The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-05-27
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENTS.
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DEAk v mic The past week has not
been very eventful The hotelkeepers are
wearing n smile of fixed cortentnent.-
Each train brings crowds of visitors to the
city, and business begins to wear brisk
aspect. The organ grinder with his blood
relative at the end of string, and the
plaster cast Italian are iiocking to the city,
redolent of music chalk statuary, and moi
some doors.
BY an unfortunate turn of Probabiltys
crank, the weather of the early part of last
week was most villainously wretched, and
the long talked-of running races at the
WASHINGTON DRIVING PARK
were, of necessity, compelled to a two days
postponement Thursday frightened up
the atmospheric prospect somewhat, and
on that day, instead of Tuesday, the first
races began, the others following on the
two succeeding days, Friday and Saturday.
Judging from newspaper reports, the affair
was largely attended, and was peculiarly a
success.
Philadelphia has the Centennial build
ings and the crowd, but we have the
CENTENNIAL ENIGMA,
the Washington Riddle, whom none can
guess or fathom, who explains and then
explains his explanation, and still leaves us
guessing.
Up to the present writing the impeach-
ment question has not been settled, though
our national luminarieS are shedding the
rays of their wisdom over the general com
pllcation OF that subject, in secret session.
The great conundrum here with us is,
who is going to be President? I have been
rushing around with that conundrum for
the past two weeks. Every one has diff
ierent answer, but the other evening |
asked the question of Democrat from
Ohio, and he said
"BILL ALLEN
Since then | have given up asking.
1t is wonderful how many patriots there
are, who are willing to uphold the Censti
tuition at fifty thousand dollars per annum,
notwithstanding the fact that the moment
a candidate shows his head, every one ''goes
for him." and in few days his character
looks as though it had been struck by the
fly wheel of the great Corliss engine.
There We're three violently induced va
cancies made in the force of the
CAPITOL EMPLOYEES
last week through accidents The first
was the case of page, Wilbur Mcdaniel,
who, ia sliding down the balustrade of the
steps on the Senate side, fell and crushed
his skull, and his recovery is doubtful.
The accident of Friday in the gas regis
ter room was a terrible affair. Captain
Cutler and John King entered to inspect
the meters. The gas had been escaping
for some time, and the room was dense
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match, and the result was frightful ex-
plosion. King was killed outright, and
Cutler was thrown through the door, shat
tered seriously, and burned dangerously.
1t was at first supposed that Clymer or
Sam Randall had bursted, or that some
enterprising "Iank had struggled in a
dynamite machine and attempted to blow
up the ex-Confederate Congress, so the
original effect was quite startling.
Congress cannot, any too soon, turn it's
law-making brain to a consideration of its
gas apparatus. The House is especially in
a dangerous condition. Not long since,
owing to the disordered condition of the
lighting apparatus, fifteen hundred gas
jets were left open, pouring streams of gas
into the hall of the House from Saturday
night until Monday morning. Had a
lighted match been introduced at that time,
the consequences would have been terrible.
Our present financial condition will not
justify the rebuilding of the Hall, although
the dead members could be almost immedi-
ately replaced without any grave expense
to the country.
GOODBYE FITZ.
Fitzhugh is no longer bigger man than
ole Grant" and though he preferred to be
doorkeeper in the House of Representa-
tives than a first class speler in a Sunday
school, he had to git" He has gone.
The Democratic party could stand his Ken
lucky and Texas crimes, but not his weak
grammar, and they sent him-sent him
plunging headlOng from his great eminence
down to smaller man than the President
even to the sphere of private citizenship,
with no visible means of support
Bounced out into the cold and unchar-
liable world, away from his frolics with
congressman, to ponder and reflect upon
the mighty eminence from which he has
fallen.
Goodbye Fitz, when you go away,
Write US letter, and never mind the spell
ing, etc.
THE THERMOMETER
averaged 93 in the shade the last three days
Of the past week. This is pretty good for
May; if it keeps on we'll have his Satanic
Majesty moving his abode to Washington
by the first of July. AS Congress leaves
us about that time, it would hot be such a
bad exchange after all.
Perspiringly yours, j. Fl. P.