Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-15
Society.

thoroughly heating the halls and rooms. After
all We hear that fashionables returning to
the old fashioned open nre place with blazing
fire and - brass fender. The rage for the
latter, particularly If it is old fashioned has be-
come SO great that second hand stores and
places where rubbish does most abound are fire.
gueDtiy patroniZed. lady OF this city in
recent visit to New York saw and fell in love
with the brass fender and went wild over it.
There Is one dealer in New York who has lived
there long enough to understand the vagaries
If the rich, so he is always on hand at sales TO
purchase that which has become obsolete. His
well known establishment is the favorite resort
III antiquarians in search of what no one else
has thought of preserving. Our lady hastily
went TO him and saw a brass fender at the door
She was in extacies until told that not only tn at
hut three others had been sold that week. De
termined not to be baffied she tried in another
large city and left an order to purchase for her
even should it cost q hundred dollars, indeed so
determined was she to have one that could IL be
procured there was to be no limit to the price she
was willing to pay While suffering under
the mental depression of disappointment she
went into her cooks room to give an order.
The cook noticed that she stopped midway in
her speech, and that che was dancing franti
cally over some object near the fire place. The
cook feared it was cerebro spinal meningitis or
some other new tangled disorder, and ran to her
mstresses assistance. The lady broke away
from her and excitediy asked, "Where did that
fender come FROM" ''Lor, miss 1t haint been
used in the house tor thirty years, aud 'longed
to your mother. now dead and gone" OF
course the fender was blackened from neglect
and verdigris, but the lady had 1t brought to
the parlOr, and assembled the entire household
to rejoice with her over the found treasure. The
next question was where to find q work man com
petent to clean and put 1t in order. The carriage
was Immediately ordered, and the lady flew to
an establishment that was recommend and
asked for the head. She was so impatient that
she would have carried the workman home in
the carriage with her if he had not promised to
be there as coon as she returned. The man
thought she was a harmless lunatic and hu
mored her within. When he saw the fender he
was disguised. Said he: sit will cost all the
fender is worth to clean it. 1t will require hand
work and take week to give it the necessary
polish; II will cost as much as new one."
But don't want a new one, }" the lady an
swered, land 1 don't care what you say you take
that fender to your shop, polish it up, and send
the bill, no matter what il is l will pay it. -
Nothing will convince that man that the lady Is
OF sound judgment, but she carried her point
and now one of her really beautiful parIors has
N her estimation received its browning glory in
the glttering brass fender, for the cleaning OF
which she paid twenty dollars.
Hon. Roscoe Conkling has taken Mrs. Lind
seys fine residence corner of 18th and X street :.
Mrs. Conkling will not come to Washington
until after the holidays. Mrs Noble and fam
Gen. Schenck's house, Massachusetts avenue
and will pass the winter in this city.
The Secretary of War and his bride were
Handsomely entertained in Harrodsburgh, whert
they were married, before their departure. At
leIWdTus lney went 10 ClnClnnatl, Where Hon.
George H. Pendleton and his wife showed them
much attention. They are expected at the Ar
lingtOn on Wednesday. and will probably oc-
cupy their house in Bahcock row about the Goth
1T is now said in circles'which pretend to be
well posted that President Grant has refused to
accept the resignation of Minister Slckles.
THE APPRoPRIATIONs.-Th House Com.
mittee on Appropriations to-day allotted the
work as follows: Messrs. Loughridge, Parker
and Hancock with the preparation of the Indian
appropriation BILL O'Neil, with the pension
bill; Swami, consular and diplomatic bill;
Starkweather, tifcatiOns; Marshall, military
academy Tyner, postal seryicei White, the
army and Hale the navy appropriations re-
spectively. The deficiency, sundry civil, ana
the legislative, executive and judicial bill was
not assigned, but the chairman (ien. GARFIELD
will have charge of the latter and m ainy pre-
pare it.
A COMMISSION ON THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.-
Mr.. Frye, of Maine, introduced in the House of
Repre- sentatives to-day bill providing for an
rOintment by the President from civil life o
live commissioners to Investigate the alcoholic
iqnOr traffic in it, economic, criminal, moral
and scientific aspects in connection with pau
ptrisn, q ime, social vice, the public health
a'd gene al welfare of the people, and who
shat also inquire and take testimony as to the
practical pTohibitory legislation for the pre-
ventiOn Of intemperpance in the several state
OF the union. The commissioners are to serve
without pay, but are allowed a secretary and
necessary incidental expenses, and are to report
the result of their investigation to the Presdent
Referred TO the Judiciary Committee.
FAvoRING INCREASING TAxATIoN.-At the
meeting Of the Committee on Ways and Means
held this morning the letter from the Secretary
OF the Treasury to MIR. Dawes, recon- ending
increased taxation ian abstract of which was
published in Saturdays STAR was read, ami
after an extended discussion the following reso-
luton was introduced by Judge Kelly, of Penn.
sylyania, announced his intention to present it
TO the House this afternoon:
ReSOlred That 1t is the sense of this House
that the taxes which now burden the people
should not be increased, ut that the extra rdi-
nary means required for the support of the gov
eminent during the temporary paralysis OF the
industries OF the country now prevailing should
De obtained by temporary loan or loans, bear
ing low rate of interest in currency and re-
deemable in United States notes.
resolution was adopted calling IN the
heads of the various executive departments TO
cut down their estimates with a view OF practis-
ing rigid economy to obviate the necessity of
ADDITIONAL taxation.
THE LIBRARY OF CoNGREss.-The annual
report of Mr.. A. X. Sp0fford, librarian of Con-
gress, states that IL ,407 volumes have been
added TO the collection during the year, which
ended the LIST inst. The aggregate number OF
Books now IN the library is 25S, 1852 volumes, be
sides about 30 600 pamphlets. In the cOpyrlght
department there have been IS 1852 entries made
during the year, and the librarian has paid into
the Treasury the sum of Si3 ,40i 80 as the re.
entries of the year preceding by about ten per
cent: The librarian reports the accessons to
the library a. unusually valuable, including An
almost complete set of the County Histories of
England, purchased in London, and very i'm
portant as throwing light upon the history and
genealoRy of thousands of American families.
The rapid growth of the library and OF the copy
right business of the country render the neces-
sity for new building to accommodate its over
moving stores an imperative necessity. While
retaining in the Capitol a sufficiently large IL
brarv for legislative and judicial use, Congress
has already authorized the preparation of plans
Tor separate building, and tue commissioner
appointed to select plan will shortly make the
award OF premiums The location OF the build
ing, however, is not yet settled.
The NEW FREsCH MINIsrRR.-Jean Fran
co.'s Charles Bartholdy, recently appointed
Minister to this Capital by President Mac Mahon
IN place OF Marquis de NOailes, is a native OF
hageman, in Alsace, and Is about 45. In his
hfteenth year he went to Paris, where he was q
pupil at the St. Barbe College, and afterward
studied law at the University of France. He
was about to be graduated Is Bachelor Of Laws
when the revolution of 1913 broke out, and he
ntly supported the republican cause. He
was vice president Of the Anne Marie Club, q
socialist org Ami cation, anddurng the June riots
IN ls4s fought despt rately on the barricades.
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