The Evening critic., 1883-06-30
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-CHARIES u. inc electrlc-llBnt |
man, is worth 81, 100000.
CADET WHITAKER has fallen heir to
small fortune and farm.
FRANK TRIGG, of Richmond, Va is /
stopping at the Metropolitan.
Mn. HER" LLOYD leaves tomorrow |
for his homo at willamsport, Pa.
MINNIE PALMER is reported to have |
captured tho Scotch with her-cussedness.
H. GuGGINHEIM, New York, and G. |
II. CONSTABLE, Warsaw, Va, are at the st. |
Marc. |
MISS BABsoN, of Capitol Hill, leaves
Monday morning for Boston, via Fall River |
Line. |
-JonN RUSSELL YOU'VE, our Minister at
Pekip, VIII publish what he knows about
Miss BELLE PELoUZE, of Richmond,
is visiting her brother, FRANK II. PELoUzE, OF
this city.
j. q. MoELvARGE, New York; Z. Nc
LuB, New York, and GEORGE II. KENDALL are
at the Ebbltt
-MRs. NJ. A. GIBBONS left yesterday for
Asbury Park, New Jersey, where she Will spend
the summer months.
MIR. LUTHER NJ. PENFIELD, of the
Surgeon Generals ONCE, cXcurted down the
Potomac last evening.
MIR. GEORGE Il. PHILIPS has been ap-
pointed superintendent of the Inland & Sea-
board Coasting Company.
MIR. HENRY II. SMITH, Journal Clerk
summer at Nahant, Mass.
CAPTAIN HARRY RIDDLEBERcER,
| Senator-elect from Virginia, Is In the city. He
will remain here several days.
Miss SUSIE RUTTER, of Q street north
west, leaves on Monday next to spend the
summer near Winchester, Va.
| WALTER SAVAGE LANDoR thought
green eyes the ''most wonderfully beautiful
| In the world" He had them.
| BONANZA MAcKAY is buying up all
the castles, palaces and residences In Europe,
| according to the English papers.
| REV. DIR. r. II. BALL, of the Fifth
| Auditors Ofilce, and his daughter Mary are
passing q fortnight in Boston and vicinity,
| j. w. BROWN, of this city, was regis
tered at tho Howard House, Baltimore, yester-
day, and q. Il. BYERs was registered at Guys.
| w. NJ. CRAMP, Philadelphia w. T.
WARD, San Francisco; P. II. MCGOWAN, New
York, and IN. scAAFER and wife are at the
Riggs.
Mr.. JonN W. MCCARTNEY, of the
Washington Gasllght Company, Will sail on
Wednesday for Europe on the Cunard steamer
Bothnia.
-HUGH ALLEN GoLDsBoRoUGH, chief
clerk OF the Bureau Of Construction and Re-
| pair, Navy Department, has left for u vacation
AT Warm Springs, Va.
| jessie BUCKNER is going to Europe to
remain there until tho unfortunate THoMP-
soN-DAvIs homicide is forgotten. She Will
probably remain there long time.
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city, delivered an oration on 'some Needed
Legal and judicial Reforms" at the recent
commencement of Dartmouth College.
MIR. J. A. BANCROFT, of the Patent
Office leaves this evening to spend his vaca-
tion at his old home, Mantorville, Minnesota,
whittier Mrs. Bancroft has preceded him.
| GENERAL STEWART, who is in posi-
tion to know, says that the spirits made by
the moonsbiners in the South Is the best In
the world, and brings the highest prices.
Mr.. ED ABNER, the genial proprietor
| OF Abner's Garden, has engaged the famous
Arion Quartet and Miss Bertha Ravene for next
week. The combination is a first-class one.
Mr.. ED. TABER, of.the Potomacs. will
will be In charge OF a barge party from the
Potomac boathouse this evening. 1t is given
to the members OF the Washington Operatic
Association.
THE entire force of carpenters en-
| ployed in the Patent Ofice have been dismiss
I'd, owing TO the failure OF Congress TO make
an appropriation. The work Will hereafter be
| done by contract.
Mr.. S. TAYLOR, of the Washington &
Chesapeake Railroad, and Mr.. s. P. SMooT, of
the southern Maryland Railroad, were among
the prominent persons that went down on the
Corcoran excursion last night.
-EX-CoLLEcToR Tom MURPHY is seen
In New York nowadays, the same rubicund,
jaunty, Iovial fellow he was ten years ago,
when he was ''on top" his mustache Is white,
but he sings song as we'll as OF yore.
Miss NELLIE HUNT, daughter of the
| American Minister 70 Russia, was claimed to
| be the most beautiful OF the coterie of Ameri-
, can ladies' at the coronation. A Paris paper
describes her as 'facinatingly pretty"
Mr.. WILLIAM STEPHENSON and Mr..
AMBROSE STEPHENSON were among the par
ticipants on the Tabernacle excursion last
night A large number Of other well-known
residents of South Washington went down.
REV. VIM. ELLIOTT, the eloquent Eng
lIsh divine, author of several well-known
: books, is at present sojonrning in this city.
He will preach in DR.. Rankin's church TO-
| Lutheran Chnrcl
on Capitol Hi.
CAPTAIN J. w. WHITE, of the Gov.
ernment Bindery, with his family, will spend
Sunday at Fortress Monroe. The Captain Is n
faithful and efficient ofllcer, and We trust this
little recreation Will prove beneficial to him
| self and family.
j. McGRIFFIN, Miss BOYD ELIoT,
| New York; II. NEWELL, II. BIsBUG, Phtladel-
phia b. P. BABCocK, illinois; MIR. v. BANKS,
jackson, Mississippi; JOE q. GRAVES, Wheel
ing, W. Va; j. j. FLYNN, New Orleans; and D.
, @. FREEMAN, of Austin, Texas, are at the St
James.
Mrs FRANCES HoDGsoN BURNETT
must be credited with saying at least one good
thing outside of her books. On being asked
how TO write novel she replied. ''You must
have pen, Ink and paper. Use the first with
brains, the second with imagination and the
, third with generosity"
Miss RAuMABEL, a native of India. is
said to be tho most learned woman In the
, world. She is 30 years old, and can read
write and speak In twelve different LANGUAGES
|
omy, mathematics, history, etc. She is now
, studying 10 become physician.
Miss SALLIE EDWARDS, an accom-
, | plished young lady,well known here In the up
, per circles Of society few years ago, and who
has been spending few weeks IN the Capital
has returned 10 her home In Strasburg, Pa
| Miss Edwards was the campauion OF Madam
, Yoshida, wife of minister Yoshida, OF Japan
. when she resided In this country.
Ar THE commencement aud dstribu
| ton OF premiums Of Notre Dame of Maryland
near Govanstown, yesterday, the gold media
) and the degree major mistress OF English liter
ature were conferred on Miss FRANCIS b. JOIN
STONE, Washington, ID. c., aud MISS EMMA p
! ADAMS, Georgetown, ID. O., who were the grad
yates.
THE July number of The Century Magd
stEe contains an article by Miss MARY STAG,
WITHINGToS, of this city, embodying four lot
Il tiers from EMERSON, by whom they were writ
ten shortly after his graduation 10 his frlend
and former classmate, the Rev. WILLIAA
| WITHlNGroS, then q student at Andoyer Theo
logical Seminary.
SENATOR JUSTIN NJ. MORRILL,, "fathei
@ | Of the tariff" lives at Stratford, one OF tn,
| quietest and sleepiest and most Out-of-the- way
| villages in the Green Mountain State. Wltha
II is place OF great pastoral beauty. Tht
& | distinguished statesman lives In a handsome
5 house, surrounded by lawns and groves o
(. elms and naples.
r MISSES FANNIE AND JENNIE HUNTER
daughters of COLONEL II. 4. HUNTER, OF Eas
Capitol street, viii leave Monday for Ros
| NILS, Amherst County, Va, whore they VII
8 spend the heated term, and II Is hoped returl