The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-10-28
oITY INTELLIGENCE.

the articles Ia the Iron Hall house furnishing establish
ment. Indeed, one is almost tempted 70 believe while
viewing this extensive collection of articles OF utility
convenience and luxury that he Is in fair instead of
commercial establishments On the lower floor is a
large room reaching from the avenue TO street and
filed from the floor 10 the ceiling with china gass and
crockery ware all kinds Of plated goods cutlery tin
and wooden ware, and the thousand little articles re-
quired Ia furnishing house On the second floor il
fine hall filled with every description of furniture COM
psng not only the ordinary but the more costly kinds
there samples Of chairs of thirty forty varieties
besides bedstcads, bureaus, tables wardrobes &c. &C.
Mr.. Botelers establishment occupies the entire Iron
Hall building, comprising twelve rooms and in the
upper story is the nattrass room, the finishing
ROOM where furniture received direct from the manu-
factures Is vanished and polished and several other
containing the varied and extensive stock of furni
tire, Of which samples shown below In one of these
observed assortment OF iron bodsteads which are
coming into very extensive From this brief descp
ton il may be that gentleman desiring furnish
his house has only to go to Iron Hail. and he may obtain
complete outfit from cellar TO garrett with the excep
ton of carpetings and bedding Much time is lost in
collecting such variety OF articles especially for kitchen
use every householder requires and many of our read
doubtless recall numberess yexatons which oc
CURED in their experience before their domestic ar
Engagements were complete but by going to an estab-
shment like this all Inconvenience of this sort are OBJ
waited Mr. Boteer's long experience in this business
enables him to make valuable suggestions to those who
for the first time launching forth on the busy sea of
housekeeping life
Some of readers may perhaps say as many Others
have said before them, .When want anything of this
kind so to the small stores where they sell cheaper
for these large establishments pay heavy rents and of
course they have to make it in the prices they charge
their customers This sounds very plausible but the
reasoning Is ailacous will show The small stores
pay less rent sut they do smaller amount of business
consequence, they buy less goods and pay higher
price for them Mr. Boteer imports his French china
and crockery iron stone china &c. direct from the for
eign manufacturers, thus avoiding the profits which
small dealers pay to the importer and jobber, and
is thereby enabled to undersel all competitors who
obtain their goods in New York or Philadelphia
His furniture is purchased directly from the manu-
facturers, and also his plated goods cutlery, and
glass and other articles of American manufacture
He thus offers his goods cheap they can be bought
at any establishment in the United States and having
been long engaged in the business is thoroughly
quained with the wants of the public and never accu-
mulates stock of unstable goods The cutlery and
plated spoons, &c. for this establishment are made to
order and the of Mr. Boteler stamped them by
the maker and, in this connexion may remark that
wonderful progress has been made within few years
ton. Whereas few years ago all fine cutlery was
imported from Sheffield and Birmingham, we now have
American factories which produce an article superior to
that obtained abroad and of the makers in Eng
land initiate the American trade marks and send their
wares here as American goods while manufactures
of this description find ready and increasing sale in
England So, too, with plated ware in quality the
American is fully equal to the foreign while in richness
aid chasteness Of style products excel those
England or France. Some of the patterns on Mr.
Botclcrs shelves deserving of notice for their beauty
as well ingenuity. We observed CASTOR which is 80
arranged that the top be taken off and forms a
perfect castor of ITSELF leaving fruit dish that
again be taken apart and butter dish is disclosed
that the three articles be used either separately or
combined. There is also liquor case holding several
bottles by touch revolution takes place the bottles
conveyed inside out of sight, and tho may be
locked upan extremely convenient arrangement where
gentleman's servants are inclined to mbibe As is
well known, the purchaser of plated spoons is COM
psled to depend entirely the vender, for an in
| ferior article when looks just as we'll as
the best quality. In order to avoid all opportu-
nifty for deception, Mr. Boteer has all his spoons
manufactured from pure Albata they then weighed
and sent to be plated and weighed again upon their
unso that the precise quantity Of silver that has been
put them be readily ascertaincd. In this way,
Mr. is able to guarantee the spoons sold by him to be
exactly what they represented hf. 1s"a. .ss .4
The extent of the stock in this establishment is such
that hotels, boarding houses dealers in these goods
may here supply themselves cheap they can pur
chase the description of goods anywhere else in this
country and desire to make honorable mention of
| this establishment worthy of public patronage. Let
us all encourage home manufactures home industry and
home enterprise For further particulars in reference to
Mr. Boteers stock of goods refer the reader to his
advertisement in another column.
TnE ITALIAN 0pERA COMPANY of NJ. Strakosch, which
have been performing 80 successfully in Baltimore
mence their engagement in this city this evening, with
the opera of sIl Trovatore.' 1t Is of Ycrds last
productions and its frequent performance has made it
somewhat familiar to many of our readers. The Count
di Luna being enamored Of Leonoa becomes jealous of
her. and on meeting her lover Manrico he troubadour
defes him to single combat Many years previous, the
brother Of the Count supposed to be poisoned
4 by gypsy woman, who burnt at the stake. Her
daughter in revenge stole the child of the Count and
supposed she cast 1t into the flames where it was
| ed with the gypsy woman The second scene opens in
the gipsy camp Manrico Is weak from wounds received
in combat with the Count and Azucena his supposed
mother relates to him the foregoing story, Of which she
w,s one of the chief actors adding further, that when
she followed her mother she had her child in her
arms and sezng the child Of the Count to cast him
to the burning pile, in the confusion of the moment
She sacrificed her own She had burnt her own child to
revenge her mother. Manrco has scarcely recovered