The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-11-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., !
Oct. % 1888. {

DOIn Qleu Oh Tue same uay anu ueoi-
ly at the same hour, and that day the
anniversary of the independence
they had been mainly instrumental
in achieving. Adams was buried at
Quincy, Mass, where a costly, sub
stantial granite monument has mark
ed his resting-place for more than
half a century. Jefferson was buried
at Monticello, Va, within a stones
throw of the spacious residence,
whichwas indeed a home for all who
visited its honored proprietor. For
these fifty-seven years the grave of
Jefferson has been practically un'
marked by any memorial stone or
tablet, monument or cenotaph, des-
pite the periodical attempts that have
been made to rid the American peo-
pie of the humiliation of such neglect.
Congress at last ordered the erection
of a suitable monument owe the
grave and this has just been com
pleted as a cost of little more than
$4,000. 1t is obleisk shaped, eigh-
teen feet in height above the pedestal,
and bears the following inscription:
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson,
author of the Declaration of indie
%pendence, of the stutues of Virginia
for religious freedom, and father of
the University of Virginia" upon an
other side are inscribed the word:
Born April 2, I743. Died July 4,
1926" Reconstruction was the one
adherence of MI. jefferson, and it
IS therefore doubtful whether the
great sage and statesman has any
thanksto return for this exceedingly
tardy justice to his memory.
There is a feast of horrors at the
Army Medical Museum here in the
shape Of skeletons and disjointed
fragments of the human body, a
mong which there is n CHASTITY
specimen which is now attracting
much attention. 1t is the head of
G%uiteau, 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, aud it's appearance is eminently
suggestive of the period when glib
beted criminals we're left hanging in
chains at the cross roads, as an adj
monition to the hayward. The skull
of Guiteau which was spirited away
a year ago by a negro attache of the
Museum, has never been recovered,
but the skeleton of the remaining
portion of the body, splendidly artic-
ulated, has it's place in n of the
large cases, its identity being readi-
ly recognized by those who have 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
rehabilitation OF paint and whitewash
and clean pillow-shams, while the
equivocal Board and Furnished
Rooms are labeled upon every other
house On our broad throughfares,
Ito secure a Congressman as a steady
boarder, is the one never ceasing de
light OF the hesrt of the Washington
boarding mistress, who never tires
of pampering him with the best that
the markets and a short purse affords
The boarding-mistress at the capital
as a rule are a clannish set,-who a,
gree among themselves lever to put
celery upon the table more than
twice q week including Sundays
They know each other and the affairs
of each other just as intimately as
the members of a board of trade do
and they watch each other much
more closely. Manageable daugh.
tiers too, whose name is legion, figure
largely in the adjustment of the
rates of board, and the domestic con
dition of every Congressional appli
cant for board and furnished rooms
) is carefully inquired into and ascer
tanned before a bargain is closed. A
rough estimate places about seven
tenths of the members of the lowel
House in the boarding houses, where
they can enjoy all the comforts o,
home life, and at same time escape
the horror of the dyspectic hote
dinners which are characteristic o
all large carivanseries.
AS each recurring winter is to b.
gayer than any preceding one, 81
does this winter promise to surpas'
anything and everything in the lint
of entertainment and party-givinE
that Washington has yet seen. A
confirmation of this prediction it il
only necessary to remark that W,
l. are to have more people here thii
winter who can afford to spend out
than we have had since the days O
Madison. Besides, it is on the heel
of q Presidential year, when open
handed hospitality asserts itself al
ways, and when influence is sough
and won in direct appeals to the di
gestive apparatus. An ordinar.
h dinner given for the purpose of pro
noting social intercourse is on
{ thing and commonplace, but a din
ner given with political expectation
ahead, is a memory. Such will +
the dinners at Washington this win
e ter.
The social status Of our colore
brother under the recent decision Q
the Supreme Court, is still undetel
mined. The average mind is some
D what puzzled besides, to know ho'
8 the negroes condition socially IA b
affected, either by PENAL statutes O
I Supreme Court decisions. The civ
r il rights law had been in full opera
ton for eight years, and in all tina
q time a half dozen cases in cour
covered the whole list of infringe
L ments of their chartered privileges
e The fact is now apparent that Their
was no necessity for the civil right
n act, for the negro was gradually blu
surely WORKING into his DrODer Mac