The Washington critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1885-1888, 1885-08-22

ncntly combined, and which in the case
Of the proposed structure across the Po-
tomac, would cmbody nm cloqucncc
and instuctivcncss TO all generations,
impossible to any other bridge, over
any other river atany other point or in
any other country This indeed would
be the Arch Of the Union
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TuE Heather Chincc is certainly u
willy individual In ~n Francisco the
authorities have been trying TO execute
% law that is intended to prevent too
many Of the cclcstials hcrdiug together
Il requires that lodging-rooms shall be
Of a capacity to furnish a fixed number
of cubic feet of air to each occupant.
The execution of the law was. applr.
emily, somewhat successful, but now il
is found that just az many Chinamen
rs formerly sleep in one room They
manage to do this and conform to the
law by allowing one detail TO sleep u
certain number of hours and then turn
lllE lllNlll blll " NNlh Nlihlllt W ullf
another contingent takes its snooze.
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ANOTHER of General Grants class
mates that was left out of the list given
10y the Philadelphia Press, was General
Franklin Gardner, who died here
about three years ago. During the
Mexican war he was adiutant of the
Seventh Infantry, and like Grant, saw
his first action at Palo Alto, aud was
in every action of that war with
Grant 1t was he who was bearer of
dispatches from General Scott bringing
home the treaty of peace. During the
Rebellion he joined the South, and
commanded at Port Hudson
THE reported break between Mr..
Tildcn and President Cleveland, grow
ing out of the formers dissatisfaction
with the New York appointments,
probably has little existence outside of
the fertile Imagination of the reporter
who tells the story, The opinion upon
the subject which THE CRITIc prints
this evening is from a gentleman of
high standing and intimately verscd in
New York politics. What he says may
not be Gospel, but it's the next thing
to it,
SEVEN cX-ships of the United States
Navy were burned off Plum Beach, Long
Island, last night Had they been ailoat
and in commission, the loss, gagged by
what they cost the Government in the
palmy days of good stealing, would
have run into the millions. As it is,
the vessels having been condemned and
sold, the present owners will be out
about 100000.
PRESIDENT ADAMS of the Framing
ham Savings Bank of birmingham,
Mass, being unable to account for Ger
tain irregularities discovered in the
affairs of the institution by the bank
commissioner, has been politely re-
questcd to resign. 1t is not improbable
that he will soon join the American
colony in Canada.
WE are gratifcd, though not at all
surprised to learn that the President
instead Of being laid up with Washing
ton malaria" is in excellent health
and enjoying the pleasures of camp life
as only man of clear conscience and
sound body can. The story of his i'll
ness appears to have had no foundation
in fact.
THE unfortunate Southern gentleman
who, being bitten by a rattlesnake and
told that he must choose between
whisky and death, chose death and
died, must be enrolled among the mar
tyrs if not among the myths. II is un-
necessary to state that he did not reside
in the Blue Grass region Of Kentucky
IL TIE estimation of the Boston
GloJe Mr.. John Boyle o Reilly is the
man of all others to write the memo
rial poem on Grant We don't dispute
it, but there's a poet in New York, by
the name Of Rollin NJ. Squire, Com
missioner of Public Works, who prob.
ably will
WHEN Mr.. Beecher says that Heaven
is II place of restless activity he presents
Il picture of the world to come that to
many people we know of will be any
thing but inviting.
OUR LOCAL STOCKS.
If any one thing is wanting to show the
stability Of investments in the National
Capital it is the increase in value Of oui
local Gas, Insurance and Railroad Stocks
Gas stocks have gone up several points; In
c,trancn g+pplyg .Vo rr,n.