Mohave County miner., 1890-03-29
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Correspondence Of The MisER.

Correspondence OF The MrsEK
WAsHIsGToS, March IL, 1890.
The death Of William Preston Taolbee,
the ex-Representative, shot by Charles
Il. Kincaid, correspondent Of the Louis
vile Timas, makes one Of the most dis
| tressing murders that Washington has
known in many years. The murderer is
prostrated by the result Of his act and in
his frail health and excitable temper
ament his physicians fear that he will die
before the case can be tried. The feelings
Of KentuckiaDs here are much divided.
One would suppose at first from the
newspaper accounts that sympathy was
all with Kincaid, but now that 1t is es-
tablished that he pursued his man and
shot him before he could turn, sympathy
Ia going the other way.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge in
troduced his long talked OF Federal elec-
ton bill in the House Saturday. The bill
has the essential features Of the Austria
Ian ballot system and provides for tn 0
Federal supervision Of elections The
system now in force in Massachusetts is
made applicable to the entire country in
congressional and presidential elections.
Each polling place is put in charge Of six
judges or supervisors, three representing
each polit ical party. Voters who cannot
read or write may have tickets marked
by one supervise. in tho presence Of an
other Of the opposite party. Primarily
the elections are in control Of The States,
but upon tho petition Of FIVE hundred
voters in any district the Federal govern
ment will take absol ute control. On this
clause the fight will be long and hot.
From the day the last excursion boat
on the Potomac ties up late in the fall
until the spring morning when the whis-
ties sound again, the average Washing
tonian, he Of limited recourses and
boundless desires on Sundays, stays late
in bed. The Sabbath sun has looked
scor nfully down the deserted streets for
good three hours catching only OCCASION
al glimpses Of policeman or a belated
rounder. an early milkman or an enter
prising news boy, before the town gets
up. And whether he look out through
cracked window panes or through lace
cur,ained French plate, the citizen votes
that 1T will be, like all Sundays at the
Capital, dull day, that is, he so votes il
he he worldly citizen.
1t has come to be locally proyerb that
that Washington is dull town on Sum
day. The stray visitor from New Orleans
tells you SO with many sighs for the mat
inee and the lake, and the shell road.
The st. Louis man, bitter from loss Of
the fair, endorses him. The Cincinnati
tourist longs for his native hill-tops. The
New Yorker is lost in astonishment.
Washington is voted dull town on the
Sabbath.
To him who is not lost to the beauties
ola May morning graclously given to
windy March, the suburbs and the road
houses beyond offer some compensation.
The wheelmen know this and while the
majority Of mankind stop at home and
grumble they are away over the hills,
owe roads full of historic "reminiscences,
to Tenalytown, Bladensburg, or ancient
Alexandria, fast asleep between the slug
gish Potomac and the Virginia hills. II
is nightfall before these silent wheels
again strike the magnificent city streets,
bringing thousand glimmering rows Of
lanterns, like meteors, flashing through
| the shadows.
| The citizen who goes abroad on horae,-
back, and he is generally accompanied
by the citizeness, enjoys the day and has
the additional advantage OF knowing that
this fad is in full fashion. There are few
cities in this country that contain more
good riders, perhaps no city Of the same
| population. The members Of the foreign
legations set the style, and the riding
academies have done yeoman service III
developing the riding talent that slnu-
bered-undeveloped In society. /
| What OF the rest Of mankind and
womankind who are not devoted to an
orthordox observance OF the day and who
remain in town?
| They walk hard and long. Up Con.
necticut Avenue, over On Capitol hill,
they wander ike uneasy spirits. Their
chief summer joys, going down the river
on excursions and going up the river
rowing, are not yet open to them. So
they must needs walk.
Il And the character Of the crowds vary.
Between lower Pennsylvania avenue and
Connecticut avenue on a sunshiny winter
afternoon, there is the difference between
wealth and poverty, the difference be-
tween content and misery, the difference
between the ins and outs. About the
down town hotels is large sprinkling
Of shutting, shabby gentllity, confident
or abashed as the case may be, but OBJ
viously shabby.
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