Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1881, Page 3

‘THE FOOD SUPPLY. Migh Prices and the Cause—Partly the Drouth and Pardy Speculation. The prevailing high prices of almost every article of food in this District is a subject of great interest to every one, and especially to the heads of families among the poor classes who have to provide from our markets. The prime cause is, of course, understood ‘to be due to the “short crops” of almost everything in the fgod line throughout the United States, caused by the drouth of the past summer; but much is also due to speculation, which generally thrives most in times of great scarcity. ‘THE SEASON FOR DOMESTIC FRUIT is well nizh over, except for apples, which will be found in the markets in greater or less quan- titles until the ney crops appear from the south in May and June next. And it is probable that there will be a fair supply of them, but not of a good quality. exeept for pie making and for cooking. that will sell for about #3 or pei barrel throuch the winter season; any really at- | tractive fruit of this kind that can be retished | when eaten inthe natural state will command | higher prices after the holida: and up te that | time good apples will probably range from $4 to | $5 perbarrel. The dealers on L and on B street now find re apples at th 3 v & Clary, fruits, oranges, interviewed by a about half a crop larly enough, the best of this crop was RAISED IN MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA; but the drouth made them small. In Michigan, Obio and New York, usually the best states for apples, the crop aver: about one-third less than the usual quantity. and of a lower grade. Only the choice fruit is bringing good prices at the present time. The best of the varieties raised this year in Virginia and Maryland are the Winesaps, Newtow pippins, or, as they are es called, the Albemarle pippins. These s have more than a lecal reputation and are usually shipped to England in considerable quantities; but not this year, as they find a ready sale, at remunerative prices, at home. They are of good flavor, keep well through the winter, and are attractive in appearance. Red- streaks. Sinith’s cider and Rambos are also good eating apples, raised i dd Virginia, and are much in dem: There are some few apples coming in from New York state. but thus far the market here has been 1 from the two states above named. The vd kinds are now selling from #2 to $4 per barrel. The wide range between these prices is because so touch of the fruit is small, in con: sequence of the drouth. The cider makers,who have inaugurated within the past ears a thrifty business on some of the principal streets with their portable cider presses, and glass pitehers filled with the pure hew every day, are large purchasers of the lower grades of these apples, at the figures stated. DRIED FRUIT is also much higher this season than Jast. Fancy sticed dried apples are worth from $8 to $10 per | hundred: ordinary to good, $5 to #7, and evap- | orated sliced apples, $12 to $14 per hundred | pounds. Peaches dried are worth from $18 to $25 per hundred pounds. Messrs. Shafer & Clary state that judging from the past there | will be sold in our markets about 125,000 barrels | of apples this season. This embraces all grades. | Appies are net Keeping in so good condition | this year. and much loss is suffered in conse- | quence. They show signs of decay, and some lots that have been stored by farmers for winter ‘use have been taken out already. because it be- came evident to the owners that they would not keep. This will be the case for the next four or five weeks. The forcing of such apples into market prematurely to be sold at once will tend somewhat to keep down the prices until the stock is nearly exhausted. OTHER FRUITS. ‘The supply of pears is light, and prices rule high; $3 to common good fruit. There are some good in the market at higher figures, S per barrel. Quinces have been | ch, and are now seldom seen in the Grapes have not been so much in demand since Thanksziving day, as during the week Prior, although the prices have not declined in consequence. This is owing to their scarcity The vineyards about W: ‘on have not yielded large profits, and but limited quantities of domestic wine have been made, either from | grapes or other fruits. The orange crop begins to make its appearance in our markets. The crop in Florida is said te be tood and of excel- sundance of this crop and its will in some desree compensate ‘y and hich prices of domestic fruit. They are now selling $ per barrel, a will rule lower as the season advances. ait, in each pack: r. Lemons are worth from 23.50 per box, containing 350 to 400 in each package. These are yery low prices, and they will soon be higher as ‘the season advances. ‘The cranberry crop is reported to have been cut short by the first frost in October. Cape Cod | eranberries are selling ftom $8 to #12 per bar- rel, and Jerseys, from $8 to $i0 per barrel. The prespect fora good later crop may reduce the prices before Christmas. THE SHORT SUPPLY OF V1 ‘TABLES: From the best accounts there has been about | half a crop of vegetables raised in the United | States the past season. In New York, how- | ever, which is a great potato raising state, this | Tule does nut held good, as it is pretty well | ascertained that the crop is only about one third short. This scarcity has suggested to Speculators the feasibility of importing from Ireland. and considerable quantities are. arriy- | ing per steamer in New York and other ports. POTATOES FROM IRELAND. Monday last 1.000 bushels arrived in Balti- more and were sold readily. The duty on them is fifteen cents per bushel, per weizht. Sixty pound are allowed for each bushel. Here it may be a matter of interest to state that eyery- where, except in the District of Columbia, the number of pounds per bushel fixed by law for potatoes is sixty. In this District only fifty-six | pounds are required. The law was made by | the old feather-luster jslature. mported potatees are of two kinds, the “cups” and “champions” or “white rocks.” The | first named are around white potato and of | merdiuin size. and the latter are similar in form | to our peach blow, only they are white instead of purple. There are many potatoes usually brought here from Maine and Nova Scotia; these are the blue mercers and some early rose, peer- less, Burbanks and snowflakes. Not many of these have arrived this season. The greatest demand is for the Burbanks. These are compa- Tatively @ new variety this market and are much liked. The pa for all of the kinds named is from @1 to £1.20 per bushel wholesale, the imported selling for the same. The price in New York during November has been 31 whole- sale. ‘THE BEST SWEET POTATOES RAISED HERE. There has been about half a crop of sweet potatoes raised, the price ranging from $4 to $4.50 per barrel. market are from the nei hberkood of Washing- ton and raised abont the shores of the Eastern | Branch, and tm Prince George Arundel counties, Maryland. The soil and cli- mate seem to be best adapted for them in this latitude. The North Carolina produet ig not so desirable, as they are small and but little atten- tion is paid to harvesting and assorting them for market. = OXE GOOD cRor. The onion crop is larger than ever known, whieh appears to be the exception to the rule. aud they are ednsiderably cheaper, the price | ranging from $1.10 to $1.25 per bushel against much larger figures last year. New York state farnishes most of them. White beans, which have eTown much in use of late years. are also short this season and much higher. They are worth from $3.75 to $4 per bushel, wholesaie, while last year they were selling at $1.40 per; bushel. The cabbage crop is almost an utter failure, and Boston supplies our market. They hada | geod crop in Massachusetts and other of the ew England states, and they arrive by car- loads. and sell at wholesale from #12 to #18 per hundred heads. Some few have arrived in Bal- timore by the German line of steamers, but the attempt to import them will be a failure. as they do not keep well on the voyage. There have been considerable quantities brought from IMnois, where the crop was a iarge one. The early crop of cabbaze in this vicinity was very vod, but the late Rae - failed utterly from the drouth and bugs. The «sual price for eabbage raised hereabouts has been from 2 to &5 per hundred, but there are none at any price this season, and sauerkraut wiil be a luxury. PLENTY OF POULTRY. Lovers of poultry may indulze free’ article is now abundant and comparat! ax that ! This is owing to the fact that great numbers of | bushel. United States, and singu- | pple juice made | 50 per bushel being the range for | The best that come to onr | and Anne } domestic fowls have been killed off on account of the great scarcity of feed necessary to their keeping. This glut cannot last very long, but | at present it is about the only article in the food | line that rules at last year's The mild | Weather, too, has the effect of making holders relax in the price. Turkeys are worth from $8 to #12 per hundred and chickens from $8 to $10. Fresh pork is coming in from the country and | selling from #7 to $8. L year, at the corre- sponding season, the price ranged from $4.50 to #6 per hundred. It will rule high all through is selling high on account of the drouth, which has affected the pasturage. Good butter is worth from $30 to #40 per hun- dred for the best, and inferior from #20 to #25. Eggs. choice lots, 30 cents per dozen, and pickled or limed 25 cents per dozen by large | quantiti The peannt crop is short and will be high. ‘The Virginia hand-picked are worth 63 to 634 cents per pound by large lots. Hickory nuts or shellbarks are selling from $1.25 to #1.50 per These come mostly from the west. - ed Journalism and Journalists, Whitelaw Reid, of the Tritune, is to be form- ally and effectually dined this evening by the | Lotos Club of New York, of which he is the president. The newspaper people of Columbus have or- ganized a professional association in that city, to which the name of the Curtis Press Club has been given, in honor of one of their number who recently did there. Shrewd observers predict that the New York Mail will, under its new management, soon take a leading piace among the journals of that city, | alike in quality, circulation and influence. The health of Mr. Howells, late editor of the Alautic, 1s 80 poor as to give his friends much | uneasiness. On that account he was obliged to | give up a contemplated trip to Europe, where he hoped to enjoy rest and recreation. The Times and the Democrat of New Orleans have been consolidated and united in title by a | hyphen. The Times was started just after the | war and for atime was a yery profitable con- | cern. but of late its business and profits have | greatly fallen off. The Democrat isyounger, and up to this time has not made much of a mark,in any rense. One of the most useful and popular of the | class journals in the United States is the Art Amateur, conducted by Montagu Marks, 23 | Union Square, New York. Its contents are | always fresh and interesting. and its illus- | trations are of the highest practical value to | students and amateurs, and not without in- | terest to the general reader. The working drawings, with the plain directions accompany- | ing them, and the suggestions for home decora- | tion ly popular and useful. | Cok Pulsifer, of the Boston Herald, having ed the citizens of Newton, Mass., a8 mayor for two years, by unanimous election, declines a renomination. Mr. J. B. McCullagh, of the St. Louis Globe- Democrat, who was formerly a well-known Washington correspondent, has latterly devel- oped and gratified an extraordinary taste for inonds, fine horses and fancy dogs. He has | also grown fat. M. Phillipe Bourson, editor of the Mopileur Belge, had the rare good fortune to celebrate at the same time, a few weeks ago, the eightieth anniversary of his own birthday and the fiftieth birthday anniversary of his paper, which he has conducted without interruption since the issue ofthe first number. Such an instance is be- lieved to be without a parallel in the history of | Journalism, and the event was appropriately celebrated by M. Bourson’s professional brethren in Brussels, all of whom participated | in the affair. depnting the editor of the Inde- | pendence Belge to present an address of | congratulation to their venerable and honor- ed colleague. The Liverpool Afail, founded as a morning newspaper many years ago, has recently ceased toe That wealthy, active and populous commerciai city. containing nearly three- quarters of a million inhabitants, supports only three morning papers.—though the experiment of starting others has been often tried,—and these, judzing from their appearance, not very munificently. Boston, with about half her pop- ulation, has six, What is styled the “Constitutional Press Asso- | ciation” (Limited) has recently been organized in London, with a capital of £50,000, “to estab- lish and maintain, in London and elsewnere, as y be found expedient, such newspaper or | newspapers, founded upon Constitutional [eon- i s ed rV: | npon prin 3, a8 Mm: : be determ The first field to be ¢ itivated is Le be called don, where a new penny p: The Tel tion o hone, is to be st ne Ist of January of counteracting the teac ‘s of sueh papers as the radical Echo the liberal Evening News and other like cheap and pubiications. If an American news- er may be allowed to remark upon so. pc derous a subject as British journalisin, Ti | Star ventures the observation that the new corporation will have to increase its capital | stock very considerably if it intends to do much business “under the terms of its prospectus quoted above. Dee “Charity Makes Paupers.” To the Editor of THE EVENING Star: Another correspondent, glad to see “ Justice’ looking in the right direction, in Tue Srar of November 30, is emboldened to suggest that right now, before the beggars and their agents organize for their winter's gouge, the three . those who haye, those who earn. | those who are unwilling to hi y pi able objects to di . to pay beggars te p their whine, which is about the ame thing), to assert the rights of acknowl- ed honest industry. If certain uncertain persons are really enti- j tled to support from others without labor of their_own, it is their's as a right, and this beneficent government ought to freely afford it, certainly, fully, and honestly, and as aright withont indecently driving the party to whom due, either down into un-American hu- miliation, or to enforcing their claims by display of their offensive maims and sores, or exas: ated destitution and over-alleged worthlessness, or by blocking the sidewalks or any other dan- zerless highway robbery. If not so entitled, then the innocent, non-encouraging citizen, re- pudiating all responsibility for them, respect- fully asks protection. “The government can't do everything,” and “if people can't get work they can’t get it.” We've heard all this, and more, till we hear it in dead silence, see it in the dark, and smell and feel it allthe time. We respectfully suggest to the government the sedulous perusal of “Smith's Weaith of Nations,” and to those who either weakly give, or even more weakly pride them- | selves on doing it, that to give to those who will not work is to wrong those who do, and we | deferentially intimate to the rapidly enlarging | large army of over fostered “recipients” that | there's always plenty of work on the ground in | Big America, and that starfing there, each one | will surely come as nearestabl = himself as high up On other people's heads, backs or | shoulders as honestly entitled to do. Right here lin Washington—and in fact, right here any- where else—let beneficent justice establish at once a free bureau, where alike those who want | ed: work done may find those to do it. And then let gigantic retributive Justice, untlinchingly | untruly evadi each his due, contribution to the common stock from which he lives—shirking the fight, yet enjo: ing the spoils—and force him and her to full, fair usefulness on the roads and else- where, house, clothe and feed him and her. and put the thereabove excess of their earnings to the support of the free bureau. the support of their superannuated, disabled and disqualified brother and sister “recipients,” and to a com- | fortable and earned old-age fand for each of themselves. Let the parasites wholly support themselves and one another. A howl in the ‘sacred name of freedom” | Seems so reasonably to be expected here, and | Some babble of Christian spirit and universal brotherhood, that we momently “wander” to assert as against the begvar, the thief, and the non-worker, entitled full freedom fo enjoy all our rights and earnings without hat ing to defend any against him; to offer that when his Christian spirit, as evidenced by works, comes up to ours, we. will stay even and Keep up with him: and to advance the plea of his superior duty to his fellow non. worker, on the score of closer relationship. To come down to hard facts, giving to one who does not earn is hiring him not to earn.and so unjustifiably lifting from him his own due burden to merely transfer it undeservedly to an- | other—nitimately the hardest working and poor- est paid brother of the lot, the man who dis the ground—not inthe city, but far away from it, yand allits and most wah oars or even comforts; and the representative “giver” is com- pesativety & guite comfortable person, neither hungry, cold, nor self-denying, who it his hand or her fingers, as the ease may be. into the | scanty store of the man who actually works, and Sheds some of the gatherings into the bot— tomless hat of the man who actually won't. AntI-Bregar, j parts of lots 13 and 14, square 490, contai | trod the boards in what was then known as work todo may find it, and those who want} collar the recusants dishonesty, repudiating and | THE DRAMA SIXTY YEAHS AGO. ne of Washington’s First Theaters. SOME DISTINGUISHED CENCES OF THE JEFFERSON FAMILY—“‘RIP VAN WINKLE’S” CHILDHOOD, “The Canterbury,” a variety theater, on Lou- isiana avenue, between 41g and 6th streets, which was destroyed by fire in July, 1869, was. previously called the Assembly Rooms, and at a still earlier date was known as the “New Theater.” From the papers in the clerk’s office in the case of Wm. Gunton W. A. Bradley against Richard Peters, jr. of Philadelphia, and W. W. Seaton and Roger C. Weightman, filed May 24, 1839, it appears that William Warren and W. B. Wood, of Philadel- phia, tragedians, proposed, in the year 1820, ‘to build a new theater in a central situation capa- ble of containing about 700 persons, for which they solicit a subscription.” The proposal was to issue sixty shares of $150 each, to be paid in installments of €25 each, each stockholder to be entitled to one free admission to each theatrical season, said season to consist of twenty-four nights at least. The theater was to be for the sole use of Warren & Wood, who were to fur- nish the decorations. &e., to keep the property insured, and mortgage the property to five trus- tees to secure the shareholders. DISTINGUISHED NAMES ON THE SUBSCRIPTION List. The subscription list included the names of John Quincy Adams (who had not yet become President of the United States); John C. Cal- houn, of South Carolina; W. N. Crawford, of Georgia, Secretary of War, subsequently Secre- tary of the Treasury; Commodore John Rodgers, who commanded the frigate President in the war 1812; Commodore David Porter, who com- manded the frigate Essex in the same war, (the father of the present Admiral D. D. Porter); Ed- ward DeKraft, surveyor of the city; Colonel | George Bomford, chief of ordnance, the former | owner of Kalorama; | Thomas Monroe, of Virginia, a brother of the President; Captain’ Raphael Semmes, of the navy: Peter Fore Samuel ON. Smallwood, Roger C, Weightman. W. W. Seatot \d Joseph Gales, all of whom were, at times, mayors of Washington; James Greenleaf, John | Davidson, Anthony Holmead andG.C. who were well-known owners of real estate; Pleasanton, for many years one of the auditor of the Treasury department; Gen. W. M. Ma! nadier, paymaster general U.S. David Forrest, auditor of the court; D. Parl fith Coomb (alderman fifth ward), C. Vande- wenter, H. T. Weightman (of the Post Office department), Edward Fox, Bradley, Wm. A. Bradley, 4 ander Bradley, Mr Desha, John P. Ingle (father of Chris. Incie), W. M. Sawyer, Hanson’ Gassaway, James M. Yarnum, John Stroth Thos. Dougherty and other names remembered by the older citizens. The shares were printed on papef 5!¢ by 214 inches, reading as follows: “City or Wasuinton, July 25, 1821. “No, — “This is to certify that is entitled to ONE SHARK OF Stock in the New Theater, ¢ ‘ity of Washington, which stock is transferable on the Books of the Theater in persd by attor- ney. WakkEN & Woop.” THE DEED OF TRUST to secure the shareholders was to Samuel N. Smallwood, William W. Seston, Roger C.Weight- man, John Law, and Benj. L. Lear, and was dated 19th of September. 1820, and acknowled: September 23d, before William Hewitt and Wil- liam Thornton, as magistrates, and it conveyed ning 6,500 feet. COMPLICATIONS ARIS The bill recites that Warren & Wood complied with the agreements for some years; and then for some consideration unknown assigned their interest to one Richard Peters, jr., of Philadel- phia, who refused to comply with the obliga- tions of the agreement, thereby depriving the complainants of the enjoyment, benefit and advantage of the richts and liberties stipulated. The bill stated further that it was the intention of Peters to abandon the premises as a theater, and they would be deprived of their rights in the premises. Smallwood, Law, and Lear hay ing died after the mortgage was given, Weiglit- in and Seaton were requested to execute the trust, but refused onthe ground that they had | no authority to sell unless empowered so to do by the court. They therefore asked that the decree be passed. W THEATER CHANGES HANDS, Peters, assignee of Wood & Warren, made answer, consenting to the sale. claiming one- fourth of the net proceeds, and Seaton and | Weightman also consented to the sale. The court made an order May 23, 1839—a decree for the sale—and on July Ist following the building | was sold to Peters, Gunton and Bradley for $4,000, and the sale was confirmed the February following, and the proceeds ordered to be di ing that there was | chshare. The stockholderstien were | A. Bradiey 19, Wm. Gunton 17, John Quiney te en_and Pishey Thoi H. Crawford, W. W. Se rce, S. Miller, Reuben Burdin . Smith, P. Mauro, John Stettinus. John . Cw D.D. Arden, Edward De Kratft, Thos. Cooker dorfer and two or three others one each. The property was purchased by the late John M. Young in 1852, being then in’ the occupancy pistol galle nd bowling alley, and afterwards was known as the Assembl During the war it was | known as “The Canterbury” variety theater, | and since the burning in 1869 the property has OF THE JEFFERSON FAMILY. From other sources it is learned that Warren and Wood managed the New Theater for seven or eight years, when the ownership passed into the hands of Richard Peters, of Philadelphia, about 1828. Under the management of Messrs. Warren and Wood, the elder Jefferson, the great- ters were “Paul Pr: Lae appeared. The Jeffersons and the Warrens were related, and Joe Jefferson, No. 2, with Mr. Mc- Kenzie, succeeded to the management. It is | e impression of many of the older citizens of the District that Joe Jefferson, 3,” wito has. ¢ famous of late years in “Rip Van Win- kle,” was born in the green room of this theater, for there are some who remeinber him as a very small child playing about the stage. It appears, however, that the present Joe was born in Philadelphia, in 1829, .and was brought here by his parents when but a few yearsold, and was here until the removal of the family to Philadelphia, in 1837. Coming from such stock as he did, his mother being Mrs. Burke, moth of the famous Charley Burke, one of the first comedians of his day, it is not to be wondered at that at an early age he made his appearance on the stage. and when scarcely five years old “baby work.” In the winter of °33 and ‘34h appeared as the child in the play of “Pizzaro. Charley Burke at this time was about 12 years of age. ite had taken lessons on th iolin | from Mr. Fill. who then lived in the neighbor- hood. He went to schovl to the late Wm. Thompson, at the corner of 6th street and Lou- isiana avenue, and nightly appeared between the acts and played a violin solo, and also took minor parts in the plays. The elder Jefferson had also a son John; a comedian of some note, who died in the latter part of the ’30's, at La caster, Pa. The elder Jefferson died at Harris- burg, Pa., and was buried in the lot of Hon. Simon Cameron, one of his most intimate friends. THE JEFFERSONS' AS FROG EATERS. The theatrical seasons here were then quite short, seldom extending over five or six weeks, and the members of the company, after a short tour to the surrounding towns, would in the early spring return to their homes. The Jeffer- son's headquarters were the New American thea- ter, as it was then called, and that portion occu- pied during the season for the green room they converted the remainder of the year Into a dwelling. During the summer season fishing wasa pastime for the male members of the family. It was then no small family, for tly besides Joseph Jefferson, Mrs. J n, Charley Burke, Joe, (No. 3) and Lilly, constituting the immediate family, the two Misses Warren,and thetwo Misses Anderson, cousins of the Jeffersons’, would stay for weeks at atime.” It is related by some of our citizens who were intimate with the family, that they weré the first American ” family in “ Washington who took to eating frogs. | improve in qualit children into « frogging party, and made 4: excursions to the streams in vicinity. THE DRAMA FIFTY YRARS AGO. During the management of Warren & Wood, aud the later firm, Jefferson & McKenzie, this was the theater of the city, and some of the best actors of the day appeared on its boards, among them Sheridan Knowles, the author of ‘“Vir- ginius,” in the title role of that play, and kin- dred characters; the elder Booth in “Richard Mil,” and Forrest in “Metamora.” During the sessions of Cot the foremost people of the country made the audiences. It may be said, too, that this theater, (then the American) Was the birth-place of negro minstrelsy, Old Daddy Rice, mn after season, appearing here as “Jim Crow.” ——__—__+-e-—_______ ‘Women at the Guiteau Trial PATER HAS SOMETHING MORE TO SAY. * To the Editor of Tue EvERING Star: Tregret, Mr. Editor, that the brief criticism Upon the attendance of women at the Guiteau trial, which I had the temerity to insert in your paper a few evenings since, should have so aroused the indignation ofthe would-be Petrified. Tam aware that the unrestrained license claimed by that class of females at the present day, does not recognize the right of a parent to direct or control the conauct of his daughter beyond the limits of his own domicil, or even tolerate the | admonition or advice from the male sex, either in domestic, social, moral, relizious, or political affairs, and I have no doubt been fuilty of a piece of impertinence in their esti- mation, by making any allusion whatever to their prerogatives. It may be an unfortun condition that the principles, tastes and habits inculeated from childhood by refined, honoravle and religious parents, should. have clung to me at the present day. Nothing I find can be more incompatible or incongruous with the prurient code of morals and manners which characterize the would-be directors of female teachings at this period, and any man or woman who may attempt to stay the turbid current is sure to evoke the animadver- sion and yenom of the combined Petrified. Now I wish to say, in all sincerity, to my would-be petrified temale friend; that in my opinion any Woman who could sit and listen to the remark during the past three days of the criminal Gui- teauand not feel shocked and abashed is already tully worthy to be enrolled in the ranks of the sacred sisterhood of the Petrified. If T under- stand my would-be lapidarious sister, she adyo- cates and justities her attendance upon this trial h the try. In reply I might mention many equally as re- markable tri inthe annals of crimi Juris ion, but will only call her attention to that of Henry Ward Beecher—quite as notorious, and quite as surely on the plenitude of ob: rality dis ‘Most remarkable in the history of our coun- losed during that trial rendered it a fit place for female presence? 2d. that there are women capable of regulat- ing their own moyements, who consider it a matter of no importance whether he (Pater) i surprised or otherwise.” This. unfortunate’ for the women themselves, is too true. This regulating of their own movements, experience demonstrates, almost daily brings some un- happy parent to sorrow, and the self-willed, in- dep angen regulator to rui 3d. arule we come across one every day in the week.” We do not doubt this for one: moment. It is the usual result of unbridled curiosity, un- restrained by that refinement and d which should cause a woman to shrink from surround- | ings and associations that can develop such disclosures. It is to save those who are not ; already petrified, that we wish to keep them out of a Criminal Court. 4th. “We are citizens.” Beg pardon, Petrosal friend, you are not citizens The does not recognize you as citi you claim, and nature never intended you to be. You are sufficiently mischievous alread: inflicting irreparable injury upon your out being clothed with additional power to ruthlessly sacritice and sacrilegiously destroy the divine element implanted by God in the holiest and loveliest of his creations. 5th, “An honest purpose dignifies any ac- tion.” Certainly a suitable motto for the petri fied. Mr. Scoville has but to sum up the de- fence of Guiteau with this beautiful and irre- futable syliogisin, and the prisoner goes fi since it has very clearly been shown that ( teau entertained a severely honest purpose to kill Garfield. It would thus seem tl wonld-be lithoidal sister is moved by admir for this criminal in her attendance at_his trial, and whilst [ cannot admire her taste, am not unmindful of the old adage, “De justibus non disputandum.” In bidding my female friend a final ad beg the privilege of advising her, as she s by her to beas yel sort of chr cr state, to exercise some of that boasted ca- pacity to regulate her own movements in taking fer backward, and make one strong Ww eu I 8, ATER, p. p. C. ae eee GASTRONOMIC MORSELS. WHAT TO EAT—HOW WE SHOULD EAT—THE SEASON, ETC. The canyas back ducks, ‘owing to the mild fall, are not plentiful ou the Chesapeake, and the price is high at restaurants in Washington. Quail are coming in a little fatter than a week or so ago, but the season's drought affected their food very much and they are not as deli- cate in t: as usual. Terrapin are still h igh and scarce, but will as the weather gro’ colde! By the way, the Long Island terrapin ranks high to what it used to, and is now used in this city. Pompano was until a year or so azo a com- paratively neglected fish, except in the south, whereas now it is regarded as the best that wears fins, and is served at all the fashionable dinner parties of the day. Cold weather has materially improved the quality of smelts, which will now become more and more abundant every week. Smelts lightly fried in tracker dust are not to be despised. An old trick of manufacturing “chicken” salad out of veal has been revived by caterers who provide thesuppers at. fashionable parties, and the deception is so clever that very few people find it out. The oyster salad made in Baltimore cannot be excelled. The hearts are removed from the oysters and the latter chopped fine and im- mersed in a sauce of oily vinegar, pepper and salt. Boston hot-house lettuce is a great luxury and highly prl It is very tender and_sensi- tive and makes splendid salad. The only ob stacle t success is the price neces- sarily charged per head. It is a fact that most of the fresh cucumbers, which come Washingtonward in the winter se: son are raised in Boston hot houses. They are generally served with early shad and other fish, ‘The dinner of the Malim Electrie Light Com- pany held in Paris last month was unique in its features, and among thehors@@uvres were Span- ish olives stutfed with chopped cloves and carda- mom seeds. Steamed oysters on toast, with white wine, is a dish over which authorities on eating are quite enthusiast It sounds very nice, but what white wine has to do with oysters is a gastro- nomical conundrum. Cucumbers were served with the fish at the Rollins banquet at the Union League the other evening, and underneath on the bill of fare was the quotation from Prospero: “For which to- night thou shalt have cramps.” The New York Mail says that fastidious peo- ple object to the “style” of serving quail at din- ner pate with an artificial covering of feath- ers for the excellent reason that nobody knows how many seasons the feathers have been used. Venison does not seem te be as much prized in the game line as_it used tobe, for some rea- gon or another, and market men say that the demand for it is by no: means as large ag in former years. fr “Sauce Italienne.” ‘Madeira sauce” and Eells sauce,” seen or hotel bills-of-fare, are as bad imitations as the French that is used there. They are mostly made of cider or Bt. Louis champagne. , s In the way of novelty the latest thing heard of was the stamping oft the icecream eared to guests at a dinner to Lord‘Beaumont the other day with his lordship’s coat-of-arms in colors, One of the questions in the ¢lubs shall we from the side fee - spoon? dad have a long and neh ainuer -yartson Washington promises brilliant social season, of A ones, man employed in the theater, having had the good luck to capture a mess of frogs, cooked them and took the dish to the Jefferson family, ees | that it was a dish of chickens. The ti jy having enjoyed it, and being loud in their of the chicken, the donor remarked, “Yes, they were no ordinary pelepen Sether eee web-footed,and didn’t haye any feathers either." Some of the will form a feature, as already getting up noy. and some have ap] at dinners which | been given. petateaiel Se “Tknow,” said the little girl to her elder sister's young man at the, supper table, ‘that ‘ou will jolrour. society for the protection of ittle birds, because mamma says you are usual. Caterers are 1st. “That it will go upon record as one of | cord—and ask if she thinks | enityand disgusting immo- | As to disclosures, don’t worry, Pater; as | me ens in the sense | at my | quantity and Jessen in price | The telephone businessin this city is now con- ducted by acorporation duly created by law. Before the “plug” war of some months ago it ‘Was Tun a8 @ copartnership concern. The presi- dent of the company is Mr. H. S. Cummings, @ lawyer, who hasa pleasant office on F street. Mr. John W. Thompson Is the vice president and H. D. Cooke, the banker, treasurer. There is no general manager. Mr. Cummings and Mr. Thompson look out for the general interest of the stockholders, and Mr. Warren Choate has charge of the “central office.” Mr. Cummings the other day, in answer to inquiries, told the Star reporter that the company was doing better now than ever before.” It has more sub- scribers, its outfit is complete and there is, “which is very satisfactory to us,” SATURDAY SALAD, An ordinance has been introduced into the Chicago common council to prohibit boys from smoking tobacco on the streets. It will prob- ably not pass, however. And it ought not. Why should a man be allowed to befoul and poison the air for those walking behind him, on the streets, by the use of vile cigars, pipes and cigarettes, and the same privilege be withheld from a boy? * os It is said of Guiteau that he never used cards, and never saw a horse race. If to this string of virtues it could only have been added that he died young! , - ey Tn one or two English towns the experiment he said, “but Very little complaint | from our patrons. The subscribers are all bona | fide ones.” The “plug war” has not interfered | with the telephone business. On the contrary Mr. Cummings thinks that it was rather an vantage than otherwise. The temporary back- acted from. Good effects came from the con- test. The patrons and the company got to know each other better and arrived at a better under- standing. The result was a largely increased Subscription list. ‘The sum of $25 is charged for putting in a telephone, and then a 4's cent toll is levied on all messages gent. Many who have telephones charge 6 and 8 cents to people who want to send a'message, and thus help to pay for their own service. It is claimed that it does not pay to put a telephone in when it does not remain more than a year. A great many new six months. There are now 350 miles of te | phone in Washington. Seventy-five miles of this wire have been put up inthe last six months. THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF BUSINESS done by the telephone company. One is what jis Known as “exchange” business, and the | other “private” business. In the former the telephone is connected with all the general Wires at the central office. The latter bus’ where the company put up wires for private ise. The police line of telephones is the bige private” business in the ci It has one wire— that going to Tennallytown—which is seven miles long. up from one part of a bi There are a number of p running from a man’s residence to It is noticeable that the “private” business of the company ison the rapid increase. The line connecting the Reform School with the building on New York avenue is fi les long. a wire running from the e: the Congress miles long. Another wire running in an oppo- site direction, is five miles long. Thetwo latter can be connected for talking in a moment: ad thus make twelye miles of wire o a There is no limit to th favorable conditions can is seven cuit for talking | be ob “You could talk over 200 miles as easily as around the block, - Choate to THe STAR n. “The possibility of eonnect— ing cities bi telephone is settled. done v and it is only a question now of business arrangement with the telephone | companies, talked from here to Balti- hout any tr Th y show that the number of people who in their houses ai nd such use of it is rapidiy Members of Congress are havin: put in their quarters, and con- mal boarding-houses are securing the convenience. There is a telephone on the ‘enate side, and there will be one on the House side of the Capitol this winter for the use of members of Congress. It looks as if the mem- ber was not going to do as much tramping around the departments on constituents’ bus heretofore, but is just going to eall the | pf clerk and have his business transacted in a few words and without any trouble. SOCIAL CALLS BY TI A good deal of ety calling per telephone. The conversati place of visits. Last New Y is done now s take the r—it was a bad | day—a large number of calls were made per | telephone. This was somewhat unique and | quite as le as most New Year cails. The telephone office | ready for business at all hours. Since the ¢ tral office was opened inthis city, four years azo, | work init has never ceased a minute. The | busiest time is from 9 a.m. to 12m. and from 1 | p-m.to4ytim. There is not much us telephone at night. Itis then by newspaper men. The other ni | almost entirely contined to. cail drug stores and livery stables. The peoplemost | called for during the’ day are the merchants | whom orders for goods are given. chants themsel are a} the depot people about artival of goods. Perhaps the grocer is called up more than anybody else. He deals ina kind that everybody must have. rrocer i line ‘says that he can cet better goods by ordering from the wholesale city d by telepone than’ by personaliy calling hin | He orders the wholesale man to send uy | stance, twenty tubs of butter, s | he will take “it if it is good.” WS sent | good, he says, as the wholesale man, Knows nspection and it not suiting him, he r it hauled back. People who do not ke up their minds to go to the theater until eto get there and secure seats, or who forget to provide themselves during the day, are it patrons of the telephone during the eariy hours of the evening. Such conversations as ‘e of daily occurrence: “Central off ve me the theater,” Short pause, | seats have you left?” The answer is according to “Well. save me three. ately.” THE UNDER-GROUND QUESTIO: The Star reporter asked Mr. Choate what the telephone company thought of the proposition that they run their wires under ground. He said it would be better for the company if the wires could be put under ground. They would be much easier to get at to make repai But the con-truction of the sounding apparatus is of such a delicate character that the ground cur- rent, being the stronger, would, if the wires were under ground, interfere very materially with the transinitting power of the telephone. “A QUEER IDEa,” said Mr. Choate, laughing, “is prevalent among some persons that the communication by wires through the telephone are possible be- cause the wires are hollow. They have no idea of electricity, and do not seem to be able to get rid of the notion that the sound goes through a hollow wire from one point to another. This seems to bea pet notion with ladies. Why, young lady, who had just graduated from a Boe. ton academy, visited our central office one da) | and asked to look at one of the wires. She ex. claimed, “Oh, my! I thought it was hollow. How does the sound get through?” It was not thought necessary to make any further expla- nation to her. Another young lady, who was a member of the family of a prominent Paciticcoast official, complained one day that the “rambling in the pipes” disturbed her so much while she was using the telephone that she could not talk or hear at all. About the time that the Smithsonian institution came into the ex- change, a green operator, ambitious to get along, undertook to put some of the calls through. He gave out to the switch-man, with s good deal of confidence, that “Miss Ossian’s institution wanted to speak to Mr. .” He explained afterwards that he supposed Miss Os- sian kept some sort of a school, and had a tele- phone. He was soon sent out to hunt up an educational institution for his benefit. It isa very common notion that the connections in the central office are by picking up the end of one of the wires and hooking it on to the end of another. ‘TELEPHONE PECULIARITIES. ‘The currents caused by the very small move- ments of thé diaphragm in the front of the mag- net are very feeble. Therefore, very slight causes may effect the action of the telephone. The very delicate currents produced by the mag- net of the telephone from the Macca of the ragm, are usually overcome by externalcur- foals nepaneed by ‘other causes. And in pro- ion to the power of these external currents, the vocal transmission cerrespondingly weakened or entirely overpowered. Earth cur- rents are now known to tray the wires. They effect lines and southwest most with the tine of always is never closed. It is 1 will be down immedi- day. | set while the war was in progress was svon re- | lines have been put in operation during thie last | Private wires are very often put | There | It can be | books of the | | evenings the size of the attraction on the boards. | | has been successfully tried of using luminous | paint on a portion of the street letter boxes, by | | which means rot only can the mouth of the box, but also the tnseription showing what hours the mails are taken up, be easily seen in the dark. This convenience is recommend d to | Post Ainger, who seem&to be on the | alert for what will serve the public. It is also | Tespectfully suggested that that officer cause tabletsto be affixed to all the letter boxes in | the city, as well as to those on some of the prin- ciple streets, indicating the hours when they | are emptied by the carriers. The cost of this | simple device would be inconsiderabie, | advantage to letter writers in remote parts of | the city would be yery great. fe Mr. MacDonald, the New York sculptor, has | been at Cleveland for several weeks past, en- ed in modeting a bust of the late President iG 7 speak hight most too fervidly, one would think,—of the effort, 8 eeepted by the country as the ntative bust-portrait of its illustrious It is Mr. MacDonald's purpose, we t ate it in marble, and afterwards to | make replicas in in which form he hopes there will be considerable demand forit. Should this effort ultimately prove to be as fine a work | of art as the artist eliefof Bryant, he ¢: | hardly be disappointed in this respect. j ire | | hea Pa The capacity for iffidulence in Inxuries ex- hibited by a few of the successful journalists of this country is popularly supposed to be some- thing quite phenomenal in its way. But really it is nothing at all, when compared with the lavish expenditares which occasionally mark the care e of the more fortunate news- paper proprie! gland. The owner of | the London Teiegrap! cently purel fe S$ OWN Cccupancy the owned by the Duke of Suther- hy the Duke which be paid down $1,000,000 in an American newspaj place at a figure like he Faney rman buying a country that! * as | The tactics displayed by the management of | the very short opera season vouchsafed to Wash- | ington thi | realms of sharp practice. | music who wanted to hear G | for both nizhts was virtually charging four dol- Jars for that luxury, since not many would care to pay two dollar ra rendition of Trova- fore by an ordinary stock company. Two dollars an evening is quite enough to pay for hearing the star of the company, and it would have | been no great concession on her part tosing two to such audiences as Washington always gives to first-class artists. But the Management seemed to know just how much imposition our people would submit to, and he | won the stakes he played for. All the choice Seats were sold early in the week. * oe The Christmas cards for the current season do Not, as a rule, show any artistic advance on the desizns for previous years, and In some re fall far below many that have gone before. may be said, too, that some of those which are reputed to have carried off handsome prizes are by no means the most appropriate in conception | oF the be: - It might also be added that the whole card business has assumed a | commercial magnitude out of all proportion to its service to the whether considered as a factor in art education or as an effort to furnish abetter substitute for the old-fashioned and jer keepsakes formerly in ne outgrowth of it may be described asa trille that costs too mach to be | away and is yet not valuable enough in w to refully preserved. A good book « suvenir made by the giver hasa character and ing altogether dierent. | | be « +e How these fellows who cater to the animal | appetites do get along, to he sure! Here is a | Philadelphia brewer going to marry Kellog melodious memory, while a New York tobacco- nist f heart and hand of her Just why, | how, and low fa it | connectia ween lyri¢ ture of beer and tobacco is not plain uninitiated: but th must be some influence to. | draw them together, which, if invisible, is. still powerful. Can the that the makers | vendors of thesearticles ar alot of money to the marri: |other charms have any “ht with prima donnas. who are supposed to have a barrel or two of their own? - * In the way of a minor improvement no greater change for the better has been made in the city for a long time than in closing up the roadways through Mt. Vernon Square, and converting that gridironed space into a park proper. When well set in grass and adorned with sufficient shade and suitable shubbery, it will become a ost sightly place, and a credit to the city, which it never could have been under the oid order of things. The only regret in counection with the change lies in the circumstance that | the present plan was not adopted in the first |instance and the cost of laying down | unnecessary pavements thus saved to the city. | By the way, many persons still call this res | vation “Shepherd Square,” on account of the manuer in which it was rescued from private occupancy for public use, and it would not be | surprising if this should yet intime become its official designation. ate Mr. William H. Beard, the popular New York painter of animals, is the subject of an article in The Magazine of Art for December, which vives anexcellent wood-cut likeness of the artist, with reproductions of two of his well known, thouch by no means his best, pictures. This sort of ree- ognition of an American artist byan English pe- riodical is quite an innovation on the old order of things. The compliment is. however, weil deserved. Mr. Beard has probably no ti equal in giving human expression and character- istics, and especially in conveying the sense of humor, to the face and actions ofquadrupeds and birds. It is doubtful if he was greatly excelled in these respects by Landseer, the great English animal painter, himself, and by him in perhaps only a few pictures,—one of them being the oil painting entitied’“The Traveled Monkey.” That | effort doubtless stands unsurpassed in its way by the work of any artist, dead or living. The Afaga- zine of Arthas, by the way, added an American de- partment to its table of contents, a feature which, in connection with its proposed series of papers on American artists, will make it more of a favor- ite than ever with readers on this side of the At- lantic. sp aaa One Who is Willing to De Housework. To the Editor of Tax Evexrxo Star: I would like to say to “ Justice” that although his remarks may be true, as far as he knows, there are some who are different. I know that I for one would be glad for work, and very grateful to any who would procure it for me at ten or twelve dol- lars, and very glad for sixteen. I have answered advertisements by and because I have not lived in service for years it is very hard to get work, which I need, for I have neither food nor shelter except in dependence on a stepfather, who wep gist sewil until ao hoa wes Sing aay te "ove housework, and to do it natare I am neat and conscien- I do need work! and Hiquors or tobacco in any form, never played | while its | for illustration, has re- | h week verged pretty closely upon the | The Gettcan Styte. Lawrence, who in 1835 attempted to axsasd- nate President Andrew Jackson, was almost as violent as Guiteau. No one, it seems, bad an- ticipated the soene which occurred before Dis- trict-Attorney F. 8. Key had uttered ten sen- tences of his opening address, for Lawrence had appeared very pleasant and amiable during the impanelling of the Jury. The jury, however, had hardiy settled to their work, and Mr. Key had barely begun his address, betore Lawrence started from his seat and shouted out in sten- torian tones a number of bling questions. The then Chief-Justice of the District, the ven- erable Win. Cranch, ordered him to’ take his seat and deputed two marshals to enforce this order. At the same time Mr. W. L. Brent, his | counsel, and one of the most famous advocates of that period, expostulated vainly with bin client, who, though forced to sit under restraint by the marsh; | vociferations. Finally Mr. Bp | Judge to remove his client and go on | trial in bis absence, since he would be sented in a public trial and would be his counsel contronted with the witr Chief Justice, however, decli of the proceedings to give such an order, and as the prisoner gradually grew quiet, Mr. Brent went on. Secretary Levi Woodbury was the first witness. While he was testitying the prie- oner, ording to the ni-orficial account of the trial, etarti p wildly, said: “What I have done to Jackson is on account of money which he owes me. 1 have come here for that purpose. I cons in this court as under me. The Unit ates Bank has owed me money . and J want it. 1 must have . kept up his nt begged the n with the repre- through 3 ed to pacify him and | Prevailed on him to sit down. | Prisoner (to the uty marshal, in —Mr. Woodward, mind your own business, or I shail treat you with severity. It is for me, gen- tlemen, to pass upon you, and not you upon me! The prisoner's counsel requested for the see- ond time that the prisoner might be sent ont; and the Court said he might go, if he desired. 1 {Rather inzenious ths Prisoner (starti » avain)—I deny the Pewer of this court te try me: Lam superior to it, and what J want ismy revenue. Prisoner's Counsel calm, Mr. Lawrence, you shall have your rights. 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