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of THE EVENING CRITIC, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1881. EVENING CRITIC. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 1808. AMUSEMENTS TO-NIGHT.

SUMMER DRIVER'S SUMMER GARDEN- -Concert. THEATRE COMIQUE-Variety. ABNER'S SUMMER GARDEN -Concert. Weather Indications. For New England and the Middle Atlantie States, fair weather, winds mostly stationary temperature and barsoutherly, ometer.

Special Weather Bulletin. The special bulletin issued from the signal office to day says: Fair weather is indicated for in the Middle Atlantic States and New England, and rain in the Lake region and South Atlantic had and subscriptions left at E. K. book and stationery store, 128 Bridge street, Georgetown. States.

The Critic in Georgetown. Copies of THE EVENING CRITIC may be PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS About People and Things! in ington. INTERESTING local news on third page. Go To Lower Cedar Point on the Thomp8011. ABNER's summer garden is well worth a visit.

BURGLARS are about and doors should be firmly secured. DRIVER's summer garden concerts are deservedly popular. REMEMBER the Land League picnic at Beyer's Park this evening. THE LAMPS will be lighted at 9p. m.

today and extinguished at 3:45 a. m. "AIRY FAIRY" cigarettes are not injurious to your health. Call for them. "WRESTLING JOE; or, Life at the Mines," is attracting large audiences to the Comique.

TO-MORROW is the regular excursion day to Occoquan Falls on the Mary Washington. THE "loud and boisterous" cases overtop considerably all other cases brought before the Police Court. U. S. GRANT arrived at Baltimore yesterday from Demerara.

This U.S. G. is merchant and not the ex-P. ABOUT the liveliest. place in the District now is along front.

Coasters are continually arriving and departing. A TEMPORARY CURB has been placed around the Lincoln statue. It will not be moved until anthorized by Congress. JUDGE BUNDY said to-day that to facilitate business he would hereafter open the sessions of the Police Court at 9 a. m.

IT IS BELIEVED that yesterday afternoon's fire was caused by spontaneous combustion. The loss is estimated at $100. JOHN GREEN, colored, for putting head on his girl, Fannie Moulton, was today fined $5 and costs by Judge Bundy. THE grand opening at Quantico pavilion is fixed for to-morrow. The steamer Excelsior leaves at 9 a.

m. and 3:45 10., sharp. THE excursion to the Capes for the benefit of Bud Eggleston's tent promises to a success. The boat leaves at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

IT IS A STRETCHING of the line of duty for the watchman in the Smithsonian grounds to prevent the little children from playing on the grass, WORKMEN were engaged this morning relaying one of the flag-stone paths in the southern end of the Capitol grounds, leading to Pennsylvania avenue. JACK BURNS, a young white man, was fined ten dollars to-day by Judge Bundy, for an assault committed in May, 1880, on Lucinda Lewis, a colored woman. WHENEVER you meet a man, woman child, who is not well up with the news, you may bet your bottom dollar that man, woman or child does not read THE CRITIC. HODGKINS, of the Police Court, returned yesterday from a trip to Norfolk and brought back what he called a bird, but which was a ten-pound specimen of a Virginia snapping-turtle. SUIT FOR THE United States has been entered against John H.

Stout, C. E. Hovey and Hawkins Taylor for $15,000 on Stout's bond, to cover a deficiency in the latter's accounts as Indian agent. MESSRS. FRANK P.

CROSS, Wm. HurRE furth and Charles Wason will shortly leave for a ten days' trip down the Potomac. These gentlemen will embark on Mr. Cross's elegant yacht "Buttonhook." MRS. HENRIETTA HELM died suddenly at her home at Four-and-a-half street and Virginia avenue southwest yesterdav.

The coroner viewed the body and found cholera morbus to be the cause of death. DURING the storm last night several lars on Eighth street southeast were flooded to a considerable depth, and the water lected in some places on the streets and gardens to a depth of over a foot. THE TIME for the trips of the steamer W. Thompson to Lower Cedar Point been changed. She now leaves at 8:30 a.

leaving Lower Cedar Point at 5:30 P. will reach Washington at 10 p. m. MISS FANNY, the pleasant and accomplished daughter of Mrs. Carrie Fahnestock, left last evening for an extended trip to mountains of Virginia, thence to Pennsylvania to visit her father's relatives.

THE Capital office was treated Sunday morning by some dishonest newsboys, who stole from the pigeon-holes a number of back editions of the paper and sold them on the streets to unsuspecting purchasers. A GAME of base-ball was played on National grounds, yesterday, between Keystono Club of this city, and the Brooklyn, of -Portsmouth, Va, which resulted a victory for the home club by a score of to 12. MRS. ISAAC FAUNCE was driving past corner of and New Jersey avenue northyesterday afternoon, when her horse slipped and fell, breaking its left hind which necessitated the killing of the mal. ONE of the campaign poles left standing vacant lot near the navy-yard struck by lightning last night, and broken off a few feet from the ground.

The that fell struck a picket fence and broke but did no further damage. WM. BURK was sent to jail for sixty by Judge Bundy to-day for stealing worth of clothing from Adolphus Patterson, of Duddington Place, and for stealing pair of gold ear-rings, clothing, gold from Ann Thomas, was held for grand jury. A MESSENGER brought word to the Precinct station-house this morning two burglars had entered the hardware store of Thomas B. Lombie, at 1421 York avenue.

Police officers went to store and found the door badly jimmied, and the basement entrance also battered, neither of the entrances had been opened. THE deputy coroner, Mr. Hartigan, viewed the body of Washington Padgett, the young blacksmith whose sudden was noticed in yesterday's Carrie, day after noon, and stated deceased that a an had inquest was unnecessary, as the to The his was then taken to the home death from a violent epileptic Padgett's body parents on South Capitol be sent to Port Tobacco to-morrow at 7 o'clock for burial. He and and parents were born at Port Tobacco, morning most of his relatives still live there. Pants Separate all sizes, at B.

Robinson from suits, Boys' Clothing House, 909 Penna. avenue. PROPOSED CARNIVAL To Celebrate the President's Recovery. Judge H. H.

Blackburn and Col. Joseph McKibbon, on the part of the citizens of Washington, are making every effort, in conjunction with the merchants Washington and Baltimore, to hold a grand colebration in the shape of a carnival, procession, Presi- and iliumination here in honor of the dent's recovery. It will be held about time of the Yorktown Centennial, and as it hand been arranged with all of the steamboat railroad companies transporting visitors to Yorktown that the ticket shall be good as far as Washington, an immense concourse of visitors will assemble here, there being nothing in or about Yorktown of interest to detain them there after the ceremony. The only cost that our, people and merchants will be necessitated to incur will be that of illumination, and by the process of electric light that will be but trifling. The National Committee is amply provided with funds for other expenses.

The Masonic, military, boat-clubs and all sociations in the District are expected to participate, 13 well as Baltimore societies. Jerome J. Hinds was yesterday appointed a special agent of Post-office, or, as they are termed under the reformed organization, a Post-office inspector. Mr. Hinds is solected evidently for the same reasons that rendered the appointment of Mr.

A. M. Gibson desirable. The records of Post-office Department contain a bit of history covering Mr. Hinds' former connection with branch public service.

It will be remembered that when Hon. Marshall Jewell was appointed Postmaster-General, almost his first official act was to cause a criminal prosecution to be brought against Mr. Hinds, and it has been intimated by a few uncharitable individuals that on that occasion Mr. Hinds only escaped conviction by a mere technicality. What Mr.

Hinds knows about fraudulent practices in connection with Star routes is doubtless gathered from his personal experiences in the matter of bribing clerks in the Post-oflice Department to purloin and open bids for his information. His selection for a position, the duties of which involve the in tion of the affairs of the post-offices throughout the country, is in perfect harmony with the other acts of the Postmaster-General in reforming his Department. HINDS IN OFFICE. 30 A Notorious Man Appointed an In. spector in the P.

0. D. National Republican. Drowned in Rock Creek. The body of a white man named John Tierney, 47 years old, was found in Rock Creek this morning at the foot of Twentysixth and streets northwest.

A boatman named John Lewis accidentally discovered the body, and immediately went to the Fourth Precinct station-house and informed Officers Cunningham and Collins, who repaired to the scene and had the body carried to the Tierney was a married station leaves a wife and four children. The deceased left his home yesterday afternoon, telling his wife that he was going out collect some money. He got on a spree during the evening, and about 9 o'clock was seen going in the direction of his home on Twenty-second street, and it is supposed he lost his bearings and walked into the creek. The water at the spot where he walked in is only four and feet deep. The body of the deceased was taken in charge by Undertaker Gawler.

Dr. Hartigun, coroner, viewed the body certificate of death by cidental drowning. The Yorktown Fireworks. The Yorktown Congressional Committee, Senator John W. Johnston, chairman, have awarded the fireworks to be displayed on October 18 and 19, to Mr.

William Bond, the prominent Baltimore pyrotechnist. Among the designs are, the surrender of Lord Cornwallis (30 by 40 feet in size), and a representation of the seal Virginia, surrounded by the coat-of-arms the other twelve original States. This be about twenty feet square, as will also a figure of Peace. Accident. Wm.

Bergman, a restaurant keeper South Washington, was driving this afternoon in company with a young man named Lincoln, when the horse took fright at the corner of Sixth and southwest and both men thrown out. Bergman's left leg was broken and other injuries were inflicted, so that he had to be taken homo the police ambulance. Abating a Nuisance. The following important order was issued by the Commissioners this afternoon: Ordered running -That no wires more or for permits the will erection given of poles in the District for telegraphic purposes, except on lines now existing, or for the fire and police service of the District government." Held an Accessory to a Murder. Frank Gallagher, held to await the action of the grand jury an accessory to the murder Stephen Tyrrell on July 31, on Twenty-first street, was to-day in the Criminal Court admitted to bail by Judge Hagthe ner, bond $5,000, with John Fegan and Christopher Dixon as sureties.

Still Some Left. Ingrains, Ingrains, Ingrains. Will open 200 pieces to-morrow morning, ranging from twenty-five cents. Julius Lansburgh, 315 Seventh street. Chris.

Xander, 911 Seventh street, has some of the native wines, manufactured by himself, which has given so much satisfaction, left. Call early before it is all disposed of. the WE ARE IN RECEIPT Of The History of the Government Printing-office" through the courtesy of the author, R. W. Kerr, The book is what its name implies, a history of the establishment and growth of the Government Printing-office.

It is illustrated with engravings of the principal departments of the office, and the machinery used in the work of book-making. It also contains the laws governing the public printing, and a considerable de amount of statistical matter. Copies of the work may be had of the author. Price, in cloth, in paper, 75 cents. THE FIRST visitor who has had a chance to see Guiteau since his confinement, outside of the officials, was a little son of Mr.

Thomas McMahon. While passing through the corridors of the jail with his mother yesterday, Guiteau thrust his head from his cell window, and the little fellow at once recognized the assassin from his picture and exclaimed, "That's the assassin, mother." ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE sick, injured and insane people were sent to the various charitable institutions during July. They were distributed as follows: To Washington Asylum Hospital, 35; Freedman's Hospital, 59; Providence Hospital, 26; Government Hospital for the Insane, 13; Children's Hospital, 1, and a home found in for 1. EDWARD SNYDER, representing Franc Maister, dealers in bacon, was arrested this morning by Assistant Inspector Raff' for doing business in this District without license. THE WILL of Alexis E.

Smith, of Frederick, who left $1,000 to Dr. Butler's Memorial Church, is to be contested by his brother, D. Sidney Smith. POSTMASTER MILLER, of Frederick, shot and forwarded to the President Saturday seven fine woodcock. WYMAN, THE WIZARD.

Death of the Famous Magician. The announcement of the death of Prof. Wyman, the veteran ventriloquist magician, will be learned with regret in every section of the country, and particularly in Washington, where he enjoyed unrestricted popularity. "Wyman, the Wizard," as he was familiarly known, may associated with pleasantest days of childhood of even our oldest citizens, who have regularly attended his performances here as they grew elder, and enjoy just as much the mysteries of his art, though it was no longer a mystery to them. was for a time a resident of this city, living at a house on Sixth street.

Prof. Wyman died Sunday afternoon at Burlington, Now Jersey. He was born in Albany, New York, in 1816, and began 1 his career as a magician at a very early age. In his prime he ranked with Anderson, the Wizard of the North; the elder Hermann, Robort Heller and Signor Blitz. Exceedingly clever in his delusions and a good conversationalist, Wyman traveled all over the country for many years, finally retiring from 1 public life with competence.

He was famous for slight-of-hand tricks, and many of his best specialties were executed without any other apparatus than his ten fingers. When but a child he possessed the peculiar faculty of throwing his voice," and as he grew older became more and more proficient, until he excelled in the art of ventriloquism. He used to frequently visit the markets about the city and other crowded with his entertaining In 1836, under places and amuse himself. and his friends the management of Charles D. Selding, Wyman made his debut at the Baltimore Museum.

From Baltimore he went to New York, and ran very successful career under the auspices of Mr. P. T. Barnum, at the latter's famous museum in that city. Subsequently he made many tours throughout the South, performing each season to large audiences in all the principal cities and towns in the Southern Atlantic States.

His last engagement in Washington was at Odd-Fellows' Hall last winter, and last fall he gave a tent show at the National Fair grounds. Marriage Licenses. Marriage Licenses. licenses have been granted to F. McCathran and A.

S. Hall: O. H. Emmons and J. P.

Cockney Andrew P. Hamilton, of Fairfax, and Annie S. Hall, of Alexandria, Andrew Porter and Katie Clemonds. District Government Notes. -The District is blessed with 1,047 licensed curs up to date.

James A. Nelson was appointed superintendent of chimney-sweeps by the Commissioners this afternoon. -George Shahan received a permit toa $300 addition to the dwelling at Seventh and streets northwest. -The bonds and register books to be kept at the health office as a part of the new plumbing regulations are in preparation. The position of overseer of street improvements in county, held by R.

R. Shekalls, was abolished to-day by the Commissioners. -Henry J. Hoyle, Joseph Williams, Mrs. Bridget Kelly, Joseph Pryor, E.

McGraw, John McCathran and James Pead received hack licenses to-day. -The inspector of buildings makes the following monthly report for July: Sixtytwo new buildings, 67 repairs, 4 awnings and 102 feet of vault, which gave a revenue of $399. -The trustees of the Industrial Home School met last night and adopted resolutions requesting slight changes in the construction of that building, which were sent to the Commissioners to-day. -The arrivals at the wharves yesterday were the schooners Pomeroy, Ada Lee, Cooper, S. Fisher, Saulsbury, Mary A.

Trayner, Robin Hood and R. R. R. No. 34.

The vessels brought cargoes of wood, coal and stone. -Copies of the sanitary plumbing regulations adopted by the health authorities and the Commissioners, which were fully noticed in THE CRITIC when issued, have been mailed to the various plumbers doing business in the District. -The architect of the Capitol, having almost completed the plans and drawings for the school-houses to be built at Tenth and streets northwest, and at the corner of Massachusetts avenue, First and streets, the specification for these buildings were sent to-day to the building inspector prior to being printed. -Tax liens were issued to-day and signed by the Commissioners against the following streets: south, from 1st west to 15th west; north, from 17th west to river; 22d west, from north to Massachusetts Pennsylvania from 8th north to 11th cast south, from 1st to 6th east south, from 9th to 11th east; south, from 11th to cemetery A south from 3d to 9th east. FINANCIAL.

Stock Quotations. The following observations of the transactions in the financial market to-day, together with opening and closing quotations, are furnished by the banking house of H. D. Cooke, 1429 street, Washington, D. NAME OF STOCK.

Open'g Clos'g American C. C. 0. 94 Canada 66. 67 Chicago, Burlington and ......160 C.

0. I. 23 Chicago, St. Paul, M. 42 do.

Central Del. Lackawauna de Delaware and Denver and Rio do. 87 Hannibal and St. 95 do. preferred.

Houston and 97. Illinois ......137 Ind. B. W. 50.

Lake ......124 Louisville 104 Lake Erle and Michigan Missouri Missouri, Kansas Manhattan 17 York .....1433 Northwestern do. 139 New Jersey 953 Nashville and 80 80 Northern 00. Ohio and Mississippi. Ontario and 32. Rock Pacific 186 Reading 60 623 St.

do. San 49 do. 74 75 Union .....126 Western Wabash, St. L. and do.

90 Cedar Falls 30 Metropolitan 833 New York 107 P. D. 40 A St. P. 30 do.

87 ....136 American Express. 83 United States Express 69 W. F. Express 126 He Overdid San Francisco Chronicle. Bill Michaels, a wood-chopper, is now incarcerated in the Nevada County Jail awaiting trial for an attempt to murder a Chinaman.

When brought to prison he said to one of the convicts, I guess that heathen will die, so thing I can do is to play off crazy." Then he set up a loud howling, and for several days and nights he made the prison a pandemonium with his affected wild ravings. Now he is confined in a strait-jacket, for he really is a maniac. His attempt to appear mad had such an effect upon il mind already weakened by habitual intoxication that his mental faculties were thrown into a senseless whirl. GEORGETOWN AFFAIRS. The Late Accident.

The boy, Daniel Hunter, who fell from little, near East Market Space, to the towpath, and broke his left leg, is in a very bad way. His sufferings for the past two days has been of the most intense character. The little Simmons boy, who fell at the same time, and who received internal and external injuries, is much better today. Grain Arrivals. The boat Samuel Jarboe brought to this port this morning 3,700 bushels of wheat for J.

G. J. M. Waters the boat Seneca, 1,500 bushels of wheat, 500 of corn, 200 of rye, and 50 barrels of flour, for Hartley Bros. Burial of Mrs.

Yates. The late Mrs. Ann B. Yates, who died on Saturday last, was buried this morning from Trinity (Catholic) Church. The funeral was largely attended.

Coal. Twenty boats, with 2,411 tons of coal left Cumberland Saturday for Georgetown. IN ANSWER to complaints of the defective drainage of Grace street, Georgetown, the Engineer Commissioner reports that a sewer is necessary, which will not be laid without the property-owners paying one-third the cost. The Thunderer on Drinking. The London Times thus speaks in a recent issue: "Drinking baffles us, confounds us, shames us and mocks us at every point.

It outwits alike the teacher, the man of business, the patriot and the legislator. Every other institution flounders hopeless difficulties; the public house holds its triumphant course. The administrators of publie and private charity are told that alms and oblations go, with rates, doles, and pensions, to the all-absorbing bar of the public house. Not a year passes in either town or village without some unexpected and hidcous scandal, the outcome of habitual indulgence, often small and innocent in its origin. Some poor creature, long and deservedly high in the respect -perhaps reverence-of the neighborhood, makes a sudden shipwreck of character.

Under the accumulated influence of alcohols aggravated, perhaps, by other still more powerful, still more treacherous, the honest man turns knave, the respectable man suddenly loses principle and self-respect, the wise man is utterly foolish, the rigidly moral man forgets his mask and his code and takes a plunge into libertinism. It then turns out, what possibly some have suspected, that drink is at the bottom of it, and that some poor wife or other friend has long been doing the best that could done to check, to cure, and at all events to hide till the truth would be out. Do something toward staying the hugh mischief which in one way or another confounds us all, and may, for we cannot be sure-crush and ruin any one of us. A Saratoga Belle's Dresses. Saratoga Do you see that lovely blonde coming toward us? Rumor is rife with her, and she no furnishes much food for the gossips, writes Saratoga correspondent.

One of the things said of her is that her wardrobe consists of 300 dresses! I am not exaggerating Dame Grundy's bulletin one iota. Now I happen to be a friend of the lady, and, therefore, can give facts concerning her. She is Mrs. T- -y, wife of a wealthy St. Louis banker, the possessor of more, in quantity and quality, diamonds than any other lady in Saratoga.

At night she is literally ablaze with precious stones. Her husband dotes on her, and gratifies her every whim. In regard to a her dresses, she has not quite 300. But this she can do--remain here two months, change twice a day, and never appear in the same costume. Why, there is a woman in He St.

Louis who supports her family by the embroidery she does for Mrs. T. As soon as the new costume is decided upon, stockings, handkerchiefs, gloves and parasols are the artist to embroider in color and design to match the dress. With all her wealth she is one of the most unassuming ladies to be met with, though, as you can imagine. she excites a great deal of envy.

None of the Old-time Prodigality at Saratoga. A Saratoga letter says: While the hotels are all moderately well filled, there still room for many more, and of those who are here it is complained that they do not represent the spending class. Even the Southerners, once so profligate in their liberality, now count the cost of things, and partake more of the mathematical propensities of their Northern brethern than was their wont befo' th' wah. 66 We folks down Sooth, said one of the cavaliers on the balcony of Congress Hall, evening, "know mo' 'bout the value of money. We used to think it was only to throw away, but since the wah we have found out that you can buy things with it." "I never see sich people as is down here this season, growled the, hackman that took me home from the races yesterday.

"I kin remember the time when Morrissey WAS down here that thy'd throw fivedollar notes at you for driving them around the circle. Now they'll swear at you and walk away if you ask 'em for a quarter to drive em' to the race-track." The "infernal machine scare has had two curiously exact historical parallels, in one of which, however, the comedy resulted somewhat tragically for its orginator. The first of these was the work of the famous sixteenth century satirist of France, Francois Rabelais. Having on one occasion run short of money--no uncommon thing with the jovial author of Gargant on a holiday excursion in the provinces, he made up several packets of brickdust and placed them in a drawer, which he left open, inscribing them with Poison for the King, Poison for the Queen, Poison for the Prince, His landlord was not long of discovering the terrible packets, and Rebelais, escorted by a rejoicing troop of constables, was conveyed without the cost of a penny back to Paris, where he was instantly recognized, and his novel way of paying his bill became the joke of the season. This adventure may possibly have suggested to poor La Tude.

the famous Bastile prisoner, his first and last attempt to acquire favor at court. Having addressed a packet of white powder in feigned hand to Mme. de Pompadour, the reigning favorite of Louis he at the same time wrote to her in his own name to warn her that such a packet was 011 its way to her containing poison. But the powder proved harmless on being tested, and the poor young Frenchman paid for his ingenuity by an imprisonment outlasting the life of the Pompadour herself. A committee appointed in Brussels to deal with the question of fires in theatres makes six recommendations, which include separate gas meters for the stage, the body of the house and passages that the gaspipes in the passages shall be served from the street or some source exterior to the building, and that there shall be lights opposite each door leading from the passages into the body of the house; that all the doors shall open outward or swing both ways; that there shall be electric communication between the theatres and the nearest fire station; that the strength of chains to which the chandeliers are fixed shall be tested at certain intervals, and that all doors in the theatre shall be opened by one key, duplicates of which shall be in the possession of different persons connected with the management.

A rattlesnake measuring four and a-half feet and having two rattles, was rocently killed near Boston. DRAFTS on London, Dublin and Paris, at H. D. Cooke, 1429 st. Wm.

King, conductor on the Midland Railway, is very ill at his residence in this city. Harry B. French, of the firm, of French Richards an druggists of Philadelphia, is in the "Philip B. Royton, secretary of the V. M.

R. is rusticating at the White Sulphur Springs. E. E. Dinwiddie, train dispatcher in this city of the Virginia Midland Railway, is sojourning at the Greenwood Springs, Va.

citing last Gray, Saturday collector removed of the Wm. port of Claggett, this colored, from the position of janitor of the custom-house. Claggett has held the position for thirteen years. Mr. W.

W. Corcoran, of Washington, passed through this city at 11:30 a. m. today in the officers' car, No. 27, of the Virginia Midland en route to the White Sulphur Springs.

Jake Borus was before the mayor this morning, charged violating Sunday law, by selling whiskey on Sunday. He was dismissed for want evidence; also a number of other cases for drunk and disorderly conduct were fined $5 each. The steamer John Gibson arrived here yesterday from New York, having on board the castings for the furnaces of the new iron works of the Potomac Manufacturing Company of this city. They will be immediately put up in the old bloomary recently vacated by Messrs. J.

P. Agnew and the manufacture of iron by the new process will be commenced at once. ALEXANDRIA AFFAIRS. How Dr. Henkle Runs a Newspaper.

Baltimore Herald. litical Quite a circles sensation was caused in local poyesterday by discovery that a number of officials appointed by Governor Hamilton had been approached by demands for two per cent. of their annual salaries. The demands are said to have been made within a few days, and either by Dr. Eli J.

Henkle, or ostensibly in his interest, the declaration having been made that the money is to be used in supporting a small campaign paper that is published by Dr. Henkle, against the Democratic leaders and nominees. It is the prevalent opinion that these demands for political blackmail have not been authorized by his excellency, the governor. If they were, and Dr. Henkle was empowered, in the governor's name, to demand from all inspectors, magistrates, and other officials, appointed and liable to removal by Governor Hamilton, two per cent.

of their annual salaries to raise a fund to be used by Dr. Henkle in his paper speculation, then men of all parties will condemn the action of the governor, but Governor Hamilton's friends denounce the levy as an unauthorized dodge of Dr. Henkle. It is the prevalent opinion of the public that his excellency, the governor, has authorized no demands for political blackmail. Dr.

Henkle has a perfect right to solicit donations, but he has no right to call for a two per cent. levy. His demanding from a number of officials forty dollars apiece as two per cent. on their salaries is not creditable. If done against their wishes, or direction of Governor Hamilton, that it is to be while hoped that he court will investigate also holding city hall.

It is a matter that touches his honor. Shook Hands With a Mirror. Hartford (Conn.) Times. A confectioner in this city advertised for a driver for his delivery wagon. Last evening a man came into the place in a great hurry and asked one of the attendants to see the person who had advertised.

He was directed to the proprietor of the place, who sat at supper in the refreshmentroom adjoining the store. rear of this room is a large mirror, extending from the ceiling to the floor. Straight up to the mirror marched the applicant for the situation, and not recognizing himself in the mirror he bowed and made his wishes known. Putting up his hand it came in contact with the glass, and he discovered his mistake, whereupon he quickly turned and left the restaurant, without asking for the vacant 1 place. Good-bye to St.

Bernard. The indiscriminate hand of progress is about to demolish the home of the St. Bernard dog. In a short time the worldfamous hospice of St. Gothard will be closed, its existence being no longer necessary because of the nearly completed railway tunnel under the Alps.

Hereafter the dangerous storms and avalanches of the St. Gothard Pass will be encountered only by foolhardy adventurers, and the mission of the St. Bernard dog to rescue imperiled travellers will be gone forever. Their mission, too, being ended, it is not likely that the good monks of St. Gothard will remain in their frozen fortress; and, so, there will presently be an end to the bravest, most self-sacrificing and charmingly Catholic charity the world has ever known.

Riding Two Political Horses. There is one distinguished Republican in Virginia who is evidently trying to ride two horses--political horses we mean at the same time. The Hon. W. L.

Fernald, collector of internal revenue for the Danville (Va.) district, has always been regarded by his Republican friends as a vacillating and wavering brother. The Richmond Whig, the organ of the Readjusters, proclaimed, with loud trumpets, that Mr. Fernald unqualifiedly in favor of the coalition movement in Virginia. The Whig, in a long torial, congratulates the Readjusters that man possessed of so much influence in the Republican party had embraced the good cause of Readjusterism. Several weeks have passed since this announcement was made, and the Hon.

Fernald has never denied the story. Now the honorable gentleman comes to the front, and writes a letter to a Republican friend in the Old Dominion, in which the report that expressed himself to any one in favor of coalition, and intend to do so until after theaction of the Republican convention. This made the Readjusters awful mad, and some of them swear that even should the Republican convention decide to coalesce with them, they will never consent to take Mr. Fernald in full fellowship into the party. Spread of Scarlet Fever.

The scarlet fever seems to have broken out more violently than ever in seaside costumes this year. Unshaded red in parasols, hat linings, and yachting and bathing suits is universally worn, and the eye fairly aches for more subdued and harmonious tones on beach and, esplanade, where the unmerciful the summer sun beat down upon whole forests of female forms, every one of which displays some garment or ribbon of this florid and glaring hue, and the combinations occasionally to be seen with other colors seem only intended to bring out the favorite scarlet in stronger relief and with greater violence. Red with purple facings, saffron with scarlet stripes, rich cardinal with black trimmings, in true Mephistophelian style, are won by matrons and maidens without any reference whatever to age, complexion, or becomingness. Albuquerque An old citizen of Albuquerque Pulled on his kid gloves with a jerque; He swore at the thumb, TO READ these two rhymes properly depends entirely upon how you pronounce As off it did cumb, And they turned him right out of the kuerque. An old man in Albuquerque Attempted to corral a turque; But the bird shank his comb; to go homb, And gobbled in a way that was Jerque.

LADIES' COLUMN. The Great Mark Down Don't Fail to Call and Purchase the Cheapest and Best Hats, Flowers, RIBBONS, Satins, Plumes, And all articles in the Millinery Line, AT King's Palace, 814 SEVENTH STREET, Bet. and I. Je25 A Choice Selection of Handsome Bonnets and Hats For Evening Wear, Receptions, (Direct Importation.) OF THE LATEST SHAPES DESIGNS. 710 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST.

I. L. BLOUT NE THE ENTIRE STOCK OF LADIES' UNDERWEAR To be closed out at less than cost. Call and convince yourself, at MRS. MAX WEYL'S, 712 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST.

Also, a full line of Infants' Wear on hand. jy26 BOSTON VARIETY STORE 705 MARKET SPACE. LEATHER BAGS, Comprising the from Latest 49c. Styles to and $1.98. very best quality, LUBIN'S TOILET POWDER, 12c.

Je23 CHOICE SELECTION OF Hamburg Embroideries, Hosiery, Laces. Gloves, and Underwear. Children's Dresses, Swiss and Caps, at MRS. SELMA RUPPERT'S, 608 NINTH STREET, oppo. Patent Office.

Extraordinary Bargains in Fancy and Millinery AT Goods and DAVIS'. 719 MARKET SPACE, COR. EIGHTH ST. HUFTY TAYLOR, GLOVERS, 933 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. HOSIERY a Specialty DOUGLASS', Je23 NINTH AND STRAETS.

PARASOLS, BROCADED SILKS, DRESS GOODS AND SUMMER had SILKS, at 45c. per yard, to be at MRS. GUTMAN'S, 912 SEVENTH STREET LACES WASH NETS, DAVIS'. 1428 NEW YORK AVENUE. jy28 RAILROADS.

BALTIMORE OHIO RAILROAD, THE MODEL FAST LINE, AND ONLY LINE BETWEEN THE EAST AND THE WEST, via Washington. DOUBLE TRACK! JANNEY COUPLEE! STEEL RAILS! Schedule to take effect Sunday, May 22d. 1881 LEAVE WASHINGTON: CINCINNATI AND ST. LOUIS FAST EXPRESS. 5.00-Baltimore, Ellicot City and Way Stations.

16.40-BALTIMORE EXPRESS. 6.50-Baltimore, Annapolis and Way. (Piedmont, Strasburg, Winchester, Hagerstown and Way, via Relay.) 8.10-Point of Rocks and Way Stations. 8.15-PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK and BOSTON EXPRESS. Parlor cars to New York.

8.40-STAUNTON and VALLEY EXPRESS. (Connects for Hagerstown and at Point of Rocks' for Frederick.) 19.00-On Sunday only--Baltimore, Annapolis and Way. 10.00-BALTIMORE EXPRESS. Stops at Hyattsville, College, Beltsville, Laurel, Annapolis Junction, Jessup's and Hanover. 110.40- PITTSBURGH, CHICAGO, CINCINNATI and St.

LOUIS EXPRESS. P. M. Baltimore, Ellicot City, Annapolis and Way, Stations. 11.25-On Sunday Only, for Baltimore, and Way.

12.15-BALTIMORE EXPRESS. PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK EXPRESS. 8.30-- Baltimore and Way Stations. (Winchester, Frederick, Hagerstown and Way, via Re lay.) 4.80-BALTIMORE, HYATTSVILLE AND LAUREL EXPRESS, Frederick, via Relay. Stops at Anna polis Junction.

14.40-Baltimore, Annapolis and Way Stations. 14.45-Point Winchester of and Rocks, Way. Frederick, (On Sunday Hagerstown, Point to of Rocks and Way Stations. 16.46-BALTIMORE Way, via Relay. EXPRESS.

Stops at (Martinsburg Hyattsville and Laurel.) 6.05-Point of Rocks and Way Stations. 16.45-Baltimore and Way Stations. 7.30-BALTIMORE, HYATTSVILLE and LAUREL EXPRESS. 19.15-PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI, and ST. LOUIS EXPRESS.

19.50-PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK and BOSTON EXPRESS. Sleeping cars to New York. 10.00-BALTIMORE, and LAUREL EXPRESS. Stops on signal or to let off' passengers at any station between Washington and Annapolis Junction. only.

Other trains dally except Sunday. All from Washington stop at Relay Station. For further information apply at the Baltimore Ohio Ticket Oflices, Washington Station, and 619 and 1351 Penna. avenue, cor. of 14th street, where orders will be taken fo baggage to be checked and received at any point in the city.

1881 THE GREAT 1881 PENNSYLVANIA ROUTE, TO THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTHWEST. DOUBLE TRACK, STEEL RAILS. Splendid Scenery, Magnificent Equipment IN EFFECT MAY 16, 1881. TRAINS LEAVE WASHINGTON, from depo corner of Sixth and streets, as follows: For Pittsburg and the West, 8,00 a. m.

Dally with Sleeping cars to Pitteburg and Chicago; 10.30 a. m. dally, with Sleeping cars from Harrisburg to Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago; 9:30 p. mi daily, with Palace BALTIMORE POTOMAC RAILROAD, For Canandalgua, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, with Parlor Car to Watkins and the North, 8 a.

m. dally, except Sunday; at 9:30 m. daily except Saturday with Palace car Canandalgua and Watkin's. For 10.30 Williamsport, Lock Haven and Elmira m. dally, except Sunday.

For New York and the East, 8.00 a. 10.30 2.00, 10.00 and 10.15 p. m. On Sunday, 2.00, and 10.15 p. m.

Limited Express of Pullman Palace Cars, 9.80 a. daily, except Sunday. For Brooklyn, N. all through trains connect a Jersey City with boats of Brooklyn Annex, af fording direct transfer to Fulton street, avoid ing double ferriage across New York city. For Philadelphia, 8.00 d.

10.30 a. 2.00, 5.40 10.00 10.15 p. m. On Sunday at 2.00, 5.40 10.00 and 10.15 p.m. Limited Express, 9.30 a.

daily, except Sunday. For Baltimore, 6.40, 8.00, 9.30, 10.30 a. and 2.00 4.20, 4.40, 5.40, 9.80, 10.00 and 10.15 p. m. On Sun day, 8.00, 10.30 a.

2.00, 5.40, 9.30, 10.00 and 10.1 p. m. For Pope's Creek Line, 6.40 a. m. and 4.40 p.

dally, except Sunday. For Annapolis, 6.40 a. m. and 4.40 p. dally, ex cept Sunday.

ALEXANDRIA AND FREDERICKSBURG RAILWAY AND ALEXANDRIA AN. WASHINGTON RAILROAD. For Alexandria, 7, 7.20, 9.20 and 11.30 a. 4.20, 6.20, 8 and 11.30 p. m.

On Sundays at 7.00, and 11:30 a. m. and the 8 p.m. For Richmond and South, 7.00 and 11.10 1 3. daily, and 5 p.

m. daily, except Sunday, Trains leave Alexandria for Washington, 6, 8.1 and 10 a. 12.40, 3, 5, 7 9.10 p. and 12 mi night. On Sunday at 8.05 and 10 a.

0014 9.05 p. m. Tickets, information, sleeping and parlor car a commodations can be procured at the offices, nort east corner of Thirteenth street and Pennsylvan avenue, and at the station, where orders can left for the checking of baggage to destination fro hotels and residences. WOOD, General Passenger Agent. FRANK THOMSON, General Manager.