Show FROM WASHINGTON A Ton Jolllns TJjrsa Thltyri la Oeacral WesrlLoToy January 4th 1S90 Special Correspondence of the DESEUCT Xovs We are just ctmrgiug from the heat of the holiday holi-day teason Christmas is regarded in Washington very much as In the West Turkeys went up to thirty cents a pound ihatnpsgao went down in the usual way and tho toy aud other stores put on their most fascinating appearance The Supreme Court adjourned at lialfpast twelve oclock on Dcrein berSSrd leaving umWiilwl ce jntiently await the return of the judges on the Cth January Con s did likewise and gress Instead o speeches from senators we were re gated with sensational performance at the various theatres As to the theatres the DuffOptn I Company are giving us Faola al Albaughs Grand Opera House Witon Barrett does Ilamlet al the New National assisted by Mlts iiitlalo as Ophelia the Twc Mars arc at Kernans Then w S have louisa lectures metmcrism and science and concirts of every description with in addition Mar dial 1 WHiter at the Church of f Our Father giving a humoroiu Ice loire Harris BUst Theatre fur ufehesaprttty performance In the play of Alone in London Uy theby an excellent ierformance in I this same theatre was given a short time ago flea play was entitled VUfe for Wife In which Mr Logan Paul one of your old Bait Lake performers aptictred in thr character of a Frenchman and made quite a hit If tills company should visit Salt Lake your readers would do well to patronize them The theatres here eeem to have abandoned the old spectacular pro ductions Cinderella and her Glwa Slipper is now teen only in the shop windows and AlaUdln and his Wonderful Lamp have gone beyond the hope of recall The weather has been remarkably fine of late in fact quite warm but the Signal Service inarms us that we are to have cuLl wave The departments are running on aboutouerounli of their force the remainder beiu oil on leave at absence ab-sence which they aro obliged to take during the j car for which it is allowed or lose it altogether Most of the members however have returned so that they may tale a months holiday during the hot weather for the summer Eeosoiii lore Is of that duKrintioa which I gives paper collars th appearanct of a streak of soft roan The receptions at the President mansion on New Years day was a brilliant afiair Surely the load dents arm must have ached moo than on any previous occasion in his life for otter receiving the most demonstrative expressions of good fevlmg from everybody who he J an t oHice he had to go through with those who want l one They conic in battalions und even the Grand Army of the Republic was there 5 > K strong Mrs Uarrton was un Bile to be present owing to a death in the family Everyone went In uniform those who yiad carriages carri-ages ued them and these who had no private conveyance found it diflicult to bo supplied Some of the holies looked very nice with tlieir gcldplated harnes and their uarscomplexioned drivers seemed to be proud of tic dignitaries whose avoirdupois they conveyed to and from the mansion Those who were late In procuring vehicles appeared in some of the toughet outfits I ever saw Grant Brett of Salt Late would have made a life long sunsatiou here if they could have driven up with their fcixlu hand and the guards at the White house would have thought that Queen Victoria and the Prince of Waits had come broil on the Presi dentIn dent-In conclusion let me wish all the readers of the NEWS a happy Xew Year C W STAYXEB |