The daily gazette., 1878-04-26
Our Washington Letter.
AN ADJOURNING PANIC IN CON
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sANATARICM-w WHAT THE NEW
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From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April %.
This warm weather has the effect to
create an adiourning panic in the breast
OF many member of Congress. From
physical cause, more easily understood
than overcome, Wash ington is a warmer
and more unhealthy locality than MANY
points farther So nth. The Capital city
is any thing but Il sanitarium, even in the
winter, and when the wan government
clerk after alternating IN stifiing fur
mace heated Department rooms. and sub
sisting on the execrable victuals of cheap
boarding houses, finds himself on the
verge OF hot summer, inhaling miasma
| from the swamps that flank the CITY on
| all sides, he need not be accused of sem
timental billiousness, if he discerns mira
ges of tomb st ones, or feels sensations of
cremation run up and down his back
With the member of Congress it is much
the same, he is better fed than the gov
| ernmcnt clerk but he lacks acclimation,
and the air that he breathes in the Capt.
tol is even more pestilent than that of
the Departments and we see men of
powerful physique, like Conkling and
Blaine, or tough wiery veterans, ike
Christiancy and Howe, succomb tomala-
ria and subsist on quinne.
In spite of the millions that have been
spent in Washington to make its streets
solid and smooth, and to make its public
edifices rival the architectural splendors
of the old world the day may yet come
when the capital will be removed to a
more beautiful locality, and when the
New Zealander, or some other fellow
will wash his fish nets in Babcock's artifi-
eial lake, and calk his boats with pitch
from its most arstocratc avenues.
Last night, while riding Oh an F. street
car, your correspondent was edited by
conversation between statesman and n
car driver, which he will relate rerbatim
As the car passed the Ebbitt House, it
was boarded by the distinglte military
Senator from Rhode Island The Sena-
tor was to all appearances in a state of
equiyocal eXhilaration, from what good
society.call good living, but what Mr..
Murphy calls by another name, and from
sentences muttered indistinctly, with
eyes half closed, il was inferred that he
was thinking of what he had recently
done, or had yet to do in the cause of
education. Suddenly, from lurch ofthe
car, turning corner, or from gesture
delivered in half dreamy oratory, his
military elbow went through the glass
window, shattering it into small pieces.
The driver, who is also conductor on
this line, approached him with great po-
likeness, ana said: | don't know but
may be to blame for this accident, but |
don't think | was, and the company will
deduct half dollar from my wages. If
l was to blame of course | must lose the
money" "Of course you WERE" said the
Senator but little later, under mag
unanimous impulse, he drew from his
pocket twenty-five cents, OF the remone-
tized, and extending it to the driver,
said, "d--n 1t, suppose we divide that's
all the money I've got" The driver re-
luctantly accepted the compromise when
then the Senator called after him: "Ill
pay you the rest when come this way
lowing soliloquy: "Ride on these cars
three times day. guess I'll take car
riage after this" Then to the driver
oh you will know me you will see me
when you come to the Captol you will
find Inc on the floor; guess you will rec
ognize my face" And getting off at the
Arlington Hotel, "Recognize my face,
will you? Well, just take a keen look at
these whiskers, take keen look at these
whiskers you will recognize me again
guess"
Social gayety has been resumed with
the expiration Of Lent, but tine weather
is rather warm for violent dancing, and
Washington has been bereft of many of
its transient bellies, who have gone home
and are making preparations for the
summer resorts, or for Europe. Last
winter the best dressed lady at the Cap
ital-l give the opinion of another lady
who Is IL cOnnoiSSeur-wslS a young lady
from Detroit. To Ee clipsed by lady
from frontier village, caused the bellies
of Baltimore and Boston some surprise.
But there is no reason why Detroit
m0diste should not have as good taste as
Worth or be as successful in adorning
the human form divine. Then there APP
peared another belle from Kansas, who
made her own dresses and was much adj
lnired for her ''style," as well as for her
Intelligence and thoroughbred manners
The facts are that the distinctions be-
tween rural and urban people are not as
sharply marked as they once were, since
now newspapers and fashion journals
penetrate every home, and the moral is,
that taste, like genius, is confined to no
locality CAS-.