Crawford avalanche., 1886-09-23

6tt'o "hN VIC otIattuto VI Int icoi'
dent. The exodus of people to the
mountains and sea shore has this year
been greater than usual Those who
| leave Washington in the beginning OF
the warm season and do not return un-
ill after frost, fail TO see the Capital
City in her loveliest aspect. The tenn
perature here during tire summer
months Is quite as cool as in far higher
llatitudes. The streets with their
smooth surfaces shaded by the over
tapping branches of trees, form beauti-
full vistas, at the end of which may be
seen cool fountain or majestic statute.
All unsightiy objects are hidden by a
luxuriance of verdure unparalleled in
any other city of this size. The parks,
for whose beauty Washington is fa.
nous, are delight 10 the eye with
their many colored flowers and shrubs.
and altogether one wonders where a
pleasanter place could be found TO
spend the sunnser
Airesdya few familiar faces on the
streets denote the return of some of
the old habitues. The president is ex-
pected to be at his post again in about
n week. IL is still debated question
whether Secretary Manning will be
able and willing to resume his duties.
The crank has not felt it to be his
fashionable duty to leave Washington
during the summer months. The 9TH
er day good-looling, well-dressed
gentleman walked with an imposing
air into the White House. On being
asked his name and business, he an
swered haughtily, II am the Emperor
of America, and desire that thirty mil
lions of money shall be immediately
brought nre from yonder building
pointing to the Treasury. The door
keeper, with mock obeisance, and pro-
fessing his allegiance. persuaded his
Majesty to enter carriage, and he was
quietly driven to the Insane Asylum.
There he should be placed in company
with another crank, who has been
there for several years, and whose
Chains are even more extensive than
the would-be Emperor. He believes
that he is the Monarch of the World,
and unlike the respondent Alexander
the Great, he does not weep for other
| worlds to conquer.
The employees at the White House
are very busily engaged just now, get
ting the mansion ready..f occupancy
Every summer during the Presidents
vacation it undergoes thorough clean
ing. All the carpets are rolled up, the
windows curtains, and draperies taken
down, and chaos and the chamber
maid reign. The woodwork in the
house is being painted and regilded,
both in the private and public apart
ments. Then there are to be some
changes in furniture, the wear and
tear of which in the rooms open to the
public necessitates frequent renewal.
Everything will be completed and the
entire house in order by the time Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland return, though it
is not probable that they will occupy
it at present, as their country home is
also rapidly approaching completion,
and it was the Presidents original in
tention to spend the rest of the hot
season there,
Mr.. Bayard is the only cabinet Off
Ger in the city at present. Mr.. Lamar
is in Vermont, writing n speech, it is
said, to be delivered at the unveiling
of a statute of John G. Calhoun in
Charleston. The statute will be un-
veiled provided any Solid ground can
be found for it. What a spectacle and
what theme for the poet, the histori-
an, and the morallst. A bronze Cal
houn looking on the skeleton ruins and
the pulseless heart of secession, amid
suphurous fumes and Internal pertur-
baton.
The Secretary of War has not
been in the city for weeks. Adjutant
General Drum has been acting secre-
tary. There is great rejoicing at the
War Department over the capture of
Geronimo and his band of red, anar-
chists. 1t is said at the War Depart
nent that they will hang. Indeed
they ought to hang. This refined and
civilized means of exit has terrors for
the untutored savage that mere famil-
lar shooting cannot equal. To die like
a Christian malefactor with benefit of
clergy, fills the mind of poor To with
unhowlable horror, and turns the sweet
memory of Drained babies and tortur-
ed, diseinboweled women to ashes in
his mouth. BY all means let theiL
hang, and let Congress honor General
Miles and Captain Lawton with vote
OF thanks.
The democratic papers are rending
their garments over what they call q