The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1880-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Political and Social Re>hdbiH.
tation Of Washington. Preparing
to Inaugarate. The. Inaugural
Ball, etc. etc.

tation Of Washington. Preparing
to lnaugarate. The. Inaugural
Ball, etc. etc.
From our Regular Correspondence
Washington, d. G. Nov. 20, go
Washington has, during the
present week, begun to reassume
its society smile and political pan
oply. The Executive and his
Cabinet have at length settled
down in their homes. Foreign
ministers, attaches of legation,
military and naval officers may ba
again seen driving or promenad
ing on the great boulevard that
stretches from the Treasury De
| partment to the capital. Pretty
government clerks aud dashing
parvendom, exulting i'll govern
ment contracts, vie III the display
OF Fl ench costumes and Ameti
eau manners on Pennsylvania
Avenue. In Il short time the Pc
iitical mill, Vanity Fair, and Nam
mons Court will be again in prox
unity at the only place where they
eau he see in such development
on this side the globe. What are
these to It's, or we 10 them 7 Can
not every American citizen ind
sufficient political excitement or
annoyance in the affairs OF his
township, municipality, country
or States And as tor the other
sex, have they not. social realms
OF their own little pent-up Uu
vaS OF fashion, narrow aud prOvin
clai, We may cali them. bnt they
contain the germ and elements of
all that we see in Washington,
Boston, or the prouaeSt courts of
Europe. 1t is we'll for one either
bodily or mentally to get out OF
his accustomed environment for a
little while, and, us distinguished
investigators have not thought 1t
beneath them to study the low
Hest forms of existence, the Anne
rican citizen and citoyenne will
ind their horizon br0adened,
their pleasure and usefulness en-
HANGED, by keeping the rnn Of 20
liticai affairs and social tenden
cies ut the OILY seat of national
government that Is directly acces
sable to theu. 1t is Il fatal mis-
take to suppose, like DR.. johnson.
that there is nothing worth seeing
outside OF London, but there are
those who are like d.. johnson
to the extent that they believe in
the universally OF their own vii
lage.
Ii is not expected that the com
ing session Will be very interest
ing by itself no one knows what d
Congress may bring forth, bat
there will he no lack of interest in
official aud political circles in re
lation to the new administrations.
Preparations for the inaugural
ceremony on the 4th. Of March
are we'll under way, and the pa
geant is expected to excel all pre-
vious inaugural displays. Hotels
and boarding houses are expect
Ing IA golden harvest: preparations
are making 10 accommodate III
tuuts the various voluntrer mill
tary organizations that have sig
nified their intention Of visiting
the capital at that time, 70 take
part III the inaugural parad The
inaugural ball will he held in the
National Museum, which has just
been completed. This editice is
spacious, having, perhaps, the
largest single, naStated hall lii
the United States, and 1t will
no doubt accon modate all who
can pay the -x.rbitant entrance
tee usually charged On such oc-
casiOns.
Car, felloes, spokes. plow
beams, piOw handles, plow shares,
plows, wheelbarrows, aud trace
chaius for sale by S. I. Gr:samOre,
A Four SCORE GEORGIAN.~
Chi. William II. Sparks, who is
on a friendly visit to Col. George
w. Adair, has been a resident Of
New Orleans for over fifty years,
he beng now nearly eishty-one
years of age. Col. Sparks was
born in Green county, Georgia,
and was "A member Of the Georgia
Legislature in 1924. He il the
only surviving member Of the
Legislature. His license to prac
ii,o Law Is fhp third oldest in the