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The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-11
LANSBURGH & BRO.
4O4 and 400 Seventh St.
SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY.

OHFE DETOoff COMFHHT.
CtECURITY FROM LOSS BY BURGLARY,
- ROBBERY. FIRE OR ACCIDENT
THE NATIONAL SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY,
OF Washington.
In its own Building,
CORNER 18TH STREET AND NEW YORK AVE.
Perpetual Charter Act of Congress January I'D,
1867.
The Company rents Safes, inside its Fire and
Burglar Proof Vaults, nt prices varying from IS
TO 800 per year; according to size and location.
Rooms and Desks adjoining Vaults, provided for
Safe Renters
VAULT-DOORS GUARDED BY THE SAR-
GENT TIME.LOCK.
SECURITIES AND VALUABLES OF every
descTiption. including BONDS and STOCKS
PLATE JEWELRY, DEEDS, ETC., taken for
sAFE-KSEPING, on SPECIAL GUARANTEE,
at the Lowest Rates.
BENJAMIN p. SNYDER, President
CHAS. q, GLOVER, Of Riggs d Co., Vice Pres-
JOHN CASSELS, Treasurer
ALBERT l.. STURTEVANT, Secretary.
q. II. Nyman. Asst. Secy.
DIRECTORS
Benjamin T.. Snyder, Charles q. gloyer,
Albert L. Sturtevant, Thomas Evans,
myl5-2m John o. Parke'
The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1882-07-11
STEAMBOATS,.
Gents Thin Underwear,

Shirts and Drawers, from 25c upi good q pants
Boys Linen Suits, from q up Straw Hats, from
25c. to $3.50; Ladies' and Misses slippers, from
75c. up best 81 School shoe In town. Boys School
suIts,.s3, siand s5 upward best Blue Flannel
Suits $40 and sl2; Boys 81 and s3i best sOi onice
Goats, dOc. and 6Oc,; ALPACA and Mohair, from
tlup.
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into the Western Union treasury. Control
OF the Mutual Union Company is under
stood to carry with it control of the Do
minion Company, of Canada. so that with.
IN snort time the Western Union will
control the business of the United States
and Canada, and, in connection with the
eaole companies, realize large profits on
the foreign and South American business.
Twenty miles Of the Texas q Colorado
road will be turned over to the company
April LIST. The construction company will
receive 100000 in stock and bonds, The
first division Of ten miles is graded.
Banks are buying heavily of govern.
ment as and Ans. The advance is Thought
to indicate higher prices for first-ciass
railroad bonds.
The Directors of the Alton & Terre
Haute Company have postponed the de-
claration of u dividend on their preferred
stsck until next week. The dividend will
be payable in May. -
III 3. M.-The stock market opened
strong at b@lB per cent higher. Ohio
~ Mississippi, Hannibal & st. 10 prefer
red, Houston Il Texas preferred, and In
diana. Bloomington Il Western were
prominent in the advance. Manhattan
Beach opened x per cent higher in the
early dealings. After general advance
Of q to l per cent, the latter in Western
Union, adecline of Il to IL per cent took
place, Louisville q Nashville, Michigan
Central, Western Union and Northwest
ern leading, while Reading advanced IL
per cent.
Wheat is unsettled, opening nc lower,
but was subsequently stronger, and recov-
cred the decline. Light trading is re-
ported.
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III. A. THOMS, Undertaken,
Corner Adams and Second SITS.


The popular North Memphis confec-
TONERS. have removed to No. 1876 Main
street, only three doors north of their
old stand Their new store is larger
than the one they formerly occupied,
and the increased amount of space
will not only enable them to show of
their handsome stock of confectionery
and toys to much better advantage,
but will also give more room to their
candy manufacturing departments.
The immense increase Of their whole
sale trade in candies made additional
space necessity. On Saturday night
Jordan & Co. will open their ice cream
parlor for the season. Their reputa.
ton for making pure ice cream is well
known, and their many customers can
rest assured that only a first class
article will deserved to them as in the
past. Their new ice cream parlor i,
spacious and airy and elegantly fitted
up with new furniture, carpets. etc.
The firm will supply families and par.
ties with ice cream, Wholesale, at very
low rates.
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LEDGER LINES.

Francisco's specialties in fine hats.
Gloves cleaned by Mrs Gray, 404Main.
Uncle Remus' Sayings at Williams.
Venison steaks and roasts at Glenn
ent's.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 2s2
Main street.
Choice fish Of many varieties at
Clements, Sc Beal.
Prairie hay in carload lots received
daily by Ike A. Chase, go Front.
Professor Saxby's class tonight for
ladies and gentlemen. Hop to morrow.
Souvenir programmes of a beautiful
pattern will be presented to the ladies
who attend Manager Gray's benefit to-
night.
New beets, squash, new peas, new
snap beans, cucumbeys, tomatoes re-
ceiyed daily at Matt Monaghan's, pa
Front street,
Pompano, Spanish mackerel, red
snapper, salmon and Mackinaw trout,
to be had at j. A. Signis COS, 27S Sec
ond and go Beal.
II. Fitzgerald & Co. have for sale 20
bags Tennessee peanuts, chickens,
eggs, 30 bales cotton bats, butter, etc.;
% coils cotton rope, 8 bbls white beans.
For Friday, Victor D, Fuchs, 80
and Al Jefferson, has received supply
of choice fresh fish, including POM
pano, Savannah river shad, red snap
pers, Lake Erie salmon, etc., etc.
The Commonwealth Lottery, Of
Louisville, will hold its regular
monthly drawing to. morrow, and buy
ers oftickets should supply themselves
to-day to be represented in the wheel
of fortune.
Crowds of ladies were present to-.
day at the grand opening of spring
goods at Hopkins millinery store.
These new goods are elegantand fash
ionable, and were deservedly admired
by ladies of taste.
Among the prominent people from
distance seen upon the streets yes
tsrday and to-day were Colenel Alex
ander Yerger, refugee from Bolivar
county, Mississippi; ex-senator James
L. Alcorn, of Mississippi; Colonel
Moses White, Of Knoxville; Colonel
E. A. james. of chattanooga; Judge
John T. Fry, Of New York; Lieuts.
@. B. Satterlee and John L. Lowd, Of
the United States army, and others.
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ARTRUR's REOEPrEON.
The Multitude, RIch and Poor,
Big and Little, ut the
White House.
Special to the Courier Journal

Special to the Courief-Journal.l
WASHINGTON, March 28.-The days
of official mourning being over at the
White House, the President this
evening held his first public reception.
The reception was announced to be
from s to 10 pm; it was, however, long
after 10 o'clock before it was over.
There was a constant stream Of people
to the house. 1t was the largest re-
ception that has been held at the White
House for fifteen years. So great was
the crush that the members of the
Diplomatic Corps, the Cabinet and
the Justices of the Supreme Court
had to enter the house by the back
doors. The inside was decorated with
plants in pots and many cut flowers;
the chandeliers were draped in smilax,
and the scene would have been very
pretty had it not been a crush. People
came on foot and in carriages So
great was the number of carriages
that they could not be packed in the
grounds in front Of the house. Many
OF them had to go out upon Pennsyl-
vania avenue. So great was the num-
Der of people who came afoot that at
| 10 o'clock the line extended way
outside the grounds. The President
received in the Blue Room. He was
assisted by Gen. and Mrs. Grant. Miss
Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Brewster, Mrs.
Hunt, Miss Folger, Mrs. Lincoln,
Mrs. Pendleton, Mrs. Mcpherson.
The two latter are wives of Senators.
The toilets of these ladies we're elabo-
rate and rich. The President wore a
Prince Albert coat, and suit to
match in black. 1t is estimated that
at least $1,000 people attended the re !.
ception; many of them were of high
and many of them of low degree. The
guests went in through the main en-
trance, then to the Blue and East
rooms, and came out at window to
the east of the entrance, which had
been fitted up as a door. There was
a good deal Of crushing for place and
a good deal of bad temper displayed.
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Major william Tappan ThOmp-
son.

son.
Charleston News and Courier.l
The death of Major Thompson, the
editor of the Savannah News, causes
sincere regret wherever he was known.
Certainly he was one of the most infu-
entail journalists in the South, and he
was the oldest member of the pro-
fession in Georgia.
He was born in Ravenna, Ohio,
August 81, 1872, his parents being
among the pioneer settlers OF the
Western Reserve. He was the first
white child born in that section. His
mother was an Irish lady whose father
had taken part in the revolution of
l778, and emigrated to America. His
father was a Virginian, and from the
union of these two races the son
drew that combined humor and sound
sense which marked his labor as a
literary man. He left the West on
the death of his parents, in his
18th year, and obtained employment
in the Office of Philadelphia news
paper, where he gained his first idea of
newspaper life. He afterward studied
for the bar, thinking to make the law
his calling, and became Secretary of
the late Governor Wescott, of Florida,
and continued his legal studies in the
latter's Office. In 1885, however, he
removed to Georgia and became con-
nected with Judge Longstreet, then a
newspaper editor. Their business re-
lations were for awhile broken up by
young Thompson joining as a govern
meut volunteer in the Seminole war.
He left the service after years cam
paign and returned to newspaper
writing. In 1863 he established the
first literary weekly newspaper-the
Mirror-ever published in Georgia.
Soon afterward he married the daugh-
ter Of prominent Augusta merchant,
to whose genial sympathy and interest
was due much of the work that made
the success of his humorous book,
Major Jones Oourtship." The Mir
ror was subsequently merged into the
Family Companion, a monthly, OF
which Colonel Thompson was editor
for short time only. Afterward he
was editor Of the Miscellany. of Madi-
son, Georgia, and later still of the
Western Continent, of Baltimore,
which he left, after a profitable con-
nection, and founded the News, in
Savannah. During the war he was
aide to Governor Brown, and later on
was active in Democratic politics.
Among his other books, written at
intervals between his active newspaper
work, were "Che Chronicles of Pine
willie" and Major Jones Travels, F"
and he also wrote a farce, which John
X. Owens produced with success, en-
titled THE Vicar of Wakefield"
His legal studies bore fruit in 1915, in
the preparation Of codifcation Of the
laws of Georgia.
Major Thompson was warm-hearted
and sincere as well as accomplished,
and was as true as steel in his ale
glance to the South and to the Demo.
cratic party. There was old-fashioned
faithfulness in his professional life and
in all his dealings.
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THE BRIDAL PACKAGE"
The S@O,OOO,OOO which Is Kan.
died by Young Inspectors Of
The Treasury Vaults.

Courier Journal Special
WASHINGTON, March 29.-Nearly
every bridal couple that comes to
Northumberland Washington is the
national bridal Mecca-visits the
Treasury vaults. The young and in
variably interesting couple want to
closely inspect Uncle Sans plentiful
shekels. When they enter the vault
the man in charge Of it, after few
preliminary words of explanation,
hands down a package of notes from a
shelf, and tells the bride to take it in
her hands. He then explains that this
package contains $40, 000,0 600 in United
States Treasury notes. The young
lady is delighted to be able to 20
away aud say that she has held so
much money in her own hands. She
is Just too utterly pleased. The groom
also wants to handle the package.
They are further told that the notes
are all of the denomination of $40, 900.
They constitute what is known as the
Bridal Packages" Young married
tourists having heard of this package,
often ask to handle it Just as soon as
they enter the vaults. This is all very
pretty. But it is a fraud on young
people. The treasury here does not
hold that amount of money. The
bulk of the money is in the sub
treasury at New York. That Bridal
Package" is a gay deceiver. 1t does
contain, however, notes of the denomi-
nation Of 10000, which would, in the
aggregate, represent $2O,000,OOO if
they were only signed. But they are
worth no more in reality than the
paper on which they are printed, be-
ing minus the necessary signatures
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WnIIstreet.

NEW York, March 90.-Stocks are
strong and higher. There is heavy for
eign demand for bonds, and better bor-
rowing demand for stocks.
The new Board Of Directors Of the Mu-
tual Union Telegraph Company will be
elected to-day. Tho majority of them are
friends Of Gould and the Western Union,
thus giving the latter company control of
It's late rival. II is probable that arrange
msnts will be made which win give the
Mutual Union Company funds sufficient
to pay the interest on its bonds, and the
remainder Of It's earnings bid fair TO go
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CharIeston RaiIway Meetiur.

A meeting Of the Directors Of the
Charleston Railway, called for to-day, has
been postponed until Saturday, owing to
the inability of number 70 reach here in
time to participate. 1t is believed that
the leading feature before the proposed
meeting will he the question of calling a
general convention of the stockholders, to
consider the propiiety of merging the in
terests of the road with that OF its connec-
ton further east, and making the whole a
trunk line under single management
and ownership.
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A boy in Troy hid behind lumber
pile to steal board. A beam fell
and hurt him, and the owner Of the
lumber is being sued for $40, 900 dam
ages. The day seems hot far off when
a burglar who drops from window and
breaks his neck will sue the man he
was robbing.
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Accidents viii Happen.

1t is nice provision in case you arc
disabled by accident to have policy
in the Travellers of Hartford. Many
of our citizens who had the misfortune
to get disabled, have received their
weekly indemnity. In case of fatal
accident the whole sum insured is
payable. The Travellers is the Oldest
accident Insurance Company in this
country, and the largest in the world
1t has over $6,000,000 cash assets
issued 1880 policies paid 1885,
different claims in 1881; total claims
paid to January l, 1882, 81 ,695, 809.97
Its record for honest aud fair dealing
is known all over this country and
the main cause of its success. Call OF
Marx a. Bensdorf. the agents Of thu
company. No. l6 Madison street, fol
further particulars.
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The Cotton Exchange.

A meeting of the Cotton Exchange oc-
ours this afternoon, the subject for consid-
Grafton being a revision of the Constitu-
ton, so as to make it stock company for
the purpose of rendering futures a legiti-
mate object of traffic.
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Foundry Fire.

About four o'clock this morning fire
broke out in a rear building Of Randle's
Chickasaw foundry on Second street
near Market Square, and two rooms,
used as stable and for a storage and
pattern room. were burned out, the loss
amounting to about 5000 in value. In
sured in Welford's agencies for the full
amount. A mule was also burned to
death, and there was no Insurance upon
it. The origin of the fire is unknown,
but it is believed to have been kindled by
an incendiary. The quick arrival of the
FIRE engines saved the adjoining foundry
works from total destruction.
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OF Mr.. Longfellow's method when
Professor of Modern Literature at
Harvard, DIR. Edward +. Hale, one of
his pupils, has given this account:
AS it happened, the regular recita-
ton rooms of the college were all in
use, and We met him in SORT Of par
lor, carpeted, hung with pictures, and
otherwise handsomely furnished,
which was, | believe, called the Cor
poration Room. We sat round ma
hogany table, which was reported to
be meant for the dinners of the trus-
tees, and the whole affair had the as
pect Of a friendly gathering in a private
house, in which the study of German
was the amusement of the occasion.
He began with familiar ballads, read
them to US, and made us read them to
him. OF course We soon committed
them to memory without meaning to,
and | think this was probably part Of
his theory. At the same time We
we're learning the paradigms by rote
His regular duty was the oversight Of
five or more instructors who were
teaching French, German, Italian,
Spanish and Portuguese to two OF
three under graduates. We never
knew when he might look in on a reci'
tation and virtually conduct il. We
we're delighted to have him come. We
all knew he was a poet, and were
proud to have him in the college, but
at the same time we respected him as
man Of affairs"
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Don't go chopping away at the
branches, said an old woodman to
his son. Lay your ak at the root Of
the tree. )" And like a dutiful boy
he did as he was told. He laid the
ak at the root Of thu tree, and then
went off for days fishing.
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The Difference Between Meum
and Teum,

The Difference Between Meum
and Teum,
Little Rock Democrat.
The Philadelphia Press says that it
is the duty Of the four States, Arkan-
saw, Tennessee, Mississippi aud Louis
lana, to protect the great valleys from
inunGation. Then it goes on to say
that those States have cheated their
creditors and fooled with their credit
until they cannot raise dollar Of the
worlds capitol" Such slang is about
what we might expect from a pro-
scriptive radical organ like the Press.
But it is not the argument adopted
when Northern harbor or river needs
an appropriation. In such cases il is
never said that New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts and Connecticut
ought to unite and make the necessary
appropriation for the work" But when
He'll Gate needs blowing out or a
harbor needs deepening II is said
This ia a great national work and
should be sustained by the nations
treasury" Now if there is single
object OF national importance in this
country it is the Mississippi river, and
the suggestion that ArkanHaw, Ten.
nessee, Mississippi and Louisiana
should build the leyees which are tc
protect the people along its banks is
preposterous 10 the extreme.
| ------a----------
BOHEMIAN BEER
is now on drnughf 81 Henry
! ra---.s.. 80
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The Worsham House offers table
board at $50 per month, and board and
room from $25 to $50 from April LIST.
% DAVID HASTINGS, Prop'r.
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dad, were you ever fish," The
individual thus addressed lowered his
chin and gazed over his spectacles at
the boy in speechless astonishment.
oh, don't get mad at me, dad, for
asking you" continued his inquisitive
offspring. Mrs. Cody came in after
you had gone yesterday, and asked ma
what she would do if you we're dead,
and ma laughed and said that she
guessed there was just as good salmon
in the sea as you are.
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Americnn Newspapers in Isse.

American Newspapers in 1852.
The American Newspaper Direc.
tory. which will be issued next month
by George p. Rowell & Co., of New
York, will contain the names of
1851 periodicals in the United
States and Territories, which is gain
Of 334 in the year just passed. The
number of daily papers has increased
in somewhat larger proportion, and
is now represented by total of 996
against 92l in 1881. The largest in
crease has been in New York-l0
dsilies, 20 Of all sorts. Illinois and
Missouri show percentage of gain
which is even greater, while Colorado
leads all others in the percentage Of
increase, both Of daily and weekly
issues, California, Nebraska, Nevada,
Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Vermont and West Virginia have
fallen behind 1881 in the total num-
Der Of periodicals issued. In Georgia,
Maine and Massachusetts, the suspen-
slons have exactly counterbalanced
the new ventures. In every State not
mentioned above, and in the Terri.
tories, there has been an increase.
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Fish fOrLent!

400 kits extra fine Mess Mackerel
500 kits Nos. i, 2 and 3 BIaekereI
100 hlf brls HIackerel
25 eases Mackerel I'm MusiaTd
20 6 Brook Trout
20 SOuSed Mackerel
200 cases / ID HOLSTERS
200 Id MacIereI
200 ID salmon
Clam ChOwder, Irish ChOwder
DeViAed Crabs, Goldfish Balls
CLAIMS, Shrimps, etc.
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GOODYEAR'S
Hydrant Hose for
street Sprinkling,
best qualities.
% II with nozzle complete, "a so
90 " % - - s 90
TOWNER d DIXON, Agents.
GOOdyear's Rubber House,
Is Jefferson street. "a
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Buy Pitcher Pumps OF Browne.
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The finest and highest priced
Beer ever brought to Mem
Phis is the
BOHEMIAN. l0t
They Have Arrived.
Our Silk, Alpaca, Scotch Ginghams
and other Umbrellas have arrived and
will be sold at bottom rock prices.
MARTIN COHEN, The Halter,
q Under the Worsham House.
GOODYEAR'S
Spiral Garden Hose,
wrapped with canvas,
new thing.
durable and light
TOWNER a. DIX IN, agents.
GOOdyear's Rub Ter House,
Ii Jefferson street. 24t
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Menken brothers

will please be patient, and in short time
the brightest novelties in the Eastern cit.
les will be displayed at the old stand, and
all at popular prices.
% ST. ANDREWS, Agent.