The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-08-07
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 3, 1879

WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 3, 1879.
DEAR Washington had her old
time excitement in a subdued form, dnring
the past week, by the shooting of one man
-Kennard by name, War Department
clerk in occupation-by an outraged hus-
band. In the present instance the parties
to the transaction are not Of sufficient prom
inence to give much color of romance or
great interest to the matinee performance
which happened in this wise: Mr.. Fraw-
ner is mechanic and was possessed of an
agreeable wife. Her soul was above a plas
terer's trade, and she turned her azure eyes
with much sweetness on kennard, the War
Department clerk, and the two began in
such style that they ended in an amateur
elopement.
Frawner, like we'll conducted person,
stood all and much more till the muchness
grew excessive, when he armed and equip
ped himself with Smith s. Wesson SEVEN
shot revolver, and repaired to the residence
Of his sister-in law, where Kennard and the
absconding spouse were visiting. With
some appropriate remarks, Frawner, the
husband, drew his revolver and fired upon
Kennard, who lifted up his voice and howl
ed with pistol bullet in his body.
And now that Kennard has shuff1ed off.
the mortal coil, and Frawner is in Jail,
what should be done with him is the query
that presents itself to the FACILITATING pub
lie, and will be decided in criminal trial
The woman, it appears like all wives who
lower themselves to intrigues, is grade
below the professional courtesan, and it is
a subject of disgust that one man should
be killed and another risk his neck about
her. However, as she was the prisoners
wife, what he was to do was a matter of
taste, and the same great American prin-
ciple that pardoned Sickles, Cole, McFar-
land & Co., and that would have pardoned
Theodore Tilton, will probably do as much
for Frawner.
woMAN's CURIOSITY.
We had just the nearest possible ap-
proach in the world to an all absorbing
blamed thing stopped short and evaporated.
A small well-set, handsome youth, with
soft feminine hands and small feet, elegant
ly attired and all that, but built with rather
more view to physical ornament than
masculine usefulness was noticed by the
officer in charge of the door to enter the
Avenue Variety Theatre, during tho per-
Torrance, and the officers suspicion was
aroused, believing that there was more
there than appearances guaranteed. These
performances at the Avenue Theatre have
so much ethereal sweetness about them
that the male sex alone are permitted to
enjoy them, the females being on the stage,
and that female with any clothes on to
any extent should be present during the
fun is too much totally. So the officer ap-
preached the muchly dressed suspected one
and arrested the neutral being, escorting
he, she or it to the station house, to slow
music, excitement in the hall and a grand
display of flesh colored tights on the stage.
The elegant being boo-hooed in an eminent
y
the Sergeant: She was a married lady,
and her husband was a wealthy and promi-
nent official and would break his heart if
he discovered she went to such place in
his best attire. She had seen the flaming
advertisements of the French Can Can,
and her curiosity had prompted her to
adopt the only feasible plan at the time to
witness it. Being her first offense, the
officer kindly compromised, and she, sphinx
like, departed, never to do so again.
FURNISHING ROOMS"
Washington is perhaps the only city
where this room business is reduced to a
fine art. There is a fund of amusement,
instructive and pathetic in those apparently
innocent-looking patches of white paper
tackled up on all kinds of doors, all sorts of
houses, in every known street, announcing
in every variety of writing that there eur
nished rooms" can be obtained. Every
woman, deprived by discriminating Prov
idence of her natural masculine protector,
turns her attention, as soon as she has pro-
perly adjusted her lace ruffles, to renting
rooms.''
If there is anything that Washington
fairly slops over in it is widows. l read
with great interest the obituary columns in
the newspapers from other cities, and al
ways feel sure, when l read of the death of
"beloved husband" that the weeping
but mercenary widow of that lamented
man is going to make Decline for Wash
ington, with one eye on furnished house,
and the other on government position.
If any one asks me if such one is a widow,
whether sure or not, always answer yes
on venture, and nine times out of ten
am right.
Any one who wishes to study the differ
ent phases of human nature can't do it in
better manner than by starting on tour