The Evening critic., 1882-02-16
GohhIe. GnhhIc. GahhIn.

manager and clerks of the Importers Tea
Company, No. $40 Market Space, as they
"gobbled' v dollar after dollar from the
several hundred buyers who hocked TO their
popular establishment to purchase tea and
coffee at 81 can, six cans for $5, twelve
cans for $40, twenty-five cans for 500,
sixty-five cans for $50 and n pre- sent
in every can ranging in value from ten
cents TO 5000 in money or diamond jewelry
of various kinds, such as ear-drops, rings,
collar buttons, studs, scarf-pins, &c, or gold
or silver watches, or different articles Of
silverware. So far this week 1i3 watches
have been given away, and twenty.nine
sets or pieces of diamond iewelry besides a
great many other valuable articles; and
still the business goes on just rs lively
as ever. The company's supply Of watches
and iewelry seems to be inexhaustible.
Have you, reader, made your purchases
YETI If not, do so by all means you may
get handsome present a great many peo.
pie do get nice presents every day. Why
should You be an exception? Step in, or
write to the company, and see what "luck"
you will have. Quite number of country
merchants and postmasters are making up
clubs. Generally speaking, the getter-up
of q club OF twenty-five cans, costing $40,
or sixty. five cans, costing $50, gets hand
some present. 1t takes but little time to
get up club. Clerks in departments and
otheis can easily Uo IL, anu Ill tney 10 not
succeed in getting very valuable prize, they
at least get we'll paid in the tea or coffee for
their trouble. Always bear in mind this
one fact-viz., both tea and coffee are of the
best quality, and cannot be beat in this
city. This is positively guaranteed, and as
for price it is a good deal lower than can be
bought elsewhere. Below we give list of
people living in the city or in towns or
villages not a great distance away who have
rfraiyed x-alt, al,ln praconfz within l,a al
three days. 1t may prove interesting
reading to the recipients as well as their
friends. Read the list. Perhaps you may
have an acquaintance among the number:
Diamonds Found.
Mrs NJ Collins, 81 street northeast
| collar.buttou, S35, in coffee ii Laird
| Post-oflice Department, residence 603
| Eighth street northwest, collarbutton, S35,
| in coffee; Lieut. Arnold, in charge of Fifth
Precinct police station, collar-button, s35,
| in tea.
Money Found.
J Wallace, Pullman Palace Car Company,
| $50, in tea w Gleason, Baltimore & Po-
tomac Railroad Company, 500, in coffee ;
Mary Cole, S50 in coffee ID Sullivan, 500,
in tea.
Watches Found.
James i Welty, printer, AS Massachu-
| setts avenue northwest, stem -winder and
|
| Ninth street northwest, ladies' solid gold
watch and chain, $50, in coffee; Dr. Frank
| T. Howe, city editor of the National
| Republican, 1925 N street northwest, chate-
laine, $1s. in coffee; Mrs. Cady, fremont
| House, chatelaine, SlS, in tea w Hall,
watchman Treasury Department, 1881 o
street northwest, stem-winder and stem
setter, SIS, in tea; A II johnson, 2513 M
street northwest, watch, $40, in coffee !,
Frank p Gross, 2002 Fourteenth street
northwest, chatelaine, $1S, in coffee Pat
lick Connell, 473 Pennsylvania avenue,
stem -winder and stem-setter $15 in coffee;
A w Cross, COS Four-and-a-half street
southwest, stem-winder and stem-setter,
S15 in tea; G w Duvall, 900 Sixteenth
street northwest, watch, $40, in tea o B
Peerce, 910 Eighth street northwest, watch
SO, in coffee; Mrs Captain Davis, 1921
Eighth street northwest, watch, $40, in
coffee; F Seitz, 500 Massachusetts, avenue,
stem-winder and stem-setter, in tea I;
ex- Gov McCook, of Colorado, stopping at
Willard's Hotel, stem-winding and stem
setting watch SIS, in coffee; Mrs Perner,
stall 205 Washington Market, stem.winder
and stem setter, $15, in coffee J. w. Smith,
313 d street northwest watch, So in coffee !;
John G Ingorsoll, nephew of Col Bob,
solid gold watch, is carat, 500, in coffee !;
Charles Burke, 1890 Boundary street north
| west, employed by Hon Scoville M C
from New York, lady's gold watch, $50, in
tea; Mrs Charles Dearborn, Alexandria,
Va, silver watch, $12, in tea; Mrs C X
Raynor, 5000 NJ street northwest
West Washington), watch, $40 in coffee /;
Rev w S Hawkins, Hayes store,
Gloucester County, Va, stem-winding and
stem-setting watch, $25, in coffee; James
E Bell, superintendent letter carriers City
Post office, residence $50 G street north
west, stem-winding and stem.settiug
watch, $685. in coffee; Miss Lizzie Flerner,
80 Indiana avenue, gold ring, with pearl
setting, S15, in tea; Sisters of Charity,
Tenth and g streets northwest, watch, $40,
in tea; Capt Helm, u S A. Fort Meyer, Va,
chatelaine, $la, in coffee; Mrs Harris, 900
o street northwest, watch, $40, in tea !;
Mrs jackson, West Washington George.
town., watch, SIP, in tea II B
Polliinhorn, the well-known news
dealer, $50 Louisiana avenue near
the Post.ofiice, chatelaine, S1S, in coffee
Edith Cropley Claggett, years old
laine, S1S, in tea; Samuel Stafford, business
manager Sunday Capital, chatelaine, $ls, in
coffee; Fred Smith, Oakland, Md, stem
setter, $15, in coffee; William Jones, Fred
ericksburg, Va, Open-face silver watch, $40
in tea; M A Miller, Frederick, Md, stem
setter and stem-winder, $25, in coffee
Major L A Smith, Annapolis, chatelaine
SIS, in coffee; William o Smart, Leesburg
Va, chatelaine, $ls, in tea; Mrs Robinson
Siaunton, Va, stem setter, solid coin-silver
$50. in tea; Mrs ii E Lee, near Dayton
Va, stem-setter and stem-winder, coin
silver, $25, In coffee; Miss st Clair, 5ls
Twelfth street northwest, solid golt
ring, $40, in tea; Robert Graham, nea
Orange Court house, Va, solid coil
silver watch, $l6, in coffee; Mark Fee, neal
Culpeper Courthouse, Va stem-settel
and stem. .winder, coin silver, $25, in coffee
Henry Martin, Danville, Va, chetalaine
Sls, In tea; Daniel jerks, near Gordons
vile, Va, solid coin-silver stem.setter and
stem-winder, $25 in coffee. In addition t
the names given above quite large mum
Der of watches and various articles O
jewelry and silverware were sent out of tn,
city by mail or express. Send 81, So, $40
$50 or $50 and try your luck. Address I'm
porters Tea Company, $40 Market Space
J Washington, ID. G.
. End of a DesperadO.
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