Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-06-29

GOING Z" on TICK. The only place in Wash
ington whereat business is conducted almost en-
tirey ON tick" and yet to the entire mutual
satisfaction and advantage of both the buyer and
seller, is the well known establishment of Mr.
Robinson, on Pennsylvania avenue. nearly oppo-
site Browns Hotel-the District OF Columbia
bazaar where one not only sees but hears speci-
mems OF every thing ever produced for time
keeping by Yankee Inventive genius. In New
York city its doors and windows would be
crowded at all times by throngS Of the curious
from all parts Of the world for within its portals
In i've minutes one eau critically examine every
thing conceivable In the shape OF Yankee clock
now as approved time keepers Throughout
Europe as the finest and most expensive speci-
mems Of patient Swiss handiwOrk In the same
line In nothing more than In the production of
time keepers equal In practical value to the most
costly of Europe for from one-tenth to one hun
dfedth Of the price of those Of the lowsr-prce
labor countries, do our Yankee fellow citizens
exhibit more strikingly and favorably the turn
which the circumstances by which they are sur
rounded have given to their mind.
We therefore regard our friend Robinson's in
teresting premises as sort of dapuerreotype of
the status Of Yankee progress. He shows clOc ks
In operation, ranging, in retail price, from 81 -
to $780, all Of which are nearly equally good
time keepers; the lowest priced sufficiently re-
liable for ordinary family use, while the highest
priced are critically accurate in their record of
the minutest subdivisions Of time for all the pur
poses of the man Of science or the regulator of
the Time keepers OF Otners. we saw his
(Robinson's) shelves, on Saturday handsome
Gothic frame clocks al 81; vertical and skeleton
work clocks, under glass protectors, at SIS a
novel and genteel pattern at SIS boquet clocks at
"a 50; bronze patteIn MS (sCme of them az artistic
In design, and as beautifully executed, as the
finest ornamental French mentIe clocks, } at from
IS to Sll; church, steamboat, and hotel cloc ks
at prices In proportion; as well as watches. Jew
elTy pefumery, in as great variety of style cost
We are really in earnest in saying to the reader
that our nimble-sixpence friend X bnson's place
Of business affords study Of great interest in
deed to the man Of thought who loves to contem-
plate the results Of Yankee go-ahsadativeness.
JUSTICE HoLLINGsHEAD.-We have just been
informed that tae President has re-appOinted this
experienced and efficient officer as Justice of
the Peace for the County Of Washington. This
appointment will be hailed with great satisfac-
tion by the numerous friends Of Justice Holdings
head, who by activity and correctness In the dis-
patch of business bad obtained very great share
Of public patronage. He will Immediately re.
sumo his business at the well known office on
the corner Of Eighth and f streets, near the Post
Office Department.
SUNsrRUcK.-A laboring man named Fitz-
maurice, employed at Brch's stables, on Four.
tesnth street, was sunstruck shortly after l2 m !,
to-day, His situation 10 reported ~ critical.