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Show I THJS OLIVES EOIW. j The Widow Oliver mut be Bquclched, and if tho law cannot perform this feat, a threatened public will have to arise and put a plaster over the old girl' mouth. The courts, no more than Simon Cameron, appear to have satisfied the Oliver, who now proposes to appeal ber caje to tho public, using the newspapers as a medium. Her first letter one of a threatened series was addressed to the New York Tribune. It portrayed por-trayed her matrimonial expectations expec-tations with the venerable deceiver de-ceiver Simon, and was duly seasoned sea-soned and spiced with scandal and dark hints, the evident intention being to force Cameron into purchasing her silence. The Tribune very properly suppressed the letter, declining to permit itself to be ;used either as a blackmailer or a j medium for the circulation of scandal. But she will find papers ready and oven anxious to publish her scheme, and another dirty Btory of Washington official life may be confidently ex pectcd. Mrs. Oliver has no character to lose. According to her own story, whatever of respectability and character eho may have had when Cameron's deceiving eye rested upon her, Boon vanished, and she Beoms determined to throw asido all claims to womanly decency, by exposing her own wanton conduct to the vulgar eye of the masses. It may not be a difficult mattor for Oliver to provo that Cameron is not an angel; indeed, it would be hard to find any of those winged beings among Washington officials, and prominent politicians. If it were otherwise so many Widow OHvorB could not have thrived in the capital. There is but one of two things for Mrs. Oliver to do: Sbe must reform, or continuo in the path trodden by herself and the gay Camo ron; and the meantime we hope she will not spread herself through tho newspapers. Enoland has developed another i brave and daring; statesman. His name i3 Sir James Grant Suttie, and though conservative in politics, he doesn't appear to bo so with his lips. He is a candidate for the Haddington district of burghs, and as such has been supported with true womanly ardor and vigor by a burley fishwife. Sir Jamea thought it would be proper to make some token of appreciation of the good woman's services, and hit upon tho plan of kissit g ber as a reward, being the handiest, or rather "lipiest" means at command. The lady joyfully accepted the proposed honor, if it would be bestowed in public, to which arrangement Sir James consented, and the woman was duly kissed in the presence of tbe multitude. She then proposed to re turn the kiss, but Sir James declined to receive back what be bad given, whereupon the hshwife wanted to kiss the parish minister, min-ister, who having both a wife and good taete, turned away his face in disgust, hence Mrs. Macfarlane is left with tho kiss of honor still burning burn-ing upon her cheek. |