NUMBER 15. VOLUME IX. WASHINGTON CITY, D. C, JUNE 8,1879. —Major and Mrs. R. L. Shalley are at the McPher- Speeches and toasts were next In order; made and and advice brought on the extra session responsible PERSONAL. son House, where they will remain during a portion responded to. Mr. Moode ot Memphis, Mr. Boyer THE CAPITAL, for it; and it is not thus far an uncomlortable sort of of the summer. of Columbus, Mr. Broughton of North Carolina, Mr. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY responsibility either. —T. B. Aldrlch has returned Irom Europe. —Queer sort of judloial Ideas they have in Rich- Keroheval of Chicago, Mr. Geo. McNeir and Samuel The bankers, brokers and bondholders of the North- —" Hlc"-enlooper Is Zach Chandler's favorite. mond. Last week at the hustlng's court one prisoner, Haldeman of Washington and other gentlemen of iTHE CAPITAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, east, having a statute-book full of laws which make convicted oi stealing an oroide watch, received thirty- the Union spoke. 937 I> street, Washington, D. C. the bonds they own worth 115 cents on the -Ex-Governor Gilbert Walker is in Richmond. nine lashes. Another, for assaulting and stabbing Hon. Simon Woli, Messrs. Charles T. Murray of dollar, would undoubtedly like Congress to adjourn, —In Texas they have a paper called the Bull-Dog. DONN PIATT, EDITOR. his wife, was fined one cent and sentenoed to jail for Pomeroy's Democrat, Mr. Croghan of the Star, Mr. and stay adjourned, until they could force the country —Alice Oates Is the Brigham Young of the stage. twenty-four hours. Douglas, managing editor of THE CAPITAL and : Per year, (Including postage,) ; six Into bankruptcy, and bid it in at sherlfl's or marshal's —Emllie Melville Is singing Pinafore in San Fran- TERMS $3.50 —Colonel Benson, the handsome and popular asso- others orated to the gentlemen present in response months, ; three months, cents—In advance. sale; and, so far as the voice of these wolves is "North- oisco. $1.50 75 ciate in Dr. Hlckling's pharmacy ol this city, has gone to complimentary toasts. -Single copies, 5 cents. ern publio sentiment," the Herald correspondent is —Currie's are revolvers, but a woman's wetpin's to Mexico In mining interests. Colonel Benson is a The day, taken all in all, was one of the pleasantest : Ten copies to one address, In advance, probably oorrect in describing the work of the extra are tears. CLUBS $30 Virginian by birth, but a Washingtonian by associa- phases ol social and intellectual life one meets with with one copy free. Twenty copies to one address, $35 session as the— —Would not the base-ballers do better irthey caught in a lifetime. all the flies 1 tion. A splendid gentleman and generous friend, •in advanoe, with one copy ftee. 3. " Absurd fuss of the last two months." Friday was the end of the Congress. This was the —As usual the office of governor ol Ohio will go to the slipper of good luck is thrown after him. One cannot fall to note the peculiar arroganoe of ocoaslon ot the eleotion of officers for the ensuing year. an Ohio man. —James M. Mason will arrive in this city to-mor- mastery, if not the insolence of possession, with It was held at the headquarters of the convention— -r-There was more ol the plutonic than platonic In row evening, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, at REVIEW OF THE WEEK. which the plutocrats of the Northeast invariably Franklin Hall. Mrs. Duer's love. 8 o'olook. There is hardly a grown citizen who does speak of Congress. It is natural that they should do Of course the oompletest interest was centered on —We nominate Sitting Bull to succeed McCrary as not know Jim, and knowing him, one cannot help The able ani distinguished Bpeclal correspondent These men have bought or hired Congress, under the presidency, Mr. Armstrong's term having expired. Seoretary of War. congratulating him upon his restoration to health. of the New York Herald at this point some time ago the old Radical, regime, to do their bidding, so often The leading candidates were Messrs. Chance ot the —"Russia's choice: "Aut Cccsar, aut Nihil."—Puck. In a word, Mr. Mason Is a jewel of the first water transmitted to that journal the information that that they have come to look upon the body Itself as Philadelphia Record and Haldeman of Piatt's Out Nihil at preseflt. and a perfect gentleman. CAPI- •« most of the Southern men are distressed to discover one of their assets. They do not stop to reflect upon .- They were both favorites, and the race was very —Grant 1 at present in Hong Kong. He will —The Wichita (Kansas) Eagle solemnly warns TAL that Northern public sentiment holds the South re- the difference between the honest gentlemen and B much such as between Parole and Ten Broeck In shortly be In Jim-Jam. Hayes that the "rebel brigadiers" have designs upon sponsible for the absurd fuss oi the last two well-meaning legislators who now form the majority good condition. It was neck and neck. —Mr. Reuben Springer oi Cincinnati is the wealth- his life. Well, why doesn't the Wichita Eagle buy a months." This statement is chiefly remarkable for of Congress, and the herd ot Radical cattle whom The standing vote Is equally complimentary to the iest Catholic in America. nice little steel vest, such as the Czar Alexander . embodj lng the greatest possible amount of misinfor- Dick Irwin and Oakes Ames used to drive on the hoof two gentlemen, as it evidences, by Its wlthln-a unlt of —In Texas it is death to refuse a drink. Deaths on wears, and send It to Rutherford, jvith the remark: mation In the least possible space ; a quality which, to the Wall street shambles whenever there was a a tie, the complete and consummate confidence and that account only occur once a century. Full down your vest." Of course Alexander H. naturally enough, commended It to the Bavarian market for them. Mr. Nordholt, unconsciously no honor in which both are held by the Union. Nast as a fertile theme for his malign fancy. The —Boneless shad and seedless oranges remain for Stephens, Senators Jonas, Lamar and Hill are prowl- doubt, but still culpably, echoes in his hasty, 111-oon- Mr. Haldeman was elected by one majority, and in- domain of Washington correspondence is by no means another and a better day ol Invention. ing about the White House every night with loaded oeived dispatch the standing insult of Wall street to stalled by Mr. Chance, who characterized the occasion barren of falsehood and misrepresentation. But the —The Cincinnati Enquirer of Thursday has no less rifles, trying to get a shot at Hayes. The editor of Congress. Whatever may be the policy of his paper, by one of his graceful speeches, In whloh he delayed sentence quoted above appears uniquely luxuriant, than four biographies of Thomas Ewing. the Wichita Eagle should certainly go on to Wash he himself cannot afiord to de this sort of thing. He upon the years of tender and immediate association even in such a tropical garden of misstatement as —The Ltllle-Duer repeater Is the name of the new- lngton and prevent bloodshed.—Courier-Journal. brought to the Herald bureau a vastly better reputa- between himself and the newly-elected president. Newspaper Row. Had it appeared in the Tribune, tion than he will take away from It at his present est revolver. We've Hearn tell of it aiore. Eli Perkins, the journalistic Beau Hickman who In business respects the report of the secretary from the pen of a correspondent drawing his salary rate of going on. —Mark Twain prefaces his latest book as " Written goes about begging for a joke, has at last gotten off showed that the receipts during the past year were from Jay Gould, and deriving his principles from the by one loafar for some other loafer to read." one original essay. We republish It to evince the $3,513 68, the expenditures $2,613 65, leavln g a balance school of stock-jobbery ; or in the Times, from the pen The Post the other day remarked, apropos of the ap- —A Pennsylvania true philanthropist last week amount of Intelllgnce in that cheeky idiot: "1 knew In the Treasury of $900 03. The report further recom- of a writer striving to earn a consul-generalship' at the pointment of Sir Garnet Wolseley as Military Gov- killed a constable, a tax-collector and himself. a man once—Jake Mason—who went to a donation mended the following changes in the salaries: Presi- hands of the Fraud in the White House, it would ernor of Natal and Commander of the Forces In South —Sitting Bull has now gotten on his feet again, and where six iarmers were to contribute a jug of milk dent, from $200 to $176; secretary and treasurer, from not have been surprising. Nothing could be Burprls- Alrica, that, as Sir Garnet was not much of a soldier, is invading the country. Slay the poor Indian. apiece. Well, one man, a very mean man, thought $400 to $350; corresponding secretary, $100; sergeant- , lng from such a source except the truth, and hence but a great civil administrator, his appointment prob- —The tramp of the melancholy eye thanks Divine It would not make any difference If he contributed at-arms, from $76 to $25. These amounts include trav- » nobody is ever astonished at the Washi ngton dispatches ably Indicated an intention on the part ol the British Providence that he never attacked Llllle Duer.