Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1882, Page 3

LITERARY-OFFICIAL. Reminiscenses and People at Wash- ington, “TL loaf and invite my soul,” is quotation, | the origin of whic’, I believe, is to be placed at | Washington, the author bemg Walt Whitman, | Who ts doubtiess the most marked figure, at | midst of a snow-storm, least, in the history of literary-official life in this city. Journ ia Washington, a creat loafer—I mean it only in his own sense of the word—and the soul enjoyed the companionship. Gays of busy idleness which I have recently | ent here I have followed Walt’s example—a | § sate one to follow in thi: steps,” as cur beloved and lamented poet Long- fellow once called it (for even Longfeliow had Some experience here, not axa resident, but as itor. during the winter of 1863—‘driven andria in your City of the Lost Foot- he wrote): aad I have found my mem- al. joining company with me in my aimless walks (I beg yeu to infer that I n office-seeker). arious literary men | who were here twenty it was my fate or fe remember. a young verse- | Maker, of wh y said by his | friends that | his verses than teen lines of his acci- eat once to receive a But this was ange man in ques- although the verses aforesaid, having @ cer- | falt Wi | tain. Here, where silence and solitude Walt Whitman was, during his so- bod | shouting and the lowing of many cattle. and you | eSeape from the coach to find an immense herd, whien he invited te accompany him apparently During the few on the way to an eastern market, from the rich “ity of the Lost Foot- | horizon. And thus, as I have | ears ago. when first | rtune to make my tewporary | n. i agfsike PH Ed fi i ceding day; and one F : OG rude tavern just below the commit of the i ? would driven by a score of stalwart inen on horseback, farming lands of the west. Another dinner, with venison and quail; a fresh suppiy of horses; and now for a downward drive towards the western The brakes are applied to the wheels, and the horses have it all their own way; th | forest trees grow larger as you descend, and anon, as the coach groans in every fiber while past a terrible precipice, the boldest sweeping | traveler holds his breath; onward anddownward, | and the skv is clearing away; fresh horses and | another glorious stampede; and at sunset, again, you have reached a wide and peacefui valley, watered by one of the tributaries of the Ohio." Such, good reader, is a fragment from the times of the days of old when the American | mail-coach was in its prime.” “Louis Gamache, of Anticosti,” a sketch of a noted character, (reported a freebooter and pirate), from whose long, lonely residence on its shores the bay of Gamache, on the island of An- ticosti, in the gulf of St. Lawrence, took its name, contains some entertaining anecdotes, of which the following is one: “A young pilot had been driven by stress of weather Into the Bay of Gamache. He had heard much of the supposed freebooter, and nothing but a desperate state of things would | have induced him to seek refuge in that partic- | ular bay. Ashort time after he had dropped | anchor, Gamache came out in @ small boat and | invited the pilot to his house. Most ruluctantly rsonal bearing, were doubtless the re- cause of his appointment—one of his is vibed them as “the best bit of | burnt under — nose”—yet same time there was political inftu- another quarter, enough to jar & Cabinet. to which appointment was di- rectly credited. Resides. did he receive a sinecure ; i. as literary men vod and taithful uditing large and complex money That was in the Treasury department nm other men of greater note:—Wiiliam D. Gallagher, the eldest Onio valley poet, who was one of the Most trustworthy officers ever in the govera- ment service under Corwin. Chase and others (he is not too old tobe of excellent service Still); John Pierpont, the poet of Palestine, who in his green old age wrote as clear and leg- ible a hand as any book-keeper. and made up volume after volume of careful and important Fecords; George Wood. author of ‘Peter in Am . “Modern Pilgrims,” ete, fulfilled important duties in the de- Wm. Elder, the author of ‘Enchant- and talent; Wm.D.0'Connor, and other younger nen, whom just here f shall not atteinpt to recall. John burroughs entered the same department later. In the Attorney General Stedinan, whe first came from New York as a war correspondent of the New York World, oc- eupied the desk of pardon clerk for a y two, while be wrote “Alice of Monmouth any of his shorter poems. In the State de- “partment Count Gurowski, whose published “Diaries” contained some severe criticisms on the conducting of the war and government for several years, held a poation of some kind—I forget what. I remember the count vividly, aithouzh I never knew him. He wasshort, thick set, with close-cut gray hair and whiskers, who giared—or seemed to giare—upon the harmless passing world through a pair of green goggles. 1 once happened to be ina rubber store on Pennsylvania avenue and saw his card Upon a table i the inseription: -“How about By overshoes This seemed to convey the man—as one who new him told me. He was anxious about his evershoes. And why not? There were no Streets or pavements in Washington in those days. Alexander (the Great) Shepherd had not ome: at any rate, he bad not manifested him- self; Washington had not been built. —It i long since those days. “Some are married, some are dead.” uf the old and young People living then. Where are ali the above Bamed old-time literary men, of whom all buat the last I well knew? M lagher is stilt tarrying in Washington—a transitory loafer like myself. Mr. Pierpont, whose eightieth birthday we celebrated by a little reception, at whici: Were read poems and letters from Bryant, Long- fellow, Whittier and others, told me that day that he did not expect to another year— fecming io have a presentiment that he should got. He did, however: and. after passing the eighty-first anniversary of his birthday, went bome to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1566, and died on farlouzh. George Wood was found dead im bed, if I recollect rightly, in 1872; he was a bachelor. or else had been early in lifea widow. and was tenderly faithful to his first and early- taken i - Elder I saw on the street the hale and sound in appearance, but | kK of year: more plainly, and { between his duties embassy, painting wroiifie author, and, by published a volume as secretary of the Jap and writing, He is a the way, he has re under the title * acters and Pleasant aces.” The publisher is David Doulas. burgh, Scotland. The book is made up of papers, many of them very interesting, and containing uulvoked-for, out- of-the-way information, contributed to’ Har- a and other periodicals during 3 such titles |,” “Fond Recollec— 5 Pitchlynn.” “Block Island,” “Salon Fishing on the Jacques Cartier,” &c. The book opeas with a chapter entitled “Modes of Ai can Travels.” from whicn I will quote the following passaze describing w day and night in a westward taze-coach on the old national Toad east of the Unio river: “First came the gentle ‘tapping at your cham- ber door,’ long before the break of an autumnal day. the breakfast by candie-lizht, the friendly words at parting, the strapping of your trunk in the boot, aud then the tam Yehicle, with its impatient horses and its bust- ling dr.ver. With the approach of daylight came the scrutinizing looks and careful words between the pas: rs. The turnpike. perhaps, is lined with cuitivated farms; aud when the horses are being watered you have a little chat with a sturdy yeoman.” When you approach a village : an gives an extra flourish to his whip | ‘ing directly throuzh its i 5 eomes to a halt with a grand flourish before the tavern. and during the ten or fifteen minutes eecupied by the postmaster in changing the mail you havea chance to become acquainted with a Score or two of the worthy villagers. Another rive, another village. and then comes the din- ner, the superb dinner, sumptuous and het,with the smili landlord weilding the carving knife, like very a prince of good fellows. To those who knew them in the olden times, what memories cluster about the old staze taverns! Jage had one of them, with gambrel mer window, _capacious stoop, with chairs, where loungers congregated and travelers waited for the mail And with what good things are they associated! Ac- cording to location, they were famous for broiled shad or trout_jobany cakes and wafiles,tender loin steaks, broiled chickens, buckwheat cakes and } aswell as writer—the jons of Curious Char- | into the huge - maple syrup. venison, roasted turkeys, fruits of many kinds, and such bread as we seldom ree in lays. But timeis speeding. Off again, and then for a few hours the houses and the trees, and the flelds pass you like the pic- tures of a dream, the rolling of the wheels be- comes a kind of murmur in your ear, the driver blows his horn to warn the stablemen at the next station of his appreach, but to you it is an Bneertain sound; and after another brief halt, the horses, the rolling of wheels, and the tinkling of the harness, all meited into a contin- Bous and soothing sound. On the you awake, and behold all you isa wilderness of mountains, perhaps the Alleghe- nies. ‘Rough business now lies before you, and arrive at the i ty aff was the Invitation accepted. but a manifestation of courage was deemed necessary. When the guest entered the dwelling. and saw the walls of each room completely covered with guns, pis— tols, hatchets, cutlasses and harpoons, his fears were excited to the highest, degree. Gamache observed all this, but only enjoyed the stranger's consternation. A smoking supper was placed upon the table, but even the moose lip and beaver’s tail were only enjoyed by one of the party—the nerves of the other quivered with ex- citement, and his thoughts were bent upon the tale that would be told respecting his fate. He made a display of gaiety. When the evening was waxing late, he arose to depart, and with mani- fold expressions of thankfulness, he offered his hand to the host. -No, no! my friend.’ said Ga- mache, ‘you must not leave here, the sea is reuzh, and the night is cold aad wet, and ti cannot leave the bay. I have a comfortable bed up stairs, and to-morrow you may go—If still alive.’ The last words sounded like a knell, and up into the chamber of death, as he supposed, ascended the pilot. ‘You may sleep,’ continued Gamache, ‘as long and soundly as youcan; your bed is soft. for it is made of the down of birds I myself have killed, for Iam a good shot, and never miss my game.’ For a while the pilot- guest found it impessible to quiet his nerves or to obtain any sleep; but nature finally gave awa: aud he fell into a dose, which was anything but Tefreshing. As the clock struck twelve he was startied by a noise, and opening his eyes there stood Gamache by the bedside with a candle in one hand and a gun in the other. ‘I see you are awake.’ said he, ‘but why so very pale You have heard, undoubtedly, that I am in the habit ot murdering everybody who tarries in my house, and, hanging the gun upon two wooden pega, ‘I have come to give you a settler for the night.’ With this remark he displayed a bottle of brandy and a tumbler, and after drinking the health of the pilot, handed him the glass and continued : ‘There. take a pull,—it will make you sleep soundly, and if Gamache comes to attack you during the night, you can defend yourself with the loaded gun hanging over your head.’ And thus the joke ended. en morning came the storm had disappeared, and the pilot and his host were quite as happy as the day was bright.” ‘Mr. Lanman {s a native of Monroe, Michigan, where he was born in 1819, and though now nearly sixty-three years of age. has the appear- ance of a much younger man. He has published many books in this country and England, one of the earlier volumes having been “A Canoe Voy- age up the Mississippi,” and the best of them be- ing narrations of exploits in the wilds of the United States and British America. Some of his books have been favorites of Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and other famous authors and men. He was private secretary of Daniel Webster for a year or twobefore the great states- man’s death, and has held many minor offices under the government, having been librarian of copyrights in the State ment, librarian of the House of Representatives, examiner of de- positories under President Pierce, &c. Since 1871, when, at the suggestion of the late Profes- sor Henry, of the Smithsonian Institute, he pre- pared for the first Japanese minister a work on “Life and Resources in America,” for translation and publication in Japan, he has held the posi- tion of American of the Japanese le- gation. He has for many years lived at George- town, in a pleasant home, fall of books and pictures, many of them being his own paint- ings—for he is a clever and industrious painter he has not a few original productions of the chief American, Eng- lish and French artists of the time in both | water-color and oil, some of these being of great value. He has stored away in portfolios hun- | dreds of his own sketches of American scenery, | from the Saguenay and St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico. I think him in many ways an en- viable man, and he is a Md oer one—full of anecdotes of famous publicmen hehas known, associated and fished with. His Edinburgh book, I must not forget to say, is prefaced with the following pleasant sonnet addressed to him by friend. creek mentioned in the first line is Rock Creek, the wild and stream separates: as rth. To be sure, like Wordsworth, he has written many indifferent ones. He is like Thoreau, adevoted and careful student of nature "rool dor. | snd such with his awe friend, Joel Barlow, author he only American epic, (thank oops “The Columblad,” whose home here was Kalo- eS a alone, for we ers to foal, ab is blue basers Call O'er us to and his biue banners When o’er frozen streams and snows sips ieee ees, In the bicak cir amtronal sont as ewe And cheers us onward in our chill pursuit; relore my Muse on him this rhytm Another sonnet—a charm! met—refers to a bird which Dr. Shoemaker has made famous ina little song, of which I shall speak presently. Note the fine verse, composed wecirely of monosyllables, which I have itali- cized: ‘THE MOCKING-WREN. ‘There is a bird that In the winter sings As blithe as in the summer. When I go Athwart the fields far-powdered white with snow, His cheery carol through the chill air rings. Fresh from his heart, the warm and Living springs ‘Of song arise unchecked, and seem to throw Over the desolate waste a sunny glow; The wood’s lost choir back with one voice he brings. © mocking-wren, true type of cheerfulness, Of boundless faith, and fortitude sublime, Thy wintry warblings me delight no less ‘Than thy love-lyrics in the ecstatic ime Of flowers and frulte! Ah, would what they ex- press In tones as clear, might animate my rhyme! My first acquaintance with Dr. Shoemaker’s poetry was early in the year 1858, when I found the following little lyric in a newspaper—it was probably in the New York Home Journal, where it appeared February 20 of that year: BIRD-SONG. ‘There is a little bird that st “sweetheart” I know not what his name may be; 1 only know his notes please me, As loud he sings, and thus sings he— “Sweetheart!” Tve heard him sing on soft spring days— “Sweetheart!” And when the sky was dark above, And wintry winds had stripped the grove, He still poured forth those words of love “Sweetheart!” And, like that bird, my heart, too, sings— “swectheart!” ‘When heaven is dark, or bright or blue, ‘When trees are bare, or leaves are new, ‘It thus sings on—and sings of you— “Sweetheart!” ‘What need of other words than thee— “Sweetheart!” 111 should sing a whole year long, My love would not be shown more strong ‘Than by this short and simple song— “sweetheart!” I was pleased with this simple and unstudied lyric, and did not forget it or the name of the author which accompanied it, and afterwards when In 1861 I first visited Georgetown, the knowledge that the singer of this little song lived there gave some added sentiment to the dear*old place, which already seemed to me charming enough. I dia not happen to meet him, however, until atter I bad myselt resided two or three years in Georgetown. The song is doubtless well known to all musical readers, since it was set to music many years seat Balfe, tne English composer, and the music witi Dr. Shoemaker’s words has been sung by dis- tinguished vocalists all over the world. The words, however, as printed on the music sheet, are said to be by Augustus Greville, an Englisn- man, doubtless, who simply stole the song as printed in the Home Journal. This was slightly different from Dr. Shoemaker’s manuscript copy forwarded to the editors, for that con- eet three words instead of one, as the refrain, us : “There ig a little bird that sti Sweetheart, sweetheart, sweet,” &c. And, ifanybody will take the trouble to read the song above carefully—the second and fourth stanzas—it will be seen that as printed the lyric is grammatically incorrect, unless, indeed, the compound word “Sweetheart!” beso divided in singing or reading as to be considered two words, “Sweet heart!” The omission was edi- torial. “If Balfe,” the poet once wrote me, “shad ever heard our American bird—the mock- ing-wren—sing his sweetheart song, he (Balfe) would have been able to make a better refrain tof his music. For, as the refrain is sung, the word ‘sweetheart’ is thrice repeated—which has @ monotonous effect, nothing like the quick, lively, joyous song of the real bird.” Another poet worthy of wider reputation than he has yet secured is Mr. Henry Ames Blood, who now holds an honorable position in the diplomatic bureau of the State depart- ment. He, too, was here in 1861. He is a native of New Hampshire, a graduate Dartmouth, and has been in the government civil service—he was for a long time in the Treasury department—for many years. He has written much verse, not a little of it of a high order, showing scholarship as well as genius, His earlier poems had » flavor of quaintness, with fine tmitative qualities, that attracted my attention. Several of these were printed by N. P. Willis in the Home Journal a little later than the publication of Dr. Shoemaker’s ‘Sweet- heart Bird Song,” and one of them, called “The Last of the Dryads,” full of a sort of fairy dramatic movement, was highly praised in a letter from Willis, which I remem! to have seen twenty P Lata ago, as worthy of publica- tion by itself with illustrations. Another poem by Mr. Blood entitled “Sighs in the South” published in the New York Tribune, in the autumn of 1862, was praised by E. C. Stedman as doubtless the finest poem ever written up to that date so far south in this count as Wash- ington. The only piece by Mr. Blood which I have at hand as a specimen of his work, just at | eae is the following, which is hardly in- lor to Longfellow’s “‘Excelsior”—the objec- tion that may be resonably made against re- language rains in a foreign is no less applicable to one poem than the other: ‘THE SONG OF THE SAVOYARDS. igh tlle Broadway's nad i iH E i § § i Be g 4 3 i f 2 li 5 E : i i } ii si er é i : E 2, iH g i ag BE B 4 F i i Hi ie i a i % i ae E é f é 2 i 5 tn patience wrought an z i 35 bit nl z i HY ih ide i i i ge rte z i of | Were one, ft seems to | self y—because jan kept an immoral or obscene book, entitled’ Leaves of Grass,” of which he was author, in ‘higdesk. Mr. O°Con- nor, who all the warm friend and admirer of Whitman, at once wrote a pam phlet entitled “The Good Gfay Mman, which our eminent iy! Dr. R. M. Buck, a oa of asylum at London, io, ig preparing for the press. , Another noteworthy writer in Washington is Dr. Theodore Poesche, @ profound scholar, now connected with the Trpas x ‘ment. He has published in Lely and London, an ethno- logical work, which has received high praise in England and on the continent of Europe. His Heer’. is that the Aryan racé originated in the Pelgnnorniood cop ouagiienin and he proves , as he thinks, by mi nious arguments. Mr. Poesche wa: the orator on the occasion of receiving the Von Steubens at Washington some months ago. One should not omit the ladies in referring to Iterary peoplein Washington; bat my first inten- tion in writing this letter was to speak only of chiefly of writers in the civil service of the gov- ernment; and, of course, Mrs. Frances Hodgson jurnett, Mrs. Madeline V. Dahlgren, (whose “South Sea Sketches” include many entertain- ing pages), Mrs. Rebecca Springer and Mrs. Mary Clemmer do not fall in any such iist. There may be other ladies, however, who would fall into such a civil service list, and there are other gentlemen whom I can now merely men- tion, as Mr. A. B. Johnson, chief clerk of the Nght-house board. but formerly private secre- tary of Charles Sumner, and who contributed several interesting chapters regarding Mr. Sam- ner to the magazines, and Mr. Adee, chief clerk of the diplomatic bureau, State department,who has made pleasing translations from French and Spanish poeta; and I mey add that a literary atmosphere in ‘ashington is stimulated and encouraged by “The Literary Society” and “Unity Club,” both of which in- clade men and women of literary and artistic talent, taste and culture, who are in some way associated with the government service, such as A. P. Spofford, Congressional Librarian; Prof. Hoffman, Law Lfbrarian of Congress; Chief Jus- tice Drake, of the District Court; Mr. Philp, of the Diplomatic bureau, State department; Mr. Dwight, Librarian of the State depart- ment, and Col. John G. Nicolay, marshal the U. 8. Supreme Court. The latter, it is well known, in conjunction with Col. John Hay, late Assistant Secretary of State. is en; in pre- paring a life of Abraham Lincoln, which will doubtless, be the fullest, most authoritative and satisfactory record President Lincoln's personal and political career, since both Messrs. Nicolay and Hay were long associated with him at Springfield, as well as at hington, and both are well equipped and accomplished writ- ers. Col. Nicolay showed me, by the way, a day or two ago, the original draft of Lincoln’s Gettysburg speech—an interesting and valuable autographic relic. P. FAMINE IN MOROCCO, A Deplorable Situati: and Fears of plorab'lWvorse to Comes ‘The latest advices from Casablanca, Morocco, contain the following: Since my last a serious and discouraging outlook has made its appear- ance, in the shape of another famine, which is now befogging the land. Everything is at fam- ine prices. Wheat has advanced from $1 to $2.121¢ per bushel. Corn advanced from fifty cents to $1.25 per bushel. Barley from forty cents per bushel to $1124. Live stock is travelling m the opposite direction; working oxen, whose prices have ranged from $85 to #40, seonrding to quality, are offering for $7 to $9. iilch cows at 3 4. Sheep that Torty to fifty cents each, and to buyers at these fo! y cent ho buyers Be Cattle is for in. abundance, while it little grain is to at any price. Labor is also to be had in indance for almost any offer any one sees fit to make. Good able-bodied men, tillera of the soil, are to be had for four cents per any and feed themselves, or feed them and they will work for nothing— the former is the cheapest.. A Moor can feed himself much cheaper than the Infidel or Chris- tian dog can fe him—a soubriquet they are picenod to apply to those not imbued in the lohammedan faith. Seldom, if ever, this coi was 80 poorly prepared for calamities of tlils kind. The peo- ple had a discouraging winter, but they had strong hopes that spring would improve their prospects for crops, and not until the early part of March did these encouraging ee ae they so long entertained begin to fail them, when they began to lay down the shovel and hoe and glance over the vast flelds they had seeded down with over four months’ pried tinually, from early dawn till twilight. ap- peared, sven days in the week. Rain had ceased ty fall, the (peal ccwadiiold up and the crops wearing the appearance of a total failure. The wind occasionally Cogan ie doer southwest (the rainy wind), blew up for days. The passing clouds were watched with an anxious eye for rain, which only came in sprinkles or slight showerg, only to be dried again in a few short hours by the blazing Afri- can sue. Not sufficient rain had fallen to start the grass, therefore the harvest for animals was in the same discouraging condition. ao none animals, already worked down, find th ives deplorable condition with the peo- — same Some few re of barley of the first sown and are worth . but the balance has been placed at the disposition ofthe animals that plowed the ground and their con- temporaries, which will serve to keep them alive for awhile, when ifrain does not come to start the must in any one year greatest pity of all seems to be seed thrown away which is now so much needed ‘tall to part ing on the Atlantic, commencing: about the Straits of Gibraltar and extending along the covering a belt of land from ten to fifteen Elderly gentleman—Thig.is the longest ride in Mer voveie ter Cnine GUNNER SILKS! (SWe.—REDUCED rRom 90, PURE LINEN LAWNS, 200. per yard. GREAT REDUCTIONS IN DRESS GOODS. 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Q 10F Cassimere Suits worth $15, at tho MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and F sts, G {F Fine Flannel Goats, worth $10, at the MISFIT Stone, ‘cor. 10th and F ste. for fine Black *Suits worth $35, at the MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and Fste, BARE BARGAINS IN SILKS. Prices Greatly TAD e aod LOUIS ee FOC ‘one FRENCH BAtiG (eS in polks spotsand stipes at 26,, from 306. 22-1nch BLACK SATIN RHADAMES st $1, $1.25 to$3. of DRESS FABRICS, suitable for the ANDERSON'S SYLPHIDES AND ZEP! Immense variety NOVELTIES IN PARASOLA, WRAPS, HOSIERY AND HAND! F SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS IN WHITE GOODS. INDIA MULL. PERSIAN LAWN. PRINCESS LAWN, INDIA LINEN, WHITE AND ECRU BATisTe i LAWNS, STRIPED AND PLAID IND! LAWNS, FIGURED SWISS MUSLINS. 2” Pram Ficungs axp Conascr Prices. 03 SEATON PERRY, Pennsylvania avenue, corner 9th street. Established 1840. my31 eee eee Freence SATINES, LATEST DESIGNS, 50c. BLACK POLKA DOT SURAHB, $1.50. LUPIN'S NUN'S VEILING, 25¢. to$L, (fo ek Spe Slt, port 19, ath | fred Wonka Pane woh fate freer Doce vege a, om ah $20 Pd one Fren ch Cassimere Suite, worth MISFIT STORE, cor. 10th and F sts. BG.50 GR sso eae < i oo aoe a Fie SEAT BOO toa ron style, worth x 50 REARS Be yy, | SATIN RUADAMES AND acepvEnLieUT. 6 tere Boy's Sais wore ay FANCY STRIPES for trimming. 7.50 aay BLACK ALL-SILK GRENADINE, $1.25, TYLER & CHEWNING, Open tili 8 p. m.; Saturday, LAPSE ARRIVAL OF SPRING CLOTHING my31 918 Irm STREET NORTHWEST. Woopwagp & LOTHROP 921 PENN. AVE, 2 D STREET. WILL OFFER THIS WEEK THE FOLLOWING SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS In their various departments: GINGHAM DEPARTMENT. DOMESTIC GINGHAMS, in PLAIDS and ES, this reds to 10 CEN’ PER "these ened eariy in ths sonson at iz SCOTCH GINGHAM, reduced ABD—an ‘25 cents to 17 cents PER Y. rive for fine Scotch Ginyehams. — WHITE GOODS DEPARTMENT. 25 pieces INDIA LINEN, full 83 inches wide, and fine sheet quality, only 15. pais per yard; finer qualities ‘hich wwe have just purchased st eo weathorsivies, = and offer our the advantage of betaer epee wees ‘the prices named than can be found Satisfaction tii. my29 TO-DAY. Be Bure and Buy at theGreat BOSTON AND NEW YORK SALE OF MEN'S, BOYS AND CHILDREN’S CLOTHING. BARGAINS! A splendid All-Wool Suit for $22, worth BARGAINS! 16 and $18. BARGAL Asplendid Boys! Suit for $6.50, worth dey se ro 7ose, ing made ri You can ‘buy ail styles of Men's, Boys? and at asaving of 20 per cent. We have the nicest styioe of Men's, Boys’ 's Clothing. NS! Many of our Goods are equal to custom work, at nearly half the cost. We have37 Fine Cassimere and Chevoit Suite, worth $16, Weare selling them Blue: nel Suits, at $6, $9 and $12, BARGAINS! BARGAINS! BARGAINS! AINS! BARGAINS! iren’s, 100 PIECES PERSIAN LAWNS ‘In those fine wide goods which were so popular with our last year. 1 RA BARGAINS! Working Suita, and $8. We offer fine qualities 40-inch PERSIAN LAWN RGAINS! ‘king Pant +» $1, $1.25,$1.50 and | at 25c., 30c., 3$c., ands 48-inch fine quality at 373sc. BARGAINS! wo? i He eisaeeee SPECIAL BARGAIN. PLEASE EXAMINE?” and FIGURED SWISSES at LOW ECRU, ahd LIGHT BLUE PERSIAN LAWNS. ‘We have ‘snother case of 36-inch DIMITY LAWNS, at 1235 cents, EMBROIDERY DEPARTMENT. ‘We offer s fine assortment of GUIPURE and HONITON EMBROIDERIES, DOTTED SWISS EDGING: TORCHON LACES, and TRIMMING LACES our usual low prices. LACE DEPARTMENT. We offer, about, 60, pieces BLACK, CREAM, NAVY BLI SILK ‘SPANISH LACES ph nd Eg HANDKERCHIEF DEPARTMENT. more LADIZ ALL LINEN HEMSTITCHED, OMSEINTED BORDMY HANDRERCHIEFS ot 1355 25 Doz. GENTS’ do., do., do., do., 19 cents, THE BOSTON DEY GOODS HOUSE, 921 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE—912 D STREET. Allstyles of Fine and Medium Clothing for Men, Boys* and Children, much lower prices than you ever bought them before, at the Great Bale of BOSTON AND NEW YORK CLOTHING, : Az 123 Tru StTREer woRTHwest, (Between G and H sts., east side.) 27" Look for the Signs at the New Store. PURE AND UNADULTERATED. 3 pair for 25e. of ‘from 25. to $1.50. Goons. qualities of Whiskies distitie1 from the finest growth of rye in the renowned Valley of_ he Monongahela, have attracted the attention of the ‘Medical Faculty in the United States to such a degreeas toplace itin very high position among the Materia Medica. ‘We bog to invite the attention of connoisseursto our ASST ‘Bargains in all kinds of DE GEO. J. JOHNSON, celebrated fine OLD WHISKIES of the following well- known brands, IN CASES containing one dosen bot- ‘les euch, vis: as UPPER TEN WHISKEY. ‘VERY SUPERIOR OLD STOCK WHISKEY. For excellence, pureness and evenness of quality, the above are unsurpassed by any Whiskies in the market. trom bbe to: edo sogtes FEB Ti 61-25, 61-60, $1.75, 92, 92.25, fk ad aprblnge tenga and can be hat stall leading ‘$2.50. a an aby grocery stores at retail, ‘The ‘ABLE ‘MASK. The finest ine of OLOTHS. Cc! i H. & H. W. CATHERWOOD, ia Peer Cee eR sete S27” LOOK AT OUB GOODS BEFORE PURCHAS- ING ELSEWHERE. 314 SOUTH FRONT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, m9-3m_ ee TEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT. LVORING UPA, DI AND LUTTRELL & WINE, 1990 PEENSYLVANIA AVENUE, Corner 20th street. LIEBIG COMPANY'S BXTRACT OF MEAT. Ap tavasite saa tonic cases = my?9-37 Ma4ttics, MATTINGS, MATTINGS, Il GREAT VARIETY OF STYLES. for Faraitare Out and to order by our Phileddl- ‘WINDOW SHADES, ‘LACE DRY GOODS. Cmucum SILKS, NAVY BLUE, DARK GREER, BROWN AND OTHER COLORS, FIFTY CEM8, See . all colors, 906. arinated pure wool, wide, Gowkie CARTER'S, ‘Tl MARKET SP, “REDUCEDI" ** REDUCED!” ‘We heve to-Gay placed on our center counter a Jot of FRENCH and ENGLISH DRESS GOODS for’ Cream, Light Blue and Pink, $1.25, same quality elsewhere at 1.50, = LINEN LAWNS, 125¢0. CANTON GINGHAMS of the best grades, 12}g0. LONSDALE CAMBRIC, 12340. 100 dozen full reg. HOSE, 26c. a pair. 200 dozen All-linen Hamatitahed at81.50 per Yor ates in al departments, and oriceg) Our stock is very low. We “ONE PRICE ONLY.” TRUNNEL & CLARK. mi3 803 MARKET SPACB. ‘THE FIRST STORY OF OUR INMENBS BUILDING 18 UP, It will now be pushed forward with @iepetch. We must prepare for removal. No old goods will BB taken into the new store, We intend making it an obe Ject for every lady who is now in need, or who is s0og likely to be in need of Spring and Summer DRE’ GOODS, to call and examine the EXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS ‘weare now offering. On accountof the backwartnemy of the season, we are left with too many goods on band, We bave determined to seil them, and sail them wewa, ‘as we are bound to raise lots of money to pay for builds ing and to lay in stock for our grand opening, to none in the country, ‘We hayp just reduced ail our COLORED DOLLAR 6 to 75 cents, Our BLACK PURE SILK RHADAMES, from $1.00 to 95 cents, 25 Pieces most beautiful Patterns of ALL SILE BROCADES, from $1.50 to 95 cents. This te @ rare Bargain and cannot be repeated. Allour Dress Goods way down to balf price, 6,000 Pieces WHITE GOODS of every description. ‘These are of our own importation, having ordered thom as far back as last November. We miscalout lated the quantity and ordered more than ourretall ‘trade demands. Therefore, be it known that price! shall be no object, and they must go. > ‘We sell afine VICTORIA LAWN st 8 cents, which ts retailed everywhere at 123g cents. ‘Do not consider this idle talk, very lady in Washe ington knows the magnitude of our stock, which we can safely state is three times as large as the stock of any other merchant in this city. Therefore, prepare’ for Bargains! As by the time we move into our NEW HOUSE, we expect to reduce the stock to the emaliest ia thecity. The Goods are all fresh, having sent all our old trash to New York auction, to be sold to the highas® bidder. Call early in the morning to avoid the immensy’ rush. LANSBURGH & BROTHER, 404 AND 406 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST, mld — SEWING MACHINES, &c. A*™ EXTRAORDINARY OFFER! FOR TEN DAYS ONLY. C. AUERBACH, corner 7th and H streets, ‘Suerbech's Gents’ and Next door to Furnishing a EXtero on iw oR BECCA Sa P de ilies ‘ANTED a ae