The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-04-28
Our Washington Letter.
[FRoM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 81 1883.

[FRoM OUR REGULAR CoRREsPoEDENT.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 81, 1883.
Mrs. Lsngtry, the jersey Lily, with
her company, has made her bow to the
Washington public. Had she adopted
the stage early in life, as a hardworking
conscientious student, and escaped the
fatal influences of fattery and public at
tentions based on other qualities than
professional excellence, there is no reason
to doubt that she might have become
something more than merely respecta-
BILE actress. As it is she does not rise,
and does not give any evidences of ever
being able to rise above the dead level Of
common place. Much OF her acting was
ladylike and natural, but nowhere did
she show the slightest glow of fire OF
genius, or even noticeable dramatic tai
emit. As to her beauty, that is, of course,
and must ever remain matter of opin-
ion. Surely, however, it may be said
that had she come to this country with
out previous advertisement of her
charms she might have travelled from one
end to the other. and across lots as her
fancy might dictate, without attracting
unusual attention to her face or form.
On the whole, therefore, sho and her
management do wisely in undertaking to
reap their harvest during the first season.
A second crop would hardly be worth the
gathering, unless other attractions should
become woefully scarce and worthless
meantime.
The Smithsonian grounds held large
number of people this afternoon on the
occasion of the unveiling of the statue o.
Joseph Henry, so long the director Of
the Smithsonian Institution. The mem
bers of the National Academy of Sciences
which had been in session at the Nation
al Museum, and many other guests oi
the Smithsonian regents gathered at 8. 81
at the lecture room of the Nationa
Museum. At four o'clock a procession
of orators, chaplains, guests and choris
ters moved from the Museum to the lawI
near the sta'ue. the Marine Band render
ing a musical composition of Prof. sous
called The Transit of Venus" Gen
o. NJ. Poe, the marshal, called the as
sembly to order, and the band playe'
Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" Rev. A
A. Hodge, of Princeton, then offere,
prayer, and Chief Justice Waite, OF th
! Supreme Court, before unveilipg deliy
cred an address, after which the veil wa
} dropped. and the statue stood uncoN
cred. The statue represents Prof. Her
: ry in the gown of n student. his rigl
. hand holding the folds of the gown o
his breast, while the lett rests upon
: small pedestal. His head is somew hi
. thrown back and his eyes are raised.
: Hon. S. S. Cox. OF New York, arrive
q in the city to-day from Richmond, whel
he delivered lecture ON "Afriean HI
q NOR" Mr.. Cox says he told his auditor
y that leeturing on such subject in vi
k ginia "wss good deal like carryir
s pork to Cincinnati" "Still." he said
II your correspondent 81 made the obje
II of charity for which 1 leotured $500
y aud received grand ovation" On Il
d speakership question Mr.. Cox feels qui
g encouraged. He says be will have Il
It New York delegation with him, and vot
$ in Wisconsin, Virginia and Nilsson
If delegations which he did not expect, b