Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1883-11-08
THE NORTHWEST.
FROM WASHINGTON.
From our regaiar COrrespoHdeht.l
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 81, 1SS;

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Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
Declaration of Independence, and John
Adams who subscribed and defended
it for all that it was worth. both died
on the same day and nearly at the
same hour, and that day the anniver,
sary of the independence they had
been mainly instrumental in achieving.
Adams was buried at Quincy, Mass,
where costly, substantial granite
monument has marked his resting
place for more than a half century.
jefferson was buried at Monticello.
Va, within a stones throw of the
spacious residence, which was indeed a
home ior all who visited its honored
proprietor. For these fifty-seven years
the grave of Jefferson has been prac-
tically unmarked by and memorial
stone or tablet, monument or cenotaph,
despite the periodical attempts that
have been made to rid the American
people of the humiliation oe such neg
lect. Congress at last ordered the
erection of a suitable monument over
the grave, and this has just been com
pleted at cost of little more than
$4,000. 1t is obelisk- shaped, eighteen
feet in height above the pedestal, and
bears the following inscription: Here
was buried Thomas jefferson, author of
the Declaration OF Independence, of
the statute of Virginia for religious
freedom, and father of the University
of Virginia." upon another side are
inscribed the words: Born April 2,
l743. Died July 4, 1926" Procras-
tination was the one adherence of Mr..
Jefferson, and it is therefore doubtful
whether the great sage and statesman
has any thanks to return for this ex-
cedlngly tardy justice to this memory.
There is feast of horrors at the
Army Medical Museum here in the
shape of skeletons and disjointed frag
ments of the human body, among
which there is one ghastly specimen
which is now attracting much atten-
tion. 1t is the head of Guiteau, minus
the skull, just as it was taken from the
cadaver after the autopsy. 1t is in a
remarkable state of preservation,
the scalp having been duly stuffed,
sewed up and placed in alcohol. The
countenance maintains the perfect
hang-dog look that the assassin bore
while in the flesh, and its appearance
is eminently suggestive of the period
when gibbeted criminals were left
hanging in chains at the crossroads,
as an admonition to the wayward.
The skull of Guiteau which was
spirited away year ago by a negro
attache of the Museum, has never been
recovered, but the skeleton of the re-
remaining portion of the body, splend.
idly articulated, has its place in one
of the large cases, its identity being
readily recognized by those who had
ever seen him in life.
Washington is putting on its best
BIB and tucker for the approaching
long session Of Congress. The hotels
have already undergone the usual re.
habilitatlon of paint and whitewash
and clean plllow-shams, while the
equivocal Board and Furnished
Room" are labeled upon every other
house on our broad thoroughfares.
10 secure a Congressman as a steady
boarder, is the never -ceasing delight
of the heart of the Washington board,
ing.mistress, who never tires of pam.
pering him with the best that the
market and a short purse affords
The boardlng-mistresses at the capita|
as rule are clannish set, who agree
among themselves never to put celery
upon The table more than twice
a week, including Sundays. They
knew each other and, and the affair:
Of each other Just as Intimately as tht
members of a board of trade no, and
they watch each other much more
closely. Marriageable daughters too
whose name is legion, figure largely
in the adjustment of the rates O.
board, and the domestic condition O.
every Congressional applicant fo'
board and furnished rooms, is careful
ly inquired into and ascertained before
bargain is closed. A rough estimate
places about .tenths of the mem
bers of the lower House in the board
ing houses, where they can enjoy al
the comforts Of home life, and at th'
same time escape the horrors of th'
dyspectic hotel dinners which are char
acteristic Of all large carivanseries.
AS each recurring winter is to b.
gayer than any preceding one, SO does
this winter promise to surpass any
thing and everything in the line OF en-
tertainment and party-giving thai
Washington has yet seen AS confrma
tion of this prediction it is only nee
essary TO remark that We are to have
more people here this winter who can
afford to spread out, than we have eve