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The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
"The Critic~ wants 10 See

Something done 10 improve North Capitol
street or 'Mud street," as 1t Is called by tho
residents on account OF the terrible condition
In which It is allowed to remain.
The time come speedily whom libraries,
museums ana public gardens Will be opened
TO the public on Sunday.
An agitation for the Improvement OF the
eastern section OF the city which Will not
cease until tho Commissioners do the square
thing,
law passed for the better protection OF
children In the District.
The police make an effort to suppress the
all-night dives.
sucha change OF the weather as will per.
nit OF the resumption OF work for tho improve.
ment OF the streets.
The roads In the vicinity OF the Deaf and
Dumb Institute made passable.
Such weather tomorrow as Will delight the
hearts OF church -goers.
Tho bummers who hang around hotel on.
frances made to move on.
The oyercrowding OF street.carJ stopped by
The united action OF the companies ana OF the
passengers Themselves.
El Aahdi thrash all the British forces sont
against him.
A little better order preserved In the vi
ciniiy OF tho Police Court building whom the
van arrives and departs.
Fewer youthful faces In pool and billiard
rooms.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
THE ELKS, BANQUET.
= A season OF Enjoyment Last Nj

Abner's Hall was the scene OF a most lively
and happy gathering last night, 1t being
tho occasion OF a social rendered by Washing
ton Lodge OF Elks to Its friends. Four tables
ran tho full length OF the hall and iirth
across the head. Covers wero laid for 259
guests. Every chair was filled, and some forty
members found 1t necessary to display their
politeness by yielding their places at the
tables to lato-arrlving friends, which was
freely and gracefully done.
MIR. Frank X. Ward had been elected chair
man, and II was 10 o'clock before the party
marched into the hall from the reception
rooms and were seated at the tables.
AT the upper table were four visitors from
the Baltimore Lodge of Elks, the Boston Ideal
Company. members OF Fl0rence's company,
Chief Clerk Hogg, OF tho Navy Department.,
and others, while scattered through the main
hall were congressman, lawyers, physicians
and other prominent citizens Of the city.
Mr.. Ward, prior 10 inviting the guests to be
seated, interested the audience In brief ac-
count that he gave OF the aims and objects of
the order, It's origin, rapid growth and present
status.
The programme OF entertainment following
the feast was exceptionally lne, ana received
the attention deserved. Messrs. Barnabee
and Mcdonald, the quartet and chorus OF the
Boston Ideal Company, Mr.. Samuel A. Ken
nedy, Frank Pearson, George s. Scott, the
Electric Quartet and Harry Montague met
with hearty reception, and were compelled
to respond to two ana sometimes three recalls.
Mr.. John Tweedale, in recitation, and Pro-
fessor Dixon, the ventriloquist, were similarly
IhVOreus
In the early part OF the programme a halt
was called and twenty Ave OF the choice seats
OF the balcony and orchestra OF Ford's, for the
annual benefit of the Elks on Wednesday next
at n matinee, were put up at auction, the bal
cony seats going flrst. They were started at
SO each, and the 1ftieth ticket was sold for So.
Later In the evening the boxes were put up,
and box "a" sold for $500. 1t was do
mated TO the lodge and held In reserve for
President Arthur, who has accepted an invita-
tion to attend the matinee. Box "B" brought
nd tuoa tAd m Tiaa fha
manageress of the Ideal Company, who have all
volunteered for the benefit. Box &c" was
knocked down for 500 and SD" for $40.
These interruptions concluded, the pro-
gramme was resumed and IL was after mid
night before the happy company separated to
go TO their homes. The committee having the
affair in charge were NJ. G.. Mccormick, W. d.
Mack, M. Z. Urell, ]. II. Rathbone, James Ra.
gan. Reception-S. A. Curtis, NJ. V. Tlerney,
Joseph NJ. Grady, RobertJ. Walker, VIM. Dick
SOD, j. Y. Potts, W. Il. Horton, G. +. Hammer,
Daniel o'Brlen. NJ. d. Jacobs, L. o. Smith,
George D. Scott, Robert Callahan, e. b. Bliss
and Ridgely McBlair.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
THE PROHIBITION QUESTION.
A Temperance Advocate Replies "a
the last Letter OF Ajax.


TO No EdjtoT Of The EUenln0 Orittc'
conclude from communication that ap'
poared in your lively journal yesterday that
our modern 'Ajax" is still bent upon defying
things. II seems that In addition to defylng
nJersey lightning" and tho truth, he deplores
what no terms my "lofty tone and contemptu-
ous style in lieu OF giving any further author
ity than the District Commissioners" The au-
thority is certainly high enough aud sum.
cienily reliable 70 satisfy most people, IL not
satisfactory to those "better than thou" sort
OF individuals-a class Of persons common
among extremists.
Tho Commissioners are certainly tho high.
ost authority we have on matters pertaining to
the District Of Columbia. II, however, "Ajax"
prefers to regard himselfa as higher authority
sionere, / Will Just this once crafty his vanity
In that respect and use the table OF figures con-
tained In his communication yesterday 70
show that my former statement derived from
statistics furnished by the Commissioners (tho
authority that "Ajax" assumes to hold In such
contempD as to the number OF arrests for
drunkenness In the District is correct.
This table shows that the number OF arrests
for intoxication is 3,752; for intoxication and
disorderly, $40. Total, 1881. Tho sum total be-
OF the 7th inst. There are, however, in the table
OF figures furnished by "Ajax," 1862 arrests
on charges other than intoxicatloni such as as
etc, which 'Alax," or tho mysterious
individual quoted by him as being high In
authority (poLslply an e1.detectlve) n'.einpts ,a
70 iug IN as arrests tor in.oxica,on. ~ rs uhv ~.
Alax quaiines tnls s.atement I,, so.9mns. I'D, Uy
saying ihet tnese hrros.s s WoIo I ,esuiIns LIZ nni
tne use Oh sones.u'g l.ne l,ai,Us ,a a.e y MI
producing intoHivatou, .v ,, w,On ~, os ~ 10 ~ az.
reasonhDio 70 suPpOso .nes tno pvisIro ,S,o,,n
rested may haye peem Ii,,,,. itVHc'vu t'r ei'""Sn
otIer causes tnan irvin IN, NJ M , ~, ;,,ov.
LV'e, ior inesenSo, nus poon Hh a. 0 ~ ,,rao
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The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
THE NEW YORK ASS. PRESS



There is considerable discussion here over
an article In the New York Journal Of Commerce
from which 1t appears that somebody is
quietly trying to push bill through Con-
gress protecting the news OF the Associated
Press for period OF ftwenty-four'hours.
western Congressman, when asked II he
knew anything about the bill, said: ''No;
have never heard OF 1t before. But the anus
ing thing about 1t is the assumption that the
Associated Press has anything to protect. 1t
has no original service to speak OF. Much OF
It's Washington news is cut from THE CRITIC,
the Stat, &c., and this rule applies all over the
country The primary source of its news is
arc made up from the proof-slips OF the papers
It serves in various parts of the country"
prominent correspondent said "The abb
surdity OF the scheme OF copyrighting the As
. sociated Press news is really laughable. so
far as / con discover, the press associations
borrow from each other lust us special corre-
spondents exchange news, tho only. difference
being thatth correspondents exchange before
publication and the press associations after
publication. The bill is Intended as Il blow at
the United Press, which is now crowdlng the
Associated Press harder than ever before; but
II II passes, the United Press, of Of whose
news all the Associated Press papers feed as
fast as they can Ind IL in print, will be pro-
tected quite as much IA the Associated pross.
1t is all part of a scheme" concluded the
gentleman, "to neutrallze the prejudice
against tho Associated Press and Western
Union Telegraph Company, which have be-
como 30 strong since tho hand OF jay Gould
became 30 prominent In tho management OF
both and the question OF postal telegraphy
began 10 be agltated."
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

prosecution of Benjamin r. Hackman
and Henry Reed for the publication Of
criminal libel upon Alonzo Bell, at that
time Assistant Secretary of the Interior,
came to an end, as was related in yester-
days issue Of this journal, by a verdict of
not guilty. The article complained of, which
was published in the early summer of 1882,
in the columns of the Sunday Chronicle, of
which the defendants were the conductors
was severe, but bore no evidence of ma
licious intent, and under the circum-
stances could hardly come within the legal
definition Of the offense for which the de-
PENDANTS were indicted.
The trial was made interesting by the
ability exhibited as we'll by the prosecut-
ing as by the defending counsel, Hon. John
f. Goode and Thomas Miller, and the very
lucid exposition of the philosophy of the
situation, also of tho relations of newspa-
pers to the public and the sort of moral
equipose they maintain on tho area OF
general intelligence by His Honor, the
pTesiding Judge
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

Now that the title to the Arlington
estate is in the Government, how would 1t
do to make it a great National Cemetery,
and instead of commemoating the lives of
our departed statesmen by putting marble
bust in the Congressional Cemetery, which
is in low, fat part of the city, put them
in Arlington? II contains over 700 acres
Of ground and is most beautifully situated.
1t could be made the wonder of the world
as cemetery with but little cost, as COM
pared with the cost ofsome others in the
country
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

AT last the Forty eighth Congress has
made up its mind to investigate the charges
made of fraud and smuggling going on in
the customs district of Texas, aud it is said
by certain Members well posted that this
investigation will show q state of affairs
which will cast in the shade anything ever
perperrated upon the people by their paid
servants. This investigation will be in
sisted upon by the Western Members of
Congress independent of party, and it is
said the Treasury and Department of JUS
tice will be shown mp in a very unenviable
light
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

CoNGREss ought not 10 hesitate to make
liberal appropriation to erect city post
Office building. Nor should IL procrastinate
about appropriating sufficient amount of
money to build National Library build
ing at the Capital of the country.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

Mr.. DAvIDsoNs resolution 10 the House
yesterday is automatically correct prob
ably, but it lacks the flavor of strength. 1t
is notorious fact that the defense of Aguero
is purely political, that is that he was a
patriot in Cuba, seeking by every means in
his power as soldier to rid the island of
the accursed rule of SPAIN and it is an
equally notorious fact that he is charged
with crimes within the pale of the ex-
tradition laws simply and solely to enable
the Spaniard to get his grip on him.
Mr.. Davidsons resolution should have
cited these notorious facts, and demanded
that common decency and American love of
fair play called for the immediate release
Of Senior Carlos Aguero.
And it might have properly added, "and
kick the bloody Spaniard into the sea-"
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
Saturday, February 9, 1884.
Both Houses of Congress adjourned yes-
terday until Monday.

The argument Of Hon. Gardner Hub
bard yesterday in favor of Government or
postal telegraph is unansworable that is to
say, by any one not stuck on Western
Union stock.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

THE committee "smole" broad smile
when reference was made to the "innocent
holders of Western Union stock"
But why should the committee have
smiled2 Does it believe that naked inno-
cence dwells only among the advocates of
postal telegraphy.'
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

THE oflice-holders in New Orleans have
elected themselves delegates, and are said
to be solid for Arthur. This is thought
worth special" all the way to the organ
Of this morning. Extravaganza is running
that manor
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
A CertIOrari on the District Com.
nu6oaFnnara

Mr.. VIM. +. Maltlngly, counsel for Sarah Il.
Dondln, to-day obtained n certiorarl on the
District Commissioners, and Mr.. A, U, Wyman,
send up the record In the case OF the plaintifr,
The object being 10 test the legality OF tho as.
sessment made against her property, -
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

WHY does not Mr.. Moneys committee
investigate the charges of First Assistant
Postmaster-G General Hatton that Mr.. G..
Smith, of the Philadelphia Press, organized
and consummated steal of over eight hun
dred thousand dollars2
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09
Tom Lucns Indicied.

II was enormously stated IN THE CRITIC yes.
telday That the charge OF assault upon an offi-
Ger preferred against Thomas Lucas had been
dismissed by the grand Jury. Itwas Just the
other way. Lucas was indicted.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

miss MARY Il. CALDWELL, one of the
many handsome ana popular young lady
CLERKS OF me Issue and Gazette Division OF tho
Patent Onlce, was married yesterday 10 Mr..
Charles t. claggett, OF Marlboro, Md.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

Punch has at last got of q good thing-at
least n good thing for an Englisbmau. 1t
says:
A DOUBLE DoNKEy-An assassin.
Let us all laugh.
The Evening critic., 1884-02-09

"AIderney Dalsys wagNnsgs'
Fresh Attorney butte$ ilEDed every morn
per ib. Also cottagsesheese, buttermIIk ana
sweet milk, 3iggefdt. Cream 15c. por pint.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16
The Art of Sealing a Letter.

There is a great art in sealing letter. and
the candle, the stick of sealing-wax and a
daintily engraved seal are requisites of
note and candle are ready, do not begin by
thrusting the end of the wax stick into the
fame and conveying it in flaming splatter
of wax to your envelope. Take plenty of
time to do it. First lay the seal right to your
hand. so that the impression may be square
and not wrong side up. Then hold
the wax considerably above the flame of the
candle, not close enough to burn A burnt wax
makes brittle streaky seal. and is hard to man
age When the wax has gradually softened,
apply it with a circular movement of the hand
upon the note. Rub it well around and down
until you have proper circle and of sufficient
thickness. Then do not apply the seal The wax
has cooled so that it would not take clear i'm
preston. Hold the envelope some little dis
lance from the fame, then lay it upon your
desk, and apply the seal. The result should be
ii clear cut impression.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16

Correspondence Milwaukee Sentinel.
Economically considered, the garden forms a
most profitable department. on the farm, when it
is literally treated and iudiciously managed.
Much of the living of the family may be gained
from the garden, and most wholesome living
it is. The idea of farmer sowing and planting
all of his land to field crops and then buying or
going without vegetables all the year round, is
simply bat6arous and unnatural Such man
is a disgrace to the fair earth he tills. No won
der that the weev the blight and the grass
hoppers settle over his fields for he neglects to
provide against such emergencies. by diversity
ing the products of his farm. as every farmer
ought, to some extent at least.
Our agricultural calling can never be raised
by the confirmed wheat corn growers 1t
does not require a very high degree Of skill or
intelligence to plow, SOW and harvest such crops.
The dullest plodder, who is guided as much by
instinct as by reason and intelligence, can ac-
eomplish this work as successfully as the most
skilled agriculturist of the land. Yet in the
garden or in the orchard he would do but sorry
work
The day is rapidly approaching when agrcul-
ture must be pursued upon strictly economical
and scientific principles that the earth may be
made to produce enough to supply its toiling
millions with that which sustains life. Then,
indeed must the finer agricultural and horticul
tlrral arts be mastered by the farmer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16

living citizen of the county having resided in it
for seventy-eight years. Her father was a lead
ing member of the Society of Friends, and a man
OF worth The late Hon. John S. Newman,
Judge Jacob B. Julian and Hon. George W.
Julian are of this stock, being Srandsons of An
drew Hoover.
The Princeton Presbytery of the United Pres
byterian Church closed their work at Scotland
on Monday. Rev. j. Gordon acted as moderator
and r. A Foster, of Bloomington as clerk. The
resignation of Rev. William r. McNarry as pas
tor of the United Presbyterian Church at Bloom
ington was accepted Rev. McNar1y having taken
the position of editor of the St Louis Midland
the resignation to take effect at once. Rev. W.
W. Blair nominated for superintendent of
missions and Rev. j. A Gordon for superintend-
ent of home missions. For Presbyterian Sun
day school superintendent J. Fl. Hannah was Sc
lected. Adjourned to meet at Summerville Ind,
in April next
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16

Country GentIeman.
For smooth, nearly level fields, pillow deep
plow several burrows, so as to make ore broad
and deep one on either side. throwing as much
earth with the pillow as practicable iowa dis the
line OF posts, and finishing the work by cleaning
out by hand the bitches thus made. This work
is performed at comparatively little cost andhas
the three advantages of draining the line, bank
ing against the posts so that they need not be
set so deep and making visible barrier which
viii induce horses TO check their speed and stop
before they reach tie fence They viii not pitch
heedlessly into a ditch and against bank
They are always brought up before they reach
the line. Another advantage is that the ditch
and bank combined are as good as two bottom
boards, and a smaller number of wire are needed
to complete the fence above
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16

Bretders- NaZ"Lte.
There are several varieties of pasture grasses,
the value Of which seem to us to have been much
underestimate, and which are well worthy of
trial. Orchard grass we would give prominent
place in this list Yet we come back usually, to
timothy. red clover and blue grass as the leading
varieties. Timothy and clover grow rapidly,
give large yield, AND, consequently, can be re-
lied on. Blue grass gets feothold more slowly.
but will finally take nearly exclusive possession
OF the soil We should sow these three together.
There is much difference in the practice Of good
farmers in regard to quantity sown. IL rarely
happens that too much seed is put on. The only
A bushel of timothy to about four to six acres,
like amount of blue-gras and half as much
clover ought to give good stand We have
known good results from much lighter seeding,
but there is greater probability of failure The
blue-g grass will not be expected to make much
showing the first two years
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16
VICTOR HUGO.
Eighty-Two Years Old, and the Vainest Man
Now Living.

Eighty-EwO Years Old, and the Vainest Man
Now Living.
Paris Letter in Chicago Tribune
Victor Hugo is now 50 This birthday was Feb
26l, and If not at the acme of his genius he is
assurediy at the acme of his ePotism. His van
lty mas been steadily and swiftly growing through
Two generations, until it has reached height
tnat no ordinary mind can measure. 1t is col
lossal, everlasting, Unsuitable. Since he wrote
his ''Odes and Ballads" when he was twenty,
ne mas been largely occupied with his boundless
Importance and the contemplation of his own
greatness. and for many Years past he has been
irredeemably lost in admiring wondernent at
his personal PROJECTIONS. Other men are vain;
Hugo is vanity itself To express even family
his superlative, his preternatural selfesteem.
some new word should be invented, and the best
word would be Hugosm.
Nowhere but in France would such dedication
De possible. France is self-worshipful, and the
French, in way, worship themselves By wor-
Shipping Hugo, who is, in their eyes, first,
Frenchman, and, secondly, genius He is the
one man OF the country before whom all other
men pale and dwindle. The French people, as
he thinks. and as they are willing to concede,
are divided into the French and Victor Hugo
intellect.
Everybody addresses him as ''Dear Master
and strangers who call on him-he is very ac-
cessibe-do little else than echo the praises he
expects as his due. Many of these praises are
ludicrously excessive but they never sorfad so
TO hlm His hearing has grown callous to the
exaggerated compliments that have so long as
sailed it, No Anglo-Saxon could or would
endure such battery of adulation Superla-
tlNes have become so familiar to him that the
positive degree might awaken resentment He
is continually accosted as ''divine" 1.-THE great
est Of poets, the monarch of mirth" ''the in
teilectual ruler of the age" ami the like
A not uncommon form of greeting is, Glow is
the good god" to which he responds with won
deTful righteousness The good god is very
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-16

The farmers of Livingston county are very
busy putting in oats, of which large acreage
viii be sown in that county.
Springfield is catching the greater number of
refugee women recently driven from Blooming
ton by the uprising of the citizens.
High license was victorious at Clinton, yester-
day, with the same result at Chenoa Wapella
went for license, and Eureka and Metamora both
went strongly for anti-license.
The Rev. W. H. Moore, rector Of St Johns
Church, of Decatur, who lately received call to
become rector of St Pauls Church, at Spring
field, has declined to accept the flattering offer
Ida Large the girl who figured so prominent
" before the public in connection with the Dodd
murder case at Loami, was arrested recently, at
Springfield by an officer from Virginia, Cass
county. She is wanted there to answer an in
dietment for keeping house of ill-fame.
The Southern Association of Congregational
Churches of Illinois is now holding its twenty
sixth annual session in NATION. Pastors and
delegates from all parts of the southern half the
State together with several eminent clergymen
from Chicago and elsewhere are in attendance.
The session promises to be unusually interesting
and will continue in session until Friday noon.
On Sunday morning, while services were be-
ing held in the chapel of the penitentiary at
Chester, n convict named James OBrien, who
was sent from Lafayette county last October, on
an eighteen months sentence for assault to com
NIT larceny, complained of being sick and was
allowed to go to his cell, where he was discov-
cred in about half an hour dead, having com
mitted suicide BY hanging himself with his sus
penders.
The private collection of mementoes of Abra-
ham Lincoln. now belonging 10 0. H. Oldroyd,
of Springfield, opened to public inspection
on Monday, i'll the old Lincoln residence Mr..
Oldroyd has been gathering these articles to-
gether for upward of twenty years, and they now
nuInbermore than two thousand. Two rooms in
the old Lincoln mansion are devoted to them,
and in general the arrangement of the rooms is
the same as when Lincoln left them to go to
Washington as President