The Osceola times., 1883-06-09

w aohiiS 'oh, III hiSH, W" anu ihiuuic
life, as that of this spring and sum
mer. Indeed, judging from the
number Of proudly shy young ladies
and superbly idiotic looking young
men we find haunting our hotel par
lors and corridors, it is safe to con-
clude that the matrimonial cyclone
has taken in a wide area outside our
limits.
REAL ESTATE BOOM.
The Capital City is not generally
reckoned very able IN the structure
Of any other than political booms,
and it is therefore with considerable
pride and pleasure that we record
the advent Of veritable real estate
boom which seems to have come to
tarry. About two weeks ago real
estate awoke from its heightened
lethargy and is now wondrously ac-
tive and the "dirt brokers " wear
gorgeous smiles as they assure you
that prices are going up steadily and
that sales are active. There is hard
ly a block in which lots or improved
property is not changing hands at
rapidly enhancing values, and what
is more, the oldest and wisest heads
in the trade aver that this is a heal
thy and lasting movement. The
cal,se of this sudden activity is claim
ed to be that the cloud of heavy
mortgages which covers Washington
real estate like a circus tent, has
somewhat broken, admitting finan-
c,al sunshine through the riffs.
BUILGING
Is going on finely in all parts of the
city, and now houses ara going up
rapidly. All of them, however, are
large and expensive. A house
don't count in the social scale here,
if it costs less than $4,000, and from
that they run up to 100000 with
the ma jority of the new structures
costing over $4,000. Thus, houses
are all too large and expensive, max
ing decent or comfortable residence
beyond the reach of people of mode
rate means, hence it Is that we have
so many people staying in palatial
residences in "splendid poverty"
THE STAR ROUTE TRIAL.
OF which you may have heard, has
but one item of interest here. and
that is the dawing hope of its event
full termination prior to the Day of
Judgement. All other interest end
ed with Ingersoll's speech.
ARMY AND NAVY PECCADILLoEs.
Our "blue and BRASS" heroes of
both the army and navy, are just now
furnishing more than their quote of
gentlemen "undcr a cloud" The
offences all come under the head Of
" conduct unbecoming an officer and
a gentleman" and include procuring
fraudulent divorce, duplicating pay
rolls, swindling enlisted men, drunk
enness and other little excentricities
incident upon life of idleness in
which the employment of the devil
is adopted as a recreation. The re-
suit will be lively hunting up of
that mysterious but potent factor in
the service known as " "family innu-
ence," or kalsamining regenera-
tion by a sympathetic court martial.
DEPARTMENTAL DOTS.
The latest joke in Department
circles is the discovery of seventeen
glaring grammatical errors in the new
civil service rules.
This is the season for bureau Off
GERS to indulge in pleasure trips
down the Potomac on government
vessels.
The new War Department and
Pension Buildings are looming up
rapidly.
All the Departments and in fact
nearly every other business place
was closed on Decoration Day.
The Chief of Police issued an or
der to drive guides from the depart
mcnt and White House grounds be-
fore he found out they were out of
his bailiwick.
1t is said many government en-
ployes who own property here are
putting it on the market in appre-
hension of a change of administra-
ton.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
We are now suffering from super
abundance of thieves, and deprcda-
tions are of frequency not credita-
BILE or pleasant.
Work is being pushed forward on
the Washington Monument, and it
has grown eight feet this summer.
On Decoration Day pair Of
" dudes," in the government employ,
fired a shot apiece at each other by
way of a duel. "The lady in the
case" in common with the general
public, feels mournfully aggrieved
that both shots missed.