The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-01-05
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
LLEWxAM's LETTER FROM TINE
SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.

| The NATIONAL CAPITOL.
LLEWXAM's LETTER FROM the
/ SEAT OF GOVERNMENT.
Capers of Congressman and Carolin-
ians. Governmental Gossip and
General Gleanings. Dudes, ..Dudiues
and Widows. A Pair Of Babies
| Married.
| Special Correspondence Of 1hs Sentinel
WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. q
Society" is out calling" to-day.
Dudes and dress coats abound. The
former go in pairs and come cheap,
tse aarket being glutted. The latter
come cheap also, because they are
only hired for the occasion.
The "dudine is receiving" in
great protusion. The Washington
! dudine is an immense little thing on
wheels.-three of 'em,-and she and
her trycicle combine and conspire to
crush the masculine dude heart into
the finest, minutest and most infnitsi-
NAL atoms.
WIDOWED DUDINEs.
A large proportion of our dudines
are widows. When she is widow
she keeps boarding house, as rule,
and fourishes in the bangs and short
| dresses of mawkish girlhood. Her one
/ ambition in life is to catch fresh hus-
| band. Occasionally you find one who
is "fst and forty, but that stage is
never reached until her sixtietn birth
day has come and gone, and gray
hairs (and sometimes bald head) can
no longer be concealed Then she
! courts death instead of her male boar
! ders.
Washington, be it known, is preem-
| inently the laud of the widow. Here
| the plant abounds in all the sorts
sizes, styles, and stages of "cultivs-
ton" There are widows messa ct
thora, widows Ui,sculo matrimonii,
( ana widows who are not widows at
all. They compliment and scold one
in French, and their poodle dogs bark
Latin at you.
But enough of dudes, dudines, and
widows-no, not enough of widoaes,
Generally speaking, for we never get
enough of some of them. All some
j of them! Patient and tired reader,
there are such things in heaven ar
on earth as blooming young widow
| and they Just take the cake for-but
did you ever meet one or more of shose
divine beings? You have, Ell Then
you are fully aware.of all | was going
TO tell you.
THE DEATH OF DANIEL MANNING.
The resident and Cabinet went to
Albany, N. Y, iast Tuesday to attend
the fuleral of ex Secretary Of the
TreasurT Manning, and returned tbs
following day. Mr.. Manning was a
millionaire, man of great financial
ability, and one of the bright lights
of the Democratic party. He was a
newspaper man and owned the Alba
ny Argus, one OF the ablest newspa-
papers in the country. 1t was while
Daniel Lamont was On the staff Of
that paper that Mr.. Cleveland (then
Governor of New York; discovered
and made him his private secretary.
Hon. Daniel Manning was born in
Albany, August Is, 1881. His father
died few years after his birth, leav-
ing bis widow, son and daughter un-
provided for When nine years old
Daniel began to earn his own living
| as an errand boy in the Office of the
atlas, which was afterward merged
into the Argus, and it was there he
| acquired all his education and expert
ence. Politics was the principal bus
mess of the Argus, and the boy took
| to it naturally. Mr.. VIM. J. Cassidy,
| the owner of the Argus, was not slow
in discovering the peculiar talents of
his errand boy, and made him re-
porter before he was fifteen years old.
| Manning acquired IN this position an
extensive acquaintance with public
men, as the Argus office was then the
headquarters of the Northern Denoc-
racy. All through the war he report
ed the proceedings of the New York
Senate and all political conventions Of
importance held in the State of New
York. Being thrifty and economical,
he managed not only to support his
mother and sister, but also to acquire
little competency, SO that he could
become shareholder in the Argus Co
when Cassidy, at the close of the war
consolidated his paper with the atlas
and turned his business into stock
company. Manning then became city
editor of the argus and prominent
figure in local politics. At the death
of Cassidy, in 1871, Manning became
the manager Of the Argvs company
and took an active part in the maa
agement of the Commercial National
Bank.
hIr. Manning was member of ths
Democratic State Convention of 1877
that nominated Samuel j. Tilden fol
Governor, and in 1875 a member 0
the st. Louis convention which~nomi
mated Mr.. Tilden for President. Iha
year he. became member OF the Ney
/ York State. central committee, il
| which he was consideredas authorizes
| to speak for Mr. Tilden. Becomin.
! chairman Of that body IN 1882, he es
poused the cause of Cleveland wit
great vigor He was warmly inter
ested in the nomination of Clevelans
| in Chicago In 884, and showed grea
skill in handling the New York dele
cation III the con Vention. Dir. Man
ming was member Of the New Yorl
Democratic State Committee fror
3 1876 to the election of Presiden