The Evening critic., 1883-02-08

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Address
EVENING CRITIC PUBLISHING COMPANY,
Washington, D. G.
.E,tucd at he PoaoGee b, Washington as second
ti0ss mdHcr,
Thursday, February 8, 1888.
THE BernhaIdt has gone broke and
has offered her jewels for sale. That hus-
band has proved costly luxury.
THE Illinois Legislature has had the
good sense to re-establsh the whipping
post for the benefit of wife-beaters.
ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS Governor Of
Georgia. believes in the doctrine Of eternal
punishment. Alex. never did like Ben
AccoRDISG to the Vcksburg Herald the
proportion of pistols to subsoil ploughs in
Mississippi is alarmingly great, being forty
pistols TO one plough.
TIE solcitudc displayed by the organ
because the Presidents carriage got caught
in jam on Tuesday night and he had to
walk home is touching.
THE New York Democrats show an ugly
disposition to gerrymander the Congress
siona districts in the new apportionment.
If they do they will live to regret it.
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ABOUT the meanest man yet heard OF is
the San Francisco grocer who had woman
sc years old arrested for stealing three cents
worth Of snuff. That man will bear watch
ing.
GENERAL FITzHUGH LEE and staff and
other officers of the Virginia State
troops are being pleasantly entertained in
New York and Brooklyn by the New York
State troops located in these cities.
TIE struggle for the position of Chief of
the Bureau Of Printing and Engraving con-
tinues. In the meantime Secretary Folger
has gone to his home, in Geneva, n. Y,
and the applicants can do nothing but
stand around and bite their thumbs at each
other.
THAT man ate those quails-one day for
thirty days. He is expected TO soon COM
mence eating daily shoat.-RfpH6!icda.
THAT man" ate brace of quails day
for thirty days. When he will begin on
the Republican force has not yet been an
nounced.
hpo,,r n oror.or of n r,;Il;or ,,o11ors of
whisky go out of bond in the Louisville
district under taxes at this date. There
ISM excitement or panic in spite of Ben
Butterworth's lugubrious predictions, the
whisky men being prepared for the emer
pency. And vet they are not happy.
LIRE : goou news lof sam Cox a soap
The substanc. ;s !. deno,;t of white Garth
FREQ from, crit and innroopated with a
snail rcrccntage of notasb II is oasilv
,l;cod i, n b,rs ond for c,oorin, ,,urno,os
is fair snhst;trte for n,oruf,ctnro5 Goa,
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THE Government should either open up
Oklohoma" to settlement or settle the
matter by arresting and Furnishing Captain
Payne, who persists in raising companies to
invade that part Of the Indian Territory
every year. Payne violates the law in
AL, ,,;p, ~ tbo C,o,.o.,,,o,,. 1.ooY,
W. N'ep
hiith aV leas0 WIN Vhe ciVlilzeu lhulahS Oh
the Territory.
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80 ,,,, ao,,,u,oIs ~ ,i,ora 81, 80, 90,
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S ,ho o,'iinn,ton ,o,a,o, or ,a y,I
,,'ra,,a1,oi,t .ha ,aiords N,' ~ ,i,o,,,o.,o'a
Sn,,,o ., ,tSa ,,ior,ars n,o ,r -, t,,nI,
conn ~ nI,bt ,vIth ,ho NJ, ~ t,,a e,on,ri,
I,nbt S,,I, :. S,,nItn,,, ;, - ''''
And a contnry since tbe rrovo;ion. MN,
berod twfco nc man, os +hov NOW do and
wcre froo from, tbot most rriahtc,1 or dis.
eaaos lonrosv
THE recent carnival at Quebec is ad-
mitted to have been failure, mot more
than fifty names of visiting Americans
being registered on books of the leading
hotels during its continuance" By Ameri-
cans the Canadians, Of course, mean people
from the United States only. Americans
20 North in summer and South in winter,
1t will pain the Quebec folks to learn that
it is estimated that %, 900 visitors attended
the Mardi Gras carnival at New Orleans
on Tuesday.
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,,er Ua,,eo ear orSnts ~ @ mos u Nu9'in' reAas'
= ~ a. W '"tAe' GU " iO-
por,va I,ed Vh Ho sn1 ne"u' ~ said one inc oIher
and you,u get a flrst.rate traredv ~ write nn