Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-25
Society, Etc.


opened on Saturday for receptions is that of
Mrs. Carlisle Patterson, at Brentwood. The
first visitors Mrs. Patterson welcomed last
Saturday were Mr.. F. =. Blair, sr., accompa-
MED by his daughter, Mrs. Phillips Lee. AL
though he seems feeble, he evidently enjoys
the society of his old friends. Miss Annie
Smith assisted Mrs. Patterson in receiving.
The beautiful weather enabled many of Mrs.
PattersOn's friends to call and pay their re-
spects to her in the fine old country mansion,
which is one of the treasured relics of the
past. The house was built in 1916. The front
door opens into rOtunda. with parlOr and
dining groom on either side. The windows
inside are filled with plants. Forest trees
surround the house. and the views of the city
from the pOrticO are the same as those from
the eminence at the Soldiers Home.
Mrs. ROnalds held large and fashiOna-
BILE reception in her parlOrs, in the house
which, it seems, will always be known by
It's associations with the CatacaZyS Mrs
ROnalds was assisted by Miss johnson, Miss
Strange and Miss Drake. The flowers were
Miss Strange, which is twenty miles above
New York.
Mrs Freeman Clark held a large recep-
tiOn in the house adjoining Wormley's.
The reception at the White House was
not so large as on the previous Saturdays.
owing, doubtless, To the fact that many
persons supposed Mrs. Grant had gone to
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Sharpe. Miss Barnes and two other ladies'.
Mr.. Luckey presented the visitors to Mrs.
Grant There were present Mrs Fish, Mr..
RObesOn Mrs. and Miss Porter. Mrs General
Chipman, Madame Freyre, Mrs. and Miss
Reed, of New York. Colonel Berrett, Colonel
and Mrs. Fessenden, Senator and Mrs.
Morton, the daughters and daughter-in-law
Of Hon. Fernando Wood. Mrs. Blaine. Mrs.
Dodge, Miss King, Madame LeVert and
many others.
In the evening there was the literary re-
union at Mr. HOratio Kings and a delightful
hop at Willard's and also at the Ebbitt
House. which were greatly enjoyed by a
number of agreeable people.
Mrs. Redfern gave one of her elegant
lunches on Saturday
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Leeds. of New
York, are at the Arlington. Mrs Leeds is
the sister of Mrs. f. G. Snead. As Miss
Blanche Raphael she was a society belle in
WashingtO before the war. Mr.. Leeds j.
prominent New York lawyer of the firm Of
AnthOn x Leeds. IL will be remembered
Mr.. AnthOn died few months since.
SECRETARY BRIsTOw is still confined to
his residence, but expects to be on duty to-
morrow.
THERE HAS BEEN a suspiciOn-in these
days of suspicious and rumors about Pacific
Mail-that NestOr Shaw received fifteen
thousand dollars from Irwin under promise
that portions of it were to go to other news
paper men, and that Shaw'S testimony to
the contrary would not hold COOL. Mr.
irwin, however, stated before the committee
to-day, in reply to the cross-examinatiOn by
t1r. Foster and Mr.. Beck, and other members
of the committee, that he did not employ Mr.
Shaw; that Mr. StOckwell president of the
racine Mail Company, employed him TO
furnish information and paid him out of the
proceeds of a stock speculation. and that not
one dollar was paid to Shaw by Irwin for any
newspaper influence, or for any other news
paper man whatever. This fully confirms
Shaw's testimony as TO the arrangement
with President StOckwell and the service he
was to render under it.
PERsONAL.-The following are registered
| at Willards: T. II. Porter, ". Y. l.. Gold
| stOn, San Francisco; j. ]. Flanagan, y. Y:
:. :. SeybOrn, Kansas; Chas +. Reel, Va.
| /. j. Maddin, Mass; J. II. Collier, Gibson;
| D. o. Fisher, j. ID. Harris, Lewis Newbarn.
ID. T. TObaby, NJ. c. Martin, Cnickasaw Ma
bachanO, Mexico; III. F. Mann, Pittsb Irg.
The following are among the arrivals at
the EbDitt House tO-day:-HOn. Michael G.
b. w. Duke, KY: Hon. H. d: WaIbridgc,
| Ohio; Hon. c. c. PufTer, S. c.; Hon John s.
| Cain, Louisville, Ky; Col. J. w. Sands and
! wife, Cincinnati, O.; Major Geo. X. Adams,
| ting, Detroit; Capt. F. w. Latham. Texas.
! JCdge :. ID. Mills, Mobile, Ala. ..''SenatOr
Chandler appeared I'm his seat in the Senate
| to-day, looking well and comparatively hap
| Ply, considering his recent defeat.
| a GLOOMY PICTURE OF THE OIL RE
| GIONS.-A letter in ZiOn's Herald. from the
| Pennsylvania oil region, Says Oildom is
| we confess, under sad depression, embar-
| rassed with abundance. Oil that once would
| have brought SO per barrel now goes at SO
| cents; well that once would have brought
| S250,000 lately sold for S15OOO-all from the
| excessive superabundance of oil. If one re
| members how this business began-at the
! tOp-he can imagine how complete is its pros.
| tratiOn. All Titusville, the metropolis OF
| oildOm, is under the hammer. One man (Only
| specimen who had but lately an income of
| 100000 is now hardly worth his hat All is
| dreary as wintry midnight. Oil is here stored
| IN huge tanks, enough to light the world
| awhile; and still il comes. To strike oil
| which once made ones fortune is now very
| moderate blessing; nor can our faVOrite
| PennsylVania-iSm, protection help us, fol-
nobody competes with us in supplying the
| world. So We must suffer from our COpiOus-
| ness, while all make light of the cause of OuI
| trouble. IL is little comfort that on sea and
shore, around the world, we shine, and that
| DR. Newman saw us Frightening even the
| garden OF Eden, as long as all is so dark al
| home"
| y COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW has been in
| trOduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature
| III provides that all children between eight
| ana sixteen years OF age shall attend school
| at least sixteen weeks in the year, or be re-
| gularly instructed at home for the same pc
| riOd that no child under the age of sixteen
| years shall be employed during the hours OF
| schoOl-dayS in the district unless the child
! has been instructed for sixteen weeks during
the year; and that any child so employed
| snail deliver to employers a certificate given
| by the school authorities, certifying 10 the
| fact of such attendance. Proper penalties are
| imposed for violation of the act.
| EXCITING INCIDENT OF THE CALIFORNIA
| FLooD.-The loss of life by the MarySville
| (Cal) flood was OverStated. So far as known,
| one child named Joseph Lauchlin, aged six
| years was drowned. During the height OF the
| Hood fire occurred i'm the Western house
| block while the roof was crowded with
| women and children, seeking refuge from
| the flood. The flames were finally Subduel
| without injury TO any person. The loss OF
| personal property is estimated at 81 100000.
| The merchants lose seventy-five per cent. on
| their stocks. Assistance is asked for, as
llany persons are destitute.
| A COMPROMISE PROPOSITION AT VICKs-
| BURG.-A telegram from Vicksburg says:
| "A movement is on foot here to make good
| Crosby's bond, on condition that he gets out
| OF the way and puts an acceptable deputy in
! the office, who will have full charge. Many
| OF the citizens strongly condemn the project
| TO make the bond, believing Flanagan to be
| the legally elected sheriff, and that he ought
| TO be sustained in the courts"
| SLAUGHTER OF THE INNoCENTS-Mary
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