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The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1892-01-15

Another characteristic of Washington is
the statue Every stranger is impressed
by it. Wherever one turns he finds con
fronting him, near or remote, rising boldly
before you or adjoining the perspective, in
silhouette against the sky, statue of dead
president, general or admiral. 1t is IA re-
markable fact that there is not one spot on
any one of the many avenues of Washing
ton-and there are hundreds of miles of
them altogether-from which statue,
equestrian or other, may not be seen, and
there are spots from which number of
these works of art MAY be commanded by
the eye. These impress the visitor by their
frequency as one rides or walks about
they add art and hero worship to power
and the past.
Washngton's wide avenues, all running
at acute angles with the streets, the many
pretty squares and circles at the intersec-
tions of these angles, the apparent design
to accommodate the plan of the town to the
location of the Capitol and the White
House-the two seats of power-convince
the visitor without his taking the trouble
to think about it all, that this is tailor
made town, creation not growth, a
manufactured thing turned out to fit a
known requirement. OF course we all
know this to be historically true, but man
could come from Mars or the moon with
out any knowledge of American history
and know this without being told, from
simple observation. How fortunate that
the men who cut these garments had fore
sight enough to bear the future, with its
wonders of growth and change, in mind.
The public buildings predominant, of
course, in the architectural characteristics
of the capital, but the vast number of an
cient and time worn structures. with their
gabled roofs sloping toward the street, and
the still greater number of beautiful mod
ern residences bespeak two epochs in the
building of the city. Here again appear
ances are historically correct, for Wash
ington brick and mortar were laid either
very long ago or very recently. There
must have been about two decades in
which things stopped stock still.
There is Newspaper row, a huddle of
old brick novels which the newspapers are
deserving for more modern quarters; it is
an example of this. It looks now. they tell
me, exactly as it did before the war, only
the signs are changed, the correspondents
are dead, many of them probably before
their time from overwork; and there are
new men on the ground, running their legs
1f and worrying their heads into scatter
ment trying to keep the wires hot ami the |
country happy. This Newspaper row is |
one Of the characteristics Of the capital.
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Friday, Jan. 8.

The bishop of Iitchfield, Eng, is dead.
A trinity student was found dead in
well at Guilford, Conn
There is an unprecedented amount O.
American cotton at Liverpool
Senator Chandler proposes Legislation
TO regulate the free pass system.
DR. Joseph Hilton, brother of Judge
Henry Hilton, died at New York
The Houston (lex) office of the Wells
Fargo express vas robbed of $4,000.
f#Unconfirmed rumors report friction be-
tween France and England at Tangiers
The Duke of Japonski" michael Trav-
ers), the recluse poet of Alaska, is insane.
Daniel Mccarthy of Woburn, Mass, II
years old, was burned to death in his
house
Ernest Wilhelm Brucke, the well-known
German physiologist, died at Berlin,
aged r.
Eben S. Draper was elected chairman
of the Massachusetts Republican state
committee.
Two attachments have been served on
Colonel Jonas H. French of Boston for
5000 each.
A horse car was struck by a train at
not seriously injured.
DIR. Wyman has been appointed surgeon
general of the marine hospital service, and
DR.. Hamilton surgeon
The daughter of Congressman Cross of
Vermont inherts his fortune of 81 ,0OO, 900;
she eloped ten years ago.
Rear Admiral Melancton Smith of the
United States navy (retiredD is danger
ously sick with grip at New York.
The Earl of Litchfeld is dead. He was
born in 1925 and descended from Admiral
Anson. His eldest son succeeds him.
Frank G. Grogan, president of the Hart
ford Telegram Publishing company, died
of Brights d ease. He was 3S years old
The mysterious pamphlet which deals
with alleged questionable relations of the
Prince of Wales and Lady Brooke is said
TO have been prepared by Lady Beresford.
The weir fishing season on Cape Cod has
about closed. Nineteen shoal and deep |
water weirS have been in operation at
Provncetown, the gross stocE Of which is
about 25 $50
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2tur(lav, Jan. o.

Scanlan, the actor, has been taken to
Bloomingdale asylum
William w Wheildon, journalist and
historian, died at Concord, Mass.
The Society of Sons of Naval Veterans of
Massachusetts has been organized.
A family consisting of eight persons
were murdered and robbed in Poland.
An English syndicate has secured con-
troll of twenty-three Utah flour mills.
Marius A. Plasse, the Worcester Mass }
embezzler, las been arrested in New York.
Mrs. Emory d. Harmon of Deering, Me-,
died suddenly, the result of an overdose of
morphine.
A motion TO set aside the verdict against
DR. Graves has been presented to the
court at Denver, Col.
Mr. and Mrs. George 5. futile of New
ton, Mass. celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary Thursday.
A colony of people has returned to Man
chester \. H., from Honduras, and tells a
story of misrepresentation and hardship
There is a belief that the supreme court
will decide against the Church of the Holy
Trinity, New York, for importing a minis
Ter.
A body, supposed TO be that of Mrs. 10
hanna LOwneg, missing from New Bed
ford, Mass, was found ON Sconticut Neck
point.
Deacon Sheldon, prominent Duxbury
Mass citizen, had a paralytic shock on a
train, and died soon after arrival at Ply
mouth.
AGreen's Farms Conn Congregational
minister has been asked to resign, on ae-
count of a supposed leaning toward Cath
olicism.
Monrners az "a funeral in New Bedford,
Mass, were refused admission to a Catho-
he cemetery, and the casket was taken in
over the wall
Charles Mitchell of Middleboro Mass,
who has a family dependent upon him for
support, was committed 70 the Taunton
insane asylum.
The grand jury at New Haven returned
true bills for murder in the second degree
against James Z. Hine Of Bethany and
George BATHS of WallinRfond.
Mayor Briggs Of MiddletOwn, Conn,
has received q proposition from a manu-
featuring firm TO move to Middletown II
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THE DOME, THE STATUE AND THE STREET.
you may imagine the strangers within our
gates find much to amuse and interest
them. Visitors to Washington agree that
it is different from any other city in the
land, that it is in a thousand ways unique,
that it has an individuality among cities
which marks it us the most interesting of
all American municipalities. When one
comes to analyze this common observation
he finds it to be strikingly true. Wash
ington has so many characteristics-arch
tectural, typographical, social, political,
mercantile-that one scarcely knows where
to commence description of them.
The first thing which impresses all Wis
itors here is the omnipotence, the omni-
presence of government. From the moment
one lands in the town-even before he
reaches the city limits-he is reminded
that this is a city of by and for gov
eminent by the familiar yet always i'm
pressive spectacle of the great dome of the
Capitol rising toward the clouds, capped
by the Goddess of Liberty. This dome ap-
pears to overshadow the town, to charac-
terize it, to be huge seal set upon it so
that no one may ever forget he is in the
city of government. 1t is an odd fact
that no matter where you go in the District
of Columbia. or in nearby Virginia-miles
and miles away it may be-this insignia
of political power is everywhere visible,
in ever varying perspective, through thou
sands of vistas, amid sunshine or clouds
The dome has but one rival-the monu-
ment. One signifies power, the other his
tory. often imagine-and discover 9TH
ers do also-that the two open windows
which one sees away up there 800 feet
above the earth are the eyes of the past
looking down upon the present. Mr.. COT
fin, the artist who has lightly and skill
fully depicted for us in picture some of the
characteristics of the capital, appears to
have had this pair of eyes in mind The
monument, with its peering orbs-two in
each of its four faces-you cannot get
away from except by absolute fight from
the vicinity of the District of Columbia.
One always finds it difficult to get away
from the past, even when he desires to
do so
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George G. Croker resigned his position
as Massachusetts railroad commissioner
A suit for false Imprisonment is threat
ened against the superintendent of police
of Exeter n. H.
| Judge Woods confirmation as circuit
Judge will be strongly opposed by Demo
cratic senators.
Professor Arthur Fairbanks of Dart
mouth college was ordained to the minis
try at ST. Johnsbury VT.
In Belfast, Me-, Lewis Brensler, for
manslaughter, was sentenced to ten
months in the county Jail.
The gold medal contest between Ruth
Cleveland and Baby Mckee at Chicago
bazaar was won by the former child.
Fred Beedy, employed in numbering in
logs that he died before doctor could
reach him.
Congressman Crosby proposes to sim
plify the classification of mail matter by
consolidating the third and fourth classes
at / cent rate.
Lydia A. Walker, II years old, was
caught setting fire to barn at Columbus,
Wis. When put in Jail she confessed to
fifteen like depredations
Startling charges of malfeasance in Of
fee have been made against eX-Premier
MERCER and his late colleague, and royal
commission of inquiry has been appointed.
The grip, followed by pneumonia, is
causing many deaths in Danville, West
Concord, ST. Johnsbury Center, and else
where in Vermont. In some cases whole
miles are pfarOstrated
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ALL SORTS AND CONDITIONS OF MEN.
dangerous women, pitiful old wrecks Of
horselesh driven to loose jointed wagons by
sad eyed negro men, rooms to rent" the
habit of pie biting amcng the clerks in the
department, strangers out seeing the sights
in carriages whose drivers pretend to know
and to explain everything as they go along
the surprisingly large number of hotels
men who are not in a hurry and who are
determined you shall initiate their ex-
ample, "colonels, " Judges, 4" and majors
boarding houses, claim agents, patent at
torneys, one armed veterns of the rebellion.
historic or haunted housewives are a few
of the thousand and one characteristics
distinctive of the American capital.
ROBERT GRAVES.
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Wednesday, Jan. ID.

Mgr Magnasco, archbishop of Genoa,
died OF influenza.
The death is reported of Judge Addison
j. Wiley of Illinois.
The Benedictine abbey, Fecamp, France,
was destroyed by fire
Thirty degrees below zero is reported
from zero at Cascade Springs, S. d.
Offensive partisanship will not be toler-
ated in government offices, so it is said
There is contest over the will of the
late Nehemiah Kittredge of Bangor, Me.
Freight trains were wrecked at CASTLE,
n. Y, and two men were burned to death.
The Lowell Mass. common council is in
deadlock on the election of city messen-
ger
More deaths occurred in Boston i'll 1891
than in any one year in the history of the
city
An investigation of the Maverick and
other national bank failures will soon be-
gin.
The Piscataqua bank at Portsmouth,
n. H., is not seriously affected by the re-
cent run.
Viscount Dillon, sixteenth bearer of
that title in the Irish peerage, died at LON
In Amsterdam, N. Y, there are 300
cases of scarlet fever. and the epidemic il
on the increase.
Senator Quay is to ask Tor an investiga-
ton of federal civil service violations in
Philadelphia
United States Minister Lincoln was
obliged to take to his bed yesterday suffer
ing from influenza.
The T. E. Proctor Leather Company's
plant at Peabody, Mass, has been shut
down permanently.
A man was injured and many houses
damaged by an explosion near Forest
Hills Boston) station.
The crew of the British barque Kate
Cam were rescued after several days
of frantic efforts for life
A compromise between the pope and
King Humbert on questions at issue be-
tween them is reported.
The New Hampshire Cattle commission
ers have issued an order requiring cattle
from Massachusetts, to be quarantined.
Examination Of candidates for the naval
academy from the Sixth congressional
district Of Massachusetts, Is to be bsld tbs
month
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on wheels

Many stylish equipages-Jeems, Foot,
bangles. buttons-indicate style if not
wealth. The two are more often separated
here than in any other city. About one
third of the private carriages which you
see are rented. This senator and that rep
resentative and the other assistant secre-
tary ride in carriages which are owned by
their coachmen. Rates, by the week,
cheaper if two would be swells can divide
the time, for which purpose the artful
owner and coachman changes his suit from
boots to hat.
Carriages rushing around with footmen,
who drop off to leave cards at many doors,
or to assist madam out and in again within
five minutes at each stop, indicate society.
A row of awnings running from sidewalk
to front door tell us that one of Washing
tons characteristics-at this seasons
rivalry on one street for social distinction
and the honor of having our names in the
society columns of the daily papers.
A Washington characteristic is the Sun
day afternoon promenade of dudes and the
feminine affinity or correlative thereof on
Connecticut avenue, a characteristic in
which negro young men and women with
fine clothes and good manners take con-
spicuous part. A painful frequency of
rheumatic old coored men with white
hair, crutches and mosaic patched up trou-
sers is one distinguishing feature of life
here, as is the remarkably large per cent.
Of colored people among the passengers in
the street cars another.
Brides and bridegrooms, played out poll
-icians, eXes-eX-senators, governors, minis
-ers, everything-army and navy officers,
asphalt streets scarcity of policemen arts
5ocratic Chinese, Coreans, japanese diplo-
matte representatives in picturesque garb
The large number of men who have trav-
lied all over the world and who are able
% speak many languages, adventurous and
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CONDENSED NEWS.
Thursday, Jan. Z.

AhuTSuhyy cdh'
De Maupassant the French novelist, is
insane.
The Barn~uY will case is postponed to
Jan. 26.
The annual encampmsnt of the Maine
state militia will be held at Augusta, June
2O-25.
Fireman Shields, injured by a mob at
Valparaiso, wants $50 900 damages from
Chill
DR.. Graves charges that the Pinkerton
detectives robbed him of papers and other
things.
The Globe street railway of Fall River,
Mass, has passed into the hands of an out
side syndicate.
The habitual criminal act has been de
cided by the Massachusetts, supreme court
to be constitutional.
Policemen must not talk politics when
rules forbid it, is decision of the Massa-
ehusetts supreme court.
Hugh Brady, aged 80 years, attempted
suicide at Burlington, VT, by cutting his
throat, and may not recover
The treasury department has so far paid
403 claims for bounty on sugar under the
Mckinley act, aggregating $1214042
Inc Berlin PoSt says that the rapid ad-
vances of England and Russia in Central
Asia will lead to an inevitable collision.
Austin Corbin has been chosen president
of the New York and New England, and
there has been a change in the board of
directors.
The wages of the cutters in Humaron &
Becklet's factory, New Britain, Conn,
have been raised 5 per cent, and strike
B averted
The Biddeford (Me) mission board have
called Rev. H. B. Mitchell of Kittery to
take charge of the Biddeford missionary
interests,
A 5-year-old daughter of John H. Emery
OF Biddeford Me-, while playing with
matches, was seriously burned, her dress
catching fire.
Mrs. John Sullivan, 60 years DID, of
Olneyville, r. L., died from burns received |
by her clothing catching fire from the
kitchen stove.
AT the semi-annual meeting of the trus-
tees of the bingham (Mass.) Institute for
Savings, semi-annual dividend of 2 per
cent. was declared
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Finger Tips of Idiots.

Impressions of the finger tips of idiots
have been found by DIR. d'Abundo to show
very different markings from those of sane
people. In number of idiots the mark
ings on the tips of all the fingers Of each
hand were identical, and in one idiot the
tips Of the thumbs had the same markings
as those Of the fingers. There was notice
able smoothness Of the finger tips in all
the idiots
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Sunday, Jan. 10.

A binding snowstorm prevails in
Vienna.
The italian ironclad Dandoli has sailed
for Tangier.
The site for the government building at
Haverhill, Mass. is practically settled.
A rope broke at a Georgia hanging and
the execution was delayed an hour and a
half
The belief is growing stronger that Dan
iel Mccarthy of Woburn, Mass, was muir
dered.
A Maine woman sold COW to get money
to employ an officer to search for her way
ward daughter.
The body of man named Dennis Coffey
was found on the railroad track near Aver
Mass.) Junction.
Colonel Ingersoll has bought the Central
division of the Cincinnati, Jackson and
Mackinaw railroad.
The Tooth anniversary of the birth of
DIR. Lowell Mason was celebrated at Med
field, Mass, Saturday.
There is remonstrance from Bath (Me.)
ship owners against an American registry
for the foreign built steamships Foxhall
and Oteri
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Monday, Jan. IL.

New England congressman are to formu-
late plan of concerted action.
The Missouri State university was
nearly destroyed by fire Loss, 100000.
| Chief Justice Field of the Massachusetts
supreme court denies that he intends to
resign.
Minister Prince says that the statement
that revolution in Hayti is impending is
absurd.
A dispatch from Valencia, Spain, says a
violent snowsto1m has caused much dam
age there.
Severe snowstorms col tinue throughout
the United Kingdom. Traffic is badly in
terfered with.
Five persons were drowned through the
capsizing of boat in the harbor of St.
Valley, France.
One of the Chicago anarchists has been
arrested in connection with the Walsall
dynamite affair.
A resolution is to be offered in the house
for an inquiry into the Maverick and other
national bank failures.
Albert G. Hendrick, for twenty-six
years president of the New Haven fire de-
partment, has resigned.
Rt Rev. Henry Philpott, D. D., for
merly bishop of Worcester died at Lon
don He was in his S4th year.
The Fitchburg (Mass.) Athletic club
opened its new rooms with full-dress re-
ception, dance and banquet.
Anarchists made bold night attack on
Here's, Spain, and were repulsed by the
troops, and many prisoners taken
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WASHINGTON LIFE.
1T is NOW AT IT'S LlVELIEST Akp
BRIGHTEST ESTATE.

This Is Because 1t Is Full of Strangers
and Congressme and Chose Who Would
by ONCE Live-A City of. by and for
Government.
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lSpecial Correspondence.l

WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. THE Capital City
Is now full of strangers, attracted hither
by the session of congress and the charms
of gay social season. Life in the capital
is now at it's liveliest and brightest, and
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the business men will purchase $780, 900 of
the stock.
Jere McIntire and Samuel Brackett.
aged about IS, arrested for burglarizing
Bean g. Sons grocery store, Biddeford,
Me-, admit their guilt, but say they were
Intoxicated
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THE NEW BUILDINGS.
Little Decrease in New Work
During the Winter.
LABOR AND MATERIAL CHEAP.
Residences Going Up in Various Parts
of the City-O. j. Treen's Houses
Other Residences.

Building Inspector J. C. Helms issued
twenty-three permits last week, the esti
mated cost of the work being So, $50. This
does not look as though there would be
much of decrease in building opera
tions during the winter. The fact is that
many are beginning to look on the winter
as the most favorable season to build here
on account of the lower rates of wages pre-
vailing and the cheapness of material.
o. J. Treen has taken out permits for
two more fine residences. to be erected just
east of Lake Union. Each of the build
lngs will be a two-story frame with stone
foundation and basement. They are after
much the same design, only of little diff
ferent style of ornamentation on the out
side and some slight differences IN the in
ternal arrangement. They are to be eie-
gantly finished up in cedar and hardwood
and will be plastered with rock plaster.
They are to cost $4,000 each. Mr.. .Treen
will begin work on a third building of
similar style in few days, and his archi-
tect. W. F. McQuivey, is beginning work
on the plans for $4,000 residence for Mr..
Treen himself, to be put up in the same
vicinity.
w. G. Dickinson has begun the erection
Vi d DSautllul tWO-StOTy iTdulc IeSlutuCc
on Orange street. The foundation and
basement will be of brick and the inside
OF the building will be handsomely fin
ished. 1t will cost about So, O00
E. H. Fisher is building another fine
two-story frame residence at the corner of
Lane and Wilfred streets. It will have
stone foundation and basement and be
one of the most attractive buildings in the
vicinity. The inside will be neatly fin
ished in cedar and some hardwood. The
cost will be about 5000.
NJ. Mullins is erecting a double two-story
frame tenement at the corner of Weller
and Lewis streets, which is to cost s., 400.
1t will be nicely finished up throughout.
The Fremont Mill Company Is building
a one-story frame dry kiln for drying lum-
Der at it mill in Fremont. 1t will cost
$500.
A. G. Lynn has taken out permit for
the erection of nice little two-story frame
residence on Victor street near Second
street. 1t will cost 81. GOO