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The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Our District Goyornment.

IOWe EuttOr OF Me ECeHWD CTtttC.
have before me a statement from tho Dis.
trict Commissioners, In which am told that,
"In the estimates for the coming year, one
third OF the money designated for street i'm
provements is to be applied to streets east OF
the Capitol, although that section Will pay
only one tenth OF the total taxes" This Is a
misrepresentation, unwittingly made, OF
course, but nevertheless entirely unwarranted
by the facts. And even II II were true, the
rule Of action which II would seem TO imply,
could hardly be considered worthy OF the ex.
ecutiye head OF our District Government.
II seems not 10 have occurred TO the Com
missioners that the expenditures In their own
section OF the city for every one OF the last
twelve years have been Immensely dispropor-
tiOnate TO the revenues II has contributed.
Yet, during all OF these years, the District
authorities never before appeared ID Institute
adegrauirg comparison or TO embla2on their
liberaliiy as 10 benehciaries OF dependency
OF their dominion.
For Instance, within said period, more than
quarter OF million OF dollars has been ex-
pended for the improvement Of New Hamp-
shire avenue n0rthlCeSt aud very little for
Maryland avenue northeast, although the lat
ter is very much the more important thor
OuRhfare.
In proportion to the taxes which have been
derived from the property adjoining the two
avenues, New Hampshire avenue has had the
benefit OF street pavements more than hun.
dred times greater than Maryland avenue,
and yet the Commissioners now propose to
give New Hampshire avenue another lift the
coming year and Maryland avenue nothing.
ment The Commissioners have never even
asked or estimated a single penny for the i'm =
proyement OF said Maryland avenuei and
now, after this quarter OF the city has been
prescribed and impoverished by sectional dls.
scrlminations scarcely parelleled anywhere,
lhey present our enforced poverty as q bar to
tuflher general improvements.
II, as lhey state, the improvements are being
pushed forward "from the Capitol as a COM
| mon starting point" how happens II that
maryland avenue has never been discovered?
Mnat street approaches tho Capitol nearer
than this disgracefully neglected avenue?
During this very fiscal year the Commission.
eIs have already spent about $4,000 TO dis.
place q stone pavement with an asphalt.con.
crete pavement on a competing street, with no
obvious purpose but to divert the travel intC
their section OF the city and to furnish q
smooth pleasure-Carriage roadway for the
heavy cart work OF a rich and influential brick
company, while Maryland avenue still re
mains without pavement OF any kind, and
some portions OF II In the winter season unn
even for country travel. neither own prop.
erty nor reside on Maryland avenue, and have
only common interest In It's improvement
i have selected these two avenues merelbora'
an illustration OF the management atodf Dis
trlct AFFAIRS.
May 20, 1884.
shirts, COIIRss hnN Guns Done Up,
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
No, Afraid of Real Estate Ventures.

Additional large contracts for new buildings
In New York city have Just been signed, IN
showing that, no matter how the bulls and
bears may dance in Wall street, solid Invest.
ors are not afraid of real estate adventures.
Included In these Is ten,story apartment
tween Fifty.sixth and Fifty seventh Streets at
cost OF s550,000. Another provides for the
erection OF six six-story stores on Greenwich
S1SO,0OO. Besides these, there are dozen or
more similar undertakings, on Smaller
scale, in the upper part OF the island, lnvoly.
all OF them will be under way by the begin.
ming Of June. .tsaa'
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
OPIUM SMOKING.
II II Prevails at all Here IL IL Done
Very Quietly.

"There have been no recent complaints OF
opium smoking in this CITY," said n promi.
nent police Official to-day, 'and, although wo
have no law against the opium habit, we
have succeeded in suppressing Its use where.
ever we have heard OF 1t. In recent instances
the complaint has generally been OF premises
which we could have raided as bawdy houses,
and when tho occupants were informed that
we knew what was going on they prQmgtiy
stopped the use OF the drug. ThersEffay be
some smoking in the Aaundriessfbut we have
no complaints" FL.ssl
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

The Associated Press, referring to Sepa-
tor Morgan's resolution to investigate the
causes Of failure of the New York banks,
says:
An impression prevails that a Congressional
investigation at this time might add to tho
popular distrust engeudered by the panic
OF last week with possibly serious results.
Are we to understand by this that the
banks, knowing the general rottenuess OF
their concerns, fear TO have them exposed?
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

CHARLES BLAKE, Philadelphian, was
arrested in Wilmington, Del, last Decem-
Der for burglary, but convicted a day or so
ago for larceny only, lie having stolen an
umbrella. He was sentenced to pay the cost
cfthe prosecution, SO fine, to sit one hour
in the pillory, to receive twenty lashes, and
to serve three years in the New Castle Jail.
These old.fashioned laws will always pre-
vent Senator Bayard from being President.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
The Philadelphia and Reading
ROud.

The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company yesterday issued promIssory notes TO
meet the maturing accounts OF cOntractors The
whole amount OF these notes Is $4,000 and
the sum paid out yesterday was nearly $10O,.
600, which met with not a single objection,
The notes are made payable In four m )nths,
and those to whom they were given are allowed
. per cent. upon their accounts. The wages
script has not been iesued, but will be as soon
as form has been agreed upon. The promis.
sorry notes are merely Issued for supplies fssftn
nished by contractors and labor inGlAeht to
their work. asffF
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

IF our memory serves us right, and we
think it does, the solid business men, of
the country came here last December to in
dorse and nominate a candidate for
Speaker. The result of their labors Is be-
fore the country. The ''solid business
men" Of New York will after the second
Tuesday in November next realize that
there are some solid" thinking laboriug
men, mechanics and farmers in the coun-
try who will have had something to say.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Furniture, CarpAzcsAhd Mating.
Baby carriages ss0fdg d easy weekly or
monthly instaita4ehts ~ Slaith's, No. 413 New
Jersey a5,6ifue northHests The cheapest In.
stausaeft house In thetitys
The Cumberland Coal Trade.

The shipments from the mines Of the Cum
berland coal region for the week ended satur.
day, May ~, were 7l,bS2 tors, and for the
100,710 tons over the corresponding
period OF last year. Tho coal was
shipped as follows; To Baltimore a Ohio
Railroad and local polnts-week, 1s,191 tons;
year, GA, ,22O tons; Increase over last year,
1S1,2 1856 tons. To Chesapeake 4 Ohio Canal
week, IL, ,4sl tons year, 74,296 tons; decroase
as compared with last year, 74,567 tons. To
Pennsylvania Railroadyweek, 10,71O tons;
year 116,043 tons decreas4 from last Yoat
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Guyot Swss6s ssders, 81 Cents,
best ErsasH wep, ut Keeps, 437 9TH st.
somethipg About Adiournmcn

"when will the House adjourn" asked O
reporter OF THE CRITIC OF Mr.. Townshend, OF
Illinois.
81 think" said he, ''that wo Will wind up
about the middle Of June. The Legislative
bill is now ready TO be reported from the com.
mittee, and the Sundry-Civil bill can be put In
shape In timo to DO reported and acted upon
before the LIST Of June. II this Is done, we
will certainly adjourn by the Goth OF june"
lRepresentative Townehend seems TO forget
that the Senate may want TO have something
10 eny on the sublect.-ED. CRIrIC.l -
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Their Popularity Keeps Be.

The Sealskin cigars maintain Ssu8 well.de.
served popularity acc2raed tbssh on account
rant odor and upquest tQ6td purity ana free.
proved more reiishse pah the best Imported
cigars, and It's l1kGufhturors will not allow
II to lose It's dfesent high standard of excel
lenco. N1Hsfs. Barbour Hamilton md O
large demand for this popular cigar.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

ATlast, thank Heaven, woman has been
found who refuses to talk. She is wit
ness In New York will case, and declares
that she WI sfN in Jail until resurrection
day or until Grant 6 Ward resume before
she will testify. Her nam9is Miss Rebccca
Jones
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

THE Wall street furry was nothing
compared to the panic that will strike Ar
thurs friends at the Chicago Convention.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

- Manager Kinsley of the National Theatre
10 having an elegant cottage erected on Black
iston's Island. Among the others who are
Phillips, Marcus s. Hopkins, Colonel Dan
McCarty, and many other prominent citizens.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Wednesday, May Fl, 1884.

THIS is splendid growing weather for tho
grass.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

AMID the wreck of fortunes and tho
crush Of capitalists Mr.. Holmau'sorenely sits
in bis scat in the House and objects.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

has received our special rRlt1fitlon THIS sea-
son. We have the csattrsctiyo assortment
ever shown. The1{hIe In sack suits, four but
ton cutawayA y1hdN htnce Albert frocks, In all
the preyRtbfng shdles-wine, port, cherry dah-
liza 2ps'brown-and cannot help to please you
hLetman Brothers, corner Seventh and Il.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Interesting 10 Lu6Hes.

and psi sh6se Gangs ali syeS dsss sa
shades. Our londP,Sr Z braids We soil at "a;
and hair brab4S dy6d fh all shades. Bellcham.
Der Golde&hair Washs MRS. s. HELLER,
506 Ninth street northwest.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21
Sl,hOO.OOO

AS Gould and his party own controll-
ing interest in all these stocks their losses
yesterday were at least So, 500, 900.
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

THE loss in shrinkage of values in the
Gould stocks yesterday, May 20, was rs
The Evening critic., 1884-05-21

shirts, CoIIass hnh Guns Done UP,
equal 70 1sV'at 'atMorsAn'ssteam Laundry. Low
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
The Lament of a Leftover Doll.

I'm leftover doll. and greve to relate
How sad is my fortune. how lonely my fate:
For had no notion that | should lie here.
Fororn and neglected at this time of wear.
Oh, long before Christmas they dressed me up
No dollie had clothes any better than mine:
And | rather imagine | looked very nice,
As many fine ladies inquired my price.
! was handled and dandIed, and fondly ca
ressed.
My beauty admired. my value confessed.
And vet for some reason or other was |
Put back in the showcase: the buyer Went by.
One dear little maiden came into the store
She saw me. and for me began to implore.
And said that there wasn't doll in the place
With hand>omer dress or a lov2ler face.
She stared at me long. 50 of course | stared
back
And saw that her eyes were Il beautiful black
Aud wanted to speak, but | couldn't, because
hadn't been made with hinge in my jaws.
l dreamed about Christmas. and how should
stuck into stocking or UP on a tree.
Then carried about in my MISTRESS arms
That all might admire my wonderful charms.
But Santa Claus came. and be went on his way.
And took with him many doll. dare say,
Bat ~ I've chance to look round me. find
That dozens and dozens have been left behind.
II you Were leftover doie yourself.
You'd know how | feel lying here on the shelf
% long after Christmas: and wouldn't expect
Me to smile at old Santa Claus cruel neglect.
They've marked down NY price and l very
much fear
That those who buy cheaply will hold me les
dear.
And the army of curious shoppers >hun
Since had no part in the holiday fun.
-Josephene Pollard.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
England's Activity.

In recent speech Senator Frye refer
red to the intense activity which char
acterized public men of England in regard
to the shipping of that country While
he could not help admiring the steady
purpose and manner in which England
has gone to work to accomplish her end,
he was constrained to say always and
everywhere that she works for money.
She fought us for nearly fifty years be
cause we owned slaves, and when the
war came that promised to the slave on
one hand freedom and on the other con-
tinued slavery, she saw her opportunity
anG then, forgetting that principle, she
supplied the South with munitions of
war and arms of every kind. She fitted
out her Alabamas to pounce on our ship
ping and Joined Spain and France in the
attack on Mexico, and if it had not been
for Ericsson and his "cheeseboX" she
would probably have dismembered our
country. Mr.. Frye animadverted with
some severity on the system of compul-
sorry pilotage dues, which he characteriz-
ed as great hardship on shipping.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
The Great City Of London

here Is bat one city on earth par eX-
cellenCe, and that is London. Strange.
Old, homely London built up Of yellow
brown bricks, mile after mile: nothing
/ regular; all quadrangular and Triangular
and re-entrant, Irregularities beggaring
description and detyin1 reproduction
out beforehand: but as if the city's
growth ever came upon its builders with
a wild surprise, so that they struck out
vaguely and indefinitely, anywhere to get
Out Of its way, Yet always in irregular
panic, scattering y. L. :. W. in lanes
and alleys and crescnts, courts. etc. lust
as the fathers fled apace in the oldtn time
from the rapid growth of their days do
ing the best they could only to get out of
its mighty way as it marched on fulfilling
its grand destiny. The only way to get
about in it is to grapple the problem in
''maln strength and aWkWardness," and
20 on getting Yourself lost and finding
Yourself again, until by repeated expert
ences GU get ahead of it, A street that
starts Is Cornhill, runs little way and
becomes Cheapside, then in little time
IS metamorphosed into Lpdgate hill, only
needs 100 yards further to become Fleet
street, and winds up ds the Strand, with
out any conceivable reason, is not a re-
assuring feature to IA stranger anxious to
get anywhere.
No directions on lamp posts TO aid the
bewiidered soiourner, as in our cities
The name is put up at the beginning of
the street on the corner house, and hap
Ply are you if ever you see it again. As a
general thing. the street changes its
name 50 soon that there would not be
much use in repeating it. Magnificent
blocks OF snpurb business houses, as in
Chicago since the fire, YOU look for in
London in vain. Miles upon miles of
| stately residences in brown stone, as in
New York You nowhere see Isolated
/ magDificence. dotted here and there, YOU
can see. But beyond this the everlast-
| ing rows of brownish-ye bricks, with
no pretentions to anything like elegance
outside, and not even the spotless red
and white of the Quaker primness of the
City of Brotherly Love. yellow brown
and brown yellow bricks and chimney
pots by the acre, the mile, the million,
till one wonders if the whole island is
not built over in this dinghy solid way.
/ Evangelist Barnes.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
1T LEADS ALL.

No other blood-purifyiny medicine is made,
or has ever been prepared which So com
pletely meets the wants OF physicians and
tile general public as
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31

Feminine news gatherer, are not a success. one
tried it in a country town and the people stopped
taking the paper bccaH>c She told them AN the new,
before il cimn
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31

All places that the eve of Heaven visits are
10 wise man ports and happy havens. Shake
speare.
\ Writ iou> name Is the precious only good for
which queens and peasant wives must contest
together. Schiller.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
MR.. {. MARTIN,
In POrters Department of the U. s. Arm0ry, Spring
field, misunderstanding Statement of his
Suffering.

Here are plain facts from a most reliable source
Your reporter found Mr.. Martin in Porer's depart
ment of the United States Armory, Springfield
Mass. After being introduced, Mr.. Martin said 81
afflicted as ! have been. For years | have been a
ties. Mine being of the calculus stony form.
have visited all the mineral springs whose waters
have been recommended to me by the best medical
authorities. have tried every known remedy, and
have submitted to several operations and have
tried everything that money could obtain In the
way of relief, but find that DR.. Kennedy's FAV.
ORlTE REMEDY is the Test medicine of all my eX-
perience-I have received more benefit from it, 1t
is certainly wonderful medicine for diseases of
this kind. have recommended FANORITE REM.
EDI to others in the city of Springfield whom
knew to have suffered from Kidney and Liver com
plants; and assure the public, that the FAVOR
TIE REMEDY has done its work with similar
completeness in every single instance, and trust
some other sick and discouraged mortal may hear
of it and try the 'Favorite Remedy as | did"
DR.. David Kennedys FANORITE REMEDY is
not disguised enemy of the human race where it
can not help, it does not harm. FAVORITE REM
EDY is a combination of vegetable alternatives. 1t
does not heat or lnf1ame the blood, but coos and
purifes it. In all cases of Kidney troubles, Liver
complaints, Constipation of the Bowels and the
delicate arrangements that afct women, the action
of FAVORITE REMEDY is beyond praise. Thou
sands of grateful people voluntarily testify to this
In letters to Dr. Kennedy; and with warmth and
fulness of words which mere business documents
ana certliicates never possess. Inns
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
RATHER TOO LONG.
After Twenty Years on the Wrong Side of Life
tIrginian Turns the Tables

SLOW long did you say"
Twenty years, said. Up to the time mention
ed had suffered from diseased liver for twenty
years. said Mr.. S. Il. Hancock, of Richmond, Va
half sadly, as though thinking of that dilapidated
section of his life cat times | almost wished it
had pleased Providence to omit the liver from the
human anatomy"
bad enough-twenty years of that sort of thing"
responded listener. "What was the upshot of it?'
'.fhe upshot was that some time ago went down
to SCOTS drug store IN this city and bought Of
piled 1t and was relieved in Il few hours, and am
now sound though my liver was made of
India rubber.
ters-act promptly Look for the word CAPCiNE,
which is cut in the genuine. Price % cents. Sea
bury & johnson, Chemists, New York. 5w4
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
Ssh YEAR,
Republican Journal
Permanently Enlarged
Making it one of the
Largest VeekIies in the State
There viii he no increase In subscription or
advertising rates
There viii he no increase In subscription or
advertising rates.

The Journal will continue the policy Indicated
by the late ". H. SIMPSON, In his valedlctory pub
lished sept. 80, 1850. Ii viii be decidedly and
unswersingly Republican, will present reliable
and interesting weekly digest of intelligence.
will make. a> heretofore. the news Of Waldo
County and of this city a specially and will lend
helping hand to every worthy pursuit and enter
prise in which Maine men may be engaged by sea
or land. Recognizing the prime Importance Of
able portion OF lis space 10 that industry. In brief
the eudeay0r will be 10 present paper the value
of which shall be recognized by all readers, and
which Shall be a credit TO the city In which for
hft, five years il has been published.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31

Prospective brides may be interested to learn
that there are thirty-two days in the year on
which it is unlucky to marry according to the
authority of a manuscript dated in the fifteenth
9th, It'll, 10th, 10Th; February 9th. It'll, 18th
March list, 9th, sth; April 9Th 18th; May 5th
9th, It'll +; June It'll, 10Th; July 9TH, 10Th; August
10Th, 18th; September 9th, It'll; October 9th
November 10Th, 16th and December 18th, 18th
17th. Consequently January is the worst
month and October the best month in the year
for marriage. But then something may depend
on the sort of man married.
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
A Deformed Singer.

A correspondent of the Mansfield (O.) Her.
aid attended a country church, where little
deformed woman, with crutch hobbled up to
take her place with the quartet that sung beside
the organ. He writes: 1.-The preliminary eXer.
cises through, the hymn, Rock of Ages was
given out, and the whole congregation joined in
singing. What magnificent voice was that
sweet and clear as a bell, rising and swelling
and filling the whole church: | stopped and
listened, then moved to see whence it came
and found it the little woman with the crutch
and as the hymn proceeded the spell of heI
music grew upon us. until when, with her face
turned toward us, its perfect features radiant
with spiritual light, her great melting blue eyes
uplifted and voice throbbing with feeling and
tenderness, she sang, Simply to Thy cross
cling, many were too deeply moved to sing
All eyes were upon her, all deformity was for.
gotten, and we saw only the face of a saint il.
lumined with the light from the cross"
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31

In 1875, thirteen men comprised the
entire working force used in the manu-
tacture of the James Boss Gold Watch Case.
Now over fre hmdrcd are employed, and the
number is constantly increasing The rea-
son of this increase is this: In the james
Boss Goid Watch Cdse all the metal in sight
and subject to wear is soiji goLd awhile tho re-
mainder, Which only len Is strength to the
case, is Of stron ser metal than gold,
giving gold where gold is needed, and
strong, elastic metal where strength and
elasticity are needed, combination pro-
ducing a watch case better than solid gold
and at oNE-HALF the cost ~
Over 100000 Of these cases X x
have been sold, and every jeweler in the
country can testify to their quality and
merit
L. w. Marsh. OF the Il,Dtocr,4 bought JAS Boss
Gold Watch case Is years ago. and carried it until
snort time ago, when purchased It, AID sold it to Il
customer he case Shove 10 signs Of wear, except
that natural to any case and am satisfied be
safely guaranteed tor at lea. ten ears have
sold the James Boss GoldW atch Case for many years,
ing them to-day. well satisfied though they had
bought a solid gold case costing twice the money
regard them as the only cases of this kind eweler
should sell who desires to give his customers =: i
worth of their money values his reputation.
VIM. j. CUsHwAY, Jelceler.
Send cent stamp Keystone Watch Case Factories
dephla, Pa for handsome Illustrated Pamphlet showing
James Boss and Keystone Watch Cases made.
ITO be Continued) s
The Republican journal., 1884-01-31
Notice OF Foreclosure.
FsSTULA AND PILES

Cured without the Use of the Knife.
WILLIAM READ (M D., Harvard, 1922, aud
ROBERT NJ. READ M. u Harvard, 1876, offices.
Evans House, us fremont street, Boston, give
special attention to the treatment OF FISTULA,
PLIES AND ALL DlSKASES OF THE RECTuM. without
detention from business. Abundant references
given Pamphlet sent ON application.
Ohice Hours-li A. NJ. to O'Clock T.. Nj Except
sundays lyr6