The Washington critic., 1888-06-13
NOTES AND GOSSIP.

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PHILADELPHIA Is to have four new
theatres next season.
CALroRNtA PEACHES of brilliant color
and fair flavor are now In the New York
market, and cost 81 to $3.50 0perd dozen.
A NEW NOVEL Is in press, entitled "a
Virginia Inheritance tits by Mr.. Ed
mund Pendlcton, Minister Pendleton'
brother
REv. DIR. JOYCE, the newly-elcctod
Methodist Bishop will take leave Of his
Cincinnati congregation CSt Paul's) next
Sunday morning.
THE FIRST LARGE shipment of water.
melons for the season arrived in New
York Monday. II was consignment Of
l2,OOO from Southern Florida.
TIE CoLoRED ASSOCIATION of Mississippi
have started paper at Jackson called the
Republican, to be run IN the interest of
the colored race and the Republican
party.
CHRlsrrANK. Ross has been reappointed
Master Warden of the Port of Philadel-
phia for three years. On July / IL will be
fourteen years since his son Charlie was
stolen.
PRoFEssoR CARL T. GRAMMEB of the
Episcopal Seminary Of Virginia will sail
for Europe on tho Aurania, June 80, 10
spend the summer in Germany, France
and Great Britain.
Little sister, little brother
Take pencil and slate,
Add one thousand to another
The result should be the date,
Eighteen hundred eighty-eight.
-Tnur ittlp Man mud WnnpD
AK EXCURSION PARTY of leading New
Orleans merchants and business men will
leave that city Saturday by special train
of Pullman coaches for Denver, Colorado,
with view of establishing closer trade
relations between the two points,
SAYS A BosToN correspondent; "With
the death of Emerson, Alcott and James
Freeman Clarke, the old transcendental
circle is almost gone. Rev. DR.. Bartol
and Rev. DR. Hedge, the latter of whom
is eighty, are all who now remain"
SAYS THE NEW YoRK Graphic of Chiel
Clerk Youmans of the Treasury Depart
ment: "Hc is bright, bree7y, kindly
sc!low, with good knowledge of human
nature and with administrative ability
far above the usual grade of the ordinary
oiliCeholder."
Mn. GoRHAM's recent striking article in
the New York Herald: "Roscoe Conkling
Vindicated-lTis Controversy with Mr..
Blaine, 1866; His Resignation from the
Senate and the Causes that Led to It
1850" has been published in nea
pamphlet form and is having a widt
circulation.
SENATOR EDMUNDsi is preparing for "Tht
Forum an article on "Ihe Political
Situahon," and Senator Hampton vii
shortly have in the same publication {
statement ofwhat Mr.. Cleveland's admin
istrauon has done toward reuniting the
North and the South and Matchmaking
the Southern people.
CHARLES Il. WHITNEY, who died at New
Orleans last Saturday, was one of the
most valued men on the editorial staff o.
the Times Democrat, and was highly es
teemed both in literary and journalistic
circles. He was graduate of the Uni
versity of Louisiana and studied law il
the office of the late William II. Hunt
Secretary of the Navy.
TIE OLDEST MEMBER of the Masonic
order in this country is said to be Thomas
II. Brown, who resides near Glen's Falls
anu WtlenuSu lllc lulc llccbluB VI wv
Grand Lodge in New York. He is 81
years of age, and was made a MasoI
sixty.five years ago. His father was |
Revolutionary soldier and, with Others
called on General Washington when h,
visited Concord, Mass, and Mr.. Brown
remembers very distinctly seeing Wash
ington on this occasion.
The ST. GEORGE MEMORIAL building OF
Sixteenth street, New York, which Mr.. ant
Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan have lately pre-
sented to ST.. Georges Church, is to b
clergy, for vestry meetings, lectures, etc.
but will also have q gymnasium, smoking
room, billiard room, library, and othe
appointments of first-class club-hous
not inconsistent with its religious uses
| II is the first and only establishment o
the kind in the country.