Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-02-06

LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
[FRoM THE sENTiNEL's REGULAR COR
REsPoNDENT.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.
Washington may be properly called
a "City Of Rings" They are of va
rious sizes. as against their common
enemy and legitimate %prey-the meni-
bers of Congress and other visiting
strangers. OF the thousand and one
hotels, those of the various grades
havey formed ''rings" and keep up
prices to wal figures. Most all of
them insist on being styled first
class''-and they are so in prices. A
few have "cut rates. and are doing a
land-oflice business. Whisky saloons
are even more numerous than were re-
lief bills before the last Nevada Legis-
lature. Turn your eagle eye in any
direction you may and the syiniia-
thetic sign OF rooms to rent APPEALS
to your pocket. England has been
styled a "nation of shop keepers" aud
Washington may be called a city OF
boarding and eating-house keepers,
living from session TO session upon the
necessary and frivolous expenditures
of the nations assembled wisdom and
bloodihirsty place hunters. A State
Capital is but a miniature Washing
ton, and scarcely a fair me-, as here,
after more than a half acentury's prac-
tice they have reduced extortion TO a
science, and hand it down as a legacy
from generation to generation. 1t is
necessary to say that everything
is reduced 10 a 'cash in advance basis,
and the prices are elevated according
10 the green look of the victim. Those
hardly sufficient room for their
own large families, move up into the
garret Or down in the basement. and
farm" out their rooms. Avaricious
widows, with manageable daughters,
their receiving parlor," and all
hands drop in and bore you for an
hour or two, on an average OF seven
a week. They think that by
thus placing themselves or an equality
with you they are comforting an ever
lasting obligation. Only those unfcr-
tunates who Groom around" like a
country schoolmaster, know a land
lady's ''true inwardness."
Orville Grant Visits q MeIOdeOn.
Not being well up in opera, and not
desiring to ape tho Goldfish aristocracy
by affecting a taste he did not possess,
your correspondent ignored "Madame
Angot's daughter" and went to the
Theater Cornilue-a kind of a COM
promise between a travelling variety
show and a hurdy-gurdy outfit. At
first, l felt as though l was in the
wrong pew, but when the curtain rose
and the tobacco smoke lifted sufficient.
ly go AS to enable me to see the stage.
and l saw Orville Grant just in front
of me, l felt at ease, thinking
that wherever the brother Of the Pres
ident OF the United States might go l
should not be ashamed to be seem. In
the meantime l was wondering as to
the cause OF his presence; no canine
dispute or bull-pup exhibition was
down on the bills; but a local bur-
lesque, entitled ''Crooked Whisky"
was announced. and he had come to
witness it doubtless considering IL q per
sonal reflection on the 'managen1ent"
at the White House. Significantly, he
left Immediately after it ended.
Grants Reception.
Tuesday evening of each week the
President gives what might be called a
miscellaneous reception. No cards of
invitation are issued, consequently the
Democracy, "a we'll as the aristocracy,
a attend. 1t commences at 8 and
lasts until 10 o'clock, properly, though
some, who are engaged in silly flirting,
remain until ii o'clock. The gentle
men dress as their tastes dictate. A
spike-tailed Goa is no longer considered
the " regulation article. Military and
naval tops and department clerks dress
in the extreme agony Of loudness, and
only as such ninnies can dress. The
ladies', of course, dress deliberately as
possible for the envious jealousy of
their sex and the admiration of men
who do not pay the bills. OF course,
the SENTINEL correspondent must see
the s.sighfs and scenes" ct the Capital
city. He has been to the melodeon; he
must attend the reception of the +" Re-
publican Court" Attired in +" conven.
tional black" he struck out for the
White House. The President had evil
IDENTIFY forgotten to send his landaulet
around, SO / took a street car. Aud
this il the way you are received"
You first enter a hat and cloak room,
where your baggage is checked. You
then spit on your hands and smooth
down your hair; pull out your band
kerchief and blow both of your nostrils
at once and az loud as possible, the
louder the better-yOu then create "A
sensation. 1t is considered en- Degte to
leave about a yard and a half OF two
yards of your handkerchief dangling
from your larb BARD coat-tail pocket.
You then enter the " Red room" and
walk around until you collect your few
thoughts and put on the necessary
of frozen dignity to enter the
"Blue room" Here the President and
"Mrs. President" receive. Near the
of the room he stands, with
M RI. President at his right. The
Marshal OF the District Introduces you
to the President; you shake his hand.
He then introduces you to "Mrs.
Grant," you put on a kind of a sickly
bow as dignifedly and as awk-
wardly az a member Of the Carson
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