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The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

IS the small space 10 the south of the Nc
mortal Lutheran Church, near the cor
ncr Of Fourteenth street and Massachu
sets avenue northwest. There is the
statue Of Martin Luther, erected by
the Luther Statue Association, iu com
mcmomtion Of the tooth anniversary Of
his birth II cost 5000.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11
NILS WIILARDs ROMANCE.

EX-SENATOR TuAYEtVs OPINION
OF SENATOR EVAGrS.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

"Carp" has written up almost every
other subject, and now turning his at
tcntion to rich women, says: Here at
Washington we have few rich widows.
Mrs. Craig Wadsworth of New York
has fine home on Massachusetts ave
nue., and she is said to be worth mil
lion. Mrs. Alexander Ray is the widow
of millionaire miller whose flour is
well known over the United States, and
Mrs. Mycr, whose husband was chief
of the Signal Service some time before
he died, is worth at leafs million dol
lars. Mrs, Admiral Dahlgreon, who
wrote the much criticised book on
Washington society year or so ago,
has several fine houses in the fashion
able part of Washington, and Mrs
John o. Evans, the widow of the late
president of the Mutual Union Tcle-
graph Company, owns great deal of
Washington real estate and has II good
income. Philadelphia wealthiest
widow is Mrs. John Ray Barton, who
is worth 81 ,000, 600 which she inherited
from her father, DR.. John Rush. Tom
SCOTS widow is worth $1,000 900
which her husband left her from his
raiiroau spGcuiatiohs' ana thG willow OIL
NJ W. baldWin, the locomotive
builder, as Is ooo estimated us own
ing Ss,ooV'Ooo worm Oh TINS
world goods Henry Dlstoh' inc saw
manuiacturer' lclt nearly milIioh
dollars TO ms WIG, ana the quaker
CITY mas hall dozen more rich VIII
ows whose Dahk DOCKS register ac-
counts as large rs inc Weaith Oh Or" 'u''
Ken single women are numerous
MISS jennie Riggs OF washington IN
herlted fortune from her iather, the
noted banker. Many oil our
most prominent pubic men nave gotten
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

at Twcutythird street and Pennsylvania
avenue northwest, contains the cWtcs-
tlau statue Of General George Wash.
iugton by Clark Mll4. erected 40 % cost
Of $4,000 The statue was cast out Of
guns donated he t,u,sr...
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11
RAwLINs sQUARE,

on New York avenue southwest Of the
State Department, is tastefully laid out
with walks, shady trees, shrubbcry aud
rustic fountains In the centre is the
bronze statue Of General John A. Raw
lings. 1t was erected in 1874 and cost
$40 300
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

SOME or TliE RICH WOMEN IN
WASHiNGTON AND ELSEwUERE.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11
Squares. Circles and statues.
In addition to the grounds attached to III
public buildings there are Il number {
beautiful sauares and CIRCLES in the CITY

is on Vermont avenue, between | and X
streets northwest. The park is laid out
in concrete walks, with shady trees and
shrubbery. In the centre is the bronze
statue of Maior-General James b. Nc
-.herson, which cost 23,500, and was
erectedby the Army of the Tennessee.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

is at the intersection Of Massachusetts, and
Vermont avenues and Fourteenth
street. Itcoutaius the equestrian bronze
statue Of General George H. Thomas.
erected by the Army " the Cumbcr
land at a cost Of $4,000
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11
Boys shirt waists, Eisman's, cor, 7h K


without INC hNoNltuSe OF lhe person taxing
II, cllccting u speedy and permanent cure,
whether the patient Is moderate drinkeI
or AN alcoholic wreck, Thousands of drunk.
ards have been made temperate men who
have taken the Golden Specific in their cot.
fee without their knowledge, and to-day be
lieve they quit drinking of their own free will.
No harmful effects result from It's admins
tTation, Cures guaranteed Circulars and
testimonials sent free Address,
golden SpECIFIC Co.,
lSb Race ST., Cincinnati, o.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

says it is usually supposed that so
cicty people in Washington are not pos
scssed of large families, but this IS not
true. Take the people who make mp
Washington society and you will find
them with pretty large families, AMI
very much Interested in the schools.
| Many of them, of course, patronizc
| private schools, but many do not, and
whether the schools are public or pri-
vatc, they are beginning to make the
absent families think OF returning to
| their homes. The incoming trains are
lcginning to bring them and word
| comes from the summer resorts that
| good many will be hcic by thc end OF
another week. OF course, little willba
| done here i'm n social way for some
time yet, except to resume the ui-door
! sports which were running nj full till
when the hot weather grove society
away. Lawn tennis has received de
cidcd impetus by the interest taken
at Newport This summer. M1srA
W. V. II. Berry and Henry w
Slocum, iru of this city, were con'id.
cred among the most expert players
during the tourney just ended at this
| l0SllOnaDlc resort. McSSf@. NnclIa-
bargcr and Davidson, who are expert
m0nipulators of the racket, have given
up tennis playing for n season, and are
now roughing it on Cobb's Island
With the return of Washington's soci-
ETY. people they will be afforded an OPP
portunity to witness trial of skill be.
tween the four gentlemen named at
Kendall Green Court At the Argcn.
tine Ministers the grounds have been
newly arranged.
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

Boys' school sults, Elsemnn,s, CO.., IN <
The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-09-11

on E0sl capitol sircCt, ono mic cast Of thc
Capitol, is prcttily laid out. In the cen
tire stands the bronze group entitled
"Emancipation,n representing Ahu-
ham Lincoln, the sixteenth President
of the United States, standing by "a
mouOlith and holding in his right hand
the proclamation of freedom, \ slave
knoeling at his feet with manaclc,
broken, is about to rise, The statue
was erected 10y the Western Sanitary
Commission of ST. Louis, Mo-, ont Of
the funds contributed solely by enamel
patcd citizens of the United States,
declared free by the proclamation Of
January /, 1868
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Speaking about the opening of the
schools the TImeS-Star correspondent
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-08

could not supply. Was it strange that
she should have sought abroad what
size could never hope to find In her own
homer Then, too, the deed was ire
vocable; no amount of opposition could
render the marriage Illegal; and, after
all, Dora might have done worse, for
what Wynn lacked in fortune he partly
supplied in business capacity. While
these thoughts were passing rapidly
through his mind, something else struck
Mr.. Blair most uneomfortably. If he
we're to cast off these young people in
anger, might they not in return make
known to all their Friendship own ride
ulous part in this afflirP Might it not
even come to the ears Of the detested
BrooksP This decided him.
'This is a great disappointment tC
me, as you of course must know, Dora"
he said at last, turning to his compan-
ions, who were awaiting his words in
almost breatbless suspense. "How-
ever, the deed is done, and | suppose
the most sensible thing is to make the
best of what | must consider a rather
bad job. l promised you my blessing,
Wynn. and you shall have it., upon two
conditions. The first is that you-and
/ suppose your wife-shall go to China,
as | proposed.
I'VE are quite willing, Sir" the
book keeper replied eagerly, And
the second condition."
THAT you never, either of you, dis
close to any human being who was the
promoter and instigator of your elope-
ment."
81 promise, papa" said Dora.
"And so do l, sir" Said the young
husband Immediately afterwards.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-08

The old divers are fond of recounting
the glories of their craft and are
specially impressed with any informa.
ton as to the fate of the vessels of the
Armada. This spirit has been fostered
no less by the successes of the ancestor
of the Mulgraves than by the good for
tune OF John Gam, of Whitstable,
England. The old diver was, many
years since, employed on the Galway
coast and used to pass his evenings in a
public house frequented by fishermen,
One of these men, repeating a tradition
which had long existed in the district,
told Gam that one Of the Spanish YES
sells had been wrecked not far from the
coast and intimated that he himself
could point out the spot. Gam, hay
ing finished his special job, made terms
with the fisherman and they were both
out for many weeks dragging the spot
indicated for any traces of the wreck.
They were at last rewarded by coming
upon distractions with their grapnels,
Gam brought out his diving apparatus,
and sure enough the truth of the
tradition was indicated by the finding
of a number Of dollars which had Origt'
naIly been packed IN barrels. The bar
rels, however, had rotted away and left
the gold stacked in barrel shape. With
the money so recovered John Gam
built at Whitstable, his native place, a
row of houses, which to commemorate
the ci~rcuraSsSAeA he called "Dollal
Row.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-08
RECONCILIATION.

Never in vain the ~uDuttered thought
That is for others reaping fraught;
Never in vain the hopeful word,
Whereby the dormant good is stirred.
Help for the spirits utmost need
Grows from the wayside scattered seed;
And never is unanswered prayer,
Nor lost the toll of love and care.
The glowing thought in world eInt.-ce
Links kindred hearts of alien fsC3
The word endowed of living powtJ
Speeds far beyond the present h5l..
The loving deed is multiplied
Wherever Faith and Truth abloo
For aspirations holy quest
Finds the beatitudes Of rest.
Never in vain our heart wrung tears;
Meath the yelled glories of the years
In sheltered recess sweetly grow
The loveliest flowers our longing knoT.
'Tis sorrows sa%pctifying grace
Leads to the souls allotted place.
Ever as in Times olden days,
Gods angels guard our thorn-lined ways.
Obscure, we fail, In worldly eyes;
Meanwhile, the flowers Of paradise
Are gathered with life's sacred love,
And sight unveiled for IN
Looks on the heavenly reaping fields,
Where Joy its treasured harvest yields,
Never in vain, oh carping worldi
Is heart and thought and spirit heard.
NEWTON CENTRE, MASS, July 10, 1885
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-08
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Berlin has an apothecary shop nearly
400 years old.
Mobile, Ala, was founded by the
French in I'LL.
Three Georgia weekly newspapers
are edited by women.
California produces 100000 boxes
of grapes every year.
The Brooklyn Directory for 1884
contains $50, 900 anne
The seed of the petunia grandihora
is worth $500 an ounce.
The late Lord Dudley's life was in
sured tor over 81, 800 900.
"A dozen humming birdsare grouped
some imported bonnets.
-"Shepherd" on a Western ranch is
enlarged into ''sheepherder."
The debt of Memphis in 1879 was
G, 0OO, 900 now it is $500, 900.
Texas has 1000, 900 head of cattle
belonging to non-residents.
The population of London is shell
tered by 5000 o dwellings.
California has on hand a surplus of
GO, 000, 900 bushels of wheat.
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky, re-
ceives 3 200 visitors annually.
Large deposits of mica are said to
have been found in New Mexico.
There is a gorge in Yellowstone
Park where no sound a be heard.
Between 50, 600 and 10000 people
annually visit the White Mountains.
Over 40, 900 900 cent pieces were
coined in the United States last year.
The capital invested in wild animals
in this country is estimated at $4,000
600.
The farms of the United States are
worth at least one thousand million dol
lars.
New Orleans was founded by a
company of French Adventures in
l743.
An insect Is ravaging the oyster
beds in the vicinity of New Haven,
Conn.
1t costs annually 81, 200 900 for
links and pins for the freightcar in this
country.
"A Livingston county New York;
woman is the mother Of twenty-seyen
children.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-08-08

AAAw a battle belongs to the
sin news OF war,
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02
DYNAMITE is forming an emphatically
close alliance with revolution.
PERSONAL.


Now let Great Britain suppress the New
York dynamiters.
SENAToR-ELEGT STANFORD aud wife, of
California are avowed spiritualists,
KATE FIELD says: a Norman woman
is an animal to replenish the earth only
this and nothing more"
PROF. NICHOLAS FRANCIS CLARK, a we'll
known physician of Chicago, died there of
heart disease, at the age of 81.
Tom PAINE would have been l4s years of
age, had he lived until SUNDAY. His ad-
mirers in this country tittingly honored his
memory.
PORTER &. BLISS, a well-knOwn citizen OC
New York, died Sunday in st Iukc's
hospital, of which he has been an inmate for
some time past
DIR. JOHN BAPTIST MARCHIsI died Sun
day in Utica. \. Y, at the age of 96. He was
n native of Italy, and when a young man
served in the army of Napoleon ].
GEN. GEORGE II. THOMAS widow re-
ceiVes pension of $50 per month, and an
effort is being made to increase II to 81 900
per annum, which Admiral Farragut's widow
receives.
SENATOR GoRMAN, of Maryland, called on
fresldent-elCct Cleveland, SUNDAY at AL.
Dany, and gave him detailed account of the
arrangements made for the inaugural ceremo-
nies at Washington, March L.
WILLIAM RANKIN, the well known min
strel, died in Philadelphia, on Saturday. lie
ana his two brothers adopted the stage as a
profession several years ago They were sons
ofJudge Rankin of Columbus, Ohio.
DIR. ALEXANDER L. STERLING, who died
IN New York on Saturday, left an estate
worth about S2OOO,OOO. He was secretary of
The Singer sewing machine company and
held some of the stock of that organization.
GENERAL JAMES CHEsNUT, who was Il.
;. Senator from South Carolina at the time of
the secession Cf that state, and was after
wards a member of the Montgomery Con
Eress, died Sunday Mt Camden, South Caro-
lima, aged 20 years.
An LIN SIN, the richest Chinaman i'm San
Francisco, is ON visit to New York He
says: think my countrymen who come
10 America arc foolish to settle anywhere but
IN the West There is room enough for all OF
them there, and they can make more money
than they can in the East"
VICE PBEsIDENT-ELEcT HENDRICKs
passed Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Winslow
;. Pierce, in New York. Next week he will
go TO the New Orleans Exposition with Mrs
Hendricks, and from New Orleans will start
Tor Washington to attend the Inauguration
ceremonies He will make Willard's hotel
his home in Washington.
WILLIAM GARLICK, late cashier of the Is
lahd Savings bank, died in Galveston, Tex,
sunday afternoon. After returning from a
years sojourn in the north on account of
his'health, he discovered from the books of
the bank that il had been wrecked during his
absence. lie said IL would kill hisu and that
ne would be dead in two months His
prophesy 'was fulfilled 10 the very day.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02
LET THESE THINGS nE coNsInEnEn.

Thousands of men die every day who could DC
saved, Prejudice Is mainly To blame for this
loss of life. II II were believed that the sum OF
disease may certainly be reduced by physic,
much would be gained And yet the proposition
is very simple II you take out daily more I'M.
purities than Is daily generated, you will soon
be rid of impurities, The effect OF this wise
practice Is soon seen In Bilious, Liver and Kid
ney troubles. But II is equally OF value in head
and brain affections in Pleurisy, Pneumonia,
Apoplexy and Paralysis
In chronic and acute rheumatism, and in all
affections OF the bowels, this principle soon re-
lieyes and cures, when the medicine used is
BRANDRErHs PILLS.
Nes, when all other means and medicine have
failed 10 relieve from pain, these pills have
cured, by taking Impurities from the bowels and
blood, and thousands OF men and women now
place bra AspRfrH's Puts among the blessings OF
mankind.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02
A Tempest In a Tea.Pot.

There is no reason that we can see why
tlereshould be any hitch between the law
yers and the county commissioners, or
between the commissioners and the quar-
ter sessions clerk, over the price which the
last named functionary should charge for
q" the blanks necessary for tavern licenses, ~
Neither the commissioners, nor clerk, nor
lawyers, have any authority or control over
the matter. 1t is a purely voluntary af-
fair. The clerk of quarter sessions has a
right to prepare such blanks, like any
other individual, and to charge whatever
lac can get for them. On the other hand
the attorneys OF applicants for license are
not bound TO use them, any more than
they are required 10 buy blank deeds,
bonds or any other legal blanks from
any particular person. 1t is purely
private Transaction, like the sale by Mr..
Kreider Of blanks in the prothonotary' q
ofiice.
Asamatter OF fact the clerk of quarter
sessions has in times past made the private
eAie of these blanks IN occasion for the
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02
Nassar Girls Appetiies.

From the Troy Times.
The financial troubles at Nassar college
have been the subject of much surprise and
regret. The regret still exists, but the sur
prise has vanished in the light of recent sta
tistics. The sad revelation of the enormous
appetites Of the students explains the disas-
trous showing of the treasurer. The college
consists of 300 female collegians and they are
all hungry. In the last year they not only
ate up all the profits, but actually left the
college $4,000 Behind The Dubli, has an
impression that Nassar girl is an aesthetic,
ethereal creature, more interested in
the declination of the stars or Greek verbs
than in beefsteak and CLANS. Her declining
ends with her studies, however, and at table
she refuses nothing. She is an enormous
cater. Last year the rayenous 3O0-it's "A
shame TO give the figures, but il must be done
-devoured ,5G2 gallons of oysters. That is
over hYe gallons per girl. The figures for
CLAIMS are not so startling. During the year
the college used 81 900 clans This is only
100 year for each student, but is good SHOW
ing when added to the five gallons of oysters
But it Is when the 800 attack fresh meat that
they show what they can really do The
year, record shows a consumption of IL, ,439
pounds, or 81 pounds for each girl Great
Scott! Is IL any wonder Nassar girls don't
marry? \ man owning a cattle ranch might
aiiord TO support wife, from this hungry
Institution, but most men have neither that
nor butcher shop at their disposal The 300
girls drank during 1854, $1,000 quarts of milk,
or 800 quarts apiece. Fortunately for the
milkmen of Poughkeepsie the Hudson river
was near at hand Up 10 this point the sta
tistics are doubtless correct, but the few re-
manning figures given are evidently defec-
1--WE. II II stated that the girls ate during the
year lO4 pickles. As this is little more than
a third of pickle apiece there is apparently
some mistake. Ii should probably read s.l0l
pickles per day." Even this II small
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02
A FRENCH ISSISSTNITTON.
The Murder of a Millionaire and Ills Hous,

The Murder of a Millionaire and Ills House
hold by Robbers.
During the past week no less than thirty
murders have been committed in Paris and
the vicinity. OF these the most dramatic
took place at the farm of Gloire Dieu,
the site OF the ancient convent ofGoulot
de Hussy. NJ De la Roche Il millionaire
and retired lawyer, and the present proprie-
tor of the farm, was murdered by two assas-
sins, who also killed his aged mother and a
young maid servant. The triple murder
being accomplished, the assassins proceeded
10 search the premises They burst open
the writing case and safe and took away with
them the murdered mans family papers and
800, 600 francs worth OF Russian and English
government bonds The assassins left the
silver plate, of great value and some 300
francs untouched.
Five men have just been arrested sus.
pocted Of the crime. One is named Arnould,
workman and notorious bad character.
The other is a pOacher named Gagny When
arrested both were in a state of gross intoXi-
cation. 1t is believed in the neghborhoOd,
however, that these two men are merely
hired assassins. Although the murdered
man had many relatives he ignored them all
and was known to have made will bequea-
thing all to his mother, should she outlive
him, and upon his mothers death all was to
90 to the young daughther of NJ. Lecreux, a
sculptor and college comrade. This will
was taken by the assassins, and the widest
reports are current in the neighhorhoOd as TO
the real instigators of the terrible and myste-
riOuS crime
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charge of outrageous fees, which most of
official charges whereas, had they taken
occasion to inquire, they would have found
that the charge was for blanks" which
any attorney could have had printed or any
printer could have furnished in quantities
at about five cents per set. The impudence
cumbents of the Office reached high water
mark in the transaction exposed hy
the INTELLIGENCER, when, after selling
the blanks and pocketing the proceeds he
got the commissioners to pay for them !;
and in justification of this imposition on
the public it was said that Judge Living
ston had recommended that the county pay
the bill, which was no more its right to pay
than it would have been for the clerk S
butcher bin to be paid out of the count V
treasury.
Since that exposure the wonder has been
that any lawyer would continue to let him
self or his client he robbed by being charged
an outrageous price for blanks which he
could have procured elsewhere for, at most
one-twentieth of the price charged in the
court house. But the prCtense that the tax
is an Z" official y one, or that the county
officers have any authority in the matter,
has no justification in law or fact.
1t seems that the commissioners have
on hand about $3.50 worth of blanks. which
they bought from the late clerk of quarter
sessions, likely without much regard for
what they could have been procured for else
where. If they persist in asking the at
torneys 50 cents for what is worth about
five, the lawyers should let them he stuck
on their stock. There is no more reason
why the county commissioners should set
up shop for blanks than for any other
branch of the stationery business.
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-02-02


THE classical name of Jones is having high
old time in the United States Senate. Charles
w. Jones has been representing the Land of
Flowers in that august body for several years,
and John p. Jones occasionally presents him
self in the Senate chamber as the choice of
the legislature of the pocket borough of Ne
vada. Now they are reinforced by James X.
Jones, who has just been elected by the Dem
ocratic legislature of Arkansas. Senator
Brown must feel somewhat aggreved at this
steady advance of Jones, while Brown sim
ply holdsit its own. Nor can he have much
satisfaction in the reflection that there are nc
Smiths in the Senate, for there are four hun
dred John Smiths in the government service.
The Smiths, Browns and Jones are "A very
large and important constituent of American
citizenship.