Evening Star Newspaper, October 7, 1871, Page 7

The Sen and The following is ec em by the inte Alice Carey. It has ved in print as one of her poems, characteristic, and has a deep mile again, : veoneday with » bwshful Rore That bad been a bud till then Soh shed back the folds of ¢ soft green hood Thar vered her mod #: xrae+, = Ard Ki-sed her es ently 9 lover could. Titi the crimson burned in he iden bair Pm Let, he night ofuatk despair cheek with tears was wet! a maideu could, THE NORWEGIAN COOKING-BOX. What Dr. George Derby, Secretary of the State Beard of jcaith, fhinks of It. rom the Medical and Su 1 Journal. Eng) da factory, and aitoe ‘ : k many of your ar about it. The Norw s © mate of Variows sizes, the top r padlock. id, you find the interior neatiy h hait-feiting inciused im a Hning the object being to make the box as 1 T OF heat ax posable. except that ike a bird’ lindrieal vd, which is either im- by @ strainer just essary to bring tents of the tin vesscis to the bviling point, which may be done in any convenient way,—that is, by a range, or a cooking-stove, or & ga* stove, or over @ single gas-jet with a Bun- | sch burner, and they place the tins in the cavity | before described and shut the box up tight, and | the heat is retained in sueh degree and fer such | length of time that the cooking process goes on without any further application of fire. My first trial ot the box way made by filling the large cylinder which occupies the whole cavity with water which was raised to the boil- ing point over a gas stove. In 17 hours { found the temperatare reduced from 212 to 140 degrees. | i next tried an “Irish stew” of five pounds of mutton, with potatoes, carrots and onions. was mace to boil by asingle small gas-jet a Bunsen burner, and immediately placed im the box. In three hours it was servi bot, perfectly cooked, and seemi the flavor, a part of whieh, by the ordinary pro- cess, would have gone up the chimney or into the house. The box emitted no perceptible odor while the cooking was going on. My next trial was with the most refractory kind of meat 1 could think of. A piece of corned beef weighing 64 pounds was placed in cold water im the largest cylinder, raised to the boil- ing point on the covking range, the Nqnor then skimmed, the cover replaced, and the tin immediately put in the box, which was locked up for the night. Twenty hours later the box was opened, and the temperature ot the water found to be t33 degrees. The beef was perfectly cooke : any piece corned beef, and with an equaily good result. In Loth eases the cook remarked with surprise th she took out of the cylinder as large a pice: tasshe had putin. [can answer for was made with a shin of beef ing for ten minutes on the somewhat mount of water than used, skimming, and then leaving it box for 23 hours. No odor was peree was cooking, it made as stiff a jelly wh Prepared in the usual way, and the soup proved to be ¢ nt. Tomatoes have several times been stewed in one of the smaller other vewels above and below being ing Ww A i beer’s tongue, is genera’ in th Keverst box, I have tried of ice weighing ai in the ts ft i f 40 hours, ¢ was found to be tw = of water ariy four pounds oj A single quart iee-eream (coufeetioner mre) Was p a day without any ive, althoug’a, the box had been ré y ased for ¢ was first cooled by pu an hour. eam Was fo Il retaining the are enough to show that the box se tri selva prepar, vuld be used im this respect tors. ot the positive advantanges of the apparatns are very marked. Itis eco It saves food, fuel, and, m or. Phrsician= know well enough the in te hesith whieh has been eaused bot by over | Sork unl inappropriate nourinbment,—the | st least leading directly to impaired dige For such reasons I believe that the practi -ability of cooking simpie and nutriticus dishes by re- tained heat, which is ma nee of shutting them up in’ non- ueting box, isof real importance. Atieast | o-thirds of the people of Massachnsetis above © of infancy find their ehiet nutriment on | ans, A l, ¥ «lo very but [think all pitysi- children, aud men and n thoroughly co ts in perfect health cians will agree ¢ women whose digestive powers imps | had better cat somet!: t - ity dinner of meat and vegetables and padding | can, by means of this box, be prepared on Sut urday ina very few minutes, put away for 2: hours, and then served hot without adiitional labor. A small eylindrical form of the non-con- cueting box might be used by workmen to 7 their dinner-pail. thus giving the advantage = hot dinner at noon cooked by the breakrust t Its uses tothe sick will be found to be many. Beef tea may be made in the ¥ way. Drinks may be kept hot. or ice m preserved thre 7 of the 4 from « manuscript | | all the evidences of conside: t whole piace Lad av air of suspicious, mock re- | comfort of the inmates. She will allow the | kandie @f a revolver <i ie his ri Tre ‘itm aps | little too suddenly he might misunderstand my lord. A hali-ls ever, learn that he was a man of southern birth, of consi liquors; the few pieces of stw barrels boxes of groceries appeared to be disposed r for ornament than for actual sa! of one of his Derringers upon his trousers, ex- that he seemed mechanically talking to himself. for the thoroughness of the. } | ihe mountains, abandoning my good Keweal:; | > | | meso wrong to turn my back on him that I re- | process elock bi } i he an t back the gate, inch by inch, an operation which | Tegard and affectionate up to Kaweah and patted him. His manger was emjyt ley. The creature's mam was full of guri- osity, as if he had never been ay hee in whinnyiny at ul like silence. Twas in error dest ty aneigh, or | bright —Meine Farmer. some nervous movement, ras ae | sleeping proprietor and expose my plan. Method of Study. ered with loose stones, and when I thought of | val, and two hours’ more study in the after: off on foot, until th the fron icet. Ordinarily Kaweah would not he * OWNS A gypsYm quar: and employs a tor twei men. He had worked it only a year or two, but ever since he open men have suffered serious inconvenience and a from the myraids of Snakes that nin the ereviees, and swarm in during ‘nd out in the Spring. tor of the paper in question, in compa- ny with @ number of other gentleme paid « visit to the quarry. The sun was warming up the Northern Slope when the party arrived, and this is his description of what for lowed: "From out the crevices the snakes were crawling in all directions, and “swash,” “swash,” went the huge clubs of the two men who were defending their fellow workmen, and every blow was the deathot asnake. Just at crawled a deadly moccasin, while to and lett spotted adders and chasers and hissed ax they twined among the stones or eseaped up the bluit. Directly in trout of us lay a pile of dead serpents as large as a two bushel basket, while on the face of the sloping biuff were probably three hundred reptiles which had escaped the clubs of the men, dnd were hastening away to the prairie, their eleva- ted beads and writhing bodies transforming the Diuff intono mythical Gorgon head. Just above ux, on a ledge of rocks was a huge adder, and Mr. Cummins picking up a pieee rock heaved it | on him, pinning him to the ledge tet the snake Was game; some three feet of hs body was and gathering himself up would leap fall at as | with all bis foree, bissing and oupning, bis jaws in a way that made the blood run cold, and the next leap be made, a blow from our cane sent his head spinning a score of feet and the bleed- ing trunk dropped to the earth below. Fite snakes are said to retire into their dens about two p. m. every day, after which all is quiet ontil the sun'sTays again reach the quarry, when the same thing is repeated. Two bundred and seventy-five snakes were killed that day, y Spring and Fall his | of the corral gate, smoldering fire close by the trail, and in the | _. shadow descricd two sleeping forms,one stretched | NEEDLEWoRg—styled Dentagrnnlc embroidery on =r back snoring is the other lying he — by con 1 m is face, pillowis head upon fold ich is quite 8 eurious device. number ot 7 * ” fetiiramen are employed, each carrying a tam- I held my pistol aimed at one of the wretches, ing or sewing apparatus. They are 80 ar- and rode by without wakening them, guiding Fanged and connected together that the neddles Kaweah in the thickest dust. they carry may be made to traverse in any di- high piteh, I turned | rection over the surface of the fabrics to be em- around in the saddle, leaving Kaweah to follow | broidered, and that | the trail, and kept my eyes riveted on the sleep- | needles shall be sit jultaneot > | ing forms und! they were lost in distance, and | needle-frames are also covnected with a panta- then I felt safe. ‘We galloped over many miles of trail, enjoy Eat a'voman Over the Hue ef the pecees s.runring thd camp at iat to Baripons, wre f which it is un arms. the number for two weeks footing up 6,500, while it is supposed that ten times that number ‘aped. On the 1th of October the snakes commence to return and enter their dens for the Winter, when the same slaughter is Tepeated. Restor a?.on oF THE COLUM a” VEYDOME. ‘The much-talked-of overthrow of the famous plumm in the Place Vendome does not seem to erty. A it architect of Yts resto: pence as it stood before, at ver fifty thousand dollars. This appears - et the Prostration of the colarsn ed ten of the two hundred and seventy- whieh its on posed, and these require but slight el é few bars of the balustrade and some pieces of the capital have disappeared: these can be easily replaced. ti S7-The reunited Presbyterian Chnreh in country bas 455,378 communicants. be have involved any serious destruction of prop- | estimates the east A CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE. | Homekeepers and Housekeepers. ise Jate afternoon, trotting down a It is a well known fact that many persons , Leame in signt of a number have very fine.and orderly houses, but have alter gent! of ranche Duildings, grouped about. a central | all no home, wor | open space. A by the out- “ mere! buildings and wound among the chaparral cov- Rice Wal stare fe and gilded: ered spurs below. - Considers gran re ie, had Dem: gatiaved into a corral, asd & nutber Fiited with the heart had builded ol horses were quietly stri und conveniences of the house conduce to vee. jrding into the open square, I saw that | members of her household to build each a shrine, Soe of the buildings was «store, and to this I | snd will treat it as sacred, because it isa shrine rede, tying Kaweah to the piazza to the one who bas builded it. The iter is I thought the whole world siumbered when I | not called an idle thing because she to id the sole Occupant of this country store, a | know her tune, and gaze wistfully toward the red-taced man in pantaloons and shirt, who lay | horizon; nor is the son reproved if he shall on bis back upon @ counter fast » the | siam around and wish he was—, anywhere it seemed to me it l were to wake Deauty this side the horizon, and that boy presence and do some accidental damage; so1! find a vent for his activity without ng stepped back and poked Kaweal, making him | he was gent!y led to it by an overseeing love. Jvmp and ciatter his hoofs, and at once the pro- prieior sprung te the door, looking fluttered and | an influence that even strangers feel. ‘They re- Uneasy. ceive that rest which comes irom the “fitting of Tasked him if he could accommodate me for | self to its sphere.” The order of the house may loomor a harp; but it conduces to re- wad something to | sults, and justifies itself by tissnes of more than er than that of es. If there isa housekeeper the house- work is not in utter confusion, if perchance one re not ex- fee and kfast, 1 leafed about for a hour or two, oe | such as late risers should expect, is eaten in y peace, not in a flurry of excuses for not having a neal that it was impossible to furnish without inconvenience and discord in the kitchen for me, and I gave it up asa bat job. Lid, how- | the whole day. It is foolish to attempt to keep & restaurant with only the arrangements suited ‘able education, which a brutal life | to a small family. The peace of many & and depraved mind had not sufficed fatly to ob- | family ia dostroged by. Uiterate. He seemed to care very business, which indeed was small enough, for during the time I spent there not a single cus- | the guest regrets his tardiness, she lets the cold tomer made his appearance. The stock of goods | breakfast the alternoon and night, and take care of my | be horse; to which be replied. in a very leisurely manner, mechanical "ke that of inclined to take | silken fineness, and mnsic swe the sphei he chances, I did stay, and my hoxt walked out with me to the corral, | rises an hour too 1 and showed me where to get Kaweah’s lay and | rm grain. Servants ‘ed to perform miracles, aud keep toast hot and fresh for an’ hour. Abi a Chinese cook was t cher haan bein in sight, and then conc w pump the Iand- “s trial thoronghly disgusted ery littie for his | The breakfast of the late riser need not have an I observed on examination to be chiefly firearms, | look, and was a nuisance, yet without direct word he fel From each of the man’s trouse: I remarked to him that he seemel to have a | bloom.”, Housekeeping can be well doue by an handily arranged arsenal, at which he energetic woman. Housekeeping requires tha me with a cool, quiet stare, polished the ie | the woman's heart and wisdom be greater than her house, and that she keeps the house, only amined the percussion cap with great delibera- | that init, life can be lived with love and truth- tion, and then, with a nod of the head, intended | fulness.—Golden Age. ‘You don’t live in ny I felt not un- Devices of Autumn Leaves. The man drank brandy freely and often, and | . 4? a isite tog oreeeg | may po en Di at intervals of about half an hour called to his | Mavegyn's eng of windows pieas, ta wang eaether ee ek nervous raat eee catePel stroked | pane of the same size over it and binding the er ¥» a time in so distrait and’ unconscious a manner | cage with ribbon, which the oxen drivers hurl at their teams, but =p tor ingenious flights of fancy protanity I have | "4 dried betore the leaves, ferns. etc., are ar never met the equal of my host. With the most ranged; then it can be neatly folded over the second pane without difficulty. perfect good nature and unmoved conntenance | “5 fom tes och foe Seating the tekassecs must have taken hours to invent. I'was glad | RCS: Paste a binding of galloon along the elze, e uttered florid blasphemies, which, I think, 4 two-inch loop in the centre, after- = spdewscally braned veo beer ans | ward to be puiled through a little siit in the final the Ittle separate building, in which was anar- | Dinding.- These transparencies may either be row single bed. Next this building on the left — teas the cook-house and dining-room, and upon | SMAissts pane sn the saa | the right lay hw own slecping apartment. Di- | paging them against the nidelights of the hall, dewar the gate of the corral, which when | (oor. Where the side-ights are each of ont - ingle-pane, it is well worth while to place a moved, creaked on its rusty hinges in the most © | pode aree. creme single transparency against each, filling up the As lay npon my bed I could hear Kaweah | Shtire space, thus affurding ample scope ; ; : free arrangement of ferns, grasses, and leaves, oceasionaliy stamp; the snoring of the Chinaman white the eitect of the ight fassing through the rich avtumnal colors is very fine. Leaves so of my host and bis squaw on the other. Tfelt no | Stranged will: preserve thor? bonaiy Hee vein on one side, and the low mumoled conversation mation te sleep, but lay there in a half doze; ite conscious, yet withdrawn from the present. | “12tT- when I heard theclatter of acouple of m, | be formed of eight oblong transparencies (made wh gether wi poring-al 1 fe “yang wo the ground, thelr Spanish spare cing- | {wether wth strong sewing-slk's9 ato form an ing on eemne a pak bee = candlestick, the screen should be indow rustle ‘The horses’ moved about s9 | (ty errpeenpernsiadl a. restlessly that I heard but little of the sit 7 ¥ “ tion, but that litte I tyand of personal interest | gifs. hy rubbing eachatepol plac ore deren 0 myself. . I give, as nearly as I can remember, the frag: | a sd ments of dialogue between my host and the man ge ae Ree “ fore the le&ves are insert and then whom I recognized as the elder of my two rob. Of the glasses. Manus through- ,cither white or of a 1 *-When did he eome?” ead ight have been about four Arranging Flowers for Boquets. “e- Has hig horse give out?” It is an art requiring no small degree of taste I failed to hear the answer, but was tempted | 81d skill, to arrange cut tlowens so as to form an to shout out. sn”? a re boquet for the the vase or basket. It ey; ssomething, too, which comes to one intuiti y, and it ean Lardiy be described in words, . it may be said in general, that the and unconfused tlowers are ar- or : buekskin breeches." (My dress.) ing to Mariposa at seven im the morning.” “ T guess I wouldn't round here.” | A low, muttered soliloyuy in’ Spanish wound | up with’s growl. | er. Crowding is especially to be 3 No, Antone, not within a mile of the place.” and to accomplish this a good “ Starbuen.” © ditterent yarictics is needed to Gat of the compressed jumble of the finalsen- | lowers apart. This filling up is tence I got but one word, “+ buckshot.” | portant port in all boquet making, and tne | The Spaniards mounted, and the sound of | ™ tof it is the greatest stumbling block to | heir spurs and horses’ hoofs soon died away in| e north, and I lay for half an hour revolving | sorts of plans. The safest course seemed to be to slip out in the darkness and ily on toot to and drooping lowers rays of delicate green, are ssity in giving grace and be «uet. Flowers ot similar siz t t form but I thought of his noble run, and itseemed to | S™all flowers should never be massed to- olved to unite our fate. I rose cautiously, and, ches may be used to advantage alone holding my watch up to the moon, found that 12 | a judicions contrast of forms is most et I just .l; then taking from my 4 ything like formality or stiffness. A pocket a five-dollar gold piece, Llaid it upon the | bright tendril or spray of vine eau be uscbwith stand by iny bed, and in my stocking feet, with | 600d effect, if allowed to c my clothes in my hands, started noisclessly for | *Tound the vase as it will. Certain Sowers assort bee corral. A fierce bull-dog, who had shown no | Well only in families, and are injured by mixing. lispesition to make friends with me, bouaded | Of these are balsams, hollyhocks, sweet pea trem the open door of the proprietor to my s &c. The former produce a very pretty effect Inctead of tearing me, as I had expested, he | Placed upon a shallow i upon the ce «i my hands and fawned about my feet. table. No orn the corral gate. I dreaded opening | dimer table or mantel as a va remembering the rusty hinges, so y i My clothes upon an upper bar or the fence, | oiuet your garden will produce, cautiously lirting the latch, began to push | the room they are to oceup and place it in It will tell of your ightfulness, in a re forcible and appropriate manner than you id tind words to expres Ifa small quantity amphor is placed in the water con- tained in the vase, the color and freshness of th flowers will remain for a much longer period. “hus prepared, we have had flowers to keep a week, and at the end look quite fresh and quired me eight or ten minutes; then L walked he had picked up the last kernel of bar- the hight before. Suppressing bis ordinary he preserved a motionless, statue- awaken the The corral and the open square were half cov- Three hours in the forenoon, two hours’ inter- the clatter of Kaweah’s shoes J experienced a teeling of trouble, and again meditated running idea struck me of mu/fing ent’s study of lessons exce ; let all the other time of the waking existence of each day be expended in muscular activities, in moderate work or recre- ation, involving motion of some kind. No child should be sent to school before seven years of peril of their lives, and whenever L had at- | age. and up to eighteen no child ovgit to be ck up his hind feet he had warned | allowed to continue at brain work, invouving in- dangerous stampa; so L approached | tellectual laber, longer than the five hours m very timidiy, and was surprised to tnd that | named. lowed me to lift all four of his feet without | Up to cighteen years, every child should be the slightest @ijection. As I stopped down he | allowed ten hours to be in bed. They may not nosed me over, and nibbled playfully at my hat. | require ten hours’ sleep, ‘but time should be In constant dread lest he should make some | allowed to rest in bed, after the sleep is over, roise, [burried to mufte his fore feet with my | until they feel as if they had rather get up than allow me to lift his fore-feet atall. The two acksmith- who shod him had done so at the trousers and shirt, and then, with rather more | not. It is a very great and mischievous mistake eure, to tie upon his hind feet my coat and | for any person, oldor young, especially children, drawers. and feeble or ‘sedentary persons, to bounce out Knowing nothing of the country ahead of me, | of bed the moment they wake up; all our instincts and fearing that I might again have to run shrink from it, and fiercely kick against it. Fif- I determ ned at all cost to water him. Groping | teen or twenty minutes spent in gradually out the corral and barn, and at last finding a | waking up, after the eyes are opened, and in bucket, and descending through the darkness to | turning over and streteliing the limbs, does as e stream, I brought him a fulldraaght, which | much good as sound sleep; because these he swallowed eagerly, when I tied my shoes on | operations set the blood in motion by de C08, the saddled-pommel, and led the horseslowly out | temting to equalize the circulation; for ng him firmly by the bit, | sleep the blood tends to stagnation, the heart breath pour outupon my | beats feebly and slow, and to shock the system 7, bouncing up in an instant and — the we had walked perhaps a quarter of a | blood in overpowering quantity to the heart, mile, I stopped and listened. All was quiet, the | causing it to assime a gall when the instant andseape lying bright am ‘tinct in full moon- | before it was in a creep, is the greatest absurd- light. 1 unb ppings, shook from | ity. This instantaneous bouncing out of the them as much dust as possible, dressed myself, | bed as soon us the eyes are opened will be fol- ond feeling his nervou and then mounting, started northward on the | lowed by weariness long betore noon. Both the Mariposa trail with cocked pistol. brain and body of the young are feeble and In the soft dust we traveled noislessly fora mile | watery, and capable of but little endurance. or so, passing from open country into groves of | Witnéss how soon little children get tired of one ~ harper: val. d thickets of ral. thing, even of rest.—Hall’s Journal of Health, hout warning I suddenly came upon a Sos Raps sence ae It keyed me uo to deposited then bed and | the needles will each travel in and work along a ade sleep.—Clarence x that d by the = wpa lat ? in Atan- faints Ti each passed over uceembrold a a a resembling secre: Ley necessa- Stewed Beef. rily of the same: usually it is preferred that é 4 a858 —— thoroughly cotwneds Ie the te: ry. ‘ write ment i at et, the water at stew out 2 half hour before on sy inleut & browabd » side in the gravy, turnit over and brown result from long expo- other side. ready, take it adda little ‘should flour taickening tothe gravy. or if you have = Sas ee dredge box shake Sigur into the hot gravy ‘when the hat rown it, ther ‘botling water and you have a dish equal and tomy mind superior to the ree common roast beef upon boarding house tables. ‘The head may Care must be used to turn it; and equally wet cloth on it, andi’ jouer Ss Jadgmoent in having {t thorvagh- cold water may b» about. Yet with | A homekee: is one who makes all the wa: le possessions) the en the but idling at home. Gradually ‘the honse- keerer will quictly aid the first to search for wi A house that is blessed vith a housekeeper has attempting impossibilities. added tirade against servants. Realizing that fice, but does what she ean by word, piaciaite atn aie pam ve manner of gambling ay ‘tas and | helped, really so calls ie titade o| ligase Le Seatth, ber the late riser, that ever after that brcaktast is er | bright and pleasant memory; for he feared he pockets pro- | that his act did ‘not discommode the arranged truded the handle of a Derringer, and behind | ments of the house. His best thought was called his counter were arranged in convenient position | out d that the house will stan] to him in after two or three double-barreled shot- life'ax a home tor “‘there is where the heart can eaving the p imprisoned between. Use gum tragacanth in putting on the ‘Whoever has traveled on the west thas binding. It is well tosecure a narrow strip of not failed to notice the fearful volleys of oats | paberunder the ribbon. The bindin oe hung before a window or, if preferred, secured I think it must have beem about 11 o'clock | ,A™ exceedingly pretty standing tor a lamp can | galloged up to my host's building and of glass and auturan leavcs, as described) tacked covered with white sand. | ‘ieolor ought never to be placed togther, | urge towers with green leaves or ander over and | luring Ay IxcExiovs Mztuop or Prrroruinc nglish_ mechanic, (OFFICIAL) NOTICE. TO THE VOTERS OF THE DISTRICT OF | COLUMBIA: ‘The Board of Registration for the District of Oo- lumbia will hold sessions from 19 o'tlock, m., until | 7 o'clock, p. m., of each day hereinafter mentioned, forthe purpose of registering the voters residing in the District of Columbia, at the following-named ripe FOUBTH DISTRICT. AD that part of the city of Georgetown lying east of High street,on SATURDAY. October 7, 1871, at the house of John Cornell, No. 116 Congrese atreet, between Beall and Dunbarton streets, Georgetown. FIFTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying west | of Twenty-first street,on MONDAY, October 9, 1571, ai echool-house corner of Twenty-second aad I streets, Washington. SIXTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city uf Washington lying south of M street north, between Eighteenth and Twenty - firet streets west, and south of K street north, be- tween Fifteenth Fighteenth streets west, at house No. 1822 G street, near Righteenta street, Washington, on TUESDAY, October 10, 1871. SEVENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at K street north, and running up Fifteenth street west to N street north; thence east on N street north to Fonr- teenth street west;thence up Fourteenth stroet west to Boundary; thence along Boundary street to Twen- first street west; thence down Twenty-first street ‘west to M street north; thence along M street north to Eighteenth street west. and down Eighteenth street weet to K street north; thence along K street north to Fifteenth street west.on WEDNESDAY, October 11, 1871, at 1712 P street, near Seventeenth street, Washington. EIGHTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at N street north and running up Fourteenth street west: + thence along Boundary to Sixth street west; thence dow. Sixth street west to Bhode Island avenue; thence along Rhode Island avenue to Seventh street hence down Seventh street west to O street north; thence along O street north to Eleventh street ‘went; thence down Eleventh street west to N street north, and along N street north to Fourteenth street west, on THURSDAY, October 12, 1871, at house corner of Tenth and Q streets, and Bhode Island avenue, Washington. NINTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying be- tween G street north and N street north, and be- tween Eleventh street west and Fifteenth street west, on FRIDAY, October 13, 1871, at Union Halt, Fourteenth street west, between G street north and New York avenue, Washington. TENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying be- tween G street north and the canal, and between Eleventh and Fifteenth streets west,on MONDAY, October 16, 1871, at the house northwest corner of Thirteenth and E streets, Washington. ELBVENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lyingsouth of the canal aud west of Eighth street west, on TUESDAY, October 17, 1871, at Church's Lumber Yard, corner Eleventh street and Marylaud avenne, Washington. TWELFTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying be- tween G street north and the canal, and between Sixth street west and Eleventh street west, on WEDNESDAY, Uctober 18. 1871, at Justice Plant's Office, northwest corner of Eighth and E streets, Washington. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at @ street north and running along Seventh street west to O street north; thence along 0 street to Eleventh street west; thence down Eleventh street to G street | north, and along G street to Seventh street west, on THURSDAY, October 19, 1871, at the Sixth Police Precinct Station, corner of Ninth and K streets, Washington. FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at K street north and running up North Capitol street to Boundary; thence along Boundary street to Sixth street west: thence along Sixth street west to Rhode Island ave- nue; thence along Rhode Island avenue to Seventh street west; thence down Seventh street west to L street north; thence along L street north to New Jersey avenue; thence down New Jersey avenue to K street north, and along Kigtreet north to North Cppitel street, on FRIDAY, October 2, 1371, at the southeast corner of Fourth and N streets, Wash- ington. FIFTEENTA DI*TRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bonnds: Commencing at D street north and running up North Capitol street to Massachusetts avenue; thence along Massachusetts avenue to First street west; thence up First street west to K street north; thence along K street to New Jersey avenue; thence up New Jersey avenue to L street north; thence slong L street north to Seventh street west; thence down Seventh street west to @ street north; thence along G street north to Sixth ; along Sixth street west to D street yand along D street north to North Capitol street,on MONDAY, October 23, 1571, at the south- west corner of Fourth and H streets, Washington, SIXTEENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at D street, and running down Sixth strect west to the canal; thenve along the line of the canal to Four-and- a-half street; thence down Four-and-a-half street to Maryland aveiue; thence along Maryland avenue eastwardly to the canal; thence along the line of the canal to South Capitol street; thence up South and North Capitol streets to D street north; and along D street north to Sixth street. west, on TUESDAY, October 24, 1871, at Justice D. RB. Smith's office, 306 Four-and-a-half street, Washington. SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at Eighth strect west,and running along G street south to the canal; thence along the line of the caval northwardly and northwestwardly to its junction with Maryland aye- nue; thence along Maryland avenue to Four-and-a half street; thence up Four-and-a-balf street to the caval, and along the line of the canal to Eighth street west; thence down Eighth street west to G street south, on WEDNESDAY, October 25, 1371, at house No. 458 C, between Four-and-a-half and Sixth streets southwest, Washington. EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying south of G street south, between South Capitol street and Eighth street west, on THURSDAY, October 25, 1361, at the Greenleaf Coffee Mills, No. 462 H street south, between Four-and-a-half and Sixth strects west, Washington. NINETEENTH DISTRICT All that pert of the city of Washington lying within the following bounds: Commencing at Fif teenth street east, aod ronning north to Boundary street; thence slong Boundary street to North Capi- tol street; thence down North Capitol street to K street north; thence along K street to First street west; thence down First street to Massachusetts avenue,and down Massachusetts avenue to North Capitol street; thence down North Capitol street to E, and along E to Fifteenth street cast,on FRIDAY, October 27, 1871, at the Assessor's Office of the Nine- teenth District, No. 50 H street north, between North Capitol and First street east, W: TWENTIETH DISTRICT. All that part of the city of Washington lying south of E street north, between North and South Capitol streets and Fourth street east. on MONDAY, Octo- ber 30, 3871, at No. 41 south A street, near First street east. Washington. TWENTY-FIRST DISTRICT. to C street north; thenee along C street north tothe Eastern branch; branch to B street south; thence along B street south to Fifteenth street east; thence down Fif- teenth strect east to D street south; thence along street south to South Carolina avenue, i ann-sm | ee SECRE. | paid the via vaident is. . COOKE. Governor, z corse, tm ‘of the District of Columbia, for id District entitled “ An = mastitis § > eit eae eas lor Lia si 'aunaaily accrue thereon. Question of the iss! lions of improvement to. bonds, and of the interest as it a yeni gum of six hundred thoysand dollars, | bonds and pay ot or the prone thonent te euhe mont and Ratlreat Compony, st cent tie Y ‘Aereby given that es Bee 5; exper is hereby the poople at e general election insaid Distriet, proved August {9, Isl, will be submitted inthe pobiie Saheeest or toeaterte I Daneetion cok te vel, fo conn ° On of issuing four millious of bonds for Tepaire as mentioned in {ald act, ‘Said oo) be berete sokbotned anes arts ovens a theredf tamad” berth. Goversor of th: coe. and br TY deat bF istrict of Columbia, EDWIN L. STANTON Becretary of the District of Sue Disaries of Octumbie toarense im, v ‘the issu ng of four mill vd. That i order so < of said eubec meet ot eal apbect pero surberine! to tent Bonde ot u 7 eee byect of tn: . tO ap amount necessary to prov = as may be reyuited by th: ninresaid ” Prove ied. nat ‘ahd be levied annually a tax Per cont.or shall such lwer rate Rs inay auMice.on overs Sano on Bans. romeke ot wil = Tiet. the pra we shall constitute special fund I t of said interest, mC. 4. Amd be oft further emncted. That the Gov- ested to cause thieact to be daly next general election. as re the fourteenth section of ihe © District of bye ot yz of Fone, teen hundred ‘suitable x to) snbmit CRA L. RULSE, nam OF hime pet 3 5 PROPOSALS. fect Yor the payment of ge it hail Shpually sccrestherere, Sad ect | = > a= che TNITED STATES MAIL. the act with the question of yy By U Fi rt} ue i SS for the District of Cotumt twenty-first, eighteen hundred in the stme manner ut further enacted. That in connection with the Secretary the nds for isene aud sale. On their face they shall be Ment of the interest annually bor and A ‘thi ermor, countersigred bj troller, and have aix dl to them the seal of the Dis- t. ee. 4. Amd be it further enacted, That the bonis red for issue and sale as afore- said purposes, shall be de- Comptroller of said District, and he ot permit any one or more of them to go out for the purposes of this act; security for their safe by the Governor: ster or account pared and tasued under th ort, from time te time, to the Ley Ye AMotnt of sales, as well interest that may have accrued oF to be enaere, That rwomiitions re or usand eight huutred | triet, entitled - ] create and repairs fo millions of bonds and lev, f the interest as | Snd submitting the ¢f four millions of im t 4108 From Geatto. ‘by ossexsion, €xct) le. Daily Bepabli. in said Distr: is £ 5 eee be | 8 From Jeterevitie. issue during the year one t of this act shail be ip the those and seventy-two. and until the expiration of the first | ¥ords following, to wit ea: Bech, Wve Assembly waders | Levying 0 tax forthe perned he interest on the four million of bonds to be trict of Colw pepe ee! oie oe n act aut Tumbia te create a debt for eportal worsen mm tion and a balf during the year one thousand | eight hundred and seventy-three, and be auld by the Governor within said periods tothe extent to which the issue thereof is a such issue and sale said | stitute inst said District. u further enacted, That upon the or all of said bonds the proceeds thereof ‘shall be ited im the treasnry of the Distri and shall be drawn o1 vt Public Works. Board for the pay ments and rey necessary inci other purposes; but no pat any contract for impr. done in relation thereto, il ennuaily acc: imeucd by the bidder. issu f four Ying tax for the payment anally acerue thereon, qtestion of the eral election in the said ‘against this act shall be in of the interest as it shail a1 and submitting the act, with the suing of four mulijons ‘of A a be disbursed by said it of the cost of special i Pe said Deter, including | the words following, RY ent expenses tl The act for levying « tax forthe Fas tc, Se rin, + Py parted treaty ents sail be made under ments. or for any work nless the work done shali be ten per cemtum in excess of such payments, ex- cept in the case of the final execution of any contract of any work and settlement therefor. And he 1t Surtner enacted, That the tim- provements which may be made by virtue of this act commenced and carried on uccording to the provisions of the aforesaid act of Congress of the twenty-first day of February, eighteen hundred a: seventy-one, aud excl the public interes Suc. 8. And b wisions of an act entitled An od repairs ts cabd Piste and repairs in said. District, ‘of bonds and of the interest as it shall annuallf accrue sting tie act, with the question of for the payment the: the promotion further enacted, That if any fthe said District shall use, or consent to the use, of any of the money authorized to be raised by this in the jail of this Dist Third. That the tickets for and shall be deposited in the ballot boxes w fo east for the eos ebtitied S A the District of Cltimbia to create $ millions of bondsand officer or employe ‘ions, he in the Criminal Gourt punished by imprison- ict for a term of not i three nor more than twelve months, and by fine of not lesa than five hun than one thousand dollars. BEC. 9. And ve wt further shall bmitted to the peo District at the first general held after its pass: special improveme: y the tsoulng of four: doliars ‘nor more » That this act electors of said tion which may be ¢, together with the questions of the four millions of bouds af. blished in such paj Peet, ‘not less than three, and the be continued for three months prior to said election. Second. The ballots used st said election shail be , and those in Lente be Ree ag said J OF 0 contraction of suid he words following, to wit: ‘OR SPECIAL IMPROVEXENTS. Fe of the District of “An act Veo Di t said Fen meg ad thi jon and levying a tax itsball Susually accrue sof improvement bonds, fo a vate of the poopl emeni is, to a vote election in said Distriet. the of four millions of improve- Saree ah Ss vie sated QO ed i 5 From gg by Eldorado, Castleton, Laaret A: a ee eatd cai a Malis, Rock si Sacrcameen core ed ease eae es by the jung of four mil ment of the interest, a8 ereou, and submitting the lative Assembly, made ction precincte 0 which returns box of each clection district ovements and repairs in four million uf bonds, i Secretary of the | 4036 From Culpeper, by. ‘or more of AGAL ROVEMENTS. Against the act of the Disirict of Columbia en- titled, * An act authorizing the District of Oolum- Dia to create a debt for special improvements and District, by the issuin Ying @ tax for ball annually accrue thercon, ‘act the question of the ur millions of improvement bor of the people at » general election in of four millions a ied for in said act. — the interest aa it 5! 4364 From Luray. by Massanutton ‘Aud against the issuing provement bonds, as prov Third. That a ballot-box for each election district ‘provided by the Governor, in which the bal- and against the Wd for. t bonds, shall be de Sere seaman tat the persons entitled to vote, and raance with the iewy and on No. oe _— Dumfries, by Neabsco Mills. Occoqaan, i ills, the ballot-boxes urth. closing. the 1 (onid tickets shall be opcucd, aud the belt tick: hall be immediately count eof be made, and upon th of id ball rape Fi t ite returns of the "ict. together with ie Wiltiay sicker APE D COURT, Goccrnor. ers PROCLAMATION bp yy art vo ROCLAMATION BY THE Should be rows sriniel dace ara Mail Seca ” ™ Son es <i Post VIRGINIA. Me 1 as be ergy aby New Kent C. + Slaters amevilie.and Borst Ordi nary to Williamsburgh, # miles and back, twice a week. - Arrive at Witiamebnrgh by & Leave Willtamsbargh Wed: y day at 38. m.; Arrive at Tunstalls by 5.30 p.m. George H. Hobart, Charles City ©. 1., failing bidder. 4451 From Williamsburg to King’s Mill Wharf,3 miles and back, #ix times m am Arrive at King’s Mill Wharf by 9 a.m Leave King's Mil Whart daily, except Sun- ay. at? Pili Arrive at Williameburgh by 3p m. owhetan ©. ff . Macen.an elisy ie, to Sunny Bide, 7 miles and back three times a work Leave Genito Monday. Wednesday, and Pri day at Ils. m., or i from om Arrive at Grinny Sides §p- mi ve Suns ‘eesday, ‘Pharstay, and Baturday.atiam; Arrive at Genito by 2 p.m. Elwood P. Davis.of Suuuy Side, Virginia, failing Fe Deatonsville, Rew ».o.,) and Stony Pomt Blix. . H, 23 miles and back, twiee a we: Leave Jetersville Tuesday aud Saturday at § ™, am, Arrive at Cumberland C,H. by 3 pm; Leave Comberiand C,H. Monday aud Friday ‘ats Arrive at Jeteravitle by 1 Elwood P. Davis. », Virginia, failing 202 From New Port to Mountain Lake § miles and A. three times a week Leave New Port Tuesday, Tharsday, and Sat urday at? pm; Arrive at Mountain Lake by 6 pm: Lease Mountain Lake Tucsday, Lhursday,and annturda, cn rrive by 1 pm. 406 From Gee hen Bridge. by Rockbrides Baths and miles Cedar Grove Mills, to Lexington, 2 end back, six times © week from Ist June to Bich Be ber, and three times a Werk tae residue of the year. Ys Zane ge sath September. shen Bri laily. except Sunday, at ron arrival of Rickusoud tail.” xington by Li pm Lexington daily, exeept Sunday, at 9 ‘am; A:rive at Goshen Bridge by 3 pm, 1st Occober to ist May. Service Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, tame hours. D.C. Dunn, of Abingdon, Virginia, failing con- tractor. 4633 From Stow . by Arbor Hill, Middle Brodk, Moffat's Creek, and Hirownsburgh. to Gedar Grove Mills, 2/tuties and back, three times & Werk. Leave Staunton Tuesday, Thureday, aud Set- urday wt 7am; 4 Arrive at Cedar Grove Mills by 4 pm Leave Gedar Grove Milis aM Wednesday, and Friday at 4 2 dpm. D.C. Dunn, of Abingdon, Qirginta, failing con- Lor. Pile. Bee Malis, =. oe Boads, sand Bandy Hook, to Prout Royal, 42 miles and back; twice © week Leave Culpeper Wedesday nud Saturday at 3 Arrive at Royal next days by 6 pm: Ettve Frowt Mapel Secchsy tnd Plans ot 7 ‘aim: Arriv * Culpeper next days by 9a m. Perry Broyles, of Luray, Virginia, failing com- rifinsbargh. (n. ton, and Woodville, to Sperry vill aud back, #ix times & week. Leave Quipeper daily, except Sunday, at 2.15 ™. Arrive at 8) ville by 7.90 pm: Leave Sperryville, daily, except Sunday, at 7 am; Arrive at Cul, by 12.0 Proposals invited te extend service to Luray, ‘once. twice. or three times a week Perry Broyles, of Luray, Virgins, failing bidder. o New Market, 14 miles and back, #ix times a week. Leave Luray, daily, ex unday, at 8 Arrive at New Market by 12m; Leave New Market at] pm, Arrive a Laray by $ pm. Perry Broyles, of Laray, Virginia, failing bidder Accotipk, to Alexandria, 28 miles and back; thre: tines a week, =a Leave Dumiries Tuesday, Thursday. and urday at 6% crive at Ale: by 3 ve Alexandria Monday Friday ats am. Arrive at Damifries by 4.30 pm. ane ‘T. Hunter, of Washington, D. C., failing of proposal, forms |. Kuarantes, and and also AE queen eto the sent tn sealed pe.