDETTE & COI, lias llie largest, most va- to the pockets of the troupe and manager. It the play is devoted to the means by which Matter Walter brings about a reconciliation between the ried and complete stock of would be a slight exaggeration to say that they lovers, and discovers the real position he occupies more than paid expenses. New Dry Goods and Carpetings towards his ward. Many have been the actresses 1213 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. We have remarked on several occasions that who have essayed the part of Julia, from the great Ever offered In this city, consisting of all the new-styles while the better sort of opera and the circus pay Fanny Kemble to Miss Morris, who appeared in it and fabrics of this season's importation and production, in Washington, the drama Is at a discount. The on Monday night last It is a character that re- viz: Has Just completed arrangements to receive weekly invoices of HAVANA SEGARS of the best known brands, and" Silks, Satins and Velvets, Cashmeres. philosophy of this is to be found in the fact that quires peculiar powers for its satisfactory rendering. Merlnoes, Bombazines and Tamlse Cloth. It demands at once the vivacity and artlessness of a Empress, Poplins. Surge, Alpacas. would remind yon that the same goods are RETAILED AT THE BOX RATES, which are as low as can be had in our resident population is more church than this country; also would Invite an inspection of popular domestic SBGARS ; cither grade at child and all the ardor and passionate feeling of a Mohair and Diagonals, in great variety. Table Damask, in bleached, half bleached aan d Turkey theater-going. The floating world that spends woman. On the whole, Mies Morris' performance red. Nankins, Towels and Doylies. tho winter here prefers the free lunches at sena- Bed Blankets, Quilts and Comforts. surpassed the high expectations we had formed of Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets and Notions, Calieocs. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. tors' and Cabinet houses and a crush at tho Pres- It; and it may be fairly stated of her that great as Bleached and Brown Cotton and Slilrtlng Linens. Also, all the new styles of Carpetings, such as Brussels, dent's levees to an amusement that costs money; the power is which she has hitherto evinced, she dis- Three-ply, Ingrain, List, Rag and Hemp. it is more moral and more novel. The opera played on this occasion that her resources in emo- tional parts are of the very highest order. In the W. W. BlIBDETTE «t CO., pays because it is fashionable, and the circus for first two acts, where her light-comedy powers »28 Seventh street and 70« K street northwest, HANDSOME POCKET FLASKS that it amuses Americans of African descent and are called into requisition, she was decidedly unsat- od-lino others of like ilk. isfactory ; that is to say, her acting herein by no ar jaci ao «» Ä?» iw ac jm «s- Of the most approved patent. , For healthy advertising by business men and means approached that of the last three acts. theatrical amusements avoid Washington. " In fact, we think this criticism applies very gen- MATCH SAFES, CIGAR CASES AS» CORKSCREWS 1» ENULESS VARIETY. erally to Miss Morris. She is grand in emotional " Jane Byre" is called that because it is not DRESS GOODS. " Jane Eyre." Beyond the name, nothing is left characters, but either she has not studied light com- edy or she does not possess sufficient versatility to of the novel. It is a play of one part, and this We have placed on our conntcrs for Inspection a nice enable her to play in such a piece as the ' Hunch- assortment of Charlotte Thompson performed with her admira- back''with well-considered evenness throughout. NEW FALL DRESS GOODS ble manner of rendering perfect all that she un- We notice that some of the critics In referring to her in medium and fine qualities of the newest shades and IN THE WINE DEPARTMENT. colors. dertakes. Possessed of an admirable figure, a performance have spoken unkindly of her person- BLACK SILKS, MOHAIRS, CASHMERES and other sweet, flexible voice, and not only expressive but ally, because she had hitherto succeeded In playing well-known BLACK GOODS. Fine assortment ladies, gentlemen and children's KAPOLEOK'S CABINET, DRY VERKENAY, certain repulsive parts satisfactorily. What else, in UNDERWEAR. beautiful face, she is as capable as the school in ROËDEREK, CL.ICQUOT, the name of common sense, could she have done, if FALL AND WINTER CASSIMERES. WATER- which she was trained will permit. This is the PROOF CLOTHS, FL ANNULS, CANTON FLANNELS, MUMM, she played them at all ? In the piece we are consid- Ac.; also,lull line HOUSEFHRNIS1IING GOODS and GOUI/ET, old, stilted Kemble school, that the late Mr. For- ering, Miss Morris entered upon a line of business to DOME3TIC8. HEIB§EICE, ST. MARCE AUX, rest rendered so absurd through exaggeration which she has hitherto been a stranger, and evinced WILLIAM It. MII.E Y. in Quarts, Pints and Half Pints. that he helped drive it from the stage. If one at once that, while It is within her grasp to attain wants to realize its absurdity let such attempt a the highest success therein, it will nevertheless cost ocl8*3t3 713 Market Spacc. CLARETS AND SAUTERSES, RHINE AN» MOSELEE, BURGUNDIES little conversation in that line. He or she will her a long course of careful and serious study. By AS» PORTS, SHERRIES AND MADEIRAS, soon find place in a lunatic asylum. Miss Char- her genius she was enabled to illustrate faithfully MRS. A. G. GASTOIT, delicate touches of character almost without thought lotte Thompson's tendency to declamation in se- From Responsible Houses. or trouble, but, at the same time, her conception of rious reading mars her otherwise admirable act- the part had not received that thorough considera- MIM.I .vr.it, ing. tion at her hands which will alone enable her to reach and hold that very exalted position to which jRochester is a bilious ruffian who, without be- she can justly aspire. Her finest passage was the 027 D STREET NORTHWEST, ing guilty of aught but sentimental goodness, IN THE LIQUOIl DEPARTMENT. scene In the fourth act in which she recognizes her acts as though he were on the ragged edge of former lover in the person of the humble secretary Is receiving constantly new goods, and has marked BRANDIES (IN BOND OR DUTY PAID) OF VARIOUS GRADES; WHISKY OP GUARANTEED PURITY; despair, and grunts and growls through the en- of the Earl of Bochdale. She was seen at her worst them down at tlie lowest New York prices. oc25-lmol IMPORTED ALES AND PORTERS $3.50 PER DOZEN; RUMS AND GINS, OLD AND tire play. Then we have an aunt—such an aunt! la the first and second acts, where she utterly failed FULL OF FLAVOR. She is about the worst lot of relative we ever to give any adequate representation of a light- PAXIL GRIFFITH. CITAS. J. ANDBRSOX. encountered. For no conceivable reason, save hearted, joyous, innocent country girl; Indeed, her performance herein was rather that of a fine d'raw- SPECIAL NOTICE, to give Jane Eyre a chance to show herself, she Ing-room lady in a charade than anything else." We take pleasure In announcing: to our friends and hates Jane. How she does hate Jane can't be the public that we have Just opened with a new and se- LIQUERS AND CORDIALS OF ALL KINDS. taken in all at once. And whether it is worth lect stock of BRIEF MENTION. RUSSETT CIDER, IN QUARTS AND PIJTTS ; CATAWBA, FOR $1.50 PER GALLON; MINT JULEP; GIN while to take it in at all is further along. We are Miss CUSUMAN appeared in " Guy Mannering " DRY AKJ> FANCY €!OODS, disposed to live without that aunt. It would be COCKTAIL ; WHISKY COCKTAIL. on Saturday in New York. Gents' Furnishings, &c., which we are offering at rery pleasanter. low prices. SELTZER AND VICHY AND BITTER WATER OF RECENT IMPORTATION; SARATOGA WATER. " LA SONNAMBOI.A," with M'He AlbanI, was re- As our business is conducted on a strictly CASH BASIS, we are enabled to offer extra inducements to AN INSPECTION OF OUR GOODS INCURS NO OBLIGATION TO BUY. It is a flat, tame, dreary Bort of drama. But peated with great success. purchasers. people seem to like it. The bad dressing forced Attention is called to our l| yard-wide Black Cash- "THE BELLE'S STRATAGEM" wa? produced at mere at $i; excellent Waterproof, $1; splendid Black on Charlotte Thompson by Jane proves the Mohairs, 50 cents. a Daly's on Saturday. Please call and examine our goods and prices. THOMAS RUSSELL, popularity of tho picce and that fair lady's devo- ' tion to her art. MR. STRAKOSOH gave " Faust" on Saturday at GRIFFITH A AHDERSOX, 1213 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, BETWEEN TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH STREETS. the Grand Opera House. The "Geneva Cross" is a beautiful produc- No. 1927 Pcnna. ave., north cade, near soth street. ocll-lmol tion, and was Admirably done by the troupe and Miss SOLDENE and her English opera bouffe THE GOODRICH PATENT TUCK MARKER. Manager Saville. It was not better put upon the artists will appear on Monday at the Lyceum. MISS McCORMICE, stage in the Union Square Theater, where it THE OSLY STANDARD TUCK MARKER IN EXISTENCE. AT THB opera matinee on Saturday the price of originated. admission, including reserved seat, was reduced 905 Pennsylvania Avenue, There is a mystery about this drama, almostas to two dollars—"Trovatore " wastheattraction. much as in the gigantic Milesian intellect of the (Up stairs.) Hew York Herald there is anent Shakspeare. THE TAPERS annouuee the return to New York If Bacon wrote Shakspeare's plays we are in- of Miss Augusta Dargon. Will open, October 13, clined to believe that old Bacon also produced AT THE Palais Royal, an amusing three-act the "Geneva Cross." Mr. Rowe, an English comedy, by Labiche and Duru, entitled "Les NEW AND ELEGANT STYLES IN MILLINERY, gentiemaD, we believe, is given as its author. Samedis de Madame," has reintroduced to the The construction of the piece is Frcnch through- stage Dieudonni, another prodigal, returned PATTERN BONNETS AND ROUND HATS IN GREAT out. The plot Is simple yet perfect; the charac- from St. Petersburg. The piece, though its VAJUKTY. — -SV ters are strongly yet delicately delineated, and story is of the flimsiest, is laughable in the ex- the situations very dramatic. If the play as we treme. FLOWERS, FEATHERS, Etc. saw it is original and all out of the mind of Mr. All of the Newest Shades. ocll-tf M. BASIER, the new director of our Italian Howe, he is a miracle of a man, for, taking a French subject, he has dealt with it through a operas, has entered on possession of his share of NO SEWING- MACHINE COMPLETE French mind that has been the growth of a cen- the Salle Yentadour. -No announcements have WITHOUT tury. We want to see Mr. Howe's next play. as yet been made as to the engagements he has JUST OPENED made for the coming season. Only one name, AN ENTIRE NEW STOCK OF AT FORE'S OPERA. HOUSE our Mrs. Lander has that of Nicolini, has been mentioned, and that in A GOODRICH TUCKER. PRICE $2. given a round of characters for which she is de- a doubtful way. FALL AND WINTER DRY GOODS, -OSTTHE ABOVE AND ALL OTHER VALUABLE ATTACHMENTS FOR ALL SEWING MACHINES TO BE servedly famous. Mrs. Lander is no longer HAD AT THE New York Conservatory of Music, 5 East All bought during the past week in the New York and young, but her very age helps on the parts she Fourteenth street, lias secured the services of Philadelphia markets at greatly reduced prices, embrac- 409 NINTH STREET. has of late years undertaken. She, too, belongs Max Maretzek, the well-known impresario, to ing the New Shades, Novelties and fabrics In to the old Kemble school, and is probably the give instruction in the higher branches of vocal DRESS GOODS, BLACK SILKS, last specimen left us. She was indifferently well art, and to superintend the production of operas BLACK MOHAIKS. EDUCATIONAL. MIS0ELLANE0US. sustained, and wo hope sueceeded in putting which will bo given by amateurs at the Academy treasure in the private coffers of her state—which of Music during December. Those persons who CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES A SPECIALTY. means her pocketbook. are studying for tho profession, and others who Also a full assortment of DK, GRISWOLD'S J. W. B0TELER & BRO., are ambitious to measure their abilities in this FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC STAPLE GOODS CLARA MoRRis„the queen of the English spoken large area, will thus liavei opportunities which BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS, IMPORTERS DIRECT OF stage, has passed from the illegitimate drama of Of the best grades, adapted to the general wants of have not previously been obtainable. The or- families and housekeepers. French origin to the legitimate, found in the I ask an examination of my stock before making your chestral classes of the Conservatory are under purchases elsewhere. NEAR JESSOP'S' STATION, heavy blank verse of Sheridan Knowles. Her CHINA, the experienced direction of Mr. Reiff, vice pres- 4£tT*All goods sold warranted as represented by the genius gave warmth and life and interest to that salesmen. ident of the Philharmonic Society. The staff of On tbe Washington Branch of the Balti- very trying " Hunchback." Sheridan Knowles' professors for vocal and instrumental music com- CROCKERY-WARE, characters walk on stilts, over feather-beds, and J. W. COLLEY, more and Ohio Railway, prises some of the- best-known teachers in the are all hewn out with a few rough features, to 801, Corner of Eighth street ami Market Space. city. OCl8-4t5 GLASS-WARE, distinguish one from the other. The fair genius And within One Hour's Ride from that could give Pamille such vitality could of LONDON THEATRICALS.—Next to the produc- 428 11TH ST., > 428 11TH ST., NEAR E. ') NEAR E. course infuse warmth, life and character into the tion of Hamlet, with Mr. Irving as the " Prince Washington. TABLE CUTLERY, insipid Julia. We deeply regret that Miss Mor- of Denmark," the most important theatrical T. HARRY DOHEHUE, THE PRINCIPAL IS ASSISTED BY ris did not force Lady Macbeth upon the Union events of the present autumn will probably be AND DEALERS IN Square theater. Ilj is in that character this won- the representation of a new work by Mr. W. S. MASQUERADE AND THEATRICAL COSTUMER A FULL CORPS OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS. derful girl will yet prove to the theatrical world Gilbert, which has already been put in rehearsal This School is delightfully situated oil the highest For Ladies, Gents and Children, Balls and Parties,-Pub- land between Washington and Baltimore, and in a re- HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS her real power. Of her Julia, in the " Hunch- at the Prince of Wales'Theater. Mr. Gilbert's lic and Private Theatricals, Tableaux, Old Folks Con- certs, &c., elegantly costumed and on the very lowest gion remarkable for healthfulness. . back," the Hew York Arcadian says: new comedy, or comedietta, offers this peculiar possible terms. The buildings have been recently enlarged in size to OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. meet the growing wants of the School. rity, that, consisting of two acts, it contains only This Institution offers full preparation for a COL- " The genuine success which attended the produc- 400 OSTEW AND ELABORATE DRESSES LEGE COURSE, or. if preferred, for BUSINESS; and Our stock is now complete. Parties wishing tion of Sheridan Knowles' celebrated play must not two parts, one of which will be played by Mr. in the latter case COMMERCIAL BRANCHES receive Added to my already extensive stock since the past sea- careful attention. only be gratifying to the management of the Union Hare, the other by Mrs. Bancroft, otherwise son, making it now one of the largest and most expen- HOrSE-liEKPISiJ ARTICLES sive wardrobes in this country, comprising every va- Weekly Lectures on PHYSICAL SCIENCE are given Square theater, but to all those who take a real Miss Marie Wilton. This very original drama- to the entire School, accompanied by illustrative exper- riety of costume, Fancy and Comic, Historical, Theatri- iments with suitable apparatus. terest in maintaining the purity of the drama. It tist would seem to raise up for himself needless cal and Masquerade, together with Ladies' Evening or -^"•Conveyance to ana from the.School (which is only Should examine our assortment and prices before pur- was certainly a'bold effort to produce a five-act play Party Dresses, Gentlemen's Evening Dress Goats, two miles from the depot) may be- obtained on very difficulties; as for instance, in " Pygmalion and Masks, Wigs, whiskers, Dominoes, &c., &c., at my .new in blank verse at a house that had become identified establishment, 428 Eleventh street between Pennsylva- moderate terms, at all hours, on application to JNO. chasing. nia avenue and E street northwest. sep27-tf, F. LOWEKAMP, Esq., Ticket and Express Agent at with the most recent productions of tho French Galatea," the action of which is confined, through Jessop's Station. three not very short acts, to a single scene. But Adcfress REV. BENJ. B. GRISWOLD, I). D., P. O., school, and high praise must be accorded to Messrs. Hooversville, Anne Arundel county. Md. J. W. Boteler & Bro., Shook & Palmer for tlieir pluck in entering upon an an author has a right to set obstacles in his own F ALL AND WIHTER HATS. • DR. GRISWOLD refers, by permission, to Rt. Rev. WSA. Pinkney, D. D., LL. D., Hon. W. W. Corcoran, and enterprise that was, to say the least of it, most haz- path on the condition of overcoming them; Mrs. W. T. Carrol], Washington;.. Dr. Thos. S. Mercer, Importers of CHINA, GLASS, CROCKERY WARE, Ac. CORRECT STYLES. and Tams. C. Connolly, Patent Office: Admiral W. Rad- ardous. We take special pride and pleasure in bear- and this Mr. Gilbert generally contrives to do. lord, U. s. N., Georgetown, D. C.; Hon Jno. F. Lewis, 923 PENNA. AVE. 0Cl8-4t8 ing witness, on the one hand, to the completeness The French stage possesses hundreds of "pro- United States Senate; Hon. Chas. G. Williams, Hon. and ability of the representation, and on the other to POPULAR PRICES. Wm. H Stone, and Hon. J. M. Wilson, House of Repre- verbes," in which the action is carried on sentatives ; VtSO to Major Elias Griswold, General Post KER y. ENGLISH SILK UMBRELLAS. Prices, 44.59 to $3. ALPACA, $2.50 to $7; GINGHAM, continued portrayal of adulterously-inclined wives in the District at JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER, 50 cents to $5. Great variety of Canes. oclfi-lyl and scductlonable daughters exercise an Impure and unwholesome Influence. D. M. DAVIS'. D. McRAE, U. G. BOWEN, "The plot of the ••Hunchback" is, in its main is- ocl8-ly4 Corner F and Twelfth streets N. W. 1202 F STREET, MERCHANT TAILOR, sues, of the most simple character. A father, af- . fllcted with afearful deformity,brings up his daugh- "VVTASHINGT ON BRASS WORKS. 1013 F STREF.T S. W., Hou«, and. Ornamental Painter and ter in ignorance of her true relationship, because he WIUUH II. DOUGLAS, Makes a specialty in Hair Jewelry.BAll the latest styles Just received a splendid assortment of French and Glazier, imagines she will be wanting in filial affection. To BRASS FOUNDER AND BRASS COCK MANU- her he Is nothing but Master Walter, her best friend FACTURER, English CLOTHS and CASSIMERES, fashion. ¿LUD guardian, and on being introduced through him Corner C and Eleventh street? N. W., Washington, D. C 1333 MASSACHUSETTS A VKS CE. Brass Castings of the Best Material ocll-ly3 made to order. oc25-linc.3 ocii-3ino8 ably made at moderate prices; ocll-lmo3 3 THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBEK 1, 1674.

SCRAPS. A POSTPONED WEDDING.—In a certain family at GIPT 00N0ERTS, ETO. INSURANCE. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. Arenac great preparations for the marriage of a THE FOLLOWING o'er true story will greatly daughter have lately been going on. The happy day RICHARD B. M0HTJN & CO., amuse some of the descendants in this .city of was fixed, the wedding dress and indispensable FIRST GRAND GIFT CONCERT. REPUBLIC FIRE INSURANCE CO,, the old gentleman who gave matrimony such a orange blossoms were secured, the various other necessaries for such an occassion had be?n provided, MONTPELIER FEMALE HUMANE OF NEW YORK. severe trial : and all was joyful, when, on the day previous to that A " SPUNKET " ONE.—A correspondent of the set for the consummation of the happiness of two ASSOCIATION, Capital, $250,000. Surplus, $320,000. Charleston Evening News, traveling on t he Eastern individuals, an Indian who lived with his tribe a few BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS, shore of Virginia, gives the following in one of his miles distant, knocked at the door of the dwelling AT ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA. Insures against loss by fire or lightning at current letters : referred to and asked if the family had lost a dress. rates. City and country dwellings preferred. Positive "We turned aside from onr path for a space to visit Of course there was only one dress thought of at NOVEMBER 23, 1 874. security guaranteed. Inquire of an object of some curiosity which is one of the that time, and, with two steps and a bound, the «11X1 AM c. It EC A >219 A P. I., Agent, " lions "of the Eastern shore. This is an ancient damsel who opened the door flew up the stairs to the 607 Seventh St. N.W., opposite Patent Office. vault, belonging to a member of the "Custis" family room where the wedding garments had been left. 1015 PEMSÏLVABIIA AVENUE, f LIST OF GIFTS. scp20-3mos a branch of the same stock with which Washington The door was opened, and lo and behold the room intermarried. It lies upon -a. fine old farmstead, was bare. Upon returning to the Indian it was 1 Grand Cash Gift $100,000 1 Grand Cash Gift 50,000 D. F. HAMLINK & CO., looking out upon " the bay," and occupies the center ascertained that a squaw of his tribe had been wear- 1 Grand Cash Gift 25,0« 0 of a large field, the only prominent object, sheltered ing an elegant dress and other finery, and knowing 10 Cash Gifts, $10,000 each 100,000 15 Cash Gifts, 5,000 each 75,000 by some old trees. The vault is of white marbíe, that she had noCcome by it rightfully, the Indian 50 Cash Gifts, 1,000 each 50,000 Corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh St elaborately carved in London, in a state of partial had come to town to ascertain if any one had lost any 100 Cash Gifts, 500 each 50,000 GENERAL LIFE AND FIRE IN- 1,000 Cash Gifts, 100 each 100,000 dilapidation. The curious feature about it consists articles. He went to the various houses, but no one 1,000 Cash Gifts, 60 each 50,000 in its inscription, which runs thus : had missed anything—and at at the dwelling from 20,000 Cash Gif ts, 20 each 400,000 SURANCE AGENTS. " Under this marble tomb lies the body of the which the articles were taken their absence had not 22,178 Cash Gifts, amounting to $1,000,000 HON. JOHN OUSTIS, ESQ., even been noticed—the room in which the garments of the city of Williamsburg and parish of Burton; formerly of Hunger's parish, on the Eastern shore of were left being a spare bed-room, and, having no NUMBER OP TICKETS. 100,000. No. 515 Seventh St., Washington, D. C. Virginia, and county of Northampton ; aged 71 occasion to use it, no member of the family had en- years, and yet lived but seven years, which was the time tered it for two days. The bed was found in a con- lu kept a bachelor's home at Arlington, on the East- PRICE OF TICKETS. ern shore of Virginia." dition which evidenced that some one had slept in it, New York life Insurance Company of New and it was subsequently ascertained that the squaw, Whole Tickets $20 00 BOOKS The inscription, we are told by another on the op- Halves 10 00 York: Assets over $27,000,000. posite side, was put on the tomb by his own positive who had stolen the articles, had entered the house Quarters 5 00 Eighths or each Coupon 2 50 order. The gist of it, as our lady readers will be unnoticed, slept in the bed one night, and the next Five and a half Tickets for 100 00 Commercial Union Assurance Company, pleased to perceive, consists in the lines we have morning had arisen, and donning the wedding outfit, Eleven Tickets for 200 00 The Montpelier Female Humane Association, char- of London, England ; Cn pital, in Gold, RECEIVED AS SOON AS ISSUED, AND ON OUT italicized ; the force of which will be better felt and left for her home. On her way thither she passed tered by the Legislature of Virginia and the Circuit «12,500,000 understood from the additional fact, which does not through the woods, soiling and tearing the dress Court of Orange County, proposes by a series of Grand very badly. She was subsequently taken in charge, Gift Concerts to establish and endow a " Home for the appear, that this bachelor, who lived only in his Old. Infirm and Destitute Ladles of Virginia," at Mont- Scottish Commercial Insurance ' o., of Glas- TABLES FOR EXAMINATION. bachelor condition, was actually married three and the dress and some other articles were recovered. pelier, the former residence of President James Mad- gow, Scotland ; Capital, $4,00 ,000. It is claimed by her people that the squaw is crazy, ison. times. His experience, if we are to believe his epi- The Association iff under the control of eight trustees, taph, was greatly adverse to the idea of any happi- but the residents of Arenac disbelieve it, and the six of whom are elected biennially by the stockholders and two appointed by the Governor of Virginia. Atlau. c Insurance Company of Brooklyn, ness in the marriage state ; yet how strange that he matter will be investigated. Remittances for tickets may be made by express pre- • «w York, Assets $450,000. should have ventured thrice upon it! The natural paid, postofflce money-order on Washington, D. C., 01 DEALERS IN We understand that the loss ofthe wedding out- by registered letter, addressed to conclusion is, that the Hon. John Oustis was a sin- fit necessitated a postponement of the marriage until Hon. JAMES BARBOUR, gularly just and conscientious man, who, unwilling FHE8'T M. F. H. A., ALEXANDRIA, VA. Northwestern National of Milwaukee, Wis- another dress could be procured.—Bay City (Mieh.) to do the sex any wrong by a premature judgment, GOVERNOR'S OFFICE, RICHMOND, July 3, 1874. consin . Assets, $900,000. Tribune. It affords me pleasure to say that I am well acquainted gave them a full and fair trial, at the expense of his with the large majority ofthe officers ofthe Montpelier Female Humane Association, who reside In the vicinity own happiness, and pronounced judgment only after A DOG IN A CHURN—How HE DIDN'T BECOME of my home, and I attest their Intelligence and their First-Class Solicitors Wanted. jun7-tf repeated experiments. Tradition has preserved BUTTER —A. short time since a farmer's wife worth and high reputation as gentlemen, as well as the public confldonce, influence and substantial means lib- INCORPORATED MARCH 27, 1820. some anecdotes of the sort of experience which he residing in Berks county was engaged on theerall y represented among them. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN, enjoyed in the marriage state, one of which I will JAMES L. KEMPER, Gov. Virginia. green sward infront of the house in churning butter. Further references by permission: Ills Excellency relate. It appears that he was driving out in nis The female is one of those spruce, tidy house-wives Gilbert C. Walker, Ex-Governor of Va.; Hon. Robt. E. ançient coach with ono of his wives, (and to do him Withers, Lieut. Gov. of Va. and U. 8. Senator elect; of which Berks county is so very proverbial, and in- Hon. Robt. W. Hughes, Judge East. Dis't of Va.; Sena- MEDICAI. AND I,AW BOOKS. justice, we must assure the reader that he had but variably takes special pains to turn out prime butter tors and Members of Congress from Va. FIRE ASSOCIATION one at a time,) and in the neighborhood of the very For full particulars, testimonials, &c., send for circu- and light bread. Now, the woman in question lar. Address, Hon. JAMES BARBOUR, spot upon which we ourselves are now standing, opened the lid of the churn to see what progress she PRES'T M. F. H. A., ALEXANDRIA, VA. OF PHILADELPHIA, BOOKS IMPORTED DIRECT, HAVING A DIRECT Cape Charles, a matrimonial discussion ensued be- had made, and having business in the house, ne" Reliable agents wanted everywhere. aug9-ly tween the pair, which warmed as they proceeded. glected to replace it. A small dog belonging to the The lord grew angry, the lady vociferated. family—one of those breed of poodles good for noth- Office No. 34 North Filth street. CORRESPONDENCE WITH LONDON AND "It was a diamond," said one. ing else but to lie in the sun and wag their narra- "And I insist," quoth the other, " that it was a NO FURTHER POSTPONEMENT INSURES FROM LOSS BY FIRE BUILDINGS, tives—came along at a dog trot, having no doubt OF THE club." sniffed a feast from afar. Ponto halted when in HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND MERCHAN- "You will drive me mad ¡" cried John Custis. ' front of the churn, and with a bound landed on its "Ishould call this admirable driving!" retorted top. Scanning the surroundings, and finding the GRAND GIFT CONCERT DISE GENERALLY. the wife. coast clear, the brute inserted his head into the open IK AID OF THE "By !" he exclaimed, "If you say another vessel, and was v-ery soon engaged in satiating his word I will drive down into the sea !" appetite on its rich contents. Horror upon horror! MASONIC RELIEF ASSOCIATION WILLIAM DICKSON, "Agent. They were even then upon the beach. Elongating his neck deep into the churn in search of OF NORFOLK, VA. WE TAKE SPECIAL PAINS IN "Another word!" screamed the lady. "Drive butter curds, the dog fell through the opening into , where you please," she added—"into the sea, I can the vessel. Just at this moment the woman returned DAY POSITIVELY FIXED, CAPITAL • $300,000 OO go as deep as you dare go any day !" and, hurriedly replacing the lid, made things lively THURSDAY, 19th NOVEMBER. ASSETS - 2,001,653 43 PROCURING BOOKS TO ORDER, He became furious, took her at her word, and for the purp awhile. After manipulating the crank drove the horses and chariot into the ocean. They a few minutes she took a peep inside, and, supposing Under authority of the Virginia Legislature (act passed March 8, 1873.) began to swim. He held in, looked into her face and the dog to be a lump of butter, inserted her hand for nvcirvs /605 Fifteenth street, she laughed in his. the purpose of removing it, whereupon the animal w* ^20g Four-and-a-lialfst. AND GUARANTEE "Why do you stop?" she demanded, exaltingly, squirmed around, and the woman, who is a firmbe - 50,000 Tickets—-6,000 Cash Gift». my lï-tf not a whit alarmed. liever in signs and tokens, quickly withdrew her WILLIAM BUB KS. B. W. TYLER "You are a devil!" he exclaimed, flinging the hand and left the spot at the top of her speed, in S25 070 OOI horses about, and making for the shore with all ex- search of her husband, who was at work in the barn. BURNS & TYLER, To be given away. A PROMPT REPLY TO ORDERS pedition. The man, upon reaching the green, and making an GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS, - "Pooh! pooh!" laughed his tormén ter. "Learn examination, turned to the partner of his "joys and ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF $30,000 from this that there is no place where you dare go sorrows" and said, "Mine Got, Betz, sis forhoftich OFFICE-, 628 F STREET, NEAR SEVENTH, N. W., ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 2.5,000 WASHINGTON, D. C. where I dare not accompany you " unsa clay hundly, Ponto." The poodle was brought ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 30,00« i. LEFT WITH US TOR EITHER ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 10,000 " Even to h—1 !" he groaned. forth, the contents of the churn emptied and things ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 8,000 Represent the following companies : "The only exception," she answered, with a assumed their regular channel again.—Miners' Jour-\ ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 8,500 FIRE. « ONE GRAND CASH GIFT OF 2,000 chuckle—"there, my dear, I leave you." nal. 15 Cash Gifts of $1000 each 15,000 IMPERIAL of London, (organized in 1803,) assets- 28 Cash Gifts of 500 each 14,000 gold, $10,000,090. She had conquered. He never drove in at Cape 43 Cash Gifts of 250 each 10,750 GERMAN AMERICAN,New York, assets, $1,650,801. AMERICAN OR ENGLISH Oharles again, but groaned with the recollection of RECOLLECTIONS OF A DENTIST'S SHOP.—Mark 79 Cash Gifts of 150 each 11,850 AMERICAN, Philadelphia, (organized 1810,) assets, Twain, in his new book about England, tells how he 250 Cash Gifts of 100 each 25,000 $1.100,000. the seven years' bachelor's life at Arlington. 578 Cash Gifts of 50 each 28,900 AMAZON, Cincinnati, assets, $1,070,280. had the toothache one night in London,: and gives 5,000 Cash Gifts of 10 each 50,000 LIFE. • BOOKS. THEY have a new hired girl over at Keyser's farm, some pleasing recollections of the dentist's shop MUTUAL BENEFIT of New Jersey, assets, $28,000,000. 6,000 CASH GIFTS, aggregating $250,000 just outside our town, and on Tuesday, before start- which he was wont to patronize when he lived in Special attention given to the care of property be- ing to spend the day with a friend, Mrs. Keyser in- PRICE OF TICKETS : longing to non-residents or persons leaving the city. Elmira. He says: " One night that tooth did jump, Whole tickets, fio ; Half tickets, $3 ; Quarter tickets, je!4-ly structed the girl to whitewash the kitchen during and every time it jumped it raised my head off the $2.50; Eleven tickets, $100. her absence. Upon returning, Mrs. Keyser found pillow. How I did lie awake and think about that MISCELLANEOUS. the job completed in a very satisfactory manner. On dentist's shop in Elmira, where I had been under NO INDIVIDUAL BENEFITS. STAPLE STATIONERY. Wednesdays Mrs. Keyser "always churns, and last torture so many times, of those pretty dental instru- FANCY AND Wednesday when she was ready she went out, and, This Concert Is strictly for MASONIC purposes, and 717 717 ments, so polished and so cold! Howl long to lay will be conducted with tne same liberality, honesty and finding that Mr. Keyser had already put the milk my cheek against one—one of those short, thick, fairness which characterized the first enterprise. into the churn, she began to turn the handle. This JOHN II. KOPEK, SPECIAL ATTENTION TO OEDERS heavy, twisted chaps, with the bow-legged, fluted, President. was at eight o'clock in the morning, and she turned and curved handles and short hawksbill jaws! How For tickets and circulars giving full information ad- CHRIS. RIESSNER, until ten without any signs of butter appearing. dress, I revelled in delight at the thought of having such a HENRY V. MOORE, Then she called in the hired man and he turned un- thing clutch my refractory tooth and 'yank it!' Secretary, Norfolk, Va. FOB til dinner time, when he knocked off with some very With what pleasurable emotions came crowding RESPONSIBLE AGENTS WANTED. 717 7th STREET BETWEEN G AND II. offensive language addressed to that butter which into my mind the recollections of that dentist and Applv at 1244 llth street, or at Janitor's office, had not yet come. Masonic Temple.' his room and its fixtures—his big easy chair, with septa-lot FANCY STATIONERY, After dinner the hired girl took hold of the crank the pretty, white-curtained window before it and Having just received my stock for the fall trade, and and turned it energetically until two o'clock, when the nice big, red glass spittoon to the left, with the having bought for cash, enables me to offer my patrons she let go" with a remark which conveyed the im- hole in the bottom, and the bits of wet cotton and DEPOT OF INFORMATION the largest stock of VISITING AND WEDDING pression that she believed the churn to be haunted*. the bright pieces of gold and streams of blood-stained RELATING TO THE Then Mr. Keyser came out and said he wanted to saliva on the sides. And then the pretty litt'.e know what was the matter with that churn any- bureau with the bottles on the top, and the little yel- Sal«, A-c , of Real and Other Property in SLATE AND MARBLE MANTEES, CARDS AND PLATES. how. It was a good enough churn if people only low drawers which he jerks oat so gently when seek- all Part« of tbe United States. knew enough to work it. Mr. Keyser then worked EATROBE STOVES, ing for some new and more delicate instrument of To meet a great public want, we have established at the crank until half past three, when, as the butter torture. And then the beautiful little round, velvet- the Capital of the Nation a general agency and depot FURNACES, had not come, he surrendered it again to the hired cavered stand on the gas fixture, covered with the for the interchange of information from all parts ofthe United States relating to real and other property, in- RANGES, man because he had an engagement in the village. nice drills and pretty files, and the lovely little crow- cluding plantations, farms, lands, mills. Iron furnaces, Also, a full line of gold, coal, Iron and other mines, as well as farm, mill The man ground the machine to an accompaniment bars with the stained ivory handles, and the long and other machinery which may be in the market for GRATES, aug30-3mo A good, honest and intelligent servant who know ny time, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 4 p. in., by speech is not credited by those who have heard him paying a fee of 25 cents. how to churn can find a situation at Keyser's. There frequently speak as well on sudden occasion. But Information will be furnished to parties at a distance is a vacancy.—Max Adeler. at the rate of twenty-five cents in advance for a written THE NATIONAL, he is extravagant, without pride or character,though description of any piece of property. Pocket Penknives. plentiful in vanity, and if he is not now in the United If we are particularly requested to rent, lease, ex- A New Monthly Magazine, devoted to A LITTLE GAME EXPLAINED.—Mr. Devoy is a cor- change, buy, or sell any property, and succeed in doing respondent of the San Francisco Chronicle who is States Senate, instead of Patterson, it is because he so, we will then charge 6 per cent, commission: but SCIENCE, ranging around among the blacklegs on the line of had the means to prove the letter's bribery and bar- when parties are merely brought together, through in- formation derived from our registers, no charge will be The finest and best the Central Pacific railroad, and telling anecdotes gained away the contest. He is, also, the only im- made other than as stated above. LITERATURE about them in the paper. Devoy lately told a little portant negro in South Carolina who cordially re- Our depot Is one of the most eligible business rooms AND ART, story of a three-card monte robbery at Elko^Nevada. in the city, admirably adapted to our purpose, located at sents the white man's former mastery, having No. 510 Fourteenth street, in a business center, oppo- Some fellow jumped off the train to get a cup of family reasons, anterior to emancipation, to hate the site "Willard's Hotel. Thorough in Every Department, POCKETBOOKS AND WALLETS, coffee, but changed his mind when he saw a drunken white race. Thus he would be the most dangerous Written or orlnted descriptions of all machinery, miner in the eating-house tossing about some big with illustrations of the same, may be sent us, which negro in America if his black constituents, whose pictures will be hung on our walls for exhibition. Will commence publication In this city on the 1st of nuggets of gold after the manner of a juggler. The Our patrons, after navlng their property recorded on November, 1874. fellow did not win the gold from the d run ken miner, slavery he never shared, did not look back upon our books, will not be bound to us in any manner, but Are a Specialty wltll TEfs. but on the contrary, lost $200, a pair of lady's brace- their bondage with.christian magnanimity and look may make private sale of the same, should opportunity offer, with the single stipulation thai such sale shall be THE NATIONAL will equal In literary excellence lets and his cup of coffee upon the turn of the card. upon Elliott with only a very tolerable degree of Immediately reported to the firm, Messrs. the best magazines published. The drunken miner, was not drunk, and was. < not a favor. ^A WILLIAMS A JOHNS, miner, but is Johnny Roach, a noted gambler, who OFFICE, NO. 015 G STREET N. Wi • "His education was derived under advantage No. 519 Fourteenth street, "Washington, D. C. is working the road, prosperously plying his profes- rare even to white people, at Eton school and schools BBOOKE B. WILLIAMS. WILLIAM B. JOHNS. oc-l-lm WA8UIÎÏOT0H, I>, C sion.^ The correspondent insinuates that the em- oc4-0m of law. He is a full-blooded African, quite dark, DIARIES FOR 1874 ployes of the'road are in partnership with the gam- OTICE. NOTICE. blers, and run the trains and s}alp the passengers i t rather shambling in walk, fond of dress, notfamiliar the interest of the human vultures of the wild region and with the Boston proportion of self-esteem. He is N through which they pass. At this Johnny Roach, Chamberlain's chairman of the State campaign com- the supposed drunken miner, rises to explain, and Parties who desire to dispose of all kinds of wearing mittee, and a fair organizer. He is in debt and his apparel can sell them for a higher cash price than any defends the employés of the road from the base in- cottage is held in his wife's name. She used to place in the city by calling on, or addressing sin uations of the correspondent. He says, moreover, flourish in Colnmbia as a pretty, rose-tinted, light R. HERZOG, that the newspaper story of the " overland robbers " 917 D street, between 9th and loth northwest. RICHARD B. M0HUN & CO., is an infernal lie,and promises to convince Mr. Pevoy mulatto under the name of Nancy Fat. Removed Prompt attention will be given febl-ly it at some future time. Roach only wants trutti from the loose relations of slavery, she has been a and justice in relation to his little frame, and writes very fair mistress of her own house, barring a little H. H. NICHOLS. N. C. FAR NU M & CO., BOOKSELLERS, like an honest, upright and influential citizen of Ne- 932 I. STREET, WASHINGTON, 1». C. mutual jealousy here and there." íÉS^Scleutiflc Engraving a specialty. oo-I-lf vada, Probably Mr. Devoy will get out of that re- gion before he allows himself to be convinced that he How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have CABPENTERS AND BUILDERS, (br O (hQAper day at home. Terms free. Address I N«. 1015 Pennsylvania Avenue, has slandered Johnny Roach and the railroad em- man's wife draw the bed-clothes over her head and H ployés. uJJ ¡PZUGEO. STINSON & Co., Fortlaad, Maine) J ell E street northwest, Washington, D. C. declare that she won't build a fire if she dies for it. febl-ly 1«I jeis-tf THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBER 1, 1874. 4

boohs of the same clas Probably no library was besides the disappearance of countless mushrooms, ever drawn on eo closely The remedy does not lie in that direction, nor To the Editor of THE CAPITAL. THE CAPITAL. some of 1KB lrion stable dividend-paying roads cease do we know in what direction it is to be found. A report made by the librarian of the Boston to return income to people who may have held their A compendium of the free-colored prpulation of The trial by newspaper seems to suit the free and public library shows almost the same result. It stock for twenty years. Olher great roads disburse the United States, aud of the wM e population, for WASHINGTON CITY. enlightened American people. From that there eight decades, beginning with census of 1790: will be seen that our Mrs. Southworth is the their dividends, which fall like the rain from heaven, is no appeal. most popular instructor. There is not much no one knowing where it was collected, whether Free White. SUNDAY MOENIM, NOVEMBEK 1,1874. from the borders of the great lakes or those of the Of course comment upon the trial now in pro- colored. free love in the teachings of Mrs. 8., but there 1790 German oc-an. Lei us hope the dividends will gress is all wrong. Mr. Richard Harrington, a 69,527 3,172,006 is a decidedly false view of real life, and the continue to descend In the same abundance and 1800 young man widely beloved, of fair abilities and 107,652 4,296,380 POPULAR EDUCATION. youth brought up on this diet will not be found with equal regularity." 1810 generous impulses, is at the bar to answer a 183,897- 5,845,994 to possess a healthy constitution, either morally 1820 229,686 We are fond of exhibiting our common-school grave charge. We do not envy the man who 7,839,552 or mentally. 1830 313,447 10,504,407 system as the great educator of the land. We MINOH NOTES. would rejoice in his conviction. He bas his 1840 Another educator is the jury. As an Instru- »•'.«» 377,932 14,159,048 speak of and treat it as If there were no other. rights as well as Mr. Alexander. He has friends 18.50 ment of justice it has probably ecased to be of 421,390 19,412,272 And so Impressed are we with this faith that the WE KNOW of few pursuits so forlorn as account- to suffer and an innocent and helpless family 1860 any effect, even if it ever accomplished anything .476,748 26,690,780 most erroneous and burdensome taxation is ing for political defeats by a partisan editor, so as banging in anguish upon the verdict. Let us, The disproportion of black« to whites is so obvious in that direction—which we doubt. It is, In fact,, levied and paid for its support. " Call any sort to comfort bis readers. We have in this blessed then, for God's sake, try and be just. If the jury and glaring that not a. word is needed to show how a process in which men are taught law at the ex- of stealing from the Treasury common-school free land of ours a heavy reserve, varying from is packed, as charged, the facts sifted through utterly Impotent at any time was the colored race pense of the litigants. As the laborer's children to oppose, or in any manner change the election re- fund," said a shrewd old politician, " and no one tenth to a majority or the voters, and on this able attorneys remain to make up a finding, have a free education, paid for by a tax on labor, sults, or to compete for a politi.al office in any of the man dare expose or oppose it." The school- reserve the plucky editor draws, witb conclusions whatever that finding may be in popular estima- in the common school, we do not see why the States of the Union; and yet in all these years the houses, especially in cities, are palaces. The that are comforting in the extreme. tion—the most terrible of all verdicts. After the litigant may not be burdened in the same way. Empire State, the powerful New York, had a debar- army of teachers annually consume in the way of The most noted instance of this is in an intel- legal tribunal shall have ended its labors it will ring clause in its constitution inhibiting free suffrage lie has no business to be a litigant. Let him wages twice what their services are worth, and ligent gentleman by the name of BIo6?, connected be time enough for the trial by newspaper. to the colored race, which, at its maximum strength suffer. in some of the States the sum expended on the with the Cincinnati Enquirer. For twelve years in 1850, numbered but 49,069 souls, men, women and public schools amounts to more than all the other Perhaps the purest and best instructor of the this indomitable man of figures and Democracy children. Repeated efforts were made, and always masses, and so recognized through all time, is unsuccessfully, to rescind the property qualification State expenditures combined. No man criticises has been accounting for defeats in such a manner THE Republican had the followin the stage. Of course the puritanical will lift ; In double- restriction by popular vote; but to the very last the the working of this system. No man has the as to make the defeat a superior sort of victory. leaded type one day last week : colored man of New York was required to own a cer- courage, for such commcnt immediately arouses their hands in horror at this, and yet it is true Bloss had come to be considered a ready reck- tain amount of property or abstain altogether from all tho same. The stage teaches a higher moral- "There wa« a regular meeting of the Cabinet yes- the bitterest and most violent abuse. oner. It was his specialty to account for disaster terday, at which the following members were pres- the politics of the State so far as voting was con- The fact is, however, that the affair is rotten ity, and—what is of equal need to civilized hu- so as to prove to the Democracy that It was in fact ent : Secretaries Fish, Bristow and Delano, Postmas- cerned. In all those years, from 1790 to 1860, seventy throughout. The attempt to secure to every manity—more refinement than the pulpit. We a victory. When, therefore, at midnight he ter General Jewell and Attorney General Williams. annual revolutions of the earth round the sun, did the white race of the North, with none of the prejudices child a collegiate course, instead of what was have only to remember -that a successful drama sat at his table on the famous second Tuesday in The meeting lasted nearly two hours, and only rou- Is the crowning glory of literature, and to run tine business was transacted. of slavery, declare by law that the colored man was originally intended—to educate far enough to October, with the thronging multitude half not the equal of the Caucasian, and oppose his en- "After the business before the Cabinet was dis- over in our minds the men of genius who gave drunk with joy and bad whisky about him, joyment of the right of suffrage on the same terms give each scholar a fair knowledge of reading, posed of the third-term question came up for discus- their all to the stage, to realize this fact. Were with themselves. They were thinking, reasoning, •writing and arithmetic—has resulted in unjust Bloss was bewildered. Ho sat with the virginal sion, that topic having been suggested by a reference the best books given humanity destroyed to-day christian men and statesmen that enacted the law discrimination. A few are educated, while the white page before him, a sharpened pencil In his to the speech of General Dix at the Cooper Institute, and Shakspeare saved—in Shakspeare we would and supported it. It was a deliberate j udgment, and masses are left ignorant. In our cities the child- hand, and he awaited in vain those stunning de- New York, on Monday evening last The President find them all. was deemed a christian enactment. ren are crammed with all sorts of useless lumber, feats out of the bowels of which he was wont to embraced tills opportunity to say that he regarded The value of instruction received through bring success. the agitation of this question as due solely to the Since then 4.000,000 of ignorant, superstitious, timid while in the rural distrtcts the schools are in a and only semi civilized slaves have been injected amusement has never been fully appreciated. newspapers, who had started it for the purpose of worse condition than under the old volunteer " What yer got to say to-it?" cried a red-faced creating a sensation and directing attention to them- Into the body politic, and the representatives and system. The labor that we love is so much lighter than Democrat, full of that western finance which selves. As for his making any statemen t on the sub- senators of the same State of New York, and her sis- The whole affair is n blunder, and likeall blun- the labor we detest that it is tenfold more effec- generally comes from a jug. ject, he had never thought of such a thing, nor had ter States, have uttered orations and cast their votes ders, has hastened to quick decay. tive.' Let one compare a walk gotten up for "I'm waiting to hear from the Logan dis- he e ver talked on the subject with any one. He did to give equal rights to these untaught and at this time incapable 4,000,000, in States where their num- The strangest part of it, however, is that the health, over the same dreary country, with the trict," responded Bloss, "I can show that If we not think it would comport with his dignity as Pres- travel on foot through a strange and interesting ident of the United States to make a statement on ber half equals and in some cases exceeds the white fiercest and most bigoted supporters of this pro- have a full vote we can beat Lawrence any time." this question in response to the clamors of the news- race. What is the meaning of this great incon- cess of education are the religious class. And land. The exercise is the same, but how differ- " Lawrence is beat," cried a reporter. papers. sistency, of this stupendous reversal of all previous ent the results in health and happiness. Lord yet the tendency of all education, as taught to- Bloss twirled his pencil in an absent-minded " These expressions of the President were heartily judgment? Is it strange that the whites of the day in the schools, is to materialism. Professor Ciistlereagh was directed by his physicians to ride way for a moment, then brightening up, said, indorsed by the members of the Cabinet, who attri- Southern States stand aghast? Will it surprise any Tyndall's lecture is but the outcropping of what ten miles every morning "before breakfast. At "Well, let me hear from the Western Reserve; bute the attempts of certain newspapers to force any one if, after the first excitement is over, the national and patriotic Northern men should form a reaction- underlies the entire structure. the end of his tenth ride he cut his throat. We I can show any time that the Western Reserve opinion whatever from him regarding the subject to a desire to make an exhibition of their power." • ary movement, and, organizing a new party, unite We seem to forget in our infatuation that there tried that once, (the exercise we mean, not tho is Democratic by twenty thousand majority if with the whites of the South for their emancipation are other processes of popular education quite as razor,) and soon understood Lord Castlereagh's How refreshing it is to find His Excellency frcm hlave rule ? As sure as the sun shines such effective as the common schools. The most cause of suicide. " The Western Reserv? bas all gone to pot," awakening to a sense of dignity in his high office. will be the fact. It may be that you will not pub- noted of these is the newspaper. If one will There is no entertainment that has such ele- shouted a sub. rushing in with*a telegram. It is a little late, we admit, but better late than lish this article, it being so near election and you so think for a moment of the vast number now ments of popular fascination in it as the stage, never. Whattlieelectionsin Ohio and Indiana had thoroughly radical; but It would be far more satis- Bloss rose from his chair, deliberately put factory if you would and make a reply. Let the flooding the country, one will realize what their nor is there any that carries so much culture. away bis pencil and paper, and pulling his plug to do with this sudden recognition of dignity we can only surmise. But it is evidently another les- controversy come now and let it start at the capital, effect must be as educators. The humblest of Art is taught in the brilliantly lighted scenery, over his intellectual countenance, strode out. and see how quickly pens will be set at work to these has a large space devoted to extracts from the orchestra cultivates a love of music, while He walkrd through the roaring multitude, un- son of the uses of adversity. How hollow, mock- show that a change of sentiment is already at work, abler journals or from books, and laborers and the story of the druma, its choice language, varied heeding the blazing rockets, the bonfires and the ing, vain and unsubstantial appear our human and that a change of legislation will be required. mechanics whose time is occupied to the last charactersund startling situations all combine to mouthing cannon. Entering Ang's, he seated hopes when, before some gravé calamity, these Do not seek to avoid the discussion, but boldly take issue on one side or the other. The question is na- minute during the week at their toil, find their charm and cultivate. himself at a table. hopes fade into nothingness. For the King Fox to bejumping after impossible grapes is very undig- tional, not local, and paramount to any and to all paper on Sunday both a rest and an instructor. Believing, then, that the Government must " Lager, Mr. Bloss ?" asked a waiter. nified. To be called upon by these miserable .others. AMESICCS. If it is the duty of the Government to force an educate the people, Government ought to en- "No, sir," responded the man of bad writing newspapers to say whether he wants the grapes The author of the above need not have been so education on the people—which we fail to see— courage and support the drama. To every cus- and the brilliant figures. " No, sir, this is a case or not is an impertinence, to say the least, that solicitous about the publication of his table and it would be good policy to take some- of the tom-house and post-office we should have at least that calls for liquid nitro-glycerlne. Othello's should at an early day be solemnly rebuked. The comments. We give them space with pleasure, money squandered on our schools and give it to one good theater, and if done in dead white occupation's gone. I am Othello—not jealous, newspapers " who " started and the newspapers for the purpose of calling attention to another the newspapers. At least the heated advocate of granite, with tho mighty Mullett to superintend, nor an American citizen .of African descent. "who" continue the agitation must consider view of the subject. popular instruction cannot object to the mail fa- wo believe the immortal Shakspeare would have But my occupation's gone. Had Othello taken themselves snubbed by His Dignified Excellency. cilities afforded us, when such remembers what to succumb, By reference to theabove figures it will be seen to whisky, good old rye or Bourbon, he would Three cheers for Grant in a state of dignity. - superb teachers we are. not have made such a duffer of himself as to that while the colored race in this country in- Another educator actively at work is to be suffocate Desdemonia and puncture his corpus. And how refreshing to note the hearty In- creased, between the years 1790 and 1860, from MB. DUNAN VINDICATED. found in our cheap literature. Thousands live, Young man, fetch Othello Bloss of the lost occu dorsement of the Cabinet. The Cabinet not only 59,527 to 476,748, the white race in the same pe- The many friends of Mr. S. H. Dunan in Balti- love, get married on yellow-backed issues and pation some whisky." indorsed, but heartily indorsed. This is beauti- riod grew from 3,172,000 to 26,690,780. During more and Washington will be glad to learn of his this period the colored race was increased, dime novels. Perhaps there is nothing that affords ful. Suppose it had not indorsed, what in the complete vindication, in the report made by the About an hour after one of the successful can- through careful breeding, in the border States, more evil and less good than the cheap and pop- Old Scratch would have become of the country English commission sent out by London bond- didates found Bloss in tears. for the more Southern market, and by slaves ular literature of our country. then ? We tremble at the supposition. holders of Erie to Investigate the affairs of that " Why, Blossy, wbatyer 'bout; airyer so drunk At the same time we are sorry that the new- brought from Africa and Cuba. Since the abo- What false views of life are inculcated, what Imuch-abused railroad property. It will be re- yer don't know we've whopped 'em ?" found dignity stood is the way of a statement. lition of slavery both these sources have ceased a positive immorality is taught, one may gather membered that Captain Dunan was assailed by "Me friend," responded the ready reckoner, There seems to be a lull in the storm of sensational supply, and from the late civil conflict of arms from our courts and police reports. It is no ex- the New York press with* intense bitterness for "regard me as a wreck—look on me as a ruin matter, and a little statement from His Excel- we may date a positive and steady decrease of aggeration to say that the free love that so star- having made, as charged, a false statement of the whose corrugated, crumbling front terrifies the the colored race. tled the community, as developed in the Ply- observations its magnificence solicited, or words lency would come in very well at this time. affaire of the company for the Infamous purpose Studying such figures as the above, the South- mouth church, has come to be a common belief, to that effect. For twelve years—twelve long However, as Toots says, " it is of no conse- of bearing tho stock. We copy the following ern white may be saved the trouble of annoying and what is worse, a common practice through- years, Alphonso—have I calculated victory out quence." Ohio and Indiana have made state- from the New York Commercial Advertiser : his soul by fears of the negro. The time is not out the country. This is what we get for cheap- of defeat. And now come3 victory, overwhelm- ments that are quite satisfactory. distant when the colored race will have been so ening our literature—a refusal to grant a copy- " The report of the English accountants sent here ing victory ; and oh 1 me friend, the figures re- last spring to investigate the financial condition of absorbed in the white as to have disappeared right to foreign authors, which means, in fact, main the same. That d d non-voting popu- the Erie Railway Company comes to us in our last HENRX WILSON, by divine dispensation and the through the natural laws of population. protection to our own. Congress, always under lation remains, and to-morrow morning Dick English files. The report is a calm, conservative docu- votes of the Republican porty, Vice President of Smith will use me own figures and me own rea- What we have to fear, and against which we control of moneyed monopolies, obeys a few ment, entirely void of any show of partisanship the United States, has of late been going up and thieving publishers rather than cares for the good whatever, notwithstanding it negatives, in the most soning to sho w that It should have been a Repub- are forced to fight—as the Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar down the land telling an anxious world what he of Mississippi said in his eloquent speech on the of the community. positive manner,every statement made by the friends lican triumph. Me friend, I would hang meself don't believe in. As there are no duties con- subject—is the utter ruin of our republic in an That our readers may appreciate the sort of of Mr. Watson as to the condition of the company's were I not opposed on principle to capita] pun- affairs, or the result of the operations of the Toad nected with this office thus filled by d. d. and a attempt to liold the larger portion of our terri- literature most in demand we copy from the re- ishment. What can I do but get drunk and during his administration, and, as the London Daily popular vote, we see no reason why Henry tory under military or carpeMbag rule, that the port made lately by the librarian of the Chicago weep ?" News says, 'confirms all the worst charges which should not go to and fro, letting us into what he last may plunder and that a corrupt Administra- public library. In this he says: were made as to dividends .having been paid out of And so the ready reckoner rolled under the does not believe, and when he gets through with tion may live. That is the issue. "There are now 30,809 volumes iu the library, of reven ue, the falsity of the balance of undivided profit table a melancholy ruin. his unbelief it would be an innocent and inoffen- which was taken over from the previous administra- which a,000 are for reference and other hooks which The next morning Richard Smith, true to sive thing for Henry to confide to us what he does are not circulated, leaving for the circulating depart- tion, and the fact that on a proper account being Bloss' prophecy, drew on the non-voters and believe. When he gets through with that his ' THE Laporte semi-weekly Chronicle, Indiana, ment 25,000 volumes. The number of registered made up there is a large deficit at the debit of profit 1 achieved a famous victory for the Republicans. book borrowers is: Males, 8,116; females, 8,197; and loss. term of office will have ended, and he can sup- reaches us with an editorial marked, in which total, 13,313. And this number is increasing at the " Taking the figures as given by the accountants plement the creed by confessing to what the said we are assailed with a venom that is perfectly rate of one hundred per day. d. d. and the p. v. aforesaid utterly disbelieve demoniacal. The editor calls us Thomas Dunn. and Mr. Dunan, the late auditor of the company, re- OUR EXCELLENT friend, the venerable Pum- " The total circulation during the week ending Oc- spectively, we find them to comparatively agree. phries, read or, rather, delivered a solemn lec- and repudiate, including Henry himself. This wounded us deeply. We wish the editor tober 17 was 8,471, or a daily average of 1,412. The The accountants were appointed to the task by the ture to the press anent the practice indulged in The V. P. of the p. v. aforesaid has progressed wouldn't call U3 Thomas Dunn. If he will take number of books given out on Saturday, the 17th, friends of Mr. Watson. They performed their labors that back we will forgive him for saying we are was 2,194. On Monday, October 19, the circulation of commenting upon a case while such case is in his confession so far as to let us know that he under his immediate oversight. All the influences disloyal, traitor and other things. But Thomas— was 1,601 volumes. which surrounded them were those calculated to in- being heard. does not believe in Bpirits or President Grant. and Thomas Dunn—hits us <¡n a tender place. "It may be interesting to give a list of the works duce them to make a favorable report for his admin- His Honor's intent was correct enough, but Why this table-tipped, bran-bread, cold-water We beg this Laporte semi-weekly to desist. If of Scion which are called for by readers. We have istration—and the result is a complete vindication of his performance, as usual, was more ludicrous manufacturer of convictions for others to swal- he does not we will call him Ass-per Packard. compiled the following list, giving the names of the Mr. Dunan officially and personally—and confirms than impressive. The way in which he fumbles low should " go back," to use a popular phrase, authors, the number of sets of their works and of Mr. Watson's own .expressed judgment of the man, There, how do you feel now ? We hope Jasper about an object would be distressing were it not upon the spirits, is more than we can tell. It is volumes of each in the library and the number not when he said in London over a year ago, ' he is a won't go and get drunk nor beat his wife after so funny. Shakspeare exhausted his sense of true that the spirits cannot vote, and therefore it taken out, as it stood on Monday morning. To this man of the strictest integrity and of the highest reading that. we have added a like statement as to the juvenile ability as an accountant.' In the light of all these humor in the creation of Dogberry. There is seems useless for the V. P. of the p. v. to bother works of fiction. The list thus compares: facts, what becomes of the unmerited abuse heaped no exaggeration whatever in saying that our about them. But they can materialize the late WORKS or FICTION. upon him by Mr. Watson and his friends ?" Pump, in real life is more laughable than Wil- Mr. Lincoln with a flag in his hand, and this A MB. J. R. BHOWN, says the New York Arca- No. of No. of Copies From the New York Tribune of October 30 liam's conceited, ignorant, officious, yet honest might be utilized to checkmate Andy Johnson, set rais. In. dian, has been giving a series of exhibitions of we also quote part of an elaborate editorial calling legal luminary. One wonders at the whimsical who goes about waving two flags and the Consti- Banim 9 10 0 his " mind-reading " before a number of the Yale Bennett 8 30 1 attention to the statement of the English com- combination of events that threw such a man tution, much to the annoyance of the party that Collins 4 15 0 College Faculty. Some of the experiments, Clemens, iMark'fwain).. 3 mission, in which that journal, after commenting upon the bench. now believes in waving the civil rights bill and vo 0 which were of a very remarkable character, were Cole 7 42 5 upon the way in which its honest and well-meant a third term. George Sand 16 44 6 But to return to our mutton. No one ques- entirely successful. Here is a chance for the Dumas 21 135 1 exposures were received in other cases, says : tions the impropriety, to use the mildest term, But we believe we are in possession of the Dnpuy 11 59 0 politicians. They can easily discover, by Mr. Eggleston 4 " Our course in giving a place in the Tribune to ex- of journals anticipating the resujts of a legal in- reason for Henry's infidelity iu respect to Presi- Brown's assistance, whether the President is Hentz 13 74 1 Auditor Dunan's statements about the finances of Holmes 16 vestigation or attempting to Influence such a re- dent Grant. It is mel ncholy. going in for the third term or not. All very 210 II the Erie Railway Company, and the opinions we Hugo 6 46 1 sult by their partisan or prejudiced comments. It seems that shortly after the elections in well, Mr. Arcadian, but sucb reading presup- expressed that the president and leading directors Kingsley 11 13 There Is no stronger evidence of our demoralized Ohio and Indiana Henry, V. P., was in Washing- McDonald 9 27 of the company did not satisfactorily dispose of those poses a mind. Munde 17 «0 statements, met witji a similar reception. And now condition than the fact that trials of grave impor- ton, and he hastened to the White House to pay Olipbant.... 10 32 " He must have optics sharp, I ween, Beade 7 37 that we have the reports of the English accountants, tance to the parties at issue are wrested from the his respects to its present occupant, and doubt- Who sees what is not to be seen." Roe io 36 fully substantiating Mr. Dunan's revelations, and legal tribunals, where the law of evidence—that less shake him up with the returns from these Simms 17 51 vindicating that gentleman's name from the fero- Smith, J. y 5 23 monument of human justice and wisdom—is sup- States. The President stood at the front win- Southworth . 38 380 cious assaults which were made upon it, there is a posed to govern, and transferred to the editorial dow smoking a cigar strong as proofs of holy WE CONORATTLATE pur readers upon the con- Stephens 22 176 deep silence in those quarters which a few months Terhuue room, where one man gives force to popular pre- writ, and gazing at the brass Jackson with all valescence oft be charming Miss Grundy. Our 13 80 ago were so vocal. We conceive this question of Verne 91 judice or his own passions. the intensity of expression peculiar to a salted Jones was reading to her yesterday the New Warner... „i 14 66 honest railroad accounts to be of Tast importance. York journals, and reaching the item that told of Whitney g 66 The advice tendered by the London Time» to the The trial by newspaper, now so prevalent, is mackerel, when he saw Henry coming, and his Wilson, (Evans) 5 Havemeyer prohibiting pools on the election the 50 capitalists of England, not to lend the Erie Company one from which any citizen may well shrink. prophetic soul immediately divined said returns; fair face brightened and she said: Totals 314 1,938 another dollar, and to buy no more of its bonds at The brutal tests of a barbarous age, whereDivine and so, inresponse to V. P.'s card, begged to be WOBKS OF FICTION FOE JCVESILK8 any price, seems to us good. The stockholders of Providence alone was supposed to intervene for excused on account of pressing business. " I can't understand that. If betting pools are Adams., railroad companies have a right to know how the . 49 478 the protection of the innocent, were humane by This struck Henry dumb with amazement. moral on horses, why should they not be on Alcott 8 65 earnings and borrowings of these corporations are mayors f " Alger 20 181 expended, and we tell no secret when we say that the side of this unseen power, that makes a cruel For the first time in the history of this vibratory Bailan lytie. . 15 62 Mayor Havemeyer died about the time Bill Castlemau.. the Information given to them by the managers on mob respectable. Administration it seemed pressed with business. 14 111 Poole was buried. Hence this prejudice in his DeMille 6 42 these points is of tho scantiest character, and in But the venerable judge may as well learn at However, as he walked wonderingly nlong he DeFoe 1 6 many cases, of which the Erie railway is not the resurrection. "ßeid 33 221 an early day that while he may aggravate, it is happened to look up and saw the Administration only example, even this scanty information is not not in his power to correct the evil. To carry pressed by the business of pulling away at its Totals..... ss.,.146 1,166 the truth. "These figures show that of the 1,938 volumes of out his threat and arrest the offending editor cigar, ai it stood, haadR in pockets, at the win- THE Cincinnati Enquirer yearns for a chemi-. " The lesson conveyed by the long and eventful dow above. works of Action of the authors named, representing history of the Erie railroad is this—that if unscrupu. would make that editor rejoice with exceeding loon. We do not know what that is, and there- 814 works, all were iu circulation except 52 ; and of lous men cannot be prevented from obtaining the joy. At the expense of some bodily discomfort The V. P. had 'been snubbed. fore don't care to have one. We suspect thfjre is the 1,166 volumes of juvenile fiction, all were in cir- control of railroads, they should at least be refused he would have the circulation of his paper jump The V. P. had gone about asserting that the nothing in it, as the fellow says in the play. But culation except 43. Of the total of both classes, num- farther access to the capital of those who have no suddenly into a wide demand and his name President did not want a third term. bering 3,104 volumes, all were out in the hands of as the Enquirer longs for one, it is our opinion part nor knowledge in the management of their own would go ringing through the trump of fame as The V. P. does not believe in Grant. Grant readers save 95. There is evidently a need for more property. We have seen within a few months, that It is some soi t of Inflation, and r -^body but a a martyr in the cause of a free press, reciprocates. It is melancholy. loon-shgmi or not wants that. THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBER 1, 1874. 5

ONE great comfort we may reasonably antici' A. FLEMING, 703 K strjet, is offering oat meal from MISCELLANEOUS. AMUSEMENTS. pate in the present political revolution, and that Scotland and Canadian oat meal from Canada. HOTELS, BE8TAÏÏEABTS, ETC. is the utter extinction of the christian statesmen WE REFER our readers to the advertisement of E. ORD'S OPERA HOUSE. the men who devote themselves to the morals of Behrend & Co..625 Feveuth street. Their patent catarrh IMPERIAL HOTEL cigar Is something valuable. HALL & HUME, F other people while hiding under the cloak of re- BY SPONTANEOUS DESIRE, RICHELIEU. WASHINGTON, D. O., REMEMBER the semi-centennial anniversary of New The Distinguished American Actor, ligion their own immorality. There is one An- Will be opened and kept as a flrst-elass house Novem- thony Comstotk who is devoting the remainder Jerusalem Lodge, No. 9, F. and A. St., Is to be held to- ber i. morrow evening at Masonic Temple. MR. JOHN McCULLOUGH, of his ill-spent life to the bettering of public 807 Market Spaoe, WILL GIVE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, JAS. 8. PIEBCB, morals. TVe want Anthony C. pelted to death at BROWNING'S BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, Indi- Proprietor, an early day with decayed vegetables. gestion, and constipation. For sale by the druggists. His MASTERLY RENDITION OF RICHELIEU, HI« MASTERLY RENDITION OF RICHELIEU, nov-tfl Late of the Rockingham House, Portsmouth. INVITE ATTENTION TO THEIR VERY LARGE HIS MASTERLY RENDITION OF RICIIELIKU. JOHN DOWLIXG, corner of I and Seventh streets HIS MASTERLY RENDITION OF RICHELIEU, northwest, is paining a great reputation on Ills tine STOCK OF HIS MASTERLY RENDITION OF RICHELIEU, NATIONAL SALOON. CASSIUS M. CLAY wants the seat of government teas, coffees and fine groceries generally. His growing •removed to the Mississippi, " where the cries of trade is the best evidence that he keeps none but the Received last season with vehement applause and best goods. the oppressed South will reach the ears of our unqnallfied admiration by an audience representative •rulers." What nonsense, Cassius. The ears of PERSONS wanting to And a first-class model-maker aad machinist, we would refer tliein to II. Oppermann, SUPERB SHERRIES, F. FREUND, -our rulers are long enough to reach through the of the intellect and taste of the city. 605 Seventh street. CONFECTIONER AND CATERER, •"South and lap over. But of what use f They MISS M. CONWAY...... as JULIE DI MORTIMER. :hear and heed not. THOSE who have money to Invest I11 real estate and MR. MILNES LEVICK. as DE MAUFRAT. NO. 520 TENTH STREET, BETWEEN E AND F, other securities, will find It to their Interest to consult Ot their own Importation. Their wine cellar is unsur- passed In the matter of arrangement, as well as In the Respectfully announces to the public that he Is prepared James F. Russell & Jo., 515 Seventh street, before quality and variety of stock. Their wines are In butt, On Tuesday the Matchless Love Tragedy, making an Investment. of 150 gallons each, and, as Is well known to those to furnish GENERAL MEIGS, it is said, will be tendered the familiar with the proper keeping or wine, are therefore ROMEO AND JULIET. "Russian mission. General Meigs is a meritorious HALL & HUMS, 807 Market Space,.advertise to-day a the more desirable. Heavily silver-plated splggots are used in drawing these choice wines. WEDDING,BALL AND SUPPER PARTIES -officer, a gentleman and an honest man. But as very superior line of fine groceries and liquors. Their They enumerate In part: Wednesday, "Old Stag Whisky " is known fv and wide for its ex- SPARTACUS, THE GLADIATOR. at short notice. these qualities do not win under this Adminis- DuflT Gordon <& Co., cellence, whilst their general assortment of fine gro- -O^Partles will find at his saloon all the delicacies tration, we have to look further and fare worse ceries is as full and complete as any house can show in Port St. Mary's, Spain, THURSDAY, VIRG1NIUS. sfor the motive. Is this to make room for Ruf. the United States. The enterprise and high standing of the season affords. Accommodation for boarders. Ingalls ? this firm cannot he too highly commended. We refer MARKS. DESCRIPTION. On Friday Sbakspeare's Masterpiece, sep27-ly our readers to tlielr advertisement. I. P. Pale, full-bsdled. III. V. P. Fine Table, very pale and dry. KING LEAR. III. G. Fine Table, Golden. " WE LIVE at the center of the Union," said WELCKER IIAGERTY are " offering the best liquors McCullough Matinee on Saturday. H A R V E Y'S in the city, which any of the hundreds that frequent VI. P. Extra Fine, Pale and.full-bodied. ¡the Hon. Job Stevenson when nominated, " and Saturday night, McCullough's Bencat, JACK CADE. daily their wine parlors will testify to. VII. V. P. Super Extra Dry, Pale and Delicate. IS RECOGNIZED TO BE THE LEADING [OYSTER •can hear its heart beat"—" Job Stevenson,: XIL A. II. O. Amontillado. JSSf^On Monda_ »day next the Eminent English Gomedlan, MR:R. JOHN L.. TOOLET I , in three of his most Famous •added the voters of the second district on the LADIES' ENGLISH ULSTER.—We beg to announce to Comic Creations. HOUSE OF THE COUNTRY, WHERE CAN the ladles of Washington that we are now prepared to Buying these WINES direct, they are enabled to offer second Tuesday of October last. Job fell from make to order the above new and distingue over gar- them at BE FOUND EVERY BRAND OF that lofty metaphor and broke his political neck. ment. We also make ladles' riding habits, sacques, etc. PRICES FROM TWENTY-FIVE TO FIFTY PER "VTATIONAL THEATER.—AIMEE. TNE FINEST KNOWN. These garments being made by tailors, their fit and CENT. LOWER THAN IS USUALLY ASKED BEGINS AT 8. workmanship is unexceptionable. . FOR WINES OF SIMILAR GRADES. FRANK MOULTON has been allowed ten more BARTRAM St CO., Tailors, MR. J. G. SAVILLE Lessee and Manager. HARVEY & flOLDEN, Vernon Row, Tenth and Pennsylvania avenue. days in which to file his answer to -Ediu Dean First appearance in two years in Washington of HALL & HUME, PROPRIETORS, Proctor's complaint. This we opine will prove VALENTINE, IN FINE GROCERIES, WINBS, •A. • MS MS a rather expensive continuance—not less thau a PORTED LUXURIES, AC. 1010 Pennsylvania avenue. Corner Eleventh novl-lmo3 AND THE FRENCH OPEETA BOUFFE COMPANY. thousand dollars a day and a settlement. street, Washington, I>. C. WASHINGTON TAILOR ONE WEEK ONLY. M. GRAUand CHIZZOLA Directors. sep 27*3mo AND Miss LAURA REAM, the brilliant correspondent, COTTAGE MARKET. The management have the honor to announce to the John Beck &, Son, is a candidate for State librarian, Indianapolis, FASHIONABLE CLOTHIER, public of Washington and vicinity a brief French Opera ESTABLISHED IN 1S62. Bouffe season, commencing ocll-tf2 Indiana. If there is any brain or a spark of gal- Corner Seventh and E. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN lantry left in the Hoosier State, Miss Laura will OUR friend and stand-by, John Markrlter, 439 Seventh at 8 o'clock, when will be produced, for the first time in Washington, Lecocq's latest and most famous Musical be successful. street, has now one of the largest and most complete The proprietors of the COTTAGE MARKET desire and Comical Sensation, WINES AND LIQUORS. assortments of wall paper and all articles pertaining to to announce that they have now on hand and^are dally LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT, his line of business. Persons desiring to paper their with new and grotesque costumes from Paris, new DOCTOR GARNETT threatens us with a bolt from houses should call and examine his stock. receiving a full assortment of the; properties, &c. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC WINES A SPECIALTY. the Democracy if more than two Democrats are CLAIRETTE, (her original role) M'LLE AIMEE. LOST, last night, between Eleventh and Pennsylvania FINEST GOODS IN THEIR LINE. M'lle Lange.... M'lle Nardynn. returned from Massachusetts. We fear on this avenue southeast and Third an i C streets northeast, Ange Pitou, (his original role) Mons. C. Kolletz. «31 Li. AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. (Assumed by him over 300 nights.) issue that our friend is a life-long Democrat. two packages out of delivery wagon. The finder will Musical Conductor sig. G. Operti. be liberally rewarded by returning to Loekwood, MEATS, TUESDAY—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT. Hufty & Taylor, 623 Pennsylvania avenue northwest. WBDNESD AY-LA PERICHOLE. THE DANGER of riding on the platform while the, POULTRY, THURSDAY—LA PRINCESSE DE TREBIZONDE. MARBLE SALOON. •cars are in motion was illustrated by Mr. Sener (First time In Washington.) CITY ITEMS. GAME and FISH. FRIDAY—LA BELLE HELENE. •of Virginia, who fell from.his platform, breaking SATURDAY (Matinee)—LA FILLE DE MADAME ANGOT. •his arm and scarifying his countenance. DOCTOR, MUST I DIE V" was asked not long since by CANNED IG00DS OF ALL" KINDS. a beautiful young lady residing in the First ward, while SATURDAY EVE-LA GRANDE DUCHESSE. suffering Indescribable pain from inflammatory rheuma- THE FINEST FETJITS. tism. The doctor very frankly told her that her condi- General admission WE HAD some very bad shooting in New Or- tion was very critical, and that he had exhausted his Reserved seats 50 and 25 cents extra, according "to* Voca- knowledge of medicine tn her behalf without good re- THE PUBLIC ARE INVITED TO CALL. tion. Gallery, 50 cents. leans the other day. Five shots and no mortal- sults. and that If she desired, would allow her to try Seats for any of the above performances can be se- Durang's Rheumatic Remedy. Notice tne sequel. The cured at Theater Box Office and Brad. Adams' Branch ity. The regret comes in on the fact that Kellogg flret bottle relieved her a little, the second a good deal, Office. and after she had gotten through will» the third bottle was a party to the shooting. she pronounced herself cured. Thus it Is with every MONDAY, NOVEMBER 0—MISS NEILSON. person who uses the remedy, If they take It faithfully Geo. Huntley & Co., its and follow the directions closely, a cure is the result In every case. novs-tfs 818 FOURTEENTH STREET. To BE a soft-money roan a Democrat must be HE GRANDEST EXHIBITION IN THE born again. We fear, however, he would " die GOOD CASSIMERE BUSINESS SUITS, about 920; Indigo WORLD I abornin'." • Dyed Blue Beaver Suits for «25; fine English, French T and Domestic Worsted Coats and Vests; IlandBome FURS. THE GREAT MILTONIAN TABLEAUX» Pantaloons; fine Black Coats, Pantaloons and Vests. FURS. FURS. THE GREAT MILTONIAN TABLEAUX I Prices low. One price only. Just opened for tills Fall and Winter wear a large, THE GREAT MILTONIAN TABLEAUX 1 "MY FATHER was a farmer before me, and I thank GEO. C. HENNING, varied and complete assortment of. TIIE GREAT MORAL WONDER OF THE NINE- God that I am a farmer born." Such was the soap 4to Seventh Street. TEENTH CENTURY! Porter expected to soothe the grangers with on IF YOU want a fine suit of clothing, equal to custom EADIES',|MISSES' una, CHILDREN'S INDORSED BY THE PRESS AND THE CLERGY. Fourth of July last. It-reminded Colonel George made, very cheap, be sure to examine the stock of Ro- FURS. man & Cox, 507 Seventh street, before purchasing. EXHIBITED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WASHING- AND NINTH STREETS. Stanley of the Illinois orator who addressed a rural All the new designs Introduced by the New York TON CITY! audience: "Gentlemen," said he, "I am proud to DIED. ODD FELLOWS' HALL, CHARLES T. GANTER, be one of you. My father was a farmer, and I am a COGAN—At his residence. Twentieth and H streets Modistes will be found at our House. SEVENTH STREET, northwest, on the 30tli of October, 1874, at 4:30 o'clock, ifarmer born. Yes, I may truly say, I was born be- Thomas Cogan, aged 49 years. SEAL SACQUES AND SETTS, One week only, commencing MONDAY, November 2. tween two rows of corn." At this juncture a tipsy The funeral will take place from St. Stephen's church Every night and Wednesday and Saturday Matinee«. IMPORTER OF at 9 o'clock a. m., on Monday, November 3. The friends LYNX MUFFS AND BOAS, Tickets, 50 and 75 cents; Children, 25 cents: Matinee agriculturist at the further end of the house hic- of the family are respectfully invited to attend. » Tickets, 25 cents; Children, 15 cents. May be had at Ellis' Music Store and at Brad. Adams' News Depot, coughed nut: "A (hie) pumpkin, by—!"—Eldorado McGHAN.—On Friday, October 30, Francis McGhan, BLACK AND SILVER FOX, corner of Ninth and F streets. Ledger. in the 45th year of his age. And the desirable MINK MUFFS, BOAS and COLLARS JOEL G. FLOYD, Funeral from Ills late residence, 1463 T street north- !ti Sole Proprietor aud Director. Capital Sample Room, No. 927 D Street, west, on Sunday (to-day) at 2 o'clock. *j | will be the leading furs for this winter. A NASHVILLE preacher's little boy was reading a between Ninth and Tenth Streets, Willett &, Ruoii; (Under Capital Offlee,) religious work the other day, and coming across the BELIGIOUS NÖTIGES. 'THEATER COMIQUE. word " matrimony," was somewhat puzzled as toits »8 905 PA. AVENUE. WASHINGTON, D. C. meaning. Turning to his brother, who stood near «^»SPIRITUALISM.—Miss 8usle Johnson of Mich- MONDAY,NOVEMBER 2, EVERY NIGHT AND WED- The wines are directly Imported by me In person. by, he asked what it meant. " What do you think igan will lecture at Lyceum Hall, No. loos E street NESDAY AND SATURDAY" MATINEES. Families can be assured to obtain the pure and un northwest, every Sunday during the month of Novem- 500 BARRELS adultered article as needed in case of sickness, it means?" was the reply. "Well, I don't know; ber, 1874. at 11 o'clock a. m. and 7:30 p. m. First appearance of the celebrated Blind Musician, febls-ly but if it don't mean h—I, I don't know what it does Admission In the morning free. In the evening, ten cents, at the door. novl-5 SIGNOR BARTOLI, mean," responded the sprightly urchin. NEW MACKEREL; who will execute upon the piano the " Great Battle of C. C. WILLARD, Manassas." SPECIAL NÖTIGES. First appearance In Washington of the Queen of MESS NOS. 1, 2 AND 3. berlo-Comic Vocalists, LOCAL ITEMS. ILBURN'S MISS VIRGINIA STICKNEY. JK •» •» PICKLED SALMON, The only chance of seeing the celebrated Dutch SEE City Items for cure for rheumatism. MINERAL WATERS Comedian. George 8. Knight, In the great American Drama, "Rip Van Winkle." Last week of the great KNIGHT, general job printer, 428 Seventh street. AND Italian Ilarp Player, Charles Diamond. All the old ORIGINAL POLAR SODA. POTOMAC BOE HERRING, Ac., favorites In a grand oilo entertainment. its STEAMED oysters at C. Mades', corner 3d and Pa. ave. WASHINGTON, D C. 1429 Pennsylvania Avenue, near Willard's and ETROPOLITAN THEATER. RYEIISON & YCJENGLING'S champagne ale at C. For sale by MISCELLANEOUS. Treasury. apl-tf M Mades', corner Third and Pennsylvania avenue. JAMBS PoitTEn Manager. WE call attention with pleasure to Professor Etienne JJGGA,SPECIAL TAXES. HALL & HUME, First appearance of OPENING OF FURS.* [Lambert's advertisement. MISS KITTY SMITH, Vocalist and Danseuse. NOTICE.—Owing to the tremendous excitement HAVE your wedding and reception printing done by ovl-lm8 807 MARKET SPACE. created, and the positive demand of our patrons, will The attention of the public Is invited to our opening be repeated this week, with entirely new and thrilling of FURS on MONDAY, November 2. The stock em- Knight, 428 Seventh street. W. H. SLATER, features, the braces elegant sets In GREAT BOSTON JUBILEE, DOOLEY'S yeast powder cannot be excelled for mak- NOURSE & MIDDLETON, Blue, Black and Sliver Fox, Sea Otter, ing" light, sweet rolls, biscuits, waffles, corn bread, &c. Introducing the Great Cannon Sensation, and the real No. 1125 Pennsylvania Avenue, event of tne age, being a true representation of the Chinchilla, Seal, Mink ana Sables, It is always ready and reliable. terpslchorean frivolities of the French Capital, entitled A large assortment of SEAL SACQUES. THOSE about laying in their winter's fuel will findal l PARIS BEFORE THE WAR, The stock of Misses' and Children's Furs is unsur- kinds of coal, fresh from the mines, at Clarke & Given's, BROKERS, Introducing the original Jullen Monster Concert, the passed, Including entirely new designs, both in style» and furs, some never before offered In this market. A 475 Tenth street Kellar Tableau Troupe, and the world-renowned Gives special attention to the payment of improve- PARISIAN CAN-CAN I great variety of Produced under the direction .of H. W. EAGAN, YATES & MITCHELL^ 817 Market Space, are selling ment taxes at a liberal discount. oc25-tf2 SEAL CAPS best prints at fifteen cents and making special induce- 613 FIFTEENTH STREET. performed at ments to cash purchasers. LE JARDIN M.VBILE, PARIS. for Ladles and Misses, Men and Boys, from $2.50 up. 25 Star Artists Introduced In the piece. OLD STAG WHISKY. JAMES Y. DAVIS' SONS« EVERY reader of THE CAPITAL will receive free a Loans made on all classes of 021 Pennsylvania avenue, -copy of the best agricultural and family newspaper in lt-3 under Metropolitan Hotel. this country by addressing Moore's Rural New Yorker, This whisky is that popular In the District that there MARINI & BATES' '78 Duane street, New York. Is no need to enumerate its merits. Its purity, smooth- ness and exquisite bouquet, as rich and fragrant as that Something New! " THE TEMPTATION OF CHRIST " is the title of a fine of old brandy, recommend it for use, social or medical. DISTRICT SECURITIES supplementary engraving to be given away with the We are the sole proprietors, our right and title to the Fashionable Dancing Academy, Daily Graphic this (Sunday) morning by Brad. Adams, AND We offer to the public the best and only perfect •corner of Ninth and P streets. exclusive use of the brand being on record at the United States Patent Office. E, BETWEEN NINTH AND TENTH STS., CINCINNATI beer at C. Mades', corner 3d and Pa. ave. The trade supplied on liberal terms. REAL ESTATE. Base-Burning and Illumi> Is now open for the reception of pupils on Tuesday, nating 8tovo ELEGANT printing for balls, parties, &c., at Knight's, Thursday and Saturday. REAL ESTATE BOUGHT AND SOLD. 428 Seventh street. Work done reasonably and promptly. HALL & HUME, Of this age, suitable for all kinds of buildings. This Hall, having been thoroughly renovated and The most complete oven stove ever offered Is the DAN O'BRIEN, opposite the Baltimore Depot, is fast newly upholstered, can be rented for balls, parties, so- Wholesale and Retail Grocer?, DISTRICT SECUBITIES BOUGHT AND becoming famous for the tempting styles in which he ciables, Jkc. oc4-lmo Revolving Light Heating Stove. -serves up oysters, and passes around the bottle filled nol-lmS 807 Market Space. with the best that can be found In this city. SOLD. MARIN 15S HALL. For sale by THE Monogram oyster saloon, corner Thirteenth and W. D. WYVIIL, E streets, is daily receiving the finest oysters, clams and CLARKE & GIVEN, -crabs that come to our market, and the manner In NOURSE & MIDDLETON, 452 Pennsylvania avenue, which they are gotten up cannot be surpassed. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS I.V MAESTRO ETTOBE BARILI begs to announce to the novl-tft Washington, D. C. public that be will be ready to commence teaching sing- THE cold, blustering weather of yesterday admonishes ing on November 2. All former pupils of his brother, >ROF. ETIENNE LAMBERT •one that furs arc in season, and makes the advertise- BROKERS, "W" « » mm « • C . Antonio Barili, desirous of receiving vocal instructions, ment of James Y. Davis' Sons appear very inviting. can secure their former hours by applying at Metzerott WILL GIVE Their line «f furs are unsurpassed, and will compare 613 Fifteen! li street. & Co.'s music store. ocll-lm5 favorably with the stock of any house south of New York. OFFICE AND YARD—475 Tenth street west, between D TWO FREE LECTURES and E streets north. Branch Yard—Corner Twelfth TO ABRI VE, FOR SALE CHEAP. PERSONS interested in District securities and real es- and C streets N. W. tate should read the advertisement of Nourse k. Middle- WHARF AND DEPOT—Foot of Thirteen-and-a-half At Harini'» Hall, street and Maryland avenue, adjoining Lone Bridge. A LAUGE ASSORTMENT 07 ton, brokers, 613 Fifteenth street. These gentlemen are Fonr first-class MULES and three good buggy prepared to negotiate and deal in all kinds of District 014 E Street, bet. Ninth and Tenth, .securities and real estate. HORSES will be sold cheap for cash or will be ex- WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, AT 1120 A. M, ALSO PERSONS about buying a stove or heating apparatus BEST QUALITY, FAIR PRICES AlfD FAIR DEALING. FINE ENGLISH PICKLES, novl-Smod SAME DAY AT 0:90 P. M. will find everything in that line that could be desired at changed for other property. Apply to W. D. Wyvlirs, 452 Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. W. offers Malaga Grapes, CHOW-CHOW, Subject : Idiomatic Fluency in French, by Cultivation the best and only perfect base-burning and illuminating GHERKINS, of the Ear. Elucidated with examples of the Oral Sys- stoves now before the public. H avana Oranges, MIXED PICKLES, ROBERT FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE, tem. No grammar. ONIONS, Lecture In English, and Free. Ladles especially LADIES will find it greatly to their interest to call at Fresh. Nuts, Baisins,&c. Invited. novl-lmos J. C. Wiswall & Co.'s, 310 Seventh street, and examine In glass and in 12 and I-gallon kegs. 311 Ninth street, their large and elegant assortment of ladies' cloaks, OR SALE— •comprising all the latest styles, which will be opened HALL & HUME, between Pennsylvania avenu: and D street. to-morrow. Fine wool blankets reduced from $7 to $5 F 807 MARKET SPACE. HALL & HUME, One of the most eligible Lots in the city, Improved by .per pair. See advertisement. comfortable frame dwelling. Inquire on the premises,. novl-lmo2 807 Market Space. 711 East Capitol street. lt-*2 6 THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBEK 1, 1674.

THE COSSACK'S WAB-SONG. take tbe book up to the priest, who, perhaps, had of the French Revolution, Mr. Morris became ac- GAS PIXTUEES, ETO. never seen one of those sona'of Ham in his life. The quainted with the Orleans princes ; one of whom, BROKERS, ETO. TRANSLATED PBOM BBÏLAÎIROÎEN, ' " negro at once obeyed, and as he mounted the lowest Lonis Philippe, afterward became King. Political of the pulpit steps, the clergyman repeated his wish 1 events had left these young men very nearly des- JAS. F. RUSSELL & CO., Come my gallant charger, the Cossack « trusty friend, that tbo devil might come and take him if what he Bouse thee at the sound of the Northern trumpet's blast; titute ; they and all of their house were exiles from had said against the old Catholics was not true. Al- Partner in my forays, thy reckless speed shall lend France, and there was no present prospect that they CHANDELIERS, REAL ESTATE AUCTIONEERS Wings to death and rapine—our foes shall stand aghast.1 though the negro went softly, the preacher heard his would be permitted to set foot on her shores, without footsteps, and turning around saw a black object regard to the question of reigning. They were, in Thy bridle bit and saddle are not enrich'd "with gold, AND BROKERS. solemnly, steadily and surely approaching him. He faet, almost penniless. And as Louis Napoleon after- But thou slialt have thy portion of all we win and hold. looked at him with terror, and believing that he Neigh proudly my true charger, until the welkin rings, ward did—as many other European princes under a would be the next instant collared by his Satanic Loans negotiated, Stocks, Bonds and Deed of Trost And trample under foot both the peoples arid the kings- temporary cloud have done—they much desired to Majesty, he cried out, with trembling voice, "It Is, visit the Unites States. The hard necessities of Notes sold at auction. Peace lias' fled afar—naught restrains our roving bands; after all, possible that there may be good people poverty,however, prevented them; their revenues Europe still decays, her lost ramparts shield no more. among the old Catholics." Turning then round to were very limited, and they could not afford the ex- Money carefully Invested on Real Estate and otlier Help me—her rich plunder shall fill my greedy hands, see if the object had disappeared he saw it still And thy stable reek, "where art's treasures were of yore. pense of a transatlantic voyage. Of „course, Mr. securities. steadily approaching. The perspiration burst outon Morris, being often in their, company, had learned Return—thou twiôe hast drïink of the waters of the his brow, and, full of despair, he called out, "There incidentally something of their circumstances, and Seine, are even many good people among the old Catho- also of their great desire to visit the United States. REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE, Thy bloody flanks twice batlicd there»—côm-é 'drink of lics!" Thinking that this would suffice, he turned He did thereupon just what a very few men of gen- . them again. round, but what was his horror to find that the ob- erous disposition and large means would have done : Xcigh proudly my true charger, until thé welkin rings, noTl-1 515 7th St, Washington, I>. C. ject was close at hand. Imagining himself in the he proffered the Orleans princes a loan of thirty And trample under foot both the peoples and the kings. READING LIGHTS, very grasp of Beelzebub, turning partly to the negro thousand francs. The sum would seem incredibly Princes, priests and lords fear the wrath that round, and partly to the congregation, he cried out, "May large for a loan at'this day under like Circulmstances ; WILLIAM TYLER, them raves, the devil come and take me if all the old Catholics but we must take into account the facts that Grouv- 1 Fear their wrong'd serf's vcugçaiiçc^ Implore our aid 'are not better than we arel" The terrified priest erneur Morris was himself very wealthy, and also and say, -iJtnt vu.-*» fainted from the [fright, and it was only after some that he had a sentimental regard for the Orleans REAL ESTATE AND MONEY BROKER, We will be your vassals If we may keep pur BJAVCS. 1 time that he recovered. princes and their fortunes. As may readily be im- AU arc in our power, and all shall be our prey.' agined, the loan thus tendered was gratefully ac- 715 FIFTEENTH STREET, DEVASTATION INDEED. My lance shall be their terror ; before Its fatal thrust, eepted, and the illustrious exilés were thus enabled When, a few weeks ago, the powerful English iron- (Formerly of the Office of C. N. 'S horn.) The sceptre and the cross shall be humbled In the dust. to pass several years in America. We will not now clad Devastation took part in a mock naval battle, Neigh proudly my true charger, until the welkin rings, review the story of their wanderings here—deeply RENTING HOUSES A SPECIALTY. all the men, from the captain to-the lowest grade, And trample under foot both thepeoples an\l the kings.' interesting as it is. They became at one time the were under orders to be on board at 9 a. m. At half- honored guests of Washington, at Mount "Vernon, Bee the giant spectre of Attila the Hun 1 past nine the drum beat to quarters, it being under- At present I am In great need of bouses to supply the • and afterward of their benefactor, after his return to On our blvouaos rude, his burning gaze Is bent, stood that in the pilot tower an enemy's ship had demand of tenants, and property-holders would find It Ills stern voice proclaims that his new reign Is begun, Morrisania. In the meantime the Wheel of political been sighted in the distance. The captain took his greatly to their advantage, as well as a quick disposal of And his red axe points us the way his Cossack's went. fortune was revolving in Europe; the year of 1814 post within the shell-proof tower, and gave his com- BRACKETS, their property, either by sale or occupied by a first-class brought the abdication of Napoleon at Fontainebleau; Dread Leader of our fathers, their sons thy voice obey ; mands through speaking tubes. The turrets were tenant. All property-holders who will trust the same the year 1815 brought Waterloo and the permanent "We gather at thy signal, to ravage and to slay. manned by their full complement of men, twenty- with me will find it to their advantage. (as such' things go in France) restoration of the Our chargers shall neigh proudly, until the welkin rings, ^four to each gun, eleven taking inside and thirteen Houses for Rent, furnished or unfurnished. Some Bourbons. The'confiscated estates of the Orleans of the most desirable Residences and Building Lots for And trample under foot both thepooples amlthe.kiugs. outside positions in working each. From the turrets princes were restored; their incomes, large and sale In the city, upon the easiest terms. One half square down to the magazines overy trap-hole was manned. All the old renown in which Europe puts tieV'triist, princely, were again certain; and though it was of very valuable ground for sale in the northwestern On the word being given to load guns, the 700-pound All lier boasted science, avail not in lier needs. fifteen years after Waterloo before Louis Philippe part of Washington upon very easy terms. Improve- They shall all be swallowed in rolling waves of dust, shells were within a minute brought out, hoisted on became King of the French and the target of innumer- ments finished. Raised around our ranks l>y the trampling of our steeds. the pulley-carriage, run down to the gun's mouth able bullets, yet immediately after Waterloo the in- Houses wanted for tenants. and the gun loaded and run out. The distance from "We'll raze all the land-marks, every vestige of past dependence of the Orleans princes was assured, and All business intrusted to me will receive prompt at- the enemy being given, the gun was raised to the times, they could well afford to think of doing simple tention. sepM-tf proper level and discharged within the second Traditions, legends, laws, castles, churches and their justice. So presently after the accession of Louis minute. The enemy being supposed to have es- JOHN B. WHEELER, Broker, chimes. XVI., following Waterloo, an American brought caped, bore down on the Devastation, the boats put AND Our chargers shall neigh proudly, until the welkin rings, from Paris to Mr. Morris the draft of the Chevalier And trample under foot both the peoples and the kings. off to board her, the bugle sounded to arms to repel d'Orleans on a London banker for thirty thousand Office 711 G Street Northne^, the boarders, when two thirds of the men of the francs, the exact sum advanced, with nothing by crew—comprising one hundred men each division,— FOREIGN RELATIONS. way of interest. Morris read it and quietly handed Opposite U. S. Patent Office, flew to arms, and with swords and guns ran up to it back to the bearer. the boarding-deck, the third division remaining be- A FRENCH PLAYWRIGHT. low to protect the magazines and as a reserve. The REAL ESTATE SOLD AND RENTED,. Yictorien Sardou, a French dramatist somewhat "Don't you mean to take it?" the latter asked in boats being repulsed, it was supposed that the notorious in the United Stales as the author of a great surprise. He could not comprehend such a enemy had returned to their guns, and that a shell comically " Frenohy " comedy called " Uncle Sam,", thing as that a man should refuse a draft for six And Iioans Promptly Negotiated. having burst had set Are to the Devastation. is not flatteringly described in a recent Parisian let- thousand dollars. On this three bells were rung and the men were ter : Imagine Edwin Booth screwed down ¡and spread "I slïall not take it," was the reply. "I lent this I OAK GET ordered to the hose. Four hose were set in operation •out until he was^a head shorter and proportionately money to these gentlemen soma years ago; and on the sounding of the bugle, and the forepart of the #5.000 AT ONCE broader; take the dreamy, intellectual beauty from when I lent it I did not expect to see a penny of it ship was deluged with water at the rate of about his face and replace it by a keen and cynical sharp- again. Yes, sir, I tell you truly, that if I had never three tons per minute. The imaginary fire being got ness, and you will have.the likeness of the man who heard a syllable from them I should not even have ON IMPROVED PROPERTY AVELL LOCATED.- finder, the bugle sounded to return to posts, the SLATE MANTELS. oell-lyi has written some of the best and also some of the inquired after them, or written about them, but enemy's ship still approaching. The order was next poorest plays of the French stage of the present day. should have put up with the loss of the money with- WM. DICKSON. J. B. PATTEKSON- given to "ram" her. All the men returned to the Madame Sàrdóu is, however, a- beauty. She is out a murmur. But now how is it? It appears I breastwork deck, and lying down, with their heads nearly a head tailed than her husband, and is a soft- that these gentlemen are wealthy again; that they j DICKSON & PATTERSON, forward, prepared for the shock. The imaginary eyed, queenly lookiiig:: brunette^ with a charming have recovered their titles and their property,nnd I enemy being pierced, the drum again beat to quar- STOCK BROKERS, countenance and riiosfc! graceful carriage. She was can well afford to do what is right, even to the utter- ters, guns were reloaded, and after backing out from the daughter of M. Soulie, the librarian at Versailles. most farthing. How, then, does it happen that they Real Estate and General Insurance Agents. the supposed disabled ship a broadside of four guns Sardou makes ifro'in his plays about $200,000 per an- offer to repay me the exact sum that I loaned them 14 was poured her. This act was supposed to have num, his author!« right" being very extensive. without interest? No.no; this will not do. Put- destroyed the enemy, and the bugle founded to se- Offices, 605 Fifteenth street, opposite U. S. Treasury FAILING FEROCITY. ting all questions of gratitude and sentiment out of cure the guns. On the captain receiving reports that consideration, no common debtor who had borrowed 208 Four-and-a-half street, near office Board of Pub- According to an. English paper published in Africa, lic "Works, Washington, D. C. everything was secured, the' bugle sounded dis- this money would think of asking an acquittance when a young lion reaches the age of two years he missal. is able to down a horse or an ox ; and so he continues without payment of interest. Neither shall the Orleans piinces.sucessfully ask it. Take back the JUST RECEIVED, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF to grow and increase in strength tm.he reaches his Stocks and Real Estate Bought and Sold. Money In- HOMES IN" ICELAND. darft and tell them that I will have the thirty thou- eighth year, when his ¡talonéjj.eeth and mane are Mr. Murat Halstead, an'editor of some note in the vested. sand francs and interest, or nothing." perfect, an(l he grows no niòiei L ;Jfor twenty years "Western States, was one of the American party at- Fire and Life Insurance Risks placed with the best after he artlVes at rfiaiurityfiis 'tàlòns and fangs tending the millennial celebration in Iceland, and The draft was returned, and in due time another Companies on advantageous terms. show no signs of decay; but after-that he .grows writes tp his paper, the Cincinnati Commercial, con. was forwarded, covering the whole amount, includ- Orders at the Washingtoif Stock Exchange executed with promptness and fidelity. myl7-tf "chubbish." He is no longer a match for the tfe- ceuning that remote land of snows. Respecting Ice- ing interest. The story simply illustrates a phase of mendous buffalo ; he proves aróùnd thè cattle kraals, landic homes he says: " The exterior of many of the royalty which is by no means engaging. Was it JOIIN SHERMAN, JR. II. D. COOKE, JB.. and snatches a lamb or a kid just às tiè'di d wli'en he houses is very pleasant. The fronts are clean. There forgotfulness or was it real meanness that prompted set out with his parents nearly thirty years before. are lace curtains and flowers at the windows, and Louis Philippe (as he was afterward known) to send A woman or a child at night shares the same fate. the display in the shops is remarkable for variety his great benefactor the bare repayment of the great" gli ERMA IV & CO., BACKERS., His strength and sight now decline more and more, and tasteful in arrangement. Within, the evidences sum borrowed without interest or word of thanks or till the mighty lióA grows "TearF and mangy, and of comfort, intelligence and refinement are still more acknowledgment? Whichever it was, the example crawls about from place to place, eating anyvoffal he decided. We have found invariably shelves crowded is one that our American youth will not emulate. can pick up, and despising not even so small an ani- with books, walls neatly papered and hung with en- 1429 F STREET. mal as the'field mouse ; and lie starvès and dies, or gravings or photographs and family portraits, while POE SALE 0E BENT. NEW PATTERNS FROM NEW YORK AND is fallen on and slaughtered by a lew cowardly newspapers and magazines abound. There are easy United States Bonds, Stocks, Gold, Municipal and. hyenas, or is discovered, unable to move, beneath a chairs and sofas, writing-tables, lamps of the most ?OR RENT.—Several desirable LAW OFFICES in tree and knocked on the head : by. some?, ¡wanderin g modern 6tyle, tall stoves (evidently an important ar- 1 the Webster Law Building, (recently rebuilt,) on I) District of Columbia Securities bought and sold. Kaffir. ticle of furniture,) and pervading order and cleanli- street, near the City Hall. Tlie building is heated with steam. Also, Basement and suites of Rooms in 3d and 11 TI1B INFANT ROSCIUS." JM' ness. It is possible that our experience may be ex- 4th stories. Apply at ©nee to H. Gr. FANT, 1537 I street, Exchange on England and the continent—our drafts Respecting Mr. Betty, Jiately .dying in London at a ceptional, for it must be admitted that we made our or at the building. oc25-3tl . cashed free of.charge. very advanced age, who; in his boyhood, was the fa- first calls upon the governor, sheriff, chief justice, mous Master Betiy—the "infant Rosei us of the Eng- doctor, German and French consuls and others of JPOR SALE. lish stage—the following passage occurs in Leigh the most prominent people of the town, to whom we Collections made on all points. sep20-3mo 44 TWO M IKES, Hunt's " Autobiography :" His position,, which ap- had been commended by letters of introduction. The PHILADELPHIA. CHARLES H. MOULTON, peared so brilHant at first,had à remarkable cruelty in people seem to be full of intelligence, and, so far, do. Fourteen and a half hands, five years old; never been it. Most men begin life with struggles, and have their not seem to be conspicuously lacking in energy. All vanity sufficiently knocked about the head and the world knows the reputation of Icelanders as an trained, can trot together one mile in three minutes. R«al Estate and Insurance Agent, No. G28 shoulders to make their .kinder fortunes the more educated people, but the impression abroad is that For further particularsinquire through box 13, West welcome. Mr. Betty hard—his - sugar .flrsT affd'"his they are wanting in vigor; and that would appear to Liberty, Logan Co., Ohio. ocl8-lmel physic afterwards. He . bigini • liléJwith a double be an injustice. Many of the men are of good stature, F street northwest. childhood, with a new and extraordinaryfelicity and many ef the women are fair to look upon. The "pOR SALE. ttdded to the natural enjoyments ;of his agè; and ho > cheeks of the girls are red as red apples, or the oak f The FINEST LOT in the city of Washington, being leaf when the frost has crimsoned it—full of a rich lived to see' It speedily come to nothing, and to be corner of Thirteenth and K streets northwest, fronting LOANS MONEY ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.. taken for a very ordinary person. I am told that he glow of health—while their forms are good and their on Franklin Square. Dimensions, 26 feet 2 inches by ALSO, HANDSOME 140, to alley, containing over 3,650 square feet of ground, acquiesces in his fate, and agrees that the-t'own were movements full of grace. Perhaps their cheeks are with about 6,000 square feet additional in parking, Im- ALSO, ADVANCES MONEY UPON DISTRICT mistaken. If so, he is no ordinary person still, and too red, and that few of them are tall or slender, and proved by beautiful shade trees ; iron fence around it, and street paved and paid for. has as much right tp our respect for his good sense that evidences of hardship and penury are not un- For price apply to . as he is declared oh all lidnds tò Reserve it f^r his frequent, but very often observed; yet these are not IIUYCK & ADDISON, SECURITIES AT MODERATE RATES. 1401 New York avenue, corner Fourteenth street north- amiableness. I have àrfecuote or nim to both the abject persons of whom the books about Iceland west. ocll-tf5 > purposes, which exhibit him in a very agreeable are suggestive. Of course, a few days ashore may sep20-tf ; light. Hazlitt happened to be, at a party Wherp Mr. serve to correct the impressions of first observa- pOR SALE OR RENT. "W". "W. COX. JOHN F. COX. Betty was present ; and in coming away, when'they tions."—Hearth and Home, •were putting on their great-coats, the critic thought The very desirable residence and grounds adjoining ^V^. AV. COX & SON, fit to compliment the dethroned favorite of the town, the reservoir on Georgetown Heights, formerly occu- by telling him that he recollected.. Jiim in old, times, LOUIS PHILIPPE AND OdUVEKNElIt pied by President Grant and now by J. Harris Gastrell, Real Estate and Stock Brokers, Office No. 1513 Penn- and had been, 'much pleased with him.' Betty MORRIS. of the British Legation. CRTS TAL CHANDELIERS, sylvania avenue northwest. looked at his memorialist.as much as to say, 'You The house is large, furnished with all tlie modern Houses for sale or rent. don't tell me so !' and. then starting into a tragical BY JAMBS FKANKLIN FITTS. improvements, and is suitable for entertaining; the Special attention given to all classes of claims against: grounds are handsomely ornamented with fine shrub- attitude, exclaimed, ' Oh, memory ! memory P"' the District. sep20-3mo To the present generation the name of G-ouver- bery and evergreens; the situation is unsurpassed by Ù^E INf A" LiGIlTtlOU^B. . neur Morris is hardly known. We have a faint, any in the District, having splendid view of the whole city, river and surrounding country. The grounds are WILLIAM m. RITCHIE, The Scilly Islands are situated neap the southwest shadowy recollection of his name occurring some- very large, containing nearly ninety thousand square coast of England, far out in the Atlantic ocean. where in our general reading concerning the Rev- feet. The property will be sold on easy terms or rented REAL ESTATE AGENT AND BROKER.- These islands consist of a group of rocks-a-nd reefs, olutionary period, but not many of us could tell, off. to a first-class tenant. interspersed with habitable islets. On one of the hand, and without consulting the encyclopaedia, who Possession given May 1. Apply to rdeks that stretches farthest tint into ttìe ocean: the Grouverneur Morris was, or what he did to render AND T. L. HUME, Bishop's Rock lighthouse is, located., :It is a lonely himself famous. Let us therefore preface our anec- dwelling place at any time, but its unfortunate in- dote with the reminder that he was a statesman of mar 22 Of Hall & Hume, grocers, 807 Pa. av. Money to loan on first-class real estate and collateral * mates had a fearful experience to untì^rgb dùrltìgthe culture and influence during the time of the Rev- security. morning of the 14th of April, On which à gale of great olution, and for a quarter of a century afterward; that JjX)R SALE. Business with Stock Exchange promptly attended to^~ violence occurred. the massive stone building he was the trusted friend of Washington, who found WM. M. RITCHIE, was struck by the enormous waves in quick succes- his services of great value during the war, on semi- sion, ii swayed to and fro so violently that eVéry ar- military boards, and as a discreet adviser; that his Mr. J. W. HESTER lias great bargains in HOUSES, aug 16-Smo 1419 F street northwest. • tide within fell from it^ place,; : One wave reached was the pen thai drafted the Constitution of the LOTS and SQUARES OF GROUND in the best situa- tions on .CAPITOL HILL., The Present is. the. auspi- OTOCK PKIVILEGES. the lantern with such force as to break the great United States, and that after the war he was our cious time tai. purchase, either for speculation-or for pri- lens in several places, and another caused additional minister to France. He watched the fiery upheavals vate use, and this is pertinently applicable to REAL trouble to the apparatus. The keepers stàt'é that of the French Revolution as an interested spectator, ESTATE on CAPITOL HILL, where exists the widest CLOCKS. Puts, Calls, Straddles, Spreads, 60ld on New York. although the water is one hundred and eighty feet and before his return to his own country his efforts margin for prospective appreciation in values. He in- Stock Market, at New York rates, in amounts from ten deep by the rock, sand from' tfiè bóttóm of thè séa, were unremitting to effect the release of his friend vites interested parties to'call ami see him, as he has for shares to five thousand shares. was found heaped upon the lighthouse gallery. It Lafayette from Olmdtz, which event occurred before sale a large body of splendid property all over the B. B. WILLIAMS, would be difficult to imagine a more frightful posi- his return to America. For a part of a term, ending EASTERN SECTION of tl^ city, a section destined to tion than lhat of these lonely lig^tjioute keepers*in in 1803, he was United States Senator from New be $e£rfeSs,[noi only In a sanitary point of view, but in oc4-6m Office 519 Fourteenth street« that swaying toWèr. Eiurroundetn)/ thte roaring ocean York. Other .important public .services, followed, general and specific hfrajiiv».. 4 and with hardly a hope of escape from a fearful which it iS" unnecessary here to'specify." Suffice it to • J. W. HESTER,* "RE^li ' EST ATic! AG EN T, NO. R. H. MARSH, death. But the staunch lighthouse bore the buffet say that seldom has it fallen to the lot of one man to 110 FIRST STREET SOUTHEAST, CAPITOL HILL. ing of the waves, and the inmates escaped the • fill creditably so many spheres of honor and useful- my 24-6in . y COLLECTOR AND CLAIH AGENT, threatened danger.. t . ness, and still more rare is it to find such an union THEOLOGICAL MODIFICATION. of liberal education, versatile talents and patriotic JpOR REÎÎT. Will collect claims due from the late District Govern- - devotion enlisted in a. great cause. He died peace- ment, under the law of Congress, passed June 20,1874; . A South Get man paper rélà'tes the foìlòWfn^f^a a Pleasant Furnished Rooms, en suite orsingle. ' : make abstract to property in tbe District of Columbia, - Bavarian town of the most pronounced Catholic fully at Morrisania, in view of the Hudson that he ALEX. R. SHEPHERD & CO.,pa y taxes, buy and sell real estate, &c. orthodoxy, the priestpreaehed lately-against the old loved so well, in 1S16. mar22-tf 940 E street northwest. Office : 603 Fifteenth street northwest. Catholics; and related such' horrible-things about The incident that follows was related to me by a au2-3mo- them that his pious hearers were literally-horror- most Worthy and estimable gentleman, one so old stricken at old Catholic impietiesV"' At Httt the that he well remembers the visit of Mr. Morris to "THE LORGNETTE," R. H. RYAN & CO., preacher cried out, The old Catholics are éò'vile his vast landed estates in St. Lawrence and Jeffer- GENERAL BROKERS AND AUCTIONEERS, . that they will all be cast into the pit, and if what I. son counties, a few years before his death; and from The Best Daily Advertising Paper in tell yon is not true, may the devil take me now oh the lips of Morris himself my informant received No 523 Seventh street, (Opposite Postofiice Depart*- • the spot!"; His excitement was terrible, and he so the following curious facts, which strongly illustrate the City, 428 Seventh Street, struck the cushion that the book fell froin it. Not both the generosity and the high sense of justice of ment.) far from the pulpit there sat an American,' who had G-ouverneur Morris. W. D. KNIGHT, NO. 9MIPENNSYLVANIA^ AVENUE, Real Estate, Stocks, Bonds, Notes and other Securities - a negro servant with him, to whom he beekoned to During his sojourn in Europe, in the stormy years sep27-tf - l'ubi! ¿her an ti Proprietor, no«»-« Bought, Sold and Exchanged. aug 16-ly THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBER 1, 1874. 7

GAY BALTIMORE GOSSIP. SPECIAL BALTIMORE LETTER. GROCERIES, ETC. NEW PUBLICATIONS. BUSINESS CARDS. OCTOBER 28,1S7J. Last week's CAPITAL cont lining th" very exact The " lemon " colored days have come, but not the description of three distinguished members of the saddest of the year; for with a pure, crisp atmos- JUST PUBLISHED. Miss E. Marwedel's School Maryland Club, caused quite a stir among the so- phere, which exhilarates like sparkling champagne, • -I FOR called aristocratic gentlemen composing the club. and its many colored foliage, October has been the Surmises were freely indulged in as to the author of most delightful month in the calendar. Fashion re- We have received from New York a choice in- Practical and Physical Culture the letter. Some thought it was written by Mr. John quires its votaries to-pass the " heated term " by the voice of Tea, which we purchased direct from importers, at prices from ten to fifteen per cent, 1 Block, a gentleman well known for his literary sea-side or in the country, but so soon as the first less than they cost importers. All Importers of ' AND THE Teas have sustained heavy losses this season on A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles, and tastes; others were ,sure it came from the brilliant frost has scattered the rose petals and painted a account of the overstock of the Tea market and «EltMAX-A?IERICAX KINDERGARTEN, pen of Mr. C., but the 'great maj jrity fancied they forest leaf here and there they are expected to hurry stringency of money. Large importers are obliged to sell In order to realize cash for their other Poems. Will be reopened on the ¿1st September Instant, at the saw initthe clever witofMr.,G—. All agreed it was back to town. At the time when nature is about to stock, and it does not pay to carry over Teas for northwest corner of II and Eighteenth streets north- written by a member of the club, else how could the don her most beautiful garb they turn their backs the next season. We are enabled to offer our customers Teas at the following low prices. We west. Tfie'1 't •* peculiarities of individual members be so well upononr autumn beauty of forest and field which guarantee all Teas sold by us to give satisfaction; By Mrs. S. III. B. Piatt, author of "A Wo- known ? We leave these wiseacres to their guesses hundreds from other countries think worth a trip and, if not so, can he returned and have money refunded. KINDERGARTEN; TRACING CI^ASS -and surmises, promising that we will say nothing across the Atlantic to see. Many Americans shut man's Poems." 1 fimo. 91.50. • more about them. their eyes to landscape beauties around them to rave Will begin November: I,'at the same place; PERSONAL. about these of other countries, forgetting that 3 The pro^epfijs of tU%, school may be found at the " Flowers as sweet bloom at our feet, Mr. Henry Moore has sold his elegant residence on bookstores unii at-tlie school-room. sepl3-8t Madison street to the Hon. Jesse D. Bright for $26,000. If we'd but stoop to rise them." Mr. Bright will take up his permanent residence in And skies more blue and hearts mere true cannot be EXTRACTS FROM CRITICAL OPINIONS. T. BWD. CLARK. T. B. CROSS, Jit. Baltimore, where he and his family will be very found in any land. - agreeable additions to fashionable society. When the absentees gather home for winter quar- Choicest Imported, 85 cents per pound: Silver [Prom the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin ters our streets grow animated and bright with Leaf Oolong, 43 cents per pound; Gold Leaf "A former volume, called 'A Woman's Poems,' was Miss Josjie Sewell, the beautiful Pittsburg blonde, Oolong, 60 cents per pound. full of charming, tender, earnest thonglit, expressed In T; EWP. CLARK & CO., who created so great a sensation here last winter, is youth and beauty and new toggery. Our ladies, most polished verse. This new volume goes further, covered with jet from head to heel, glitter like mailed and reveals a distinct poetic individuality that Is fully again visiting Baltimore. If our gentlemen have a as much entitled to recognition as Is that of Jean Inge- . DEALERS IN -.spark of gallantry they will not allow this lovely knights and almost'totter under the weight they low, or Adelaide Proctor, or many other English . lady to leave the city " fancy free." carry, while the eocked liats in vogue are decked writers that are rend and quoted most lovingly in tills r country. For ourselves, we give the preference to our Lumber, Wood and Coal, Mr. Jack Mason is the prince of romancers, and with birds of every plumage and flowers of every native poetess, who Imitates no one, and yet touches hue. When will the long promised days of simplicity the heart of the reader with the most sympathetic Im- . should he devote himself exclusively to imaginary press." - composition, we think he would do as well, if not in dress come|? CFrom the Boston Advertisei\] . better, than at the law. As we neither make money nor laws in Baltimore "Mrs. Piatt's poems are positively original. * # * Doors, Sash, Blinds,".Mouldings, &c, Another Baltimore belle will take her flight to the time moves on with Blow, majestic stride in our town. Choicest imported, $1.25 per pound;. choice chop, Her strong Individuality makes every verse a curiosity, •$1 per pound ; good, 50 cents per pound. and the quality of her voice is wholly new. It is a pure . North next spring. Miss Fannie Jollifle will then We kept our centennial in a modest way, just to let soprano—no doubt of that—very high, but never shrill; Office, 62» Louisiana aienue, Wharf, Depot and Planing marry Mr. William Appleton of Boston. Why do a few people know that we were centennial—had ex- sweet, yet rather bitter-sweet; plaintive, yet full of vi- vacity. But how can one describe a voice ? * * * * the gentlemen of Baltimore allow so many Baltimore istence for one hundred years or more, and a "tea The ' Voyage to the Fortunate Isles,' which gives name Mill, foot of Fourth street east, Washington, D. C. -.-beauties to marry Northerners ? party " which was (as the Sun says) no Ku-klux to the volume, reminds one of Browning's' Sad Rhyme' only in Its moral. The music of It is as different from aepl3-3mo •- t • " Mr. Wuliis Blackiston is a member of the Allston affair. Then we admire our gallant Fifth regiment that manly, somber strain, as strangely and piercingly Association. This is certainly a great distinction, hugely sinoe the Army and Navy Journal has in. GUIPOWDSR, feminine as the tones of Camille Urso's violin. 1 If I were a Queen' Is very wayward and charming. We but Mr. Blackiston is not only a member of the asso- dorsed their steps and precision of evolution, but we cannot quote because one verse is not more charming Columbian Bank Note Company, -elation, but was elected one of its directors. fear the new shakos will prove too much for the Choicest Imported, $1.40 per pound; choice, $1 thau another. ' The Funeral of a Doll' and' The Clothes per pound; good, 80 cents per pound. of a Ghost' are as wlerd asPlctor Ignotus himself, but Mr. Milton Wheat has been seldom seen in society brain of some of the members, whose strength lies they are not In the least mad. * * # within the since the marriage of his friend, Miss Florence Craig. in their heels and not in their heads. limits of her unforced power she does not compose, she creates.' Mr. Wheat's musical talents are very much admired Jones' historic stream weeps over its rocky bed, [From Atlantic Monthly for July.] Mr. H. Rosier Dulaney has been elected a member while "plans" multiply and property owners fight " In roading Mrs. Piatt's little book or poems, one Has 80S Pennsylvania avenue. of the city council of Baltimore. If Mr. Dulaney against any ordinance for its improvement which none of the uncertainty that troubles one about George Eliot's painfully thought-out verse. The presence of proves himself as successful in his new position as does not benefit them at the expense of those who JAPAN, Innate poetic genius or the subtlest kind, finding Its nat- he was in the social circle, he will be a great acquisi live on high and dry ground. We suggest that the Choicest imported, $1 per pound. ural expression lu a pensive music, is felt at once. * * Here, in this volume, Is poetry as delicate and purely tion to the august body of city fathers. One thing city buy the flooded district at a fair valuation, and poetic as ever was given to the world. * . ,*. *: 1i For is~ certain, he will not build a brown-stone fronton bear the loss if another flood comes. The rents ac- others equally characteristic the reader must read The Palace-Burner,' 'At the Play,'' I Wish that I Could Go,' WASHINGTON, D. O. .his salary of five dollars a day. cruing wonld make the cost of that plan lees than ' If I Were a Qneen.' All are perfect of their kind, and THE FASHIONABLE SEASON. many proposed for Its Improvement. each will give the reader something to think over long after he could have forgotten whole volumes of ordina- The fashionable season was brilliantly opened this After the races comes a lull in excitement. Whether ENGLISH BREAKFAST, rily pleasing verse. There Is Indeed no poem here with- week by the wedding of Mr. Walter Dulaney and out its sharp suggestion, and we name a few because we the fill meeting at Pimlloo was a suooess financially Choicest Imported, 85 cents per pound. cannot name them all. 'The Black Princess,' 'A Doubt,' ¿Miss Simmons. The bride is the grand-daughter we do not know; but so far as bright skies, bright 'This World,' and that beautiful wise poem which gives one of our wealthiest merchants, and although pos- Its name to the book,we cannot leave unmentloned. * * foliage, beautiful women in lovely toilets and fine Because an author Is not always as Immortal as his We arc prepared, with every facility, for sessing great expectations, she is at present in the stables make a rate course brilliant and attractive It book, and because the fame that comes soonest Is sweet- • enjoyment of only a moderate income. est even when well earned, we wish that every reader of was a suecess. Of course many pockets wecb de- ours might pay tribute to this woman of genius by read- The many friends and admirers of Miss Nannie pleted; some bitten by Jack Frost, ruined through AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, ing her book." Thomas will be gratified to know that she will visit a Silent Friend, or made unhappy byShylock; but [Mrs. Mvulton in the New York Tribune.'] Baltimore in a few weeks. Her reported engagement others were made glad by Trouble and enriched The author has a touch all her own. Those readers to Mr. Kennedy Owen is contradicted, but the en- through Kadi. The order was perfest, and there 1418 Pennsylvania Avenue, who love Christina liossettl will also take Mrs. Piatt ENGRAVING AND PRINTING gagement of her father, Judge Thomas of the East- Into their hearts. With utter unllkeness of manner, I was less to offend .the eye or ear of refinement than recognize In these two many of the same qualities. Both ern Shore of Maryland, to Mrs. May is confirmed. one usually finds at a camp-meeting. eepG-omo OPPOSITE WILLARD'S HOTEL. love minor chords. Both are deeply religious. Both Suppers after the theater at the Mt. Vernon Hotel see, in what we call the facts of life, shadows whose sub- - Our quiet friends, the Quakers, have assembled stance Is immortal." are again becoming fashionable. The wonder for yearly meeting and to preach their doctrines of TO TRAVELERS. [J-Yom the Boston Globe.] how clerks with salaries of six and eight hundred peaee and gentleness. Maggie Van Cott is again per- " 3dCrs. Piatt melodiously sings the joys, griefs, asplra- -dollars can afford such expensive luxuries. tlous, delights, mortifications, disappointments and BANK NOM», BONDS AND COMMERCIAL WORK. forming at St. John's Methodist ehurch. Since so ALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD. hopes of a noble and ideal woman. She really has A well-known Baltimore journalist wooed and many pulpit orators have fallen from sublime eleva- B added to the literature of the experience of child, maid, won a charming young lady from the point. The tiens to the lower plains of the " earth earthy," we wife and mother. * * » We have read her volume OCTOBER 11, 1874. with delight, and have been especially taken by her -day was appointed, the ring ready and the clergy- are not attracted by oharlatans in trained silks or FROM WASHINGTON CITY. poems about children." OK- ŒVEBY KIND, Ac. man engaged, but the mother of the young lady did white chokers and broadcloth, preferring less ora- [Prom New York Evening Post.] not smile on the affair. The daughter was locked torical powers and more modest worth. 6:oo a. m., Baltimore and all Way Stations. " She has the gifts of spirituality, sympathy and Imag- 7:oo a. m. Baltimore, Annapolis, Cranberry and Way ination." • up in her room, but love laughs at locksmiths. The The lecture season opens with the promise of the Stations on main stem and Washington Branch. young lady escaped from the house, assisted by her best in the field for Baltimore, and Ford has ar- 7:30 a. m. Baltimore, and Belay. [From the Boston Gazette.] 7:30 a. m., Baltimore and Belay. " One of the best poems In tlia collection,1 If I Were a JOHN G. WKLL^TOOD, President. gallant lover. They hied to church, and in a few ranged for the stars in the theatrical line; so in spite 8:oo a. m., New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore Queen,' has acquired a wide popularity already, and GEO. T.'JONES, Vice President. minutes were married, and they took the 2:40 train of croakers, panics and dull times the winter prom- and Belay. alone has force, originality and refinement enough to JOHN W. WATERS/Secretary. 8:05 a. m. Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, make a reputation for a writer; but there are other •for New York. In the mean time the mother heard ises to be gay. From now until Lent, Hymen, Terp- Columbus, Sandusky, Berkeley and Bedford Springs, poems In this volume that am quite equal to tills one In J. M VAN BUÖKlttK, Treasurer. of her daughter's escape, and hastened lo the church sichore and Euterpe will be the rnling spirits of the Deer Park, Pittsburg, Rockville, Washington Grove, merit, while all are of an order of excellence, both In Germantown, Barnesville, Hagerstown, Frederick, thought and treatment, that Is far from usual. Grace, to prevent the marriage, but she found the birds sooial circle. Since we have had no great fires, great Staunton, White Sulphur Springs. Parlor Cars. Din- spiritand delicacy are the characteristics of Mrs. Piatt's iiad flown. She called upon the clergyman who had failures or great scandals to cloud the last days of ner at Cumberland. Supper at Grafton. poetry, which, also, Is not lacking in strength andlm- 8:30 a. m.. Baltimore and Way Stations. pulso." performed the marriage ceremony, and pulling out the year passing away, we watch its decline with 8M0 a. in., Point of Bocks and Way Stations. two pistols and a dagger, vowed vengeance against thankfulness for the misfortunes averted as well as lo:oo a. in., Baltimore and Kelav. [From the Congregationalist.] 12 m., Baltimore and Way Stations. "Tliey are simple In structure, thoughtful, musical, the man who had dared to marry her daughter gratitude for the blessings enjoyed and the lessons l:oo p. m., New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Ellicott with here and there a plaint, and now and then a-long- •without her consent. taught. We h ad hoped for another art exhibition City, Baltimore. Dinner at Ilelav. ing, expressive of emotions which will awaken re- 3:30 p. m., Baltimore, Laurel ana Belay. sponses in the common heart, and delivered with a Mr. Herbert Anderson thinks it is rather strange this winter for the sake of the poor and enjoymentof 3:45 p. m. Baltimore, Frederick and all IntermerKate touch that ls.hot-.li pvoolee and dolloate. To open this that he has never hfiHil i» Tmm — i- iiujju timi; our energetic philan- Www Bt.tl/v«^- volume once is to turn to it again and again." 4:15 p. m. Winchester, Hagerstown, Frederick, Point -lie patronizes an-expensive tailor, is a member of thropists will arrange for one ere the winter is over. of Rocks and Way Stations, (via Metropolitan Branch.) [From the Worcester (Mass.) Spy.] the Fifth regiment, dances the german, and is 4:15 p. m., Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. ," Mrs. Piatt, In tills, as In her first collection of poems, NINA. 5:30 p. m., Baltimore and Relay. pleases by the delicate, pure and melodious quality or * great favorite of the ladies. We agree with him that THERE are more ways than one for a discarded 7:00 p. m. Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati, her verse, her tender sentiment and dreamy fancy." inl he deserves mention in THE CAPITAL. Columbus, Sandusky, Deer Park, Berkeley Springs, lover to console himself. Out in Michigan, the other Rockville, Hagerstown. Pullman Cars. Breakfast at [From the Boston Transcript.] A MOST RESPECTABLE FAMILY. Grafton. day, for instance, a young man who had become 7:05 p. m., Baltimore. Supper at Belay. " Mrs. Piatt's poems are so full of home life, of child- The Scrubbs area respectable family; a very re hood and Its fancies, of a mother's thoughts and hopes, enamored of a rich widow's daughter was refused 7:15 p. m., Baltimore and Way Stations. saf^ spectable family; indeed a most respectable family 8:45 p. m. Pittsburg, Point of Rocks, Martlnsburg and that one Instinctively gives them a place In the heart." her hand, whereupon, not being willing to give up Cumberland. Pullman Cars. JjJVERY BRAZILIAN PEBBLE SOLD By I have made diligent search, but have failed to dis- [From the Cincinnati Enquirer.] without at least a relic of remembrance of the fair 0:30 p. m., Baltimore and Way stations. cover the origin of the Baltimore Scrubbs. They SUNDAY TRAINS: "There Is an originality about her poems, even upon - MC- ac, one, he visited the clothes-line and purloined a the ordinary subjects of cvery-day life, that Is charming «claim to be related to the Virginia Scrubbs. If this Baltimore and Way Stations, 8:00 a. m.: 1:30,4M5 and In these days of Imitation. She has more Imagination . . THE OPTICIAN, chemise and some miscellaneous articles of apparel 7:15 p.m. and strength than any other American poetess, and we 453 Pennsylvania avenue, near Four-and-a- is so they are connected with some of the most die Baltimore and Relay, 7:20 and 7:30 a. in., and 7:96 p. m. do not know that we have a right to expect greater belonging to her, which he stuffed and hung up in WEST. . half street, tinguished families of America, for the Scrubbs of things from her than are contained In this volume, but Is scientifically tested by his Improved method, to de- his bedroom, making a full efflgial representation of 8:05 a. m„ 7:00 p. m., stopping as during the week, we shall hope for them." Virginia are descended from Pocahontas, which is rB Train 8:45 p m- termine the accuracy of Its visual axis, and Is warranted his adored by adding a stuffed head and feet. It was week " ' ' ' stopping as during the to be perfect.; s in itself a title of nobility. found by officers who were searching for the lost ap- All trains stop at Viaduct Hotel, Relay House Station. New Edition of A Woman's l'oems. 81.50. A ED Of the Baltimore Scrubbs more is known of what For further Information apply at the Baltlm.re and r,i iaMif Ifi'EBIGHT I8 BENEFITED BY THESE parel, who heartlessly disemboweled it and carried [From The Independent.] GLASSES. . .febl6-ly 4hey are than of what they were. Old Mr. Simon Ohio ticket offices, Washington Station, and 485 Pennsyl- home the stolen garments. vania avenue, where orders will be taken for baggage to "In quantity It Is not a great book; but In quality. In Scrubb is one of our merchant princes; his name is be checked and received at any point In the city. delicacy, originality, artistic feeling and power, no American poetess has given us a greater one -and here jgreat on 'change, hie nod shakes the market, his THOS. B. SHARP, wesay less than might be said of it, £ F. ELLIS & CO., T w „ „ , „ Master of Transportation. - , There Is no page of 80LB AGENTS FOR TUB paper is gilt-edged, he fairly rolls in wealth. His MISCELLANEOUS. L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. Its scant hundred and thirty which does not bear wit- GEO. 8. KOONTZ, General Agent. feb 1-tf ness to her genius; and the expression la always as new rubicund face very forcibly suggests old port. Thirty as the thought Is fine and sweet." CELEBRATED CHICKERING years ago Simon Scrubb drove a dray on Pratt street, BLANKETS ! BLANKETS ! T> ALTIMORE AND POTOMAC R. R. For sale by Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on receipt of AND when his cadaverous face suggested anything but price by the publishers, DEPOT, COP.NKH SIXTH AND B STREETS N. W. FAMOUS WEBER PIANOS, generous wines. Indeed, he found it hard to live at JAMES R. OSGOOD & Co., BOSTON. all, much less to live luxuriously. But in the «ourse I have a flné assortment of the following articles, which „ AND THE of time things improved. Mrs. Scr ubb, who was in I am selling very cheap : HORSE ÊL ARRETS, from $2 to »5 each. ON AND AFTER SE PTEMBE 8 28,1874, TRAINS WILL Smith American Organ. deed a helpmate to her husband, opened a little cor- LEAVE WASHINGTON AS FOLLOWS —WASH- GU1 M HOBSE COVERS from , from $1 to $2.50 each. LIVERY STABLES. ner grocery, and although her customers were chiefly SI *CINGLES, BLA 25 ItoKKET 50 centS fros eachm 12. 5 INGTON TIME: Piano« and Organs Carefully Tuned end Repaired pi™nT>S?T^To Î1 l * to $2.25 eaoh. negroes from the neighboring alley, it was a paying niwVÎ&RSPJSSÎSÎÎ? article to have when raining, •5:35 a. m., dally to Baltimore and dally except Sunday A. B. KB!YES. J. L. SMITH. by Skillful Workmen. Satisfaction Guaranteed. business. We have not time to give a full sketch of house BLANKETS, a good thing to have in the to Elmixa, making connection with Erie Railway for from 25 Buffalo-and Niagara Fulls. Scrubb's career; suffice it to say that he ,'became a C0MBS from 10 to «ents to il each. 937 Periri. Avenue, near Tenth St. merchant, made a fortune and became Simon Scrubb. SSS5?" - <10 cents each. 8:15 a. m., for Baltimore and local stations, daily. KEYES & CO. LAP ROBES. Janl-ly Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Scrubb have three children— LEATHER LEGGINGS, the very thing for gunners 9:23 a. m., Pullman Parlor Car train for Phila- a son and two daughters. The son was called after and fishermen. - delphia and New York, daily except Sunday. HARNESS of every description, &e., &c. his father, bnt after the-family became fashionable 11:55 a. m.. Fast Line for the West and North, and COACHES, OPEN BRETTS, LIGHT WAGONS, SAD- Norfolk via Baltimore, dally, except Sunday. J. H. RICHARDSON, ^became St. Simon Scrubbe. He is a charming youth K. G. WHEELER, 3:40 p. m., for Baltimore, dally, except Sunday. DLE HORSES, DOUBLE AND SINGLE Plays billiards at the Mt. Vernon, drives tandem, is SEVENTH AND B STREETS, 4:53 p. m., for Pittsburg and the West dally, except BUGGIES AND ALL OTHER a member of the Allston, gives elegant suppers, 1 Sunday, bunday runs to Baltimore. DE ALER FN GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS. oct25-3m8 opposite Center Market. 4:93 p. m., for Philadelphia, daily. VEHICLES PROMPTLY lounges on Charles street-, knows Brickhead, Carroll, 9:08 p. m., for Philadelphia, New York and Boston, -Gordon, Smith, Robinson and all that set of fashion- daily. FURNISHED. Superior Green and Black Teas at 50 cents per pound. able youths. B0:3a • 8 p. . , for Pittsburg and the West daily, except MILLS Saturday.^ On Saturday at 9:08 p. m., for the west, The Misses Scrubbe are so exquisitely elegant and Trains fer POPE CREEK LINE'leave äTsaVä.'m. on W Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at the Stable, ocl8-3mo3 Corner Sixth and H streets southwest. Georgetown, 1). c. Tuesday and Friday, and 3:40 p. m. dally except Sun- delicately dainty that in describing them I am uay. * * day or night, will receive prompt attention. -«sing a gold pen and violet ink. The common Trains for ANNAPOLIS leave at 5:35 a. m., and 4:53 Close Carriages for Wedding Calls and Receptions. D. L. Shoemaker Is now manufacturing flour by the p. m- things of this world are not good enough for these Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Pittsburg Is run on the ASTROLOGY. divine creatures. Their wardrobes are all imported train leaving at 4:53 p. m. PATENT PROCESS, Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Pittsburg Is run on MADAME ROSSl, the celebrated Astrologlst and Heal- from Paris; of course they are the leaders of ton. the train leaving at 0:33 p. m. ing Medium, can Be consulted at The Scrubbe mansion is under the shadow of the WARRANTED SUPERIOR TO ANY IN THE Pullman Palace Sleeping Car to Elmlra Is run on the train leaving at-o:3S p. m. 201 1» street, corner Second, northwest. Washington monument, and is furnished without MARKET. BOARDING AND LIVERY STABLES, Tickets and Information can be procured at the offices This lady has as superior In delineating the Past, Pres- regard to expense or taste. The walls are covered of the Company. Bread and Biscuits made of the same can be had dally at ent and Future, Either In Love or Business her advice with gorgeous paintings in golden frames, the doors Baggage called for and checked at Hotels and private Wlllard'sHotel Stables, corner Fourteenth and D streets, Is Invaluable, describing your friends, poin ting out your residences on orders left at the Offices of the Company, dec 21-tf Washington, D. C. enemies and lnformingyou the sure way of success in are all mirrors, the floors are tiled, the carpets velvet northeast corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania all undertakings. Consultations strictly confidential. GEORGET 8, KBAFFT'S, avenue, and on the northeast corncr of Sixth street and and vivid with the colors of the rainbow, the Misses Ladies, $1; Gentlemen, $1.50. jj'28-ly Corner I8th and Pennsylvania Avenue. Pennsylvania avenue. Scrubbe and their mamma are covered with dia- Depot BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD, WASHINGTON NAILOR'S monds " of the first water." corner Sixth and B streets. Flour for sale by all the leading grocers. ED. 8. YOUNG, Bradley's Patent Enameled The young Scrubbes are constantly talking of their bc25.3mos2 . General Passenger Agent, Baltimore, Maryland. PS, i „ EDMUND L. DüBARRY, -coat-of-arms, when their father remembers the day rebl-ly Superintendent, Washington, D. C. Paint, when he had scarcely a coat to his back. One of the 1 most conspicuous objects in their drawing-room is a Mixed ready 'for Use, ,1», the best, most durable, and Clarke s L\/REECHANTS' LINE OF STEAMSHIPS cheapest paint" 1» the market.' One gallon win cover resplendent coat-of-arms, the crest of which is a J-"-*- BETWBBN 20 square vitrei^, two. coats. • ; . jackass rampant with a bar sinister across his back. WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK. It Is easily applied,, dries quickly, and has a polish like New Method ¿rf Piano-Forte. varnish. They say it is a lion, but " his ears betray him " Endorsed by the Musical, Educational ani„ H, e"*fter.tlie fine steamships E. C. KNIGHT and J OHN "" JAMES GUILD, ' The Scrubbe library is a curiosity in its way. Old GAB&UJ1 will make regular weekly trips between New . 1014 Pennsylvania avenue, general Press, and by Good Teachers, to lob» Alexandrla> Washington, and Georgetown as fol- Sole ag.ent for the District of Columbia. Scrubbe, who knows as mnch about literature as he Beyond all Comparison the Best STABLES, does of Sanscrit, ordered the books by the yard, only Leave New York from Pier 37, East river, every SAT- 1326 E ST., OPPOSITE NATIONAL THEATER. to be had at Book and Music stores. URDAY, at 4 p. m.; leave Georgetown every FRIDAY, "VTEW AND SECOND-HAND. ONE PRICE ONLY • directing that the cases should be showy. The re- at 7 a. m., and Alexandria the same day at 12 m. Particular attention paid to BOARDING HORSES. Xi New Clothing soldat very reasonable prices. Se« sult has been a conglomeration of books that would Sent by Mail, Price, $3.75. For information apply to R. P. A. DENHAM, Agent, Latest style CARRIAGES with responsible drivers. lected stock of SfepOhd-liand Clothing very cheap, at business office and wharf, 63 Water street, Georgetown, SADDLE HORSES, BUGGIES AND PHAETONS for JFSTH'S, • ' 'derange the mind of our mercantile librarian, John LEE & WALKERJ08^!^81- or at the office of the President, near P street bridge. hire. 61« D street, be$..«th and 7th,oiorthwest. Branch store. W. M. Lee. The library is the least used room in J. W. THOMPSON, HORSES always for Sale and Exchange. 1215 E between ljthjind 13th sts. northwest, mar S-ly the house, and it Is only there because no gentle- President. man's house should be without one. ^MERICAN LINE MAIL STEAMSHIPS 1833. ESTABLISHED 1883 The Scrubbes—father, mother, son and daughters- ART SCHOOL, JOHN McOEltMOTT A BROS., H»^ DILLON, look down with infinite contempt upon those they ONLY LISE COACH MAKERS AND CARRIAGE DEALERS, are pleased to call" poor people." Money alone in * • Weiatl» N ti-cel, CABKYINO THE AMERICAN FLAG. NO. 310 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, PHOTOGRAPHER, their eyes constitutes excellence of mind, morals and Near Third street, Sailing every THURSDAY from PHILADELPHIA for 1227 manners. It is with them the open sesame to every- WASHINGTON, D. C. Feqpsylvtiula avenue. QUEENSTOWN AND LIVEPROOL. sep6-tf thing, the golden key which opens every lock. Such MRS. S. E. FULLER. Carriages and Harness received on Storage and Sold on Commission. Carriages Repaired. Cabin, Intermediate and steerage accommodations are the Baltimore Scrubbes. "Pity 'tis, tis true." M,T?£i?Uigb. lnsfructlon Klve'n In free hand and me- unsurpassed. II EX It Y WISE OARNET, colors crayon, painting in oil and water c;o K E. The evening classes In mechanical, topographical Rates as low as by any other First-Class Line. A PALL pippin, a coal stove and a newspaper are and map drawing will be formed Nivember 2d, in PETER WRIGHT ft SONS, ATTORNEY AND OQUN SELOR-AT-LAW, «not bad things to_6it up with. charge of Charles Schlaar, the well-known practical _„ . 85 „ General Agents, Philadelphia. Orders left at the Gas-light Office, No. 413 Tenth street, draughtsman and experienced teacher. oc25-2t*2 FRANK W. SANBORN, 1425 Pennsylvania avenue, at 711 First street, or at 110 Bridge street, Georgetown, NO. 1 COLUMBIA puiLPING, FIFTH STREETS. Washington. au23-ly irlll be promptly tilled.; nov30-tf BETWÊEÏÎ D 'AND E, WASHINGTON. 8 THE CAPITAL.—NOVEMBER 1, 1874. 8

Too MUCH ELECTION.—The aristocratic quiet of the Arlington was strangely disturbed one night last weekL GENT'S TOILET. BALTIMORE ADVEBTISEMEHT3, THE CAPITAL. It seems that a very steady, valuable Irish waller, short MISCELLANEOUS. of limb but long of body, who for five years has made CENTRAL HOT&X, himself useful to the hotel, and who was never known to taste Intoxicating drinks, strange to say, heard Holllday street. Opposite Neu City Hall, for the first time last week that Ohio and Indiana "bad RECORD OF THE WEEK. gone the Dlmocratlc ticket." Patrick, Irishman like, BALTIMORE, MÏ). felt it incumbent on himself to celebrate immediately. To this end he began treating others promiscuously and BARNUM IS married. We I*. T. Barnum. This new hotel having Just been finished, Is now open TIIICRE was a case of Hayes fever In the; criminal himself assiduously, and to such effect that "when twi- for the Reception of Guests. _ light dews wore falling fast upon the rosy sea " Patrick The hotel is first class In all Its appointments, the court last week. was not drunk but crazy as a loon. We do not know Rooms large and well ventilated, the Furniture and Car PBIVATE DALZELL.—Your views on the subject arc how crazy a loon Is, as a general thing, but take a loon's pets new and of beautiful designs; In fact, the Centra, SPECIALTY, will be found second to 110 hotel In thecity. Guests will first-class, and suit ours to a T. reputation for Insanity to Indicate Patrick's loony con be rumlshed accommodations either on the American ditlon. S.r Fïïrro£eîi1 rlau- B0ARU PER DAY, AMERICAN A MOTTO for the California Chinese stoners: "Let WM. S. TEEL,\ 1. Xj ¿VJN ^ $2.50. him who Is without Ah Sin cast tlxe first stone!" The celebrant, to use a pious term, acted so quecrly Penn'a AT.« Attached to the hotel will be found a first-classRes - that an Irish chambermaid hastened to Doctor Garsett Bet. 9th & 10th sts. taurant, supplied with the best the markets afford, and A POST-OFFICE has been established at Bcnnlng' with the startling intelligence that Patrick had a fit, WASHINGTON, Meals furnished at all hours at reasonable rates. bridge. Eastern Branch, and It. Bcaggs appointed post- and he must hurry up, while another of the same sex D.C. master. Is lie " Mrs. Scagg's Husband " or a brothcr-ln and domestic persuasion went for the " pralst." The CHARLES HAFFCKE, law? I desire to call attention to the very superior fit, novl-6m5 Proprietor. clergy did not appear, but Doctor Garuett did, and he quality and finish of my TUB VISITOR who begins by enjoining us; that the found " an llllgant broth ov a hoy " nnder the Influence of "world 1 i governed too much," and finishes up by Democratic suocess and capital whisky, if indeed the MISCELLANEOUS. Dooley's Yeast Powder terms are not synonymous. The doctor administered a borrowing a quarter, Is requested as a friend to try It Is perfectly Pure and Wholesome. on somewhere else. soothing powder and put Patrick to bed. DRESS SHIRTS, TO ARRIVE, In bed, Patrick slept the sleep of peace and Innocence SOME Washington Journalists have settled the crema- until past midnight, when he awakened from a dream WITH COLLARS ATTACHE», TWELVE VARIETIES Dooley's Yeast Powder tion Interment disputes by selling their cadavers (on of. the bad place, with a horrible thirst upon him." The Is put up In Full Weight Can«. poet-obits) to the medical fraternity. They had dis- unfortunate inebriate attempted to get from his frugal OF THE CELEBRATED posed of their souls several years ago. couch, but it seemed to reel under him as if in a heavy which are nnequaled; and, while aiming to maintain Dooley's Yeast Powder my conceded reputation for FINE WORK, I offer KENTUCKY SHAKER PRESERVES. headwind and a chopping sea, and he sank back. But greater Inducements In price than any other house In Makes Elegant Biscuits and Rolls. FROM Bit AD. ADAMS' we have "A Sack of Gold," (Just the business. what we've been looking for nearly twenty years,) an he must have a drluk of water pr die, so he yelled: " Wather, wather, .wather I howly Moses fetch me Blanks for self-measurement mailed to parties llvlmr HALL & HUME, American story by Virginia M. Johnson. Brad, says out of the city, on application. My stock of Dooley's Yeast Powder that It Is "a red-hot novel," and Brad, ought to know. watlier." No response came, however, to this earnest appeal novl-lmol 80T MARKET SPACE. Makes Delicious Muffins, Griddle Cakes, Corn Bread, Ac., "SHOUT and pudgy women ought not to wear belts."- save tho echoes from the deserted corridors of the hotel. Critic Fashion Notes. Again Patrick cried: Dooley's Yeast Powder This Is good advice thrown "away. There Is not " Wather! howly St. Patrick, send raewather , wather!" UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY AND GLOVES LOCKIOOD, HUFTY & TAYLORMake s all kinds of Dumplings, Pot-pies, Cakes and woman In the world who believes that It applies to lie: And yet no reply. A bright Idea struck Ills thirsty Pastry, nice, light and healthy. 023 Pennsylvania Avenue, " Short and pudgy!" Not for Josephine. soul. Opening his capacious lungs through the wide orifice of his Intellectual edlflcc, he screamed : is replete with the productions of the best English, MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED Dooley's Yeast Powder "WITHOUT a knowledge of French no young gentle- French and Domestic manufacturers. Is the best, because perfectly pure. man or lady Is qualified to move In polite society."—Re- " Fire, fire, fire!" My department of Palmer's Patent Double Yoke Shirt publican. Immediately a roar rang through the hotel. Shrieks, To quiet the agonized nerves of our young society screams, curses and orders, with a banging of doors and Dooley's Yeast Powder people we remind them that the Republican Intended to a trampling of feet mingling together, made a fearful Is the cheapest, because full weight_ add " In Paris " to the end of that. uproar. Thirty females rushed Into the halls In their MEN'S NECKWEAR AT Tint meeting or the Washington City Bible Asso- night gowns. Sixteen put .their diminutive heads, di- Dooley's Yeast Powder ciation last week a large amount of Bibles were sent to vested of hair, from the windows and repeated Patrick's Is guaranteed to give satisfaction. the headquarters of the Signal Corps, Fort Whipple, and wild cry. Seven of the police ran three miles trying to comprises a select and varied assortmont, to which I am turn on the alarm. For once that Ingenious device adding, Willi the arrival of every steamer, novelties Be snre to ask for to the District Jail. Personal acquaintance with In- fi-om the French and English markets. mates of each Institution Justifies us In congratulating would not work when It should not. An elderly maiden Dooley's Yeast Powder the society upon supplying so great a want. lady, whose delicacy and feebleness had excited for and do not be nut off with any other kind. weeks the sympathy of tho guests, was observed to pull SIMON WOLF, ESQ., delivered quite an able lecture on a huge Saratoga trunk from her room and tumble It W. S. TEEL, Dooley's Yeast Powder the "l»fl«»nce of the Jews In the progress of the "llpplty-bump down the stairs, to the eminent peril of Is put up in Tin Cans of various sizes, suitable for Fam- world " last week at the Hebrew synagogue, and showed the transient guests who were forming a hasty extem- ilies, Boarding Houses, Restaurants, and to a certain extent the folly of the general contempt »S5 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. poraneous procession of carpet-sacks under light march novl-3 River, Lake and Ocean Vessels on for the Israelites. His object was a laudable one, and lng order of night shirts. short or long voyages. we only regret that a more modest Jew had not been Strange stories are told of people who were caught The Market Is flooded with Cheap, Inferior Baking called upon to effect It. Issuing from wrong rooms, but our reporter, after care- DBY GOODS. ETC. i A jpnwniLW": or Short Weight. DOOLEY'S i wei lit POWDER is warranted full strength and talf PROFESSOR HENRY has at last yielded to reason and ful Investigation, falls to find confirmation of them. JD EDUCTION. And we would be astonished If he should. opened the doors, or given orders that the doors of the N^N/'STIT^SL6 V"1, RETAL1' severally throughout the Smithsonian Institute be opened on Sundays, said order Slieckels appeared. Sheckels waB equal to the occa- Supplies dealers In Groceries and Family sion. In light working order of Bhlrt and pantaloons to go Into effect November 1. The hour of admittance In consequence of the extreme dullness of business Is to be from one to four p. m., so that the Y. M. C. A.*s lie ordered on the hose—we mean for the fire-plugs— during the last month, we find our stock entirely need not fear that the Inducement of stuffed beasts or organized a bucket brigade, and then went lu search of mouldy birds will wean away the faithful christian the conflagration. He found it In Patrick. He was so TOO LARGE, $@mmBÊmesm enraged to find It a false alarm that lie seized all the from the consolatory church nap. And In order to reduce It have determined, from this adjacent furniture and heaped It 011 the alarmist. date, to offer OBITUARY.—Mr. Thomas Cogan, who for thirty years ?atrlck stood all the small articles, suoh as chairs, past was a well-known business man of Washington, de- boot-Jacks and boots, but when a wash-stand came to SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO CASH PURCHASERS. mSÊÊiaÊmmm parted this life on Friday, October so, aged forty-nine » sudden anchor 011 his digestive apparatus, he sprang marl-ly years. Deceased was widely known and highly esteemed out of bed with a yell, and fled to the halls. These had Best PRINTS only lo cents. Superior Bleached and Brown MUSLIN at 12J cents, for Ills Integrity as a gentlemen and uprightness as a been lighted, and" Patrick's appearance sent the ladles worth 15. NEW BOOKS christian. Several years ago he retired, on a competent screaming to their rooms. Pat. was in the hotel pretty WOur entire Stock marked down. income, to Frederick, and was 011 a visit to this city to much as he came Into the world, barring a red flannel set up Ills son In business when his death occurred. shirt of abbreviated quality. He was extremely decollete 1 Grand requiem mass will be offered up and his funeral it both ends. To say that he was nude would but feebly YATES & MITCHELL, Metropolitan Book Store." take place from St. Stephen's church to-morrow. express Ills abstract condition. Modesty forbids our 116 817 Market Space. Mrs. Eckel's Maria Monk's Daughter. $3.50; Verne's laying more. Mysterious island. «1.50; Whlttler's Hazel Blossoms, DISTRICT GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS The collector Is *1.5o; Hlller s Letters and Recollections of Mendels- preparing a list of auctioneers, Insurance and real estate Patrick fled, and the Indignant Sheckels followed. LADIES' CLOAKS, sohn, »2.25; Bayard Taylor's Egypt and Iceland, «1.50; - agents, who have failed to make tho semi-annual returns Pat's rear was not covered, and would have suffered Marsh's The Earth as Modified by Human Action, (new severely had Sheckels been booted, but his bare feet, NEW AND ELEGANT STYLES OPEN TO-MOR- ed.,)$4 50; Bernard's Life of Samuel Lover, $2; Bolle's of their gross receipts for taxations. The law fixes a tax tliapters on Political Economy, »1.50: Long's American when thrown out In kicks, made 110 more Impression ROW. of one half of one per cent, on the gross receipts of auc- than If they had been sent Into a sack of feathers. Not- tioneers, and one per cent, on insurance and real estate ng this, he seized the fugitive from wearing apparel FALL DRESS GOODS FROM AUCTION agents. The list being now prepared Is for the purpose and proceeded to concuss Ills Hibernian skull against of turning It over to the attorney of the District to have To be sold below cost of Importation. the wall. c process Issued upon such delinquents. To Order for 82.50, »3, «S3.5í>, and 81 eacb. o 'i . ii°K' ' T-i; aieiine's unarteris. 81.50; George At this moment Roessle appeared. He appeared In SPECIAL BARGAINS INJFINE WOOL BLANKETS, Sands' My Sister Jennie, $1.50; J. G. Holland's Mistress , iiii?Ji0«nSeo.tlo,n wl,th 9i£jillrt Factory we have cstab of the Manse, $1.50; Bayard Taylor's Prophet, a Trag- To PROFESSOR ETIENNIC LAMBERT our thanks are ull dress, even to his diamond slilrt studs and eye- REDUCED FROM 87 TO $5 PER PAIR. lished a first-class LAUNDRY, where we are prepared edy, «2; Professor Forbes' Transit of Venus, il 25: -due for his two works on language: " An Idiomatic Key glasses. Roessle was cool. The man who nearly all his life to receive s e hgentlemen'lrts 12 : s washing at the following prices': Clarke's Budding of a Brain, $1.25 ; Calvert's Maid of to the French Language " and •• All the French Verbs at A FULL LINE OF LADIES, GENTS' AND CHIL- Tirfii . I, ? . ' 5- Embroidered Bosom Shirts, 15c.; Orleans, §1.50 ¡Gardner's Homes and how to make tlienn had faced pcoplo glaring at him from bolilnd bills is not SWr'^Jc.; Ruffle Night Shirts, 12c.; Collars, 5c.; a Glance." By these text books, and by the new and Im- i GUmore's Prairie and Forest, Sl.50; Murray's Manual" islly disconcerted. Roessle regarded the agitation of DREN'S UNDERWEAR. Socks. 6c.; Ifsui'¿kerchief's, ic".f 'i'SWCoaf^'SSTPanEi: Violet Le Due's proved system of teaching Introduced by Professor atrlck's head lu Sheckels' hands for a few seconds and 25c.; Vests, 25c. " oc25-6mo- 0xus,$3.50; Lewis' History of Germany^IsofD'Anver's Lambert, this very necessary language Is acquired In a then said: History of Art, $4.00; Bogardus' Field Cover and Trap J. C. WISWALL & CO., Shooting, $2; Amos' Science of Law, (International brief period and In a perfect manner. Mr. Lambert Sheckels, stop that; you are Injuring the wall. Here STORE lias the great advantage of not only being an educated 310 S«v Sü K and L, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets—was en- Congress that this barberous system be changed, and novl-lm8 (fi livened by an Infuriated devil of a negro man attempt- that Sunday may offer as many chances for the cleaning H (A ing to murder his wife, whilst under the lnQueuce of of the body as for the cleaning of the soul; the former SECOND, e X tfì benzine and alcohol. Mr. Frank Gasaaway, who re- is as necessary as the latter. W. H HARROVER, Ltterary, Dramatic and Musical Entertainment. M Ct> sides In the Immediate neighborhood, hastened to the O 3 es m scene,.which consisted of the Infuriated negro afore- WE ARE gratified to learn that our excellent and 313 SEVENTH STREET ST. W., c o w said, who, having beaten the womau half dead, was now learned friend, Professor Masson, Is progressing rapidly THIRD. with his autobiography, which will embrace a history (D h a H kneeling on lier and opening his razor prior to per- Grand Concert by eminent New York artists. ü e H forming the barbarous office of cutting her throat, and of his time so far as the professor's observations have THREE DOORS NORTH OF PENNSYLVANIA AVE., O ® extended, and Includes all the prominent men and wo- • o r O F co half a dozen darkles looking on. Frank wrestled the > H î> negro up against the wall, and then some of the lookers men of bis day. a H STOVES, RANGES, FOURTH, ftl a O 011 assisting, took charge of the tonsorial Instrument and THE masquerade party given by the young ladles of Literary and Dramatic Readings. » e 13 71 hustled the semi-murderer off. " Why the hell didn't Sixth street on the evening of Friday last was sufficiently n o you try to save the woman's llfef" asked Frank «d ti so U successful to guarantee a regular scries of the same HOT AIR FURNACES, o NB-j of two or three spectators. " Well, you see, boss," was order. The participants In the pleasant event express ? O the unanswerable answer; "well, you see, boss, Jake's FIFTH, a themselves pleased In the highest degree with Its suc- Grand Concert by eminent Boston Artists. »Ö H a Galilean fisherman, and we Is all Galilean fishermen, cess. FIRE-PLACE HEATERS AND B (D and It's agin de rules ob de organization to meddle wld P each other's family affairs!" What a misfortune the AT A MEETING of the Medical Department of the M ft Galilean order Is not more universal I University of Georgetown, Friday, October 30, the fol- HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. SIXTH, s lowing gentlemen were unanimously elected; Presi- novl-2m5 Literary, Dramatic and Musical. JUDGE HUMPHREYS, familiarly known as old Pump dent, M. Boardinan; Vice President, J. Stephenson; amongst the many prerogatives accorded to his Judicial Secretary, D. J. Kelly, M. A. RICHARD ROBERTS, position, has taken upon himself the office of universal SEVENTH, mentor. During the safe burglery trial the old man SAT AX will soon appear In your midst!" Is the WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CANTATA OF QUEEN ESTHER. HARLEY NEWCOMB climbs up to his seat, assumes the deep look of wisdom startling disclosure made by the Mlltonlan tableaux This beautiful Cantata will be produced In a magnifi- common to the visage of an owl, cocks his eye and posters. Not before the first Monday of December cent manner. The costumes will be made expressly for Would announce that he will open his new listens to the case. He lectured the wickcd press. surely. BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, tills occasion. Subscription for the series, $3.50. Lists at music stoi-es, Brad. Adams' and Willard's He didn't find fault with them for abusing him; "fire THERE is more dismay caused by a cross-eyed lady No. IOIO -cventli street, above New Tork Hotel. ocu-iti away," he said, he was an old pump and didn't care a recognizing a friend on a crowded promenade than by COLLEGE OF MUSIC ASi» AR dam, but they mustn't start out on that Intelligent Jury; four Tilton scandals and six safe burglaries. novl-5 avenue. HKHUKMD>8 that was not to be permitted If the court knew Itself! and he said she did, though lie didn't look like It. When *» n- JE sc AarMr, Patent Catarrh Cigar. llayes was on the stand the cross-examination was 915 6 STREET TV. W. close and the answers liumoroi s, whereupon t ie audience ALGERNON ALTAMONT VERE DE VERE. MODEL MAKER AND MACHINIST, Sure cure for Asthma, Catarrh, Cold and Throat laughed. Pump threw himself Into an appearance of No. 605 Seventh street, opposite Patent Office. Diseases. Will send sample package containing five(5 ) solemnity, slowly raised his fore-finger and ejaculated: High-toned Romance—Written for the Record of for 50 cents to any address by mail. The curriculum will embrace Music In all Its branches.. the Week,;but Crowded Out. All orders for Certified Duplicates of Patent Office DRAWING. " Pause, this Is a trial of human nature; don't laugh; Models for Law Salts In cases of Infringement, and go out and smile If you want to, bin doii't laugh; pro- original Models for Inventors executed in the most ac- E. BEHRENDT CO., PAINTING. ceed !" Then he warned the Jury on the observance of BY A FAIH UNKNOWN. curate style. novl-lmo3 No. 625 Seventh street northwest. SCULPTURE, Gearlnnçoj f every description cut for Models in the MODERN LANGUAGES, the Sabbath: "It Is a day prostituted to deviltry very neatest sstyli e and on reasonable terms. novl-3 often. Take care; there Is a serpent burrowing under CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.) ANTED— LITERATUR B, the outside show. I see him scratch his head and wink RHETORIC, N. B.—Before going any further, we regret to say that C COTCH OAT MEAL FROM SCOTLAND w HISTORY at sin; nip, oh nip him in the bud!" "Sir, I am a Count Slydoff Onnlzear, learning from some party or A man to take charge of a Dairy. AND christian," apologized a Juryman, whereupon the audi- parties to us unknown, that Columbus Alexander in- CANADIAN OAT MEAL FROM CANADA. ence laughed again. "Pause," said TJmph-"pause,I tends to arraign him before the grand jury on the charge Also, one aeenstomed to Farming and Market Gar- MATHEMATICS. would not laugh. Do not laugh; be melancholy." The WHEAT GRITS MANUFACTURED BY MYSELF. of salamander-busting, has vamosed, carrying with him dening. flock above the outer door grinned at this admonition, a watch and chain,•the property of the author, as also Best, sweetest, purest in the United States. SPECIAL. "hat a misfortune old Pump, doesn't the regular Installment of this Interesting romance, so Must come well recommended. Miss M. E. Morgan, late of the State Normal School of natural reputation for cold water. keep up his that It must lie over until he turns up. He was last seen A. FLEMING, Illinois, will have charge of the English branches. Apply at FULTON'S LOAN OFFICE, J14 Ninth street. In tkc company