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The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
Recent Elections Held.

Harmony Lodge No. 81 Knights of
Pythias, have elected and installed ofli-
GERS as follows for the ensuing term: p.
c., John e. Wagner; c. c., Andrew Poul-
son; V. c., Elmer Il. Gist prelate, George
w. Heisley; NJ. of e., VIM. II. Talbot
18th term); X. of r. and s., James IL.
Quay 18th term; NJ. at A., Winter Il.
Bowen; l. g., VIM. Il. Garner; o. g.,
Nicholas Raynor.
Last evening the following officers of
Goodwill Council No. 0, Sons of Jonadab
were installed for the ensuing term; p.
G., Edward Herbert; w. c., VIM. Os-
borne; V. g., VIM. Gettinger; w. p, Ber-
nardine l. Dove; II. s., George d. Biggs;
Il. s., Francis ID. Clement T., j. ID. Nor
ris; w. G. Lewis, !. Ries; A. g., George
Walker; /. W.. Charles I. Whittier; o.
W., VIM. Danster.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
THE ACTOR.
oh, man, with your wonderful DOVER
Oh, woman, with genius and grace
You can teach the whole world by your

Oh man, with your wonderful dover
Oh, woman, with genius and grace
You can teach the whole world by youl
power,
Ifyou are but worthy the place.
The stage is force and a factor
In moulding the thought of the day,
If only the heart of the actor
Is high as the theme of the play.
No Discourse no sermon can reach us
Through feeling 10 reason like you;
No author can stir us or teach us,
With lessons so subtle and true
Your words and your gestures obeying,
We weep or rejoice with your part,
And the player behind all his playing,
He ought to be great at his art J
No matter what role you are giving,
No matter what skill you betray,
The everyday life you are living
Is certain to color the play.
The thoughts we call secret and hidden,
Are creatures of malice in fact
They steal forth unseen and unbidden,
And permeate motive and act.
The genius that shines like a comet
Fills only one part of Gods plan,
So the lesson the world derives from ii
Is marred by the life of the man.
Be worthy your work If you love it,
The king should be fit for the crown;
Stand high as your art or above it,
And make us look up--and not down
ELLA Wheeler Wilcox.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
Prominent Hotel Arrivals.

METRoPoMTAN.-Z. p. Landrum, Co
lumbus, Miss; w. II. Gile, Massachu-
sets; S II. Ewin, West Virginia; j. NJ.
Shippard, st. Louis, Mo,
NATIoNAL.-Vi Victor u. Piolett, Pennsyl.
vania; Il. l.. fancy Bangor, Maine; d. T.
Howan, Springfield, Mass; John +. Ryan,
Virgi inia; John #. Davis, Maryland,
ST. JAMES Henry G. Hubbard and
wife, Detroit Mich; James Hudson,
Richmond, Va; f. ii. Fiske, New York
HARRIS HoUsE.--P. l.. Hughes, Idaho
w. l.. wilkins, Cincinnati.
WILLARD's.- Q. Menzies, Cincinnati
John =. Sebru and wife Jefferson City
Mo-; c. IL. McLane, New York.
ItIGGs.--J. u, Harris, Mississippi; Hon
w. II. Hatch, wife and daughter, Hanni
bal, Mo-; j. 7. Hutchinson, Chicago.
WELcKER's.-Count I LeGrand, Paris
France.
WoRMLEYs Wager Swayne, New
York; Thomas II. Weeks, Carmel, n. Y.
ARLINGToN.-M. +. Boyle, st. Louis
Mo-; j. w. Steere, Maine; Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Cooley; Presiden
Angel Of Michigan University.
EBBITT-J. B. Sner, Boston; Charles A
Burditt, Boston; d. Ii. Whallen, Lexing
ton, Ky.
CnAMBERLIN's.- and Mrs John G
Moore, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Tuck, MI
and Mrs. w. III. Cannon, A. b. Hart AM
Daniel Winslow of New York.
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AN EPIDEMIC OF MEASLES
A Large Number of Deaths Result
from the Disease.

A Large Number of Deaths Result
from the Disease.
Inquiry ut the Health Office reveals
the fact that there is an epidemic of
measles in the city. Seven deaths re-
suited from this disease last week, and
about the same number during the
present week. A medical gentleman
informed CRITIC reporter to-day that
seven deaths represent more than a
thousand cases. Health Officer Town
shend was seen by the reporter and
he stated that the measles prevailing
at the present time are not of the
malignant type, and so many deaths
necessarily represent great many
cases. He said the disease got a foot
ing first in the southwest section, but
it has now spread to the northwest,
and, in fact, every neighborhood has
its measles.
1--WE have not had an epidemic of
contagious disease since 1884," said
the doctor, when the measles was
very prevalent, and the number of
deaths therefrom quite heavy"
lie suSSeolS W paIcitS Wno nave
small children to be very careful about
sending them to school, for one child
with the measles will inoculate the
whole school. If the children are
kept isolated for short time he thinks
the disease will gradually die ont. The
sanitary condition of the city, he
says, was never better, and, with
care, the disease can be stamped out.
He said, however, that the disease,
in his opinion, is at its height, and
with ordinary care it will get nc
| worse.
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STUNG BY JEALOUSY.
"Buck" Gibson Stabs Charles Orang.
with Carving Knife.

with "a Carving Knife.
Both Charles Orange and "Buck"
Gibson, colored, loved a colored girl
named "Julia," who lives at 1743 L
street northwest. Julia rather IA
vored Oranges suit and this aroused
the green-eyed monster in "Buck's"
breast to such an extent that he
stuck carving knife into Orange.
four times.
Oranges story, as told to q CRITIc
reporter to-day, is that he went to see
the girl, who lives in q tumble-down
frame house across the street from the
one in which Orange lives, and while
he was upstairs some one came into
the house downstairs with consider
able noise. Orange started to leave,
but the girl asked him TO wait till
"Moses" came. Charles consented,
and q few moments later "Buck"
came in quietly and stabbed him twice
in the back, and afterward once in the
breast and once in the left groin with
a carving knife, the last very Sc
we're wound, from which the viscera
protruded.
Gibson made his escape and Orange
was taken across the street to his home
at l742, where he was attended by a
physician. He was not taken TO the
hospital, and still lies at his house in
a precarious condition. ''Buck" Glib
son has very unsavory reputation,
and it is understood that warrant
was issued for his arrest before the
commission of this crime.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
ELECTIONS.
The Latest From Chicago.

A large number of Chicago girls met
one evening last week for the purpose of
forming Ladies' Anti-Slang Society"
The meeting was called TO order and Miss
Sadie De Pork was elected president
Before taking her seat, she said in clear,
calm, well-modulated voice:
"Really, girls, / am too badly ratified by
the honor conferred upon me to give you
much of my CUFF. It's the first time ever
| tumbled to anything OF this sort, and
ever I'll try to be sufficiently up to snuff
not to let any flies light on me while do
ing the t-of-this-society-act. I'm
with you in this move and don't any of
you forget it. All over our land slang
phrases are multiplying like flies in
sorghum time, and II is our duty to help
Let our motto be, Shoot the slangist.' F"
--[lid-B Bits
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
n1vrIY srAsoN AHEAD.
The Columbia Athletic Club Elect :
New Governing Board.

The Columbia Athletic Club Elect
New Governing Board.
Things athletic promise to be lively
during the coming season. Though
it is now too early for any Of the clubs
to have decided definitely what they
will do the preliminary work IS being
done with vim that promises TO
make the season notable one. The
new board of governors of the Column
bia Athletic Club are men who know
what good sports are and can make a
thing go when they undertake it.
The newly-electod officers of the club
are as follows; President, G. A..
Bradbury; vice.presidcnt, James f.
Hood; secretary, Howard Perry; treas
urer, II. b. Ievcly; director Of ath-
letics, S. w. Stinemetz; captain, w.
Howard Gibson first lieutenant, l..
II. Reed; second lieutenant, II. w.
Ryan.
The affairs of the club are managed
by q board of governors, who meet
at stated intervals and arrange all the
clubs events and attend to all other
business. 1t is divided into two
classes, called the first and second,
which are elected for one and two
years respectively. The members of
the board of governors just elected
are rs follows: First class Ito serve
one year)-E. A. Newman, w. IL.
Gibson, A. l.. May, G. II. Kennedy,
Lieutenant N. T.. Mason and w. Dam
enhower; second class Ito serve two
years)-George l.. Scarborough, S. w.
Stinemetz, Carter Marbury. Mills
Dean, Dorsey Brown and w. I. IIar-
ban. This board will meet tonight at
the club house, on Fourteenth street,
when u start will probably be made
toward arranging next seasons pro-
orammp
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
HURLED FROM A TRAIN.

Surgeon Gassaway's Son Meets with
Instant Death.
A peculiar accident, attended with
fatal results, occurred on a West
bound train of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway yester-
day morning, while the train was
passing Westiield, N. V, by which a
young son of DIR. James NJ. Gassaway
of the Marine Hospital Service lost his
life. DIR. Gassaway, who was under
travelling orders from Portland, Me-,
to Cairo, H., was accompanied by his
son, James, II years of age. In pass
ing from the drawing-room car to the
dining car, while the train was rum
ming rapidly, with q gale of wind blow
ing, the lad was lifted from the plat
form and hurled to the ground and
instantly killed. A gentleman on
the platform, who tried to catch the
boy, was also thrown from the train,
but not seriously injured.
DR.. Gassaway is well known in
Washington, where at one time he
was prominent Knight of Pythias
and the manager of the Southern
Telegraph Company. He is the
brother of Frank Gassaway, better
known as Derrick Dodd" of the San
Francisco Post. He also has a brother
in the PostotIice Department and two
sisters in Washington. Mrs. Gass-
away did not accompany her husband,
but was on her way to North Carolina
to spend the winter for the benefit of
the health of one of her other chill
dren. The remains will arrive here
on Monday and be inferred in Oak
Hill Cemetery. The lad was u very
promising one, and unusually bright
for one of his age, and the parents
have the sympathy of their friends.
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drivers on their stands and in their
homes when sick or dying, and pub
lish u monthly periodical called Iho
Cdbmdn, expressly for them. There is
An AMUgING INCIDENT
told Of an old lady of imperfect vision,
mistaking the shelter for car. She
calmly seated herself, and when at
last her patience became exhausted,
exclaimed; "When will this car move
on2"
THE RULE OF THE ROAD.
The rule for pedestrians is the same
as in America, but vehicles always
turn TO the left, as shown by the fol-
lowing lines:
The Rule of the Road is paradox quite;
For, as you are driving along, sir;
II You Keep to the Left, youll surely go
YOU Keep to the Right you1l go wrong,
sir.
THE PEOPLES PALACE.
The novel "All Sorts and Con-
ditions of Men," by Walter Besant,
caused the building of the Peoples
Palace in the cast end of the city for
working people, where there is recrea-
ton and instruction provided for
them The Queen opened the Palace
last summer, and all members of the
royal family take great interest in all
the exhibitions and entertainments
provided for the working classes.
Last week II. X. II. the Prince of
Wales, opened the Apprentices Exhi-
bition.
STREET vENDERs.
Among the most interesting sights
of a Saturday night are the number
less venders selling their wares on the
crowded thoroughfares. 1t is curious
to see a street comparatively quiet
during the day turned into a market
at dark. The stands are lighted with
flaming torches, and the traders sup
ply everything from umbrellas,
pictures and buttons to oysters on the
half shell, such rs they are, and
fruit and vegetables. Indeed it would
be difficult to think of an article in
common use not found on these
stands. The different venders have a
cry peculiarly their own, and one has
no more idea from the sound of their
voices to what they wish to call at.
tention than if they spoke foreign
tongue. AT the corners of the streets
shooting at targets is INDUCED in, and
the many fancy flags and ornaments
for the holidays glisten in the light Of
the torches. 1t being near Christmas
the shops are all the more brilliantly
| illuminated, and the markets are made
bright by decorations of holly and
mistletoe. Proprietors of certain
large stores give a bullock each X-mas
to the poor of their neighborhood anC
for several weeks previous the live
animal stands in the butchers shor
or market place attracting general
attention. b.
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On Their Way TO FLORIDA,

The officers and help of the new "Ho-
tel Ponce de Leon" at st. Augustine,
Fla, numbering 200 people, accompanied
by Joyce's Military Band, passed through
this city yesterday on special train of
Pullman cars on the wayto st. Angus
tine. This is the new and magnificent
hotel built by Mr.. II. NJ. Flagler of New
York, and will throw its doors open TO
the public for the first time next Tues
day. Mr.. J. II. White, New York agent
of the Atlantic Coast Line, was in charge
of the party
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
The Ohase LibcI Case

James NJ. Kicks charged William @.
Chase, editor Of the Bee, and John L.
Bruce, reporter on the paper, with libel,
The accused were arrested last night and
released on their own personal bonds,
The case was continued in the Police
Court this morning until next Thursday.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
Bill NnlIy Knocked Ahont.

A sparing exhibition was given at the
Nayy-Yard last night for the benefit of
Jim X the Baltimore lightweight.
The final number of the programme was
a set-to between keenan, and Nally, local
celebrity keenan, forced Nally oil the
stage in the second round and in the third
completely knocked him out. The police
stopped further proceedings
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
The Brosnan Case Again

Attorney Riddle has sent another opin-
ion in the Brosnan license case to the
Commissioners. In this one he says the
difficulty is in the nature of clerical
error. He suggests that both Brosnan and
his opponents should have day, and
Brosnan be allowed to make good his
case, and both parties be represented by
counsel
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
The stratton Case Ended.

The case against Frazier d. Stratton,
charged with the larceny of a chain from
Achille Oliverie, was ended in the Police
Court this morning, Judge Smell taking
Stratton's personal recognizance.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
A Total EcIipse

ofall other medicines by DIR. r. V. Pieroe's
Golden Medical Discovery" is approach
ng. Unriyalled in bilious disorders, inn
pure blood and consumption, which is
scr0iulops disease Of the lungs.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07

Special Train on Il. and o. II. II.
To accommodate persons attending the
Booth-Barrett performances in Baltimore
from January 8 to II, inclusive, special
train will leave depot Of b. and o. r. r.,
Camden Station, every night during the
week at AS p. IN, for Washington.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Petroleum.

B. X. Plain & Co., st. Cloud Building,
furnish the following Oil quotations.
Closed yesterday, 93; opened to-day, OIL
highest, 9l3; lowest, 93s; 2:l6 p. M, 9is.
New York Stock Market.
The following have been furnished by
b. X. Plain Il Co., Brokers, st. Cloud
Building, Ninth and Il Streets
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07

THE USUAL TREATMENT OF catarrh is very
unsatisfactory, as thousands of despairing
worthy medical writer says: "Proper local
treatment is positively necessary TO sue
cess, but many, if not most of the remedies
in general use by physicians afford but
temporary benefit A cure certainly can
not be expected from snuiis, powders,
douches and washes" Ely's Cream Balm
is remedy which combines the important
requisites Of quick action, specific curative
power, with perfect safety and pleasant
ness 70 the patient.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
CITY. NEWS rARAoRAPHs.


The German Orphan Asylum will
have its Christmas exercises tomorrow
evening.
The fremont Club was yesterday in-
corporated by VIM. Finn, John Hopper
and G. II. Weeks
The Y. M. G. A. parlors were filed to
overfiowing last evening, Professor r. w.
Prentiss lecture on Light and Lighting
being the attraction.
The Philosophical Society will hold
memorial meeting i'm the lecture-room Of
the Columbian University next Wednes-
day evening in honor of Professor Spencer
Fullerton Baird.
The Washington Grove Young Peo-
pies Association met last night and ar
ranged TO have one member of the execu-
tive committee appointed by the pastor of
each church connected with Washington
Grove.
Judge Merrick yesterday divorced
John @. Detweiler from Elizabeth, whom
he married in July, 1881. Mr.. Detweiler
is q pressman and could not stay at home
nights as he had to work. lie said that
while he was at work Elizabeth used 10
allow other men to come to the house and
replace him in her affections. Mrs. Dot
weller did not make any defense except
recriminating charges.
East Washington.
"Three-Handed People is Edmond
Hez Swem's subject Sunday night in the
Second Baptist Church. Fourth street and
Virginia avenue southeast.
An autobiography left by Garibaldi Is
soon to be published
JTOR RENT-BUILDING COG ST n W;
H well located for office purposes; can be
leased for term OF years, or will be eX~
changed for smaller property.
SwORMSTEDT G. BRADLEY.
TOR SALE OR EXCHANGE--yLLUABLE
~ business property ON st, bet 9th and
swoRMsTEDT & BRADLEY.
E,OR RENT-TO RESPECTABLE :COLORED
IL people, pleasant new brick houses four
rooms; water, yards, sheds; $40 each; be-
tween 9th and 18th and Il and G. sts Q.
| SMORMsTEDT q BRADLEY, 027 + st n W.
TOR RENT-41T 18TH ST. 5. f., TWO-STORY
| II brick dwelling; six rooms; water, gas
and porch; parking In 'front.' SIS, 80; also, 10
| Fenton Place W, two-story brick; five rooms;
| 5000. swoRMsTEDT 4 BRADLEY, o2T
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NAME. o. l12m1 NAME.

Chicago Markets.
The following summary is by b. X.
Plain e. Co., st Cloud Building, Ninth
and + streets;
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
East Washington.

-"Three-H Handed People" is Edmond
Hez Swem's subject Sunday night in the
Second Baptist Church, Fourth street and
Virginia avenue southeast.
The Washington critic., 1888-01-07
THE "CRITIC" ABROAD.
Some Startling Ideas of the Size of
the British Metropolis.
THE BUS AND CABMEN.
Opening of the Peoples Palace
The Busy street Vendors.

LONDON, Esq, Dec. PA great
many of your readers have been to
London, and yet they know little or
nothing about it. ] do not believe
there is anyone in this metropolis
who is acquainted with all its parts
and districts. IT'S statistics are upon
such an enormous scale that we are
astounded when told Of them. 1t is
only by comparison that we can COM
prehend London facts. The census
of 1881 showed a population of 3,SOl,
571 within the metropolitan area, and
within the ffteen-mile radius 4,5OO,-
600, large proportion of the 25,96S,-
2s6 returned for all England and
Wales.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-07-05
Stung to Death.

An old man named Timothy Dwight
Williams, living alone in Lebanon, Ct,
was recently stung to death by his
bees, which he had undertaken to hive
as he found them swarming on a cherry
tree limb. He had mounted the tree,
taking a saw and rope with him, and
while crawling out upon a limb it
broke. To save the fall, he grabbed
the branch upon which the hive was
swarming, and broke that too. Thus
he fell to the ground with the swarm,
and was Immediately attacked by
them. In falling he broke his leg and
was unable to escape. Almost every
exposed portion of the body had been
punctured by the poisoned stings, and
when his clothing was removed, many
bees which had crawled between the
clothing and the skin were released.
The accumulation of poison in the veins
had evidently been enough to cause
death within an hour or so. The whole
body must have been covered with
bees, like hive upon tree limb.
The pathological investigation was
not as complete as will yet be made,
but to the naked eye there was evil
dence of complete change in the color
of the blood, Indicating the poison was
powerful enough to destroy the vitality
of the cOrpuscles, so that they did not
take up oxygen enough to vitalize the
blood.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-07-05
How the Pastures are Ruined.

The man who lets his cows gather
up the nutritious grasses all day, takes
them home at night to gather for his
own use the sublimed product of that
nutrition, and sends them back empty,
to go through the same process the
next day, will find after a while, warns
the New England farmer, that the pro-
fits are small and great ways off.
You wouldn't expect business man to
succeed unless he paid his debts. No
more can you. Look up your account
with the old pasture now. See what
you have got out of it, and then try to
pay back an equivalent. You are not
a successful farmer if you cannot do it,
nor an honest one if you will not. Put
in a lot of stock and brace them up
with a supplemented feed. But, you
say, they will not fertilize all parts
alike. Pshaw You advanced that
argument because you didn't want to
turn them ont at night or get them up
in the morning. Build a movable
yard in the poorest part of your pas
ture for your stock at night. All but
you want the manure to put somewhere
else. That's it. Now you have let the
cat out. That's what you have been
doing all these years, and that's why
your pasture has failed.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-07-05
SHERlFF'S SALE.

Attached on writ and held on Execution in same
case in favor of Ira F. Batchelder vs. Benjamin
F. Smith the following described Real Estate in
the town of Hardwick in Caledonia county and
state of Vermont, being the land that A. Y. Gray
and LonOdes Gray decided Benjamin F. Smith
April 20 1880, said deed recorded in book 13, page
$50 of Hardwick land records, and which land in
said deed is described follows
Being the land and premises Susan R. Aiken and
Frances G. Aiken decided Charles A. Cook, March
"a 1873, reserving out of the land the land
said Cook decided C.. Z. McCrilis, being about six
acres, and conveying with premises herein decided
all rights to water connected with said premises
and belonging to the same including right to bring
water from a well on Warren Williams premises
set forth in said Aiken deed Said land in
amount sixty more or less. Said Aiken deed
to said Cook recorded in book b page 253 of Hard
wick land records. Said land here described is
mOrtgaged.
am directed by the creditor in execution above
named to extend and levey said execution on said
land above described.
L will sell at public auction, to the highest bid
der at the post office in Hardwick village in the
town of Hardwick on the 18th day OF July, A. ID.
1888, at o'clock in the afternoon, the debtor s
right in equity of redeeming the land above de-
scribed being all the right and interest the debtor
has in said land for the purpose of satisfying the
execution above described and alt costs the
same.
Dated at Hardwick, June &c, A. D. 1888.
47-59 a. Z. WAKEFIELD, Dept Sheriff