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The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
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White Supremacy in Kentucky,

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3 Not even Force bill of the most drastic
sort could compel Kentucky Republ licans
to give their col6red voters even a. little
piece Of the bottom crust of official pie.
The Williamsburg Times tells how it IS in
the Republican stronghold of Whitley
County, where the white Republican citl-
by Northern politicians in attempting to
understand the logical necessity of white
supremacy in the South. The Times says
"Four colored men were candidates for
town trustees last Saturday, but as the
Force bill was dead they got no votes
Strange how our white Republican breth-
ren in Williamsburg want the negro to
hold offices in Democratic States, and OBJ
icct to him here at home.n
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

A monument is to be erected over the
remains of Davy Crockett, the famous
Tennessee hunter, who killed l0S bears
and performed various other deeds of
valor. II is now more than sixty years
since this picturesque old character was
buried. The shaft will be of Tennessee
granite and over twenty-seven feet high.
At the front base of the column the em-
blematic bear keeps faithful watch in
front of the bronze medallion of the set
ting sun; oil the right part OF the shaft a
bronze medallion with the distinctive
badge (the rifle and knife crossed) of the
pioneer settlers Of the State is represented,
and q corresponding medallion on the
left side shows the agricultural imple-
ments, early symbols of Tennessee's pros
perity. One other medallion represents
the grand seal of Tennessee, and on the
front of the shaft bust of Colonel Crock
EFT looks down over the grizzly he loved
to hunt SO well. The bust will be as true
to life as it can be made.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
NcneraLIe senatnrs.
FIom ne CNIcdQ0 Htfald.


General Palmer will not be the oldest
man in the Senate by long ways, though
the Oldest Senator for many years. Mr.
Payne of Ohio, has just returned TO pri-
vate life. Senator Palmer is still consider
ably short Of 80 years, while Senator Nor
rill is 81, and as for Senator Harris Of
Tennessee, no one knows how old he il.
He does not print his age in the Con-
gressional Directory, and all inquirers on
that score are given a lecture for their inn
pertinence and sent about their business.
Senator Harris Is somewhere between 80
and 100 years old As many guesses APP
proximate the latter figure as the former.
He is one of the remarkable old men OF
the Senate. Like many of the good old
public servants from the South, he likes
his toddy, and it is said he sometimes
takes twenty or thirty "nips' in day.
He is the greatest parliamentarian in the
Senate, and the more toddy he drinks the
clearer his head appears to become ON
parliamentary law. lie is often. called to
the chair by the Vice-President, and IL al.
ways consulted when knotty parliament
.ary problems are TO be solved.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
Tho Farmers to Organic.

A Chicago special TO the Philadelphia
NoIM Amerlcdn states; According toa De
Farmers Alliance Is to have Presidential
candidate next yearon platform Of more
money and free silver coinage, and the
South is 10 be thoroughly canyassed by
Senators Stewart, Teller, Wolcott, ex-
Senator Mcconnell of Idaho and several
others, who will leave the Republicans.
Southern men will canvass the Northern
States. Ex-senator Ingalls, says that the
Alliance movement is much more fornii-
dable Than Eastern people imagine.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
Society Event" in Colored Circles.

Josephine Butts, handsome young
colored woman Of %, who lives with her
aunt, Mrs. wilkins, at 250 West Forty
seventh street, was until two weeks ago
employed by Mrs. Mason Jones Of Fast
Fiity-seventh street as q reader. She al
leees that she was discharged through the
influence of George w. Eccles, the COL
ored butler at Mrs. Mason's house, who
afterward told scandalous stories about
her to young colored waiter at the house
to whom she is engaged to be married.
She procured cowhide, and, with her
aunt, stationed herself in the square in
front of the Plaza Hotel on Fifty.ninth
street and Fifth avenue little before
noon yesterday.
Eccles soon came along, and when he
failed to make retraction demanded by
the woman, she gave him severe thrash
ing in the midst of a crowd, which soon
collected. Park Policeman Zielecker saw
the disturbance and arrested the woman.
In the Yorkville Police Court she told her
story in a refined and pleasing way. but
was held for trial in $500 bail, which was
furnished by Mrs, Wilkins,
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
sEMpER FIDELIs.

In those remembered days OF yore,
Before thou vert my wife
All, happy dnys-l loved thca more
Than liberty or life.
But yet thou art to me, I vow,
More dear to-day than then
You cost hundred dollare now
Where once yon cost me ten.
Smith, Gray d Co.'s Mouth
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

ArEoros OF THE threatening postal CIR |
received this morning at TnE Critic office,
we pause to remark that there are four or
five editors on this paper. No real or
LISTING results can be achieved by killing
one of us. The moral of this is that it
will be better not to begin. We greatly
prefer to live. We are too young to die,
anyhow. Our plans for the season are all
made. The summer clothes are stillgood,
the russet shoes will do for May and, per-
adventure, June, and there is service yet
in last years silken belly-band. Let us
compromise,
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Mn. HARRISON WILL soon start on n
Southern tour, taking in the principal
cities and points in that section and going
thence, by way of Texas and Arizona, to
the Pacific Coast. This well. Mr. HAR-
RrsoN should give the people an opportu-
nifty of seeing him and forming
their own impressions as to his
personality. He is greatly misun-
derstood man. His reserved manner and
cold exterior belle the quick affections
and sympathies that lie beneath u some
what repellant surface. He is gentle
man in all his instincts and associations,
honest and patriotic in every fibre of his
Icing, and these qualities should be rec
ognized If the country is to arrive at any
thing like just estimate of his character.
He is distinguished by profound convic-
tions on all important points and by
austere methods in everything that in
wolves a principle. lie is, perhaps, too
harsh in his judgment of those who differ
with him in serious matters and too inn
patient of opposition and resistance. But
the other and graver qualities of which
he has shown himself to be possessed will
weigh more heavily in the scale of an en-
lightened public sentiment than these
minor considerations and il will be better
for the nation as well as for himself
that they should be perceived and
measured and appraised. All indications
now point to Mr.. HARRIsoN's renomina-
ton by the Republican convention next
year. Every good Democrat who knows
what manner of man he really is must
feel that the next best thing to electng
his own candidate will he the assurance
of another term for man who has proved
himself a pure, high-minded and patriotic
citizen
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

THAT ALLEGED BRIBERY fund for the
purchase of ten votes and sixteen-twen-
tieths of a vote for tile California Senator
ship turns out to be d bare-faced and bald
headed fake.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

A blue book issued by the Government
discloses the fact that 152 peers of the
realm are the owners of places in which
Intoxicating drinks are sold. The number
of drink shops" owned by these peers is
1850,
The list is headed by the Earl of Derby,
who, the blue book shows, is the owner
of Y drinking places. Next comes the
Duke of Bedford with 4S adrink shops
to his credit. Then comes the Duke OF
Devonshire with AZ, followed by the Earl
Of Cawdor with 80, the Duke Of Rutland
with 81, the Earl of Dudley with 35, the
Duke Of Northumberland with 81 and the
Duke of Portland with 80.
Included in this list is the Right Rev.
Richard Lewis, ID. d., Bishop of LANDAU,
who, the blue book shows, is the owner
Of two places which are devoted to the
yale Of Intoxicating liquors.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

GENERAL PALMER declares that his hair
is too grew and his locks too thin to think
of extending his political pilgrimage to
the White House. He is content to rest at
the other end of the Avenue.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Mr.. IRIsH, Democrat, received one vote
for United States Senator in the ballot
taken at Sacramento yesterday. Mr.. IRISH
usually is a Democrat.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Fron ~ Nsg fo,f H.aas
The members 81 Congferi urln whom
devolycd the solemn dniy 81 csenilnf
Senator Hearst's body 10 San Tfsnf's'l
had rather hilarious time.
What with champagne oia rys AMI ite
innocent pleasures ~ poker fhcy manarti
to make the days agreeable and thf u.rhls
riotous.
Isn't II about time that these iunkriinf
parties, miscalled funeral vctANaus. wcff
put stop tof
sioo,ooo.
Fi0m ne Noe ioff Iists
one hundred thousand doilars iaF the
Hearst funeral junkct j. too much n q
bad thing, and the nowspaper of the
country, Republican, Democratic. Inde.
cratic and all the rest. are prfestinr
against such an outrageous usc ~ public
money. out of the protesting may cpme
n new order of things under which Sena.
tors will be buried IKE other people. and
not at the expense of the GOvernment.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

A STATUE OF GENERAL GRANT is to he
erected in Galena, H., his home at the
outbreak of the civil war. 1t was there
lie left his family to enter upon that mar
velous career which placed him at the
head of the American Army, made him
Chief Magistrate of the American people
and filled the world with his renown.
The statement is given out that the statue
will probably be unveiled on Decoration
Day and that either JAMES G. BLAINE or
CHAuNcEy NJ. DErEw will be the orator of
the day. Neither of these eloquent gentle
men would be a particularly happy choice.
Mr.. BLAINE was never on intimate terms
with General GRANT, either when he was at
the head of the Army or at the head of the
nation. And Mr.. DEpEw opposed General
GRANT in the Presidential campaign of
1872.
II occurs to us that man like General
HoRcE PORTER, who was member of
General GRANTS military family or Sena-
tor EDNUNDs, or ex-senator INGALLS,, both
of whom were in full accord and sympa-
thy with President GRANTS administra-
ton, would be a happier choice. The
happiest choice of all, now that Roscoe
CoNKLING is dead, would be Colonel
RcBERTG. ISeERsoLI, himself long a citi-
zen Of Illinois and the commander of one
Of her volunteer regiments, and match
less orator.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

BALTIMORE rs THOROUGHLY aroused as to
the importance of the oyster industry to
her future welfare. Last night great
mass meeting was held. It was shown
that the warning given twelve years ago
by Professor BROOKS of Johns Hopkins
University, that unless they were pro-
tected the oyster beds would give out, was
verified. The yield has fallen off from
100000 bushels in 1875 to 100000 in
1891. Nineteen firms of oyster packers
have abandoned Baltimore. There is a
close connection between the oyster pack
ing industry and the canning industry;
the first gives employment during the
winter, the latter during the rest of the
year. The conclusions of the meeting
were as follows:
]. That the land under water in the Chesa.
pfake and its tributaries, and in the other
waters OF the State, capable of producing oys-
tiers. should be made the subject or private
property precisely as the land Is above wafer:
that the laws Of the State should be 50 changed
~ 10 authorize and protect private property in
nyrter grounds. ..''. b.. ..,--
2. That the people Of the State should, be
sducated'through the press, through popular
meetings, through pamphlets and all the ma
chinery and literature OF ordinary popular agl-
tatioD, 10 the importance OF the oyster question.
Thai the politicians OF the State and City
of Baltimore SHOULD be made 10 understand
that this great interest can no longer he neg
lected, and that men must he chosen for the
next Legislature who have got independence
enough, courage enough, and intelligence
enough 10 carry their convictions to the statute
hooks OF the State.
Brave conclusions, these. It now only
remains TO carry them out.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

THOSE ANCIENT IDOLS of the South
American aborigines recently discovered
in Colombia, will be an interesting fea-
ture of the Worlds Fair. We can pro-
vide the modern idles ourselves.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

He Charley seems to me to be man of one
Idea.
she-IIe Is more fortunate than thought
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

In THE ABUNDANCE of the twaddle which
is being uttered and printed on the subject
of the New Orleans affair, it is cheering
To encounter an occasional CLEAN of good
wholesome horse-sense. Following is the
text of a circular which has been printed
and privately distributed in New York:
Italians AS intensely appealing as the
lamentable butchery of your countrymen
by the cowardly murderers of New Or
leans must be to your feelings, as deep
and earnest as your sense of Justice must
be which makes your soul cry aloud for
swift, lawful retribution ON the merciless
assassins, do not permit yourselves To he
aroused and inhamed beyond the bounds
of reason by the incendiary words of
dsmagOgues whose main object may he
selfshness Italians The beastly mob
which has disgraced the civilization of the
nineteenth century, the mob which has
outraged the law of the land, does not rep
resent the American nation anv more
than the assassins who slew the Chief of
Police represent Italy. Americans love
fair play. BE assured that all those
worthy Of the name will not
rest under the disgrace which has
been brought upon them, but will wipe
out the STAN by visiting, in lawful man
ner, Just punishment upon all those who
are responsible for the dastardly outrage.
Keep calm and let outraged Justice take
her course. lneendiary speeches cannot
undo what has been done Keep cool aud
attend quietly to your affairs. Now is
rhe time to show TO the world that you
are Christians and therefore law-abiding
citizens.
That's right. This is law-abiding
country. Nobody can go wrong or'get
into trouble here by observing the law.
SENATOR ALLISON and Representative
GhNNoN chairman OF tha Apprnnyiafion
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

SECRETARY FOSTER won't be candidate
for the United States Senate against Sem
ator SHERMAN. He doesn't think it would
be right. Besides, he is afraid he couldn't
beat the Senator, anyway.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Iowa HAS A POLITICIAN who is very
busy Weaver indeed. Just now he is en-
gagged in weaving net about the Alliance
nomination for President.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

who goeth a borrowing gooth sorrow
ing,N was doubtless true In the good old tines
but nowadays II In the lender who does the
monrnful perambnlation.-LUt.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

The Next Political Sky-Rocket.
From he Hartford Courant.
Now watch the rife, progress, decline
and fall of the John McCauley Palmer
boom.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

MMr. BERNHABDT treated us last night
toa revival. In stepping back across the
pagcantry of Theodore, Cleopatra, and
their spectacular kindred into the field of
simple human emotion, the divine SARA
returned to the purest and most effe tive
domain of her art. There was no cunning
mechanism to furnish surprises, no pro-
ccssional splendor or sensational costum-
ing TO enthrall the senses; it was the orig
inal equation of life, involving only the
primeval passions to which all of us are
more or less subject, and dependent upon
no contrivances or accessories for EN-
lhasis. The story of Camille is too
familiar to call for any illustration
ur comment now. We have read 1t in
books and seen 1t enacted both in French
and English by the greatest artists of our
day We have heard II welded to
NrHn's most enhancing melodies and
compared the brilliant Briilisi with the
noisy badinage of the supper table, the
thrilling cadences of the Irocencdi, with
the spoken appeal of Georges Dwdl.
There is not light or shade in the won
dcrful picture which we have not studied
from every imaginable point of view,
until the structure of the drama is known
to us as intimately as are the love, the
hate, the selfshness and the despair that
inform and vitalize it. One risks
but little, however, in saying
that not even PATTI or GERS
TTp, with . all the aid that
the great maestro could liv, through his
immortal music, ever touched the human
heart as deeply and as powerfully as
BERNHARDr did last night. She may fas-
cinate as the fierce and tIgerish PToLENY
or the false love of JusTIyIAY, but as the
broken-hearted Marguerite, without the
glamour of any pageantry or spectacle
whatsoever, she goes straight to the
familiar emotions Of our everyday lives
and plays upon them at her will. 1t is
safe 10 say that the vast audience which
sat hushed and spellbound through last
nights performance will indorse our
proposition that BERNHARDr is at her best
iii the familiar emotional field-in that
field which we know so well through our
'wn experiences, but which so few can
adequately survey and occupy.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Barnes Compton, Congressman from
the Fifth district of Mary land, said yester.
day that he wanted Congressional COM
mittee appointed to investigate and make
public the frauds In the election of
Thomas b. Reed in Maine last fall Mr..
Compton was at the 81, James Hotel. He
came 10 New York 10 see his son, who is
an officer in the Military Academy at
West Point.--Ne~ York Times, Is.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Mrs. Jef Davis pays her respects to
Charles Sumner in her memoirs of her
husband. She calls him handsome, un-
pleasing man, whose conversation was
consequently, he never inspired the
women to whom he was attentive with
the pleasant consciousness of possessing
his regard or esteem. He was, until the
tracas with Mr.. Brooks, fond of talking to
southern women, and prepared himself
with great care for these conversational
pyrotechnies, in which there was much
Greek fire, and the set pieces were nu-
merous. This is hardly so unfaithful u
portrait of Mr.. Sumner as it might be-
Boston Hefah
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Probably no one In this wide world il ever
In n state OF perfect satisfaction, but the
homely girl with her hrst engagement ring on
comes pretty near it.-SomeJriflt Journal.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

When trying TO catch the ear OF a Chicag
girl you should use both hands. RlctmoR,
Recorder.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

"Glye me charge OF the choir remarked IN,
devil, "and care not who occupies the pulpit
- Boston Herald. -
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

SENATOR ALLISON and x-Representatiye
CANNON, chairmen Of the Appropriation
Committees in the two Houses during the
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

A little less censnre should be given the
spider flies are so willing. Globe.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

The devil never asks anybody TO 20 all the
way home with him. RAMS Horn.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

10 you rich?
Gus de smiih--I should say 40. You ought
TO see the silverware vhey carry 10 the pawn
broker Jtrcs S,Jtings.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Boston ciiixen ION HE way home from
urch,-Mait outside . moment. pieasc, Wal.
donia, while step into ihis drug stoFe aud got
= cigar.
Vile Of Boston CItiksnl-i ihoaght drug.
glsls ia THE town wefe hot allowed 10 soil
cigafs SUNDAY.
bofion tifixen-T They arc allowed 10 seli
them when needed tor caiAffh 40 drugslst a
few moments laiefl Jodc., give ho tsd.ccat
cigar Hatch, please, Ihang- CAlcaqo
TyiLHHs
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Bankers Daughter TO heT husband. Iu.t
alter marriage want liule lapue5, John.
check.
Bankers Daughter No. dont trouble 10 40
that. John, for I really haven't kn0an y0l
long enough "a accelH yoar cheek LEI me
have cash, plcase. fhiciigo A1as
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

royaltyf
Pupil Because royalty cannot support itself.
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Customer-I boughi some medicine here yes
terday for my dog, and, after gave Il 10 him,
he died. What doyon mean, anyway didn't
tell you I wanted 10 kill him.
Druggist-You said he belonged tss,youE
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

Husband Nou enough MONEY Last niHht A
~ pot tc- 10 ert yon a urN dress.
Wife leohbnrl-i think You might stop plas
Ing ihose hoffid cards. John. fnn know uhaf
" may lead 10 in The end. aild ~ thlnk that
should ever he The wife of a ramhirr That l.
i.iioo much. Mhaikind of drcss shall get :
- fHfI lsfisaf
The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19

she--so you are engaged to one OF the Nus.
from the Oiherf
Ile-I don't try io.--LiGf.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-03-22
NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.
The Petrol has arrived at Greytown.

The Petrol has arrived at Greytown.
Surgeon James II. Gaines and Passed AS
sistant Engineer William r. King have been
retired.
Mate Robert Robinson has been detached
from the Friana, and ordered to the training
ship Richmond.
Lieut.. Charles A. Cove has been detached
from the Coast Survey steamer Hassler, and
placed in waiting orders.
Commander George w. Pigman has been
ordered to ordnance instruction at the Navy
Yard, Washington, ID. @.
Lieut.. William r. A. Rooney and Ensign
Valley o. Chase have been detached from the
Swatara and granted three months leave.
Medical Inspector Thomas n. Penrose has
been ordered in charge OF the Naval Hospital
at Norfolk, Va, on the 1st of April next.
Sailmaker John Roddy has been detached
from the receiYing-ship Independence and
ordered to the Navy Yard, Mare Island, Cal
Lieut.. A. B. Wyckoff has been detached.
from duty in the Bureau of Ordnance and as
signed to special duty connected with that
bureau.
Sailmaker Samuel II. Boutwell, has been de-
tached from the Navy Yard, Mare Island,
Cal, and ordered to the receiying-ship In
dependence.
Ensign G. w. Kline has been detached from
duty at the Upper Union Mills, Pittsburg, Pa,
and ordered to duty at the Reading Bolt and
Nut Works, Reading, Pa
The Monongahela was put into commission
at the Portsmouth IN. H.) Navy Yard
Thursday. She Will go to Newport and ship
a number Of apprentices for long cruise.
The Department last week received Lieut..
Commander Bicknell's report on the wreck OF
the Galena 1t is understood that the respon-
sibility for the loss of the Galena and Nina is
placed upon the officers OF the tug, who failed
TO respond to the orders from the Galena in
: the matter of directing the course when