St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1880-04-10

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From the San Francisco Chronicle
At last in Washington. 1t is grand
planned and full of great possibilities
but the soul Of the immortal George w
must gnash its teeth at the manner hi
original design hus been botched. TIL
majority of the grand public building
are lost in wilderness of common bricl
and mortar. What's the use of spend
ing hundreds of thousands in portico
and columns that can't be seen whel
you've turned the next corner? Where
the propriety of exhibiting the Venus O
Milo in handbook? On the first day
you take the rear of the Capitol for the
front, and wonder why the Statue q
Liberty atop the iron dome turns hel
back ominously away from the people
On the second or third day you may
discover that the real front of the build.
ing faces away from the most thickly-
settled portion of the city. They've
done their best to make the rear look
like the front, yet it will maintain a
backyard sort of appearance. A grand
staircase has been planned for this side.
Alphabetically the back-front of the
Capitol is running, as it were, a sort of
opposition to the real front. Greed
turned the front of the Nations Capitol
away from the present city of Washing
ton. Seventy years ago certain landed
aristocrats owned the acres contiguous,
or, at least, every other lot, for which
they wanted a most eXorbitant price
They had the land fever bad, and ex-
pected the Washington of 1910 would,
in ten years Or so, become the Washing
ton of $780, But the people couldn't
buy the high-priced acres in front of the
Capitol, so they bought those in the rear.
Whereby the city was built at
THE CAPIToL's BACK DOOR.
In Washington 1t seems to me that the
people who are not in office or trying to
get office are keeping boarding houses,
and the rest are negroes. The exodus
has been exodusting to Washington for
a long time. A parade of one hundred
soldiers here on Washington's birthday
was attended by an escort of at least
two thousand negroes. The drum
major of the battalion, on his way to
the armory, was followed by at least
one hundred small negroes and every
private by twenty-five. The small ne
gro sells newspapers. There must be
one colored newsboy to every six Wash
ingtonians. Juvenile beggars, black and
white, are numerous and importunate,
generally for ga penny to help bury me
poor, sick mother" The staple pro-
duction of Washington seems to be
secondhand furniture There is big
sale every day on Pennsylvania Avenue
and Seventh Street, where immense
bedsteads fill up the street.
There are but two lively streets, Penn
sylvania Avenue and Seventh Street.
The south side of Pennsylvania Avenue
IS almost tabooed to responsibility. It
IS bare of promenaders. The north side
IS crowded at 3 p. m. On the south
'ide-streets are numerous houses dan
5erous to young and old men, simple
md void of understanding. The gen
'ral appearance of the shops suggests
/ prosperous country town. The court
lere does its expensive trading mostly
n New York. The cry of New York
papers on the streets quite equals that
IT those published in the capital: and,
Judging from remark not uncommon,
me of the phases of the millennium
will be, "when we are only four hours
rom New York; Very long-haired
nen abound. 1t seems new outcrop
# Absaloms. There are about fifty
White and colored gentlemen of leisure.
ut at elbows, to the acre. Thirty-six
niles of very wide streets, smooth, laid
nth asphalt paving, makes this the
ueen city for bicycle-riding. Bicyclists
therefore, abound.
"Boss SHEPPARD"
lid this pavement, filled in the swamps
ronting the White House, planted 24,- :
90 shade trees, and redeemed Wash :
lgton from mud. He is a large man :
hysically, smooth-shaven, cookbook =
lg, doesn't age over IS, and of pre-
assessing appearance. Outside of :
'ashington, in wet weather, is an en- 8
argo on the roads of stiff red mud.
very evening an immense flock of !
'ows wing their way directly over the =
ty. These crows do business by day y
Virginia and come home to sleep in y
aryland. The town pump is not ex- !,
net. !" Steamed oysters'' usurp the -
ews OF more Northern cities, and they Z
y coal dealers deliver to purchasers :,
honest ton of 2,240 pounds. In the -
reefs by day are seen ram-shackle e
agons from the surrounding :.
'untry drawn by horses in - =,
e sere and yellow leaf, or an y y
'easional OK, and driven by from two :,
four negroes. One former Confed- T. T.
ate soldier in gray is now playing an = =
gagement on the streets with a hand =.
gan. The dust during high winds ex- u
Is that of San Francisco. The II II
eaters are rather barry inside and y
atinee on the slightest proyoca- y
IN. President Hayes goes to the !,
FOUNDRY METHODIST CHURCH.. u
attended there last Sunday; heard 0
3 dullest and driest of sermons with D;
3 President. 1t was one of those SER W
ons too common at present; plagiar- OF
d involuntarily from theological X
'rks; couched in more hard words til
III may be found in the entire New ri
stament; soaring far above ordinary ia
apprehension, and delivered by a W