The Washington critic., 1886-02-03

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in his remarks. lie was, in fact, n1th.
ing OF the kind. Yesterday Mr.. Gar
land was visited by Senator, strong
friend of Mr.. Edmunds who, at the
lattcr's request, assured the Attorney
General thatwhilc Of necessity he hal
referred TO him, he did so in the kind.
est, most friendly and even in a com
plimcntary manner. The Attorney.
General also received during the day n
letter from Mr.. Edmunds, in which he
said that he had given uttcrance to no
such statements as those attributed to
him, The Attorney General was in no
wise responsible for the publicity given
to his letter.
TuE general impression that Mr.
Gilbert the writer of popular comic
opera librottos, left in this country
after his recent visit, was that of n very
thrifty citizen. He was for making all
and letting none go, If possible. Not
long ago the Harper Brothers, who
publish in this country the original
scores of the comic operas which Mr..
Gilbert writes, sent that gentleman
check for $50 as royalty. Mr.. Gil
bert acknowledges the check and very
brusqucly tells its senders that in spite
of being systematically plundered in
this country he is not yet reduced to
accepting charity, and has, therefore,
sent the money to the Victoria Hospital
for Children. That is all very well.
But did Mr. Gilbert send II in the name
of the Harper Brothers, or in the name
of Mr.. Gilbert? The chances are ten
10 one in favor of the latter,
COLONEL SIM DoNfyAN, who charges
Senator Payne with bribery, promises
10 become rs picturesque rs a patent
medicine advertisement painted on the
pyramid of Chcops. When some one
asked him the other day if any one had
told him directly that he could not
prove the truth of his charges, he said:
ado ] look like man who would
stand anything like that? No, | would
kill any one who should ask me such n
question. | came from race that
fought and bled for Bonnie Scotland
and would brook no insult" The Co.
lionel, by-the-way, arrived at Columbus
yesterday, but was sent to Delaware
in the same State to brace up and be
put in trim for the coming investiga-
tion. lie is being cared for by his
mother, sister, brother, friends and a
couple of physicians, and will proba.
| bly, be ready to enter the lists like a
giant, refreshed from his slumbcrs and
carefully sponged down.
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COLONEL PAT DoNAN has been heard
from on the Dakota question in terms
of vigorous metaphor. 1t is needless
to remark, after reading the following
excerpt from recent interview with
this distinguished gentleman, that he is
not in favor of Senator lIarrison's bill
He says
AS the thing stands now, Dakota will never
be divided, and She will not be admittcd'as
single State until after the next election. Her
most sensible move would be to buy ut once
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS patent kicking-ma-
chine, get all her horde oil political tilibusters
| bogus senator's, Congressman, Governors and
| general iacksnpes of Craftsmanship, into one
| est peak of the gold.ribbod Black Hills, and
| Kick the whole caboodle clear over the top of
me Rocky Mountans and the sandwich IS
| lands, into the deepest middle of the Pacific
| Ocean She would be state in thirty DAYS
| and no questions asked"
The newspaper correspondents who
want to go before the Senate Commit,
tee on Territories in order to vindicate
themselves for sending out repudiated
interviews" with Surveyor General
Dement, are knocking at the wrong
door" The committee has nothing to
do with the matter. They should pour
their explanations and excuses into the
auricular orifices of the managing
editors of the several papers they rep.
resent. II is the editors who want to
know how it happened great deal
/ more than do the members of the Sen
ate Committees on Territories.
Mr.. JAMES d. Fish is living in lux.
urious quarters at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel in New York, where he has been
brought from the pcnitentiary at Au.
burn to testify in additional suits grow
ing out Of the failure of Grant & Ward
Yesterday, in the company of detect
i've, he went out for drive and
visited General Grants tomb in River.
side Park Looking at the tomb he
said, There lies man who was
another Of ferdinand Wards vic
inns"
In double leads the New York Times
to-day says; "Thc Pan Electric scan.
dal, involving certain public men at
Washington, is small matter in com
| parison with the Bell Telephone scan
dal, involving certain newspaper edit
ors in the city of New York" The
Times also says: "The newspaper out
cry about the Pan Electric scandal is
promoted and for the most part paid
for by the Bell Telephone Company"
COLONEL john r. MCLEAN of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, having become
possessed of a first-born, who is boy,
it would seem to be in order now to
change somewhat the political nomen.
clature so much in vogue out in Ohio.
Colonel Mclean can certainly be called
"kid" no longer.
SENATOR SHERMAN, who took a
chance at the Hebrew fair, has just
drawn child's suit valued at &c. The
Senator should now visit the Jahr-
markt at the armory of the Washing
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