The Evening critic., 1882-06-21
THE EVENING CRITIC.
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 1883.
SOCIETY.
what Is Going on in .hc social World

delightful barge party was given from tho
Analostan boathouse yesterday evening, one
of n weekly series the club members mean to
have during the season. Tho guests were the
Capitol Hill German Club, and as they nrc old
friends, the occasion lacked formality to n
charming degree. on their return to the boat
house simple refreshments wore served, and
after an impromptu musicale" and q round
or two of valse and polka, the adieux were
made, and pleasant memories and wraps
packed up together and carried home for fu-
ture use.
The foreign circle gathering al Narragausett
will have an acquisition In Baron Schafrer, the
Austrian Minister, who has taken quarters at
tho Pier for the season. Rumor says fash
ionable game here this summer will be "coil,"
which is a Russian ship amusement and con-
sisis of casting rope rings at a stake settwenty
or thirty feet from tho player. The ropes are
color that goes over tho stake dixie quoits)
counts so much. The action OF the game is
graceful, and gives as much chance for pretty
attitudes as tennis and archery.
Mr.. Corcoran's convalescencc is 30 slow that
he is still detained in the city. Unless
decided change occurs, he Will be unable to
travel TIL the middle or last of July.
Mrs. MacMeurtrie and her sister, Miss
douglass, Will summer at Ocean Beach,
letter received a few days ago from Mrs.
Dom piatt announces tho completion of their
elegant now homo at Mac-o.Chee. They have
expended small fortune on 1t, and have
built 1t in the true feudal STYLE The
interior decorations and furnishings are
in the most approved middle-age' fashions,
with dainty modern luxuries grated on the
oak walnut and mahogany STEMS She also
sends news Of ~ her T sister, Mrs. Banning, but it
lied from the shock of her husbands loss, The
young General and Member Of Congress had
won hosts of friends In our midst, and the
news that his old wound had reopened and
caused his death was grief to every one. Mrs.
Banning and her children Will spend a part OF
their summer with Colonel and Mrs. Platt,
and then she has half promised to visit
friends In the city.
There was a very beautiful dinner given to
Doctor Thompson last evening by his friends
OF the medical fraternity, who wanted to wish
him bon voyage before he sailed for Europe.
There were twelve covers, and the grateful
change in tho weather made 1t possible to ex-
tend the menu to unreasonable, but very ac-
ceptable, lengths. The profession was we'll
represented and the speeches above the av-
erage.
The French Minister, NJ. outrey, made his
flnal adieux last week, and left for New York
on Monday. He expects to sail for Enrope to.
day, and he carries with him an earnest
friendship and regrets such as our people
rarely accord foreigner.
The Lawn Tennis Club that meets at the
Observatory is making hay while tho sun
Shines" They have taken advantage OF the
cool spring and have played so assiduously
members, shows hard spots, and there are
blisters at the base of each finger. Miss Annie
Almy and Miss Kittle Davis strike "the
cleanest balls,' but the young officers are all
so good as to forbid comparison.
Mrs. W. V. Brown, of Los Angeles, CAL, Il
visiting friends In the city. She has changed
but little since the days when, as pretty
Emma Cole, she held her court in our midst
a court where Youth and Beauty danced K
Pleasures piping.
General Beverly Robertson will spend hit
summer holiday at the White sulphur q!
usual
North End Will be Mr.. James Johnston's. The
design is quaint and original, and the sit,
well adapted for displaying its attractive
peculiarities.
An item OF gossip is going the rounds to tn
effect that Mr.. and Mrs. John Campbell, o
Rideout Hall, Canada, who have made al
are none other than the Marquis Of Lorne an,
the Princess Louise, who are to travel in COG
wherever their fancy leads them.
Mrs. d. @. Forney left town few days sine
to visit her daughter, Mrs. Comstoek, at he
home in Providence.
The Tariff Commission Confirmed
The Senate In executive session yesterda
confirmed the following nominations as Tari
Commissioners: John l.. Hayes, of Massachr
sette, to be chairman; Henry w. Oliver,
Pennsylvania; Austin NJ. Garland, OF Illinois
Jacob A. Amber, OF Ohio; Robert p Porter, {
District of Columbia; John W. II. Underwood
of Georgia; Duncan +. Kenner, of Louisiana
Alexander r. Boteler, OF West Virginia; Wn
II. Mcmahon, of New York. The final vote o
the question of confirmation was 81 yeas
81 nays.
Senators Brown, Davis of West Virgins
German and Groome voted with twenty-seve
Republicans in favor Of confirmation and Sci
ator Van Wyck voted no with twenty of I'll
Democrats. Messrs. Frye and Sewell, althoug
paired with Messrs. Hill of Georgia and M
Pherson of New Jersey, on political question
voted to confirm tho Tariff Commissioners @
the understanding that the two last name
Senators would so vote II they were presen
1t is understood that the vote OF Senator Car
den was similarly made available to swell IL
Affirmative total. Senator Jonas of Louisian
who had generally been assumed to favor Il
confirmation of the Commission, voted again
Il, as did also Senators Cockrell and Vest,
Missouri.
Bad for the Appellant.
George Roam, convicted in the Police Cou