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The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
The Same Old Story.

NEW
1t was only few days ago that Mr.. Van
Wyck discovered that one of the two unneces-
sary routes had been let. He went TO the
Pontofllce Department and created stir by
his inquiries about the mattor and his denun-
ciation OF Contract Clerk Lyman for permit.
ting the contract for the route between Mo.
brara and Rapid City to be awarded. 1t
seemed that Senator Henderson and Repre-
sentative Valentine had urged that the route
be let on the ground OF "public necessity" To
this Mr.. Van Wyck replied that 1t was the
same old story, and that an attempt had been
made to renew some of the abuses complained
of in the Star. Route cases now on trial. Mr..
Van Wyck says that he has ascertained that
Niobrara the mail business does not amount
to 5000 quarter, and that this is all from
east.bound mail, very little, II any, mail mat
ter going north TO Deadwood
Dress According to Your Taste.
Buy your clothing OF Eiseman Bros, the
most prominent clothiors and tailors, corner
Seventh and e,
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
Merrick,s wit.
Star Route tria

Mr.. Merrick denied the charge, saying that
he had no books before him.
"But you have written extracts from the
books" demonstrated Mr.. Henkle.
81 have used no quotation marks" replied
Mr.. Merrick.
"That is whipping the devil around the
stump" said Mr.. Carpenter.
"You don't like the whipping, them" re-
torted Mr.. Merrick, who then continued to
elaborate his proposition.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

AS THE Postmaster-General and the Attor-
ney General agree that 1t is Illegal to deliver
sealed circulars by private express, United
States District Attorney Root intends bringing
American District Telegraph companies and
the United States Circular Delivery Company
for delivering such circulars. 1t is. not In.
tended, however, to prevent the delivery Of
messages by the companies.-N. Y. World.
Why not prevent the delivery of mes
sages by the companies? 1t is as much a
violation Of the law as the other.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
The One Great Question.

Bipghampton IN. W News.
That Ottman scandal In Washington smells
louder and louder the more 1t is stirred up.
1t now turns out that the compromise" by
which out OF the S31 900 recovered from Ott-
man only $40 600 found Its way into the
Treasury, was made without authority of law,
and by offlcials who had no right TO make It
even had 1t been the law. Congress will un-
doubtedly take the subject up, and somebody
is going 10 get hurt. The one and great ques-
tion, what became Of the rest OF the money!
George Bliss swears he got none OF 1t. Who
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
A south Carolina COnundrum.

While all acknowledged that the soil was
fertile and the climate delightful, they In
sisted that there was no growth, progress, or
prosperity. on being pressed for reason
he was told that the "d-d niggers won't
work"
While the negro race has its average
the inouirer as a PROPER cohundrnm for the
South Carolina grumblers TO ask why the id
white folks did not set the example?
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

A REMARKABLE contest in the senior
class of the law school of the Georgetown
University for cash prize of 500 to the
student having the best average in recta-
tions and examinations, which resulted in
tie between Mr.. Sem and Mr.. Yeatman,
resulted in each of the young men getting
the prize. The faculty generously gave
each 500; and each deserved it, from all
repOrts,
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

THE Commissioners will be amply justi-
fed in expending n large share of the
moneys appropriated for i'm mprovements in
the District upon and about Capitol Hill.
Naturally the most beautiful portion of the
city, the yearly outlay of reasonable
sum will make it most desirable locality.
Private capital will complete its adorn-
mont, and in brief time no one will criti-
else the architect who made the Capitol
face eastward.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

PRIVATE DALZELL did it after all. He
"harmonized" the convention, or maybe it
would be better to say terrorized it. His
inopportune nomination of Sherman, whom
everybody wanted, compelled that gentle
man to decline much more emphatically
than he would have done under better au-
spices; SO emphatically in fact that there
was no taking it back. So, perforce, Judge
Foraker was nominated. Nobody else
seemed to want the place.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

HENRY WATTERsoN says there is no
doubt of Mr.. Carlisle's election-he will be
the next Speaker" That settles it, Might
as well stop the fight.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

New York Times, to-day.
The money abandoned by the Government
In the compromise with Ottman is gono be-
yond recovery, of course, but for various
reasons the public still feels some curiosity
about the case, and that curiosity Will not be
entirely allayed by the publication of the
papers furnished by the Department OF JUS
lice. There is no direct documentary evil
dence that the Attorney General approved
the compromise, and consequently no infor-
nation as to the reasons which some
body In tho Department must have held
10 be sufficient to Justify such
n strange proceeding. The mystery about
Mr.. Richard Crowley's appearance In the case
remains unsolved, and tho public is left In ig-
norance as to final disposition of the money.
This last point is important, for on an Official
confirmation of the widespread suspicion that
. ottman was deprived by the lawyers of all or
nearly all of the fruits of his industry and
skill as thief the generous American people
would no doubt raise n fund for him. II tho
Government is to be robbed in this way, 1t is a
thousand times better that the plunder
should be retained by the poor and deserving
thief than that a gang of legal middlemen
should DOCEet II,
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
Every Lawyer His own Architect.

IsNeEy lawyer IAlS OWh
Hon. Jere Wilson.
''what is to be my status In this great and
conspicuous profession p
You are different from all others II you have
not many times In a dubious way propounded
TO yourselves that question.
No one can answer that question until you
have answered It, and, when you have an.
swered 1t, no one else Will need to do so. The
answer that you give is your life work. 1t
will not be answered by you to-day, nor TO.
morrow, nor at any specific time, but 1t is an
answer that you are continuously and con-
tinually making by your daily life and work
In this profession. Youmay go up and up,
or you may go up and down again; you may
climb to the top, but O. misstep may drop you
speedily to the bottom from whence you
started, or even out of sight altogether. Your
status will be and must be the result of your
own individual work, and you cannot too soon
recognize that fact. High professional posi-
tion is something that the prayers OF an
anxious mother cannot bring to you, nor the
purse of a devoted father buy.
The profession of the law is peculiarly one
In which every man finds his level, or rather
the public finds II for him, and holds him In
exorably to 1t.
He can't pass current for more than he Is
worth. He can't pass for dollar when he is
only q trade dollar.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

THE only objection urged against Judge
Foraker was that his nomination would be
a victory for Governor Charley Foster.
Well, Foraker was nominated by acclama-
tion. Is it to be taken as a Foster tri-
rruuh
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

THE story has been told of n man so fond
of petroleum that he made salad dressing
with it and professed to like it. But ho will
not compare with the man who speculates
in the article at present prices. Handling
dynamite is about as safe.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
BREwsrEn visited Judge Wylie's coul

BREWSTER visited Judge Wylies court
room yesterday and proceeded to fix his
eagle eye upon the jury. 1t is almost as
good as a circus to see Brewster enter.
There is nothing to compare with it except
his retiring, and nothing to compare with
either except "Peck's Bad Boy" as supe.
This is the way he does it:
Where excel is in coming out before the
curtain between the acts, and unlocking the
carpet Some supes go out and turn their
backs TO the audience, showing patches on
their pants, and rip UP the carpet with no
style about them, and the dust flies, and the
boys yell "supe," and the supe gets ner-
vous and forgets his cue, and goes on
tumbling over the carpet, and the orchestra
leader is afraid the supe will fall on him. But
1 go out with a quiet dignity that is only
gained by experience, and / take hold of the
carpet the way Hamlet takes up the skull of
Yorick, and fthe audience ia paralyzed. /
kneel down on the carpet to unhook II in q
devotional sort OF a way that makes the audi
ence bow their heads as though they were In
church, and before they realize that l am
only supe have the carpet unlocked and
march out the way a 'Piscopai minister does
when he goes out between the acts at church
TO change his shirt, They never "guy" me,
cause act well my part,
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

THE matter furnished the press by the
Attorney General relating to the compro-
mise in the Ottman case is satisfactory to
nobody. 1t only tells what everybody
knew before. 1t does not tell what every
body wants to know.
What everybody wants to know is
Who got the $4,000?
Did Merrick get $1,000 of the amount?
How much did Crowley get
Did Bliss get any?
Why Russell Sage, who discounted Matt
Carpenters claim, got none?
How much Ottman managed to keep?
And if it would not have been better
that Ottman should have kept the whole
than that the legal middlemen should have
brought this scandal on the Administration
and then pocketed the swag themselves?
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

Apoltlcal fabric based upon exclusive and
unlimited masculine suffrage may some day
show an ugly tendency 10 tumble 70 pieces.
The question girl innocently asked her
mllliner: ADO crushed strawberry hats have
The Odor OF the fruit -
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

The Democrats have set up Judge Kinne
for Governor in Iowa. The CRITIC
feels safe in prophesying that the Judge
will not get votes enough to make him
Governor
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
Pleasant for themselves.

M IL WOTIu, IO-uhy,
Attorney-General Brewster, Bliss and Cork.
hill are on hand this morning with a defense
Of the Ottman compromise. They make q
very pleasant showing for themselyes-in
come respectB.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

Now comes the Republican, organ, and
wants to know "who got the balance" of
Billy Ottman's Doodle? The inquiry is
good, except the use of the word balance"
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

WHAT in the world Mr.. William Sayre
wanted to steal three children for, ono of
them babe, passes the comprehension the
average married man.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

lar displeasure. An audit and statement of
accounts between the Government and all
the Hieres is demanded
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

REAL ESTATE is booming in Bismarck,
Dakota, and Bismarck, in Germany, is
growing liberal-to the Catholics.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
TREAT The HUMAN MACHINE

TREAT The HUMAN MACHINE
GENTLY.
NEITHER CONSTIPATION, collie, DIAR-
RHGA, DY5ENTARY OR OTHER BOWEL
COMPLAINTS, CAN BE CUREDBY ABUSING
THE DELICATE MACHINERY OF THE SYS-
TEN WITH FURIOUS PURGATIVES. THE
BEST AND SAFEST REMEDY, PARTICU-
LARLY AT THIS SEASON, Is A TEASPOON
Full OF TARRANTs sHLTzER APERIENT
TAKEN IN A GLASS OF WATER. WHICH
WILL GENTLY RELIEVE, WHILE TONING
AND HEALING THE IRRITATED INTES
TINE
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
We Have Reduced our ss5 Suits

to order at $50. Strauss Marx, AL Seventh
street, second door south OF L.
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07

TToi FOR GREAT FALLS AND CABIN
Ill John Bridge-The Steam Packet Excelsior
will will make her regular trips 70 the above
High st. and canal Fare so cents round.trip, For
charters apply at the boat or to George Webster,
No. 1ii4 4th st. n. W. myi-tf
The Evening critic., 1883-06-07
EXCURSIONS.

JNoR ARTBR-sIDE-wHEEL SALOON
IL steamer; capacity, $50 passengers; speed, u
knots: Apply to @. W. Ridley, Seventh,st5r,eet.
The Portland daily press., 1883-11-08
THE NAVY.
BspOrt of the Chief of the Bureau of Com
strmcaion and Repaira.

BapOrt of the Chief of the Bureau of Com
struction and Repairs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. THE chief Of the bu-
reau OF construction and repairs in his annual
report to the Secretary of the Navy estimates
that $4,000 will be necessary to complete the
frigate New York at she Brooklyn navy yard
and the Mohican at Mare Island. He recon-
mends the adoption OF the Thilmany process
for preserving timber. Shipbuilding material
impregnated by this process is said to be thor
oughly protected against worms and dry rot, as
shown by experiments made notably on the
Trenton. The suggestion is made that Con-
gress should be asked to buy works to be oper-
ated by the bureau, paying the company roy
atty on the quantity OF work done. The re-
port takes issue with the recommendations of
the navy yard commission of the transfer of
certain classes of work from the control of this
bureau to that of thebbureau OF steam engineer
ing, and sets forth number of practical OBJ
isctions to the proposed transfer.
Cost of Ordnance for the Navy.
Commodore Seceard, chief of the bureau Of
ordnance of the navy department, in his annu-
al report submits estimates for the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1885, amounting to $2.710671.
supply the ordnance outfits of the monitors,
Puritan, Terror, Misnto an n, Amphitrite and
Monadnock; S449,027 Tor the ordnance outfit of
the four new steel cruisers; $452, ,210 for fuel,
the remainder for the general expenses of the
ordinance department. The work of prepara-
ton of a type of guns of high power has pro-
gressed as fast as the difficulties in procuring a
proper quantity of steel will admit.
Report of the Bureau of Steam Engin-
eering.
The annual report of the bureau of steam
engineering shows total expenditure for labor
in constructing and repairing engines, boilers,
machinery, etc, and for the purchase of mate
terials, stores, etc., $1,152,035. The report
recommended that the limit of repair on wood
en- vessels be fixed at So per cent Of cost of new
vessels of like size and materials unless Con-
gress rnay see fit to replace them by iron or
steel vessels. Under the present law repairs
upon the following vessels are necessarily
abandoned: Alaska, Monongohela, Plymouth
and Ticonderoga. The same law will also de-
prive the navy of the Richmond Tennessee.
and Minnesota. The Vermont is to be a re-
ceiving ship. Training ships Saratoga, Ports
mouth and jamestown will have to be aban-
doned soon and the Colorado will be placed in
ordinary.
The Portland daily press., 1883-11-08
Bob Rurdette on Chestn,,ts.

The chestnut burr is sweet boon to the
chestnut Il is an oriental imitation of a
cactus cluster, and not very bad imitation.
either. 1t lacks the native penetration of
the cactus, the sort of "oh whisper what
thou feelest' suggestiveness that turks in
the coy caress of the prickly pear; it does
not work in so deep nor stay In so long, nor
rankle around like the bitter memories Of an
over due note, as the clingiDg cactus does,
but it isn't hawf bad. The man who kneels
down on chestnut burr, in the act of look
ing for chestnut, is satisfied with the burr.
He says whas he has to say in a hurried
tone of countenance, and does not ask for
any more.
know what the worms are for. They
are to keep people from eating the chest
nuts. Were is not for the worms manv peo-
pie would eat chestnuts who cannot now he
induced to taste them, and great amount
of suffering would thereby be epsailed upon
the human race. OF all the awful, tiresome,
maddening things in the world, to eat,
chestnut is the liGgeringest. A man may
start in on chestnut say about the 10th of
October. He can chew it all that day, and
from time to time make desperate efforts to
swallow fine fragments of 1t. 1t will make
him enough all night, and he can resume
the process of mastica,ionl n early IN tne
will Iast him that week and Sunday he can
not not sing at chnrch without blowing dessica-
ted chestnut all over the pew in front of
him He's lucky if he finally gets that
chestnut chewed and swallowed by the end
of November. l always hated 1t, and since
have met 1t in its native haunt / am less
than ever friend of the chestnut.
The Portland daily press., 1883-11-08

Mrs. DR.. j. G. Holland has presented hand
some organ to the church at Alexandria Bay,
where she lives
Sir Joseph Hooker, the eminent botanist has
been granted $500 by the British Association
for the Advancement of Science, toward the
expenses of his proposed exploration of Kill
mandjaro.
Mr.. Tilden's $4,000 dining room is at last
entirely completed. The finishing ornament
is massive brass chandelier, designed by Cal.
vert Vaux. This magnificent banq1eting
chamber is finished in carved satinwood and
blue tiles, and the decorations are models of
taste and elegance. Mr.. Tilden is expected to
entertain much this winter.
A friend of Mrs. Howgsts says that from a
once proud position in Washington society she
and her attractive daughter have been reduced
to the necessity Of seeking employment where
ever it may be found in order to gain a liyeli.
hood. Miss Howgats earns small salary
copying for some legal firms. When Howrsts
fled he took with him some $4,000 in bonds
which his daughter owned in her own
right, and turned over to her ereing
father at home to aid him in making COED his
escape from the clutches Of the law,
The Portland daily press., 1883-11-08
RAILROAD NOTES.
Maine Central.

The regular monthly meeting of the direc-
tors was held yesterday noon at the office in
this city, President Jackson presiding. All
the directors were present except Gov. Coburn
and Col. French.
The president reported to the directors the
result of the business Of the road for the past
year. From it We learn that the gross earnings
for 1888 were S2,s64, ,6l5.s1, and for 1882 they
S232, 2,475 Of. The operating expenses for 1883
were 81, ,839, ,706.80 leaving as net earnings ST.
624, ,908.51. The total number Of miles oper-
ated was 4S2 and eight-tenths, as against $40
and nine-tenths for 1882. This increase Was
caused by the addition of the mileage from
the European & North American and Eastern
Maine roads.
The report OF the special committee on the
Boston & Maine matter was received but, it
being suggested that there had probably been
further correspondence between the Boston g
Maine directors and Maine Central committee,
no action was taken thereon and 1t was laid on
the table until the next stated meeting.
The report that the company had bought four
locomotives from the Southeastern road Is
untrue but the president was authorized to
purchase four new engines where he deemed
it advisable.
AT 5.10 p. m. the president and directors left
for Bangor on their way to inspect the Mt.
Desert railroad.
Action of the Canadian Paciae Stock
holders.
The Canadian Pacific stockholders at Mon-
treal Tuesday authorized the directors to sell
a portion Of the road to the Ontario and Que
bee Company; also to lease the railways of the
Credit Valley Railway and Ontario and Que
bee Railroad Companies and part Of the rail-
way Of the Atlantic and Northwest Company,
together with the lines leased by these COM
psnies respectively and the appurtenances OF
these railways; and to lease the lines Of any
amal2amated company into which the several
companies, or any Of them, shall merge; and
in respect of such lease and OF the assumption
or guarantee of the payment of the interest,
dividends or coupons upon the securities issued
by the several companies to exercise the
powers conferred upon the company by statute.
Minor Notes.
Commissioner Fink gives notice that, taking
effect November 1st, all stations on the Boston
& Maine and Eastern railroads win be open az
through billing points via the Boston & AL
bany or Fitchburg, via Hoosac Tunnel, on east
bonnd freight in full carloads. Less than full
carloads will not be accepted on through way
bills, except cotton, which will be taken at the
same rates in less than carloads.
The Portland daily press., 1883-11-08
RUSSIA AND GERMANY.
Reported Rupture Between the Two Em-
uer0rs.

LONDON, Nov. What may prove to be an
embarrassing. il not serious rupture between
the Imperial courts Of Berlin and ST. Peters
burg has Just been announced. The Grand
Duke Vladimir, eldest brother of the Gar, had
arranged to make state visit to the Emperor
William at Berlin. 1t is understood that there
was good deal Of difficulty in bringing about
the visit. When the Czar was recently guest
of the King of Denmark and attracted the at
tention of all Europe by the length of his stay
in Copenhagen and the choracter of the visit
ors he received, Germany attempted to ar
range meeting between the Gar and the
Emperor William. Tho event was expected
to counteract the rumors that the pricipal bus
mess of the Czar and Mr.. Gladstone at Copen-
hagen was the formation of an anti-German
alliance.
The Emperor OF Russia accepted tho Empe-
ror of GermaDy's invitation to meet him and
this acceptance was widely heralded in Ger
many's interest But when, in response to
Alexander's inquiry as to the place of confer
ence, William named Kiel, in HOlstein, the
loss of which remains to this day one Of Dem
marks most bitter grievances, the Gar prompt
ly declined the conference. Here the affair
appeared to terminate, but it soon leaked out
that the Gear considered the uaming OF Kiel
not only as an insult to his host and relative,
the King of Denmark, but an affront to him
self, inasmQch as q conference there at the
time and under the circumstances would have
entrapped Russia into an apparent indorse-
ment of the partition.
This incident produced disagreeable cool
ness between Germany and Russia, which Ber-
lin statesmen have ever since been attempting
to remove. The Czar finally arranged to have
his brother, Vladimir, pay royal visit TO Ger
many, and this event was also largely heralded.
1t is now announced that the Grand Duke
Vladimir has postponed his engagement with
the German Emperor. The explanation off
cred is that Russia prefers to avoid the misap-
prehension which might be produced by the
Simultaneous presence in Berlin Of the Grand
Duke vladimir and the Austrian Prince I'M
perial Rudolphe. 1t is reported that Russia
is greatly irrtated at the effusiveness of the re-
ception accorded by the German Court to the
Archduke upon his arrival in Berlin on SUM-
day, and there is suspicion at the Russian
court that Germany intended to make use Of
thisdual visit to influence public opinion as to
the relations between Germany and Russia.