Year: 1879


Our horse lovers have been greatly ex-
cited over the arrival Of, Gen. Grants two
/ Arabian stations which reached here last
week from New York. Crowds as great as
those which would have met Grant himself
have poured into the stables where the
horses are quartered, all intent upon seeing
! the beautiful animals. One named '.Lind-
en- Tree" is a dark dapple gray, the other
Leopard" is also a dapple gray Of lighter
| color. Both are about 10 hands high and
are slender, light and graceful but extreme
/ ly Wiry and nervous in movement. Apure
Arabian stallion is, of course, q novelty
which attracts notice in any city, but as
these are Of undOubted purity and repre-
sent the typical Arabian, no lover Of horse
flesh here can resist the temptation to ex-
anime them. Two Arab shoes are shown,
and consist simply Of fiat pieces Of steel,
shaped like the bottom Of hOof with q
circular hole about an inch in diameter in
the centre. Gen. Beale will take the horses
to his farm Just north Of the city where he
will keep them till Gen. Grant returns in
July when it is presumed they will be taken
to st. Louis and there used for breeding
! purposes.


The Senate is hanging fire on Secretary
MeCrary's nomination but there is every
reason to suppose that he will be confirmed
even if he does not resign the War Depart
ment portfolio, as the Democrats desire. in
| advance of confirmation. His friends urge
him not to resign inasmueh as the demand
for him to do so is merely a piece Of Dem
oeratic Whangdoodle in full keeping with
their charges that he is one Of the terrible
radical stalwarts who would, with the
army, ride rough shod over all American
| liberty.


Gen. Rice, the TO be 1t Gov. of Ohio, if
''PeggOtty is Willin, F" is here and blows as
! big about the certainty of his election this
| Fall as Gen. Blackburn does whenever
| gratifed with chance to pirate about con-
ciliatiOn. But the feeling grows stronger
every day among the Republicans that
Charley Foster will carry Rice and EWing's
scalp in his belt in October next. If there
be doubter on this point he cannot be
found among the Republicans, for the as
surances Of success coming here from all
parts Of the State are at present indisputa-
Bile. The Democratic wholesale bouncing
process Is producing its proper effect, for
the Republicans are realizing that the rule
works both ways and are beginning to in
sist that it should be applied to the Demo-
Gratis in the Departments. 1t is only fair
that the small army Of Democrats in the
Treasury and Interior should be reduced,
''every one ought 10 be bounced"


The Jury in the case Of the six young
men charged with oUtraging Miss CLANCY
have been discharged because they could
not agree upsn a Yeidict save that of ac-
I quitting Of the defendants. They we're in
the jury room several days being out only
to ask for further instructions from the
Judge and once to take a short walk in the
Park. This of course ends the case for nc
Jury can now be found here to convict.
A disagreement has never been followed by
a conviction in any criminal case and in
this one particularly where the prosecution
rests principally upon the evidence Of
young girl from whom impOSsibilities are
expected under the terrible cross eXamina-
ton Of INSCRIPTIONS attorneys, a tnal is
necessarily farce in so far as Justice IS
concerned. Holding as we do that no hon
est woman under the sun could stand such
cross examinations as Miss CLANCY has
been subjected to we haYe looked for moth
ing but aequital, and we see no reason why
a gang Of desperadoes may not with i'm
punity and perfect safety hereafter attack
and outrage any woman after nightial IN
this city.


Weirick, who wrote threatening black
mailing letter to Gen. Butler and who has
since been in jail for the Ofense, plead
guilty to-day and at the request Of Gen.
Butler who asked that leniency be shown
him, the court fined him only S1.OO with
one month in jail, admonishing him to go
and sin no more.


All our public schools and colleges are in
the full enjoyment Of commencement eX-
ercises, and present full showing Of grad
yates and advancements. Heretofore the
fedglings from our two law schools have
been admitted to our courts without furth-
er study or examination but the Bar re-
Gently amended the rules Of the courts
! making three years study, instead Of two,
as preliminary to admission thus COM
| pelling cur law college graduates to work
| little longer for their final sheepskin.
PeytOn who is under sentence Of death
! for murder of another c0lored man seems
perfectly happy, though the gallows are
| being erected in the jail yard for his espe-
eiai benefit. He says the President will
! certainly commute his sentence, and talks
as gaily to his friends about it as il be held
the order of Communication in his hands.
he still al6rms his innocence, and that one
Of the witnesses against him did the cut
ting IN the fray.


an cur city bakers were out in grand
procession recently, headed by military
band and q monster twist loaf Of bread
weighing over $50 pounds. After parad-
ing our streets With flying colors and stir
ring strains of music they ended, of course,
at a beer garden where they spent jolly
night Of it. yUNIUs.


Washington, June 16, 1873.