The Evening critic., 1883-02-20
A Gross Slnn,Ier.
From Saturdays Pttsburg Leader,
AN INJURED HUSBAND THREATENS TO LICK THE
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From Saturdays Plttsburg Leader,
AN INJURED HUSBAND THREATENS TO LICK THE
PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-There has been for
some time n good deal OF disagreeaOle gossip
of scandalous nature, in which tho name OF
the President of the United States has been
coupled with that Of n distinguished lady.
There is no other apparent ground for these
stories than can be found I'm the indiscreet
conduct of the lady herself, who Is as beautiful
as distinguished and who has haOltually
thrown herself In Mr.. Arthur's way to tue
scandal OF her husband and the solllng OF her
own honor Yet these stories have
thicRened and grown since last sum'
mer until they are In the mouths
OF every male sosvp monser aud on
the tongue II every society woman 10 the
CapltaI. 1: IS whispered abou. to-day thlt
tho husband o.. the ady, who has protested 10
valn against his w,fe's reckless exposure o.
her ch 81 acter TO these sc3nlslous insinua-
tlons and q tAcSs, has gone higher with his
complaint, AMI has personally Threatened to
hold Mr.. AIT Ur accountable. IL Out small
part q this openly talked about IS true, there
Is \ tempest brewing IN the neishborhooi Of
the white House, which viii raise the hair Of
the whole country.
THE foregoing special originally ap-
peared in Saturday mornings Pittsburg
nSls-Heisted over the Presidential Mansion
by an Irate Husband" The dispatch be-
low appeared, so far as we now know, only
in the Ledder.--Ep. CRITIc.l
From Sundays Plttsbnrg Leader.
THEIR LAST RESORT.
sTAR-EouTERs CIRCULATE AN IMPROBABLE
STORY ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-The following story
about President Arthur is pretty freely circu-
lated around town today: The Star-Route
folks, Brady, Dorsey ct al, knowing the des-
perate straits they are In, put a private de-
tective on the track OF the President. They dis.
covered lor claim to) that on three separate oc-
casions he left the Whit House alone and met
OF. the corner Of seventeenth street ami Penn.
avenue, Just above, a lady Of high social
standing lno one seems 20 know her nsue, Or
II they do, 1: has been suppressed. After
meeting, they proceeded on FOOT, AMI shAi-
o=ed oy the detectives, 70 / weIlku1wu,
though privase house OF asstgEBEf01, Il the
West End. Now, the stlr-EOuse people say
that unless President Arthur uiicis1tes &c en-
iirsly suspsr5s the prosecution against them,
they viii dtsclcse the vhjls matter. General
Arthur Is man like other men, and doubtless
enjoys life, but thai he proceeded to puolt:
asstgnation house on foot IS ridiculous. ".
We republish the above just as they ap-
peared in the Pittsburgh Leader of last
Saturday and Sunday, head lines and all.
We do this for the purpose of calling atten-
tion to the infamous character of the dis
patches that daily emanate from Newspaper
Row concerning the defendants in the Star
Route case. The ones above originated with
correspondent notoriously hostile to Brady
and Dorsey, and are published in paper
that revels in abuse of the Star Reuters and
their attorneys. Hence the infamy of the
statement that Brady and Dorsey did
so and so. 1t is on par with
tine lie that these same infamous rep.
resentatives of Newspaper Row flooded the
country with Immediately after the assassi-
nation of Garfield that it was done By the
Star Reuters. But after all it is no worse
than the thousand and one lies that have
been sent over the wires concerning them,
and which are regularly reproduced in the
columns of the EUeniag Dullness, Il sample of
which from the mendacious Philadelphia
Times, could be seen in last evenings issue.
Recently these ghouls of the press
have even invaded the death chamber of
the wife Of one of the defendants, SANDER
ing the dead and libelling the living, that
they might earn their penny line.
Let them lie and libel. The time is
coming when the country will awake to
the fact that the most infamous chapter in
all its history is the one that records the
prosecutions of the socalled Star Reuters
by two administration.
The following additional dispatch was
sent out last night by the correspondent of
the Baltimore american, and was published
in that paper this morning. This rounds
up the size and character of the scandal
sought by irresponsible and malicious bo-
hemians, to be fastened ON the so-called
Star-Routers. Whether these publications
be true or false, and we have no means Of
knowing, the statement that they orig
mated with the defendants in the Star
Route cases, or any of them, or that they
did anything directly or indirectly to
bring them about is malignant lie out of
whole cloth;
A Startling RumOr in Washington.
Especial to The Americana
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.-A Pittsburg paper
contains a highly -colored account OF an al.
legged disgraceful scandal in which President
Arthur and First Assistant Sec'y. of State John
Davis are mentioned as the principal actors
1t was rumored in this city to-day that this
trouble eliminated this afternoon in an as
sault upon the President by Mr.. Davis. Your
correspondent has, however, been unable to
trace. this rumor to any authentic source
Nevertheless 1t has created much comment
and is the topic of conversation In all circles
[The first of the above dispatches is the
one referred to here. The correspondent ol
the Pittsburgh Dispatch sent no other
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