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THE WIDOW SWANN,S DOVER.
How the Late Governors Property was
Tied UP Before His Marriage.
Correspondence New York World,

Correspondence New York World.
NEWPORT. July 25.-The news of the death of
ex-Gov. Swami, Of Nd. recallshis marriage to the
widow Thompson of Princeton, N. j., and the
gossips are discussing the matter of her DOVER
The marriage was strongly opposed by the gov
ernor's family, and it was not celebrated until
after he had executed deed dividing his prOp-
erty among his heirs. as follows:
One-fifth to his daughter Elizabeth Gilmore
Whipple, wife Of Mr.. John Whpple of this
city.
One-ffth to his daughter Jane Byrd fergu-
son, wife of Major Ferguson, Of the fish coll-
mission.
One-fifth to his daughter Mary Mercer Carter,
In whose share was to be included his farm in
LOudOun county, Va.
One-fifth to his grandson Thos Swami La
trobe. only child of his daughter Louisa Sher-
lock Latrobe. deceased
One-iith to his grandsons Thomas Swami
anu sherlock Swami, sons of his son Thomas
when this deed had been recorded in the
states where the property was situated the mar
rage took place, but Notwithstanding this dis
position OF the property the family did not look
approyingly on the union.
When Governor and Mrs. Swami came here
they gave several brilliant entertainments
which were attended by the best peOple in soci.
ETY., Mrs: Swami being exceedingly popular.
Soon, however, there came rumOrs OF a dis
agreement between the governor and his wife
They were denied apd then repeated and were
finally confirmed by separation. 1t was then
reported that steps were being taken to SO tie
up the property that Mrs. Swami would not be
able to get any dover in the property in case of
the governors death. With that object small
mortgage was put on the property and given to
well-knOwn real estate agent. who not long
afterwards transferred it to Mr.. Whipple, Gov
ernor Swann's sOn-in-law. The interest was not
paid when 1t became due, the mortgage was
foreclosed, and the property was purchased by
gentleman tor the use Of Mr.. Whipple for the
gage. -
This proceeding caused good deal Of talk at
sne time, and Mrs Swan placed her case in the
hands Of q well-known LAWYER. but II never GOT
into court. ~
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The Gains Of Are

The seas are quiet when the winds are DER
So cain are we when passions are no mo-ei
For then We know how vain II was to boast
o; neeting things, so certain TO be lost
clouds OF affection from our younger eyes
conceal that emptiness which age decries;
me souP5 dark cottage, battered and decayed,
-ets Ia new Light through chinks that Time hat
made.
ssronger by weakness wiser men become,
As tney draw near 70 their eternal home,
leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
2Iat stand upon the threshold Of the new.
-WdueT.
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BY FRANK II. STAUFFER,

BY FRANK Ii. STACFFER,
"Good-night, papai"
Her hand Ia mine Is softly laid
Her evening prayer is sweetly said
j bend and kiss the little maid
Goodnight, papa,"
She stands and holds the door a1ar:
MY thoughts so wandering atar-
know like her the angels are!
"Gooi-nIght, papa!n
Like cry OF sentry ON his beat,
IL reaches NE, low, soft and sweet,
From out her piIlowy retreat
Goodnight, papa,"
Her voice sounds family through the halls.
Thus 10 me each night she calls,
Until sweet slunber DER her falls
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The Result Of tsPersOnal."
From the Boston Budget.

funny story is told of a lady who was foolish
enough to answer "personal' in daily paper.
which stated that young man was DESTROYS OF
making the acquaintance of young woman,
long correspondence with the advertiser, taking,
however, the precaution to have her letters
copied by confidential friend. She always sent
the copies and retained the originals. Her an
swers came regularly. but her correspondent
was quite as cautious as she was herself. for he
always employed type writer and she had no
means OF becoming familiar with his handwrit-
ing. Finally after good deal of gush a meet
Ing was agreed upon between the pair, and the
lady was somewhat surprised when she arrived
at the place appointed. to see her brother, wear
ing in his buttonhole the flower which was de-
cided upon as the means of identification. They
both acknowledged their dolly by indulging in q
hearty laugh and went home together, fully re-
traps to catch the unwary, which are called
personals"
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MOTHER LOT BOYS SAILOR SUITS just AR.
IA ~. RIVED.
Price n.so sl.7s and Sa.9A They are cheaper thxn
to Close out
Our goods 1t no mishts. Straw Hss ct Easushterine
Prices.
Ladies' and Mems Low Cut Shoes 1t Great Reduction
to Close out
J. W. sELBY
js23 1elA and 1915 RenuU1yanis aysnuo.
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HumOrs Of the Strike.
From the Boston Journal

He was seedy and not over-clean individual,
and his breath was redolent of rum as he
stopped and thus accosted gentleman on the
street Yesterday: ''Shay, mister, want to Dor
row dollar. Pay you tomorrow, sure pop,
soon's get letter from New York Ought to
have my clothes full of money, for sent on to
my partner In business-prominent broker on
Wall street to send me on telegraphic order
for hundred and half, but blamed telegraph
ers gone and struck and can't get nothin'
through: Hard case, amt it? and peculiar. but
no fault OF mine, you see I'm square, but
dash bloated monopoly! What they want to
parIyze business interests Of country for?
Well, bout that dollar. Where in thunder is
that Teller l was talkin' to2 Gone! Well that's
Q nice way to treat gen'lm'n"-and he went off
to work his newly-insplred scheme elsewhere
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BRIGHT FANCIEs OF THE POETS.
Moonrise i'm the Pines.

ritten for THE EVENING STAR
The sultry day Is ending,
The clouds are fading away,
Orange with purple is blending
And purple is turning 70 gray;
The gray grows darker and denser
Till 1t and the earth are one;
A star sw ngs out like a censor,
And the brief warm night is begun.
The brown moth floats and poises
Like leaf In the MINDLESS air;
Awoke BY insect noises
The gray toad leaves his lair;
Sounding the dusk depth quickly
the bull-batS fall and rise,
And out of the grasses thickly
Swarm clustering firc-fl.es-
Now darkness heavy, oppressive
And silent completes the gloom.
The GREATNESS night Is excessive
With fragrance OF perfume,
For the land Is enmeShed and ablaZe
With vines that blossom and trail,
Embanking the Travelled ways
And festooEing the fences OF rail-
Affair I'm the southern sky
Hedt-lightning flares and glowS,
Wildly tinting the clouds that lie
At rest with simmer OF rose
Tremulous, Hitting, uncertain,
As mystical light might shine
From under an eboL curtain
Before terrible Shrine.
And the slumbrous night grows late.
The midnight hush Is deep.
Under the pines wait
For the moon; and the pine trees weep
Great drops o, dew. that fall
Like footsteps here and there,
And they sadly whisper and call
To each other high In the air.
They rustic and whisper like ghosts,
They sigh like souls In pain,
Like the movement OF stealthy hosts
They surge, and are silent again.
The midnight hush is deep,
But the pineS-the spirits distrest-
They move In commandment sleep
They whisper and are not at rest
20! light In the east opalescent
Softly suffuSes the sky
Where flOcculent clouds are Quiescent,
Where like froth OF the ocean they lie
Like foam on the beach they crimple
Where the wave has spent its swirl
Like the curve OF a shell they dlmple
Into irldescent pearl
And the light grown brighter and higher
Till far through the trees see
The rim of globe of fire
That rolls through the darkness TO me,
And the aisle5 OF the forest CLEAN
With splendOr unearthly, that shines
Like the light OF lurid dream
Through the colonnaded pines.
JOHN HENRY BONER.
Washington, July, 1853.
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and Lithographic Presses. Coffee Mills Roasters, Pa
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speed possesses the least number Of working par and
great simplicity Of mechanism.
For particulars to prices. &C.. apply at Oce Of
Warrington Gas Light Co. 1yl3
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A Dakota editor speaks Of John Bright a.
Of the kidneyA" >'-S''o
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IST OF LETTERS REMAINING IN THE
~ WASHINGTON CITY POST OFFICE
SATURDAY, JULY 2S. 1SSS

To obtain any Of these Letters the applicant musx
this list.
to the Dead Letter Ofice -
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The CHIEF DANDY at Cape May changes his
suits FIVE or six times day. Early in the morn
tnghe puts on a corduroy coat and knee breeches,
or kniekerbockers, such as bicycle riders wear,
and in which he takes walk. On his return
he dresses for breakfast, in suit notable for
wide checks and loud yellow. At bathing time
ne saunters down to the beach in pajama; that
is to say, loose sack and wide trousers made
of light-colored stuff girlishly trimmed, and nor
mally worn In ones bedroom His advent on
the sands In such rig astounds those who have
not become accustomed to him. and alarms
them little, too, because they get the idea at
first that he is lunatic. It might be expected
that he would be still more remarkable when at
tired tor the water, but here occurs disappoint-
ment. He appears in q plain and conventional
bathing suit OF loose flannel because he knows
that his attenuated form could not stand a COM
parisOn with those robust fellows who Dathe in
scant tights In the afternoon he exhibits HIM
sell, for l0unging or driving, in q costume Of
white; and in the evening he squeezes himself
into seemingly impossible black flock coat and
dark trousers "The former is conceivable. -
says the writer 'f he wears corsets, as they say
he does; but how he gets his pantaloons on is
q problem. His legs are small enough for the
purpose. But do his feet screw of and on. or
has he discovered q way of DOMINIC them shirt
fashion over his dear little head3"
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Henry L. Dawes IT., Of Massachusetts,, son
OF Senator Dawes. has joined the geological
survey in Montana.
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NEW Books
Memoirs Of John A. Dix by Morgan A. Dix,
Dynamic Sscroloey. 2y.. by Wand.
Land and Labors, by Moody.
Under Ground Russia by Stepniak
Dr.. Claudius. bv Crawford.
Data Of Ethics. by spencer.
TIGER Lily, ty Julia Schkyer.
Man, 10y Lucy c. Lille.
Midred's Bargain, do.
Phyllis Brown, Flora shaw
Z or the Major, q. r. Woodson.
House that Jill Built c. T.. GARNER
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Rebecca Jane Bennett, Abram Schenck. and q
Justice who was performing the marriage cere-
mony for them, stood very close to one another
IN Missouri. and when Schenck. who is blind,
heard the final words, he kissed the justice In
stead Of Rebecca Jane.
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5 y He IMAGINATION. BY George Macdonald
OLD pIusTAMENr REVISION. BY Alexander
LIFE AND LABoRs OF ROBERT MoFFAT
HIS SECOND CAMPAIGN" Round Robin ss-
PRINCESS AMEIIE. 'No Name serics~
WM. BALLANTYNE & SON.
1y23 42S SEVENTH STREET NoRrBwFsr
National Republican., 1883-02-17
A First-Isnte President.
New York Grdphic.


All that is positively known about the
President Is that he is a slow-thinking slow going
man, who doesn't propose to make any mistake.
He is in no haste TO make up the civil service COM
mission; and as to the New York Offices ho is so
obdurntely slow that the stalwart element has
ceased TO have patience with him and threatens
to throw him overheard altogether. 1t is difficult
TO tell what would become of him in that event;
but apparently he Is not ut all frightened and cer
tainly he follows the even tenor Of his way get
ting all the fun that is to be had from his position
retiring at an early hour in the morning and
taking his breakfast at about II o'clock, like the
sensible man ho is.
Now this IL pretty good kind ofprcsidont. The
president is not the master of tho people, but the
servant; and, while he undoubtedly has views
and has good deal of respect for them, he is the
official, not to make the laws, but merely to exc
cute them. The president should have n policy
but what better policy can there be than lies in Il
determination TO be the executive and nothing
more? Our presidents Of an opposite nature sue
ceeded in nothing so much MS keeping the people
agitated and making trouble. Jackson was u bad
president for that reason, and so was Johnson
Lincoln had to exercise more force than the
others, but he did 1t judiciously, and 1t was his
policy not to go ahead of the people, but to keep
abreast OF them. A president who thinks he IS
right and everybody else wrong, and who is angry
because congress VIII not ADOPT MS NloWs rhtner
than its own, is I'm intOlerable nuisance and is
pretty certain to retire to private life without the
slightest prospect of emerging from it again.
Here is q first rate president, Ho understands
his position and doesn't propose to abuse 1t, lie
is not partisan president, and much less is he q
factional president. lie thinks slowly, and goes
about his daily work as camly as II he were back
in his law office in New York, No threats can
frightcn him, and no argument can turn him from
his sensible estimation of his limited authority,
or from the excellent proprlety, as to removals and
appointments, which he has set down rs his rule
Of action. He is having all the presidency he
wants He is not ambitious to be elected presi-
dent, and accordingly he is not continually try
ing, by getting the country into scr pc, to make
himself conspicuous. lie is Il safe, q conscientious,
real good president for he attends strictly to his
own business, and is quite satisfied to have con.
gress, the people, and the politicians attend to
theirs
National Republican., 1883-02-17
The German NIlnistcr Presented.

On the fourteenth instant at 1o o'clock m.
Herr Karl Won Eisendecher was formally in
troduCcd to the President as envoy cxtraor-
dinary and minister plenipotentiary Of the
German government. Herr Franz G. W..
I,angc, engineer attacho of the German Legal
ton at Washington was also presented ut the
same time. Tho introductions were made by
the secretary of state. Mutual expressions of
friendship between tho governments of the
United States and Germany were made
Count Won Beust, for several years secretary
Of the German legation Mt Washington and
acting minister, has been assigned to duty
Mt the court Of Belgium, and will leave for
his new post as soon rs his health permits.
Capt Adolf Mcnsing, naval attache of the
German legation at Washington, is located
in New York. The ambassador and the two
attaches above named constitute ths legation.
National Republican., 1883-02-17
BRANCH OFFICES.

The following is list Of the branch Offices In
Washington. Others will be added hcrenftor
w. s. RoosE's News stands ut the ARLINGTON
HorEL, WDLAGDs HOTEL, and METROPOLITAN
DoTEL.
RoosE & QUEENS News stand, NATIONAL HOTEL
j. +. QUEEN, ST. JAMES HOTEL.
RIGGS House News Stand.
EBBlTT HOUSE News Stand.
AMERICAN HOUSE News Stand.
W. S. THOMPsoSs Drug Store.
G. II. FICRLtNGs Drug Store, Georgetown.
J. BRADLEY ADAMs'S Book Sores.
G. Il. DuFoUR. Druggist, 1918 Fourteenth street
r. l.. FERGusoS Druggist corner Second and
Pennsylvania avenues S. l..
s. L. LEWIS, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and p
streets.
G. g. c. SlNMs, Druggist, corner Fourteenth and
New York avenue.
w. f. SCAL,, Druggist, 500 East Capitol street.
II. a JoHNsroE, druggist, corner Tenth and
streets northwest.
National Republican., 1883-02-17
Ia Proteotlon ConstitutlonnlI

A tariff for protection Is precisely the kind
of tariff for which John G.. Calhoun voted
in 1888 when Gen. jackson made him dis
mount from his favoritc ar-horse-Nullifca-
tion. Mr. Benton, to whom most touching
reference was made the other day by dem
ocratic senator during the tariff debate, gives
in his "Thirty Years View" chapter
devoted to the secret history of Mr. Cal-
houn's surrender to tho power of the
government, and his avoidance of ar-
rest for treason by agreeing to vote
for protective tariff bill. South Caro-
lima had'adopted an ordinance multiplying an
act of congress on the ground that it provided
for protective tariff. President jackson had
issued his proclamation to the nullifcrs,
leaving no room for anything but u
fight or surrender. Tho great leader
of the nullihers, Mr.. Calhoun, at this
juncture being informed that he would
he arrested, surrendered, and nulliGed
the notification nonsense by voting for a bill
containing-the words arc Mr.. Benton's-
containing the protective principle" That
bill was an administration measure under
Jackson. 1t was supported by democrats and
whigs-including Benton, Clay, and Webster.
Yet learned democratic editors now fippantly
tell their readers that protection is unconsti-
tutional. They should read.
National Republican., 1883-02-17
DRAMA AND MUSIC.
FoRp's-MR. wARpE's HEsT.


1t was very fine taste of his quality Mr..
Warde gave his audience last evening, and
one that might have prohtcd him well had
hc offered IL earlier in the week. The bill
was Brutus" and n compressed version of
"Thc Tanning of the Shrew." After the Won
derfully pathetic last act of the trag-
cdy, Potruchio's brilliant fun came
with all the force of an extreme
contrast. 1t was Il masterful transition in
ovcry regard, and 80 well achieved rs to al
most raise question of tho actors identity.
man who in one evening, and with no more
pause than is necessary for change of cos
tune, can pass from so full and moving an
expression of tragic feeling to an embodi-
ment of tho finest spirit Of comedy needs no
other argument than the fact itself to prove
the diversity of his gifts and the excellence
of them all. His power in tragedy had been
already admirably exemplifed. His perform
ance of Potruchio was q revelation of an
equal power in diamotrically opposite di-
rection, and an evidence moreover of his
thorough schooling to the stage. 1t had all
the ease and appearance of spontanoity that
might have been looked for in man who
had successfully cultivated the higher levels
Of comedy and never touched at anything
more serious.
1t is easy to foreseo what tho future has in
store for this young artist, He has his man
nerisms Us all actors have, even the greatest !;
he has some things yet to learn, principally
relating to proper conservation and expen-
dituro of his own forces he has yet to feel
his way toward n perfect filling out of the
great characters in which he has elected to
appear; but with so high faculty rs he has
shown himself to possess, with so much vigor
and so clear mind as his, the result is free
from anything like uncertainty. Ie is ON
his way to greatness and ronown.
Mr.. Warde has with him another young
man who will also make his way in timo. Mr.
Malone acts unovenly, but with occasional
CLEANS Of spirit that give assurance of fine
natural ability. Time will wear away his
| cruditics and develop his good qualities. His
Titus of last evening had touches of very high
value.
THE GRAND OPERA,
Tho sale Of seats for single performances OF
tho Mapeson opera company will begin to-
day at Metzerotts, the subscription sale hay
| ing closed last evening after some $4,000 had
been taken. The list of operas Is an
pounced us follows Monday, Feast, u
National Republican., 1883-02-17
A Political Snowman.

English law says that ovory member of par
lament shall be sworn before taking his seat.
Mr.. Bradlaugh swoars he wont be sworn. The
house of commons ailirms that he shall not
affirm. Ho appears and deprives his
constituents of their right of representation
by frcaky and sensational refusal to take an
oath against which he can have no conscicn-
tious scruples, because he does not believe that
anything is particularly right or particularly
wrong, and therefore how can he
plead conscience? He must oboy tho law, or
it must be broken, or repealed, or his con-
stitucnts must 20 unreprosentcd in parlia-
ment. THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN is nou-
tral on the subject. 1t thinks the law stupid
which does not allow man to affirm when
he objects to an oath, tho man stupid who
makes great fuss over what he contends is
of no consequence, and the constituency
stupid which wants to be represented by such
mountebank.
National Republican., 1883-02-17

SOME college boys who become professors
and swell with conccit to the point of bursting
after they have coaXed goodish-sized NOUS
tacho and acquired tho art of raising their
eyebrows and dropping their oyeids stimuli
tancously as they pronounce all who differ
with them fools, may see themselves as others
SEQ them by contemplating Prof Sumner, of
YQlc, who undertook TO snuff out the whole
protective school of economists by borrowing
Dundrearys argument which consisted of the
words, "That fellow tn an ath."
National Republican., 1883-02-17
Praise from Sir Hubert.

Our morning contemporary did tardy JUS
tice to the Virginia readjustors of democratic
antecedents yesterday when it said, in speak
ing generally Of southern democrats, that
patronage cannot tempt many of them TO
desert their party" This is ia well deserved
tribute to the sturdy oY-conlederates of the
valley of Virginia and the southwest portion
of the stateI who follow the banner of Malone
and Riddcberger.
Gov, Cameron was supported in 1881 by
majoritics in all the counties where dcmoc-
racy had been the most reliable. The splcn-
did triumph of Henry A, Wise, as the gubcr-
material candidate of the democracy against
know nothingsm in 1855, was no moro bril-
liant than the triumph ofhis SON last November
as the coalition and administration candidate
for congressman at large against combina-
ton of bourbons, straight out republicans,
so called, professional negroes, and renegade
readiusters encouraged as these were by the
October bourbon victory in Ohio, the railing
of tho anti-administration press, and the
opcn advice Of Mr., Blaine to republicans to
withdraw their support from him. Tho
southern democrats who have seeded from
their old party in Virginia, aud mude bourbon
rule thero a lost art number from fifty to
sixty thousand-all eS'confederates. Patron
National Republican., 1883-02-17

THE appointment of Timothy Griffith, Esq,
to be clerk Of tho United States circuit court
for tho southern district of New York will
crafty many friends in Washington who
knew him while engaged hero Rs an attache
Of the senate. llo is in every way worthy
the honor conferred on him by Justice Blatch-
ford and Judge Wallace, being specially COM
petent for the duties Of the place by reason of
his clerical and legal training, lie is gen.
tlcman of unbending rcctitude and puro prl-
vate character. That he has been for years
the trusted friend of ex-senator Conliling,
and has for sometime past occupied desk in
that gentlemans Office, is additional evidence
of his worth.