The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-12-30


New York city, having failed, the under
signed, their assignee, will sell their stock
at twenty-five cents on the dollar. Ele-
CANT steel-engraved portraits OF Wash
ingtOn, Jefferson, Adams. Monroe, Jack
son, Lincoln, Sherman, Hayes, Garfield,
and Cleveland az fifty cents apiece, five
for 81. and ten for $3.50. Original cost
OF engravings, 100000. On exhibition
from A. NJ. 10 10 p. NJ Please call
and see viii send by mail, on receipt
Of money, postal order, or stamps
The advertisements were printed in
papers of the South, West, and Pacific
Slope. Every one wished such a bargain,
and duly remitted. lie sent the elegant
steel-engrayings, but they we're simply
clean postal stamps on which were the
heads desired
Cigarette Harry" whose other alias
/ is Harry Desmond, and who belongs 10
a very good family in Brooklyn, has just
/ been released from the Buffalo State
Prison, and hangs out in the lowest
dives Of the Sixth ward. Al one time
he was a shrewd and successful dealer in
green goods and sawdust' but
dropped the business when Tom Davis,
the great operator in that field, was shot
and killed by a wouldbe Texan victim.
Afterwards he fell lower and lower, and
| finally Joined the Italian society, the
Malta, and showed the queer" lie
was caught at this by Inspector Drum
mOnd, and tried and convicted in the
! United States Court. Prison life and
dissipation have undermined his cOnsti
tuition, and be will scarcely ever pass
again as leader of the crooks.
Easy Archie is tall and elegant
young man, whose specially is getting
into good society and selling bogus
precious stones TO susceptible women Of
wealth. He has done business in more
than a hundred cities, and has never
netted less than $500 from each victim.
Most of these are too ashamed TO make
complaint against him TO the police, and
keep the secret Of their loss locked up in
their own bOsoms. A few, however,
have stihed pride and taken out
warrants against him, particularly
in Detroit. Cleveland, POughkeepsie,
Hartford. Bangor, Rome, and Buffalo. /
As he uses a different aiias in each place /
he visits he has little or no fear OF ever /
being apprehended. He is a handsome /
young fellow Of about twenty-eight, with /
blonde hair and slight mOustache blue f.
eyes, good complexion and features, tall, /
slender build, slightly STOPPING, well
dressed and tine-mannered. AT present {
he hangs around Parker's restaurant, on
Sixth avenue, and is an object of admira-
tion to the many dudes and fashionable
counter-jumpers who frequent that IA
nous hotel
Lew Martin, who il one Of the most
ingenious and the least Objectionable Of
the New York crooks, is thriving as he
has done for at least ten years. His spe-
cialty is fleeing susceptible men who
svmpathize with young ladies who adyer-
tise their woes. One summer he spent in
Poughkeepsie, having advertised in one
of the New York dailies the following
appeal under the head of Personal A
young lady of great beauty and refine
ment, but no means, desires TO go upon
the stage Yassar graduate. VIII some
gentleman assist her in her trouble : Ad- (
dress X Po'k'psie."
And in another daily, this piteous ap-
peal "a beautiful widow, not yet twenty,
desires a loan of $500 upon her house
hold furniture, which cost $4,000, in
order TO start a summer clearinghouse.
Only refined gentlemen need apply"
Each notice brought in bushel Of re-
,ponses. and nearly every writer sent not
ess than $40 bymail TO Poughkeepsie TO
bring the graduate, or the fair widow, TO
New York city He claims, and though
. crook he is rather truthful than other
wise. that the sweet girl graduate netted
s4O0 end the widow $3.50.
Six tea-gowns,' said a chatty little
French dressmaker, pointing 20 six heaps
If velvet aud lace ana ribbons and fur. {
An 10 shine uLder the candlelight al I
fternoons next week Two in black and !
chite Two IN white and gold. Women I
dore white and gold this winter. Two
n green. Women lose their heads over Q
.reen this winter The black ana 3
ghite tea-gowns were very smart, IN
eed. One was a rich, soft-piled black
elyet of plain princesse cut but ex' )
nisite in. fit, quite loose and easy, YET l
edniue every graceful curye OF the
orr, II had a Watteau back and opened [
ver front of white surah. The other
ras a truly delightful black cashmere, !
vith deem border Of d-embroldery, /
lock ON black about the bottom. IL had Z
loose blouse front Of pale-cream SILK, Z
nd the waist was confined by peasant
odice OF black velvet laced with black
ords The loose. full sleeves were gath /
red into velvet cuts.
One Of the white and gold tea-gowns
-as OF gold and white brocaded SATIN, a
he ground being gold and the raised
cures white. 1t fell open from the q
5roat 10 show a blouse vest and petit I
oat of fine white Spanish point in de- y
.cns of flower garlands looped with rlo' o
ons the design being outlined on the '
zoe in gold thread. The waist was en-
ircled hv a broad sash of liberty silk OF
male cold. The second gold and white
was of amber velvet, the y
,lor being rather subd1ed than bright n
he blouse front was OF cream lace y
rsned very full and fastening with CO. I
nettish bows of narrow ribbon at the K
de al the edges, fronts, collar, and y
,irt were bordered heavily with black d
M. II made what they call this winter :
! old master" tea-gown. y
One Of the pretty gowns being made
~ Mrs Cleveland by a New York dress
aker is gray velvet tea-gown. IL Is
n I'm a novel fashion, loosely draped, Il
xe a Turkish robe, almost covered with al
nbroidery in silver and fastened at the n
roat and waste with large frosted-sil- al
y ornaments. This supper dress is Il
Ithout sleeves, and is lined with white ei
X and hung so as to show the lining 81
lie. Under II Is worn a petticoat OF Il
hite MORE. the sleeves being also OF m
Is material. Gray velvet slippers, "
lished with white bows, and two snow n
rite humming birds for the hair, are the
cessories Of this dainty White-House
be.
one of the most beautiful of the new G
ported tea-gowns belongs TO Mrs. d
ank Leslie. Il is Of Dubarry pink b
ocade-a kind Of modified salmon Al
ured in dark red, and is long and full n
the back. with hanging sleeves, The II
,nt 3 gathered mass OF salmon
Iored guFah, caught a. the waist BY an [