The Washington times., 1895-03-18
POINTS ABOUT PILGRIMS.

capt. william Nash, or The Boston
baseball team, stopped over atthe MetTopoli-
tan Yesterday en- route TO Columbia. S. c.,
where he will join his club to-day. He said
that the team has good deal of young
blood in it this season, out OF which some
good results may be expected. They have
four new pitchers, new iufielder and
new outfielder. and out of these. he thinks,
at least three or four ought to make good
men.
The Bostons viii meet the Washingtons in
Columbia and viii play their first practice
game there this afternoon. From CO.
Iumbia the two teams will go to Charles
ton. playing there on tie 21st 22Dd and
play on the 25th. 26th and 9th.
There the two teams VIII separ-
ate and after an extended practice tour
in the south the Bostons will play Prince
ton College, April Il, and Will open their
regular season at Boston with the Nation
ais on April 10.
The American House is quite popu.
lar resort for knights of the Grip and
the theories that get started there some
times are interesting at least. Yesterday
afternoon a commercial man who had Just
come over from Baltimore after an eX-
tended western trip, announced TO his COM
panion that be had become a firm be,
lever IN premonition. 1t seems that his
wife, who lives in Richmond. has not ex-
pected his return for several days yet. but
on nearing Baltimore he felt an inde
fmable but very distinct impression t;'1t
he was going TO meet her there. He
reached Baltimore, and sure enough at his
hotel he found his wife waiting for him
ia
he would be i'll Baltimore that G1y and
decided 10 start out and meet him.
He was evidently very firmly convinced
that telepathy or something very similar
had figured III his case, and it is dollars
To cruliers that if his prophetic mind ever
becomes imbued with the idea that a GER
tain policy gig is going to turn up on the
wheel lie VIII play IT even at the sacri-
flee OF car tickets and postage stamps.
"ApTopos Of ST. Patrick's Day" said
Mr.. f. c. MOORE. Of Cincinnati. az the
Randall yesterday. 1t is a very peculiar
fact that nearly all The names which are
now regarded as typfcally IRISH are de-
rived from the Greek or Latin tongues.
For instance, Felix is derived from n
Latin word sgnifying happy Ig
nauus from a Greek word signifying
ardent Dennis is the same as Dhnysius
in Greek and Patrick is a Latin deriva-
ton signifying noble or patTiClan.' Dan
lei is 4 Hebrew name signifying a divine
judge, and a number OF others Will be
found to have either Latin, Greek or He
brew roots"
There is an amusing story told on
one OF the prominent members OF our bar"
said Mr.. L. II. Alstead, q prominent Gin
cinnati lawyer at Pages yesterday. 1T
was connected with his first case, which
was a murder trial, III one OF the black
belts Of The South A white man had
killed a negro, and when the iary was
cmpanelled it was found that eleven or
them vera negroes, and one Of them was
a white man by the name OF Patrick
O'Connor, Irish, as the name suggests.
From the appearance Of things on@the
surface the case looked very bad for the
prisoner, and the lawyer finally decided
that the best he could hope for was man
slaughter, and perhaps the only way TO
get that was to bribe the only white man
on the jury. SO he offered Pat a good
sum II he would hold out for manSlaughteT.
no matter what the others wanted. i
verdict Of manSaughter was accordingly
returned, and the lawyer very gleefully
gave Pat his money, and as he did SO
said.
- Did you have much trouble in get
ting the men around, Pate
'ThrubIe enough says Pat. livery
wan of thin blamed naygurs wanted to
acquit the man, but l held out for man
slaughter.
Gov. William c. Oates, OF Alabama, is
again at the Metropolitan on his way
home from New York city.
Mr.. Z. B. Shelter, purchasing agent for
the New York, Lake Erie Il Western
Railroad, is at the Raleigh.
There seems To be an epidemic OF State
Governors at the nations capital Just
now During the past week no less than
three have visited Washington, and Gov
w. Y. Atkinson, of Georgia, who regis
tered at the Metropolitan yesterday, made
the fourth. Gov. Atkinson said last night
iCal in his State at present Speaking of
the outlook for silver party in the South,
he said:
while we, of course. are All silver Demo
Gratis, we don't think it viii be necessary
TO form new party to settle the currency
question. If the next Congress fails 10
decide il we think that the two old parties
VIII be forced to join issues in the matter.
II don't know much about the plogTeSs
OF the BlackWatson contest, not having
been in their district-for some time But so
far as have heard. therehas been no change
in party lines there"
Speaking Of the party division IN Ia
bama, Gov. Atkinson was of the opinion
that the kolb faction had Worn themselves
out. They have been political agitators
for so long that the people have got tired OF
them. This fact may not remedy the split,
however, but think that Kolb and his
crowd have agitated themselves out Of pub