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Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-04-24

IOGal receipts 1Or bne week 1867 sales S3u.
The offerings did not present quite as good
an average as those of last week. The extreme
to@s. though quite as good, were not so nu.
merous, and rather a longer line of middle
Cattle. Trade was not as active as last week
and but for the purchase of about $50 head fol
export the market would have been very dull
and much lower. Prices were off &c as COM
pared with las week.
Sheep.-The offerings are a few less than they
were last week, and larger number of them
were of common order, and fewer tops. Sales
or wool Sheep, which have not been in heavy
supply. have been quite dull. We quote wooded
Sheep at 4129GA cents, and clipped do. 4@t
cents. LAMBS S1a@H cents per 10 gross. Ar
rivals ibis week 1923 head.
Hogs.-The offerings are nearly 1900 head in
excess of the previous week, and their quality
is generally about good it was then
Trade, with the increased offerings, has moi
been active, the supply being rather in excess
of the demand, which is reported only moder.
ate. We quote at l0@ll cents, few, and those
of extra quality, selling at the latter price
most sales of good butcher Hogs ranged al
about 100000 cents per lb net. Arrivals thi:
week 6035 head.
RICHMOND MARKET
RICHMOND, April 81, 1883.
OFFERINGS.
WHEAT.-White, 16 bushels. Red, 1886 bush
els.
CORN.-White. 2374 bushels Mixed $50 bush.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-04-24

1t cures rheumatism when everything
fails.-N0shUille (1enfa.) american.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

THE fire at Milwaukee is another warn
ing to build hotels, theatres and other pub
lie buildings as nearly freproof as it is
possible for building to be made. There
is no hotel or theatre in this city that is
anything like iireproof, or from which es-
cape in the event of fire is at all easy, and
there is at least one huge building. built by
a wealthy citizen, which is divided into
small Offices, that is simply a huge lumber
yard, with thin surrounding shell of
brick. In the event of fire in it during
business hours scene similar to that at
Milwaukee would be the appalling result
1t is even more dangerous than Buzzards
RoOst.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
Let's Have His Name.


Being interested in the nomination OF John
+, 0lmstead for District Commissioner, and
noticing the opposition to Mr.. Olmstead by
the EreHing star, would like TO call your at
tention 10 a statement which appeared In the
star OF recent date, claiming that a promi-
nent merchant who was originally in favor of
MIR. o. had changed his mind, and wrote TO
that effect, but the star does not give the hume
OF the gentleman, and is simply signed "Ciu.
zen."
II occurs TO me that II any OF Mr. O. IS orig
inal supporters have changed their minds
star, they certainly ought not 10 be ashamed
10 sign their names; and, furthermore, am
very willing TO believe that had the letter
refer 70 been genuine, the star would have
been only too pleased 10 publish the name OF
the writer or give his address. Very respect.
fully, J.P.
--Rtpubi,ea,s today.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
Total ...,.,,.'......., ~
nhn eatImnfnd sl1rnliia hu the 81

The estimated surplus by the Secretary OF
the Treasury is S74,719,S37.
If n reduction Of the letter postage should be
made to two cents, as 1t may be, the loss OF
revenue has been estimated at sS, ,550,616. No
River and Harbor bill has, believe, been esti-
made. An addition to the general approprla-
tions for pensions has been asked for, and be-
yond this, II the so-called "Forty-dollar
Pension bill shall be passed, how large de-
mand would be created upon the Treasury, l
am unable TO estimate. large increase of
domestic sorghum sugar is likely to take tho
place OF an equal amount of importe d
sugars. Again, II the increase of Hawaiian
free sugar should be as great next year
as for the past year, the loss on dutiable
sugar Will be i've millions OF dol
lars instead OF about three millions and
a-half. But'without taking into the account
any OF these contingencies which certainly
indicate their coming by the shadows visible
In their front, there will be positive deficit
In the estimated amount OF revenue required
10 meet the expenditures of the Government
unless much larger importations shall be re-
ceived, from which the revenue from customs
can be largely increased. 1t is true, also, that
the coinage of the silver dollar Is likely to
continue, and this will absorb at least S24,-
100000, or render that amount practically
unavailable.
Under these circumstances the sudden re-
ductioD of so large an amount OF the national
revenues at single blow, as proposed, is
and possibly farther.
Mr.. Beck said he had been deceived for a
time himself by the report of the Tariff Com
mission mot the schedules), for 1t was very
pIausibly written. Indeed, the report itself
was very good, but the action recommended
by the commission was abominable.
The Senate proceeded to consider the bill In
Committee of the Whole,
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
brewster and the chinese.


Acknowledgement Brewster in July, 1882,
gave his opinion 10 the Secretary OF State to
the effect that Chinese laborers on their way
to or from other countries could not be al
lowed TO pass through our territory. In Janu-
ary, 1888, he gives his opinion to the effect
that Chinese laborers on their way to or from
other countries may lawfully pass through
our territory. 1t is mistake to suppose that
Attorney General Brewster's July opinion was
based upon the annoyance TO American
noses of the peculiar Indla-ink per-
fume brought out by. the heat OF sum.
mer from the transitory Chinese laborer. The
Attorney General has changed his mind
because between July and January ho had
discovered that many things forbidden by
law are yet quite feasible, and his astute In
tollect, applying principle occasionally IL
lustrated in his own office, had seized at once
upon the distinction between passing and be-
ing passed. There is really nothing in the way
Of sending Cinnamon through the country,
either as perishable merchandise in venti-
lated boxes, or as heather dogs In cattle. cars,
or, in extreme cases, as official documents un-
der cover of envelopes appropriated to the
business of the Attorney Generals office. Upon
this interpre tation Mr. Brewster may well take
his stand and defy criticism,
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

WHILE dealing with her defaultlng treasu-
rer as his guilt merits, 1t Will be q good time
for Tennessee to put herself on the bedrock of
henesiy. There are notes in the eye Of
Colonel Polk, but the eye OF the State is in
numbered with beams that look like heavy
timber.-P0St.
The Post draws~it mildly when talking
of the outright repudiation of Tennessee
compared to the severe terms in which it
always deals in when discussing the read
justment of the debt of the Virginas. Can
it be that this difference in tone is due to
the fact that the repudiators of Tennessee
are Democrats?
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

About Brewstcr's SquandcriuS of the
Public Money and Neglecting the
Public business TO Attend TO That
of an Overgrowu Monopoly.
The papers generally are crlucsing Brew
ster severely. We present a few samples.
What the "Sun" Says.
Tho following dispatch was printed In the
New York Sun yesterday:
WAsHINGToN, Jan 0.-The annual report OF
the Attorney General, after a long delay, was
printed to-day, IL appears that there were
paid during the last fiscal year to special at
torneys for services In the Star.Route aud Gull
team trials $4,000 In fees and expenses,w while
the fees ~ two attorneys have not yet been DO
termlned. II these are paid proportionately 70
the others, tho extra fees for especial counsel
services In the District will not fall much below
100000. About those AFFAIRS In the manage
ment OF tho Department of Justice in which
the public is interested tho report is SILENT and
the report proper, signed by the Attorney
General, requires only twelve pages OF space.
There are some interesting Items In the con.
tingent fund, The New York Herald and the
New York Times are subscribed for at the rate
OF $40 year: somebody takes the Boston Id.
reyfisef for four months for "a; pair OF gloves
for somebody cost SO, and o celluloid comb S5
cents; the driver OF the carriage got q knife
that cost S2.75; somebody got n box of corn
salve, cost 25 cents; somebody got life of
Grant that cost Sl5, and Jefr Davis "Rlse and
Fall of the Confederate Government" cost
tlngent-fund for tho benent of the Solicitor at
$780, and an unknown person had the benefit
OF dark-brown horse, "warranted sound,"
cost $3.50,
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

SERGEANT BALLANTYNE, England's lead
ing lawyer has met Governor Benjamin f.
Butler The Sergeant condescendingly says
of Massachusetts, greatest living citizen:
He interested me very much, and i'm
pressed me with the Idea OF his shrewdness.
He talked exceedingly we'll, appearing to be
posted in almost any subject that could be
suggested. His knowledge of statistics was
really extraordinary, for upon every question
II seemed TO me that he had at his fingers
ends perfect maze OF figures.
1t is real kind in the Sergeant to thus
patronizingly pat our Benjamin on the
back. Wonder what the Governor thought
of the Sergeant?
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
A weII.Paid Attorney.

WHHIT' NUIs bHIIIIuOIt I5TIIs
Tho large fees paid TO Mr.. George Bliss
by the Government on account OF the Star
Route cases is subject which continues 10
excite much comment. Some statements have
been made 10 the effect that he is getting no
lSore man 10 pau 10 s9Ine 1 oi .he iA"yels
Mr.. Bliss has been paid more than three times
as much as any OF the lawyers opposed to him
Although the present Attorney General mag
not have employed Mr.. Bliss at such a rate Of
compensation as he is receiving, there is no
reason why he should not terminate the con.
tract and make a new one.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
Is This n Fact?
qo Ne haIl0r q Me Nrenlnq 0rllIe.

IT. Ttt 71uFVV " UIt I1ttTFtWV CTtItt'
In Tuesday nights CRITIC you kindly give
us some idea of the enormous expense OF the
Census bureau. But you will be glad to learn
that ''fayorIte" clerk worked three months
compiling statistics, and when the work was
that The favored clerk did not know the dit
ference between "nine square miles and
nine miles square," The work had to be done
over by clerk not receiving as much salary
as the "fayorite." Investigate this II you have
any doubt. A CLERK.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

SECRETARY TELLER says that he does
not expect to have the Signal Bureau
attached to the Interior Department. The
Secretary's head is level, as usual. The
Interior has become an unwieldy aggrega-
tion of bureaus having no connection with
each other, and some Of them had better be
detached TO other departments, or new de-
partment be created, than add more bureaus
to it. For instance, the Indian Bureau
should go the War Department and stay
there.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

Ex-Governor PLAIsTED of Maine, has
Joined the ranks of the editors and has
written his first editorial. He proposes to
adhere to the school of politics represented
by Jefferson Jackson and Lincoln. He will
have happy time of it.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

THE vile and venal New York Times is
about the only newspaper which fails to
adversely criticise Brewster's report. That
$12 year for subscription to the v. and ".
appears to have done its anticipated work.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

In view of the fact that there was only
$4,000 appropriated at the first session of
this Congress as a contingent fund for the
Department of Justice, it might be we'll
for the Attorney General to tell the coun-
try out of what fund he paid that little
item of s4s, ,s4696 under the head of "mis-
cellaneous expenses" given in his report of
in the District of Columbia.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
ADJUSTMENTS TONIGHT.

NATIONAL THEATRE-Lotta, as "Bob."
FoRD's oPERA-HoUSE y Mile. Rhea as Ju-
ltet.
THEATRE CoMIQUE - Varieties, new bal
let's, olios and burlesque.
DIME MUsEUM-At the Old Capital Thea-
tire on Pennsylvania avenue. "Uncle Toms
Cabin" and other novelties.
DRIvER's-Colonel Rogers and Professor
Anders, in their old-fashioned vocal and In
strumental concerts In the studio.
SKATING RINK Monday, Wednesday and
Friday nights and Saturday matinee.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

THE Weather Bureau day before yester-
Washington knows the result. Now the
Bureau claims that this storm originated
at sea- and hence it was at sen in guess
beg pardon, indicating the probabilities of
the next days weather.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

ON page SO of the Attorney Generals
report are the following items: To one
bust of Young Augustus AS5; to one fine
green quarter cover, $50. On page 60: To
one halfgallOn bottle, 20 cents. Page SO,
one vase, S3-ornamental but not very use
~
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
sensible Comstocis.

Memphis Avalanche.
General Comstock, one member OF the Mis-.
sissippi River Commission, who is In possess
sion OF some common sense, dissents from the
absurd conclusions OF the majority. He says
that levees do little to aid low-water naviga-
ton. and doubts the advisability of raising
them above present grades.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

TEE census clerks have never received
that month extra pay which was prom
ised them by distinguished statesmen.
They deserve it and should have it.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

BY slip of the pen, in speaking of
Captain Cowdon's plans, we said that he
was to receive S10,0o0,0OO for every foot
that he lowered the low-water channel
from Cairo to New Orleans. 1t should
read 100000 per foot. Quite difference,
both to the people and Captain Cowdon.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11

UTAu's CANNON having been fired she
has raised Caine and sent him here. He
will be seated.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
nAIderney DALEY Wmeons.,,

Fresh Alderney Butter, charmed every morn.
ting and delivered in v ID " Ward" prints. 55c
per 10. Also, cottage cheese, buttermilk and
sweet milk, DC. per qt. Cream 15c. per pint.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
FREE ADVERTISING.

Advertisements under the head OF " Situations
Wanted" toiu heretyter be inserted IN THE EVEN
me CRITIC three times FREE. We inuf,e al
1cshinD situations TO avail Themselves Of This Q6er.
Anstuers directed IN care Or Cnir1c 06tco icH ro-
cefre cdrerut attention. business advertisements
threolines UrCc thlesfOr % cents.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
FOR EXCHANGE.

WY ANTED-Te exchange new stoves fOr old
w ones st Buffers Stove Exchange, cor, 9th
and X. Smokey chimneys cured or no pay Stsves
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
MONEY TO LOAN.

M ONEY no LOAN IN SUMS TO SUIT AT
ln reasonable rates and charges. Sworm-
stedt Il Bradley. 02s + st. il0-3t
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
LOST AND FOUND.

T osT ON THEE OF DECEMBER. THREE
~ account books somewhere in South Wash
ington or ia the Centre Market. A reward Of IS
VIII be paid by returning them to Henry Schroth,
stall No. 500 Centre Market. j1i-3t%
Il OST--ON THE 4TH INST, AT OR NEAR
IL the Government Printing ofice, pair of
gold spectaces, with the name of Mr.. Carter on
them. Finder please return TO liz Sd ST. n. W..
and receive reward. j6
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
BOARDING.

HSNSNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN>NN
UTANTED-TABLE BoARDERS AT THE
w La Pierre. corner 10th and Il sts. n. W.; terms
SIS per month; Is tickets for IS, 30 cents meal.
jD-3t@
MFRS. JUDSON. CATERER, 2Ol2 X ST. N.
JNl W.; frst-class meals served families at
their homes; hot and prompt frst-class coffee.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
WANTED-Beio-Femaje.

Advertisements OF Three lines under this head
Inserted three times for % cents.
The Evening critic., 1883-01-11
FOR SALE-Rouses.
FOR SALE-&isceilaneous.

II ndOrgans at reduced rates for HsSz67
cash, or easy payments; pianos and or
gans to rent. Worch's Piano Rooms, 1l30 10th ST.
n. W. j5-6t
nNE SMALL PIANO, JUST THE Hysc2z,w
~ thing ior beginner, with stool SS
and cover, $40; terms, $40 cash; balance
IS per month; also, several piano dactylions
WOrch's Uptown Piano Rooms, 1i39 10Th st. N. W.
d27-12t
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-18
THE RESULT OF COMPE-
TlTlON.

A gentleman recently from Utah
in forms the APPEAL that the com
pletion of the Denver and Rio
Grand railroad to Salt Lake and
Ogden has already worked wonders
Tor the people of Western Utah.
Travel has increased from the East
and feeling of confluence in the
future prosperity of that section is
strong with the people. The U.
P. r. r. representatives no longer
assume lordly ais toward the ship
pers of Western Utah, but are OBJ
sequious even to the maximum de-
gree of disgust. Agents of this
late monopoly are visiting business
men in Ogden aud Salt Lake City.
enquiring anxiously about the bust
ness outlook and are even solicitous
as to The health of the business
mans family. Special rates are
offered shippers. and by way of ad-
ditional inducement for business,
passes are rendered the shipper
East and return for him and his.
The explanation of this is furnished
in the fact that the completion of
the D. l. r. G. road has convinced
the U. P. managers that if they
would retain any of the business of
Western Utah and Eastern Nevada
they must conciliate the shippers
and the travelling public. Of course
this is humiliating to the railroad
snobs, but this class can, when
compelled SO to do, eat humble pie
as gracefully as the humblest in
the land. Competition is the pro-
moter Of commercial success, and
the want of this great controlling
agency has kept this country of
ours far in the rear Of the States
and Territories East of US. But
better time is near at hand. It is
hardly possible that Nevada must
languish many years longer be-
cause of the determinations against
her people by the c. P. r. r.
What has been done for Utah by
the building of her latest narrow
gauge can be done for this State,
and, croakers to the contrary, Ne
vada will have a competing line
through to tidewater in the West
inside of two years.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-18

The London World thus brings
Lord Beaconsfeld down to a nut
she'll: ''In a sense very different
from that in which Sir Robert
Walpole laid down the doctrine, he
knew that every man had his price.
Lord Beacons6eld was himself alb
solutely incorrupt, and was never q
cause of corruption in the ordinary
meaning of the term in others. He
applied not to the mercenary greed
of human nature, but to its self
love, and to its illimitable capacity
of swallowing and thriving on
artistically measured doses of
adroit doses of adulation. In his
novels. especially in ''Endymion, -
Disraeli fully carries out that esti-
mate.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-18
OPIUM IN NEW YORK.

Frank Leslie's illustrated paper
publishes a full-page picture Of
what purports to be a scene in a
Chinese opium den on Pell street,
New York. 1t represents q num-
Der of young girls sitting bolt up
right on q sort of shelf smoking
opium as one would smoke an or
binary tobacco pipe, while China
man is bringing in fresh opium on
a waiter. Opium is smoked in a
reclining position, as the pipe must
be held constantly near lamp. A
Whit or two exhausts the opium,
and it must be kept constantly re-
plenished. The sketch was evil
IDENTIFY made by an artist who never
saw a Chinese opium den, or even
an opium pipe, as he has drawn
the bowl ir the wrong place. The
sketch shows one thing, however,
and that is tnat the vice of opium
smoking has spread clear across the
continent of America. and unless
stamped out by the Government
will in time become a national evil.
The Chicago and st. Louis papers
have columns relative to the spread
of opium smoking, and it prevails
also in New Orleans. The time is
not far distant when the advocates
OF Coolie importation will have
enough of the Chinese and their
soul and body destroying vices.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-05-18
SPRING ODEs-N NO. 1

T'is Spring, no tbs not budding Spring,
T'is more like MAJESTY, dreary Winter,
No beerds are warbling on the wing,
My hopes and are "mashcd to
splinter.
The "guy" who talks Of merry Nav.
And prates of this esthetic season,
Is worse than any "dude" or /" Nance, -
And hath not in him rhyme or reason.
0. G.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-09-28
Price Three Cents

fRmed sheets are reserved for her sister gos- sips when they get together in her room after the bath. And the ''Mys" and "Ohs, 1" as they roll the delicious mersels under their tongues, express their enjoyment But it is poison nevertheless-poison to some one's character and poison to their innocence of heart. It is dealt out in strict confidence, but in an hour thereafter it is floating over the hotel. mingling with the mass of slander It is all as bad as it can be, but there is no remedy for it and nobody is to blame. That is, all are to blame. Gossip and it's near relative, islander, are species of enjoyment which are not to be driven out. Their hold is too deep and too strong. Gossip may be pleasant and innocent, yet few can indulge in 1t without wounding.
 When we tear to bits the characters of those around us, there is at least 8 chance that they may hear they are attacked and de- fend and revenge themselves. But the ma terial near at hand Is apt to give out, or we may weary of slandering always the same persons, so we send our dipped arrows afar and strike those at distance. On coming home, therefore, from our summer outing it behooves us to look about and see how our dear friends really stand. We have heard SO much of them while away that we must book ourselves up anew. We must discover if Mrs. Alpha is still living with her husband, and how it happened that she spent the summer at Newport and he at Saratoga; and whether A~AAo' OGAcSo AS SO4AB GO OO tuluB dDOub 16 because MT. Omega had another woman for a week at Coney Island.
 All these little affairs must be unravelled before we can fairly enter upon the winter gayeties. And when they are unravelled, then the skein is pretty straight after all. There is hardly knot in it. Scarcely a di- Vorce case is on the tapis. There was all that summer smoke and not spark of fire. Oh, yes, that was not his wife that Jones had at the hotel but Jones never had 8 thought that anybody would take her for his wife, Jones had been going on with that sort of thing for years, and Mrs. Jones had long ago made up her mind to it. She never allows what Jones does in that line to worry her for a moment, it was impudent of Jones to bring that woman there when everybody was &C., quainted with him, but Jones did not care. He ought to have been put out of the house. of course.
 And have any of us the slightest pang that we let our tongues so run away with us2 Surely, no. Pshawl we never think of it. No harm done Was there not? Is it no harm to a woman to guess that her honesty has been suspected? Is not that an awful thought of her2 It ought to be, if it is not. And we who have wrongly suspected and voiced our suspicious, ought our conscience to be quiet
 Yes what you say is so. Some of the worst of these scandal mongers are men.