VOLUME VII. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C., JANUARY 13,1878 NUMBER 46

because he turned their sophistries into practical good MB. CORRYISLL, who was assailed in our works, and kept faith wherein they sought to delude late issue with some violence, requests a suspension LATEST BY TELEGRAPH, PUBLISHED WEEKLY BT and deceive, "jNo't one of these men is capable of an of public opinion until he can be heard. If the public THE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY idèa that is nqt. directly reflexive 4 back into remembers, the affair, we hope it will suspend. Mr. his oWn'pòiekét'. ' ISTOtÒne of tìièm' méditâtes a policy Corryell assures us that he never to his knowledge saw 987 D street, Washington, D. C. Which doeffnot, f by the sfmplés^ etoliition, th'fbw liim- Senator Patterson .of South Carolina, let alone re- self Into' office. Not one of them' cherishes a senti- ceived favors from him. This is a good start; and if DONN PIATT, . V V . . ; . EDITOB. ment which is not Inimèdiàtely practicable to his own Mr. C.orrj.ell can confinue in that way we dp not doubt TERMS: Per year, (including postage,) 82.50; six profit. Steeped' in greedy drunk with avarice and. that, hp will carryall before him. Our late issue was months, $1.50; three months, 75 cents—in advance. cïazfed'bythe stimtilus of. sordid ambition, every one rather severe on Mr. C., but that pun is awful. How- Single copies, 5 cents. of jtMs'é ¿neh seeè ttiè end oi his own ¿osé atid imag- ever,, ig,t us suspend for the present. Consider us sus- CLUBS : Ten copies to one address, $20 in advance, ìùes it to b'e the tfttima T/iûZe of destinyf hears his own pended. with one copy free. Twenty copies to one address, $35 croak and thinks ft the ^ofcô of the people; smells in advance, with one copy free. his oWn breath and 'imagines that it is- the moral stench of an era rólten ènoiigh fór sà'clï buzzards as THERE is a rumor, of a Western flavor, REVIEW OF THE WEEK he»to feed'on and gi'OW fat. that the Marine band is to be consolidated with the Thèy neëd' not be named, for the dêsciiption I ha ve' Agricultural Department; the Post-Office Depart- glvéii/ paiùts the portrait óf évefy ¿ti© 'of them. ment abolished, as being no longer necessary since the The bad faith of the American politician has long Men without faith in themselves, they rèsent the faith establishment of the telephone, and the signal-service been among the proverbs. How to dodge the logic of 'of others as an indignity. Habituated to crime theni- bureau to be sent to Paris with Dick McCormick, for a record most nimbly, and how most adroitly to evade selves'ùntif Mà becÒtne second haturë, they have meteorological and horticultural purposes, during the the consistency of a career, are become the problems come to loôk upon the law-abiding of others as itself a exposition—to raise the wind for dead-broke beats to a mastery of which constitutes the accomplishment of crime1. 'Stfhòoietl ih devilment until trôaôhery Ms be- return home with, probably. If. we -had seen this statesmanship'. These truisms are,now about to re- come an fnstinci and falschodd an intuition With In the Chicago Tribune we would not give it oredence. ceive a new exemplification.. There is no mistaking them, they regard' honor in others as a fault, fidelity the portent of the signs of fhe times ; for a blind man an érior and truth a deprâvity. In short, from Blaine might see them, a deaf man hear, and a wayfaring, ONE of Peterson's most recent publica- at the head of thé héap, through Ben Butl'er^in the man, though a fool, mightre^d and understand them., tions is "That Lover of Mine," from the literary middle, down to Bill Chandler crawling about like a Less than a year ago the American people were con- mint of Mr. Maurice F. Eagan, author of " That .Girl muck worm in the dregs of filth at th'e bottom, they fronted with the possibility of revolution, À Presi- of Mine," and the Philadelphia correspondent of THE havë reversed every rule Of manhood, belied every dent had been elected by a fair majority in the el'ëçj CAPITAL. maxim of honor, called their abortion of ull the good toral college and an overwhelming preponderance of in the worlti a new school of political philosophy, and Mr. Eagan is . a gentleman of rare literary talent* the popular vote. The defeated candidate had ac- stolen for its devil's work the name and livery of the and has caught the constructive art thoroughly, by k nowledged his defeat, and, with a very lew excep- party that used to be Republican, and* had for its which he phases the dramatic situations with dashes tions, the men Composing.the party.wliich had been types such teen as tiincoîn and Greeley.' of rare intérest, and so succeeds admirably in produ- beaten with him made the same admission and re- cing a most excellent novel. signed themselves to the thought of abdicating the Now I believe that the Investigation that thesei men power they had ébjoyed fOrsixteen'years. All at'once demand as ' their vengeance should go on; that it the wires flashed over the country the news that a con- shôuïd be ptosecutéd so long as one single offense that A MB. CHURCH of Cincinnati killed his spiracy had been formed'to reverse1 the will of the they have committed remains earthed, Or one lie they wife by taking from her on Christmas day their only people and to'count in'thé defeated candidate. Then have told stays Unexposed ; until every public record chjld.' This is not the true church, we fear. The day began a struggle over the electoral .votes of three they have falsified ts restored, évery perjury 'they that recalls fhe glory to God on high and good will to States which it was necessary for the 'conspirators to have sworh forced back down their throats, and every men on earth Was not a good one to select for such a seize in order to obtain a bare majority of pne .forthe forgery tliey hàvè perpetratèd branded upbn their deed. The two had separated on account of Incom- defeated candidate. This strusgle was characterized hands. Until", in fine, the country is purged of their patibility of temper; but the father who could con- by a recklessness of ctime and a hardihood of con- crimes and cleaned of their persons by the sewage of Sent to a separation from the mother of his children tempt ior law, honor and morality among men of the the Courts, arid info thé cesspool òf thé penitentiary, on that ground should have left the children to the very highest station, that would hive tnade the mon- Where ttey bélon^. There can be neither niôràï sai'tì- maternal side of the incompatibility. sters of the French revolution halt and' hold their brity noï politicai' Cleanliness iii thè ' land So long as breath with envy in the palmiest day of thé Eéign of they' âré permitted to r'óàm at laigé,' tò idféct-its at- Terror. Step by step the forces of the conspiracy best mosphere with the exhalations of the it* depravity, or MAJOR BKNJ. EDKKIB and his friends back the powers of the people until at riast tie object, to innoctìlate' 'their neighbors with 'the Contagion of have nothing to fear irom investigation. Their com- of fraud approached consummation Bribery, per- their presence. plaint through six years, and ft Is a common one un- dor our freegovernment, was that such Investigation jury and lorgery had done their work, arid'at the last Hild Mr. Hayes acted' so as to retain theii* friend- could not be obtainod; Send for persons and papers, moment the cry was raised that the people,'betrayed ship and support lie would havé ^s'unk under the gentlemen. by those whom theyhad trusted, must take their rights double oblÒ^uy'Òf Ms own 'usurpation arid trfélrfeì- into the keeping of theft-own strong hatids! This cry lowshif). Âs it "iS, tieir enmity ^oès à great way to Iif another column will be found an inter- was met by the softest persuaslvés or the conspirators, ease tbè burden of his usurpatioâ.' Hé Way stand view Of great interest at this time, bearing as It does uttered in the mellowest acfeéiita. " Peacè iS'bétter, there with Stoièn góòàs In his hands, and waft with upon real estate* loan and trust enterprises, and evi- even with submission as its price," they said, "than compbfenrè' iòt tlietn to revile him bacir'into the status dencing their solidity when properly managed. assertion of right at the possible cost of blood. ' Let us of an honest man. Theit proclamation of enmily Chicago Items, with a Failure, or Course. inaugurate this man whom we have counted! in, arid proclaims him the friend of the people* without any OHICASO, January 12.—All the distillers in this In- you shall have four years Of quiet, plenty and reèt other défense. Honest men, having taken one good ternal revenue district to-day adopted the so-called from the turmoils of politics!" : Cincinnati resolution favoring a reduction of the tax look at them, coin piacenti y get on the otfcèr side, ir- AT THE CITY HALL on high wines to not exceeding fifty cents on the gal- To tbeseseductive phrases the people listened, and respective of fellowships, put half their tru^t th G-od, lon. Mr. Hoyes was inaugurated. When he rodfe from thé who is with the people, and, for thé other lialf, trust John P. Reynolds has filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy. His liabilities are $27,195, mostly se- W hite House to the Capitol that Monday morning, the devil to point but his own. cured. His only assets are stock In the Exposition w ith cannon in front of him and cannon to the rear of The duty'of'the Democratic pdrty and of Democratic building, worth forty dollars, and in the Prairie Farmer, worth $2,000, and an interest in the bankrupt him, the one considération which averted from.him Statesmen in Congress Is clear. We submitted once firm of Reynolds, Corbett it Thomas. that bullet which I believe the genius of our ireedom for the saké of tranquillity,' and now the peace is broken by thbSe to appease Whom we ' subrùittéd; keeps ever ready for the head'of the usurper, wasthat Rcconimended for Office. Hayes meant peace; and that was a powerful argu- There can be no more truoe of parley with them. It NEW ORLEANS, January 12.—A petition signed by ment to address to a people whose hot blood had been is of small mòiiieat What happens tò Hayes In the a large number ot the members of the general assem- so recently drained to the rest drop iil'iratHci'dal war. melee, but tò mtféìaere' tìiè' miscreants who win not My of both political parties. State officers, bankers, merchants, Importers and businessmen, was forwarded The people said to otic another: '-It is not worth let the country rest uniéss they can pillage while it to President Hayes to-night, asking the appointment while for us to cut ea«h other's throats for the quarrels Sleeps,'is a holy duty. The question as to who shall of Hon. P. J. Kennedy as collector of Customs at New of these politicians. I.et us, therefore, acquiesce in ho}d fhe Presidéfafey until,March 4,1881, is of minor Orleans. Mr. Kennedy Is also indorsed for the posi- tion by a large number of merchants and business men what they have agreed upon among themselves, for import; but the question as to what penitentiary of St. Louis, their petition having already gone for- they have promised not to disturb us agaiii." shall close over Bill Chandler and the gang he stands ward. Mr. Kennedy is a conservative Republican. Mr. Hayes was inaugurated. He knew that he had lor is vital. Ten years more of Sucli men and such not been elected, but be had been counted in by virtue methods as they have invented will make Mexico Postponed. ot an arrangement which had about it the color or the enviable and turn Central America into a compara- PITTSBURG, PA., January 12.—The meeting of the national convention of the United States export trade savor of law, and he took upon hiru.sell the responsi- tive elysium of good government'and Wise statesman- which was to have been held at Washington, D. O., bility of cxeouting tbose pledges.of peacq whictt had ship. Thé ascendancy of such men is a travesty upon January 22, has been postponed until February 29 at once made his inauguration possible and gljôssed Anglo-Saxon civilisation. That they should wear Many of the commercial boards ot the country do not u hold their regular meetings until too late in the month over the nalrednees of hi« usurpation. The notion that Hon." before their names is a burlesque upon the to appoint del'-rates, and in order to give all inter- he had beeii mad« Presldent^throngh great iiprosir language we speak, and that they should move in ested ample nuie, the committee of arrangements have decided it best to extend the time of rnee ting. and tribulation^ to be a providential instrument ior the society is a tìióckéiy of decency and religion that im- pac ilicatioa of a distracted country, filled the mind of pels one to Inquire Whether it would not be pious to Fatal Duel. Mr. Hayes. One evening last May I wéiit to the call our jails churches and tumour church es Into jails: whether, m fi'né, the plan of salvation should not bo SAVANNAH, GA., January 12I—Robert Fishburne White House and found Mr. Hayes seated in the and Walter S. Harley, of Walterbiro, S. O., fought a midst of his family upon the rear portloo. 1 made changed to make heaven the abode of the damned duel near this city this atternoon with revolvers. Har- some jocose allusion to that oelebrated knife which and hell paradise. ley was shot in the abdomen at the first fire, and will die. Fishburne has fifed. The parties are brothers-in- was said to bave been taken from the boot-leg of that law, and lawyers. sanguinary assassin, Donh Piatt, to which Mr. Hayes, responded tliat he wound try to make Ms administra- WE H AVE had it denied in our ears for Collapsed. tion one of olive branches, or words to that effect. many yearè that the eventual result of a high pro- CLEVELAND, O., January 12 —At a meeting of the From the day of his inauguration to this tie bas directors of the Forest Cijy Jockey Club to-day it tective tariff is to cheapen the article protected. Give was decided to abandon the running meeting for the acted in the spirit of that mot. He may have blun- our Infant manufacturers protection, cried Henry tieason of '78. dered sometimes; his instruments may not have been Clay, In support Bf his so-called American system, and uniformly well -chosen; his methods may n huve after they are able to stand alone competition will Billiard Hatch. been always well advised. JBut his purpose haa been ch*apen products.' That was a long time »go, and since N*w ORLEANS, La., December 12.—In the billiard toiirpameht, to-day, third game, Rudolphe defeated steadfast, and, taking the -sum total together, he has the protection Increases until It amount s td prohibition, Dion by a score of 600 to 471. not been unsuccessful so far as the people ¡treeou- and yet they cannot stand alone and products are not cerned. He baa not, however, pacified the politicians cheapened. A late trouble In the ooal mines of Penn- The Weather To-day. who counted him in. The masses of tlj'e people ac- sylvania is the best Illustration of this fraud. These For the Middle Atlantlo States and New England, quiesced In his inAuguratioo, accepted his declara- mines have paid the miners the owner's Import rising iollowed by stationary or falling barometer, sta- tionary or higher temperatures, northwest back to tions of policy, and seconded his acts. The leaders of direotly from the pauper labor ot Europe such wages northeast and southeast winds, and clear followed by the Democracy, whose rights his counting In had that the wonder Is that they live. The hard times partly cloudy weather. outraged, were quiescent for the sake of Ihe peace and the incoming of the Democracy seem to haye tihat he promised, and acknowledged each act of ful- broken down the protection and cOal Is cheiii^—that Is, fillment as it transpired. But one element remained cheaper than ever known before. The low price, says ainpacllled. Strange to say, this element wus com. the Philadelphia North American, enables mills to run posed of the very men who had most loudly argued In spite of our depressed financial condition. " Yet,', that fraud meant peace, and that submission to the says the North American, "this is not an unmixed success of their conspiracy was the only escape from good." And why not 1 Was not protection meant to revolution. Stranger still is the fact that the attempts cheapen ? The North American does not venture to a Mr. Hayes to make good tiielr o,wn pledges of peace explain, but says : " Now, fortunately, the new year were what set these wen at war again. The people opens with the hope of some united actMri which will had expected that this Congress would put the past prevent mi re Coal being mined than tfte country re- behind it, draw a veil over what was shameful, keep quires." This means, of course, combinations of mine discreet silence about what the nation might be dis- owners agWnst consumers. And yet if such combina- honored by the telling of, and devote its energies to tion is made among poor laborers to insiire fair wages the material business of the public. : But hardly has they are lndloted as conspirators. If they resist they this Congress settled into: its seat when the Intereste are shot down by the General Government as dogs. 01 Uae country aro brushed aside, the pledges of peace This is a freeoountry ot ours, and very comfortable, for forgotten, and a session's work mapped out for undo- the present, to capital. ing tdie work whloh the last session did, Theelec. toral count is to be investigated. Mr, Hayes iito be removed from the office to which hé was not elected SAD, ANP SUDDEN death of Mr. Rich- All the dreary ground of last winter's long battle ard Anderson oft Dayton casts a gloom over a wide must be gone over again, its skeletons dragged to circl« of friends and relatives. He was, In every light, and its .corruption exposed to view. sens« of. that much-abused word, a gentleman. He There ean be no doubt that next March will find was this from the promptings of a kind heart, made Congress in another wrangle as disgraceful, and th£ manliest through a thoughtful, cultured manner. country in another turmoil as distracting, as that It Will be remembered that Mr. Anderson and lamily which scandalized our national name and held our were the guests of President Hayes at the Executive national existence almost in suspense last March. Mansion, and his pleasant ways and charming family And all because by honestly trying to carry out the brought tbem love and admiration.. Mr. Anderson was insincere pledges ot the men whocounted him In, Mr. a classmate of President. Hayes, and for the first Hayes has roused their wrath ; because by .astonishing time in his brilliant oareer the President solicits an honest people with his o» n unexpected honesty Mr. office—the office of mourner and pall-bearer In the Hayes has maddened with the rage of ilinappoint- burial oi his friend. ment, and crazed with the frenzy ot chagrin, the knaves who iancled that they would find in him a THE bankers', brokers' aid bondholders «over for their crimes and a "fence" for their thieving. press of New York are sad over the result of the sen- But one conclusion is deducible iron, ihcse tacts, atorial contest In Ohio. One says, with a grief that and that is that the organization called the Kepubll- oannot be measured: "The Republicans gave us ean party has fallen into the hands of a set of man- Stanley Mattiews—the Democrats give us George H. agers who are capable of anything to subserve tneir Pendleton. Let us weep."' selfishness, and capable of nothing for the good oi the

rest of mankind. They counted Mr. Hajee ja atiU inaugurated him through a combination oi sophistry IiOBD IiYTTON is to be made a G. C. B. and delusion. Nowthey propose to legislate him out Now what in the old scratch is a G. Ü. B. ? 2 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

For TUB CAPITAL. fornia mining camp. He described the scene minutely, tiful Madame de Bussicre robed in amber, with instead of sneaking around and getting along with a tion. A gentleman, who,e name I will not mention GEORGIA NEWS { and went into the details of the candlelight, the fire- purple violets at her corsage and drooping over the few ostensibly, ¡yet putting on temporary persons that aow, but who is largely identified in all charitable ob- Or, Noose of Georgia. light, the volume itself, etc., in a most picturesque masses of her dark hair.* How true it is that a thing I were necessary, and then having an appropriation jects in this city, which he does in memory of h's Of late, style. But Mr. Faijeon did not allow the blunder to of beauty 4s a joy forever. The lovely Pauline Roilfc- passed tojsay.them. deceased daughter, has voluntarily, without being ap- In Georgia State, - remain In the spot where it originally fell. He took day is fooJ| for wornn^ but the rememtorano© oi her Eoonomy is one thing, meanness'Is another, and if proiehed on the Subject, oilered to pay the rent of a on that midsummer^ night suddenly Hooded "the gray' 1 A young man banged himself, it up and ilred it, wlUi the? explanation that from a Congres» does not allow the Secretary to do what he placer for a month M least, and will take a certain courtyanvout on which she has often looked with a asks, to use à certain sum of money already on hand Perchance lor love, perchance for want of poll; literary standpoint he was only seven years,did, and number of tickets. 1 have got a store, already fitted that " The Blade o' Grass " was therefore unwritten glory that took away its sombre tone, and made it to pay women for doing work which is needed, instead A good, long bell-rope choosing, with a counter, and a back room for the cooking, on E at the time designated by the unfortunate- and now all as bright as the flame that blazed in the room that of turning them out toau fier, it-will be the meanest street—1216—'and a good practtcal person to take Wherewith to do the noosing. blushing Mr. Brooks. The company simply shouted, once was her's. bit of cruelty, practiced under the name of economy, charge of it. 1 know it can be made to pay for Itself, But hark— and several speakers who followed were-so hegitless as Itrhasigot to .toe quite the fashion now-to »makeup that they can be^, guilty of, and every one who votes but It must havo help at first ' .A/"co6i{ingVtoVe, fuel The sequel mark! to guy Mr. Faijeon's confounded eulogiift most foh- partilds 4o go' to a certain Italian resiaurani> &t the1 against it will be a "Spotted" individual, and when (a ton of coal and some wo'dcl) and afew dishes are At the one end his weight, merclfully. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew jocosely declared corner of Third avenue and Fourteenth street, called women get the ballot he will be sat down on beauti- gigantic obstacles in the way. The bell at t' other, kept him from the-fate that Brooks never was in California -at-alt,-and -Drr the Cafe MorettlT"ftrattractiveuess lies -not only In fully and effectually. And l am being converted to An army officer" colonel 3' the Seeond cavalry, wbo He well deserved to suiier— MacDonald said : " What you understood Mr. Brooks the plenteousness and the characteristic character of the theory that lovely woman might take a hand in with his family areiftationed her» for theyvinter, ha The miserable buffer! ' ( to say was that he put the candle in the bottle and fin- the food, but in the fact that the place is a sort of a the political deal and have equal rights with intel- interested himself practically in this matter, and the ished the novel ; what he really meant was that he compromise between a canal-boat and the "best ioorh" lectual man, with some benefit to herself and the pub- Ere long, chances are that by the time-you and my gossipers put the novel in the candle and finished the bottle ! " of a teneinent-house. To be sure, the rough walls are lic generally, "Ding-dong! ding-dong!" are reading this he has made some arrangement for Atwhieh there was another royal roar. Butthepolite hung with lithographs of operatic artists, many of I did not attend the meetings at Lincoln Hall last The ringer of the bell the furnishing of those things. Everv grocery man can Frenchman made no game of Mr. Hastings' extraor- whom are reputed to have left these shores largely in week, though when an excited female got up in the Summoned, who saved, perhaps, a soul from hell; give a little. We don't want many things. Corn dinary plea lor the erection of a statue past which the the debt Of the genial anfl democratic host, who, by audience and gave Mr. Beecher a piece of her mind The bell thus by Its clanging meal, beans, (some wholesale dealer might give a bar tide of trade and travel flows up and down Broadway the way, serves the dinner pi shirt-sleeves and apron, ft was currently reported that it was "Boberts." 1 Betraying the man's hanging. rel of the latter,) brown sugar, molasses, flour, bacon at the present time, and has for months past. with the aid of a Tuscan youth named Antonio, wait- went to the reception at tho Biggs, and 1 went in fear and tea are what we want. 1 wish the grocers would Some now There was really some admirable speech-making at ing on the tables, and, for all I know, washing the and trembling, for a guilty conscience told me how send to me their names, and what they will give, so Will not allow tliis dinner, which was, I should say, a veritable tri- dishes. Morettl is always gay, but he is sometimes many times I had laughed at them and caused others as to save their being asked. They shall have iull He wished his days to end, umph of the cuisine. This was not to be wondered at, severe; and one evening, while a friend and I were to do the same. However, a gentleman urged me to oredit for everything given. Every market man can But knew that on the bell he might depend slnoe Mr. Francis Klnzler, the president of the Cer- conversing about a certain tenor, he astounded us by go, and making up my mind 1 could not be killed but give every day for a month a bone. If every one will Securely, and the swinging cle, is also one of the proprietors of the Hotel Bruns- breaking in with a sound criticism on his method and once, and would have to die some time, I arrayed my- only put their shoulders to the wheel and push ever so Long rope that set it ringing. wick, and bad a double duty to discharge worthily on his past achievements in Italian opera-houses. Mo- sell and started odt. On the way there he said : little, it will help. retti as a critic, as well as waiter, greatly charmed us. this occasion. After he had delivered his cordial "After 1 introduce you to some of -them I must leave A number of persons will say "What can be given Howe'er | To dine there properly exacts only the table d1 hole welcome, Mr. Charles Villa-, the critic of the Courrier you for awhile and go down to Newspaper Bow." At for a penny?" and may be skeptical. Of course no This be, oh hear, dinner, as regards food ; but one should supplement des Etats-Unis, spoke in his usual eloquent style, link- that moment I would have been glad to have heard dainties can be given. I don't think broiled oyster Ye who forsa"en by hope the vin ordinaire by a certain Italian wine of a "white" ing the name of Gambetta with that of France in his that Newspaper Bow, with Bamsdell, Sarvls and the on toast or quail could be iurnished. But a dish of Would die! Be wise, by no means choose a rope quality that is oh the nectar order. Lately I h missed, because in showing roason why GEO. T. KEEN, 1 •to the gallant Frenchman who put his sword at thè and with, his fur-trimmed coat and little hat, was member for calling the roll. There are nearly three such a thing oould not be started here, and it seemed 1 disposal of Americans, Considering that there is scarcely an objeot of compassion or r'ospect, even in hundred members, so the Indulging of this paBtlme to me to be a practical stop toward* relieving the -poor - already a statue on Upton Square, and that a model the moment of mourning. A,quarter pf an boyr costs thé Government nearly' four hundred - dollars and really benefiting them ; and every one 1 spoke to? Merchant Tailor, -pf the work was placed as a table ornament almost later I.looked out from a window x>f one of the apart- every time, and there is hardly : a day that -

PROGRESSIVE PARAGRAPHS. MEN moving in an atmosphere of refinement, men Philadelphia to act at night. Feehter,Mojeska, Bou- of reputed piety, of so-called benevolence, of " sweet cicault and John T. Raymond will also appear in the domestic relations," of "high business standing," afternoon. Lester Wallack, John McOullough, CHARLOTTE BRONTE'S nurse is living ncorCravr- men who yearned to put the bible in the hands of crara Morric, Ada Dyne. BrlgBoli, Miss Abbott, and fordsville, Iowa. dusky savages, have suddenly been caught in arrant, possibly Jeiierson, John S. Clarke and Wm. Warren, LET who will make the laws of the nation, so that studied knavery, and put under lock and key beside the old comedian, In the evening. There's a constel- Room 1, Vernon Row, 1 sing to it.—C'lura Louise Kellogg. the ragged wretches who beat their wives, Who snatch lation for you. THE arrest of quack advertisers in New York has pocketbookB and steal groceries. Gilman,. Case, Hot- The receipts of Brougham's benefit nine years ago TENTH AND PENNS YZ VA If I A A VENUE. not extended to Dick MeCormick. ter, Bonner. No wonder Tweed laughs.—New York were over $8,000. I saw the check handed the veteran Largest Line of Samples ever, shown ,ln this cltyj and Increased facilities, presenting more advantages ¡sportsman. myself, and his genial, kindly face smiled thanksand SLAVE of the dark and; dirty mine, what vanity producing fine work than can be obtained elsewhere, in price, quality, fit, style and promptness. brought thee here ?—Senator Sharon. GOVERNOR SHEPHERD was so unfortunate as to slip gratitude, then o'ercast an instant with reflection, as Cutting:, Making and Trimming Pants, • • ' •-J '"'• V _ _ $2 50 down on the ice in front ofhls residence one night last if thinking, as Willie Winter said, "who he could PROPRIETORS of Turkish baths are changing them OTHER GARNEN'i S IN PROPORTION. week, and break two of the bones of his right leg. He give half of it to." to .Russian, so as to be on the winning side. Returning Cash for any misfit without debate. Call early for choice styles, and thereby save one-third ID was assisted to the house by Messrs. Hoffman and Edwin Booth opened for a six-weeks engagement at oaeh - Je3-ly2 MANY are the perils which do environ the man who Ashe, who happened fortunately to be with hiifa, and the theater which bears his name. He played meddles with 'my pig-iron.—Judge Kelley of Pennsyl- Drs. Ford Thompson and Lincoln called in. The Richard III., the original edition, Shakspeare's text vania. " • ' . i Governor suffered severely from the fracture, but bore with the Clbberisms cut out. The gallery missed their LADIES' GOODS. WEABING APPAEEL. KEEP a good lookout this cold weather, for human the pain and discornfort with his usual' fortitude and favorite " Off with his hèad I So much for Bucking- nature is weak, and yoti are liable any moment to equable temper. He is doing nicely now, and will ham," and- " Richard's himself again." Richard ap- THE BEST AND slip up. , soon be about his usual avocations. pears a much better sort ot a fellow, morally, under Reception and Evening JEÏA.TS, the new treatment. William Winter is announced as CHEAPEST HATS, THERE'S many worse women in the world than Clara. As TO Uio ploture of ftforme r era, w h ich was so un- editing the present version. Of course Booth's house Louise Kellogg; most of them ^though,' hâve no voices. fortunate «8 to paint its heavenly father as being a was jammed from pit to dome, and his reception and —Anne Louise^ Carey. person who owned a botyoifaleBS lake of fire and brim- BONNETS, recalls were enthusiastic, tumultuous and numerous UMBRELLAS, umbrellas atone, and AS being a person who, lor lilj own good BARNUM is sixty-eight, and he says he is settling hi?, OurlouBly, it is just nine years also since Edwin pleasure, regardless of sin aforeseen, foreordained AND CANES IN house in order for the hereafter. He needn't go to Booth opened the magnificent dramatic tomb which millions to spend endless years In that i'aft'e of lire, it the expense of a furnace. has sunk so much of his and other people's money Opera Kid Cloves in THE CITY. Is not so much a wonder that the Scotch Calvinlsts, THE Pope, Victor Emmanuel and John Patterson It was an Wednesday night, February 3-1869. Thé and all Calvinlsts, are rising up against such an White and evening shades, in 2, 3, 4 and 6 buttons, CANES, divided the interest of the world in their last moments. play selected was Bo.meo and Juliet—an uniortunate idea of Ood.—tHUadelplita £timing Star. Crepej Llsse Neck and Sleeve Ruches, line French Somebody's playing 'posaum. selection for Mr. Booth, -for he cannot, play Romeo Flowers, &c., Sec., suitable for evening toilet, at THE Rev. Dr. Cornwall lectures in favor of the NOT satisfied with Cojley Gibber, Edwin Booth anyinore than Louis James, nor better than Louise "moral influence of music." Try him with a hand- plays a version of Richard III. edited by William Pomeroy. It was though, I suspect, an act of gallan- organ while he is writing a sermon. Wlpter, dramatis critic of the New York Tribune. It try to little Mary McVickar, now matronly Mrs- MRS. J. P. PALMER'S, WALTER KER'S, is what is known as the original version, with some of Ed win Booth, who made herdebut before a New York WE REGRET to see a tendency among some of our the scenes transposed, the text of. course unchanged, audience as J ullet. Fanny Morant was the Nurse, snobbish religious exchanges to spell Samson with a No. 1107 F street, bet. 11th and 12th sts. 1419 Pennsylvania avenue. "OH with, his head ! So much tor Buckingham," and perfectly she played It. Poor Edwin Adams was sep30-ly3 oc29 tiB "p." It is hardly fair to Thompson., u .Richard's himself again/' and other Clbberian Inno- the Mercutio, and he played that night as though BUFFALO girls were lured out in full force, with their vations will be sadly missed by the gallery, gg> ¡51 charged with electricity, entirely drowning Booth In 3 S3 e Buffalo beaux, to gaze breathless with admiration on the applause and easily oarrytng off the honors of the Mrs« S. L. Ansman s a e «s a THB Philadelphia clergy passed unanimously a »"Sp.® §• affi w John McCullough's sturdy, sterling acting. cheerful resolution expressing "entire confidence in nighti Mark Smith assumed Friar Lawrence. Of dKj«,g. a 8 ¿ B • o ST o WHEN we hear a manly, deep voice singing,As a the endlessness of luture punishments." Some of the course all your readers know what a mellow, finished HAS RECEIVED :5 "S • » H young bird remembers its mother," we feel like put- Scotch Presbyterians in that hilarious eity, such as performance that must have been. J. Hind and a »o-if».»^ W ting a harness on him and hitching him to a dray. James K. Young, executive clerk of the United States Augustus W. Fenno were respectively Montague and rf- !;:•:•; ! ZTl Capulet. It was a fine cast, but, like a defective line a gB : L—H A RECKLESS lion in Brussels bit off the arm of his Senate, Sam Kandail and Aleok. McOlure, must have A Choice Selection of O of battle, weakest In the center. where It should have keeper, in defiance of the good example of Daniel's been caught lending a long-suifering ear to the 28 g » : : s PH been strongest. S scriptural lions. Another illusion dispelled, Mr. Beeclier-no-hell doctrine.—Christian at Work. h. ® eòo : : : : : : I SÖ Ingersoll. AT midnight in his guarded tent Bouoicault Is crowding the Grand Opera House New and Elegant Stiles in Millinery. P»s> with the Shaughraun at popular prices. Modjeska, the W_ »p GC No MAN thoroughly understands ,the true science of The Turk lay dreaming of the hour, . QB government who cannot, without arçy intervening When Servia, her knee in sappliance bent, Polish artiste who came here by way ot California, TO WHICH. S HE INVITES THE ATTEN- O fooling, control the appointments in his own State.— Should tremble at his power. curiously enough has made a hit. She has great ex- TION OF THE LDDIES BEFORE end ì gì LUílLL za pression and emotional power, but wrestles with PURCHASING ELSEWHERE. V* Roscoc Conkling. & " But not much, if the Czar knowshimsell, and, Mr. «S ri .wwoo^Kiä ^ _ a foreign language which necessarily lessens the effect THE world may never know what unutterable things Evarts, you just bet your last fee In the Erie railroad ® H® ns ™ w OC of the most dramatic utterances; as it did with Davi- •E33 a head waiter thinks when he folds his arms and leans case that he do."—Baron Shitkin, Russian Minister. 1109 F street, between Eleventh and oê <=lg s w g ow son, Fechter, and lastly, Von Stamwitz. It is a pity against the wall to look down upon you in dreamy SALVtia, in the lervor of his acting, frequently stabs Of fO gIF-lI ES&) M the princesse, countess or lace-maker, whichever she Twelfth streets. silence, with mournful eyes. himself. We, know some men who do that in the 0ctl4-ly3 may be, came to us by way of California. Had she even fervor of their eating. EVIDENTLY the Post and the Republican worship landed in Philadelphia it would-have been better. difierent gods. Mr. Clapp says the Post's Loi'd isn't Still It is a difficulty that may be pvercome by time E. HORGAN, the right Lord. We hope our neighbors won't go to and forgetfulness. MISS 1. 1 M'CORMICR, Hickstremes in the argument. OUR FEW YORK LETTER. MERCHANT TAILOR, Fanny Davenport want» it distinctly understood 1414 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwestf 533 NINTH STREET, MRS. SUSAN B.; ANTHONY couldn't attend the John Brougham's Benefit—A Constellation of Stars— that her nogo is not broken. If you don't believe it go MAKES THE CHEAPEST CLOTHING IN THE Woman's Insufferable Convention, so sent $150 "to1 and seq for yojirself, she says. However dear adver- ' CITY. Edwin Booth's Return—His First Performance at help the good work $long." A few more could have tising is to the theatrical heart, the fair Fannie de- (St. Oloud Building,) ALL-WOOL CASSIMEKE PANTS $6 0» Booth's Theater Nine Tears Ago—Fanny Davenport's " " SC1T8 20 0» been spared at half the money. clines it in that form. She is willing Cronin should " BEAVEB OVERCOATS 26 »0 SARDINES, pickles and cigars constituted the Ne*v Nose—Curious Story of Matilda Heron's First Mar- have a monopoly. nov4-ly Year's entertainment on Atlanta (Georgia) tables; riage—Tho .True-Inwardness of the Lord-Hicks Oakey Hall has finished his lecturing tour and taken FINE MILLINERY, FLOW- up his professional quarters for legal practice In the ^MISCELLANEOUS. and many callers recognized the first-named as'a long- Tempest—Can an Old Han Marry I lost brother.—Rochester Democrat. Tribune building, where J.udgo Dlttenhœfer, the lead- NEW. YORK, January 11, 1878. GRACE GREENWOOD'S letter in the ï^féw York Times, ing German lawyer of the city, and other distin- ERS, FEATHERS, &c. THE PERFECT TEA STEEPER! The hermitage of Mr. Lord and the widow Hicks; on New Year's and theChisholm tragedy, makes it guished counsel have their offices. the jailing of Wetmore, the Insurance man, in process difficult to decide whether she most admires the style A curious story comes to us from the All-Day City of which he broke down completely, shuddering at his of Horace Walpole or Robespierre. Item, a Philadelphia journal, regarding poor Matilda DRESSMAKING IN ALI, ITS fellow felons, and crying when ordered to strip for the Heron, and how an unfortunate mistake separated COUNT JOANNES executed Hamlet lairly at the prison garb; Mrs. Wm. B. Astor's grand ball, no her from her first husband. It will bear quoting as an BRANCHES. Bowery Theater. A rain of coppers angered the noble usual thing with the Astors; John Brougham's bone- Interesting episode in the nomadic career of this once ap29-tf5 Count, and with. bland delivery he addressed the au- tit and the red ball up for skating in the Park, are famous actress. Colonel Fitzgerald, the editor of the dience as "cowardly, inhuman wretches." our little excitements after the bustle, merry-making T COST ! AT COST ! Item, is apt to be well informed of what he writes, as A FOR BEECHER has been offered a larger sum than he re- and feasting, of New Year's. The beginning of the both he and Colonel Forney were familiar at the time CASH ONLY. ceives from Ply mouth church for a lecture tour through- year makes one remlnifcent and philosophical. with the principal characters in this little life drama. out the country, and a much larger sum for a European Brougham and Edwin Booth suggest the remlniscen- The Item says : "The true story of the late Matilda In order to reduce our large stock of MILLINERY tour. No wonder Henry is so fat and sassy. oes, and a word of worldly philosophy will not be mis- Heron's separation from her first husband, Harry and FANCY GOODS we will sell for the next thirty applied just now on tho Lord-Hicks wedding, which days, our entire stock, except Kid Gloves, at Cost for THOSE who sit down in California daily to their Byrne, Is as follows : She met him in 1863 while in Cash only. Job Lot Hamburgs at 25c. per yard, the the world seems to have made Its special business. dishes of green peas, fresh tomatoes, tender lettuce California, and after a courtship of a few weeks' dura- best ever sold at that price. Lot Hats at 60c., a bar- John Brougham has been uniformly an unlucky tion, married him secretly for professional reasons. gain. Trimmed Hats and Bonnets will also be sold and celery, and any variety of garden sauce, owe it at cost. man, or rather he is not a business man. 1 remember One evening during her temporary absence from largely to the presence of John Chinaman in their £S~The extreme scarcity of money necessitates midst. when nine years ago he essayed the management of San Francisco, a number of gentlemen of that city this step, and we hope our patrons will appreciate the Fifth-Avenue Theater, which Jim Eisk had just gave a supper. Among the company were Mr. Byrne the Great Bargains Offered. FREUND having sued Hallet Kilbourn for the meals built. Brougham superintended the construction and and a well-known writer, who afterwards became the MRS. M. J. HUNT, the Government always furnishes its state prisoners, decoration. Flsk gave him full swing. After due editor and proprietor of the largest sporting journal oct7-ly6 621 and 623 D streot northwest. This valuable Improvement consists in the combina- Hallet has had himself elected a Washington market- preparation and the usual preliminary blasts of trum- In America, and the heir to the estate of Senator tion of Lami), Boiler, &c., with tho Teapot : the steam house director, so that next time he can get his grub passing around and through the center of the pot, pets he set the silken sails and spread the silver oars Broderick, who was killed in a duel. This man was Md'me De Courcey White, at cost". steeping the tea without boiling, thus securing of his gilded galley on Monday night, the 27tli of then living on very intimate terms with a Miss Kate A REALLY good play, an emotiopal play, one that A. PERFECT CTJI* OF TUA. Tanuary, '69, amid the enthusiastic plaudits of the Rldgely, then very well known in this oity [Philadel- (LATE OF LORD & TAYLOR'S, NEW YORK,) will make peoplé either laugh or cry, is sure to draw most intellectual metropolitan Egyptians. It floated phia,) and who bore a striking resemblance to Miss crowded houses in New York, no matter whether it is DIRECTIONS FOR USE.—Make the tea as usual., down the theatrical Nile with uninterrupted tran- Heron. While the wine and cigars were circulating with boiling water, and nil the boiler about half full of native or foreign. Give me a good emotional play and quillity and success ibr a time. Its favorable progress, the gentleman referred to took irom his pocket Kate FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKER, hot water ; set the pot on the boiler and let It stand on I will make money.—bion Boucicault. the stove, and the water boiling in the boiler will steep - however, was due more to the storm of personal popu- Ridgely's picture, and at the same time explained her NO. 707 Fourth Street N. W. the tea without boiling in the pot, it being a well- THE Pope cannot bear a fire in his rooms, and to larity which swelied Brougham's silken sails than to character, but without disclosing her name. Those sepl6-ly7 known fact among experts in tea that keep his hands warm has invented apallctta, a hollow the vigor anil skill of the men and maidens with whom present assumed it to bo the portrait of Miss Heron, little ball of silver, soinewhat larger than an egg, he had manned his silver oars. To drop the Nilotic and Byme, who saw it, turned pale with, grief and Tea. Soiled Is Tea Spoiled. which is filled with hot water, and which from time to metaphor which threatens to lead me a course as sin- rage, believing this a prooi of his, wife's Infidelity, Dress - Mailing; time he rolls between his chilled palms. uous as the twisting of that white and shining river, and the true reason of her refusal to marry him pub- And 8. T. Taylor's Patterns, Journals, For sale at wholesale by (Le Bon Ton, La Mode Elegante and Revue de la SINO ia song of sixpence; daddy's ftill of rye, Brougham, through Fisk's liberality, developed into licly. He hastily left the room, wrote her a bit.ter let- Mode.) and general stook for sale. S. J. MESSER, Four and twenty sîlfer mines baked in a pié ; j form and life a grand conception. His Idea was a ter, and at once left California, taking car,e to con- dec9-3mos6 1213 Pennsylvania avenue. ELASTIC LAMP CO., When the ffte is opened the Mint begins to sing, theater unsurpassable In beauty and tasteful construc- 'ceal his whereabouts from the knowledge of his wife. 58 Murray Street, New YorJc.- tion, occupied by a company which should do every- On receiving the letter poor Miss Heron was thun- Isn't that a pretty dish to give the little thing? MISCELLANEOUS. At retail at all Crockery and House-Furnishing ' Senator Jones in the Nursery. thing to illuminate and adorn the art which Brougham derstruck. It was a long time before she discovered Stores. |my20-t!B as truly reverences as any man living, and which the cause of her husband's strange behavior, and OLE BULL and old Dan Tucker should never do anything to degrade It. then she wrote to the journalist a letter,; which is still FURNITURE, Played k njatçh lor an oyster supper, He had the theater. It gleamed and glittered like in existence, begging him to repair the injury he had Some for Bull and some for Tucker; done her. Whether this was done or not, matters had But Î went in for the oyster supper. a solitaire diamond. Thalia herself might have rested LACE CURTAINS, forever within its enchanted waifs and warbled idyls- gone toq far for a reconciliation, and Miss Heron and THE PARKER GUN. Sam Ward. if idyls can be warbled—as tunefully as though on her husband never met again." That shockand disap- "I THOUGHT* he was expounding the law and thé her native meads. But the company were not soli- pointment may account for much that was eccentric in prophets, but on drawing a little nearer I found that LAMBREQUINS. taire diamonds—that Is, not An ofthem. Effie Germon poor Matilda Heron's clouded eareer. he was warmly expatiating upon the merits of a was a gem in her way; of how many carats I dare not brown horse."—Bracebridge Hall. The Lord-Hlekscitement has subsided. The public say. She was pretty, piquant and not too pert. She Senator Beck. have finally made up their minds that it Is none of their CORNICES &C., &C. played Captain .links, In a "dramatio review" bur- SOUND the clarion, fill the fife, business, and now a mild wonder only Is expressed that lesque, prepared by Brougham for. the aliening, In To all the sensual world proclaim, every Impertinent whelp ot a reporter who pulled so per- captiratlnK, clever manner. There was another young A Most Complete Assortment Just One crowded hour of glorious life sistently at Mrs. Hicks' door-bell hadn't been kicked lady, who has since won some Western fatrnt, who was .SENO STAMP FOR CIRCULAR Is worth an age without a name. off the steps. It Is pretty generally admitted that a not so fortunate in her debut at the new theater—a Mrs. Annette Wilhelmina Hicks Lord. man can marry who he pleases, even If he be an old Miss Ada Elrmln. I have never been fortunate man, and lour idle sons, who live upon him, object. Keceived at PARKER BRtfS IT ALL depends upon the standpoint from which a enough to have seen her since she was a Titianesque thing's looked at. Wm. H. Yanderbilt hangs over When Commodore Vanderbilt, as old a man as Mr. young woman, with as much balmy assurance as an Lord, married a lady considerably the junior of Mrs. WEST MERIDENjCT. his bed, "A penny saved is a penny made." Michael Irish soldier of fortune. She had a good figure, but Hicks, and one without the latter's beauty, wealth or HARMON, BOSWELL & CO.'S, Dougherty, the truckman, paints on the front of his it was a pity she did not cut it on the stage that night. accomplishments, no one thought him Insane. On Sep23-'ti7 wagon, "The free hand seldom lacks the full purse." It is said that a convict, who has once worn the ball the contrary, all New York applauded his spirit and AUSTINE SNEAD (Miss Grundy) Is a Kentuckian, and chain, never recovers irom the shuffling gait that good judgment. His heirs did not commence to 313 Eighth street, and so comes naturally by a love for blue-blood, good wrangle over his wealth and defile his memory until Improved Farms Wanted. ornamental appendage gives him. I have never tried he was dead. The Lord children, with equal greed breeding, good clothes and thorough-bred, horses. As it yet, but that Is the prevailing belief. So it is with and vulgarity, and less judgment, seem nbt only to (NEAR PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.) a society raconteur "Miss Grundy" is a pleasant the concert hall or " walk-around" step. There Is a wish to seize their father's gold while he yet lives, PARTIES DESIRING combination of Boswell, the countess of Blessington, peculiar, impudent, presumptive assertion about it but to Imprison him, In a filial way, in a lunatic and Madame Demorest. whioh seems to say: "Never mind those others; asylum. They would probably be equally ready to Loans at a Low Valuation now look at me."-1 Miss Flrmln may never have been maroon blm on a desert island, or to throw him down Don't Fail to Examine their Stock and get MRS. ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER said that " the a well, provided either course would give them imme- women intended to take possession of the Capitol on in a concert hall, but the airs and graces of those re- diate possession of the property, which would be so their Prices before Purchasing. on Improved Farms treats hung around her as thick as glass beads on the much safer for them in their hands. It is a pitiable Thursday, by God"—meaning Deo- Volente. Her well- MVK -K-KA.JES.W,, known brother says there is no hell. We are glad one bare bosom of an Indian belle. exhibition of bad human nature. 1 fall to see In what respect Mr. Lord has exhibited any signs of Insanity Apply to of the family has thus publicly acknowledged the ex- THEY WXZZ NOT BE UNDEJiSOZD. But although Brougham had the theater, he was or depravity. He has won from other sultorr—for REAL ESTATE LOAN ASD TRUST CO., istence of a supreme being. too esthetlQ {pr the times. The ¿management passed suitors undoubtedly so desirable a widow must have So. «31 F street northwest, had—a buxom, blooming, bouncing bride, admittedly " CELIA LOGAN writes that Mrs. Hicks is " a South- from his hands, and the theater never was a success; jyl-lyB Washington, D. C., P. O. Box 74. erner of the best type and is about thirty-four years and is now a "Hall" underthemanagement of Hel- one of the finest women In America, and rich withal. They take pleasure Is SHOWING GOODS. By what means he captured her I do not know, nor old," She is not a Southerner of any type, and is as far ler, the magician, known to you Washlngtonians as does it matter* for the widow Hicks is no pullet, and They guarantee all thelrwork. no4-3mos8 JOHN BARRY, beyond thirty-four as theMvacious Celia herself is be-' Robert Palmer. It Is hardly a supposabie ease that he undermined her yond twenty-five. Excuse us, but the subject is now Next Thursday evening Mr. Brougham's friends virtue with a philter. He married her with modest Plumber, Gas & Steam Fitter one of mathematical importance. give him a benefit at the Academy of Music. The reticence, and chose his own way of passing his honey- 1876 MOTTS, 1876 names appended to the invitation read like a roster of moon, doubtless conforming to the wishes-of his bride " LIVER-EATING JOHNSON" is filled, we are grieved MEDAL PIPLOMA. 1319 Seventh Street, bet. K and O N. W. the Knickerbocker nobility. Livingstones, Lorillards, as t-otbe method. to learn by telegram from Dacotah. Mr. Johnson AWARDED. Harness k Pad-Maker. AWARDED Cuttings, Pierreponts, and the solid burghers like If this be lurtacy, the world Is peopled with lunatics. derived his gastronomic name from having onoe killed Many a younger man would have been glad of this WALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Sheridan Shook, Lester Wallac.lt and others to the Large assortment of Harness, Blankets, Whips and eaten the liyer of an Indian against whom he had octogenarian'8 opportunity. The suspicion ot lunacy Collars, Rubber Covers, stable furnishing goods, &o., ' my6-ti2 number of one hundred, have signed the call. Many would better apply to Mrs. Hicks for a mesalliance. a revenge. He was the terror of strolling Indians. Special attention to cleaning and repairing Harness, of the best known ladles in fashionable and aristo- Young people are too apt to want this world all to Whips, &o.; leather for embroidered work, trusses, &o. We may now expect Sitting Bull home. themselves. The threatened action of the Lord chil- The above done In the best manner at reduced prioes A. T. WHITING'S, cratic olroles appear in the list, and the profession dren, to annul the marriage and confine their father, deo9-6moal 402 Eighth street NT W. ROME sat on her seven hills, and from her throne of have volunteered- unanimously, from the dazzling suggests a custom which once obtained among the 024, PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, beauty ruled the world. Mr. President, why cannot stars, Modjeska, John MoCullough, Lester Wallack Hindoos—utilitarian, bût eminently unlillal. When JOHN R. KELLY, Washington, our own fair oity, which sits on a dozen their parents were aged, infirm and Incapacitated et id, down to the door-keepers and supes, to give the from further usefulness, they tenderly picked them Dealer In FIRST-CLASS hills and a marsh, and would have sat on a dozen nation's favorite a lift. Jeiierson Is coming all the up, carried them to the banks ot the Ganges and laid BEEF, ^I^LiAMB, STRAW AND FELT HAT BLEACHER!, more if Boss Shepherd had been let alone five years way from New Orleans to play that night, and Lester them on their backs in the burning sun. Then, after VEAL, TH&fl MUTTOJf, Etc. longer—why cannot Washington, 1 say, Mr. President,, Wallack himself, the lofty, unapproachable Lester, plùoklng out their eyebrows, that nothing might Im- NOW BEADY FOB BEFIMSHBiG IN ALL THE pede their vision, they left them to peacefully die on FALL STILES. mar26-tl rule the world ?—Senator Dennis of Maryland. unbends from his sanctity as the white elephant of the the sacred river, before being rolled intoits flood, to be CORNED BEEF A SPECIALTY. theatrical Siamese, and will personally conduct the carried down to the sea, which was supposed to assure Stalls 628, 629 and 630 Center Market, Ninth street OUR WELL-KNOWN and favorite fellow-citizen. Dr. wing; and 206 and 208 Northern Liberty Market, or ad- performance. Theo. Moss consents to act as treasurer their future. It may be argued in favor of the Hin- STEPHEN F. GILL, T-c-k-r B-k-e, whose name we do not give for obvious doos that they did not k now any better. dress Box 713 City Post-Offlce. Marketing delivered reasons, is said to have very much admired Mrs. of what promises to be a large fund, and direct the If Mr. Lord isdragged into-court, he can produce so i free of charge to all parts of the city. deel6-tfr Plain and ornamental Hicks, when that lady visited Washington. His in- finances and business. In tbat department of amuse- many Instances ofmarriage, at a greater age than his ments Mr. Moss has no equal in our country. own, that the court will grow tired listening to them. tention to propose was frustrated by the.earn est pro- Let us be charitable, and suppose that the old man J. L. SMITHMEYER & CO. PLASTERER, test of the "Misanthropes," a social organization of Edwin Booth hassentaletterpromlslngto play Shy- grew weary of being ARCHITECTS, 406 Eighth street northwest, Washington, D. C. our leading young bachelors who have long recognized lock in thefourth act ot the Merchant ot Venice, Soth- " Lord of himself, that heritage of woe," NO. 70S FIFTEENTH STREET. BETWEEN G Oenterjpleoes, Caps. Brackets, Statuary, &c., always and took a wife for a companion. the Dootor as their president. crn plays in the afternoon performance, returning to AND NEW YORK AVENUE. on hana. Repairing and Calsomimlng promptly ex- Yours truly, PAROLB. febl8-tf9 ecuted. apr22-t!6 4 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

James Buchanan! How can I, an old public servant, HON. RICHARD T. MERRICK. cduld succeed hot only in brïiigins; «bout in armistice J SENATOR COICKLINO is a living illustra- THE CAPITAL. devoted ,to a cause, turn aside on any personal. feel- but also peace. The united Influence of America and If the Democracy .of Maryland wish to tion of how wrath and prejudice may blind the judg- ing? No, my dear friend, 1 write in sadness and England would tend toiowerthescalesin favorof peace. ment. He introduces a resolution calling upon tho sjncerity^hoping yet to do something by which the enjoy the luxury of a senator who will But what said Mr. Washburne ? Listen and wondèr : WASHINGTON CITY. 'The Parisians are rebels, and as rebels they hâve no Judiciary Committee of the Senate to Investigate and oauso of our country shall be saved. Think of live honor the position, instead of selecting a more value for mo than dogs' ' The National Guard report upop the conduct of the President in the cases years under his vindictive imperialism! Surely you' man who will be honored by it, the best lias the right to keep its arms.' Ireplledi ' When h u- of Runkle and Draper. Where under the Constitution SONDAI MOUSING J ANO Alti 13, 1878. mast hesitate." thing they can do is to tender tftS place to' . manity Is threatened, the civilized world IIM the right to intervene, and I ehtreatybu to tKkósOtìèineasures, the Committee on the Judiciary, or the Senate Itself, Richard T. Merrick,'Esq, There is probably together with Lord Lyons.' Mr. Washburne answered: ( In the same letter, after giving an account 11 shall do nothing. - These Versai llians do not listen gets the right to Investigate the Conduct of a co-ordi- THE CAPITAL has a Larger of the St. Domingo infamy, he writes: no man in the, "United States, certainly no to any advice; rather speak to Mr. Lyons about It.' nate branch or the'Government, would bother the Hon. one in the Democracy, who has such claims That was the end of my mission, and that was his Corikllng to answer. As well might he offer a resolu- Circulation, both Local and by Mail, " Afterward, when he still persevered, 1 felt .It my sympathy for liberty and republicanism. 1 left Mr tion calling on the Judiciary Committee to investi- than all the Other Sunday Papers of dirty to arraign him openly. Had 1 been a represen- to be considered a 'statesman as this emi- Washburne, sadly disappointed. 1,had, round jhim to be a rude, arrogant person, knowing nothing of the gate and report upon a decision of the Supreme Court. tative I should have felt it my duty to move his Im- nent attorney. He has been kftoWn to us Washington Combined. feelings of fratèrnlty that one should expect to find in If the President has done wrong the Constitution peachment. I shall be astonished it, at the next ses- for years as a man winning in his ways, elo- the representative of such a great republic. Twice I points out how he may be impeached. But this origi- sion, his impeachment is not moved. His chance of quent in his utterances and learned in his had an Interview with our embassador at Paris, Lord 13?" Our contributors and communicants Connòjly, and his open and polite way strikingly nates in the House. Suppose the committee report that impeachment Is better than that of re-election. Why, contrasted with the cold, assuming and wOula-be profession. But it was when a disputed Runkle has been improperly recognized by the Presi- are requested to get their matter in the then, press him for a candidate? Unquestionably aristocratic demeanor of the American minister. I Presidency found a strange tribunal in the dent yet an qffioer, of the army, what then ? office by or before Thursday. This will be the harAest^iosslble to elect and unquestionably the wrote ,to Lord Lyons, and Indeed the prospects for electoral commission that Mr. Merrick's peaoe were very favorablea had England thrown its apt to insure its publication in the succeed- poorest calling himself Republican. There are forty weighty opinion into the balance it would have The resolution we prepared and tried hard to get good Republicans in the Union, any one of whom can real measure was taken, and he swung at spared the world that butchery. On one occasion I introduced, read: ing issue. met Mr. Washburnè, accompanied by Dr. Oliert; he be nominated without hazard to the party, and when onoe into a national reputation, as not only said to me : ' All those that belong to theOommune or Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary in- elected will be a better. President. So I believe, on sympathise with it shall be shot.' I knew that old vestigate the iacts and law connected with the case of one of the ablest men at the bar, but as pos- Major Ben. P. Runkle, U. S. A., and report what leg- GRANT AND THE CAPITA!.. my oonaclenoe, and on thlB belief 1 must act. At the and young were then punished for the crime ot: sym- sessed of intellect that widened his useful- pathy, but I was not ready to hear it sémi-oflicially islation is necessary, 11 any, lor the better protection We have been, and are yet, severely proper time I shall communicate Mr. Stanton's and ness into the arena where, statesmen are so announced by Mr. WashbOrne ; and yet it was then, of officers and men of the army of the United States. •criticised for what our critics are pleased to myjudgmjint." when he uttered this bloody phrase, time enough to This would have brought out all the facts and law sadly needed. save the archbishop." * without the ridiculous absurdity of arraigning the call the vindictive attacks of THE CAPITAL In another litter from the same place, President before a committee of the Senate, and mak- upon U. S. Grant. That we have been and dated 28th August of the same year, he Mr. Merrick's career as a politician must be singularly agreeable to the pemocracy IN San Francisco there are four great ing a report that must, be laughable, let It end as it are very plain and outspoken in our opinion strengthens his estimate of Grant by giving may. of this incompetent official there is no deny- the opinion of Edwin M. Stanton, and re- of Maryland. He has been brave, steady hongs or Chinese merchant companies, called the iterates his own. The letter runs as follows: and consistent from first to last. In the Yung wo, the Ss-e-yap, the Yan-wo and Wlng-Yeung ing ; but that we are or have been moved A NOTABLE ENTERTAINMENT was given "The more I reflect on the question the more I am darkest hour of that Democracy he was companies. Theeo companies have large buildings in to thus write of the ex-President By any the city, where they not only carry on business, but the distinguished actor, Lawrence Barrett, on Friday distressed for my coUntry and the Republican party faithful when few stood firm, and at a time lodge and board all the people attached to their com- at the Washington Club restaurant. Covers were laid vindictive feeling we utterly deny. We at the idea of Grant's renomination. We could bet- when even an expression of Democratic panies when in the city. There are also benevolent lor twenty-fbur gentlemen, among whom were sena- know him to be ignorant, vulgar and vi- ter have lost one of his bloody victories. His rule for faith imperiled life his eloquent utterances associations to take care Of their own people. There tors, members of Congress, army officers, journalists, cious, and being an official agent, in high the second term would be the Imperialism of selfish- aTe no Chihese beggars In San Francisco, and that and one member oí the Cabinet. Mr. Barrett, who position, we felt it our duty, certainly not ness and vindictiveness—Without moral sense, with- spoke the courage of a true tnan. ' nation alone hàs no representatives in the public hos- was a devoted friend of the late General Custer, is no out ideas, without knowledge. our pleasure, to make his character knpwn How this honorable career contrasts with pital. Most of the Chinese on thè Pacific coàst come tyro with the pen himself, and has contributed some to our readers. And now that he' is in the truckling of the political prostitutes who excellent reading to tho light literature of the day. " I think you will admit that he is the lowest Presi- to California under eontractto one or other of* these training for another attack on the " Presi- have sold their party in the same transac- The dinner was a compliment to the aotor's profes- dent, whether intellectually or morally, we have ever oompanies, engaged at a low rate of wagfes, and those companies again let out their labor in various ways. sional and social standing, which he has always kept dency, we know that the people should be had. Undoubtedly he is the richest since Washing- tions in which they sold themselves, and This is essentially the Cooiey system, and there need with laudable ambition in the Irqnt rank. Mr. John warned in advance.- ton, although he was very poor .at the beginning of have been reformers and patriots on full ra- be but little doubt but that this prevails'In California. Chamberlin, who is nothing if not epicurean, excelled the war. tions and good pay. It is fatal to any cause, however just, to The laborers are said to be very faithful to their con- himself on this occasion. ¡The rarest dishes, choicest "Mr. Stanton's judgment of him was positive and leave its advocacy until a short time pre- It is not, however, that we urge the selec tracts. They do not use the iood of the people amoilg wines from a stock selected by himself in Now York, given under circumstances ot singular solemnity, and vious to, its decision at the ballot-box. In tion of Mr. Merrick upon the ground that whom they live to any great extent. Rioe is the great and tho most fragrant Havanas, crowned by a Re- the same thing he said at great length and with much the excitement of a canvass, after nomina- even courage and consistency should be re- staple, with sometimes a little pork ; and on festival gent's punch brewed by the proprietor himself, were detail to Mr. Hooper some months before. He Bald tions, -facts are regarded as campaign fic- warded, but that at long intervals we may occasions, duoks and ,other fowls. John, however, Is produced for so exceptional an occasion. Chamberlin that he knew Grant better than any other man or the have a man is public life we can love, look not at ail particular in his commissariat. All is flsh may not have been successful in gambling, which he tions, and thus lose all force and effect. country could know him; that It was his duty to study 1 up to and admire. Riohard Merrick is no which comes to his net., Rats, mice, and even their has given up for the business of a restaurateur, pre- When Grant was President our comments him, and he did study htm night and day—when he ferring the table cloth to the green cloth, but he cer- less a hard student than a brilliant thinker, mortal enemy, the oat, is not safe frem the celestial on his infamous conduct were pronounced saw and when he did not see him, then declared his omnivorous stomach. Their houses have a peculiar, tainly-knows how to keep a restaurant. The Wash- indecent by his sycophantic supporters—the utter jncapaoity. And you are electioneering for this and when we add to this high-toned integ- faint, 8iokening odor, perfectly indescribable. It has ington Club restaurant is already known as the Del- Treasury eaters of that day. And now that person's re-election! rity, we have qualifications that are neces- been well said that they smell of nothing but eflete m'onioo's of our city. Diplomatic, military and civilian he is a private citizen, all reference to his " Think of Jils vindictive quarrels since he has been sary to our country as they are novel to pub- civilization. John is a useful member of the human bori Vil¡ants have already found that out, and the pri- past career or future designs are deprecated President. God does not quarrel. What right has lic life. family, though, and without him the Pacific slope vate rooms are dally occupied by pleasant breakfast. the President of the United States to quarrel and pur- would have been years behind Its présent prosperity i Supper and dinner parties, whioh remind one of the because he is such private citizen. Had his sue supporters with vindiotive hate ? Lucullan days of Welcker. public life made any approach to what it Do not charge me with personal feelings. My should have been this sensitiveness on the MINOR NOTES. life Is my witness. I am an old servant, who has al. DON CARLOS is the Duke of Madrid, part of his late dependents would not exist ways thought of the cause and of my country. Never Prince of Bourbon and Este, and Carlos VII., right- KING VICTOR EMMANUEL IS BEAD. It will FOLLOWING the strikes that so frightened As a man who has done irreparable injury have I sought anything for myself. 1 have simply ful king of Spain In the estimation of nearly all be a source of unavailing regret to us that we neglected the monopolists and money changers, the Hon. E. B. to our Government, and one who is being worked and served. 1 was so doing when I felt It my northern Spain, wHicb embraces the Basque provinces, answering his last letter until it was too late. We Washbnrne, then but lately from his post of minister duty to opposo what seemed to me a mistaken policy Navarre, Alava, Guipuzcoa and Biscay. They have fear old Vlo. died under the impression that we felt prepared for further evil, it is well for us to ol the United States to Franoe, was employed to de- of the President. Never in my life did 1 act more been unwaveringly Carliit from time immemorial. oold towards him. He was a well-meaning man—his discuss his traits and expose his conduct liver a lecture on the Commune of Paris. The Hon. simple and sincerely. I could not have done other- Don Carlos was born at Venice, March 29,1848, of Don intentions at least were always honorable, and If his while the people are calm enough, between Washburne is one of a family that hold office and get wise without failing in my duty. Then came attacks Juan de Bourbon and the Donna Beatrix d'Este, an practice fell short of his precepts we must take into rich. We all know what a professional office-holder elections, to consider the truth. and all that a small nature surrounded and prompted Archduchess of Austria. consideration the enervating influences of the sunny is—a man of so little self-respect that he lives at the by small men could do! Such a man President for a clime of Italy, and make allowances for a large family It will be remembered that towards the bidding either of a certain moneyed interest that seeks He was educated in the military academy of Vien- of wives and promiscuous children. Well, he is gone second term. God-forbid!" close of Grant's first term, when efforts were to strengthen Itself through a control and use of the na. In 1867 he married at Gratz, Styria, the Prin- We regret that our limited space will not' and we feel almost as badly as if the Hon. Dawes had being made to secure his renomination Government, or else he is the creature of a caucus that cess Margarita de Bourbon, daughter of the Duchess demised. The subject is too much for us, and we rele- revolt occurred in the body of the Republi- permit a republication of these important represents the sample-room and corner grooery. of Parma and nelce of the Compte de Chambord, the gate it to the obituary department of the Cherub cans, and an effort was made first to defeat letters in full. In another, dated 3d Sep- When to this we add the meanness and cunning of claimant of the French crown, as heir of the elder Childs: the average rich man, we have a very lair estimate ol house of Bourbon. Don Carlos is neither a very war- tember, 1871, he says: " Oh ! Emmanuel, we do miss thee ; that renomination, and failing in that, an the Washburnes. like nor an ambitious prince, but maintains his pre- "You think Grant cannot be below tho ' infernally Thy loss the State deplores, independent organization was made, that tensions to the throne of Spain as a family tradition Thy subjects weep without thee, pro-slavery Pierce?' Why not? Was he not in the The Hon. E. B. delivered his oration. It was a tis- ended in the unfortunate nomination of more than anything else. The present king of Spain, Likewise " time of Pierce just as 'infernally pro-slavery,' and sue of misrepresentations from beginning to end. Alfonso, is the son or Isabella II. and Francisco We break down on the likewise. The perverse Horace Greeley. The distinctive feature of has he not done things worse than any attributed to The people of Paris—and they make up the govern- d'Assise, Duke of Cadiz, who were married, October rhyme the fact suggests shows how little of a poet we that effort, that history will take note of, was Pieroe ? ing element of France—did not suffer from the Grer- 10, 1848. The death of Victor Emmanuel and the are. Let the choir sing. that nearly all the prominent men who or- man invasion—they suffered irom the dishonest imbe- "I say nothing of him as a military character, imminent decease of the Pope, will put a different cility of a government that forced that war upon ganized the war and created the Republican leave that to others. How rarely in history has complexion upon the face of things political in South- them. And when that war was ended—with their FABLE.—Once upon a time an old man party appeared in violent opposition to Gen- good general been a good statesman! See Buckle. ern Europe, which may bTing Don Carlos to the sur- country laid waste and the bones of France's best was breaking a colt, and he requested his little sen eral Grant. It was known at the time that "As for'morals,'all his thoughts, ideas and senti- face again, and should the new Pope prove favorable citizens left bleaching upon vainly-fought fields, with to try the young and unruly animal by getting be- ments are on a low plane—lower than any President to him he will have the indirect support of every they did this because they'regarded Grant bankruptcy and starvation staring them in the face— hind a tree and suddenly jumping out with a cry of before has reached. leading Catholic noble in the world, led by such not only as mean, selfish, dishonest and in- they found themselves threatened with a return of, "boo" when the old man should ride past. The youth "You inquire if he is ' corrupt.' 1 have never said names as the Duke of N-orfolk and the Marquis of Bute. capable, but for that his possession of the the evil, in the accession of men to power did as he was bid to do, and the wild young horse anything on this head. You know well that he does who have ever been, the world over, the much alarmed, reared up behindhand, throwing the Presidency threatened the stability of the not hesitate to buy men by office, as no other Presi- enomies of the human race, and they aged father, "broke Ms paternal leg "Why did you republic. dent has done; nor does he hesitate to receive ' gilts || , CUPID ON CRUTCHES IS the latest little v made a desperate and vain effort to save themselyes. do that?"cried the sire. "Because," answered the ' You discard the testimony of Stanton, who had coniedy to which New York is being treated. The In proof of this we have now the voice guileless youth, "you told me to." "But I did not the best opportunity of knowing Grant, and you dis- This desperate struggle should excite our sympathy charming widow Hicks, who made in Europe our from the grave of the honored dead. What tell you," responded the injured man, in great wrath card mine, although I have had some opportunity. and admiration. It was tho blind effort of labor, that blessed American eagle a very gay and attractive ever maybe said, and justly said, of Charles and anguish, "to make such a big 'boo' to so small a Whose will you take ? . Will you name any person, produces everything and enjoys nothing. Nay, of bird, and, after refusing her hand, eke her fortune, to horse." Sumner's bigotry and sectional prejudice, not an actual present member of his Cabinet, Whose labor, that is made to endure all the suffering any no'end of English aristocrats, returns to New York to no one ventures to doubt his sincerity and judgment or testimony is of any weight? Ask Chase, misfortune can bring. Neither do they divide their marry the riohest widower in that great commercial Moral: It is well lor Chandler, Conklihg and Blaine to moderate their "boo'' at tho President, lest ho rear high-toned purity of character, and when who knows him well. He will speak to you of his in- good things, these capitalists; nor will they share our oenter, who is Lord by name and yet no lord by na- up behind and break a leg. he is called to the stand as witness against competency. Unhappily this incompetency runs Into miseries. The Hon. E. B. dwells with pathetic elo. ture—whloh means birth. The children don't like it; Grant his testimony receives weight, from the moral region. quence upoh the violent deaths of two generals of the should wonder much if they did. When a man ac- "And yet you not only become his partisan, butrc- government and two clergymen. He forgets to teli cumulates a million his heirs are hard to please. And the fact that his life was devoted to the us that the military men were killed by their own sol. LORD ROSEBERY is the property of the buke me, in my seclusion, because I frankly oonfesB so. they ask for a, commission of lunacy upon the New York World, and a valuable property he is. The party Grant was fated to destroy. Sum* that I cannot see the idol as you see It." diers, and the clergy, held as hostages, might have ground that, being nearly ninety years of age, he nerwas the acknowledged leader of the Re- been saved by the government at "Versailles had that Lord R. is good for a dozen paragraphs. First it Is an- Again, in yet another letter, he writes: squanders his property. They never thought of this nounced that he Is engaged to a wealthy girl, and publican organization in the Senate, and power so willed—but it was not policy to save them, as until the venerable duffer married the gay widow. " I never disliked Grant. When you allege that you then follows short biographical notices of the young acting as chairman of the Committee on their violent deaths would stir up Catholic Europe This is a case of vast interest to Washington. It lp of again invent. On the contrary, I was his sincere against the Commune. But the eloquent lecturer com aristocrat. After, conies further biography of the Foreign Relations, he was brought in im- Intense interest to alt the capitals of the civilized auriferous female. In a reasonable time thereafter friend and supporter until I became aware of his course mltted his gravest oflense in the way of suppressing world which the gay widow has graced with her pres- mediate contact with the President, and n Hayti, and the more I think of that the mere utterly the truth when he failed to inform his hearers that appears a oontradiotion of the reported engagement, •could not fail to study his character, and so ence and charmed with her wealth. We Side with,the with further comments and sketches. And " our dear indefensible It appears. It is revolting—so I see it, this same Commune abolished the death penalty and late widow. Generally we sympathize with.the heirs. understand th« man. Senator Sumner was and lor this reason I began to judge him. destroyed the guillotine. Lord Rosobery" is utilized, and the editorial page of This case, however, makes an exception. There is the World has a high, refined appearance that makes -cautious, as beseemed Msjhigh position, in "Is it just, when these things were known to you; Of course the effort was vain, as are all communistic oae fact nobody can deny, and that is that the law- the editor of the Tribune howl with anguish. The his public utterances. He was none the that you should hunt for personal motives ? I deny efforts towards the amelioration of the human race. yers will reap a rich harvest., How near Cupid's end and aim of the Tribune ehap iri life is to know a less firm in making known his opposition the whole imputation, In gross and detail. No government can be permanently founded, as we coprt Is to courts of law few consider, apd those dry real live lord, and here is the World getting ahead of to a man ho,could not help but condemn! " Would It not have been more candid, more in acl have said before, upon Other than tho selfish instincts Old advocates, with their green- bags, wise precedents him all the time. and despise. cordance with the friendship which I had supposed of men. • It is the creation of a power, and the ten* and dusty lore, make more nut of the jnicy little god safe against decay so long as llle lasted, for you to dency of all power is to abuse. Unless such Is limited of love than any other class. Reading the Life of Gerrit Smith, lately have recognized the strength of my convictions, and and controlled by selfish interests in the governed it Now that the Supreme Court of the United publi shed by Prathingham, we find certain not questioned their honesty or sought to weaken soon becomes an abuse. That the poor laborers of States has deolded for the fourth time that Billy Mc- CHARLES J. FOSTER; the Well-known them by invention abput my early life ? Paris, who had themselves been taken out to shoot Garrahan's claim is based on a fraud, it is In order for private letters written in confidence by Sen- editor of theNew York Sportsriian, was born in York- " I believe Grant essentially unjust, and I am sorry down and be shot by laborers against whom they had the Hon. Gummy Blair to charge that said high trib- ator Sumner to that eminent'Abolitionist. shire, England; He was brought up near the gTeat to see that his defenders seem inspired by his charac- naught- of enmity, should not only appeal to a con- unal is a corrupt bbdy,-;and move in Congress to have a In these we uncover the ¡motives that promp- racing' stables of that ^sporting shire, di'd a stroke of ter. This Is natural." federation of labor the world over, and decree that law passed disregarding its deSfsions. This is all the Bailorlng in his youth, arid finally landed in this coun- ted Cliaries Su-mner'to protest a^longer con- their capital should have no homes for tyiants, and more neoessary from the ihet that only two justices are Gerrit Smith seems to have doubted the try, where for a' long time he lived among the floods, tinuation of powOr in the hands of Gript." burn the palaces, and leave no monument's tb J>loody vic- now on the bench who were there when the former deci- reported opinio.n ,of Stanton, and, .Charles forests and fields of what was then the West—Wiscon- In a letter dated Nahant," Massachusetts,' tories in behali of despot?, and so overthrow the cql sion was rendered. Of course it cannot be expected Sumner repeats, and in this latter he, gives sin, Iowa and OhiO. A natural taste improved by -20th August, 1871, he says': umn Vendome, indicates the enthusiasm of dreamers, that the Hon. Secretary of the Interior will now en- suoh opportunities makesTiinrthe'best tnrf writer tn in a few words, making up a terrible sen-' rather than the practical Working of true' reforiners.. force a law that has been strangely suspended for " But, wahsipg the question of His success, he does this country, a good yachting writer, and a delightful tence, the charge of. all, others the easiest But what is there in this to excite the wrath i,nd dis. twelve years—for the Hon. Gummy boasts of carry- •not desen-e the nomination."!'One term' is enough raconteur of frolics with fur, fln'and feather. He is proven and thé meat damaging, and that is gust of an American WtMen ? ing the Hon. Secretary in his coat-tall pocket. for anybody, especially for one who, being tried, is BO entirely devoted to the noble animal (hat he Al- Our attention is called to this subj ect by a lecture iound so incapable, so personal, so selfish, so vindic- the gifts taking, that with this coarse man; ways manes whit he says; writes a gratefully flowing delivered by Henrich Ende, that we find reported, tive and so entirely preocoup led by himself. All who were bribes thinly covered. Senator Conk- tale ol a horse, arid his Neigh would be emphatic and in the Cincinnati Commercial. Mr. Ende seeks to! THE poor forlorn heirs of Lord, who have have known him. best testify jto his incapacity. Don't ling, who sought in that campaign to throw final if asked to countenance a turf wrong, with the answer the Hon. E. B. Washburne, and following been east out orphans Upon a cold and heartless world forget Stanton's judgment. his cloak ofj respectability, over this ani- most logical, attractive and versatile pon tn American through that lull-stomached dlplomate's tissue of at the early ages of twerity-elght, thirty and thirty- "It is hard to see the Ku-Klux raging and a good sporting journalism. mated decay, said that in receiving presents falsehoods, exhibits in a cheerful light his self-contra- live, by the marriage of their cruel paternal with people dying through his lukeWarmriess and indiffer- Grant did not differ from his predecessors dictions and absurdities. Wereferto this "for thepur- Mr. Foster Is now publishing In the Sportsman "The Widow Wilhellmina Hicks, have gone into court and ence. It is my solemn judgment, which at the proper in office. But he forgot to add that in giv- pose of making one extract from theelose of Mr. Ende's White Horse of Wooton: A Sitory of Leve, Sport and swore that their aged parent was an old fooi. This Is time I shall declare, that the much criticised legisla- lecture, in whioh Mr. E. B. Is photographed as we all Adventure In the Midland'Counties of England and nothing to their swearing outside the court, and the tion of the last Congress would have been entirely ing offices in payment the difference began. know him—a man who, politically, is without infor- on the Frontier of America." The opening chapter is old Iblks, Mr. and Mrs. Lord, will yet die horrible unnecessary if this Republioan President had shown Sumneï sayà : mation; socially, without good breeding and morality in the last number'of his journal, and we ark informed; deaths tor having provoked so much profanity, that is a decent energy in enforcing existing laws and in "You are mistaken about Mr. Stanton. I have well, the supporter of Grant and a believer in Wash- that the story is nearly completed, and ooMpetent if D. P. has any ready-made retribution on hand. manifesting sympathy with the oppressed there. On abundance of concurring testimony. His most Inti- burne. Here It Is: judges who have read it in manuscript pronounce It Bear in mind, please, that we mean Divine Prlvldence* him is that innocent Tslood whloh flowed while ho cir- mate friend during the latter months of his life, Mr. Before closing my remarks to-day I will give you to be Mr. Foster's best work, who also wrote "The culated at entertainments, excursions, horse raoes. Hooper, confirms it fully, and so do many others. And another testimony about the kind and humane ten- Trotting Horse of'Amerioa." Instead of being at I^ong Branch, a good President why should It not be known? I am in earnest. I dencies of Mr. W., who oertalnly did not represent FIRMS are cracking around us in great would have been at Savannah and MoMe, or at America In Europe as Franklin, Jefferson and others commercial .centers like Chinese fireworks and horse wish toisave the Republican party from tne Infliction did a hundred years ago. SENATOR PATTERSON says be has no more least he would have made himself felt in those places. of a second term, and what I said was true. Robert S. Reed, the correspondent of the London Intention ol resigning than Mr. Hayes has. Wash, pistols on a Fourth of July; and yet John Sherman "(Innsfilfi'Considerr, thenttlOT,, thtllne insincerity of hit>.s message sits serene. John's quickness of apprehension being "In defending his gift-taking you forget that it is Daily Telegraph, published in that paper, in spite of lngton is a pleasant enough winter watering-place for .aboutSt. Domingo. One million of blacks are now its hatred toward the Commune, the following signif- on a par—the'only thing on a par thereabouts—with 'gilt-taking compensated by office 'whloh is the un- icant, statement, which I unfortunately found in Ger- htm, besides the advantage of Having one's bills paid. kept in anxiety and terror by' the Republican Presi- Jake Thompson's when he caught the colt, or rather precedented otfense. man, and had to re-translate into English : When his term expires he will go..to Pennsylvania, dent, whom you hall as representing ' moral ideas!' wiren the colt oftiight him, will be tested when the " 1 have before me your letters of lait autumn, very "The threatening ringing of the alarm bells, min- Ohio, Illinois, or some other moderately accessible Instead of abandoning his ill-omened scheme he Is gled with the roaring of the cannon, lasted through- place wherein he sits is blown up with a loud explo- different from the assault you now make, where you out the whole night, (April 18,1871.) It was impossi- Western State, and grow up with the country. This now pressing it—working at home, like Hamlet's sion and some loss of life. say in reply to my frank statement» that you ' know ble, to sleep. Where are. thought I, the represents is almost Scotch sagacity. It must be admitted, in a ghost, .underground, and'at the island with a most tives of Europe and America ? Is it possible that they conservative way, that if John Pat's head had not expensive fleet. His war dance about the island has that they all proceed from deep oonvictions and an make no efforts of reconciliation at thia bloodshed ? been fairly level, he would not have been senator cost several millions. Instead of making peaoe be- honest heart.,' You then add, ' The idea of Grant's I could bear this thought no longer, and as I knew that Mr. Washburne was in the city, I resolved imme- from Seuth Carolina. With Spencer, in the Black THE BLABE OF .THE BLAIR.— tween the two contending parties and setting each on nomination would be as painful to me as it Is to you, diately to call upon him. Passing the Champs Ely- mils, Dorsey in New Mexieo and practical Patterson There was an old duffer named Blair, its legs, in the spirit-disinterested benevolence, he if I had .your exceedingly unlavorable opinions of sees on my way to Mr. Washburne I met numerous in—say Utah*, we would look forward, as" news-pur Wlie with tootln«s tilled all the air; - sends money to Baez under pretense of a sham'treaty, him.' Then again you say, ' It was pop necessary for ambulanee wagons filled with dead and pounded. Bomb-shells exploded on all Bides of the triumphal veyors, with curiosity; not unmixed with hope, to the But the .people cried ",Gummery, to keep alive civil' war. Nothing has aroused me you to vindicate yourself to me. 'You havelived for arch, and many an innocent person was added to the Senate of I860.. more since the fugitive slave bill and the ¡outrages your country and all mankind.' I will not quote the long list of the victims of M. Thiers. Arrived in the This noise is all flummery,' i In Kansas. The same old spirit' is revived In the praise that follows. Besides all this you say, 'lean- Rue de Cbaillot, No. 85,1 asked the doorkeeper after And you don't get a oentis worth of soare." the United States embassador, and was sent to the THE HON. BEN. B-UTLBJI HAS been busy treatment of the Haytian republic. not ask you to vote for Grant, nor even to forbear vot- second story. After having been announced 1 was In- during the recess In burning his hat full of brloks ing against him.' " troduced. Mr. Washburne lay in an arin-chair read- " And I am asked to help the renomination of such ing a magazine. I expected to see him rise, but he and breaking them into bats. He has dropped the role AUQUSTIN DALY'S last yenture at Booth's a. man. impossib:e ! 1 love the Republican party- And now, to use the language of the un- remained in his position, holding his paper before of widow, In which our Cox made so much trouble, Theater called Sula, with Pauline Markham as the cen- him—an act of impolite behavior in a country where 1 love my country too well to have a hand in such a fortunate Turks, let the asses kiçking at us people have in general very good manners. I told and assumes the more natural oharaeter of rough. tral nakedness, is called "profane, immotai and stupid ' thing. because we expose their idol, go and dis- Mr. Washburne that we were traitors to the cause of The Hon. Benjamin repeats what w» have before e»id, j by the New York papers, Only a briet time ago and " In these contusions I am governed by no personal humanity should we not endeavor to bring about a re- that he differs materially from the average Congress- honor the graves cf Sumner, Stanton and conciliation. 1 told him this, for I knew that if he Daly held his head up among such managers a« Wal- ieeHngs—more than I had to Franklin Pierce or Greeley. and Lord Lyons should together take such steps, they man; for while he has a brick in his hat he has no laok. Shook &. Palmer and Ford. Facilis descensus snakes in his boots. Avermi ! 5 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

—Miss Mills, youngest daughter of William L. PERSONAL. Mills, Esq., visited Washington for the first time last EAMBLING«. MBS. LORD'S S1IIPWKECH. I To LADIES AN-D «IINTLEMIN.—We wish to call at- week. Ultra-fasluonable in-, her 'associations arid fas- tentlon to A. Fischer1» Chemical Scouring andDyeine —Lent begins March 6 and ends April iff. tidious about her diet oil eomselfslio went to the Ar- Ail Exciting- Advcntare when She was a Establishment, No. S09 G street, near Ninth street lington, which fashionable hostelrie, it will Be re- BY IIHODA RHAB. By promptly adopting the latest Improvements. —Story, the Epulptor, hafj returned to Home. membered, was also the bidimr place of Mrs. Hicks- Guest fit Admiral A Id on. W ®,f Ameriean or European Invention, he is —There 19 atfoot.bf snow in New Hampshire, j Lord when here some years ago. Miss Mills' princk 80 ena.Mea twd» his work in a manner not to be equaled i have felt myself squelched, by other more lumi- [From th®Cincinnati SSnijui'rcr,]., by tboBW wot possessing these faculties. His cleansing —Mr. Thbrlias Lord will find'a letter tot him at this pal food is milk, with an occasional meat breakfast on nious orbs that (en)Iighten your «olumns, Mr.. Editor' office. the handiest thumb. Mr. Mills, her venerable and I, I I&F YORK., January 4.—The follawlng story is Sold and .dyeing ladles' and gent's suits- aire, In fact, the delighted parent, has been, since tbe Bladensburg that this is the first time I have addressed yoji for as among the adventures of the ladyirtio was recently cheapest In the oily on aocount ol his superior work —McCuIlongh says " ¡•¡¡tl+lni'Saiiini'ss OthellOthelloo beatsbeats,, the races, cashier ot the Arlington Hotel. many months. Last falli felt inspired to write you Mrs. Hicks, but is now the wile of tbr octogenarian. Give him a call, 906 G street. Punctuality guaran- •world. again all sorts of rhapsodical deiérlptiofisòf my beantl- Thomas Lord: ' teed. Gent's suits dyed and pressed for $2.76; gent's ful western North ,-Carolina. At Warm Springs I —Is an Irish lady, just married, Oho of the Mac- —Assistant Surgeon H. O. Paulding, U. S. A., who She was attended almostdally while aitNice, France, ; suits cleaned and pressed for $2. tt brides? has been on duty in the tar west for the past three yearned to express my admiration ; in Ashville I Was years, returned home yesterday morning on a four consumed with an overwhelming desire to reproduce by Admiral Alden, who oommanded the tfnlted States —Giddy ¡Rich says KeytWest cigars are a "-,1) urning months' leave of absence. He is stopping at his my surroundings ; but wJffen T stood on Black Moun- Mediterranean fleet. In the early part o?18i3 he took NKW ORLEANS, December 29,1877. shame. , | mother's residence, 17411 street. tain word's ami desires and yearnings ill fled ignomin- her and a lady traveling companion, saiti to be Mrs. The undersigned oertlfles that he field for collec- ionsly, because I knew my pen was too poor and my General Meagher, to Alexandria, Egypt. The frigate ilon for account of L. A. Cole, New York, one quar- —Lyman Elmore is called the watch-dog ot the —Colonel James R. Young, oxecutive clerk of the Wabash and sloop-of-war Wachusett steamed to that Treasury. ink too pale ! The emotions of Moses on Mount Sinai ter of single number ticket, No. 20,068, Class M in Senate, full brother to John Russell Young, Esq., and Could not have exceeded mine. port after the patty. The Admiral took thelfedies on tbe Louisiana State Lottery, which drew the fourth —Victoria has been empress of liulla a year. . Shake, correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Star, is the the Wachusett to Port Said, at the mouth of ttie Suez capital prize of $10,0«0, on Tuesday, Dacember 11 Sir Edward., most fashionably dressed. canal. From there they made a voyage in a steam lu tle*et having cost the sum of $2.60, and —Kellogg-Karey Koncert Kompany In opera to- —It is a close shave between Mr. George Adams of This Is an era when every one rushes frantically iato launch up the canal to lsmalia. Aft«r that they were that the amount was promptly paid on presentation morrow night. I the World, H. J. Ramsdell pf the Tribune, McBrido of print. It is the Panacea lor all. sorts of passions and taken to Jafla. The Admiral there prqeured a drago- of the-ticket at the office of the company the Star, and ourself, who weighs the most. man named Rosedale, a native of Connecticut" who —You know what you had for dinner, but you don'' disorders. Men hunger after renown " as the Dead T. M. WKSCOAT, Bea for ghosts," and! tie amazing number of passen- had settled in the East, and under his guldanoe, and Agent Southern Express Company. Jknow what 1878. —Senators EustU, Hill, Barnum, Spencer, Chaffee the care of sixty sailors from the Wachusett, the two and McPhcrson have engaged rooms for the season gers who are anxiously taking seats In the stage-coach —Mr. John Coekerlllof the Post is'the best-looking at the Arllngtop. bound for fame are something enormous in mathemat- ladies, with Admiral Alden and Commander Thomas editor in town. went in a broken-down tumbril to Jerusalem. Snbant's. —Cliff Warden is the shortest correspondent, but ical calculations. The pathway that genius pursues, Steamed oysters, per peck 30 cents —Pope Pius IX. is still la Home and Victor Em- however, is very apt to remind one of the classic lines T „ . Wachusett started on her return trip from they are all short for the matter of that. Jaffa to Alexandria on the evening of April:t 1873. manuel is—where? "Jordan am a hard road to trabble, I believe." stewed - " —Stlllson Bonaparte Hutchlns was in New York On the following morning the jolly old admiral ran —The latest furbelow are fur anklets.—i>. En- If all those whose names appear in print were only Baw w per dozen 26 " last week registered lrom St, Louis. aotuatcd by honesty of purpose and. nobility of Upon deck and declared that the Wachusett must get •tirely too furbelow. into Alexandria by sundown. The vessel arrived off Oysters, per gallon '..'"so " —Mr. John Carson of the New York Time» has the thought, it would make us hopeful that the mlllenium Fried oyster» a specialty. —Mars' moons don't give the world half as much is about to dawn. But every disappointed Office- the harbor by eight o'clock in the evening, and sig- - anxiety as ma's sons. smallest feet of newspaper men. naled for a pilot. None came out to her. and it was At —John Young Brown denies that he is in favor of seeker, male or female, actuated by feelings of per- W. E. DFBANT'S, —Maggie Mitchell is forty-three years,old, and decided to run her in unaided. She was Itarted, but the Texas Pacific railroad. sonal rancor, rants at mankind in general, calumni- Corner Seventh and N streets. ; sprightly as a kitten yet. ates some person in particular, and makes one doubt- missing the channel, she struck upon the rocks. Two —"Jim" O'Beirne of the New York Herald is the ful of the divine Image as an earthly perambulator. holes were knocked In her hull and she remained fast —Jim Bennett will publish the Herald in New York, aground until the following mornifig. When the lacksen Home. -and the'Erald in London. best-looking correspondent. • In fact it is enough to convert one to the Darwinian theory, or one which is equally as atrocious. The li- shock of striking the rock was felt on the vessel, Mrs. Our readers who visit the oyster wharf should not A. C. Buell of the lost cuts the best figure In fall to drop Into She Jackson House. This old and —Ex-Governor Bullock was acquitted, after thirty journalistic circles. cense of the press is so great that the dirty outpour- Hicks and her companion ran upon deck. She of- minutes, by a Georgia jury. fered one hundred francs to eaoh of a crew to row her long-established hotel is one of the landmarks of our ings of men's hearts find a too ready channel through city, and it Is really a treat to examine the old-fash- —Judge Slote says it Is about time to get things the journals of the land. Our best newspapers into the harbor, twelve miles distant. Twelve men •<->'. O. (ship-shape) for Easter. volunteered, and rowed the ladles, Commodore Alden ioned furniture. The clock which stands in the abound in bitterness and cruel denunciations, and parlor is over nine feet high, and has occupied the WE OIVB plaoe, of course, to the following, and add the pens of many of our most brilliant writers are and Commodore Swan to the Wabash, which lay in —William E. Chandler denies that Mr. A. G the port. The next day the junketing party started same position for ninety years. The oellar Is stocked -Blessing is A. Great Blessing. our regrets that a misstatement should ke made by a dipped in the gall and, wormwood of personal abuse. with the finest liqaors, some brands of brandy and There are cases where a little wholesome "jolting" is for Cairo and the Pyramids or Shlzeh, and they spent —It you see another man's ante too often you may contributor in our journal so injurious to any one.— the ten days that the Wachusett was upon the dry- wnisky having become rusty with age. ED. CASUAL. essential, but to assail the private character of a man; be obliged to call on your uncle. to attempt an exposé of his motives, known only to dock In journeying to most of the places of Interest in Egypt. After that they returned to Nice, where Mrs. —If old Lord did lend Mrs. Hicks nearly $400,000 itl BALTIMORE, December 23; 18J7. his God; to publish the events that transpire In the DAVEHAGESTY still keeps the lead at his restau- was about time he married her. Colons! Dow» PIATT, Editor Washington Capital. sacred seoluslon of his home and fireside, that is de- Hicks became again a very conspicuous frequenter of ianf, corner of Seventh and E streets northwest, and DEAR SIR : My attention having just been directed basing to the writer and offensive to the reader. the English boulevard. it is admitted that his n'quors are about the best served —Bismarck says if Turkey Is the ¡sick man of Eu- over any bar in theeity,an(t that the delicacies he rope, England Is the si&tc'wonian. to an article published in your Sunday paper of the If m the political World, as a public man, he is 23d ult., entitled " Recollections of a Rebel Soldier," found deficient in intellect, or in morals, or In any- "Tiny Tim.", furnishes are not only the freshest and best of their —Fanny Iiemble played first In Boston forty-four kind, but that they are served in the most exquisite in which my name is used, I take this occasion to thing that renders him unlit for office, then it is no [From an Exchange.] Dave were H 3 years ago. She was then just twenty-one. state that my first visit to Virginia was in the fall of 5y , j P seek the golden shore there wonder that derisive epithets are hurled at him, and Toole was acting in London in The Christmas Carol would be an empty void-in this city, and especially in —Ex-Judge Gunning S. Bedford gave a 22-carat 1863, which wa£'on a matter of business, and in no men seek to drag him down from his exalted position, manner connected with tfie Confederate government playing Bob Cratchftt. A little delioate girl, one of tne stomachs of those who love good things. ''-dinner at DelmonloO's to ex-President Tilden. but for Heaven's sake don't steal like a sneak thief the children of the dresser at the theater, whose pale or its army, and 1 never was in Leesburg in all my into the bosom of his family, and pry ont those se- —Mark Twain has become editor of the Hartford life, or within many miles of Leesburg; and at the face and Interesting manner fitted her well for the . Courant, vice General Hawloy, absent on leave. crets that all lives demand—secrets that have nothing part, played Tiny Tim. The sickly little child was a Wilkening's, time designated by your correspondent I was sixteen to do with his official capacity At No. 337 Pennsylvania avenue, has lately been —Pension Agent Colonel Frank Howe has bean at- years of age and resided in Baltimore, being an office favorite in the theater, and especially so with Mr. If 1 were a minister of the gospel—I hope I should Toole. During the performance of the piece, as the thoroughly renovated, and the restaurant now Is one taohed by his divorced tvil'e for unpaid alimony. boy in the' employ of Beale H, Richardson & Son be a very eloquent one—I would deliver sermons on proprietors of the dally Baltimore Republican, and reader may remember, the artistes sat down regularly ot the handsomest and best stocked in the olty He —General Baldy Smith, police commissioner of "Charity" that would astonish' the world. My fingers to a supper of roasted goose and plum pudding, which will be pleased to welcomehis old patrons, and if they 2New York, has returned from a European tour. whose employ I remained until September, 1863, which time the paper was suppressed by the military burn now to write a long homily on "Cnristian For- was, in thepresent instance, genuine material: Toole don t acknowledge that the liquors are of the best and —George Wilkes and George Clarke, the actor, commander commanding the department embracing bearance" pr something to that eftect, but I know if 1 was in the habit, of chopping the viands up and giving the eatables the finest, then they cam vet their money -arrived in New York from Europe last Sunday. Baltimore. do, no one would read my effusion, because Dr. New- them to the children performing, and they, when they 6 t0 808 man is here to preach to the good people of Washing- had eaten the first helping, returned, like Oliver lor reful-n again "likening will always —John Brougham is the author of London As- And the whole story of my being sent with any dis- ton and can so far excel me, even in my topioltical more. , surance, and Boucicault is the author of his own. patches lrom Leesburg is a fabrication known by its nights, that In comparing myself to him, I occupy Tiny Tim, however, like Benjamin, appeared to eat Tbe Cbesapeafee. —Spain has her boilers full ot steam, and onlv one author to be entirely destitute of truth. the humiliating position of a lightning bug, and he seven times as much as her brethren. She was the If any man had thrown us down, as it were, from a ^downy-lipped, light-weight boy to sit on the valves. Justice to myself has prompted me to request ot you the broad luminary of day. first to return her plate for more, and always made balloon, and, hungry and tired, we should have asked —Mary Anderson's physician forbids her to play the name of the author of this article, in order that the But to retrace my steps to my geniuses, traveling away with more than an ordinary adult oould eat of where Is the best place to get braced up, we should Lady Macbeth. "Thanks. Take, oh doctor, thrice thy public may know how much reliance can be placed up that proverbial ladder that leads tp fame, I must goose, supplementing this colossal repast with plum- have at once told him, "Carry me te Pinley & SUB- upon the truth of his statement. plee s." If a man cannot satisfy the Inner man there fee 1" * conrcss that in reading thelives ofnearly all great writ- pudding enough for half a dozen. Toole gradually n a d Very respectlully yours, &c., ers, poets particularly, I find myself discouraged at felt an aversion growing in him for the child. Her hi™ ? inking haven» effect upon —Slightly satirical for a young lady to sing for an hour, with piano accompaniment, '(Peace, let him . CLARENCE PETERS. the difficulties that invariably beset them. I had pallor and sickness seemed to him suspioiously allied SSSSSgg! Mje lean and hungry Casslus, he is a . rest!" The following named gentlemen can Wrnishyou thought of being a great genius myself. I have felt with indigestion, the first fruits of gluttony. He strug- man to be shunned. any information you desire coricerning me: Frank A, the divine ajftatus, like yeast powder, rising in my gled against this feeling for a time, but it mastered —Mr. Hayes can't expect a path free from thorns; Blchardson, Correspondent, Washington, D. O.; N, him, and he could not think kindly ot the little one. soul, and It has only been crushed to the earth by the DIED. f.but he has a right to one clear of pestilent, meddling E. Foard, Local Editor Baltimore Sun; Charles difficulties that 1 know must be experienced before 1 One day, In a fit of disgust, he sawed off a piece of Weeds. Meanv, Local Editor Baltimore Gazette ; Dr. W. H reach the acme of my ambition. The exasperating meat and bones from tbe savory bird and flung it into JOHNSON.—On January 12, after a »bort and se- vere illness, Annie E., daughter of D. and M. L —" Chlldred and fools speak the truth." Children Cole, Reporter, Gazette; J. Cloud Norrls, Baltimore, part of it Is, that people are not appreciated until her plate with a piece of plum-pudding, which left lit- and congressmen have nothing else to do during the Maryland. they are dead. Then their worst enemies will rise up tle lor the others, hoping that for once the child would Johnson, in the ninth year of ner age ^holidays. and call them blessed. That's what 1 call sardonic ! be satisfied. But she wasn't. With a punctuality Funeral will take place from the resideaee of her That much-abused man, Rutherford Hayes, wilf be worthy of a landlord, she returned for more. Toole parents, 65 D street northeast. Friends are respect- —Now that Congress has met, people ask " W here is viewed in a tolerable respectable light when, "After was shocked. funy invited to attend. * Mamea, Stelnberger's Society Islander?" O-why- GREEN-ROOM GOSSIP. life's fitful fever," he Is no longer dependent upon York and North Carolina papers copy.] i hee's gone home. the Republican party for kindness and courtesy. 'My dear," said he, "yoo will make yourself sick If KOBINSON.-January 11,1878, at the residence of you eat so much. I gave you enough for three or four Samuel K. Gittings, No. 128 C street northwest, Harry —The Dickey-Tytus affair fills the Cincinnati Even Dr. Mary Walker, in its dapper little boots big boys. You conld not have eaten it in this time. - papers. What is it? A New-Year's row? Dickey- OPERA.—For the first time this season a chance will and his funny little—little—" what-you-may-call- J. .Robinson, aged 48 years, ot" London. Ehgland, but be given to hear opera at the National Theater. To- Where are the bones?" he added, looking at the lorthe last twenty years a resident of this city Tytus a btiled owl. 'ems," and her jaunty little cane, may be spoken tol- empty plate. moirow evening Martha will be given by an exceed- erantly of yet by great brutes of men who are con- Funeral Monday, at 4:30 o'clock. His friends are —We see by the report of the Washington market ingly well-drilled number of amateurs, so report says. The poor child hung her head. Toole spoke again respectfully Invited. * directors' annual election that Wm. E. Chandler is sumed with jealousy because she " wears the " rather sharply. We have had so much poor effort in this direction from with so much more grace than they can. By the way SANGER.—On Saturday January 12-, at 1 o'clock again in the market. some ambitious amateurs that we sincerely trust that "Please, sir," sobbed Tiny Tim, " my little sister p. m., Willie Sanger, in his 18th year. she is about to publish a new book, illustrative of dis- ate it." —The report that Mr. John Russell Young Is dan the company to-morrow night will redeem the misera- located ribs and degenerate spinal columns. A young gerously ill In London is peremptorily denied by the ble performances in the jiast of amateur aspirants for gentleman, a draughtsman In the Interior Depart- And, following the direction pf her eyes towards the . .Philadelphia Eveninq Star. lyric fame. The company is a new one, though seve- ment, was urged to assist her in her anatomical draw- wings, there he saw a hungry little horde of ragamuf- SPECIAL NOTICES. ral of the cast have been heard before, and we are fins pitching into the Christmas cheer with an energy —You can count the Hamlets among professionals pleasod to be able to say are the only one who acquitted ings. Out of the kindness ol his heart he did so, and is now recognized by the tender appellation of "Mary's that showed how much they needed it. A light was #^,PBOF£8SOK VICTOR RIOGEUH. • on your finger-ends. All the amateurs play it, though, themselves in any way creditably in former represent- let in upon him. Little Tiny had been filling the and call it Shake's easiest part. ations. Mr. Sherman has exercised great care In his little lamb." If it is thought desirable at any time to raise the pugilistic element In the human breast, just stomachs of her hungry little brothers and sisters, and TWELVE LECTURES —Grant has gone up the Nile. A little sell-de-Nile rehearsals, and coupled with the fact that Martha Is not her own. She never took another grudged morsel inquire ot him solicitously: " What makes the lamb ON will do him good. If the Khedive doesn't treat him not a difficult opera, we look for a performance to-mor love Mary so?" from the table. Toole told the story to Dickens, who . well, give him Jesse, by all means. row that will compare favorably with those of Mr. listened attentively, and, at its conclusion, with a ' LES SALONS DE PAEIS- Strakosch's compány. On Tuesday evening Alda will The women are coming to the front again to rant burst ot warm enthusiasm, cried: " Give her the whole De 1770 a 1870 —Beecher says there is no hell. There may be noi he given. It is long since this opera has been ren about slavery, and declare they are the worst-abused goose and half the plum pudding next time;" and if LE FEMME AU XVIIIc ET XIXe SIECLE. more for him. Let's see—hay-fever, Elizabeth and lec- dered here. Verdi, In this composition, has reached, creatures In existence. Well, if voting would make the actof did not follow the warm-hearted novelist's • tures down from $500 to $300 a night. Every TUESDAY, at 7 o'clock, from January 8th at as yet, the elimax of his efforts; and with the artists several changes that 1 might mention, in the lives and instructions to the letter he acted up to the spirit of MABIHI HALL. —Il Re Galantuomo Is succeeded by Prince Hum, Mr. Strakosch has at his disposal, we do not doubt surroundings ®f women, 1 don't know but what I them, and Tiny's- family never lacked a square meal Season ticket, $6. Single leoture, Ï& cents. -bert, who is thirty-three "years old. and married but that the opera will be given as well as ever before. would be willing to claim my little vote and clamor during the run of the piece. Prinoess Margarita ol Savoy, in 1888. Much will be lost by the want of an appropriate stage vigorously lor the ballot. As the world goes, though, for the grand mise en scene required; and also the Jiost I am just contemptible enough not to care to muddle ROCKBRIDGE ALUM, —Billy Florence's generosity is well known. He of auxiliaries that assisted in its production in New THREE thousand barrels of whisky perished In the never wrangles over a bill. ' Even In private life he my brains with politics. Indeed, what are the poli- KENTUCKY BLUE LICK, York four years ago; but the musio is charming, and tics of the country compared to its fashions ? Who flames. And yet the Courier-Journal didn't turn its plays the "Take it and Leave Man." if the chorus and soloists acquit themselves oreditably, column rules.—St. Louis Journal. BUFFALO, cares about the laws of Congress and the legislatures LITH1A. —Milton Sayler went to Cincinnati—they sav to the music alone will repay a visit to the theater. ot States when silks and velvets shimmer in Shuster's FLETCHER HARPER says there are only five Ameri- • • BETHESBA, elect Pendleton senator. The future Mr*. Milton Among the other operas to be given are the Bohemian windows, and diamonds glitter in Gait's; when can writers of real merit. Mr. Harper is four. Who Girl, La Favorita, Mlgnon and Fanst. M'lle Marie and other natural Mineral waters, for sale in quanti- , Sayler, who lives in Cincinnati, don't think so. Madam Washington concocts such lovely princesses Is the other?—Rochester Democrat. H Koze will make her first appearance In La Favorita. and Willlan imports French bonnets ? ' ties to suit, at —Goldsmith, the Personal man of the New York Miss Kellogg and Miss Cary are well known, and are ALIOE OATES cried like a baby when she found that MILBURN'.S DBTTG STOKE, Herald has been engaged at a.good salary to go West ably supported by Messrs. Grafl, Verdi, Conly and Gentlemen declare that they admire " women with somebody hadn't put a new husband in her stock- je3-tf3 1429 Pennsylvania avenue. . and edit the Little Cottonwood Chronicle, in Utah. Gottschalk. The rush for tickets has been great, and brains," but we observe that just intellect alone no ing-—Rochester Democrat. matter how gigantic, is of very little significance to r|rS=«ARD.-F. P. BUBKE having sold his ln- —It is rumored in society circles that Mrs. Charlton. those desiring good seats had better apply at the box- | ¡NEW musio—^"I hear the angels sweetly calling LU—*eX,e8t ih hls Cigar and Tobacco Establish- nee Campbell, will visit Washington In the spring. office at onse. them when compared with a pretty face and stylish L tout ensemble. Their wives must be sensible their All right: let 'em take the pot. Pair of duces is the ment, 1223 Pennsylvania avenue, respectfully requests Mr. Charlton is an attaché of the British legation in wives must be eoonomloal these hard time», but other best we've got.—Spicer. that all parties indebted to him will call at his liquor Vienna. people's wives, who are noither the one nor the other store, 1324 D street northwest, to settle their acounts. —Brides' insteps now have punches of orange blos- BRYAST'S MINSTRELS.—This company Is credited are nevertheless Wonderfully fascinating. After all its soms thereon.—Ex. That depends on the bride. by the press throughout the country to be one of the beauty goes a long ways, and the trite saying, « Fine Senator Paddock says ihait in his State they have strongest of the kind ever organized. They will com- feathers make fine birds," Is generally verified. LOCAL ITEMS. WANTED. bunyons. mence an engagement of three nights and Saturday It is predicted that the senatorial contest in Iowa matinee at ford's Opera House Thursday, January will be rather lively, but it is not apprehended that —Rich men's sons and daughters now carry a turkey 17. The names of the performers are some of the best A REGULAR hotel dinner for twenty-five cents at ANTED.-A LADY OF REFINEMENT, sandwich, in a solid silver lunch-box, to school. That Senator Allison is in any danger of losing the seat he Marble Saloon. without employment and in sadly reduced cir- on tbe minstrel stage. T^he Mew iork Herald starts has so long and successfully occupied in the United will relieve the industrious poor from all fears of a them with the following pretty compliment: cumstancesW , desires work by the day or by the week In hard winter. States Senate. The people of Iowa appreciate too MONOGRAPH on Corns, Nails, &c. Dr. White, oppo- a private family. Addrets, MISS POVERTY CAPI- " Byr ant's Opera Home.—when we say that at well his excellent official capacities, his clear insight —A Cambridge student rolls in under the arms of site Wlllard's. augl9-tf TAL office. Sews neatly, and can furnish satisfactory this elegant place of amusement one of the finest en- into jurisprudence, his comprehensive knowledge of relerences. Xombardy, alter his New-Year's remittance, and sings tertainments that has ever been presented is nightly jublio affairs and his estimable qualities, both of the to his uncle at the old castle window: "Harvard offered, we but express the sentiment of those who PRO»ESSOK VALENTINE'S Complimentary Bal hq^d and the heart, to permit him to be succeeded by Masque, Masonic Temple, Friday, January 18. ANTED-A SITUATION AS GOVERNESS watch, ahoy !*' have witnessed the performances of the company with Any other contestant. which Neil Bryant is surrounded. It seems that the or teacher by a lady of experience, cultivation —Will the correspondent of the Philadelphia 1 see that Mr. lngersoli is soon to favor us with his EXQUISITE flower garnitures of oonvolvulus, snow- anWd refinement. References exchanged. Address Times, who described «Irs. Hicks' gorgeous "get-up" palmy days of minstrelsy are about to be revived, and who so worthy to do this as the brother and coadjutor ghost-Iy lecture. We are informed that he Is an balls, rose-buds, &o., at M. Willlan's. MISS L. K., Washington, D. O. it-3 when at the Arlington, tell us what a "star boarder" abominably wicked man. How he must differ, then is? Dare you to! of the world-renowned and lamented Dan Bryant, whose name was and Is a synonym for all that Is un lrom the rest of his sex ? As bad as he is represented] BROWNING'S BITTERS will cure dyspepsia, lndiges —The Bourbon press, learning little and forgetting approaohable In this liné of business. Among recent however, I hear that in a certain prayer meeting not tlon and constipation. For sale by tne druggists, a AMUSEMENTS. nothing, called Conkllng a turkey gobbler. Well, attractions he presents Hugh Dougherty, who, as end long since a worthy brother arose to explain that he our Roscoe. has done some gobbling lately—iat geese man and general performer, is without rl+al. With knew Mr. lngersoli was a blasphemer and an unbe- WE CALL attention to the advertisement of Knights as well as turkeys. such names as J. Norrie, Arthur Ooo"k. Harley, Little liever, but that he had heard so much about him he Of St. Patrick ball at Odd Fellows' Hall, January 16. 03STIE WEEK ! Mao, Dave Reed, Sanford and Wilson, and the comi- went to hear him lecture," and then proceeded to —Instead of " Mahmoud Damad" would the intel- abuse lilm accordingly. How is this lor consistency ? ligent foreign editor just as soon spell it Mahmoud calities for which they are so famous, Neil cannot fall THE steamer Arrow (captain Frank Holllngshead) of guqeess. Was it not lamentably naughty in the brotttor to thus win resume her trips te Mount Vernon on-Monday, £ TALLMADGE. HALL. Daoud Pacha, wbloh means David, lust the same as place himself in the way of temptation and in the Dave Key; P. M. G? January 14. company or "publicans and SinnersT' The'Besetting (C —Beecher's churoh pews brought $37,000 this year - " ACXT POLLY BASEEIV"—The "Slngin' Skewl," sin ot curiosity is one that is somewhat excusable THE German American Savings Bank, 632 F street, Aunt Polly Basset's " Last year, $47,000 ; 1876, $83,680 ; 1875, $70,319 ; 1874 which is to be given at Tallmadgo Hall this week, though, inasmuch as it has been entailed upon us corner of Seventh,-pajs interest on deposits. Satb $59,430 ; 1873, $60,230. Put on the brake, Mr. Beecher: • will meet a great public want, namely, a really humor- from the beginning of the world. deposit boxes for rent. ous entertainment, which is void of offense. Here you are on the down grade." People, too, are so arrogant in their own opinions, YANKEE "SING1N' SKEWL," whole families tan enjoy the sparkling wit of "ye BnoiyN, 314 Eiglitb street northwest, is selling his —Congressmen McOook Bridges, Eriett, James, skewl marm," and the gawky, mischievous " Jede- fveo- one is infallible in his own estimation—the Dwight, Bagley, Wright, Hungerford-, Bouck, Bragg, great Moarul In iact—and those who differ from him stock of seasonable dry goods at cost. See his adver- Commencing MONDAY,-JANUARY 14. dialj," who, by the way, is, a iirst-elass facial artist, tisement in another column, it speaks for itself. Hlscock, Townsend, Willis, Camys and Starin are at with a very tine voice.! There will be a Iarg¿chorus aore either knaves or fools, the Arlington for the winter. foor insects, all of us, blindly groping our way into Tickets, 35 cents, (including reserved seat.) of younger folks, in the costume of our great-grand- Children's tickets, 26 cents. parents, making a very grotesquoyet pleasing picture. blind luture; stretching ourpunv arms out towards THE patfons 01 oiir hotels are Invited to call at the —The Post says Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake is the eternity, and each one endeavoring to push the other Marble Saloon, eornerNinth street and Pennsylvania At Ellis' Musio Store, 937 Pennsylvania avenue. prettiest member of the Woman's convention, and >•' Aünt Pony" oomeg to us well recommended by the Matinee SATUKDA^f, January 19, at 2 p. m. It8 clergy and the press of other cities, so it is presumed aside. " Blind leaders of the blind," in truth! God's avenue, and try one ol their twenty-five cent dinners then gives her a first-class, bang-up notice, Woman's works, that surround us everywhere—beautiful in their real inMuence will assert itself. there will be lull houses. perfeoUo?—aid us m discovering his ways and his latest Parisian novelty received by Mr. Willlan —What Is. the difference between a car-eonductor thoughts, but excepting as they adumbrate the great Is the glove-ntting cuirass, adapted to the present close- ROBERT G. INGERSOLLS and a bar-keeper? Besides the personal beauty and author/)f all, his existence and his judgments are un- fitting stylo of garments. It is designed to give a slen- GREAT LECTURE ON the diamond-pin, one punches a pass and the other [Communicated.] searchably The highest intellect fails to compre- der and graceful appearance to the figure, and is im- passes a punch.—flew York Independent. ported in colored and black embroidery. A perfeot fit tor hend the unattainable and the beyond. It were bet- GHOSTS, GHOSTS, Hurrah Georgetown! ter for all of usS could we follow the advice that Luther guaranteed. —Sothern is adapting Ikklesiazousia, one of Aris- Will be delivered In tophanes' comedies, for the stage. It has a rgusing We note with, peculiar pride .the advent of a spirit preached, but like many others did not practice: of entegjMsJ!¡injour sifter ¿ity. On last Monday there Let the Father's good will be acceptable to thee, oh! A REGULAR hotel dinner for twenty-five cents at LINCOLN HALL, Greek chorus, and all the female characters are stipu- was organized a conversational olub," whose main lated to be brunettes. Blondes to the rear ! man, and speculate not with thy devilish queries, tby Marble Saloon. MONDAY, JANU ARY 21. object will be ¿(».cultivate the higher and more iiupor- whys and thy wherefores, touching God's words and —A New York paper, with a keen eye for the beau- tantbraneh'eS of polite learning. An Institution of works." * Dowiinfc's Teas, Tickets for sale at BRAD. ADAMS' TO-DAY. tiful, says that Mr. Lord and his . willful bride take this kind Is calculated to promote the most delightful WASHINGTON, D. C., January S, 1878. which he keeps at the, tea and ooflee store corner of ' jal3-2t3 their meals in their room, and the preceding evening social communion, something entirely distinct from Seventh and 1 streets, are the delight of housekeepers. supped on wine, horse-radish on oysters and tea. those entertainments which find their ohlef and only merit in the whisky-bottle, or in the billiard or card- Dr. Johnson once said that a "dish of cold tea" was a £ rilOE. DONNELLY —Labouohere, the editor of London Truth, was at- table. fit drink for the gods, and Dowllng is just the man to taché of the British legation here once, afterwards Tbe New London Daily. furnish the Ingredient. member of parliament lor Middlesex, and has essayed, If we wanted a proof of the earnestness of this 6r- [From the Graphic. ] •3 WILL OPEN HIS unsuccessfully, of course, theatrical management, j ganlzatlon, we discover it in the selection of such offi- I James Gordon Bennett, it is rumored, contemplates Important. cers as Colonel Joseph Cropley, Arthur Fox and ¡starting a London Herald. An American daily- SPARRING SCHOOL —Thurlow Weed had a dangerously bad fall on the Captain George H. Rice, who nave been appointed an journal is needed in the British metropolis. The his- For the Information of the New York press and the for the new year ice, crossing Union Square. This is the seoond in executive committee to superintend its management. public generally, we state without fear of contradic- AT HIS PRIVATE ROOMS, three months, and serious consequences are feared. tory of its every-day life has never been given by a It is complimentary to the Bplrlt of reform, inspired London paper. The thousand and one events of their tion, that Mr. Lord was seen at Coleman's bath- 432 Seventh street northwest. Mr. Weed is eighty, years of age, but mentally aotive rooms, corner Eighth and D streets, on Thursday Or WASHINGTON GYMNASIUM. as ever. by the present Administration, that no one is eligible streets are deemed unworthy the dignity af> British to membership who will not sign a pledge to abstain last, looking as happy and contented as a bridegroom Terms moderate. New patent gloves and dumb- newspaper., The paragrapher Who condenses news should. bells for site. lt-3 —Federal soldiers, marines, sailors and Louisiana from all intoxicating liquors during the space of one into the smallest compass and puts it in that shape to militia, united to honor old Hickory last Tuesday in year. V. "'" TALEMACHTTS. easiest and quickest swallowed, is not yet known THB patrons ol our hotels are invited to call at the New Orleans. In the evening a grand dinner fol- •¡England. The writer who can see the ludicrous Marble Saloon, corner Ninth street and Pennsylvania lowed, and, as usual, Marshal Jack Wharton made a side oi daily events is allowed no place In the Eng- avenue, and try one of their twenty-five cent dinners 1ST O T I O 3D. glowing, patriotic speech. Welckcr's. llshpaper. Tljeir lew police reports are marvels of —Will somebody hand us ai spade and direct us to a On Fifteenth street, opposite the Treasury; Depart- verbiage and density. The Bow Street Conrt penny- itlattresses. lonely spot?—Rochester Deniocrat.- ' Yes; let some- ment, 1b a place where, without exaggeration, can be aliner Is intensely practical. He takes the first case body hand you the aoe of spades when you are draw- found the finest brands of foreign and domestic served up, and though it Involves nothing more se- We advise all Our friends to Call on Lloyd, of tbe ing for a Hush of hearts, ¿n4 you'll tivipk It, is the liqjaor& The Government officials In that looality rious than the theft of a oat, he gravely spins it out Washington Mattress Factory, 905 D street north- loneliest spot you ever saw. are excellent judges of good liquors, and they oneand to the prescribed length, The English newspaper west, it they want satisfaction both in quality and Selling at prime cost lor cash our entire stock of de- all declare tliat Pete Welrker knows how to suit them price. Matti esses and feather beds renovated and reader Is obliged to take pecks of chati with his gills sirable —The famous Wahsatch mountain melody, " Sweet to a "T." •of wheat. steamed. Emma, Mine," words by Tfenor Park, the Green Mountain warbler, muslo by Bob Schenck, the Bone THE Finest Liquors, ' The daily life of London is even more varied and Ijoaicliran'M. Player of the Wabash, has agalli become popùlar In The Finest,Wines, richer in Interesting detail than that of the American We advise our iriends and the publio generally to DRY GOODS, London under the doubtful tiye of " Whoa Emma!" city, it Is full of old custom, usage, lemembranco caU on Dan. Loughran, 1408 Pennsylvania avenue. All the Luxuries relic and locality. The Londoners do not know their —The Star said on Monday that Fred. Douglass had ' t>.» Qí the market Our friend Daniel IS the Napoleon of the cigar trade, Without reserve, amounting to over $26,000. • own city. It is in Itself an empire containing over and if títere is anything In the way of tobacoo that gone to Maryland to see bis old mistress, and* on the At Merchant's Lunch', same day the New York Time» .paragraphed briefly 4,000,000 of souls. The denizen of the patrician West one desires, it can be found pure and unadulterated CASH BUYERS CAN SAVE FROM 20 TO 40 PER y| »(laJtePartner's,),-i-rio»; End may have never In his life visited the plebeian at the well-known establishment of Loughran, 1408 that Senator A. S. Paddock of Nebraska and Miss • 309 Seventh street. Encl Fanny Davenport were at the Windsor hotel.' What SOT " BipJpmftSS given him some Idea of its Pennsylvania avenue. CENT. will Mrs. Douglass and Mrs. Paddock say ?" ntimble Ufé SndJeccííiíric character, but this life and MADAME WASHINGTON, the modiste, whose won- character is to-day continually rising to the surfaoe— derful skill In her line of business has elicited the A KEGDiAR hotel dinner for twenty-five cents at Many seasonable goods and handsome materials at —Congressman Waddell delivered a lecture in New a rich cream of incident and event lost for lack of an encomiums of the elite of the District, and without Marble Saloon. jeis than cost. York, to an immense audience, for the benefit of the whose advise and assistance the trousseau of no mar- American newspaper with, a st^H'ot" clever reporters. P. O. Mutual Aid Association. His subject was "Two riage oould take place, still maintains her establish- 1 Emmet House. All bills due and unpaid cn the 1st of February will Amerloans—Morse and Maury,','. Mr. Waddell made — * ment on the avenue, between Ninth and Tenth, over THE man who will change his boardipg-house in This excellent hostelrle, opposite the Baltimore and be placed in the hands of a collector for settlement. an unqualified success, to the great satisfaction of his Willlan's. I legion ot friends, both in this clfy and in New York. Christmas times to get away from % mouth-organ has Ohio depot, has become a great lavorlte with the trav- &«PWant money, and will sell as above to get it. a calloused ridge around his heart.—Breakfast Table, eling public, and that Is the best test of its aceom- modations. The proprietors started the hotel to ac- Gurowskl in his " Diary" says: " As mistaken as Tremont Hons*. I» THOSE Atlantic chaps didn't want a wag-on hand Greeley often was, the Tribune is not given to jobbing This well known and fashionable family hotel is commodate the traveling publio, and they have suc- at their Whittter feed, why did they Introduce such a ceeded admirably In their undertaking. in gold and Government bonds." Dlflerence between now reoeivlng toarders from $25 to $30 per month, $8 Mark't Wain 1—'Philadelphia Bulletin. Greeley and Whitelaw Reid: Infallible as Held Is to $10 per week. The house is heated with steam, and W. M. BROWN, known to be, the Tribune Is given to jobbing In gold, AN Intelligent German thus expressed his pre- THE patrons of our hotels are Invited to call at the furnished with elegant furniture throughout. ference for a quack-doctor: "I vouldn't call him ov 314 Eighth street, Government bonds or anything else there is a job in. F. P. HILL, Proi rletor. Marble Saloon, corner Ninth street and Pennsylvania my oat vas dead ¡"—Port Chester Journal. av.'nue, and try one of their twenty-live cent dlnne s. Its Near Pennsylvania avenue. 6 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

Tor THB CAPITAL. hundreds of such in this rich literature. the principles of a false morality. Its apo- HOTELS AND BESTAU KANTS. 0IGAES AND T0BA000. THE OUTCAST, We must not ignore the fact that Paris to- thegms lash and sting the conscience like the bitter brine of the sea does when it is j. w. it. day contains as many fine actors as there are actresses, nor forget such names as swept into our faces by a bleak December The Mystery Explained. | walk the earth with leaden feet, Moliere, or Baron, or Talma, or Lemaitre. gale. In the famous Led Astray the wife, THE ARLINGTON No loving lrlends my presence greet, Our misfortune, or rather good fortune, is Armande, is severely tempted, but remains From the pure and good I am east away • that the cataract of French which Mr. Daly steadfast in the purity of her marriage. Ow- WREN'S CIGAR, And my burden Is greater every day. poured steadily into New York has been a ing to circumstantial evidence, her hus- ALL HAVANA ITLLER, A round of sin and shame and crime, cataract of one idea. We have come sud- band and the world believe her guilty. The XO cents, or 5 for 25 cents.. Down the ladder of life I climb denly too near that particular phase of play shows us the temptation, the victory, SOUTHEAST CORNER NINTH AND F STItEETS. To the depths, where the lights of hope and love novl8-ly4 morals governed by the seventh oommand- the retirement and the final and divinely Admitted by all travelers to be the best hotel south Never come, from the calm, sweet hoigtits above. ment for our mental peace. These French- beautiful reconciliation. Dumas, fils, in of New York. Located on Lafayette Square, the W. S. K00SE, The pure may hear the tempter's calls, men and Frenchwomen have fallen into the writing his magnificent Alphonse, de- In evll'B snares the strongest falls; depths of our conscience, and for this we scribes Raymonds, who has sinned in her most beautiful park in the city, opposite the White The act of the hour time cannot recall, ~ Wholesale sneer at them. Yet the record of our youthful and passionate days. But after a House and within one block of the Treasury, War and Cigars & Tobacco,M One lapse of will may a life enthrall. divorce courts is more hideous than the '^'dealer in Im- lpng repentance she married Captain Mon- Navy Departments. Street cars pass the door. The ported andi spectacles contained in their most immoral manufacturer ot Oh! Christ, who came to Magdelene, taglin, and they lived an affectionate and r cleanest, quietest and most convenient location in the the Cactus, La Thy love grant to a heart unclean; plays. Although Mr. Daly pushed his idea beautiful life. Accident makes him ac- Manola, La Reose,. In the depths of thy genial fcharlty, until it has reacted upon him, be has, never- quainted with her early history, and they city for travelers and members of Congress. Pennnsylrania and Stockton Cigars. From this burden of sin my soul set free. Agent for the Ambro- theless, greatly benefited the cause of then have an interview which is celebrated sia Fine Cut. The trade OI soft-voiced mother and calm-browed wife, morality by setting us sharply to thinking. supplied direct from the> in stage annals alike for the intensity of her This beautiful Hotel has not only been thoroughly Avenue factory at the very lowest New Drinking in fullness the sweetness of life, The Frenchmen are not only strong in sorrow, and the fury and desperate nature York and Baltimore prices. In your placid rest shall no thought have place refitted during the summer vacation, but ijiview of their art, but they are equally powerful in of his struggle with the false customs of the For a woman sinking In sin's embrace ? the approaching season, when an Unusual crowd may the delineation of their morals. Their world. He thinks of her sin, and how so- The truth in Its bitterness fills my soul, r «9-KetalI branches at Willard's, Metro- clear visions recognize the fact that strong ciety will demand their separation. While be expected, arrangements have been made to accom- pollton, Arlington and Imperial Hotels. As the burning tears from my eyelids roll; conclusions do not usually follow a weak H oct8-tfl No hope for a woman sunken in sin, she sobs at his feet he draws the distinc- modate all who may apply. Death only her sorrow and shame shuts in. premise, and that to write a strong play it is tions of habit in burning words, but at last DANIEL LOÜGHBAN, necessary to deal with the strong passions. remembers his love and her long repent- In addition to the rooms of the Hotel, the proprietors The night falls round my weary frame, It is the strong passions which cause infi- ance, his own conscience, his own vows at JOBBER OF The kindly darkness hides my shame; delity to the marriage vow, or that mislead have at their control some of the most I turn my steps to my loathed bed the altar and his duty to his God. Then he CIGARS AND TOBACCO, And, drearily, pillow my aching head. a maid; that can draw the long wail of forgives Raymonde and adopts the little agony from a breaking heart or bring down girl who calls her mother. Are not these NO. 1408 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, OPPO- EVENINGS AT THE THEATER, gray hairs in sorrow to the grave. It is the "French" plays moral? These two forci- SITE WILLARDS' HOTEL. strong passions which make Othello and ble delineations of character and forgive- Elegantly Furnished mar25-ly6 Faust such master-pieces of human elo- BY JOHN MCLANDBURGH. ness ? Yes, for they embody the sublime OOAL AND WOOD, quence, and that make Charity, and Al- elements in the religion of Christ. phonse, and "Led Astray, and Alixe such THE MODERN FRENCH PLAYS. Here is the difference between the dramas H. A. CLARKE. JOHN T. GIVE». II. magnificent reproductions of moral ex- we have just analyzed and the terrible perience. Wherever intense anguish fol- Apartments MORALITY. Sphinx. They all contain a moral as forci- lows the complications of human affairs, it Coal and Wood. In taking up the question of morality, let bly drawn as is the unholy passion on which has always been caused by the strong pas- us first determine what is morality. Moral- they are founded. Reason struggles with sions working in the heads and hearts ity is conformity to divine law. It is the evil in them all. Insensibly, as the play of men. Contrast for a moment the plays instinct which enables us to know and ap- progresses, the pure and sacred instincts of In Washington within CLARKE & GIVEN, preciate good; it is the power by which we . of the English Robertson with those of Barriere or Dumas flls. The. former are the erring but repentant soul are unfolded WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN overcome temptations. Morality is both ac- to our perception and judgment. Against tive and passive. The former is the life- exquisite pictures of society in a happy home. The sacred peace which broods the blackness of Iago the white soul of WOOD AND COAL. long struggle with the spirit of evil. Its Desdemona isshining. After the sin of the in - Reasonable Reach. field is the field of humap life. There it there is shown by the most delicate stroke of a master's pencil. But think of these nocentiy-guilty Marguerite comes her agony creates character and satisfies the largest of sobs and the solemn beauty of her prayer. Dally arriving, cargoes ol select ANTHRACITE demands of the deity. The latter is shown beautiful and fragile dramas for an ijistant, and BITUMINOUS COAL, lor families, steam and in connection with the sorrows of a strong Raymonde's life is pure and good after she Tuo Arlington bas all the manufacturing use. in the condition of a child who has been weds the Captain. The forgiveness in the kept away from-the world-by its-parents, man who has lost his wife by moral deatli. KINDLING AND COKD WOOD. Then Robertson becomes a zephyr compared fifth act of Led Astray is invested with a and whose only conception of good and evil moral beauty which is unsurpassed. But MODERN CONVENIENCES, OOAL STANDARD—TON 2,240 lbs. is based upon precept. Passive morality $0 the hurricane of Dumas fils. there are none of these good things in the Best duality, Fair Prices and Fair Dealing. without experience is always theoretical, But we must not be understood as claim- Sphinx. Blanche is reckless, willful and negative and worthless. It is an attribute No. 424 TENTH STREET WEST,' ing morality for all expressions of the designing. Loving evil better than gOoc), Between D and E streets north- of the spirit, and belongs to the ideal life. Fiench thought, because some of their she plunges madly into the short ecstasy, BRANCH YARI), cornor Twelfth and C street» But a practical morality is the fruit of the northwest. plays contain nothing but unalloyed vice. and runs her course like a courtesan, and BEST TRAINED SERVANTS IN spirit working through the flesh in the DEPOT at Potomac Bridge, corner Maryland ave- Henry Murger's Bohemian Life, known arena of the world, where it is a vital ele- when she is caught at last, and must faee her nue and Thirteen-and-arhalf street. sep5tf3 here as Mimi, is a specimen of this ment in the code of human ethics. We can sins, she has no pourage and kills herself. dangerous class. Although the conception AMERICA, have no character for virtue; we cannot Blanche is a moral coward. Beside Blanche, COKE DOWN TO 4 CENTS- and execution of Murger are masterly, and become entitled to the confidence of our Raymonde shines like an angel. Compared he stands well d' fined against the intel- fellow-men until have thoroughly tested with Led Astray and Charity, this rotten lectual horizon of France, the tendency of THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED 40 BUSHELS DELIVERED FOR $2.20. our theories and strength of purpose in the Sphinx is the Iliad of hell. When the cur- his writings is towards immorality. His practical issues of daily life; Our mother tain falls on such scenes as Mimi and The GAS-LIGHT OFFICE, men and women live wicked lives and Eve was at first invested with the abstract Sphinx, and the lights are out, and the peo- never repent. All the good done by them FRENCH COOKS, morality, but in this state she had no char- ple travel homeward, they proceed in a 2 411 and 413 Tenth street. is gathered up, magnified and made pictu- acter. It requires temptation to form char- mental darkness as well, because the moral resque by genius. The noble acts are sup- New York, Philadelphia and California papers o MEDI0AL, acter, and we all know how she acted under lights are out also. planted by deeds of darkness which are temptation. In the struggle she fell, and It is not the portrayal, but the gilding of file in a spacious, comfortable reading room. barely hinted at. The grand charities of so proved that the only morality of value to vice, which is immoral. Not what we see, his character are paid out of the wages of a In a word, the proprietors, man in this life is that positive morality but how we see it. Some of these much- continuous sin. In the seductively beauti- which is able to meet, grapple with and abused modern French plays pour acid on ful writings of this man and his class, overcome all forms of temptation. It is our very souls. whether in France or America, we look at time we learn that innocence is not moral- The Parisian playwrights generally illus- the iniquities of human life through the T. Roessle & Son, ity, and that he can avoid evil best who trate and illuminate a principle in their wrong end of the lorgnette. Such authors knows what evil is. have intellectual but no moral beauty. dramas, a principle which applies to the en- tire human family. Unlike us, they do not Are determined to maintain the national reputation There is another class of dissolute and out- ol the Arlington. nov25-tfl Much of the morality, so called, of Eng- Q take the measure of a particular company land and America, in this age, is a false cast plays, occupying a station far down i the scale of wickedness—plays which have before commencing work. Captain Montag- EBBITT HOUSE, morality or prudery. This kind of morality lin, in Alphonse, rises to the dignity of a would put clothing on the Venus de Medici neither moral nor intellectual beauty. They depend wholly for effect upon the influence type. We assert that Mr Alexandre Dumas, HEAD QUARTERS ARMY AND NAVY, or push the drapery of the Venus of Milo fils, judged by his recent works, is a moral up to her chin. We have heard "of people and allurements which a purely physical beauty, unchecked by intellect, exert over philosopher, working in Parisfor the eman- WASHINGTON, I). U. who wished, to turn pictures of the Dying cipation and redemption of a whole class of Gladiator and jGanora's Hector and Ajax, the animal passions of the natural man. its citizens, and that it is not accident, or C. C. WILLARD, Proprietor. with faces to the wall, and who objected to Sardou's Friends and the terrible and love of gain, which inspires his thought, for Raphael's Madonna because the child has justly abused Sphinx are representatives there is every internal evidence that it is no clout upon it. We even know of people of this school, and words are not strong IMPERIAL HOTEL, proceeding from strong moral convictions, in the metropolis who will not consider or enough for its condemnation. The Sphinx (FIBST CLASSO WASHINGTON, tòpi. discuss some erf the most serious question^ is a portrayal in vivid colors of several pas- He is asking a gigantic question of society, Boom and Board per month, $50 ; per week, $17.50 DRS.LIYERP00L& W00DW0RTH,. of ethics in this sorrowful World becajise sages in the career of a fashionable and in a way that insures attention. Our play- per day, $2.50 to $3. To meet the wants of the traveling public this first- such disoussion would necessitate a men-highly connected woman, who leaves her wrights, the original ones, have never yet THE GREAT INDIAN 1IMB DOCTORS husband without cause, and sins for the worked in any purely moral cause, and the class Hotel has reduced its prices from $1 to $2.50 and OF BALTIMORE, tion of the seventh commandmenti But Will be In their office, (one or both,) 711 Seventh street mere creature pleasure of sinning. Beside fact remains that the Frenchmen are to-$3 per day. Table board $25 per month. this is not morality, other than the drivel- je3-tf8 JAS. S. l'ElRIK, Prop'r. northwest, Washington, D. C., every day from 9 a. m. the moral leprosy of this Blanche the out- day our pioneers in a liberal and advanced to 9 p. m., where they,are prepared to treat airchrqnic- ing, negative morality of ignorance). "W EST END HOTEL, diseases with preparations from ROOTS, HERUS Viewed in light of this kind, many of the lawed courtesan, with h-er gains, is prefera- thought. GEOBGETOWN, D. O. and BARKS—¡'NATURE'S REMEDIES." ble and even tolerable. Reviewing the dramatic literature of Eu- V. SHINS Proprietor. Visits made in all parts of the city at two dollars a acts of the Savior, while on earth, were im- This hotel is conveniently located, being situated on visit, if paid In advance. moral, and such utterances as " neither do rope in this year of our Lord, 1878, from our the line of the Washington and Georgetown City, Pas- All diseases of the Heart, Lungs, Throat, Liver,. No, we must not be understood as becom- Spleen, Nerves, Skin and Blood diseases generally a I condemn thee," or "let him who is without station on the hither side of the sea, we senger Railroad, the cars of which, from the Bailroad ing a champion for the morality of the en- and Steamer Depots, pass the door every two or tpree SPECIALTY. sin among you cast the first stone," lose all perceive that England has lost the old sub- minutes. The guests ef this house can reach any of Terms : Payable monthly, as the patient takes treat- tire French stage, because the French stage, tie Public Bullalngs of the National Capital, or any ment. sep30-ly their sublimity, and fall to the level of a limity of her thought; that the spirit.of place of amusement, &c., by a pleasant ride ol a few like every other stage, and the French peo- Shakspeare has traveled over to Germany ; minutes. Board per day, $2. By the month at re- secretly corrupt and fashionable society. duced rateB. sep26-tUI ple, like every other, people,, have dark spots that Germany has parted from the philoso- J. BURY'S of immorality resting here and there upon We must bear in mind that the modern phies and France turned her back upon the Pipsissewa, French plays were written by Frenchmen the inner and outer life. But we «to say that AMERICAN HOUSE, classics; we see -that Hugo's mighty wave APositive cure for Gravel, Dropsical Swellings, Ulcer- liviDg in the French capital, and that they such French plays as Alphonse and Led ation of the Kidneys. Bladder, Urethra, &e. It has of Romanticism which burst upon the represent the life and thought and morals Astray and Charity and Alixe are moral Corner Pennsylvania Ave» and Seventh St»t also proved a specific In Diabetes, Catarrh of the Blad- French coast in 1830, refined and humanized der, Incontinence of CJrine, Gleet and Leucorrhea. of France, not England or" America. Our factors in the sum of human life, and not It Is scientifically and chemloally combined, and SO' during the second Empire, is extending, strongly concentrated that minute doses soon yieldi habits and traditions, our entire educational only moral, but powerfully and practically TABLE BOARD, $20 PER MONTH. satisfactory results. Sold by all druggists. ja6-4t plan, are unlike those of the Gallic people. moral, to a degree hitherto unknown in any tide like, to the shores of other nations, and is there purifying and elevating both art They look at art and morals from a dif-of the ethical literature produced in America my28-tfl SCHOPIELD ft DUFFY, Proprietors. Dr. C. DeMontreville, ferent standpoint. Many of the so-called or England during the past five or ten years. and morals, and that onoe more, after one D ENTIS T, hundred and twenty years, the French No. 1229 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, immoralities in their dramas are not imr The play of Alixe tells us that twenty MORTON HOUSE. Between Twelfth and Thirteenth Sts., moralities at all when we consider where years previously Madame Vallory had de- plays are again in the highest throne of hu- WASHINGTON CITY. man excellence, and from it, as in the days 999 AND 994 F STREET NORTHWEST. RBPUBENCBS : the literature was written. Some of these serted her husband. When she reappeared Col. W. K. BogerB, Private Sec'y to the President. plays which are perfectly moral among the at his house with her nameless child it was of Racine and Corneille, they are moulding Gen. Wm. G. LèDuc, Commissioner of Agriculture. . PRICES FOR BOARD. Hon. John J. Knox, Comptroller of Currency. Parisians may have a questionable tendency after a long and bitter repentance of her sin. and guiding the civilization of this age. Per month $16.00 Senator McMillan, Gov. Alex. Ramsey, Gov. C. K. Chicago, January, 1878. Per month, If paid in advance 14.00 Davis, &c. oc28-ly2 here in America. This occurs not on ac- Here the action of the play commences, Per week 3.60 count of any variation in the laws of truth and in the compass of one brief day, which Breakfast or dinner 26 -pvOOTOR C. H. BOWEN and virtue, but because the social and is filled with an infinite pathos, we see the COLUMBIAN Lunch 10 23 meal tickets 5,00 H AS REMOVED HIS OFFICE TO 1322 F ST moral customs of the two nations are dif- pure life of Alixe blighted by custom and 47 do do 10.00 nol8 tf2 ferent, and that our system of ethics con- overthrown by unendurable anguish. We MOBTON HOUSE was the first one in the city to lower the prices for board, and thus save the people tains many false elements. And it is perceive that sin often carries its own from $4 to $5 per month. J. F. ELLIS & CO., largely because of these facts, and our igr punishment, and that in his inscrutable BANK NOTE COMPANY, BEST BOARD IN THE CITY. SOLA A.GENT8 FOB norance and Philistinism, that so much in- Providence the Great Master above some- Hominy and oat meal' for breakfast every day at discriminate abuse has been heaped upon times causes the retribution to follow while MORTON HOUSE, THE CELEBRATED CHICKERING the entire catalogue of modern French we still remain in this world. Here he 922 and 924 F street northwest. AND 0O8 Pennsylvania Avenue, N. B.—No beer, liquors or tobacco of any kind sold. plays. It must be remembered also that visited the iniquity of the parent upon the sep!6-ly6 f AM0US WEBER PIANOS, our wholesale condemnation of the dra- innocent child. Is this 1 French" play AND matic thought of France has been based moral ? This mystery ? Yes, it is the di- THE SMITH AMERICAN ORGAN! upon a personal knowledge of a very small vine morality which is spoken to man in WASHINGTON, B. C. IRVING HOUSE RESTAURANT. fragment of that literature. "The plays thunder tones from the lips of the dead. 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Now there are many who seek to overthrow her happiness and VISITOR, (enlarged,) Weekly and Monthly. Largest Team. BANK NOTES, BONDS ANB COMMERCIAL Paper in the World, with Mammoth Chromos Free. thousand plays in the French language gain her fortune. Here the play begins, and Big Commission! to Agents. Terms and Outfit Free. GABDEN CITY HOTBL, CBBEDMOOB, Sept. 17, 1877. treating upon all subjects, monologues; shows us how the fashionable Pharisees Address P. Q. Vlckery, Augusta, Maine. ocl4-6moal Messrs. WM. S. KIMBALL & Co., Rochester, N. Y.: WORK OF EYEBY KIND, fco. dialogues, tjriologues,jplay? entirely of men's often persecute and drag down a defense- OW IS THE TIME TO SELL Gentlemen: Pray accept my best thanks for the pack- N age of Vanity Fair Tobaoco which I found here yester p.irts and wholly for women. We can less and struggling life. Is this play moral? WM. H. PHILIP, President. LADIES, GENT'S AND CHILDHEN'S day. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will DO ® hardly imagine a whole play composed of Yes, because its sentiment is one long, biting CAST-OFF WEARING APPAREL great source of enjoyment to me on my western trip. GEO. T. JONES, Yiee President. BOOTS, SHOES, &C., Believe me, yours truly, H. S: .T. H but one or two characters, yet there are sarcasm on a society which is organized on JOHN W. WATEKS, Seoretary. At extraordinary high cash prices, at JUSTH'S old S. Bosenfeld ft Co., Asrents, 68 Escliangc J. M. VAN BUSKIKK, Treasurer. stand, No. 819 D street n. w. All notes by mail will dec2-4mo* Baltimore, be promptly attended to. mar21-tf 7 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

old friend, Rev. E. P. Brooks, a well-known Washing- iDg salutes and frightening small naked children and NEW PUBLICATIONS. TO TEAVELEE8. OUR CORRESPONDENT ON THE UPPER NILS. ton journalist, çcofflngly termed your correspondent, nibbling goats as we sailed along. Trying hard not brought down two ring-doves, and denoted first blood to laugh, and wishing we had the Rev. E. P. Brooks ALTIMORE ANI) OHIO RAILROAD. 'The Land of the Lion, Elephant and Giraffe—Tlie for that shitty heathen. The Herald man let drive and Marshal Jack Wharton along to help me not to j B Ancient Kingdom of Shendy—Chasing Gazelles—A both barrels at a zik-zak, which was sitting and. sing- laugh, I acquiesced in the explanation, and, as a friend The great double track. ing I serenely unconscious, and devastated him of of the crocodile, expressed myself as fully satisfied NEW POETRY. NATIONAL ROUTE AND SHORT LINE Crocodile Hunt—Traveler's Tales—Ferdinand Blen- TO THSS plumafge and life simultaneously ; but on being told that no real harm had been intended. The Nubian Northwest, West and South. des Pinto—Marco Polo and Will Iain C. Primé—A he was neither a game bird nor fitfo r the pot, said he gun-bearers agreed to the explanation unanimously, GEO. D. PRENTICE'S POEMS. NOVEMBER18, 5:16 p. m. Royal Arch—22-Carat Liar—Sir Samuel Baker's had forgot to chalk his cue, and would try it over having fired themselves; and we all finally agreed JUST PUBLISHED. A. M. Leave Washington: Elephant Exploits—Jnles Gerard—The Poet-Lion. again. The country here opened with a broad plain, that not only were the cartridges blank, but the scales "The Memorial Edition" of the Poems of G-eorge 6:00 a. m.—Baltimore and Way Stations. jcattered over with mimosa trees, broad-topped syca- turned the balls; there was no chalk on the cue, and I): Prentice, edited with a Biographical Sketch by 6:60 a. m.—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. Hunter—Another Texas Jack—Hunting Tarns Un- mores and the lofty, graceful doum -palms. Here the it didn't make a dignified dash's bit of difference, as John James Piatt. Illustrated with a portrait on steel, Strasburg, Winchester and way Stations, via Relay. raveled—Chance for Jack. Wharton and E. P. we had lost the game anyway. F8:00—Baltimore Express. pigeons flew thick, and in the course of an hour we had and ornamented with a side-stamp in gold, represent- 8:10 a. m.—Piedmont, Strasburg, Winchester, Brooks When the Crocodile Got Away. bagged enough to satisfy the wildest culinary dreams It is a curious and suggestive fact that no traveler, ing Mr. Prentice's statue in front of the Oourier- Hagerstown, Point of Rocks and Way Stations. 8:30 a. M.—NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON AND NILE-BÔÀT "JOSEPHINE," of our chef de galley. No one, though, who has not explorer or saintly parson on a health tour ever yet Journal building at Lflamingo in the reeds. Wo are now on truthful for example's sake, will pull the long-bow paid, on r'ecelpt of price by the publishers, P. M. the upper Nile, nearly as tar up as this ancient, mys- a bird fell, as many did, in this abattis of bristling when narrating their exploits among the heathen KOBT. CLARKE & CO., 12:10 p. m.—Baltimore, Ellloott Olty, Annapolis and Cincinnati, Ohio. terious and sacred river is known to navigation lor spears, there was nothing for it but to leave him and other wild game. Dr. Livingstone, greatest and Way Stations. whére he dropped. No native would attempt his dis- tl:S0 p. M.—NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA EX- pleasure or legitimate trade. Above here the only best of all explorers, who pioneered the path Stanley MR. AKD MRS J. J. PIATT'S POEMS. PRESS. On Sunday to Baltimore and Way Stations lodgment. The. natives, by the way, were our .only •boats are the annual fleets of dahabuiehs, which go up and the others have walked over with great govern- Mr. Piatt's Poems. only. retrievers, and very good ones they made. Quick to :&nd down at high Nile, in the slave and elephant ments and rich corporations at their back—even the WESTERN WINDOWS AND OTHER POEMS. 3:30—Baltimore and way stations. Winchester and sight game, and to swim even in the most crocodile- doctor, faithful narrator as he was, never recounted Way Stations, via Relay. teeth (ivory) trade. It is technical here to speak of By John James Piatt. 4:30 p. m.—Baltimore, Bladensburg and Laurel Ex- , tusks as u teeth." Not far beyond us is the land of haunted basins of the Nile for its recovery, they en- his misses. Misses are not interesting, it is true, 1 vol., 18vo. $1.50. New Edition. press. Frederick, via Relay. tirely supplied the place of dogs, with which we were [From the London Atheneum.] f4:35 p. m.—Frederick, Point of Rooks. Winchester the lion, the elephant and the giraife, and after my (especially very young Misses,) but the bitter should It appears to us that since the war the American not provided, excepting two small,, staunch grey- be taken with the sweet in the proportion Fate has and Way Stations. Sunday to Point of Rocks and last describing the hippopotamus hunt, which I hope people give utterance to deeper and nobler thoughts W ay Stations only. reached you safely, having been sent down to the hounds loaned us tjy Multas Pacha, the governor mixed them. in their poetry; they have gained an individuality of f4:40—Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. general, for running down gazelles. To be sure, the their own, and their verse lg not the reflex and imita- f5:30 p. m.—Philadelphia, Norfblk and Baltimore second cataract by government courier, I had intended Sir Samuel Baker, elephant-hunter, African ex- tion of other poets in distant climes. Occasionally gazelles generally ran the dogs down, but we had the Express. Elllcott City. PASSENGERS FOR NORFOLK to abandon my sketches of travel until 1 had got back plorer and gold-medalist of the Royal Geographical Mr. Piatt gives us an echo of Longfellow and Ten- tun of the chase, and could always buy a tame one to TAKEN IN THE CARS DIRECT TO BOAT AT OANTON. as far, anyway, as Dublin, to which staunch old Society, never misses anything at any distance. nyson, but his best poems are his own and recall no No connection Sunday for Norfolk. hang over our saddle-bows, with its throat cut, as we remembrance or shade of the poetry ot others. •city I owe a good turn one of these days, for giving me Whether it be manfully facing an old bull elephant +6:50—Baltimore and way Btatlons. returned from this ennobling chase. Pointers or set- [From the London Spectator.] {6:55—CHICAGO AND COLUMBUS EXPRESS. SLEEP- an ancestry. at six yards, or popping briskly away at a buck This volume is One among not a few recent proofs ters here would be useless. No pointer, unless ING CARS to Chicago. eland at two hundred yards, (or miles, if needed,) the that America is acquiring a poetical literature that is f7:30 p. m.—Baltimore Express. On the present afternoon, though,' young Hops hav- blessed with a hide of sole leather and the high distinctly her own. quarry unfailingly drops to his unerring aim, and al- •¡•9:26—St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Pitts- ing gone ashore snipe-shooting, and having the deck, courage of a Front de Bœuf, would face the thorns or [lYom the Independent.] burg Express. SLEEPING OARS to St. Louis and Pitts- ways hit in a vital spot, or with an eventually fatal The lovely home-feeling of many of the other the awning and the divans to myself, it will amuse endure the heat ; and the retrievers would be snapped burg. No connection for Pittsburg Sunday. wound. The poor beast may be allowed sometimes to poems seems to hang a new garland on every domes- f9':30 p. m.—NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA AND BAL- me, and won't particularly hurt you, if I resume on up by gourmandizing crocodiles, if no' other misfor- tic altar. make a few spasmodic bounds in the air, or be TIMORE EXPRESS. SLBEPING OAR to New York, and the river these sketches, which I see by my home pa- tune befell them. SPECIAL SLEEPING (JAR to Philadelphia, f Dally. pers have been received with a favor beyond their de- charitably permitted to dash off for a few hundred LANDMARKS, AND OTHER POEMS. All other trains dally except Sunday. serts. If any thing I now write shall amuse or instruct The vulgar error or popular fallacy, as you please, yards, but the very best he can do with Baker is to be By John James Piatt. All trains stop at Relay Station. that the Mahommedan avoids contact with the dog, as brought to bay in a thicket, and philanthropically For further information apply at Ticket Offices at in ever so faint a degree those readers of THE CAPI- 1 vol., 16vo. $1.50. New Edition. Depot, corner New Jersey avenue and C streets, 486, TAL who follow the dog and gun, or have fox-hunting being an unclean animal, is what the Orientals term put out of pain by a friendly bullet "placed just in [From the New York Times.] 601 and 603 Pennsylvania avenue, and 613 Fifteenth proclivities, I shall not go unrewarded for my toil, all mish-mish—which is a sweet confection made from the right eye," or " exactly at the base of the brain," Mr. Piatt may justly claim to be the first genuine street northwest, where tickets can be procured and •even if Scribner never sends me a draft—for toil it is apricots, and signifies in this connection, all nonsense. or "neatly severing the spinal cord.". poet of the Mississippi Valley. No one who reads his orders will be taken for baggage to be checked and re- poems can fail to see that they are charmingly origi- ceived at any point in the oity. to wiite with the thermometer at 100 degrees, and a John Russell Young, who is slightly Anglican in Once this thunderbolt of sportsmen shoots an ele nal, both in the subjects selected and in the manner W. M. CLEMENTS, Asst. Master of Transportation. gracefully corpulent physique slightly wasted by oyer speech, would call it, " All rot, you know ;" but a long phant with a quarter of a pound bullet propelled by in which they are treated. Pictures of Western farm L. M. COLE, General Ticket Agent. 1,900 miles of exhaustive river and desert travel. residence in London has corrupted his English. The ten drachms of strong powder. This delicate bon-bon life are so vividly painted that one can almost see the GEO. S. KOONTZ. General Agent. dog of whatever breed or species is kindly treated by endless fields of wheat lazily waving in the hot, hazy It has fallen to the lot of few travelers to visit the passed through the elephant from side to side, tearing air. the Arab, and the greyhounds for the chàse are held 1 QTT GREAT Soudan—I doubt if Mr. Theodore Roessle of the Ar- out lungs, lights, liver and hide, ripping up intestines, 1Ö 4 I . PENNSYLVANIA 1877. in high esteem. cracking bones and letting out streains of blood. The Mrs. Piatt's Poems. ROTJTE lington Hotel was up quite so far as this—and to none, TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. except Sir Samuel Baker, the brother of Baker Pacha, On a sand-bar running out in the stream to a sharp elephant walks away thoughtfully after this notifica- A WOMAN'S POEMS. By Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. now with the Turkish army,'to exploit it in its various point, and flashing in the sunlight like an Arab spear, tion that he is wanted, and forty-three days after- 16mo. $1.50. New Edition. Double Track, Steel Ralls, Splendid phases of fur, fin and feather. Bruce and Burkhardt we presently discerned two yellowish-looking objects, wards Sir Samuel Baker finds his victim again, and Scenery, Magnificent Equipment. [From the Independent.] which, upon a closer investigation, proved to be two brings him down at the first fire by a two ounce and a visited the ancient kingdom of Shendy, a hundred In quantity it is not a great book; but in quality, in • NOVEMBER 18, 1877. very large crocodiles. The first crocodiles a traveler half ball—"placed exactly in the base of the brain." Trains leave Washington, from Depot, Corner ot miles below the point irom where I now write. Lep- delicacy, originality, artistic feeling and power, no sees are always enormous and are always killed. You But Baker is a first-class sportsman (as his brother, Sixth and B streets, as follows: =sius labored a year at Merace, still lower down, to un- American poetess has given us a greater one. For Pittsburg and the West, 10:10 a. m. daily, with earth the history of ancient Ethiopia ; but these savans, will.be pleased to see that we had the usual good tor- in the Porte's service now, is a first-class cavalry offi- Parlor Oar to Pittsburg, and Sleeping Oars to Pitts- like old Sol Gills in Dombey and Son, were " men of tune. Near the bar was a ledge of rocks, which, by a cer,) although he does say he once brought down a A VOYAGE TO THE FORTUNATE ISLES. burg, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago; 7:40 little wading and careful stalking, might be reaohed brace of elephants at a time by a right and left shot— By Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. 16mo. $1.50. p. m. dally, with Palace Oar to Chicago. science," and had small knowledge of or sympathy [From the Atlantic Monthly.) BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. with the healthy, exciting sports of flood and field. unperceived, and whence a fair shot might be ob- probably none better .living, unless it may be Mr. Here is poetry as delicate and purely poetic as ever For Oanandaigua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Bayard Taylor of meandering renown strayed into tained. The Herald man avowed his determination to Oswald of South African celebrity, who was at one was given in the world. Falls and the North, at 7:40 p. m. daily, except Satur- destroy these monster saurlans, single-handed and time a patron of Dr. Livingstone, and accompanied [From the Advance.] day, with Palace Oar to Watkins. For w llliamsport, this then vast solitude in search of health and adven- Within a certain range Mrs. Piatt sings as purely Lock Haven, Elmlra and Watkins, 10:10 a. m. daily, ture twenty-five years ago, and wrote a book anent it ; alone ; but as there is no record of a crocodile yielding Livingstone's first expedition. and sweetly as Mrs. Browning. except Sunday. tout he, good, easy gentleman, was by his own confes- to a sword-cane, even with a blood-stone handle, Major Rodgers—now dead—was famous years ago For New York and the East, 1:40 a. m. and 9:80 p. wielded by a quill-driver—and knowing the value THAT NEW WORLD, &c. m. daily, with Palace Oars attached; Limited Ex- sion no sportsman, and attempted only the lite of an as the most successful of elephant hunters. He By Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. 1 vol. 16mo. $1.50. press of Fulman Parlor Oars, 9:20 a. m. dally, except occasional tame village pigeon by means of an old Father Gobright of the Ass. Press sets on the young numbered his tusks fallen to his own gun by thou- [From Review by W.D. Howells,in Atlantic Monthly.] Sunday. liorse-pistol, probably handed down to him from re- scribes who make his life prosperous and happy— sands, mostly in Ceylon. It is doubtful.if the best If so few words could justly dismiss it, we should For New York and the East, 1:30 p. m. dally, except it was determined that Hops, with two gun-bearers, feel that it was the most entire expression of Bereave- Sunday, with Sleeping Oars from Washington mote generations as a family heirloom. dentists in Washington, Dr. Hill or MoFarland, can ment we know in literature, for that defines, if it does should form a reserve. After adjuring the Herald to Boston. For Brooklyn. New York, all through Speke and Grant, the famous African explorers who boast as many tusks as that. It must be remembered not fully praise, the book. trains connect at Jersey City with boats, Brooklyn youth, in the interest of old-time tradition, not to 1 walked across the African continent in a vain effort to * that the Ceylon beast; is more easily killed than his [From the Christian Union.] and Annex. affording direct transfer to Fulton thoughtlessly put a bridle in the mouth of the largest Mrs. Piatt is one of the few American woman-poets street, avoiding double ferriage and journey across solve the Nile problem, came down the mysterious African brother, who frequently. walks away with che for whom all women have a strong affection. beast and ride him ashore, after the manner of the New York city. river through the Soudan, from the great Nyanzas, produce of a Dubuque lead mine. For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on re- For Philadelphia, 1:30 p. m. daily, except Sunday, veracious English traveler, Waterton, we watched but, beyond some unsuccessful shots at some shy For a first class, royal arch, twenty-two carat liar ceipt of piicp, by the Publishers. and 1:40 a. m., and 5:26 and 9:80 p. m. daily. them set out on their errand of blood, from under the JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., Boston. Limited Express, 9:20 a. m. daily, except Sunday. gazelles, tarried not in their eager haste to reach the however, commend me to Jules Gerard, the French grateful shade of a palm tree, with considerable resig- Accommodation for Baltimore, 6:66 and 8:30 a. m. and shores of Old England, to be there welcomed, as 1 lion killer. Being a Frenchman and a poet, he senti- POEMS IN COMPANY WITH CHILDREN. 4:20 p. m. dally, except Sunday. nation. There was about a quarter of a mile, water hope to hear our own Stanley soon will be, by the ap- mentally hunted by moonlight. A coil of French horn By Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. For Pope's Creek Line, 6:65 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. dally, and sand-bar, to traverse ; the sun was blazing hot, 1 vol. small quarto, $1.50, except Sunday. — proving plaudits of their grateful and admiring coun- is doubtless wound around his graceful person. He 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and not enough breeze to flutter With illustrations by Miss Humphrey, Robert Lewis For Annapolis, 6:55 a. m. and 4:20 p. m. dally, except trymen. carries but one gun and scorns assistance. His con- and Miss Jessie Curtis. Sunday. Jim Young's mustache. Our crocodile hunters stole From Berber on the Nile to Khartoum, nearly 250 tests are always duels—combats a V outrance. His [From E. C. Stedman, author of "The Victorian ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG' softly along the strip of sand intervening between the Poets" in the New York Evening Post.] miles by river, Hops and your correspondent, with our system, as he describes it, was to sit under a tree and RAILWAY AND ALEXANDRIA AND WASH- main bank and the rocks, followed by their faithful, All of her songs to or concerning the little ones, are INGTON RAILROAD. ragged retainers, released from the fatigues and mo- bait a line with a bleating kid; the cries of the kid full of the heaven that lies about us in our infancy. For Alexandria, 6, 7, 8, 9:10, 10,11a.m.; 1, 3, 4:20, 6, grinning Nubians—all crouching in the attitude popu- notony of a long desert trip, had beaten up either attract the lordly lion, who comes full front towards For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on re- 6:00 and 7 p. m. On Sunday at 9:10 a. m and 1 and 7 larly ascribed to Sitting Bull, Lame Deer or Lone ceipt of price by the Publishers. bank of the Nile, and from shy gazelle to cumbrous the intrepid Frenchman. The crack of the rifle dis- p. m. Wolf when seeking the scalp of the intrusive white D. LOTHROP & CO., For the South, via Richmond, 2:45 a. m. dally and hippopotami, had paid our compliments to denizen of turbs the stillness of the night; the lion falls dead. del6 tf Boston, Mass settler or obnoxious miner. While our friends were 6:35 p. m. daily, except Sunday. j ungle and river as we passed along. Gerard's lions are always man-eaters and of colossal Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6,7,8:10,9:10, gaining their vantage ground the " Independent Pa- Of course we had a New York Herald correspondent size, with a mane like a dervish. Surrounding vil- 10,11 a. m., 1,3,4:20, 5, 8:00 and 7 p. m. On Sunday at gan " made a scientific survey, through a powerful MISCELLANEOUS. 8:10 and 10 a. m. and 6:00 p. m. along. Could there be a fire, a cremation or a clam- lages vie with each other in doing honor to the gallant Tickets, information, Sleeping and Parlor Oar ao- field-glass—one of Yoigtlin's Vienna make—of these Gaul. Toothsome fruits and the firstlings of the flock oommodations can be procured at the offices: North- bake without oné ? . He was posted as a guard in EBER PIANOS ARE THE BEST Nile monsters. are gratefully placed at his feet. Blushing, levely east corner Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- northern Africa, lest Scipio Africanus Stanley should W MANUFACTURED. nue, northeast eorner Sixth street and Pennsylvania suddenly abandon the Zanzibar route and come home I know the alligator as I knew buffalo, and the Nile maidens, garlanded with jasmine and redolent of rose- It will be seen by the following short extracts from avenue, and at the Depot, where orders can be left for saurian is no more like the South American alligator attar, are dedicated to his hareem. These honors, of hundreds of letters that nearly all the great, singers the checking ot baggage to destination from hotels down the Nile. The Herald correspondent—like all and artists of the world have given the Weber Piano Herald correspondents—was a young and very hand- than a subsidized, bargain-hunting missionary is like course, J ules declines, and the maidens bashfully re- and residences. the preference over all others. Bead what they say: L. P. FARMER. some man, full of erudition and enterprise. He had a sincere christian. The reptiles before us were from tire to grace some humbler wigwam. NILSSON:—I shall take every opportunity to RECOMMEND and PRAISE your instruments. Gen'I Passenger Agent. armed himself for purposes of offense and defense, fifteen to eighteen feet long, sandy-yellow in color, From Ferdinand Mendez Pinto down to William C. FRANK THOMPSON, KELLOGG:—For "the last six years your Pianos GenU Manager. with the sporting instinct of a correspondent, with a not at all black, thicker and shorter in the head than Prime, who wrote the book of Egyptian travel which have been my CHOICE for the CONCERT ROOM and my finely finished, double barreled French fowling-piece, the alligator, and so supple and lithe as to turn them- Mark Twain so cleverly impaled in "Innocents own HOUSE. beautifully ornamented on the breach with a perspec- selves almost double when alarmed, with the ease of PATT1:—I have used the Pianos of every celebrated LIVEEY STABLES. Abroad," they have all " done deeds which Antar did maker, but GIVE YOUR'S THE PREFERENCE OVER ALL. tive view of Versailles carved" on the stock, and those an acrobat. The alligator when turning moves the not." None over saw a snake which was not venom- GARY :'—I feel that every one is FORTUNATE who incomparable but somewhat hackneyed words, "Lib- entire body. ' The Nile crocodile Is always a danger- ous, an'Arab girl who might not have sat to Guido owns a Weber Piano, because of its rich and sympa- A. B. KKYE8. J. L. SMITH. erté," " Egalité," " Fraternité," burned into the ex- ous antagonist. The alligator in Southern swamps is, thetic quality of tone. for Cleopatra, and none failed to have, when they re- LUCCA:—Your Uprights are EXTRAORDINARY quisitely laminated barrels in golden letters. This at best, sport for convalescents in Florida and boys. turned to New York, Peoria or Red Bank, an original instruments, and deserve their GREAT SUCCESS. choice arm burst the left barrel on its second discharge, Even in his native element the alligator will fleea t theory to account for the building of the Pyramids. MURSK A:—Your instruments surpass my expecta- dislocating the scribe's business shoulder. The H. C. the approach of man; whereas I am told by native tions, and 1 rank you JUSTLY AS THE FOREMOST The man Prime, who modestly intimates that he is a MANUFACTURER OF THE DAY. ILETTEIS cfc CO. had for further purposes of carnage a sword-cane, hunters here that in the water the crocodile invaria- very handsome man with broad shoulders, and stand- TORR1AN1:—Your's is truly the "Artist's Piano." malacoa joint and blood-stone handle; and a small bly attacks, deeming himself its mightiest inhabi- ing six feet in his stockings, goes through the lower GODDARD:—YoUr instruments have no- "supe- rior " anywhere. I certainly have not seen any Pianos five-shooter adapted for the vest pocket; such as a tant. The destruction of life along the banks of the Nile country, below the second cataract, with a " vol- river, caused by these savage river pirates, annually, in America which even approach them. West End belle might use to blow intrusive insects off canic pistol settled easily in his belt," and a ferocious CARRENO:—1 am not surprised that every great the leaves of her favorite plants. This select and is very large, if we can believe the stories and la- frown on his fine features. He also recommends the artist prefers the Weber Pianos. They are truly COACHES, •effective armory constituted his outfit, in addition to ments of the natives who hold them in wholesome " volcanic" abortion to intending travelers,, probably " noble " instruments, aiid " meet every requirement terror. of the most exacting artist." ¿g&fc . a Russian leather dressing-case and a very improper . haying an interest in the factory that makes it. What STRAUSS:—Your Pianos' astonish The. I assure IFrench novel. For everything else, like a true corres- But to return to our mutton, or oi^r crocodile stalk- in the name of Vulcan and Mars a "volcanic" pistol you that I HAVE NEVER yet seen ANY PIANOS WHICH OPEN BRETTS, pondent, he depended upon us_ ers. Attaining the ledge unperceived, they crept may be this belligerent blubberer, who sobs and slob- EQUAL YOURS. CAMPAlMINI:—'The Weber Pianos SUSTAIN the Young Hops was a man at arms, and was therefore along behind the natural wall it formed, until within bers over mummy bones and counterfeit relics, does voice in a WONDERFUL DEGREE, and they have my un- •equipped to kill. A Reilly rifle, the best sporting rifle a little over a* hundred, yards of their quarry. De- not explain. Of course there is no more need of a pis- qualified admiration. Miring to retain the first victim in, as good case as pos- tol on the tourist's Nile than there would be at a meet- CAPOUL:—I RECOMMEND the Weber Pianos in the m England, double-barelled and sighted for the eye highest terms, and-especially for the voice. LIGHT WAGONS, of a lizard; a pair of Purdey's shot-gurus, No. 10, for sible for specimen purposes, the quartette, whites and ing of the House Committee on Library; but Prime WEHLlir-Mme. Parepa called your Pianos the birds; a new Smith and W esson revolver, large size,and ¿Nubians, arranged to fire together at the head and couldn't help embellishment and gush. Frescoing finest in the United States. 1 "fully indorse" that a hunting knife made to order in England, where they fore-anns of the larger beast. Six drachms of Curtis the baldness of a cheap summer trip with maudlin opinion. They have no "rival anywhere." MILLS:—Among the many excellant Pianos made SADDLE HORSES, make the worst hunting knives in the world, unless & Harvey's strongest rifle-powder were put in the sentiment.' ' ' in the city, the WEBHR RANKS FOREMOST. directed by the superior knife-making intelligence of Reilly's to give impetus to the leaden messengers—I MAUREL:—I readily award the Weber Piano the " Blowing," they term it expressively on the Pacific 4 the American mind. Pools were sold, our first day mean bullets—and if this volley failed to instantly title 'par excellence." They touch my heart. Slope, where Mark Twain acquired his healthy hatred DELPUENTE:—The tone of your instrument is so out, when we had fairly reached where the game was destroy their Intended victim, the Herald special was Of humbug and sham religion. pure and of such depth I am charmed beyond measure D O UBLEand SINGLE B UG GIEß 'Come-atable, as to who would bag the first crocodile* to rush in with the blood-stone sword-cane and pin MUZIO:—I consider the Weber Pianos THE BEST The Herald correspondent, although a rare shot in a him to the earth, or the sand, before he could flounder PIANOS IN THE WORLD. BR1STOW:—To me the Weber Piano contains into the depths of his native Nile. The shot offered FOU PTJUE beér-garden, sold last, owing to the eccentricity of his everything that can be wished for in an Instrument and all other vehicles promptly furnished. tools. Of such minor trifles as gazelles, quails, geese, was a fair one ; if the scales did not glance off the AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS OF LIKE CHAR- pigeons, ducks, no note was taken. I hesitate to tell the balls there was no hope for the doomed crocodile. He, ACTER. ^ quantity of winged game which could bo bagged in unhappy wretch, unconscious of impending evil, bask- WEBER PIANO FORTE. Shendy by such shots and indefatigable field-workers ing in his accustomed sunshine, lazily opening and tff Orders left at the Arlington Hotel or at tho as Recorder Hackett of New'York, Captain Bogar- shutting his huge jaws with a cannibal snap, as the COMPLETE TRIUMPH. dus, the champion, or Major Burden of Washing- sentinel zik-zak or crocodile bird thrust his warning Wines and Liquors Read the wonderful Official Report, being the basis ton. spur between his shining scales, he little dreamed of the U. S. Centennial Award decreed to Albert Stable, day or night, will receive prompt attention. that at that moment the sword of Damocles, with'a Weber, N. Y., lor Grand, Square and Upright Pianos: Our cook was the most decidedly original oharacter REPORT. n board. He had traveled in p^st years with many bipod-stone handle, hung over his destiny, and two For sympathetic, pure and rich tone, combined with distinguished 'savans, Whose achievements in de- Infldels about to cut the string. the greatest power, (as shown in their Grand, Square CEO. HENAULT and Upright Pianos.) These three styles show intel- Close Carriages for wedding calls and receptions. ciphering hieroglyphics were scarcely more brilliant We saw from tho sweet security of our palm-tree ligence and solidily In their construction, a pliant and than Abd-El-Wahed'» triumphs in savory stews and pavilion the signal to takq aim ; we saw the simulta- easy touch, which at the same time answers promptly sauces. He was also a tailor and a poet, blind of one neous smoke wreaths curl out of four gun muzzles-; to its requirements, together with excellence of work- manship. eye and seventy years of age. Abd-El-Wahed (which we heard the sharp, quick reports of four first-class Is the only Merchant who imports and A. T. GOSHORN, Director General. Boarding and Livery Stables in English means Son-of-thè Only-One,) came gravely rifles, and we saw to our. infinite amusement two as. J. R. HAWLEY, President. to the cabin of the "Josephine" one evening, and, tonished croeodilee scurry off and flop hurriedly into sells WINES and LIQUORS by the bottle, Attest: [Seal.] J. L.CAMPBELL, Secretary. after compliments, stated that mutton was scarce and the river with ludicrous and indecent haste. The dis. measure, or any quantity desired-! CAUTION. AT WILLARD'S HOTEL STABLES, turbed waters quickly closed over our departing vic- dear ; that the larder was empty ; that he had been Beware of unscrupulous advertisers, who are trying told by Hassan All, QUT dragoman, tha,t we had on tims, and, dead or alive, thé crocodile rested on the to palm off a certincnte of private individuals, con- board arms of eminent brand and destructive abili- sandy bed of the river, secure from skinning,'stuffing sisting of renowned professors of universities and Corner Fourteenth and D streets, Washington, D. O. ties. Had we not better abandon for a day the ener- or other form of scientific preparation. Reilly's colleges, chemists, astronomers and engineers, as a Centennial award on Pianos. vating allurements of the divan and the soothing: rifles, Curtis & Harvey's powder, the blood-stone GEO. M. HENAULT, By act of U. S. Congress and U. S. Centennial chibouque, and "slay and spare not?1' In short,after handled sword-cane, and even the "mysterious inw Commission alone could decree an award and give an WM. FORSYTH, the old Sçqttish cnstqn?,„hq served up bur'sjiuys on an ¿iùence of the Heyald," had failed of effect. Hops and 8. E. Cor. EIGHTH and I) Sts. official report. All else is simply Imposition and Northwest. de23-tto fraud. empty dish, and bade us ride and raid.. the interviewer had evidently forgotten to chalk their «•Calland hear the WEBER PIANOS, which Surveyor and Engineer, Truly, the old man had wisdom". Lazily, but steadily, cues ; thè crocodile's seales turned bullets as a shingle KLIX DESFOSS1/S stand to-day without a rival lor "sympathetic, pure roof does rain-water ; the cartridges were accidentally and rich tone, combined with greatest power," at the we prepared for the morrow. The morning came— F FRENCH BAKERY. Warerooms of - , • OFFICE:, bright, clear and warm, it is a way mornings have blank ; what was the matter ? Certainly those lmçal (Established 1869.) JOHN F. ELIilS d CO., in the tropics. It you have a npte $0; pay, don't flat- descendants of Nimrod, with forty guinea rifles, had 18 YEARS OF INCREASING- SUCCESS. 937 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, 3Vo. 1707 G Street Northwest, not missed their aim. Perish the thought! Slowly FELIX DESFOSSE, ter yourself that vajiaHe weather^, will keep your The well ten own and only real French Baker In Wash- del0-tfo Sole agents for the District. no25-6m3 Near the War Department. creditor away. We landed from our sandal (skiff) on they retraced their steps. We could see them as they ington, Is now at NO. 2012 H street N. W., where he has came, peering curiously and distractedly into the greater facilities than before for the manufacture of >iONGRES SMENS' PAY ANTICIPATED. a shelving bank, hemmed with a fragrant fringe Of the best French and American bread. J MONEY TO LOAN ON COLLATERAL W. B. SPEARE, lupins bedecked with heavy white blossoms, some- breech-plates of their rifles, and explaining to each FRENCH BREAD A SPECIALTY. ACT LOW RATES. VOUCHERS BOUGHT. what resembling tube-roses. The tracks of a herd of other how it happened. Of course when they peached N. B.—French Bread is recommended for persons of ASBURY G. APPLEMAN & MUMPER. us they had an excuse. '1 have seen lots of men with- delicate health, especially for those suffering from OC21-tf2 hippopotami led through the little plantation to the dyspepsia. Beware of imitations. se2-ly8 UNDERTAKER, out money, but never yet one without an excusé. It open country beyond, where these unwieldy beasts "VYT"ANTED—Ol d AMERICAN CENTS or HALF were in the habit of enjoying their nocturnal browse. was decided that by a mistake of the caipass, who had YV CENTS. Persons having any of the above can 1304 H Street N. W. O-IO P Street northwest, charge of the ammunition, the cartridges used con- get the HIGHEST CASH PRICE by calling or ad- Window Cornices, Walnut, Oak, Gilt and Fahcv Pic- A quick right-and-left barrel from the " Independent ture Frames, Passe-Partouts, Bronzing and Regildlng. tained no balls—some which we had prepared for fir-dressing THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, [FORMERLY WITH R. F. HARVEY. J o-'Pagan," as Hops, who is tempered somewhat like my sep30-ly5 all D street, near flth N. W. je3-ly S. B. CASTLE. dec9-lj.3 8 THE CAPITAL.--JANUARY 13, 1878.

WE ARE gratified to note the success of The Real Estate Loan and Trust Com- THE CAPITAL. Mr. C. W. Spofford in his efforts to keep an elegant pany Interviewed by a "Capital" Re- house of public entertainment in Washington. Under his management the Biggs House Is gaining in weeks porter—Its Transactions Regular and SUNDAT MOUSING JAKUABY 18,1818 that sort of celebrity, and acquiring that character of Within the Provisions of Its Charter. patronage, which li usually the product of years fri YEAR'S GIFT such enterprises. Nowhere in the country is there The busy appearance of the office of the Real Estate such an opportunity'for the establishment of a great Loan and Trust Company, 631 F street, when a re- NOTICE. hotel as a national Institution as In Washington ; a Our patrons and the public are Informed that THE hostelry to which Americans may refer with pride, as porter of TUB CAPITAL oalled last week, did not indi- an embodiment of the national genius In toe art of cate that the company had been damaged by the ver Tablewa OAPITAL does not employ any local advertising good living and the science of pleasant fellowship. agents, or allow any commissions for advertisements The guest of the Ulggs is made to tepl that he la one recent newspaper criticisms. TO EYERY SUBSCRIBER OF THIS PAPER, Parties wishing to advertise with THE CAPITAL should of the family; an effect that is always sought, but " What have you to say relative to the newspaper 'articles In orltlcism of your company and plans ?" communicate with the business office, 927 D street. rarely achieved by tbe hotel-keeper of the period. We predict for tbe Eiggs House a future, ana for Its queried the reporter, of one of the officers present. 49*All transient advertisements must be paid lor In- proprietor a fortune. " We don't care to say anything ; but we have Given Away! variably In advance. We are compelled to adopt this nothing to conceal." rule In accord with the eternal fitness of things, which (Here the reporter was shown, at his request, the 6nly a lock of golden hair! " various abstracts of title to the property securing the 'calls for cash. The lover, smiling sadly, said— notes made upon the company's forms in all the trans- " To-night It forms'a halo fair actions to date, each certificate of title being officially Above her head!" signed and sealed by the clerks of the respective coun- "Only a lock of golden hair!" ties and towns in which the property is located. These RECORD OF THE WEEK. The maiden, smiling sweetly, said, were returned to a large safe, and the company's Then laid It on the back of a chair books were shown and explained full* The business And went to bed. appeared to havo been carefully prepared and con- BEAD the advertisement of Dr. M. Wren, ducted.) She dreamed pleasantly, for she dreamed that she An Elegrnnt. EXTRA COIN-SILVER PLATEH SET OF SIX TEA-SPOONS thai on the eighth page of to-day's CAPITAL. saw her beloved arrayed in one of Katzenstein's suits, " Are you preparing an annual statement?" Retails at S4.50 per Set, and an Elegant EXTRA COIN-SILVER and seeing him so, she was happy. The lilies of the " Yes ; also a resume of all business donc, together PLATED BUTTER-KNIFE that Retails at »1.50! A MAN sins from the positiveness of his valley, who were attired way ahead of Solomon in all with a copy of our charter, showing what it permits and authorizes ustodo, and what we have done. Every Thus making both the Set of Tea-spoons and thè Butter-knife a valnable and ime. soul. When a woman sins it is only that from her vice his glory, were simple countrymen compared with the fui Jiew-Vear's Oift to every subscriber of this paper, and a Gift that ail should accept patrons of Katzenstein, who combines style with econ- act so far has been strictly within its provisions." she may gain some emolument: at once. omy .in prices.' "The compiiny has not been charged with failing to Wehave made arrangements with the old established and reliable EAGLE GOLD AND meet any of its obligations ?" SILVER PLATING CO.. Cincinnati, O., to supply every subscriber of this paper with A large delegation of tobacco men is MAJOR THOMAS J. HOBBS, the very pop- "No, nor can it be truthfully. There is no question this valuable Silver Tableware as a New-Year's Gift, present in Washington tussling with Conferees for a about that. The company's plans have been criti- This elegant Set of Tea-spoons and Butter-lcnife are of the latest style pattern/and ular and courteous disbursing officer of the Treasury leli article is to be engraved with name or initial of subscriber, thus making reduction of the tax on tobacoo. New York and Department, has moved Into his new quarters on the cised by some sensation-mongers, and' in some in- stances apparently misunderstood : but how any man the most useful and beautiful Gift ever presented. Don't neglect to send your initial or name Virginia head the tusslers. Secretary's floor of that building, where, in future, he with orders to be engraved. will hold his monthly receptions, to the gratification of sense could misunderstand thé certificates on our Subscribers will therefore cut out the following premium order and send it to the EAGLE of many an impecunious clerk. It would bo well for forms, or bo misled by them, Is surprising." GOLD AND SILVER PLATINÒ CO., at Cincinnati, for redemption, together with sufficient to THIS is New Year; make out your good some of the rest of Uncle Sam's greenback custodians j "Does the company buy and sell notes made on its pay boxing, packing, postage, or express charges. Under our contract this Silverware is resolutions, count up your expenditures, add on your to fbllow Major Hobbs' example in kindness to finan- forms?" to cost you nothing except the packing, postage, or express charges, which you are re- "Never. It searches titles and furnishes forms of quired to pay, and the Silverware is then delivered to you free. debts and try to be less of a fool in the future. oially-distreesed clerks who, occasionally, before paj*- day, need a portion of the salary due them, and not notes for customers io use, and places Its certificate ' Please cut out the following New-Year's Gift Premium Silverware order and send same to Cut this out and paste it in your bible, where you describing the title to the property, securing the notes | EAOLE GOLD AND SILVER PLATING CO., Cincinnati, O. may see It often.' treat'them, when they apply for it, with the rudeness they are prone to do. It's awful to be broke, but It's on the back of each note, and receives a regular fee for this work, and there its business ends." j8€r Cut out this Order, as it is tvorth $6.00.~®s, "VICTOR EMMANUEL, learning that Gen- doubly horrible to be insulted by'one who holds the money one has earned and won't give it up. "Has the company much business In hand?" ral Grant had left Vesuvius to call on him, did the "We have more applications ahead than we can at- only thing he could do to escape the pain of the visit- tend to in months, but we usually reject more than NEW-YEAR'S GIFT SILVERWARE PREMIUM ORDER. died, and went to Vesuvius himself, or a place of A CHANCE TO SECURE A TROTTER On half upon examination. We have concluded in the On receipt of this Order and One Dollar we will mail yon PRRK One Set of Extra Coln-SUver Plated similar concentrated power for heat. the 19th of this month the celebrated trotting horse future not to furnish forms of notes for unproductive Tca-ftpooni) worth $4.50, also One (1) Elegant liattsr-knffe worth $1.50, with vour monogram initial Modoc will be rallied at Miller's restaurant, Seventh property, simply because there is now absolutely no engraved upon same in good style—thus malting the elegant Sot of $4.50 Tea-spoons and the elegant fl.50 Butter- street, opposite the Patent Office. This horse is war- market for such property. Even the best improved knife to you a free New-Year's Gift. COLONEL H. J. KAMSDELL wears a blue real estate has no market value now." Send for Silverware at once, together with One Dollar, stating name in full, with post-office, county, and ranted sound and kind, and can be driven by any State. Address all orders to EAGLE GOLD AND SILVER PLATINO"CO., Cincinnati, O. ribbon in the lappel of his coat, and Mr. J. M. lady. Modoc has a record of 2:35, and is warranted to "Will you continue using the same forms of notes?" Young addresses the Murphy meeting at Lincoln trot better than 2:30. • His owner disposes of him sim- " No, we are changing them materially. Hereafter Hall to-night. One by one the roses fall; one by one ply because lie Is in need of money. The winner is our forms will not only show where the property is lo- B®"Remember, none butSnbicribers ofthhi paper are allowed this86.00 New-Year'« 1 the stars go out—to take a drink between acts. guaranteed $500 for the horse, and tickets can be pro- cated, but what the property is, securing each note, [ Gift of Coin-Silver Tableware. Cutout the above order and send for the Gift at once, cured at any livery stable. and how many inhabitants the county contains and together with One Dollar to pay charges of packing, postage, or express, so that tho ar- their political views; whether Conkling Republi- | tides can be delivered to you tree of any expense. FURS ! FURS 1—Charles Ruoff is now offer- cans Of the North, or Hayes Democrats of the South, Address EAGLE GOLD AND SILVER PLATING CO., Cincinnati, O. ing sealskin socques, boas, &c., at bargains. There Is Obituary. and if the latter, in which manner they prefer to be not a single skin in the line of bis business that Mr. conciliated. In tact we will make everything about Died, January 7,.JAMES S. FOBSTEK, of typhoid- OUR NEW-YEAR'S CIFTI Ruoff will not present for sale at fair prices. Now is pneumonia. aged thirty-seven. the notes, and property securing them, so plain that a the time for ladles* to make bargains for a complete wayfaring fool, though a knave, can find no excuse to outfit of furs. A week too late may not present the It is with the most sincere regret that we record the err." Another officer continued, "Before our plans same opportunity. death, on Monday last, of Mr. James S. Forster, for- were introduced, which make it impossible for real MISCELLANEOUS. estate notes on our forms to be altered, duplicated or merly of Harrisburg, Pa., but for several years past a forged, the people were satisfied to take an ordinary MR. COURTLAND H. SMITH of Alexan- resident of the District. plain form of note, and go to the register of deeds' " WREN'S." dria, son of the late Francis L. Smith, one of the Mr. Forster had been with us on THE CAPITAL since office to learn about the title, and at last run tbe risk most distinguished lawyers of Virginia., and Mr. ot buying a duplicated note; but since we have so Lewis E. Payne of Warrenton, have opened a law its first issue, and whether at hts case in the compos- much improved the old forms, now that the public see This mysterious cipher, which created such an ex- office in this city, joining the noble band of the fra- ing room, or in his .outside lift, has been ever the same their convenience and merit, they naturally want them citement when first seen chalked on the pavements !. WIXOM & ternity in our midst. These, gentlemen, young, ener- pleasant, genial friend, and esteemed and beloved by made more perfect if possible, and so do we. Our throughout the fcity, though appropriated by a vender, getic and talented, possess every attribute ol success. plans are conceded to be worthy and useful. The last Sunday, in "quest of notoriety tor his wares, re- reason of his good heart and pleasing manners. company has many friends and good patronage. We fers to No member of the fraternity could have passed away IT SEEMS sort of queer that Henry Wardl shall endeavor in our statement to make everything from us leaving pleasanter recollections or sadder entirely plain and satisfactory, and as soon as the Beecher and other ministers should be so energetic in] public more fully understand our plans and its uses, GROCERS & FRUITERERS, obliterating hell. With hell gone, what is the necesl memories by his loss. When one misses a face that the company will be even more popular than ever. sity for ministers ? The laws of each land and their one has seen daily for years, and knows that it is" The management can't be truthfully assailed." IV!. WREN'S enforcement are sufficient to keep the community gone from us forever, it is more than ordinary pain " Why do some notes on wild lands sell so low?" straight as far as its duties to society are concerned, that invests us in recalling those fine traits of a pleas- "Those particular ones have-been received By and these ministers who destroy hell descend into the brokers as commission In trades: what they get for Rheumatism, Neuralgia and 504 MNTH STREET northwest, between- small business of public mendicants if they continue ing nature that we had learned to know by eypc;, them is that much clear for their labor,- they cost them their profession. rience, and by experience to estoein. nothing but their' time, and the fact that they offer soinething new at less than value prevents people from Gout Cure, E and F, (Red Store.) WE ALL join in extending our sympathy The deceased was but thirty-seven years ol age, and buying at any price. You only hear of the notes though lo»g suffering had marked its immutable whipb are sold at a low price. Those which to Governor Shepherd on the occasion of the severe death-call on his face, he worked manfully until are held at par, or sold for near par- accident he underwent last Tuesday, falling on the as most of them are—you don't hear of at all. WHICH WILL SHORTLY BE ON SALE AT We offer, these hard times, as an inducement to the fee and breaking his leg—a compound fracture of a a few days before his death. He leaves a void in our The lands securing the particular notes in question are public— very serious character. composing-room that is filled with regret at his loss. good mining and well-timbered lands, and out of The Governor is in only a fair condition, and will over forty letters received, only one put the price as be many weeks an invalid. It seems a rough fate that low as one dollar per acre; all the rest said ft was A choice Family Flour, (Clifton Mills,) @ $1.90 the the very man who perfected our streets should be a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE^ worth from three to ten dollars per acre, and one man <]r. bbl. victim to them. FROM said much of it was worth fifty dollars an acre. Now CHARLESTON. the notes are secured by this land at about one dollar ENTWiSLE'S DRUG STORE, 25 lbs. Jiew York Buckwheat $1 00 THERE was a quiet gathering yesterday at CHARLESTON, January 8,1S78. and thirty-seven cents per acre." the German church, comer of G and Twentieth DEAB CAPITAL : There was a parade of the colored "What about tbe deiault of interest on $250:000 of Corner PENNSYLVANIA Avenue and Loaf Drip Sirup 60c. per gal- streets, to celebrate the nuptials of Mr. Uda Broch- gentry here on January 1, in honor of their "Eman- notes last month?" " That is untrue. Loss than' $10,000 ol those notes vogel and Miss Kate Mueller, Mr. Brochvogelis cipation Day." The procession was quite large, and TWELFTH Street. ito Maple Sirup and Honey. known to fame as the editor of the Belletrische Journal, was very well conducted. In a chariot gaily decorated have been presented to this date, and we understand that the interest on nearly all of them has been paid of New York, and the bride is a daughter of one of were a number of sable virgins, one of them dressed Java Coffee, (roasted) 80c. per lb. our most esteemed German families. The bedding as the Goddess of Liberty. In her hand she held the at other banks; but even if it had defaulted, the AMUSEMENTS. company fs not affected by ft, as it don't guarantee was strictly private. The bride was given away by flag of Liberia. Rio Coffee, " ,' 22c. " the venerable W. W. Corcoran. The only guestswere payment of either principal or interest. It only certi- •RATIONAL THEATER. AIDA. There are a number of colored persons in the city fies as to the titles and furnishes the forms." Hon. Carl Sehurz and bis two daughters; Baron Von 20 lbs. Graham Floor $1 00 who have come from Georgia and different parts ol Here the reporter retfred. Grand Italian ana Enclish Opera. Sclilozer, minister of the German empire; Hon. Jos. South Carolina, under the impression that as soon as Pulitzer, and Mrs. Kate Qavis, Tanstall and Jones. MAX STRAKOSCH Director. 20 lbs. Pin-Head Oat Meal 1 00 they reached Charleston they would be conducted to TUESDAY EVENING-. January 15. at 8 p. m„ the ship which is to take them to Liberia. Row they The Worklngmen vs. - The Labor Ex. GRAND OPENING NIGHT. 3 lbs. New York Butter for l GO THE entertainment given at the Curtis get the idea no one can tell, as not even the first In- AIDA. AIDA. AIDA. school building last Wednesday evening, in George- stallment has been paid on the vessel that is to be change. AIDA Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG. 3 lbs. Choice Western Dairy 85 town, drew together a very select and appreciative bought to carry them to what they deem " a land The following is the report of the executive commit- (Her first appearance here in that part.) audience. The tableaux were particularly fine, and flowing with milk and honey." tee of the Workingmen's Assembly on the Labor Ex- ANNERIS Miss ANNA LOUISE CAEY. 3 lbs. " » Boll 75 the young ladles and gentlemen participating deserve They think, for instance, that all they need do after GRAFF, VERDI, CONLY, GOTTSCHALK, much praise. The singing of the Misses Waring and their arrival In Liberia is to find a bread tree, after change. It is oi great interest at the present time: In other principal roles. 3 lbs. Tomatoes, the best canned goods $1.50 doz. O'Iiyrne was highly appreciated. The reading and which they can pick a loaf off whenever they are The executive committee, to whom was referred the WEDNESDAY EVENING, January 16, recitations by Mr. Ed. Hay and Ralph Jefferson were hungry. At present, however, they are in a most de- GRAND ENGLISH OPERA NIGHT, investigation of the system adopted bv the Labor Ex- 2 lbs. Sugar Corn, « " " S...1.75 « very fine indeed, while the gem ol the entertainment plorable state, as what little money they have will change oi this city, whereby unskilled labor has been THE «OH EMI AN GIRL. was the elegant and dramatic rendition, by Mr. Red- soon be gone, and they will be left, if something is not Miss CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG as ARLINE. employed at low rates, beg leave to submit the follow- Malaga (Jrapes, Bananas, California Tears. mond Walsh, of "Robert of Sicily," by Longfellow. dono lor them, In a state of utter want. This may ing report: THURSDAY EVENING, January 17, prove bad fbr the city, as In order to exist they may be They find that for th« last month from forty to fifty Debut of the illustrious AnglG-Franoo Prima Donna, 5 lbs. of the best Philadelphia Candies for $1 CO oompelled to steal. There are about three hundred men have been employed, under the supervision of Mdlle. MARIE ROZE, in Donizetti's tnas- THE trial of Mr. George Shinnof Alexan- here at present, and the Camden (Kershaw) Gazette dria came up on Friday before Judge Lowe of the the institution named, at fifty cents per day. terwork, says: " About forty negroes passed through town last LA FAVORITA, Alexandria bench. These men have generally worked upon District im- WE ONLY HAVE A FEW MOKE OF THESE Monday on theirway to Liberia. They are first going provements, but in at least one instance in improving FRIDAY EVENING. Januarv 18, Mr. Shlnn labored under one general and six spe- to Charleston to get aboard the 'big ship,' which is to private property. BENEFIT OF MISS CLARA LOUISE KEL- GOODS LEFT. THEY ARE CHOICE. cial Indictments, but the keenness of his counsel, take them to Liberia." The public Improvement consists in cutting through LOGG. Messrs. Edwin Burke and Charles Stewart, discov- A few nights ago 1 went to the Academy of Music a street (to street southeast) and removing the dirt to MIGNON. MIGNON. MIGNON. ered a flaw in the first, and succeeded In quashing it. to see the play As You Like It, and was agreeably fill up the old canal. The private improvement con- With Miss KELLOO-G, Mile. ROZE and Miss CARY The trial of the defendant will come up again In the surprised to see an old acquaintance on the stage. sisted In leveling down the lot at the corner of Third on the same evening in the oast. MINCE-MEAT, April term. In the meantime Mr. Shlnn will, of Miss Anna Story of Washington acted the part of street and North Carolina avenue southeast. SATURDAY MATINEE—FAUST. course, be released on bail, such being the manner Celia to perfection. The contrast between her dusky A portion of your committee have waited upon Ihe SATURDAY EVENING—Last Opera Night. and custom in all civilized communities. hair and the golden locks of Miss Pomeroy was very managers of the Labor Exchange and gained Irom .January 21—MAGGIE MOORE and J. O. WIL- striking, and formed a very pretty picture when they them confirmation of the facts stated above. LIAMSON in STRUCK OIL. Ito WE regret to learn that by the withdrawal stood together. Miss Pomeroy was particularlv charm- Your committee have viewed the' work now in pro- APPLE, PEACH and of Mr. P. Wallaeh from the firm of S. Goldstein & Co. ing in the "Cuckoo song." I heard a young man say, gress, and have found engaged thereon white-haired lORD'S OPERA HOUSE. they are compelled to close out the fine jewelry store, " The more you see Miss Story the more you desire to old men, working with pick and shovel, eight hours F 619 Pennsylvania avenue, at public auction and pri- do so." per day, for fifty cents. THREE NIGHTS AND SATURDAY MATINEE. vate sale within ninety days. The firm will concen- "The Courier of this city says: "She has talents that Commencing Thursday, January 17, render her success In the profession she has chosen a We regret to be informed that the District Govern- The Original trate to their paying business, corner Tenth and JL> ment has not the disposition of the money to pay these streets. It will require quite an effort and considera- matter of sure prediction. May she ere long become BRYANT'S MINSTRELS. QUINCE BUTTERS. a brilliant star in the theatrical world." men a fair day's wage for a fair day's work ; that the THE EXCELSIOR TItOUrK OF THK WORLD I ble sacrifice to force that vast establishment In the capital of this nation is so poor as to be eager to ac- market within that short time, but one's loss is an- The planters throughout this State seem to have NBIL BRYAHT Ì ; Manager. prepared for next year by planting small grain of cept the benefits accruing irom labor pauperized un- Direct from Bryant's Opera House, Broadway, N. Y. 7 lbs. Mixed Xuts (new goods) for. .$1 00. other's gain, and predict large crowds to get great der its approval. bargains, and wish them the success they deserve. every description«^ The ladles have started a novel entertainment In We blnsh for humanity when we say that a man The best entertainment in New York.—Herald,Oct. 11. these parts to raise money to builii a Sunday-school can be found in Washington contemptible enough to The Minstrel Gem of New York.—Sun, Oct. 20. WITH OTHER GOODS, WASHINGTON has had a great deal of house. To enter these "dtme readings" you pay ten receive improvements upon his property at starvation weather last week, and all of it bad. The rain rained cents, and are entertained during the evening by hear- wages. Troupe composed of the following great comedians: It is not pretended by the Labor Exchange that the every day, and the days were bine and as long as a ing choice specimens of poetry and prose read, varied HUGHEY DOUGHERTY, LITTLE MAC, SAKFOBD & OF EVERY KIND, IN OUR LINE* slave's holiday, which Lucilius says is too long to be by delightful music. rates Indicated will furnish any man a living. They WILSOH, DAVE REEB, BILLY- BRYANT, say it will save him from starving, nothing more. expressed in hexameter verse. Congress coming in on The Societe Francaie held its first anniversary meet TLERKEY &. CBOJFLLF. WHICH WE OFFER AT VERY the heels of the end of the week, added a fog-tank to ing in eighteen years, and celebrated its sixty-sec- Tliey claim that they are engaged in a work of char- The Great Vocal Corps: a dense fall of rain, and our oldest inhabitant is hunt- ond birthday at Hibernian Hall January 3,1S7S. ity, therefore they should receive general support. JOSKRH NORMS, C. R. CLINTON, ARTHUR COOK, D. ing up his Bible to read about the construction of Most negroes have hard heads; but there 11 one in Will this bear examination ? BARON,-and GEO. W. HARLEY, the wonderful Noah's ark, only he doesn't know where to find an this State that can take the palm on that score. On Charity should seek to give the greatest good to the Male Soprano. Ararat. Christmas day he was troublesome, and attempted to greatest number. Is this fend gained ? We think not. Full Orchestra and Brass Band, composed of eigh- LOW FIGURES EOR CASH. There are-a-rat breed in one of our daily newspaper crowd Assistant Marshal Campbell, who fired at him The iren engaged upon the work question it as a char- teen Solo Musicians. offices. with a pistol, and hit him in the l'srehaad. The ball ity. They are deprived of » full return for -their ex- Admission: 25, 50, and 75 cents. did not enter the skull, though, but flattened and hausting labor. Not receiving even the full fruits of No extra charge for reserved places. It7 buried itself under the flesh, producing a fracture, their labor, the charity contained in giving them IN ALEXANDRIA last week the subject- work escapes them, as it does us. matter of most interest before the courts was an in- which will not result fatally. rjlHEATER COMIQ.UE. In Clarendon county and Abbeville the repeal of Furthermore, through this action of the Labor Ex- vestigation, through the examination of the most ca- change employers are enabled to say tothetrunskilled pable witnesses—those best informed on the subject the lien law Is already causing great distress. The MONDAY, JANUARY 14, NIGHTLY, AND WED- "usury law" is looked upon with the greatest dis- laborers, the Exchange pays fifty cents per day, It la by reason of long and extended practice at the bar— charitable for us equally to give a like amount. Your NESDAY AND SATURDAY MATINEES. Do Not Forget the Place, whether the bell-punch had been beaten by various favor. Engagement tor one week only of tho celebrated " Bread-Grabbers" are becoming very troublesome brethren have accepted it. You can do the same. If restaurant proprietors, and If so, how often and how you refuse, guided by the noble precedent set by this character actor, SID. C. FRANCE, who will appear much. in some parts of this State. They are said to be able on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights and AS THIS IS THE ONLY STORE WE ARE 1N- to work, but they won't They station themselves beneficent institution, we will obtain other half-starved After a careful examination and close scrutiny, it laborers at a half dollar per day, and ask the world to matinee In his celebrated drama, TERESTED IN AT PRESENT— was adjudged that the bell-punch had been beaton near a house, and as soon as the gentlemen go out at- tack it, and take whatever they desire. As rumor j applaud our action as charitable. MARKED FOR LIFE, but had been handled gently and with oare, and the In this manner will manual labor be still more de- and on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and cases against the proprietors were dismissed. says, they are a regularly organized body. The citi- zens of the sections that they infest will probably graded. The amount of money reoeived and expended matinee in by the workingmen of our city will surely decrease, have a lively time defending themselves against these DEAD TO THE WORLD. WHAT have the citizens of E street, be- despite the present paltry addition to the earnings of 504= XIXTH. marauders. Will appear S1GNOR TITO CELLINI'S GRAND tween Fifth and Seventh, done that they should be Mr. Rouse has been very much blamed througbout afew. persecuted by those in authority? Not satisfied with If the Labor Exchange and the poor unfortunates BALLET TROUPE, led by the dashing premier, Janl3-2teow8 the city, for attacking Mr. White near St. Mitchel's MLLB. ELISE, assisted by a lull Corps de Ballet. robbing their hen-roosts, they spread about three Church, a few days ago. Both Rouse and De Veaux employed by it alone were concerned, we might pa> s inches of loose dirt on top of the rotten wooden pave- the matter over with lighter comment. But when tbe Also, the greatest of musical teams, HUBER & are badly, but not fatally, injured. These three, with GLIDDEN. ments in that locality. This dirt, owing to the rain Mr. Levy, were arrested on a charge of " firing pis- happiness and well being of thousands a»c affoetod we and snow of the past week, has turned into mortar. can find no words of condemnation too strong. The dashing serio-comic, MISS EDITH LYSLE. Open Free to the Public* tolB In the street, contrary to the city ordinance and All this grand show at popular prices. Itr7* the delightful CLUB-ROOMS of the GARRIOK., Of course when it dries it will turn Into dust. What the statutes of the State," but were released on bail. We deem it bnt just to the Labor Exchange that chlcken-thiet invented such an inlamous pavement as their defense should be presented. They say they 463 and 406 Pennsylvania avenue, below the National The Courier-Journal says in regard to Corbin, that Hotel. Billiards, Pool and other eames FREE,, this? Only yesterday our boy came home with one a committee is now In Columbia investigating the have not money enough to justify them in paying " rubber" gone, and said It stuck in the mud. Cor- more for labor. There remain, we think, then, two PHYSICAL CULTURE together with an elegant READING-ROOM, con- charges brought against him, and adds that he is very- taining files of the leading dailies and weeklies, illus- poration, debtor, to , to one rubber shoe. 50 likely soon to appreciate the saying of the good King courses for them to pursue: Employ a less number of AT men, or, better, redouble their activity in search ol trated, sporting and dramatic papers. cents; three chickens—two male and one female—41 David, that a man is sometimes wounded in the The Bar will be fbund stocked with the choicest* Total. $1.50. "house of his friends." Senators Lipscomb, Critten- support. In its present condition this whole affair is a stand- ODD-FELLOWS' HALL. brands of liquors and olgars at prices in keeping with N. B.—Eggs that hen would have laid—one dozen— den. Wylie and Johnson compose the committee. the times. 35 cents additional. ing disgrace to the people of our city, an injury to all As "a little nonsense now and then is relished bv By request of many physicians of this city, MUSIC EVERY EVENING. de23-tf3 the best of men," 1 must tell a ridiculous story 1 heard who labor for their living and the merchants whose A GOOD joke was perpetrated on the digni- yesterday. Mr. V was so agitated when he addressed receipts suffer by starvation wages, and reflects no fied star-spangled banner of the Sennte—the Hon. Miss B, that he said "Will you be my husband?" ore .'it upon the Government or the individual willing to proflt by it. Miss Bertha Von Hillern THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Roscoe Conkling—during the snowy season of last The lady saw his mistake, and in joke, replied, " No. Office 800 Seventeenth street northwest. week. The senatorial star-spangled b. was straddling sir: that is an utter impossibility," laughing as she We have so long withheld our report in order to Will give one Illustration of her theory of health by along Pennsylvania avenue, when a keen eyed mathe- spoke. To her intense surprise, the gentleman took thoroughly sift the matter, and also to give opportu- attempting a walk of matician, with ideas of practical jokes, fell In line his hat and disappeared bulore she could explain that nity for a change of policy on the part of the Labor «•mraD-w'^ra»-»;« behind him at a few paces distant, and turning called she was quite willing to be his wife. When she met Exchange. No change has been made; therefore we 89 MILES IN 36 HOURS MR. J. REMINGTON FA1RLAMB, the Director,, out to a party of unemployed bootblacks • him, a year after this, it was too late, as he had mar- submit the matter for your further attention. whose own studies were made in J. H. RALSTON, WITHOUT SIjEEP. PARIS AND FLORENCE, "Here's a lief! Will give the boy ten cents that ried another lady. There seems to be quite an emigration from some J. F. WHITBMORB, Start 8 o'clock Friday evening, January 18. Finish And who superadds thereto the practical experience can knock my hat otf without touching my head I" RICHARD EMMONS, 10 o'clock Saturday evening, January 19. from twelve years1 successful teaching. Half a dozen instantly-delivered snow balls were parts of the Palmetto State to Texas. The number of tickets sold In Charlotte to South Carolinians tor that ALFRED THOMAS. Hall open and band In attendance during entire Indorsed by Mme. Christine Ntlsson, Slgnor Errani,. the result. The cruel banterer, calculating time and T. F. MAHH. trial. Mr. and Mrs. Seguln and other artists. dec2-t!6 velocity with exceedingly accurate precision, slipped purpose during the past month amount to about one on his knee, and the result was an army of the frigid hundred and seventy-five. Admission, Fifty cents. lt*6 missiles caught the Hon. Eoscoe in the nape of his Phosphates are being so rapidly shipped from some GENTLEMEN, send your soiled clothing to B. C. Doug- G. DOUGLAS, neck, and distributed their fragments down the small parts of this State thr>t the companies are anticipat- las, uucitfr iMational Theater, and have them cleansed rjlHE SEVENTH ANNUAL BALL of his back. • ing a rise of tlie royalty from one to two dollars per thoroughly by the "new chemical prt/oess," using *<-A.T TORN EY-A T-L AW,'«». Iu the broad firmament of heaven Boscoe saw a ton. The yews and Courier says: "It in thought that neither water, soap nor brush, thereby giving the OF THE if closely collected the reveunes derived from thfs garments no opportunity to shrink, discolor or become 610 Fourteenth Street, Washington, 1). c. countless multitude of stars; and the cold bath to his KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK spine refreshing his intellect he oried in frenav • source would be sufficient to meet the ordinary ex- roughened, but finished up in a superior and unsur- All Cases except Patent» Attended to. de30-tf2 " Blank blank your souls! You blank blanks of a penses or the State government." passed manner, almost equal to new, and preserving «ill be held at laD the same accurateness of fit as when received ». Senator Gordon, please «top the calendar General Hunt, tlie commanding officer here, is ex- ODD FELLOWS' HALL, r r now, till I get a towel." from the tailor. An entire suit of oluthes cleaned and X) A n?\T TC FOR INVENTORS. tremely popular, and Is a constant visitor at the WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1878. We aro not positively assured as to the Identltv of houses of th