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The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-08-24
walt whitman I'm Boston.


Boston Herald.
The author of "Leaves of Grass " arrived
yesterday, and will stop here for short
time, overseeing the composition and proof
reading of the new and complete one-yOlume
edition of his poems to be issued by j. Il.
OsgO0d & Co. this fall. This forthcoming
edition, while comprehending all the old
poems, will not only contain many pieces
never before printed, but will be essentially
now volume. The c0nsecutiveness and
relative order and proportion of the poems
the writer's most important points which
he has had in view from the beginning
will now for the first time be fulfilled. We
understand that the poet has not seen his
way clear to leave out any of his former
pieces, but that all are to be included in this
edition.
1t is said that he himself considers the
whole collection as curiously turning on the
secession war, as wheel on its axle turns"
The "old gray" now in his 63d year, is
yet under the influence of the paralytic
shocks that bcfell him ten years since. Still
he gets around singularly well, having tray
eled many thousand miles the last three
years, and, during that time, has explored
the Rocky Mountains, the great plains, and
the Canadian and st. Lawrence regions.
He makes much of the kindness he every
where finds in these travels, especially from
transportation men and journalists. Mr..
Whitman, though going out of town por-
tions of the time, while attending to his
book, will, as we understand have his B0s-
ton headquarters at j. II. Osgood & Co.'s,
fremont street, and may be addressed
| there
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HUNT HIM DOWN,
And When Found Make IN Example
of Him.

Bob Branson, of East Washington, who is
well known to the police of that section, is
known in the vulgar parlance as a "masher."
Robert of late has been in great trcpidation
on account Of his girl showering her atten-
tions upon another. On Monday evening
last Bob armed himself with large-sized
bulldog pistol and bowie knife and pro-
ceeded to look up the fellow who had "cut
him out" His search for his rival was UNI
successful, but before he had gone far he
met the object of his affections at the cor
ner of Eighth and M streets southeast, and
accused her Of infidelity to him. The girl
denied that. she had been untrue, and said
that certain girls who were jealous of her
were engaged in circulating lies about her,
and implorcd Bob not to frown upon her.
Now, Bob, who resembles fierce bull dog,
but who lacks the humanity of one, said he
would kin her, in the meantime drawing his
pistol, and, taking deliberate aim at the girl,
fired. The poor helffrightened creature took
to her heels and ran and was pursued by
Branson, who fired second shot at her
without effect. Some gentlemen who were
passing at the time made the brute desist.
The police have been looking for Branson
ever since, but as yet have failed to catch
him.
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THE PRESIDENT
fCoDtInued from First Page, /

Arthur to this city. Secretary Window
said 1t was not true. and that he would
most likely know Of such thing had it
been decided upon.
The Knife Used or the PRrOtid
Swelling.
Since the noon bulletin was issued tho
parotid swelling has been opened by knife
and satisfactory discharge was obtained
The operation caused the President no
severe discomfort.
The Operation ON the ParOtid Gland.
The appearance of the parotid swelling ut
noon gave increased evidence of its suppur-
alton, and after the bulletin was issued q
consultation was held. 1t was decided that
even If pus had not yet formed it would
relieve the gland to open it. Accordingly
DIR. Hamilton Took N Knife
and made an incision just in front of the
lower part of the ear. The incision was not
more than half an inch deep and the same
was made use of and the Presi-
dent was not greatly annoyed by
it. A slight secretion Of pus was discov-
cred, and a quantity less than half u thim-
bleful was taken out. The Presidents
Pulse Was Accelerated to 1I5
just after the incision was made but fell to
10i almost Immediately. DR.. Hamilton
stated at 1;3O p. m. that the opening had
proved entirely satisfactory, and that the
President was doing well. DIR. Reyburn
said ut the same hour he thought difficulty
would now be overcome DIR. Bliss said the
incision
Resulted More Satisfactorily than
They Expected,
for they were not sure that pus had formed
yet. He hoped now that further for
nation of pus had thus been arrested
and inflammation had been CT
fcctually relieved. No doubt the slight
increase of temperature was due in meas.
urc to the condition of the swelling. Since
the incision the President has taken more
nourishment and has gone naturally to
sleep.
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/. ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS.

Rev. Father DeWolf s. j., of Georgetown,
has been appointed assistant pastor of st.
Marys Church, of this city. rn
Alexandria's ice trade is increasing yearly,
and the towns and country along the line of
railroads leading to this place now get their
supply here.
Messrs. Eamich, Patterfeld & Co., manu-
facturers of fertilizers, of Loudon County,
have rented the warehouse on Union street,
just north of Watkins & Co.'s mills, and
will hereafter ship from this point
On the book for the inlistment of the
names of those who wish to become menu
bers of the Daniel Club now in the hands
Of Auditor Brocket, the secretary, is to be
seen the names of several prominent Repub
licans and number of signatures of per-
sons who have claimed, heretofore, to be
Readjusters.
Among the arrivals ut the Mansion House
are George III. Browning, Richmond; A..
King Chandler, Virginia Cuthbere Owens,
Virginia; David Boyd, Baltimore; James
L. Stealth, Norfolk, and M. Jones, Rich
mOnd.
The market for grain continues active
and prices are firm. Flour is steady. The
receipts of wheat are only fair; 4,2O0 bush
els sold yesterday at SIPS, $l.32, $1.33, 81 .35
Lancaster. Corn is scarce and higher, and
small lots of white sold at TIC. and TIC. Nc
oats are reported Rye brought 95c. and IL
This morning, as Mr.. Charles Taylor's
feed wagon was coming down King street, O
little Swear old girl of Samuel Moor's, esq.,,
went to cross the street in front of tho
wagon, and was run over, breaking hei
thigh in two places. She was picked VI
and carried into Creighton's drug store, and
Drs. Powell and Gibson were sent for, ani
rendered the necessary surgical aid. He
injuries are regarded by the physicians a.
serious.
Judge A. w. Shelton heard the writ o
habeas corpus this morning in the case Of
Henry Herbrier, committed to jail for rcfus
ing to pay fine of $40 imposed by tn,
mayor for opening his place of business oil
Sunday. He will give his decision thi
| afternoon
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East Capitol Post.Omee.

The City Post-office, ON the 10Th day of
next month, win establish a branch office,
similar to the one in Georgetown, ON Capt.
toll Hill for the convenience Of the citizens
of East Washington. 1t will be virtually
the same as the central Office. 1t will
probably be located Mt the corner of Third
and East Capitol streets. The property
will be leased.
The Post-ofiice Department will readver-
tise the mail messenger service between the
central Office and Georgetown and the East
Capitol station, and in regulation wagons,
Postmaster Anger having decided that the
present means of conveyance are too crude
and insufficient for the transfer of mails.
The location-Third and East Capitol
Streets judged to be the most central, but
If the people of that section suggest more
desirable point their wishes will BIO heard.
The force Of the office will consist of a
superintendent, Il clerk, seven letter-carriers
and two auxiliaries The superintendent
and assistants have not been decided upon
For the benefit of ofiice-seekers, and to
save Postmaster Anger trouble and from
being talked to death, we state that Of
this force there will be but one new APP
pointment, that of the superintendent tho
rest will be detailed from the central office
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GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS.
Navigation Almost Suspended.


Canal navigation is practically suspended.
1t is understood that there will be little ship
ping of coal until there is q rain. Boats
can leave Cumberland with 108 or 40 tons
and drawing four feet six inches Of water,
but they cannot get through with even that
on the Hancock division. 1t is thought
this division will be let down upon the
lower division in order to break the block
ade that still exists there to some extent.
The Coal Trade.
Twelve boats, carrying 1879 tons, with
coal for the following companies, left Cum
berland yesterday Consolidation Company,
1926 tons; Blaen Avon Company, 1903 tons ;
Maryland Company, 31S tons; for Alexandria,
Hampshire & Baltimore Company, 207
tons; American Company, 1874 tons
Abandoned.
A bright, chubby, handsome four-year-
old-boy, named George Wilson, was picked
up in the streets last night, and sent to the
Foster Home, Thirteenth street. between Il
and S streets northwest. The little fellows
parents, George and Mary Wilson, ADAM
doned him some time since, and he has been
left to roam the streets ever since. The
mother of the boy is now in the work house,
having been sent there on account of drunk
enness. The fathers whereabouts are UNI
known by the police.
Wheat Arrivals.
Boat L. Lyons Whiting arrived ycster-
day with 1000 bushels of wheat for Hart
ley Bros, which will be put on Change for
sale tomorrow.
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The Extradition Paper Signed by the
President

The extradition paper signed by the
wounded President on his bed of pain was
one called for by the following case
Adreon Gorter, alias NJ. CASTOR de Rohan,
and thirty odd other names, had been ap-
pretended in Halifax for swindling lady.
He is the same sacrilegious swindler who
was convicted in st. Louis in 1879, after q
long career of crime throughout the coun-
try as pretended priest and thief. SEN
fenced for five years to the penitentiary at
Jefferson City, he effected his escape with q
trio of other convicts, trusted not wisely
but too WELL. Learning of his rccapturc at
ures to secure his cxtraditiOn. To such
papers issued on the Governor
General of Canada, the sigma
ture of the President was essen
tial, and the extradition warrant for the
arrest of the pretended priest was the paper
signed by the President on the 10th instant.
1t is now being executed by Mr.. Willis, as
the messenger of the nation and State, and
the return of the convict to his old quarters
is expected shortly. 1t will furnish another
item in the interesting history of the crime,
now in the possession of the church he de-
ceived and of the police authorities, that
the document returning him to the scene
of some of his crimes was signed by the
President while suffering in bed from
wounds inflicted by an assassin.
A Wound Similar to the Presidents
| Martin Cunningham, aged 22, the mar
who was shot in the abdomen at Washing
ton Park, N. Y, two weeks ago, and whose
wound was in exactly the same place an!
of the same character as that from which
President Garfield is suffering, died yester
day at No. 533 East Twelfth street. TIT
man who shot him, one Thomas Mclean, Il
yet at large. An autopsy, which under ex
listing circumstances may he of more thar
ordinary interest, will be made to deter
mine the course taken by the bullet.
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Threatened with Excommunicatio

The attempt of the parishioncrs of st.
Anthony's Catholic Church. in Greenport,
n. Y, to secure an accounting Of the
church's funds during the past eight years
promises to result in the accommodation
of some of them if they persist in their eff
fort. The pastor of St. Anthony's Father
Murphy has notified his congregation that
Bishop Loughlin has no sympathy at all
with their movement, and was opposed to
anything which breeds discussion in the
church. The bishop, he added, had author
lied him to say also that If the law COM
mittce appointed by the practitioners per-
sisted in bringing the bishop into civil
courts, then, as the head os the diocese, he
would use the power vested in him by
communicating members of the COM
mittee, withdrawing their pastor and clos
ing up the church entirely A meeting OF
the parishioners will be held ut an early
date to determine what their future course
shall be in the matter.
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vital Statistics.

The total mortality in the District Of Co.
lumbia for the week ending Saturday
August 90, 1881, was 81 (bcing less than
the week previously, or at the rate of 25.13
per 1000 per annum. OF the decedents 81
were white males, IL white females, 20
colored males and 25 colored females, show
ing an annual death-rate of lab per 1000
for the white population and 46.S for the
colored. The number of deaths by classes
of diseases were as follows: Zymotic, Al (;
constitutional, 16; local, % ;developmental,
z; violence, /. From diarrhGal diseases
there were % deaths, diseases of the nervous
system and phthisis pulmonalis or con-
sumption IL each, malarial fever 3, typhoid
fever 3, disease of the heart, Bright's dis
ease, Group and pneumonia 2 each, and l
each from diphtheria, cancer and tape
worm. OF the deaths, SO occurred in Wash
ington, 8 in Georgetown, s in the county
and IA in the hospitals; 81 Of the decedents
were natives of the District, % of other
parts of the United States and 5 of foreign
countries ~ white and 30 colored were UNI
der years of age; white and coored
were go and over.
Births reported So, as follows: II white
males, 90 white females, colored males and
10 colored females, showing an annual birth.
rate of 1872 per 1000 for the white, and 1875
for the colored population.
Marriages reported 23-white, 20 colored
3; still-births 4-white, 1; c0lored 3.
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Charles III. krouse sos Eighth street,
will make extensive repairs to his resi-
deace.
John j. Schladt will expend $40 on
repairs TO building No 60 High street,
Georgetown.
Henry Huffman, 1928 Twentieth, and
John Noonan, $3.50 T street, received liquor
licenses to-day.
The Health Officer calls attention to
the filthy condition of Nineteenth and X
streets at their intersection.
The Commissioners have approved a
proposition for improving Corcoran street
from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets.
The Water Registrar is preparing re-
port on the scarcity of water ON Capitol
Hill, complained ofby c. G. Kirkwood, ct al.
Pierce Shoemaker requests the Com
missioners to require the removal of large
blocks Of stone from the Broad Branch road.
The requests that the parking on vir-
ginia avenue be allowed to remain have
been referred to the Engineer Commits
sioner.
james B. Riley has been appointed a
special policeman for duty from ID to G.,
and from Sixth to Eighth streets southwest
by the Commissioners.
In reply to requests for the improve.
ment of Twcnty-sixth etreet, from X tC
Pennsylvania avenue, the Commissioners
replied to-day that the street would be re
paired during the present season.
Mrs. Douglass, 1929 Eleventh stree
northwest, John Henderson, Louisiani
avenue and Sixth, and VIM. Henson, al
Hillsdale, have received permits to repair
their houses.
Tho Commissioners have consent ted t.
supply the material for laying plank side
Walk on Columbia road, between Prospec
and Connecticut avenues, and will consider
the request of erecting lamp-posts along thu
same.
DIR. w. w. Godding to-day submitte,
TO the Commissioners list Of twenty eigh
nonresident insane persons whose remoya
10 the institutions of their various home
dc regards as indispensable, as the asylum
is SO much overcrowded. OF these twenty
eight cases, twelve were admitted durinI
July and August
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Foreign Notes.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone has been re-
turned to the House of Commons by his con-
stituency.
An official of the general staff in Russia
has been arrested for furnishing contraband
information to the revolutionists.
The Paris Temps says that the elections
will necessarily result in the formation of a
new ministry, with M. Gambetta mt its
head
The Golden Club will soon print a
pamphlet to prove that tie excess of i'm
ports over exports is AN indication of in
creasing wealth.
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PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS
About People and Things I'm wash
ingtOn.

LOCALS on third page.
PATRoNIzE ABNERs garden.
THE CoMIoUE has good bill this week.
GIVE GEoRoE DRIVER call at his gar.
den. You won't regret It, -Hf
THIS is THE sixty-fourth anniversary of
the battle of Bladcnsburg.
Go TO Lower Cedar Point and have jolly
good time. You can do it, lf. i
STREET LAMPS will be lighted at 7:15 p.
m, and extinguished at 3:45 a. M.
PrPKrN LYNCH, n colored boy, beat his
aunt severely yesterday, and paid SO fine
to-day
FoRTy-oNE arrests were made by the
police during the twenty -four hours ending
ut 8 a. IN.
ALICE SNYDER, colored, was up to-day for
larceny of 50 from Mary Burch. Fined $40 or
thirty days.
ALICE SNYDER was given thirty days in
Jail by Judge Bundy for stealing clothing
from Emma Clark.
MARY MCCORMICK, q white woman, was
fined S. to-day for beating Howard JONES' a
gentleman visitor.
THIS MORNING John Screen and William
Duncan, colored boys, were fined So for
bathing in the river at unlawful hours.
with throwing stones on Sixth street south
east at an old colored man and was dis
missed
HENRY TALBOT, colored, put n fearful
head on Frank Turner colored, last night,
and was fined $40 or thirty days in the
Police Court to-day.
GREENBURY MACKLE n colorcd driver,
was taken suddenly i'll ON Sixth street
northwest last night, and taken home in
the police ambulance.
WIN. n. EVANS was before the Police
Court to-day on charge of being an un-
licensed produce dealer in the market and
the case was continued.
tx THE cAsr of Ira Eldsr va John w III.
der divorce case Jndoe Wvl;e to.dav or.
dered tho reference of fhe case to Byzantine,
John A. Clarke to take dispositions on behalf
Of the plaintiff
JouN T. sN,rp !, voupo ,vh;te man wa.
returning from Tho Com;ora an E,;Ta,
night wIpn sonehodv struct him and, h,
was Knocked down His assailant has mi
bnan d;scoyoroJ ''o
MOD ~ ho, daors.o.oa =.
men fiat animals arc NOT 70 he tortr.oi
with Immunity. and he saws that s;x nart;e.
against ,vLon, 10 has a,,or,, n,,t ,,,a,.r,
have fIod from town
=,
"A .a. ooous.o u, !, s"iooi y. Elcveh.n
anu " s.ree's nas. ntght w, IN when .nre'
made Int theu ,vere Tho wrona ,~"n " onS
Tho case w,s d;smisssa "i'e INV" ''"'
W.,
NJ hobiNsoN, " coioreu poy' was urle.
e enis morning ioI s.eaiins y Goa. from oosePi
olpe' ueaiei az the .ehtIe MarkeG. 4, IN
eAouse Mas NAV ne Manteu 70 PUNISH PIP
iol curs'is WV resiueh.' ou. jugs ~ DuhoS
res.oreu .he Goa. anu niea inc boy 90
THREE small boys, members OF the ottt
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esulted More Satisfactorily than
They Expected,
2:ao P. M.
No Ill Effects from the Oh

No HI Effects from the Operation.
The President is now resting quietly and
no ill effects have been felt from the opera
ton. The surgeons are rather glad at the
now on.
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$3.50 p. NJ.


the President took nourishment and slept
at intervals. The surgeons are now at din
ner,and DR.. Boynton is at the Presidents bed
side. He awoke few minutes ago, and
made no complaint of feeling any pain or
inconvenience from the incision in his
check ,
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Driving a Lame Horse.

To-day Nathan Ridgely, colored, was up
before Judge Bundy, charged with using in
team horse so lame in three of its legs
that it could scarcely walk much less pull,
! A fine of S25 was imposed
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-08-24
Transfers of Real Estate.

Deeds were filed to-day as follows: Aubin
l.. Boulware and VIM. A. Gordon, trustees,
to trustees of the Presbyterian congregation
Place." $577.50 Same parties, TO Elizabeth
s. Gurley, lots 80 and 40 in sub. of "Nichols
Place" 81 ,295. John L. Norris, trustee, to
James Il. Boisseau, nine acres ON Good Hope
road, ST..
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FINANCIAL.
To.,Iay.s stock quotation,

The following observations of the trans
actions in the financial market to-day, to-
gether with opening and closing quotations,
are furnished by the banking house of II.
d. Cooke, Jr.. & Co., 1929 + street, Washing
-. n
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"A basket left at railway station in
Birmingham, England, yesterday by two
strange men, was found to contain gunpow-
der and cartridges.
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Copies of THE EVENING CRITIC may be
had and subscriptions left at L. X. Lundy's
book and stationery store, 12s Bridge street,
Georgetown.
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special weather BulIctin.

The special bulletin issued from the Sig
nal Office to-day says: Fair weather is indi-
Gated for Thursday in the lower lake region,
Ohio valley, Tennessee the East Gulf and
South Atlantic States, and cloudy weather
with light rain, and cold northcastcrly
winds along the New England and Middle
Atlantic coast. Nt
, 1881-11-03

prospects Of the Reform party-A ma.
lorffy Ut 20,O0O Orretllctett-l1any Dem.
s,trn "a fEu,, sA.,nr = -"

f,roxpccfa of Tim iecfnrr, p,~,~
Iorffy ct 2O.f,iM, ,,re,,,c,n,t-1.an. 1"... ".a'
.a.a ~ won oser'
WAslifSGroS, u. e., Oct. 0.-Cot, Cam
eron. tic Liberal candidate for Governor Of
~ to III t;trn ,u!'es. s. eoaenee ~ me success
u tne l.lbefal Ticket IN that Stale. Sfhct
July col. cameron Inns been actIyel,
cllgnged in thu canvass. md I'm,
addressed meetings In every LraIs,ativf
Liberal candidate met with enthusiastic re-
certlons, atnl tho targe attendance ut the
meetings shows That t1to ueopls urc fu1is
aroused tn t,,c tm"r,n,,c '.y1 ~ .1 ~. '%'s
a,r,~aIa ~ ,,' !.a .,' 'npol'"Eee oi tac pending
stl"Es,e' am u'at thclf silhralf'lcs are with
the l.tbera1 movement. Col. Cameron said
tonight that wherever llo went lo saw IN.
nistnkabIr evidence Of lie ,,in.trss @ or ,. t,,c
..%"rv rt,,,t" ,,,u,,, m'E .He Willie pcDple III
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