Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1882, Page 2

_THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, 7 * ag Se * WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1882—-DOUBLE- SHEET. . CITY AND DISTRICT. DRAINAGE OF WASIZINGTON. Whe Great Boundary Street Sewer. STS DIMENSIONS AND TRE SPR’ ir VICE EXPECTED FROM m execs 48 stated In yesterday's this great water condutt, into the Kastern Braneb wer Hoxle in #879, in 1, and It has interruptions rhs work is one ‘neral sew- largest un- and when D rsting stronges' through the city and overflowing the low grounds. THE SURVEY. One of the first duties of Lieut. Hoxie when he entered upon the District engineer service was to make a careful survey of the entire drainage sur- face of the District, even extending his investiga- tions into Montgomery county, Md., to ascertain the approximate quantity of water which natn- Tally gravitates to this District, with the view of making such disposition of ites would lessen the dangers to both pubife and private property in its transi through the city. One of the most Jexing difficulties for many years had mn tie almost annual breaking of the Tiber Creek sewer from overcharges. This survey convinced’him that the capacity of the Tiber and B street sewers was entirely inadequate for the amount of water turned into them, and tha fclous distribution was the ‘only amore ji . Th ber creck difficulty was disposed ty, to a greatdezres, by the ci this sewer, » most iLidle to occur. The F now finds « complete vent through aml soon runsoff when the rain- atively little damage. ‘THE GENERAL PLAN OF SEWERAGE contemplates four general outlets into the Poto- Mac river and its tributaries, viz: the James creek canal outlet; the 17th street outlet; the Slash run K ereek, and the Boundary street wer outlet into the Eastern Branch The relief » B street sewer has been most ily accomplished by the construct New York avenue intercepting sewer, which car- ries off sll the drainage norih of it, and discharg- ing direct into the 17th street overflow, passing Out throuch the channel cut through the Kidwell Bottoms into the Georzetown channel. The Boundary street intercepting sewer, when con- leted, will have a carrying capacity equal to all he drainage north of the city, including that of the b: north of M street, and will entirely re- lieve the Tiber and other lateral sewersewhich gravitate towards the low nds in the central Part of the city and South Washington. DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK. ‘The outlet section of this large sewer now in course of construction was commenced In June, 1878, and fs completed. It is cylindrical in form, 2 feet inside diameter, and Is 1,973 feet in length. ‘The land damages cost the District $8,000, and its construction $92,000, making the total cost of that portion $100,000." It unit: section No. 2, at the junction of the Benning’s bridge road with the ladensburz turnpike. Section No, 21s 1,707 feet in length. 20 feet Inside diameter, and has already cost $75,000. There remains about 600 feet to com ete It. Section No. 315 2,300 feet in length, run- ning parallel with Boundary street, is of the same diameter (2 feet), and has already Cost $30,000, and there remains about 1.500 feet to complete it. ‘The 4th section, now about to be commenced, {5 2,550 feet in length, and it Is thought will cost about $135,060 to construct, owing to its great depth and the extent of exeavation, being also of the most difficuit kind—through quicksants, blue clay, and Tock. The advance fa the prices of both labor and r t, amounting to ever giv a rience in Sewer bulld- ing, and one of his jobs ws the construction of most of the New York avenue intercepting sewer, Pronounced to be the best job of the kind ever executed in this city. THE TERMINUS @ the Boundary street sewer will be at 8th and Boundary streets northwest, where the natural ‘water caus from the county enters the city. The section next succeeding the 4th seetion will be 1334 feet inside diameter. Its whole length fs to have a trap-rock invert laid in Portland cement, with all the necessary Literal &e. It will take a Work should there of money oF accide nts. t two years to finish the no interruptions from lack The Christiancy Divorce Case. YEE NEW ISSUE WHIGH WIFE. PROBABLY DELAY FINAL SETTLEMENT OF THE CASE. As stated m THe Srax yesterday, Examiner Lovejoy took the testimony of Stephen Chester Monday afternoon for complatnant in the Chris- thiney divorce case. Chester was called to con- tradict the testimony of Haight, that he had never Spoken of having improper intimacy with Mrs. Christiancy. When the dep Re (FL) was asked on cross eXam!nation, whether | ‘onnections, man holes, &., | | Litlepric ition of Mr. Halght was taken, | I b ally intimate with Mrs. = “a it fe tier b not on several occasions’ told % the wiluess, Chester, that he had been tntimate With her ou several 0 ms on the steamer and | nd h also, and in denying tt | @ nev until the day before he (C.) started for Peru, when he was introdu to him by Chester's brother, Chas. P. ¢ Ey that the litter suid Stephen was a good electrictin | 1f he could te kept sober, and upon his promise to | be he employed him and sent him to Peru | im charge of his torpedo invention; that when he | @aigod, arrived in Peru, ue found that Chester | d been intoxicated mo-t of the time, and laying around low places with women, and lecting his, } Business, and for these reasons he (Haight) dis- charged’ him tmmediately on his learning the facts. This Is supposed to account for the two men not being on the mostly friendly terms. The | Haighg sty to Chester's char- | acter, and of the cov: propose to do it by prominent officers ment. y claim that they can | * he ad- ‘On Chester’ x pin claimed that the first t ne he met Haight he (H.) told hita thet he had had improper intl: Macy with Mrs. Christlaney. W asked, “If he didn’t himself keep a ‘a the defendant's jon be certified to the yelled to answer, he his present occupa- Y asked what it was, but tnalty | ged in buying and selling electri- a3 en eal supplies. : ‘This opens up a new fssue In the case, and will Probably lead to the taking of considerable testi- Mony 14 Peru, and tudetinitely prolongs the case — The A. M. E. Conference. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING YEAR. ‘The Baltimore conference of the A. M. E. church elosed Its annual sessions In Baltimore yesterday, When the fotlowing appointments for the year Were announced: Presiding elder, Baltimore district, J. H. A. John- @n. Baltimore city—Bethel, L. J. Coppin; Mt Zion chapel, P. M. Lewis; Allen chapel, C. W. Fitz- hugh; Easton, T. P. Cox; Cambridge, J. W. Stev- enson; Cectlton, Joseph ontonville, Alle, Fr field, H. Hutton’ Balti per Jones; Ivorytown On. Ww nnapolis, W. H.’ Brow: cores: Charlotte Hall. W. ik n J. Hubert: Blad Williams; West ‘River, W. H. Snyder; ington Missi F. it. V Washington Mission, (G town) —— ‘Cook; North Washington Mission, Samuel M. Johnso Montgomery tobe supplied; Parole, Md., Americ ‘Woodhouse. Hagerstown district—Prestiling elder, R. F.Way- man, Baltimore city. St John’s chapel, Dantel ; Waterss chapel, G. W. Brodie; Frederick G er; Hagerstown, B. W. |, J. P. Shreeves: ‘Catons- Ville, J.W. Rowers: Eivott City, Joseph Nicholas; Randallstown, J. R Henry; Qu: ttom, J. H. es Er x Green, Daniel Carrot; Funks- Petersvitie, ; Clearspring, Joun W. Diggs; , Benjamin H. Lees Me Pleasant to be Supplied; Frostburg, rate HE Green: Trinity, A. . Upshaw. |‘Transterre: im and appointed to Winchester is Payne stated that he had recetved sev- eral memorials against the office of presiding elder, and, as it was an important question, he would appoint a committee to consider it during ‘the year. ————— Rear Estate Sare.—Duncanson Bros, auction- eers, sold yesterday afternoon, for Job’ Barnard, enq., trustee, lot 4, in square south of square 990, fronting 111°912 ‘feet on 11th street and 111 10-12 feet on South Carolina avenue southeast—in all, €9%1 square feet of ground—to R. B. Smith, for Se eae ae Rurresentative Lyxcn SkRENADED.—Hon. John RB. Lynch, the newly seated Representative in Con- Mississippi, was Me ippi, serenaded by $i bio tenidvoce, 1588 15th 66. bys nombar Te Was a Lai ‘thering ent. made by lesprese pres were ives But- and Calkins, to which Mr. ‘Sponded, and a letter Was read trom Mr. ‘o | ordered. The River provement Ques- tion. VIEWS OF DR. CABELL, OF THE NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH. Tho Senate committee on improvement of the river front at Weshington held gnother meeting yesterday, and continued the Inquiry relative to the re tion of the flats. Dr. Cabell, presi- dent of the national boar! of health, was exam- ined. He said he had devoted sonf attention to the subject of the «flats and their effect upon the general health. He said there was so general an agreement among sanitarians as to the power of submerged lands or sofl saturated with water to proauce malaria that t difference of opinion as to that being thi malaria In Wasttngton. It was _umdou sanitary disideratuin, almost a sanitary 1 to have that cause remo 3 the flats. Soll moisture. he sat rheumatism and consumption. On those grounds he thought it yery —‘tmportant, “almost a necessity, to reclaim the fiats and keep them’ thoroughly drained and to apply the same principle to other of the city. The flats were not alone the cause of malaria here. An equ:liy dangerous element was the stagnation of sewage In the sewers, which are he said, virtually elongated cess-pools. Several years ago he saw part of B street sewer when a portion of it was open, and there was no sign of a, also produces motion; there 1s nd fall, and the sew- age remained in the sewers and stagnated and decomposed. Sewage should de- be livered at {ts outlet rapidly. This is accomplished in Memphis by automatic sewers, whicl flushed regularly and the sewers cleaned out. Dr. Cabel spoxe of the low-lying part of the city, es- pecially south of Pennsylvania avenue, as being full of soll motsture. He had no specific plan to sugyest as a remedy for the defective system of sewerag», Dut he sat the end to be accomplished 4s to carry the sewage some distance below the city and there discharge it. The flats, he said, ought to be reclaimed, and the sewerage system ouzht to be improved; but the latter was not so Important as the former. He spoke of an improvement of the sewerage system a8 a matter worthy of consideration in connection With sanitary improvements, (As to the again urged the Importance of reclaiming them, and thought the plin offered by the late Major Twining Would accomplish the object thoroughly. gee Laying a Church Corner Stone. AN INTERESTING CEREMONY CONDUCTED BY THE UNIVERSALISTS’ SOCIET The interesting though simple services of laying the corner stone for the new Universalist. church took place yesterday afternoon at 6 o'clock. ‘The site selested Is a most appropriate one—at the southeast corner of 13th and L streets northwest, where the excavation for the cellar had already been made and the ground levelled for the founda- tion preparatory to the ceremonigs of yesterday- A large concourse assembled to participate in the exercises. The pastor, Rev. Alex. Kent, made opening remarks, alluding tothe struggles of the congregation in this District to maintain for so many Years their association intact, and now that their hopes were so near being realized, he said, tt became 4 question as to whether there’ was mére pleasure in pursuit or possession. They now own the site and had a good share of the money necessary to rear the superstructure upon the corner stone which they had met to lay. At the couetusion of his remarss, the congregation sung “Laying of the corner stone,” and Rev. A. B. Gi followed with prayer. -‘Then followed appropriate remarks by Rev. H. W. Rugg, of Providence, R. I. Secretary Of the general conference of the United States, Who recited a brief history of the church in this country, and stated what part the general conference had taken in the furnishing of means for the erection of this church edifice. LAYING THE STONE. When Mr.Rugg concluded speaking he descended Into the excavation and placed the stone in post- tion, depositing within the cavity the following articles: History of the Murray Universalist S0- clety and names of all who have joined it; names of past and present officers; history of the first Universalist. church; names of officers, teachers, and pupils of the Sunday schoo! connected with the Murray church; copies of the last issue of the denominational papers, the Leader, Star and Cove- nant, Gospel Banner, and Atlanta Universalist and Herald, and issues of the dally papers of Washing- ton, together with a copy of the program of the occasion. ‘The cement was then appiled and the stone sealed up and placed on the bed rock in the northeast corner, where it will soon he hid from view by the superstructure. Prayer followed, and the entire congregation, at the Invitation of the trustees of All Souls’ church, proceeded to that edifice, corner of 14th and L Streets, where services were held as follows: THE CLOSING SERVICES, ‘Trio, “Praise Ye the Lord,” Mrs. Logan, Mr. Geo. Lilebridge and Mr. E. J. Whipple; reading of the Scriptures, Rey. Alex. Kent; prayer, Rev. H. W. Rugg; solo, “O, Thon Omnipotent,” Miss Lilie- bridge; address, Rev. W. H. Ryder, D.D.; quar- tette, Dudley Buck’s “Te Deum,” in E flat, Mrs. Logan, Miss Likebridge, Mr. Whipple and Mr. ; address, Rev. H. W. Rugg; solo, “Faith,” Mr. Whipple, ‘The services closcd with @ congregational hymn and the benediction. ‘The architects are Messrs. Cluss & Schutze, and the contractors Mi Holtzclaw & Hepburn. ‘The style will be Gothic, and the internal arrange- Ment Will be tuat of an amphitheater, with en- trance at the corner, the audience room being 60 feet square. Z — ‘The Courts. Count Is GENERAL TERM. United States agt. Guiteau; hearing til towday. Baconetal agt. Cox et rin; t; decree signed. » the United States agt. Charles J. Gul- edt [or appelant opens. Cixeurr Covrt—Judge MacArthur, udgment by default was given in the ses: McDowell € Co. agt, James Dun- Benjamin T. Smith agt. John 50; William F. Hook ayt. for $200; John Cassels agt. John L. 641.49: Charles Tabor & Co. act. I for $161.42; ‘William N. Peak agt. Ji F. Spelshouse, for $202.60; Wheatley Bros. agt. Baldytin Bros., for $295.31. ’ Adjourned until Mon- day, May 15. Eguiry Covrt—Judge Cor. Yesterday, Ernest agt. Ernest; testimony before Willian H. Harrison ordered taken. Pitel agt. Piel; testimony before William T, Snyder ordered taken. Vogel agt. Haynes; contract for infants affirmed. Lewis agt. Lewis and Alley agt. Latta; nee of absent defendants ordered. Wood nsten; commission to nppoint guardiin a ordered to issue, Grimes agt. Stith; sale ordered, and A. B. Duvall appointed trustee to sell. Coltman agt. Moore; action of trustee rati- fied, and payment of interest ordered. Taylor agt. Burnett; sale ordered and T. E. Waggaman ap- pointed ‘trustee to sell. Creeden agt. Creeden; testimony before W. H. Harrison ordered taken, Portner agt. Leonard; sale orderea, and James L. Divis appointed trustee to sell. ’ Stettinus act. Stettinas; sale ordered, and White, Holtzman, Lockwood and Stitson Appointed trustees to sell. Keller agt. Ashford; dismissal of bill ordered. Gunton “agt. Zantzinger; payment of certain 3 to H. A. Zantzinger oriered. Sisters of tion agt. Kidwell; substitution of trustees Crisinat Covrt—Judge Wylie. Monday, John Hitz and Charles E. Prentiss, false entries, ete., watving of the reading of the indict- 13, OA ments by defendants and five days allowed in which to file pleas. ‘Thomas Jones and others, as? sault with tntent to Kill Sergt. Amts3; motion for a new trial filed. note Williams, larceny; verdict not gufky. "Edward Simpson, forgery; ‘personal recognizance for $100 taken. Emma Tibbs, larceny; Verdict not guilty und defendant discharged. Geo. Thompson, larceny; nolle prosequi. George ‘Thompson, receiving stolen property : plea of not gulity withdrawn and plea of guilty entered: sen- tncead to Erle penitentiary for three years and ordered to restore property. William Allen and Benjamin Murray; nolle prosequi by United States attorney. Poxice Court—Judge Snell. Monday, William Bowers, loud and boisterous; $5 or 15 days. Edward Harris, committing, creat- ing and maintaining a nutsance; continued on de- fendant’s personal bonds. Ellen Smith, vagrancy apd public prostitution; ‘bonds or 30 days. Wu. Dobson allas Robinson, forfeited collateral. Rich- ard Mortimer, profanity; sor 7 days. George Washington, trespassing" on a park by allowing his cows to graze theron; $or7 days. Patric! ‘Tierney, profanity; do. Clark Gill, violgting the cart law; $5 or 7 days. William Stewart, do.; do. Willtam F. Flaherty, George Holmes, W.'H. Yeat- mon, Albert Price and Eiward Holmes, forfeited eolisteral. Sallie Bird, throwing stones in the Street; $5 or 15 days. Patrick Tierney, assault on Ann Tierney, his mother; fined $% and execution of sentence led. Henry Jackson and Jos.Cole- man, alias McIntosh, grand larceny; frand Jury; bonds $500 each, Thos. Johnson and Jos. Hoover, forfeited collateral. Jno. Clark, larceny of a lot of clothing from Chas. McCue} 60 days in jail. 3 ee Recxtoxs of Axwy VerEnaxt The committee of union ex-confederate cers, comprising Gens. Dudley, Seales, Dawes, Ayers, Cols. Manning, Alken, and others appolated to arrange a series of ft reunlons of verarans Of the ATING ot the Pos United States for the seat of government raised EARLY DAYS OF GEORGETOWN. A Placo of Importance in 01d Times. 18 FOUNDERS—WHERE ITs POPULATION CAME FROM—ARCADIAN DAYS—AFTERWARDS A COM- MERCIAL AND SOCIAL CENTER—DISTINGUISHED RESIDENTS AND VISITORS—PERSONAL REMINIS- CENCES. There were published in Te Star some months since extracts of ancient date from the official records of Geergetown, now in the keep- ing of the District authorities; the act of Con- gress merging the municipal governments of that place and Washington into one having de- stroyed the political individuality of our sister city and made it virtually part and parcel of the federal capital. Those annals of the town goy- ernment—dry, colorlessand formalas they are— were read with interest by many old residents of the District, although they simply set forth the facts in the early history of Georgetown, leaving unwritten the more interesting personal records of the men who figured therein. ORIGIN OF GEORGETOWN IN 1751. The old records show that the town had its beginning as such on the 19th day of September, 1751, on which day an act of the Maryland as- sembly took effect which authorized the plant- ing ofanew town on the Potomac and the vending of the lots. Some of the ground to be sold (in the neighborhood of the present market- house) belonged to Colonel George Beall and some to George Gordon. The act of the Mary- land assembly fixed the rate at which each lot was to be sold—by commissioners. This legisla- tion was denounced by Colonel Beall as an un- warranted assumption of power on the part of the Maryland assembly and elicited from him @ vigorous protest against the sale of his lots, with threats of an appeal to George II, then king ot England. It Is fair to presume that the Colonel's wrath abated, as the sale of the lots went on and no serious results followed. + THE FIRST SETTLER AND HIS DESCENDANTS. He was no parade day colonel either, like some we have hereabouts in these degenerate days; for there isa vote of thanks to him on record, adopted by the assembly of Maryland in 1699, in ‘which they give him seventy-five pounds sterling for his bravery in driving back the Indians of the Susquehannah and causing the surrender of forts held by the adherents of James II. He was the son of Ninian Beall, who emigrated to the Patuxent river, in Maryland, from the town of Largo, in the shire of ‘Fife,’ Scotland, about the ‘year 1669, and who died at the age of 107 years and was buried on one of his farms on the Eastern branch, within sight of Washington. For a long time there was a tradition in Maryland that Ninian Beall was concerned in the assas- sination of Sharpe, the archbishop of St. An- drews, and that he fled to this country to escape the consequences of his act. but no proof of hia connection with that murder was ever pro- duced. The story doubtless originated in the fact that he emigrated about the time the arch- bishop was killed. He purchased from the Patuxent Indians certain allotments of land on the west side of Rock creek, and these came into possession of his son George, who set up his tent in the woods, about where the Sem- inary building (on Washington street) now stands, He was, so far as now known, the firet settler hereabouts, and died at the age of 78 years. He left two sons—George. and Thomas. The tormer married a Magruder. The Magruders were in Scotland the McGregors, whose lands skirted the eastern side of Loch Lomond, and they came to Maryland about the year 1655. Though a turbulent clan in the old country—according to history they were out- lawed by the English government in 1633—they made good citizens on this side of the Atlantic, as do their descendants here to this day. The Bealls also intermarried with the Brookes, who came to Maryland about the year 1650. Thomas Beall, brother of George, married an Orme. The Ormes, whose descendants are still living here, came trom England. Thomas Beall made one of the additions to the corporate limits of the town, as shown in the records and maps. He built a house on the heights, Just south of where Oak Hill cemetery now is, and called it ‘‘Dumbarton.” The place was some years ago owned by Senator Bright, of Indiana. “Messrs. Thomas Beall, Dea- kins, Beatty, Hawkins, Lee, Peter and Threl- keld’ are among those whose lands were pur- chased at various times to make additions to the town. FROM WHENCE CAME THE FIRST DWELLERS IN GEORGETOWN. s Not Scotland and England only, but Ireland contributed a part of the settlers on Rock creek; a few refugees from revolution-racked France found a home here; Holland sent over some mechanics and agricuiturists; quite a number of Catholic families from Lord Balti- more’s settlements in lower Maryland (the For- sts, Swales, Hutchins and others) became dents here; and not a few New Englanders came south and did their share towards build- ing up the commerce of the new town. Later on, at the beginning of the present century, when the seat of government was removed from Philadelphia to the infant city of Washington, a number of government officials had their homes here while the streets were being graded and trees felled in the new capital. Cabinet officers, foreign ministers, members of Congress and other persons of political and social import- ance set up their household gods in George- town—then, and for some years afterwards, the city. Many of their descendants are still ir this District. Among the Irish emigrants whosought homes here was Thos. Corcoran, from thecounty of Clare, an upright and kindly man, whose popularity resulted in his election to the mayor- alty of Georgetown, which position he filled with credit to himself and advantage to the community. His son is the well-known banker, W. W. Corcoran, esq., who was born in George— town. Among ‘the New Englanders who be- came citizens of the ancient town was the cele- brated London banker, George Peabody, who was born in Danvers, Mass., but commenced his successful business career in the city west of Rock Creek, and at the early age of 19 became partner ina prominent business firm there. Fran- cis Dodge, (father of Col. Robert P. Dodge, treas- urer of the District; of H. H. Dodge, the banker, and of other prominent citizens), came here from Massachusetts in 1798, and was an honor- able, sagacious and Spree pene merchant. He was for a long time a useful member _of the city councils. John Pickreli and Joseph Libby, both New Englanders (the latter from New Hamp- shire), were public spirited business men, whose descendants are well-known in the District. The sons of the last named still continue the business their father built up. ‘Seven Scotch fainilies arrived in Georgetown in 1785, from the town of Forres, and built houses for themselves on the west side of Market street, just south of what is now known as Bridge street. Fora long time those houses were known as “Scotch Row.” Directly opposite them, when Georze- town was a place of commercial importance, stood ove of the great tobacco warehouses of the town. A WORD ABOUT THE ANCIENT VILLAGE OF BLA- DENSBURG. Not a few prominent early residents of George. town came there from Bladensburg. That an- cient village ante-dates Georgetown by nine years, having been founded in the year 1742, when Bladen was governor of Maryland, “under the king.” The opulent families of the Dicks, Bladens, Lowndeses, Stoddards and others livea there, and in one of its houses William Wirt was born in the year 1772. Benjamin Stod- dard, the first secretary of the navy. long a res- ident of Georgetown, was of the Bladensburg Stoddards. He was livingin the house on Pros- pect street, now occupied by Dr. Kidwell, in 1798, when he was called into the cabinet of President Adams, the elder. When his admin- istration came to a close, Stoddard went back to his Bladensburg home, where died. One of the sons of his elder daughter, Mrs. Ewell (who lived in George- town,) fell in Mexico; another was Gen. Ewell, of confederate fame; and another is a Presb: minister. Their sister, Miss Elizabeth Ewell, a convert to the Kcinan Catholic faith, is still living in Georetown. She ts a cultured lady, a fine musician ~ad her recollections of promi- nent people of this section would filla book and make “mighty in reading.” The Ewells were and are a promment family in Vir- ginta, and at least two of its members were of William and Mary coll founded the Old Dominion in 1691. _ The cession of the ten miles square to the great hopes of prosperity for the new capital and attracted man: ance Rect and Virginians to the new “District of Colum- bia.” John Laird, a Scotchman, who also came here from Bladensbug in the year 1800, was one of these, and was soon distit town merchant. His GEORGETOWN A COMMERCIAL CENTER. At the beginning of the present century Georgetown was a place of much commercial importance. Tobacco and other agricultural products were brought there in large quanti- ties In wagons and shipped direct to Europe, #nd the planters for hundreds of miles around purchased their supplies from Georgetown mer- chauts. @ld citizens still remember the im- mense tobacco warehouses. As Washington begun to grow in population its retail mer- ctwnts for years obtained their goods trom the merchant kings of tite sister city. Large ships were anchored at the wharves ia Georgetown, or sailing in the river; country wagons were coming and going along’ all the roads leading to the Distriet, some of them great boat-shaped wagons from Pennsylvania, each drawn by six horses that merrily jingled their bells through the: streets; dray load after dray load of coffee, sugar, tea, dry goods, build- ing material, etc.. were hauled all day and far into the night from the great warehouses on Water street and across Rock creek into the Capital city. As late as 45 years ago, the writer. then a boy, got a flogging because after school hours instead of going directly home, he visited alarge shipat the whart just east of the old fish wharf. Ships. in the last century used to come up “Little river,” back of Analostan Island, it 1s said, but the corporation of George- town, about the year 1805, a3 shown by the re- cords heretofore referred to, passed the act for the erection of the causeway connecting the island with the Virginia shore, in. order, it was said, “to help the main channe!.” ‘The town was ina great state sof.excitement when it was proposed to build the Long bridge about the year 1807, Public meetings were held and protests circulated, and the people went day after day to the capitol, t6 lobby against the measure and listen to the debates on the sub- ject in Congress. But the bridge was built, and is still there, and is still a sore subject for the residents west of Rock creek. OLD TIME PASTORS. Tt was mentioned above that Col. George Beall, the first settler on the site of Georgetown, had a son George. That son died in 1805. His eldest daughter was married in 1782 to Rey. Dr. Balch, who had come to Georgetown two years before that event and founded the Pres- byterian church on Bridge street (which was torn down some years since and rebuilt on West street) and was its faithful pastor until he died, much beloved and greatly regretted, in 1833. His son, Rev. T. B. Balch, @ quaint and kindly man, delivered in the Methodist Protestant chureh in Georgetown in January and March, 1859, two lectures on ‘‘Reminiscences of George- town,” which were full of interesting personal recollections. He said of hia father: “He was a contented, cheerful and happy man, fond of social life, a great reader of newspa- pers, disquieted by nothing, a profound believer in an overruling Providence, a vast admirer of Gen. Washington; a great advocate for the ac- quisition of Cuba, even at that early day; an enemy to all oppression, a triend to the widow, disinterested in pecuniary matters, and often facetious. He was a great friend to matrimony, and he had one of the finest runs of custom the marrying line ever enjoyed in these parts. He was sometimes as busy as the Vicar of Wake- field in the winding up of that story.” He was one of the earliest victims of the march of im- gene in the District, for in 1805 about one- halt of his house, which stood on a hill below Scotch row, went down with a thundering crash into the newly excavated street. (The winter of that year the Potomac had ice on it 19 inches thick, over which loaded wagons were driven.) One of this old-time pastor’s funny stories was of a fellow preacher—Rev. Walter Addison— who gave a great sheep shearing at Oxon hill, across the Eastern Branch; in the month of June. After the shearing, cold weather came on,and the kind hearted minister bought a quantity of red flannel and had it made into coats for his shivering flock, whose eyes looked suspiciously out of their quaint head-dresses at their transmogrified companions. PATRIOTIC GEORGETOWN LADIES AT THE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION. ‘The elder Balch told his son that the ladies of Georgetown positively refused to drink tea during the Revolutionary war, and the son quaintly said, in narrating this during his lecture: ‘Thiscourse was quite patriotic on the part of our fadies, | provided It were not black tea, for black tea is nothing better than so much wormwood and gall. g abnegated, then wefe the ladies of Georgetown worthy to be enrolled with the mother and sisters of Corlolanus, who saved Rome at her most eventful hour.” JOHN RANDOLPH AND GEORGETOWN WATER. The following 1s another passage from the same lecture: “You have all heard of John Randolph, of Roanoke, who spent so many Congressional terms in our town. His ipfirmities increased with advancing years. One midnight (while li in Washington) he took a notion | that he ould die before mornin: at there was ‘one t , said the orator to his servant. ‘that can si jife” ‘What is it?’ answered 0 Juba, who had iong been used to the caprices of his master. ‘Don’t yon know,’ he replied, ‘what but a glass of Georgetown water?’ His servant took the hint and started out. but not liking to be taken into custody, he took a glass of water out of a well on Capitol Hill, after lingering tong ; enough to insptre a belief that he had come over to town. When he handed it to his master the eyes of the orator glistened again, and he said to his servant, ‘Juba, did you ever hear of the neetar of Chios? This ke what the heathen deities used to drink in old times. The country is falling fast into despotism, and to-morrow my voice shail ring and squeak in the Capitol against the Sultans.’” DISTINGUISHED VISITORS. The Union hotel (now the “West End”) used to be a lively and fashionable ina at the begin- ning of the present century, and many gay par- ties were given there. Among the distinguished men who resided in Georgetown for atime, or paid it a transient visit, were Pechion (who was sent here by Bonaparte in 1803 to receive the sixteen million paid to France for Louisiana, who lived near Gen, Mason, not far from the old Bank of Columbia, and who used to amuse him- selt by piacing coins in ‘crevices of posts, to be shot out by Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians), Gen. Lingan (who was buried here in 1812 with military honors, and his eulogy delivered by Park Custis, of Arlington), Count Volney, Baron Humboldt, ‘Fulton (the inventor), Talleyrand, Jerome Bonaparte, Washington Irving, Gen. St. Clair (of the Revolutionary war), Barent G: denier (shot in a duel in 1807 by George Wash- ington Campbell, of Tennessee, at one time minister to Russia), Lorenzo Dow (the eccentric preacher), Francis 8. Key author of The Star Spangled Banner), ev. Asa Shinn, Rey. John A. Collins, Rev. Dr. Carnahan, Old Yarrah (a Mahommedan from Guinea who died here at the age of 120), Tom Moore, here in 1804; Frank Jeffrey, in 1809, Louis Phillipe, Zera Colburn (the wonderful boy calculator) in 1808; and about the same time, Ogilvie, a Scotch rhetorician who kept school in Virginia, having Gen. Scott, Walter Jones and Thos. Ritchie among his pupils, and who was probably the first lecturer in these parts, deliver- ing two orations in Georgetown, one on duelling and one on suicide, wearing a Roman toga while he was declaiming, and, strangely enongh, advo- cating self murder while he opposed single com- | bat. He carried out his suicide theory too, for hearing that he had become Ear! of Findlater in the north of Scotland, he started for his old | home but took his own life in London-before at- | He was an incurable | taining his possessions. opium eater which may account for it. An Irishman named Searson, who was here in 1799, published a book of so-called poems, in which he thus referred to his visit: “The President’s house will strike the eye The buliding in Goonselown Is very neat, 2 g ; But the pavement 1s incomplete.” There may not be much poetry in this, but the last line is chock full of truth, “even unto this day.” Searson’s mantle mustghave fallen upon the “sweet singer of Michigan.’ ‘cnuRcHES. The first church erected in Georgetown is said to have been a small edifice built by the German Reformed denomination, on High street. at or near the site of the present frame church (Lutheran) on that street at the corner of Fourth street. t The Presbyterian ‘church, corner Bridge and Washington streets, of which chureh Dr. Balch, previously mentioned, was the founder, was erected in 1782, and was torn down some years ago and rebuilt on West street. Z Cathoiics from lower Maryland and elsewhere were among the first settlers of Georgetow! They w jiped in-the chapel at Georgetown liege after 1792, until old Trinity church was erected about the bezinning of the century. The old church was standing until afew years azo, built upon its site. first pastor whose naine ay on the chureh:.books was Rev. was Mrs. Mc! , Whose descendants are still living in ‘A larger edifice was afterwards built on the Montgomery street site and was for many years. It is still standing. Some time after the ae removed to their present church on Dum! street, the old church was occupied by the Dis- trict_ authorities for public school purposes and it has continued to be so used up to this time. The first Episcopal church (St. John’s) was finished about the year 1804, having been sev- eral years building, and its first minister was Rev. John Sayrs from Port Tobacco, Md. He died in January, 1809, and was succeeded by the kind-hearted Rev. Walter Addison, of Oxon hill, heretofore mentioned, who provided red flannel overcoats for his shivering flock—of sheep. Christ (Episcopal) church was finished in 1818. Grace (Episcopal) church was built not many yours ago. The Methodist Protestant church on Congress street was built in 1829 and opened by a dis- course from Rev. Nicholas Snethen, sometimes called the Chrysostom of that branch of the Methodist denomination. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, ETC. Georgetown College was founded in 1792, under the auspices of Archbishop Carroll, of Baltimore, and has educated young men from all parts of the United States and from Mexico, Cuba, and the South American republics. Many of its graduates have been and are dis- tinguished in the various walks of life. The Academy of the Visitation hasbeen a pop- ular institution for the instruction of young ladies for almost a century, having been estab- lished in 1799. Many hundreds of ladies of all religious denominations now living in various caked of the United States and abroad still look ack with pleasure to their happy days of girl- hood passed under the care of the Catholic sis- ters who have charge of the academy. ~ The Lancasterian system of education was In- If it were the green beverage which they | . Francis’, troduced here soon after it started in England, and its founder, Joseph Lancaster, a Quaker, was here in 1821. ‘The old school-house stood between Dumbarton and Beall streets, just east of the present Dumbarton-street church. Its teacher most of the time of its existence was Robert Ould, of England, father of Robert Ould who was afterwards United States attorney for the District of Columbia, subsequently confed- erate commissioner for exchange of [pride of war, and now a prominent lawyer of Richmond, Va. The elder Robert Ould died suddenly while in charge of the school. One of the earliest school teachers in George- town was Rev. David Wiley, who came here from Pemsylvania about 1802, and whose aca- demy was on Ist street, near High, The late Dr. Bohrer, the late John Marbury and Mr. Polk- inhorn were among his pupils. Among the later institutions, still well re- membered by many old citizens, were Miss English’s popular academy for young ladies, on Washington street (occupied during the late war as a hospital and now as a boarding house), and the schools for boys of Mesars. McVean, Abbott, McCloud, Neavitt and others. The old Bank of Columbia was the first bank in Georgetown, and the imposing building over- looking the Potomac, and Analostan Island, is stilla prominent structure. The Union Bank Gong since departed) was opened in 1809 and the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank (still in ex- istence) in 1814. It has stood through the severest financial storms. The market house in 1796 stood at the north- east corner of High and Bridge streets, but was afterwards removed to its present location. In the early part of the present century, when lager beer was unknown hereabouts, George- town ale had a national reputation, and was shipped in quantities, particularly to the south- ern states and the West Indies. Hayman's brewery, where this “jolly geen ale and old” was made, stood on the north side of 2d street near High. It was abandoned when Hayman built his new brewery on K street in Washing- ton. ——____+- —______ Judge Wylie and the Trades Unions. To the Editor of Taz Evenrne Sar. Seeing an item in your paper of May 5th) headed “Judge Wylie on Trades Organizations,” in which I think he not only grossly misrepre- sents the objects and workings of those organi- zations, but has taken the trouble to make re- marks entirely foreign to the case that was be- fore him, inasmuch as the young man whom he had passed upon had a trade, I take the liberty of using your paper to make a few statements | reference to these trades unions that he so fiercely denounces. In the first place I deny that the trades unions of this city in any way deny or abridge the right of boys to learn a trade, but they do, to a cer- tain extent, place some restrictions as to the number of boys and the length of time that they shall serve as apprentices, which I contend are alike beneficial to the boys as well as to those who employ them. The objects of these restric- tions is to prevent boys fron leaving their places as soon as they are able to work at some ene branch of the trade they are learning and going | to some other shop and working as journeymen, | thereby taking the place of skilled workmen who have served an apprenticeship of from four to | Seven years of the best part of their lives. Now, | Lhaye seen just such cases as I refer to, and it j is the case, not only in our city, but in’ almost | every city in the Union, and it is the cause of keeping down the price of skilled labor so low that the mechanics of our country to-day are really not getting sufficient compensation for their skill and labor to enable them properly to raise their families and educate them as they should tomake them good and useful members of society. Now, sir, that is one of the great evils that the trades unions desire to remedy, and by this means benefit not only the boys, but those who employ them. But'the great evil that exists in this city that I want to call your attention to more especially is the fact that boys are brought here from other citles and placed in the different departments of the government where mechanics are employed to learn trades by and through the influence of Congressmen and others in power, tothe exclu- sion, in a great measure, of thesons of mechanics employed by the government, when the truth is ys could learn the trades they desire equally as well, if not better, in the cities and towns they come from, and be under the super- vision of their parents or guardians, which would be much ter for them, both morally and physically, than being let loose here from all restraint and allowed to diye into all the vices that boys are exposed to. [write what I know to be facts; Ihave known parents who have spent from twenty to thirty years in gov- ernment employ as mechanics to be obliged to send their boys to other cities to have them learn trades, simply because of this importing boys and placing them ix government de) ments, and, as a father, L say it is not the boys who have been raised and learned their trades here that come before Judge Wylie or any other judge, but more likely to be those who have come away from their homes in other cities, and the wholesome re- straints they ‘woutd be under while there. Asa general thing the boys who have learned their trades here at home are a credit to their parents, themselves and society. I, as a parent, beg leave to differ very widely from Judge Wylie when he says that “every parent in the land should put his foot down on these in- famous organizations,” as he calls them. It is not the trades unions of this city that is “the cause of universal idleness among the youths of this city,” but the importation of boys from other cities, away from the restraints of home, thereby excluding those who were born and brought up hee from the rights and privileges they are justly entitled to. Every parent who will look at the matter in its true light will do | all in his power to support and perpetuate such trades unions as exist in this city. Much more could be said on this subject, but T will not farther trespass upon your valuable space. I feel it my duty to make these state- | ments in justice to myself and other fathers of | boys brought up in this city, and desiring that the trades unions should not be misrepresented before the readers of your valuable paper, one of which I have been for many years. Veritas. Ui eat at aie How High Was “Jumbo?” | To the Editor of Tax Evenine Stan: So much interest has been manifested in the elephant “Jambo” that a closely approximate | eatamate of his height may be welcome to many who have “guessed” at it. So deceptive is this ea He Tee if the pone ie itis m in one of y €g., said that estimates backed by Bets were teard a representative paper as high as twenty feet. and few less than seventeen! It might have been observed Dap coal however, that the monster Is it twice: as his keeper; in other words, his is claimed to be actually eleven and Asa matter of observation and | could have been readily determined calculator” that his height w: | man known to be 5 feet hat on more than Lepage top ote head or mu again; other Indien high is about two. phant. Ne Ye underhanded cowards, knaves, and fools, ‘That hope to rise to liberty’s high station, And wrongs to right by sly assassination, Ye are the scape-goats, victims, and the tools ‘Of those whose fever of folly never cools; ‘Who passion-fettered prate of liberation From chains political, a consummation ‘Ne’er wrought except by those whom reason rules. If things refuse to be mismanaged long, ‘The remedy lies in concerted action Of resolute souls in whom a sacred zeal Renders the weakness of their number strong? A Just catse ever tends towards satisfaction; And this, and time, and progress all Mls heal. W. L. SHOEMAKER, ——_— LETTER FROM PARIS, THE SALON AND WHO EXHIBIT—AMERICAN ART- IST WINNING HIGH HONORS—SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL PICTURES—POT BOILERS FOR THE UNITED STATES—DESTRUCTION OF THR TUIL- ERIES, ETC. Special Correspondence of Tux EVENING STAR. Parts, April 21, 1882. SPRING AND ITS GREAT EVENT. Spring is full upon us, and May is cheated this year out of her blossoms, for the showers of March brought forth the flowers in April. The skies have been clear and sunny, smiling » bright welcome on the tourist and enticing the artist and student away out into the fields and Pastures green. ‘‘Wait till after the opening of the Salon,” says the student, “and I'm off for the country.” The opening draws near, and the Jury are working very hard indeed to get the pictures satisfactorily hung before the appointed hour. Itis no small task to pass juigment upon and arrange so many pictures es are re- ceived and hung in the Paris Salon—the great- est annual art exhibition of the day. Thou- sands of pictures are sent in and thousands are rejected, and after the best from the thousands are seleeted (about 2,500) there still remains the more difficult work of satisfactory hanging. Anumber of Americans are to be represented, prominent among whom is Mr. Henry Mosler, of whom I spoke in my last letter, and who I hear has been awarded number one by the Jory on his picture entitled “Les Accordailles.” Very few get this fortunate number, and conse- quently it often means a great deal more than a place on the walls. The picture is an ex- ceptionally fine one, and I am sure deserves all the distinction the jury of the Salon have the power to give It. Ever since I saw It the first time I have prayed that it might go to America, and be retained there, but I am very much afraid it will never have an opportunity of cross- ing the water. Monsieur F Fertiault, by the way,—a well-known French poet, and one who rendered some valuable assistance to Long- fellow when he was in France,—has composed a poem on the picture, which will be printed in one of the foremost art journals here when the Salon opens. He was kind enough to give me permission to send it across the Atlantic for publication in advance, and I take great pleas- ure in giving it to the readers of The Star. It is a very pretty little poem in the original, and describes the picture quite well. For the bene- fit of those who may not be otherwise favored I append here a rude and hasty translation, but still one which will give the reader some idea of the original: ‘**THE MARRIAGE DOWER.” “The notary site at » corner of the table oye lean ofr the britiant white cloth as he writes, Parenta of both aides, a group 60 respectable, Warmly contend for exactiy thelr “«*A contract! ah, air, itis no la matter,* ae eg a ‘And desires in gold two more cows on the table. and stormy affair see! over there stand di this Thetovers eae In thatanuy little corner, for them earth and air. “They speak not, but bright are their sparkling young ni No more Naic spins. Ah! her John is no wise. ‘The fingers are charmed, and the staff idle lies.” The Salon exhibition promises to be about the same as usual this year, and there will be the usual nutober of mediocre pictures. If the in- stitution.wishes to preserve its reputation it will have to adopt more rigid ruies for the future. Another of the important pictures, I hear, will be the “Execution of the Emperor Maximilian at Queretaro,” by Jean Paul Laurens. Themo- ment ioe ara is that in which the guard arrives to lead forth the unfortunate man to his doom. The confessor weeps, and the valet is on his knees before the Emperor, while in the open doorway, through which streams the strong sunlight of a tropical afternoon, stands a Mexi- can officer, with the death warrant in his hand. Carolus Duran sends his “Death of Christ,” which, as a composition, is not strong,) and, I lieve also, a full length portrait of Lady Dal. housie, of Scotland, which is one of the strong- est and best portraits I ever saw. It is wonder- fully bold and free in its handling, and yet is ees, delicate. The figure is tull of life and motion, and I venture to say the Salon never before saw a finer plece of portraiture than this. Mr. John 8. Sargent, the young American who has been so successful in Paris, sends a large composition of a rather impres- sionistic character, representing a stage of a Spanish cafe concert, as well as one or two portraits. Mr. Sargent was a pupil of Caro- lus Duran, but is already a rival of his former master. It is said by some that he paints better than Mr. but Duran, how just the statement may be I am unable to judge. He is certainly a very talented young man, and has a most brilliant future re him, being not yet py dee of age. He has lived almost all his life in France, and in many ways is more or less a Frenchman. Bouguereau (who, by the way, has been very 2 win pets) wtwllighe wee a anude female representing twill e figure is jeesed halt pate a dark =a — rapers. He sen @ group of peasant children. Hector Leroux sends" one of his Pompeiian subjects—a girl fishing from a quay, with the ruins and Vesuvius in the background. A. E. Hébert sends a muse playing a ‘eis She is looking through the strings, and ti composition is said to be very ic. F. H. Bridgman, the well-known and popular Ameri- can, sends a hued @ lady in Roumanian costume, which is very cleverly inted, and also a rural scene in France, Burr Nichols, another American, sends a large Brittany sub- ject. A. Harrison exhibits an Indian funeral and a boy by the seashore. PROSTITUTING TALENTS. How true it is I do not know, but I think it is all true, what I heard’the other day about Mun- kaesy, viz: That he retires to his country seat every summer and for six months paints “ pot- boilers” for the American market, with a special understanding that they are not to be exhibited on this side the water. I suspect, too, that more painters than Munkacsy do this sort of thing. They know the Americans will pay any- thing for a picture, however bad, if it is painted in Europe by a celebrity, and they act accord- ingly and fill their purses. This does not speak well for the men who do it, of course; but when ® man has a vast and anf estab- lishment like Munkacsy’s he m sell a good many pictures to keep it going, and the gullible Americans offer a tempting op- tunity. I wish Americans could learn to y a picture on its merits, whatever the name attached to it; I wish they would buy what pleases their eye and their heart, rather than that which pleases their vanii If they did, Mr. Munkacsy and others would be compelled pes up their fg nd eee can igaro not long ago a article beginning «Hip. hip, hurrah! the Ameri- cans are coming!” meaning the dealers who come over annually from New York for the Salon and the s) Carrousel im the rear. There was talk at one time of restoring the edifice, and moving to it the collection of pictures now in the Lux bourg, but it was found that the building was too damaged to be reconstracted without too great cost. I suapect, too, the republic will be glad to be totally rid of this nucieus of the empire, for at least since 1800 it has been the ‘occupied as pul never so intimately associated with royalty as the portion still in ruins, which contained the imperial chambers; and besides they are prac- Ucaily new buildings altogether. The history — Palace of the Tuileries is the wey as France, from the time the palace was in. Catherine de Medicis, in 1564, caused Its begin- po leg once had been nothing but a low!: and tile yard,—whence the name. An how, after witnessing three centuries of mobs and fires, and of bloody revolutions, its sient and vacant halls are to be levelled once more to the dust. Will they everrise again? It is im- erenge to answer; but let us hope that the ick yard of 1564 will never more see a palace, and never again be the scene of blood and de- struction, but rest quiet and il be- FSD. neath the flag of the mighty republic. eterna ve dha end Sign which Congucred. A From the Detroit Free Pross, A Wayne county farmer who is much annoyed by tramps came to Detroit a whileago and had half @ dozen signs of “Smallpox—Beware! ” painted to post up on his house and grounds. Although he had one on either side of his gate they had not been up two hours when a rover passed between them and knocked on the door and asked for food. “Didn't you see those signs on the gate?” de- manded the farmer. “Yes'r; but I can’t read.” The next one said he was near-sighted and thought the signs read “for sale.” The thtrd had had smallpox and was willing to nurse the family. The fourth had been vaccinated and was reckless. The fifth had a remedy to sell, and the sixth, after getting away with a cold bite, turned to his benefactor and said: “If you want to beat the boys knock down them ‘signs and put up one reading: ‘Hetp wanted." It never fails to keep them Jogging straight along.” The farmer followed the advice, and he hasn't had a call since. ——_——+e-_____ A Dropsical Lo A young man from up town having an en- gagement with a young lady down town the other evening, and his only presentable suit be- ing at a tailor's for repairs, rather than miss the engagement, he concluded to wear a suit of his father's. Upon trying on the coat he found it too large for him, but he was equal to the emergency, for he put on three vests, and then the coat fitted him “‘shust like de baper on de yall,"’ and he went and kept the er The young lady, when she noticed his puffed up appearance and swelling bosom, ly he was suffering from dropsy, but he her he was only troubled with a slight cold and used the extra vests as chest protectors.— xo Fs How to Live Long. From the Troy Preas The recent publication BY Dr. Stark of statis- tics showing the relative mortality among peo- ple who are married and people who are not makes a strong argument in favor of marriage for people who want their days to belong in the land. Of course, in contrasting the number of deaths among the unmarried with the num- ber among the married fairness to the former class uires that the death rate among chil- dren and youths should not be regarded. Dr. Stark in his tables begins the comparison with people who have lived a score of years, and are therefore supposed to be eligi- ble for matrimony. It seems almost start- ling to be told that, beginning at the age of twenty years, the man who passes the rest of his lifein the marriage state is likely to live twice as long as the man who lives a celibate; but the classification of a vast amount of statis- tics shows that the term of life of the man who married shortly after 20 years of age would be 60.7 years, and of tLe unmarried man onty 40.2, thus making the greater probability of life for the former 191g years. The statistics are not 80 favorable to married women, for they encounter the risks of maternity, which are not slight; but with these added risks they live longer on an average than unmarried women. If Dr. Stark’s figures are correct, m: is @ good form of insurance against death. The advantages being so largely in favor of marrie¢ men, we have no doubt our publication of this fact will have the speedy effect of rendering the matrimonial market buoyant. EERE PE “Lady,” or “ indam.” This suggestive street car episode is sketched by the Boston Journal : “Please take this seat, madam,” said the con- ductor of a crowded horse car the other day, as he assisted"a@ woman aboard, and designated the place which seemed to acgord her the best acm commodation. Thereupon an amiable looking and fussy old gentleman arose, took him by the hand and said: ‘It delights me to see a man tn your position who seems to understand the proper mode of dress to women. Ihave been inexpressibly sickened all my latter years to hear horse car conductors Invariably say. ‘ Take this seat, lady,” or * Please move up here, lady;’ and it affords me unfeigned joy to find a man who is not a slave to the employment of that perniciousand mawk- ish designation of woman.” Having said this he resumed his seat and the car moved on. The old gentleman made a good even Bostonians seldom use such speech in horse cars. int, but ree of Mrs. Partington onthe Romans. “I never did like the Romans,” said Mrs. Par- tington, when seeing the play of *Coriolanus,” “since I mistook some Roman punch for an ice cream, and it got into my head. And I came pretty nigh exploding once in trying to light one of Isaac’s Roman candies, thinking it was wax. I must say they area set of fickle-minded creatures, taking the gentleman in the red table- cloth fora counsel, and then going to throw him over the terrapin rock. I am very glad, though, they didn’t do it, because I don't se how the play could get along without him, and it would ave disappointed so many—" “Stop talking,” said a harsh voice behind her. Mrs. ington looked around at the speaker, who scowled at her with the indignation of two shillings’ worth of impaired enjoyment, and she, simply saying, “you needn't 60 bituminous about it,” was lent. morrow. It may be objected that the time is far distant when the population will be too large, and when, therefore, the growth of popu- lation may threaten the institutions of the coun-