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The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
ALEXANDRIA.

The rehearsal of the Musical Associa-
ton last night was unusually fine. The
vocal soloist was Mr.. H. Il. Statham of
Washington, whose sweet baritone voice
was perhaps never heard to better advan-
tage. The flute playing of Messrs. Provost
and Gottlieb of Baltimore was feature of
the evening" and each of the trios were
encored each time. The programme con-
sisted of twenty numbers. The hall was
packed as usual.
Mr.. Henry Coxon, the butcher, was
found dead in an clubhouse at his home in
the western portion of the city this morn
ing, His death was from heart disease.
He was about 50 years or age, and leaves
widow and several children. The fu-
neral takes place from st. Mary's Church
tomorrow afternoon.
A charter has been granted by Judge
Norton to the Albemarle Land and Lum-
ber Company of Boston, Mass. The cap
ital stock is $3.50, 900, divided into ten-dol-
lar shares. The officers are northern men.
Col. l.. w. Reid is one of those interested.
Messrs. Know & Herndon to-day sold
the Padgett property. The house and
store was bought in by Mrs. Padgett for
S3,250; the stock of the new (Bethel
Cemetery, whose original value was $50
per share, sold at $50 and $S73, showing
decided enhancing valuation of all sorts
of property here.
A colored man living in the West End
few nights ago took some coal oil
favored with salt and died before morn
ing in terrible agony.
A little colored girl died after several
days of lockjaw, caused by a fall while
jumping rope. The children say she
jumped over $50 times and then tripped
and fell, striking her head.
The stone that stuck in the front of the
old Lancaster school building eighty odd
years has been inserted in the side of the
new Washington school building.
William Graw, who had an operation
performed upon him yesterday for kid
ney complaint, is much better to-day.
He IS an estimable Colored man, and, per-
haps, the wealthiest colored man in the
State. His estate is valued at 100000.
lie is butcher.
1t is said Sheriff Veitch of the county,
will be opposed by some who say he could
break up the Jackson City hells. 1t is
nonsense, and he is too much appreciated
to be retired, tho Democrat.
Tomorrow the Sheriff will have a big
posse and look around the Virginia shore
from Chain to Long Bridge.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

NEW YORK, May S.-Money loaned at 3
per cent. Exchange closed steady; posted
rates, 4S5 tor sixty days, and 4S9 for de-
mand; actual rates. 1884 for sixty days
and 1881 for demand.
Governments, currency, 6's, 1l3 bid; Is,
coup, 100; 44s do, l0l bid.
Pacific Railroad bonds closed as follows;
Union Firsts, 10S1 bid do. Sinking Funds,
los bid Centrals, 1887 bid.
The stock market was moderately
active during the two hours of business
to-day, while prices were weak and de-
clined throughout. There was a heavy
selling of all the leading stocks, especi-
allv of st. Paul, Louisville and Nashville
Burlington, Chicago Gas, Atchison, Mis-
souri, Pacific. Prices went steadily down
to the close. The unfavorable showing
by the bank statement made public at
1880 increased the weakness and prices
closed at the lowest figures. The bank
statement showed a loss in the reserves of
$2,670, $50. The decline ranged from to
> per cent Sales l67, 132 shares.
Washington Stock Exchange.
Reported for THE CRITIC by Gurley e.
Stevens, real estate and local securities,
1885 L street northwest.
Sales-Regular call, IL o'clock M
D. C. is of 1891, 5000 1921. West End
Nat. Bank, 3 a 101; 5 a 10l. Cap. & North
o st. r. r., 90 50; 10 50. Eck'n S Sol,
Home r. r., 20 81; 20 50s; ~ a 80.
Nat. Union ms, 80 1Sl; so Is. Col.
Fire ms, 80 1Gl. Potomac lns., 10 80.
Pneumatic Gun Carriage, 100 So cents.
After call-Electric Light Rights,
IS 5a24.
Miscellaneous Bonds-W. & G. r. r.
1910 6s, R'93-'23. 104; w. IL G. r. r.
Convertible 6s '99'29, 1876; Masonic Hall
Assn SIS, G 1908, 1O4l; Wash. Market Co.
LIST G's 1S92-l911, no. Wash. Market Co.,
Imp. 6's 19l2'27, ZIG; Amer. Security and
Trust, SIS, 1905, 100; Wash. Light In
fantry, ,lst 6's, 1904, 100; Washington Light
Infantry, I'd rs, 1904, 9S; Wash. Gas Co.
Ser. A, 6's, 1902'27, 125; Wash. Gas. Co.
Ser. b, 6s, 1904l29, 127!; Wash. Gas Co.
Convertible 6's. 1901. 100.
National Bank Stocks-Bank of Wash
ington, 400; Bank of Republic, 270; Met
ropolitan, $50; Central, 800; Second, 1Si;
Farmers and Mechanics, 100; Citizens
10; Columbia, 150; Capital, 125; West
End, 101; Traders, Ia; Lincoln, 100.
Railroad Stocks. = Washington and
Georgetown, 2l0; Metropolitan, ITO; Co.
so; lexington and Soldiers Home, 4S;
Georgetown and Tenallytown, 62}.
Insurance Stocks - Firemen's, AZ;
Franklin, So; Metropolitan, 80; National
Union, IS; Arlington. 176; Corcoran, 6S;
Columbia, l63; German American, 1S5;
Potomac, rs; Riggs, s; Peoples, 81; Lin
coin, g. Commercial At.
| Title Insurance Stocks.-Real Estate
Title, 12S; Columbia Title, 6s.
Gas and Electric Light Stocks.-Wash-
ington Gas, 433; Georgetown Gas, As; U.
S. Electric Light, 1881.
Telephone Stocks.-Pennsylvania, 25;
Chesapeake 81 Potomac, 5S; American
Graphophone, 81.
Miscellaneous Stocks-W Washington Mar.
ket, Is; Bull Run Panorama, 16: Pneu-
matte Gun Carriage, I; Great Falls Ice
$50.
Safe Deposit and Trust Companies
ton Loan and Trust, 95l; Amer. Security
| and Truet 703
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
IF YOU WEAR SHOES

The makers OF the celebrated Crawford Shoe
claim that money brains, the best OF material
and well-paid, skilled labor combined have en-
abled them to produce shoe equal in every
respect TO those made by 'custom shoemak-
ere, for which from $40 to SIG was charged
during the war, and is still charged by some,
and readily paid by men who do not stop to
think that shoes, like many other articles, can
he produced for n much less price than for
merly.
A shoe should he so made that when first
worn II Is comfortable, when worn all day aud
until worn out 1t is still comfortable. To pro
duce shoe possessing these valuable qualities
1t is necessary to have lasts of proper shape.
Years OF study have been spent by the max
ers OF the Crawford Shoe in perfectlng the five
different shapes OF lasts this shoe is now made
on. There are hundreds OF manufacturers who
try to initiate the Crawford last in hopes to
make a shoe as comfortable as the Crawford
II is easier to forge signature to a check
which will pass the close scrutiny OF bank
teller than to make a shoe on an imitation
Crawford last which win satisfy gentleman
who has been accustomed to wearing Craw-
ford Shoe.
The makers of this shoe originated the idea
OF selling their entire production direct to the
consumer, soon finding It practicable, they
increased their facilities largely, and at once
established twenty branch stores for the eX-
elusive sale Of their shoe. Reducing the cost
TO minimum, they arc now in position, on
account OF their Immense sales, to give the
public more value in a shoe than II is possible
for any competitor to do and live.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
Dr NIay,s win.

The will of DR.. John Frederick May
was filed in the Orphans Court to-day.
He gives his entire estate real and per-
sonal, to his wife and children. He
expresses a wish that his estate
be kept intact and undivided so as to in
sure his wife and children a certain in
come during their lives. His son, Will
liam, is made co-trustee and receives his
entire surgical and medical library and
surgical instruments.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
Real Estate Transfers.

Charles w. Simpson to Joseph G. Grif-
fifth, lot s, square 81, $4,000.
James II. Jenkins to Bernard Walls, lot
-, square 775, 800.
John Il. Beall to Margaret Mcintyre
hammond, lot 81, block 3, $40.
Frederick Pelling to Edward T. Keller,
lot b, square 327, Colman's subdivision,
$l0
William H. Currie to Louise Miller lot
AZ, square S66, Williams and Lewis sub
division, $1,000.
r. c. Margum to L. S. Fletcher, subs.
y to SO, square 3, Barry's Farm, s..
Eliza Callahan to r. G. Margum, sub.
lots 70 to SO, section 3, Barry Farm, 500.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
Sufocated BY Gas.

Martha Washington was colored do
mestic in the family of Mrs. Thompson,
who resides at No. 10 Fourth street south
east. She retired as usual last night, but
did not arise at the usual hour this morn
ing, and when one of the young ladies
went to the door to awaken her the odor
of escaping gas was plainly percepuble.
Imagining what had happened the
young lady did not faint or scream, but
forced the door open and found Martha
dead in bed,
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
NO nELEGArrs TO ROWE.


VIII lie sent DN thc AtnefichnS Wnen
the Medical Congress Meets.
The international Medical Congress
will hold its next convention in the City
of Rome in 1898. Delegates from every
civilized country will be present, but, uu-
ess the eHi,htc cordiale is restored between
Italy and the United States, there will be
no American delegates While no formal
action on this subject was taken by the
American Medical Association at its ses-
sions in this city, the question was
talked over privately among the doctors,
and it was generally agreed that, unless
America has Minister at Rome next
year the medical association which meets
at Detroit will refuse to appoint delegates
TO represent us at the Italian Capitol.
DR. John B. Hamilton, Surgeon. Cen
eral Of the Marine Hospital Service, when
questioned on the subject by CBrrlc-
REcoRD reporter said "Of course If
friendly relations between the two coun-
tries are not restored before the medical
association meets in May next. we will
not send any delegates to Rome.n
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
AS 1T WAS PRESCRIBED.

; he vowed she'd he o doctor,
And studied hard ana late,
Till odds and ends OF knowledge
ROamed round within her pate.
She got her sheepskin quickly,
Then out her shingle hung;
And after weeks OF waiting,
Her office bell was rung.
a stylish, handsome fellow
stepped in, with looks OF pain,
And said: ~ fear there's something
Tho matter with my brain
HIS eyes she galed deep into,
While he with looks Intent
Gazed back with compound interest,
TIL queer feeling went
A scOoting round his heart strings.
lie smiled charming smile,
As she quite grayely counted
His pulse, twice I'm n while.
Then he in accents tender
said: "Pardon me; | fear
That have quite mlsled yOu.
such curious thumps ! hear
Within my heart, dear madame,
fear it's that that's wrong;
just cure this and my head-gegr
WIN not be ailing long
She wayered, blushed and dimpled--
"Prescribe, l beg, wife,
Aud 'tWaH 20 complicated
that she took the case for life.
Pharmaceutical EFO
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
EouIty Court,

Judge Hagner presiding. Cooke VS..
Woodbury.; receiver authorized to pay
wages. Broche VS.. Broche; testimony be
fore Alex II. Gambrill, examiner, or
mons ordered to issue, Condron
VS.. Condron; testimony before j..
A. Clarke ordered taken. Savoy
VS.. Fields; pro confesso VS.. Sarah Mathews
granted. Desmond VS.. McConnell; APP
pearance of absent defendant ordered.
Little VS.. Duncanson; Earnshaw VS. Dolby;
Niemann VS.. Mitchell same. Earnshaw
VS.. Daily pro confesso vs. certain defend
ants ordered, In re Lucy l.. Lang, alleged
lunatic; discharge of committee ordered.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
The Jury Makes Awards,

Rock Creek intercepting sewer in
which testimony has been given
yesterday and to-day, the verdict
of the jury was that Evan Lyons
be awarded 81, 500 and Il. NJ. Darnell and
Emily Darnell, $3.50. The verdict is a
victory for the District as ii reduces the
amount, that former jury agreed upon,
over 81, 900.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
The Riggs House LitIgation,

A bill has been filed by +. Francis Riggs
against c. w. Spofford, Frank Hume ct
al, to restrain levy and enjoin the United
States Marshal from retaining the custody
of the furniture of the Riggs House.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

NOTWITHsTA NDING the diplomatic reserve
of high Government officials as to the
programme TO be followed in the Itata
case, it is quite safe to assume that the
Administration will make every effort 10
discharge its obligations TO Chilli. The
United States is committed to that course
in the NEST solemn manner in which
nation can assume a responsibility. We,
ourselves, invoked the Judgment of
the civilized world when we procured
the creation Of the Geneva tribunal in
the Alabama affair, and, in accepting the
award there made against England in our
favor, we pledged ourselves, by every con-
sideTation that nations regard as sacred,
to stand by the principle involved and to
hold ourselves forever in readiness as its
champion. This country cannot afford
even were it base enough to desire such
thing, to repudiate obligations 50 sol
emnly incurred, Foreigners no mat
ter whether they be recognized bel
ligerents or only irresponsible rebels,
cannot be permitted TO fit out
or supply priyateers or men-of-war in our
ports, When they attempt to do so they
must be prevented by every force at
our command. We have brought about
the PRONUNCIATION of this rule of inter-
national action. We, above all other
nations, are bound to observe it IN honor
and good faith. And, so much being
certain, one need not be a prophet or
elairyoyant 10 feel warranted in saying
that the Government will do all its duty
in this matter Of the Itata, no matter
Mhat the cost OF the consequence may be.
" THERE IS any truth in the statement
Of the Syrian, ELIAS KHoURI, that be
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

DR.. Bridgman, New York clergyman,
has resigned his pastorate because he can.
not believe in hell, and resigned it, too,
Just at moving and house-cleaning time,
when most men learn to keenly appreciate
hell. Indianapolis Sun.
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r. Mockbee q Go, ASSIGN.

Yesterday afternoon II. Mockbee e Co.,
engaged in the shoe business at No, 1903
i street, made an assignment to Emory
n. j. Carver Of Baltimore for the benefit
of their creditors. The assets are placed at
$4,000 and the liabilities about 5000.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
Remlnded of His Nuptlal Vow.

TTUW Wt NtV UFh NWWs
The Wife @ a, M. m.)-When you married
me, did you not promise to love, cherish
and protect me2
The Husband (sleepily)-Yes.
The Wife-Well, then, get up, light the
gas, and kill that mosquito.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

MEssRs. LEE e SHEPARD, the well-known
Poston publishers, are issuing from their
press a set of publications known rs the
Good Company Series.n They are sold
at the uniform price of fifty cents, neatly
bound in paper and printed in that clear
and attractive style of which the imprint
Of LEE S SHEPARD is guarantee. We
have before us, now, No. . of the series.
IT is entitled, (Which Wins ?' and is the
work of Mrs, MARY II. FoRD of Kansas
City. The story is, as the title page de-
clares, one of social conditions. 1t treats
of the mortgage system of the West
and, the author asserts, deals entirely
with facts most of which are of
her own personal knowledge and
all of which are absolutely au-
thentic, That the author is in close
and feryent sympathy with the Farmers
Alliance is evident enough from the cir
cumstance that she has dedicated her
book to that organization. Whether the
public at large will be inclined in the same
direction depends upon the extent to
which the book is read. For our part, we
find ii extremely interesting. Possessing
all the elements of interest that are to be
found in well-constructed narrative in
which love and humor and pathos
abound, it has, beside the additional at
traction of n study of those social and
economic conditions which enter into our
daily lives and constitute one of the most
vivid and momentous problems of our
national development.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
Marriage Licenses.

The following marriage licenses were
issued to-day; Stewart West and Violet
Brown, Michael p. Coakley and Margaret
Walsh Washington; Mason Bruce and
Elizabeth Simms of Hillsdale, d. c.; John
Hodges and Mamie Brady, st. Mary's
L lnt1,nin M
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In the Circuit Court.

Judge Cox presiding.-Sypher VS.. Mo-
rey; motion for Judgment overruled.
Bingham VS.. Pettitt & Dupps; motion to
set aside verdict, etc, overruled; appeal
noted. Hume VS.. Hoover; Judgment by
default. Stevens VS.. District; same. Fer
rail- VS.. Bryan: motion to vacate judgment
of non-suit granted. Deeyer, Cissell e.
Welch VS.. ]. I. Lee; order that garnishee
answer, etc.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09


are still piling up acts of lawlessness in
Nindication of the New Orleans lynchers.
The REPORT THAT EX-SENATOR INGALLS, has
been engaged to lecture in the principal
cities of the country, commencing next
fall, will be welcome news to lovers of
ornamental word building. Anticipation
of the delights in store for them may
well go far toward relieving the soggy te-
dium of conflict with caloric during the
summer months. And after they have
listened to him, they will have to admit
that the MACAULAYs of the press have not
moistened their verbal brushes with
colors one whit too glowing in the attempt
to make the ex-Senators personality live
on the canvas of current history.
BY study Of his printed speeches and
his contributions to various periodicals,
they have already learned to appreciate
the intellectual essence of his efforts; and
while they may not be a unit in yielding
to his dictd on things political and other
wise, they will not spare the acknowledge
ment that his manner is mastery and at
tractive, his wit keen, and his sarcasm
most effective weapon. But when they
come to see the man and hear his voice,
they will begin to realize the truth, which
ordinary speakers fail to illustrate, that
the orator and the honeyed droppings of
his tongue lose as much virtue through sep
aration as do the perfume and the flower,
the dewy breath of morn and the pulsing
crimson of the sun, kissed hills. INGALLS,
in print fills the brain with intellectual
fragrance, INGALLS, in Senatorial repose
or at the plow is source of visual intoX-
ication. Combine the two, gather the elo-
suence as it is emitted fresh from a
glowing personality bathed in Parnassian
dew and the sense of mental and spiritual
fullness becomes complete.
The only question is as to whether IN
CALLS will let himself out, and there can
be but little doubt that he will. For, like
RosCoE CoNKLING, whom he resembles
somewhat in his delivery, he is not only
ready at all times with the word that
shall securely rivet the thought with the
greatest neatness and dispatch, but his
vocal machinery is always well-oiled and
in running order and answers the first
motion of the lever without any of the
painful preliminary hesitation which is
too common even among orators Of re-
nOwn.
If, therefore, there be any truth in tn 2
statement that he will swing around the
lecture circle next season, treat of
surprising luxury is in store for those
who have learned 10 admire INGALLS, at
long range without having heard and
seen him.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09
THE CRITIC
EBROED.

At Chambcrins the other night party
Of distinguished FOUNDERS were oXchang-
ing gossip. Among other topics The talk
touched upon Handy Moses p. Handy
Of the umbrageous whskers and the
gaudy side lights. Everybody loves
Handy and wishes him well, and it was
the general opinion that the Fair man
ayers had struck it rich when they got
him for their Promotor-in.Chief. Many
were the "reminiscences brought out and
the good things said apropos Of Moses and
various and lurid were the descriptions of
his wonderful whiskers.
Then somebody began to tell of Eugene
Field, of his various tricks and quips and
witticisms. There was n story about his
astonishing watch II seems he went to
the trouble of procuring an enormous sill
yer watch, the size of q rutabago turnip
Somewhere within the vast interior of
this instrument, he had placed a contriy
anCe of such nature that when one
turned the stem as though to wind il up
it gave forth loud and raspug noise like
unto that of ten locusts saving their re.
sounding legs at once. II was startling
and an awful racket, calculated to shock
n nervous person and to irritate the most
phlegmatic. Armed with this engine of
torture, Field used to repair to theatres
where dreadful and heartrendering plays
were in process of evolution, and then,
at narrowing points, when the william was
unfolding his hellish plot, or the virtuous
maiden defying ruthless prosecutor, and
everybody was hanging in suspense upon
the same, Field would unsheathe his
watch and turn the crank with industry.
lie always broke up the tragedy.
"But the funniest thing Field ever did,
said one of the party, was the way he ad-
dressed letter to Nose Handy. He took
a white envelope and drew on it the back
of human head. He picked out a few
tufts of hair on top of 1t and then from
the cheeks he drew pair of flowing and
luXuriant whskers which he tinted with
his red pencil. Then he wrote under it
simply
PHILADELPHIA,
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

Remember the boys short pants aud
suits we advertise from - up. Eiseman
Bros, Seventh and ".
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

Departure of Mr.. Stoddard for Mexico.
John l.. Stoddard, who has just finished
his twelfth lecture season, proposes an
entirely new departure in his plans for
next year. He has become widely known
as a traveller through Europe. He now
proposes to turn his attention to certain
features of our own continent. Attracted
by its far-extending and exceptionally in
teresting history, by its unique features
of civilization and by the reports which
have reached him as to the beauty of its
scenery, Mr. Stoddard has decided to in
clude one or more lectures on Mexico in
his repertoire for next season. As it is his
invariable rule not to speak upon a coun-
try with which he Is not personally ac-
quainted, his managers, Messrs. Burditt
and North, have arranged for him an eN
cursioh under unusually favorable con-
ditions which will enable him to see this
country to the best advantage. The party,
consisting of Mr.. Stoddard, Mr.. North and
Mr.. Rau, an eminent photographer,
started from Chicago yesterday, having
secured for the trip the palatial Pullman
car "Coronet," in which Nine. Bernhardt
has lately been travelling.
Fortified with letters of introduction to
distinguished MeXicans backed up en-
Enthusiastically by the American contingent
in Mexico and the railroad officials, who
are anxious that our people should know
more of their adopted country, and with
his invaluable experience as a traveller, it
will readily be seen that Mr. Stoddard's s
patrons of next season are in way to be
informed about and entertained by Mex
leo, as only this prince of lecturers can
do If.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

The gist of the report of the New Or
leans grand jury is that they could not
indict the whole city, and would not if
they could,-NetC York World.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

For pure old berkeley 60 to Tharp's,
Sl8 y street northwest.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

II THE NATIONAL baseball aggregation
doesn't begin working its way to the front,
it may have to let go Of the tail itself be-
fore long.
The Critic and record. (Washington, D.C.) 1891-1896, 1891-05-09

WE HAD THE baseball fever once; it kept
our thinkers hot. Now cold and cheer
less thoughts are ours that warm our
thinkers not.