Evening capital., May 23, 1884, Image 2

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Even ingCa pita l
An Independent Family Journal.
WM. M. ABBOTT, - - - Editor.
A.STiTArCI.IS, z.zzz.
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1884.
A *:%% DCPAKTIRK,
An Aitnpll KU-iunboa*.
In the prospectus of the “Eve
ning Capital,” as also in its
first issue, we promised that,
among other things, it would be
’ our aim and purpose to devote
our best efforts in assisting and
contributing to the building up
and encouraging of whatever
tended in any manner to the
material interest and welfare of
our city and county.
In thus adhering to our pur
pose an idea has suggested itself
at this writing, that we feel, in
thus giving expression to it, that
we but voice the sentiment of
many —aye. the majority of our
people. •
The country at large, at the
present time, is engrossed in the
discussion of those greatpolitico
econemic problems, “Protection
vs. Free Trade,” and it would
seem that our people (viewed
from a local .standpoint) have
not heeded the importance of
either. There is one thing cer
tain, however, that they, as a
local community, have for these
many years been paying tribute
to Caesar. It is all very well to
*** 10 respectful obeisance to a
higher power, whether it be di
vine, civil, commercial or what
not, yet when self-interest and
1 self-preservation are the boon
for which all strive, whether in
dividuals, towns or cities, we
venture the assertion that it is
the bounden duty of those who
compose and make up the City
of Annapolis—be they merchant,
mechanic, laborer or profession
al man—to exert their individual
and collective energies with a
view to enlarge, expand and ad
vance her natural resources, and
she possesses many, to the end
that she may become, partially
at least, a commercial city.
To accomplish such a desired
undertaking, intelligent and con
tinuous effort is required, and,
like charity, must begin at home
and fostered and encouraged by
our own people. In this connec
tion, therefore, it is that we de
sire to call attention, and that
of our merchants especially, to
the necessity of taking a new de
partue and to eschew the old
ruts in which our commercial
and otherwise business advanta
ges have been already but too
long slumbering. Other cities
and towns in our own state, not
so well blessed as Annapolis is
with a magnificient harbor and
plenty of water, have become
alive to the necessities of the
hour, and are now making mar
vellous strides in everything
that tends to the development
and prosperity of a wide-a-wake
community.
That our people should be the
owner and possessor of their own
steamboat, is but a truth thrice
told. For these many years
past have our merchants, and
trades people generally, been
paying renumerative, if not ex
orbitant, freight rates (and which
are at least but a quasi tariff—
a tax) to a foreign company, so
to speak, for the transportation
of their goods and merchandize
to and from Baltimore. If it
has paid a foreign corporation
to run a steamer from Baltimore
to Annapolis and other interme
diate points in our county to do
our carrying trade, why would
it not pav the people of Anna
polis to do the same thing '
Some might argue that the
competition thus engendered
would soon run off our Anna
polis steamer, Not so, however,
At our merchants and people
generally would be but true to
themselves, and would patronize
and encourage such a com
mendable enterprise. Let our
merchants heed our suggestions
and make *n approximate calcu
lation as | to the quantum of
money have, during the
past live or? ten years, paid in
freights to tire various steamboat
companies, ventore to
express the
that the sum total of silch calcu
k 1
lation would, if it did not sur- j
j prise them, at least tend to in- j
1 duce them to put on their cogi
| tation cap and advise the start
ing of a joint stock company
• j among our people, with a view
to purchasing, owning and run- j
ning their own steamboat and j
• controlling their own freight j
rates, and to be no longer de
pendent on others in this par
ticular.
Let the merchants and busi
' ness men of our city move at
■ once in this matter, and we ven
-1 ture to assert it would not be I
? long before they would see the
1 beneficial results both to tliem
> selves and the city. We invite
the views of others upon this |
• subject.
We see it stated by the An
napoljs correspondent to the
Baltimore Sun, that Messrs. W.
1 E. Brooks and John Cassidy,
who have conducted the shoe
making business in this city for
many years past, and who are
skilled mechanics in that line,
and heretofore contractors for
furnishing Naval Cadets with
shoes, have been notified that
after Saturday next their em
ployment as such will cease. It
is the intention, we understand,
of the superintendent to have
the shoes used by the cadets
made within the Academy walls.
Col. James C. Clarke, for
merly of Maryland, President of
the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, was in Baltimore yes
terday and met a number of his
old friends. Mr. Clarke is well
known here where he has many
j warm friends.
XKWN Itllll lIMA.
This promises to be a bad year
for high priced watering places.
A great many people who have
homesof comfort will live in them
and take a hand in electing the
! next president.
Either the bad quality or the
low price of whiskey lias pre
cipitated a large stock of “snake
stories” in advance of the sea
son.
A black poodle closely shaved
with a bang on his forehead and
a small bush to the end of his
tail, is now the style.
'Bit ad street says “Wall
street is hopeful.” But what
condition are the lambs in? Are
they too hopeful ?
In Sweeden when a man has I
been drunk three times he is !
subject to the loss of his privi
lege of voting for local or gener
al officers. •
The voters of Levermore bor
ough, Westmoreland, Pa., hu
morously proposed to elect Miss I
Ada Read a Justice of the Peace
and are dismayed to diseover
that, having the requisite num
ber of votes, instead of taking
the joke she takes the oath and
will perform all the duties of the
office.
An independent Philadelphia
paper says: President Arthur
has served his party nobly by
serving his country first. That j
is the duty of every President.
We agree with the New York 1
Sun , that there is no humbug
going that is equal to the tariif |
agitation humbug.
Secretary Lincoln has gone
fishing. If he gets a good string
of fish he ought to be
It will be more than many of the
other presidential aspirants will
get.
A contemporary thinks it is
not a case of lost ball yet, by
any means. But we do agree
that Mr. Bayard* s s nande will I
come up for very general /discus- j
sion. /
The young people of Atchison,
Kansas, are self-sacrificing in
deed. A number of them are to j
take part in a Japanese wedding
at a church sociable,/ and the
young men have promised to
sacrifice their mustacheWnd the
i ladies their eyebrows. t I
Congressman Hurd boasts
that he will hold the nose of the
Democratic party in the Chicago
: convention firmly “against the
reform grindstone.” Mr. Hurd
will find worm work in carrying
out his boast under a hot July |
sun. " j
PROSPECTUS
Evening Capital
:<>:
We give below an outline of
the course The Evening Capi
tal proposes to pursue:
1. It is to be a paper indepen
dent in polities—more interested
in tlie welfare of the whole peo
ple, than of any mere party,
fragment or faction —and devo
ted to the interests of the State,
County and City.
2. It is to be a “Family Pa
per”—not in the sense of the
mere phrase of the day—but a
with instruction,
without tediousness; am usement
without frivolity; and reliable
news, not mere rumor or gossip.
We propose it, in
reality, a newspaper.
3. An epitome of all the im
portant events that occur in the
State, County, and in our midst
will find an appropriate place,
and find it, speedily. We will,
in fine try to give a panoramic
view of what is going on in other
parts of the country around us.
4. Its editorials will be short,
concise and to the point. They
will strike at abuses wherever
they exist —in National, State,
County or Municipal affairs.
We will endeavor to show to the
jieople of the State how they
have been governed or misgov
erned in the past and how they
can right the wrongs in the
future.
5. We will avoid at all times,
mere personalities, but in noti
cing abuses, we shall not hesitate
to point out the sources from
whence they come—directly or
indirectly.
6. W e invite and welcome to
our columns the views of others,
however they may differ from
our own —satisfied that the truth
will come out of the freest and
fullest discussion. As our space
will be necessarily limited, we
will be concise ourselves, and
beg our correspondents to be the
same.
7. W e will offer every possible
inducement to advertisers; but
no one can pay us for inserting
anything of an improper charac
ter. We shall issue a large
number of the first edition of,
the paper, which we shall dis
tribute in every part of the State
and County, for the benefit of our
advertisers, and with the view
of making ourselves known to
the public. In fine, we will try
to do business on business prin
ciples.
8. fhe press, in our judgment,
should be, in fact, a reliable
agency for the dissemination of
truth and right, and such wjill be
our aim to make The Evening
1 M '
Capital. With these views as
our guide we submit the success
| or failure of our enterprise to an
intellegent public. ~~.
WM. M. ABBOTT,
Editor and Publisher.
Address all Communications to—
i P. 0. Box 188 m
} I. N. RICHARDSON,
The Tailor,!
9 Francis SI.
ROBT. E. STRANGE,
j Painter and Paper Hanger,
No. 35 Prince George St.,
Annapolis, Mil
PARTICULAR attention given to Pa
per Hamring, Painting. Graining. Ac. \
in all it* branches. Orders from the coun
try solicited and promptly attended.
rSjPLm >ri*rk run feed tof/ie< Hatixfiictian
reopening.
Til K 01.11 KF.1.14H1.K
Ml (HMDS ami UI
HOUSE,
(Formerly conducted hy the late George F. j
Franklin.)
Has been reopened under the firm-name of
GEO. K. FRANKLIN & CO.,
110 <lll Hi ll STREET.
r |HIIS well known house having enjoyed
JL Ihe confidence of the people of Anna
polis and Anne Arundel County for more
than half a century, is now reopened, and
will be conducted upon the same business
principles, and we solicit the patronage of
the old firm. Our stock will comprise a
general assortment of
Dry Goods,
FINE GROCERIES
Canned Gooqs, Fruits, &e.,
Also a general\ssortment of
lin a filers' Hardware*
Agricultural Impements, &c.
Carpets, Mattine/kMilCloth, j
Together with a
of mereha’fflu:\
GEO. E. FRANKLIN A CO.,
No. 110 Church Street.
at it NA<atuia:Bt,
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Healer in Fine \
FAMILY GROCERIES^
ANI) A GENERAL ASSORT\I EN 1\
COUNTRY PRODUtMr
n c\ jHT, iGGS\.PO T. 1 XoEßt&e\
A1 WmhflcP rockery ware, Uhtnawnre, y
Woomaiwaitv; Tinware, Ac., together with
everything fflmnd in a first-class Grocery.
Farmers and Gardeners are called to out
general assortment of
Field and Garden Seeds,
!
which have been selected with great care j
from reliable houses.
We strive to please our customers.
(Food* delivered free to any part of
the City.
R. R. MAGRUDER,
No. 5 Conduit St.,
Annapolis, Md.
W. H. F. WILSON & SON,
AGENTS FOR TIIE
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One M inute
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Poss Coffee Pot,
AND DEALERS IN
Stoves, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware,
PL UMBING ,
HOOFING,
SPOUTING ,
PEP AIRING,
AND GENERAL ‘
Wheel llet.il Workers]
Nos. 29 and 31 Main Street, I
ANNAPOLIS. MD.
D. R. MAGRUDER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Prince Frederick, Calvert Co. Md.
Practices in the Court of Appeals, and
also in the Courts of Calvert, Anne Arun
del, Prince George’s, Charles and St. !
Mary s Counties, and of Baltimore and
Washington Cities.
OFFICE AND ADDRESS:
Cor. West St. and Church Circle ,
ANNAPOLIS, MD.
FOR
Pure Drugs
AND
CHEMICALS
<;o TO TIIK
CITY DRUG STORE,
(Opp. City Hotel)
Physicians’ Prescriptions accurately
compounded day or night.
Always on hand all the Standard
PATENT MEDICINES
OF TIIK l> AY,
ALSO \ CRNKttAL ASSOUTMKST OK
Imik' r l\>iKG -Articles,
IN
Combs, lirushes, Toiht Soap, (V., fogtthtr
with a variety of
lAmcy Article's,
Usually kepi in a first class Drug Store.
ATICT IO SO I > A ,
3 CKiA'TN A (liLANN.
With all the purest flavoring extracts of
our own manufacture. We make a spe
cialty of this during the season. Part ini
lar attention paid to tilling country orders.
GEORGE RULLMAX,
Proprietor.
com; ini> nke Tin:
SPRING OPENING
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Meri& Boy’s Cork-Screw Suits
Something entirely new in the clothing
line. Also a specialty in
Boy's Sailor Suits.
These goods are from first-class
manufacturers, in New York, and
warranted as represented. Gome
anWsee my,
A' Nobby y&traw Hats,
in all, the Jatesl* styles at prices to
suit the times.
Remember, all my goods are
r new and fresh from the wholesale
markets of New York, Philadelphia
Baltimore, having disposed of all
rhy remaining stock from the late
fire.
MY ASSORTMENT OF
Dry Goods and Notions,
is full and complete, and will com
pare favorably with auy house in the
City.
I have also for sale the cerebrated
PIVOT COKSKJ'I
that expands and <U)iTtiMiK'with the
breathing, and yield's move
ment of the wearer, constantly mak
ing it an easy and elegant fit. We
invite the ladies to call and examine
it.
L. H. RKHX,
{at the old stand)
Cor. Market Space and Main St.
Annapolis, Md
A X X APOLIS
HIRING AND LIVERY
'&m STABLES,
j\os. 55 and 57 West Street,
Opp. A. & E. R. Depot.
OINGLE, Double Teams and Saddle
O Horses to hire, by the hour, day or
week. Open and Close Carriages, Single
and Double Phaitons, daggers, Top and
Xo-Top Buggies, all at reasonable rates;
fine carriages for visiting and pleasure.—
Drivers in livery, if desired. Pony
Phaetons, with quiet and gentle horses,
suitable for ladies and children. Special
rates made with families. Particular at
tention to horses on liverv. Baggage
called for and delivered to all parts of the
city. Funerals attended to at short notice.
AH orders promptly attended to.
J. H. YAXSAXT,
Proprietor.^
HUGH NELSCvOT
ATTORNEY AT i
office:
Cor. Cl Lurch Circle f >(.,
ANNAPOLIS, MqH
Practices in the Courts of AnS \ r undel
and adjoining Counties.