Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1873, Page 4

The National A: of Sciences. h annaal convention of the Na- —— | Thesixteenth annual conve x | tional Academy of Setences, commenced at the Smithsonian “Institution yesterday. The Academy was incor in Ise, and a char= | ter was granted upon the condition that when- | ever ealied upon Lo = of the | government it would investigate, report c+ Tomignt. | upon any subject of sclence or art without —The Lydia Thompson | pensation, the actual expenses of said inv: tons, bie sim Aechaewm ged r vernment. The membership numbers about ,, anong. whom are many of the leading scientifie men the country. The following are the officers: Amusements, &c., Wail’s Opera Houw tren pe in “Larline.” Linceia Hall_—Ruben« Theodore Thomas’ concer' Theater Comique—Songs, burlesques, dances, &e. , Wieniawski and | Joseph Henry, president: William Chaavenet, Sizih Street Iet—Jobn O'Brien's Great Me- | vice president; Dr. Wolcott Gibbs, home secre- nagerie and Circus, tary; Louis Ben nag -y; Fairmaan Masonic Temple —Grand ball for the Wash- | Rogers, treasurer; John ®. Hoover, clerk. ington City Hibernian Benevolent Society. Prof. He bag sy —— a> ey ” Condensed Locals, See ad. of Nat. Ady. and Printing Agency. ington sends us Demorest's - Mirae g Fashion tor May. ‘The ¢rng clerks association last night re- presid Ava Gray, the celebrated botanist, read eulogy on the late Dr. John Torry, of the Unit States assay office. Prof. Benjamin Pierce followed with a learned paper on “The Determination of Si lar Points of Curves and Surfaces by the jethods of Quaternions,” ceived Tl applications for membership aud dis- | which he illustrated angram equa- cussed “fold extracts.” tions on the black a There was an interesting Easter festival at ‘TO-DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Christ (P. E.) Chureh last night by the Sunday its session at_the School children. suthecsinn utvation st. noon todey. Pier mithsonian In: nn to-day, 4G Col. Sam. Owen, who has been quite ill | joseph Henry, president, in the chair, and Mr. with an affection of the liver for a few days | John Hoover secretary.” There were present past, is much better. Professors Joseph Henry, Benj. Silliman, Ben). Miss Lulie Rives, daughter of the late John | Pierce, SF. Baird fH, C., Cofin, J. E. Ht ©. Rives, of the Congressional GIobe, sailed from | para. J. Homer Plane, J. L. Le Conte, F. B. New York for Europe in the steamer Russia to- | Neek: W. B. Rogers, S. Newcomb, Chas. A. da : Schott, James C. Waters, W. D. Whitney, Ar J. H. Tram- ¥. ‘The rite of confirmation was administered at nokl Gayot, 8.8. Newberry, a the Church of the Ascenfion last night by | bell, and Generals M.C. Meigs and A. A. Hum Kight Rey. Bishop Pinckney to five and | pbreys. Several ladies were also present. Pro’ eighteen female candidates. ‘The Baltimore annnal conference of the Afri- can Methodist Epixeopal Church, which was appointed to meet in Baltimore April 23d, has f until Wednesday, April 30th. rke & Given, wood and coal deal- eived a note saying: ‘Please enclesel the sum of twenty-five cents, t is justly due the firm from me, » the same to “Conscience.” cndment to the pound laws adopted by the board of health at the last meeting pro- vides that all animals impounded are to be sold ‘our hours without notice. Other : have reference to the details of the general management of the pound servi ft. J. E. Hilgard read a paper on determ!- f longitude between Europe and Ame- the United States coast survey. He il- lustrated by means of the blackboard the de- terminations between certain points in Europe and America, by the electrie current through the cable. ¢ time of transmission between Brest and St. Pere and Valencia and Heart's Content is about identical; the former distance is 1.850, and the latter 1,980 miles, and the time of transmission between the two points first named is 34 of a second, and between the last two 25 ofaseconl. The time of transmission between St. Pere and Brest and return occu- pies .68 of a second, and between Valencia and Heart's Content .56 of a second. The differ- he return game of base ball between the | once between Greenwich and Washington is Maryland club of Baltimore and the Washing- | sve hours, eight minutes, and twelve seconds. ton club of this city, played onthe Olympic |“ pr..t,$. Newberry, of Columbia College, grourds yesterday, resulted in a victory for | sew York, read anable paper on the sirectnne BE er. The score stood: Maryland, 7; | of the «Cincinnati anti-climal,” illustrating ashington, 27. geological strnetures by colored drawings. The Professor's ersay elicited @ number of queries from Prof. Hilgard and others, all of hich he answered in such a manner as showed entire familiarity with the subject. The Pro- fessor is a biue-eyed, scholarly-looking man; wears a long, full beard, and is apparently Controtler Baker, of the District, is to-day Paying off the police force for the month of Jan- uary, after which the public school teachers are to be paid for that month, and afterwards the clerks in the employ of the District gov- ernment, and the firemen are to be paid for the same month. , = about forty-six or seven years of age. He is a ‘The following patents have been granted to aker. and evidently thoroughly inves- ding in this District: O. F. Welch, is subject before preparing his essays. wn, made purifier, (reissue;) Wm Simon Newcomb, of the Washington Washing! paratus for cleaning | xayal bservatory, a studious, young-look- ing gentleman, next read a paper on the need of more accurate investigations-and tables of | the celestial motions, and was listened to with | great attention. He was speaking when our = | report closed. Real Estate Transfers, The following transfers of real estate have been filed in the office of the Recorder of Deeds since our last report: CW. Jnoken to W ; Washington I. Suiow, Washington, er from two or more fire one nozzle, greatly The other ng tire | The | latter improvement was tested some six or seven ago in front of the Bank of Washington a forty-foot ladder, but e that time a new @ ty feet in length and very | ay ister in the country— as heen constr his was the first time has been raised. morning to ac New York fire departm ¥. and 2, $30; GE ow, part lot 2, w e - fof nt, Mr. Joseph L. Per- William A. Torrey, of Torrey's manntar ny, also of arent, 15, squar ston the gra arrived on t So. I hose eas e :— Ni N i de. 5 Georgetown) was not called out The carriage containing the new ladder was ali nd the foot of the ladder plac r nthe two entrance ways of the hotel, and in a few minutes after it was raised, terned around and rhe top lowered to place between the tifth story windows under the cornice with as much apparent ease as if it | had been made of jack straws. The combination hose coapling was then attached, uniting the streams of water from two engines. aril the full power was put on, throw- ing an immense stream some distance above the top of the hotel, which, as is well known, is fiue stories high and surmounted by a French pee making it one of the tallest buildings in t istrict. 4 and 3,» ni Eliza Small W. Gunton 8 ub E nds to it, Loobsizer, 00; E. Middleton to + part F.A. Pan- 0; A. Jones, ww; N. G S,rqnare 245, $7 500: i, $ Ne ub. 12, suuare he exhibition was a success in every par- Shephard, | Geular, and notwithstanding the inclement Babcock to J. £. Fitch, Weather a large crowd assembled to witness it, ‘© 285, 23.000. D. Cratty to Tucker and Sherman Mare east of 509, 82,200; James J. » art lot 4, square £9, ® Stover, lot are 1G, rey. Bn Pump! ineluding the fire commissioners and many ot bers who take an interest in the fire depart- ment. The New York visitors expressed them- selves well pleased with the tests, and think both improvements of great importanee, and — WM y ‘arner, same, do. that they must be generally adopted in all } @. Eisenbrann to N. Cobb, west, half Lot 13, 94 1 fen ‘The whole affair was over by 10 | 1005, $220; J. Hartinan to W. CG. Bosse, lot 13 oe and the engines were sent to their res- | “ansre 8, 21400; G. White to E. i es. 39. Pe ations. Mesers. Perley and. Torrey | “ibe, 35 and Z/<mjuare i, #170 ©. Gamulerk in) Willremain here to-day and visit the engive Pa. Sebesen month ell houses with our commissioners and engineers, and will leave here to-morrow at 1 o'clock p. m., to visit the Baltimore fire department. oe THE CHESAPEAKE axD Onto Caxat— z per The preside: directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company met im Baltimore yesterday. The president sub- mitted his report, showing: Revenue for the month of March, $5,195.47; expenses, $15,520.20. He says: “The interruption to our trade and ngtion in receipts are mainly attributable e refusal of the boatmen to carry freight PDickeon. ahs Sh, eeease a: at the rates of 1872, viz: To Georgetown 8155, H. D-agherty to WG. Les sab, ane Alexancria $1.40 per ton. They demanded | SwarelM, $731, F.Hanta tothe Unitel 8 an increase of ten cents per ton, which was re- 330.29; W. fused by the coal companies. The difficulty aa po A. Tarkington sab. @. Was adjusted on the 30th by giving an advance | STemuare < , + anibere, of Live cents per ton,-and the shipments of coal | *ASrils ar he Cross, nb. D have been active since the first day of April, | of Pras ennave ai eae Be pnts Crone, ani Bnd there is every reason to expect alargely | Hi 2, squa: increased revenue during the present season, ustee, to Burns the entire line of canal being in good condition SOM; ed Koch to to meet the demands of the trade.” - ne in conformity with the president's recom- Menedation, $50,985 was appropriated to pay the dannary, 187, conpons on preferred const: tion bonds,on and after Ist of May next. at Alex. Brown & Sons’ bauking house, ani ‘$11,000 was appropriated for a steam pump for Cumberland division. * Ixconror Tiows.—There were filed in the office of the Kecorder of Deeds, yesterday, cer- | and J.J. tificates of incorporation of the following: half 4, square 53, * The New National Era and Citizens’ Pab- fae square 829, 5 Usbing Company,” the capital stock of which is | Par Company t. Waal fixed at $20,000, with the following trustees:—L. | $27», H. Douglass, R. W. Tompkins,George D. Joun- | ~* son, R.'T. Greener, John H. Cook, Charles R. Dongiass and Frederick Douglass, jr. “The German Evangelical Lutheran Zion €or ” the object of which is to pro- mote religious worship according to their creed. ‘The trustees are Gustav Giessler. Joun Schiut- terbeck. H. A. Seimbach, H. Vierkorn, Theo- fore Plitt, Charles Struckhardt, John i. hembert and John Schopp. iM. § ates, tof Wand parte 12 and U- snare ss Ww.w z oo are 487, NH. Alexandria Fish Market. Quotations of new fish for this day, furnished to Tue STAR by George W. Harrison & wholesale dealers in fish, Nos. 42 Ki o 56 fish wharves, Alexandria, Va. Shad. per hundred, 89 to $11; Herring. per thousand, $5 to White Perch, per banch 26 to 30 cents; Rock, per bunch, 20 to 25 cents; offal, per bunely, 10 to 20 cents. price d---caeaer-nrll A Sap Case ov Derravity—The Doughter of Respectable Parents Atiemj Yesterday afternoon Mr. called on Detective McDevitt." nd a Yous THomrsos’s covraxy at- another very large audience at Wall’s ¢+pera House last night, and the diverting bur- Jesque, « Kenilworth,” was performed with many new and funny features. The burlesyae cire was very comical. The infant skater amd dancer was warmly applauded, as usual. ‘To-night the company appear in the burlesque, *Turline,” in whieh cket’s and Edouin’s are warranted to cure the worst possible of blues. ———e THe SALE or Pictures this evening at the auction rooms of Latimer & Cleary should not be overlooked by those who wish to pert; ecorate their homes,—and who docan't?, itis indeed rare that an opportunity is afforded to nal ures, therefore, to Fs Syn B Suenciene ee Mederitt took for at M: Hall, where sere cre] ‘the medical fraternity, would M. Toner, of this beth she ee Rave Kept ih ied precinct station; one at streets aed county. and V streets south Coronado sapphires, Pennsylvania acon het OVRLTIES in neck wear to Henry June, nest door to Franc, the hater. A Case of Abduction. Advertisements. R*" FOR THE SPRING TRADE. vith iM corps of first class rkmen, @ com- ota och ot the best foreign ina i fis, fe, Re, i fall: LADIES: ANHUSS ore WEARING APPAREL, Promptly and in the best mani ATLEY, Bi EAM DYBING 4ND SCOUR- ag ee awarded 187, babies ium : Office.49 Jefferson at, Georgetown, D. Pom Otee Boe 723, pad NEW SPBING DRY GooDs. fit request, but are’ joes brisk than mada rapid pace until ovet~ | Feduced to ii conta; and'are silling well, Polka a ved father ee anes spots are less active, but white grounds, per- . colored fancies energetic chastisement on the vil- ate in fair 7 pred tegeel eeied kins ie the on! accom] mm pursuit, and who took no part in the flagella- tion, more than te see it prudently, properly, and well done. Yours, truly, BRITAS. Howanrp County, April 10th, 157 NIA! ¥ 10 PEXZAMIN MILLER PROFESSIONAL. AMES 0. CLEPHANE. E. Z. BRAILEY. " CLEPHANE & BRAILEY, THE COURTS. ervey inthe pamage ot ihe “tree raliroad DHT? | SHORTHAND WAITERS «La REPORTERS. pPPlICk COURT, Jute: Snell To-day is likely to result in two additional lines to the | tacmg Indiana aveoner t? UWS Jet Aut, nemalt ard battery o faci fe a hen Ti 1 % the ith ‘ot Marel plea of guilty entered. Tt was Fru. Syivanis line throughteut that state. The i i onal line, the opponents of the Pennaylva- ees ae 1 eo See enty Posten | aula line, organized immediately after the ‘gov- aaa days or more; fined #10. ernor signed the “free railroad bill,” with bs strong financial president, Samuel K. Wilson, and a board of directors, and paid in the ten = cent. on the estimated cost of construction rough the state. The survey for the Nation- LOST His MONEY. Hattie Ross was cha: ith stealing a veat con- taining $50 from William Doster. Tho latter testi fied that he was with the girl last bight an alley near 13th street, and after shi he missed his vest containh Painter testified that he fun but nemoney. Hattie was A SOUND SLEEPER Lewis Beratney was charged wah @ BOOKS, STATIONERY, &e. al air-tine, itis stated, is a fraction over ten BPt4srs LippaRy bad PORTRY AND miles shorter than the Pennsylvania line. _B. : A About twenty miles of this road has been grad- alo SITU RS Suneeee Oe BARWE B10 ed, and the work of construction will soon com- | BEECHER’S LIFE OF CHRIST, tc. eg od mence. The law requires its completion in two Subscriptions received at 1411 Pennsylvani ikon, ori: | years. More recently the “New Jersey rail- | enue by ania ete Toad company” alleged to be in the intervst of | 888m" __—__—sdBISHOP & HAZARD. the Pennsylvanta company, have organized, ASEICULTURAL BOOKS. and the survey of that portion of the line ex- ina hous reont ther articles were gone. Officer McHr: ry te —— to fuding the accnsed on the cars with the tending to Bound Brook has been filed. In Johnston's Agricultural Chemistry....¢1 75 coat on hie back and the Fest of the property iu his | many places it is little more thaw. 100 feet from American Gardencr's Assistant 280 pocket; jail three months. the rovte of the National line, and it is intend- filcn’s American Farm Book." 2 50 i ADAULT CASES. ed tobe parallel with it. Both start trom al- | — Wederton Gardening for Praiit——— 1 wp Lrey Gray, assanit on Anna Thoma: P : Waring’s Draining for Profitand Health 1 30 Sithone tostilion thet Caveat ee toa most the same point on the Delaware, about Falter’ Small Fruit. Culturist is dey morning. and Lucy also cut ap her ( a’s) | four m les above Trenton, and rau side by side |. Faller’s Grape Cultare....... 10 bedstead. Defendant eaid that Anns bad her has- | to Found Brook. It is the intention of the New jtz's Southerp A: © 275 bem, and called several wituesses, but none saw | Jersey railway company to continue this par- ents Pred SS seety, Beewer— 32 the atsanit committed. Fined §10 anil costs. J allelism and to construct a line, as declared, to srdnll'e Boece Hebei 58 Intant' tor hil Rete There it, ud battery with | the elty of Newark, where they will contice: P Hlasbatry wn is Present, but several officers of the cowet testified | With their roads already establis 375 that when he came to the court napus Soukiuactae : he said that he had struck her in the head with an kill he: because she had tantalized him by charging that he hed shot two fingers off to get @ pension. ~ u 7 RICHARD B. MOHUN & a8-tr 1014 Penna. avenue, corner Nth «t: <T OF NEW BOOKS AT SHILLINGTON'S BOOKSTORE: LITTLE KATE KIRBY. A Novel. By the author of Mattie Astray and Carrie's Confession. Toe COMING ACE. By Edward Bulwer(Lord stton. THE WIDOW LEROGUE. A Novel. By Emile A Mveprrovs SomNAMBULIST.—In Candia, New Hampshire, Monday night, a mysterioas attempt was made to murder a boy fifteen years of age, named John Emerson, at the house of Charles Rowe, a farmer. ‘A noise alarmed some of the family about midnight, when youn| Emerson was found in bed quite insensible, with three terrible gashes upon his head and face. inflicted with an axe, which was found on the floor. ‘There ix slight prospect of his reeov- ni 3 i ot rett appeared for the the prisoner could not ted = He risone: c be heid on his own statet informed ers, stating t ng to the hou ery. The assassin obtained an entrance throngh | TH, WiD a window and escaped the same way. Some of | THE BERBER; on, THE MOUNTAINEER OF the neighbors think the act was committed by | |THE ATLAS.” By M.S. Mayo. a boy about the same age, named Fitz, while | NOT &. pa Novel. asleep. Fitz is a somnambulist, and has fre- La By Miss Braddon. quently gotten up in his sleep, and one night . Inet week he was found in the attle of a neigte BEF esaigmT th bor's house fast asleep on the floor, with a la BAL’ IN POPULAR : bro: kao by his side, Investigation showed paul sek wan A and. @ plac ¥ that he got’ out of a second-story window at i onthly volumes 1a ) chureh 11 o'clock. §B home, went to the tool chest, took an axe and = Ml Px ATURAL ing bishop, is the t ladder and went to this neighbor's house, where | _ EH AN BIRDS’ Contatn- y be present, toget! h ten | he was found inca ‘epocies of Living or twelve other bishops, and about one hundred | 4 Guz) Digs HON ney ee Birds clurgymen. Degas WaeEe ne Ga me, OF | BAB HAND BOOK OF TRAVEL IN Dean Ixraxt Fouxn.—This morning, Officer | DRINKING Wittsky-—An, inquest was belt by EUROPE, Burroughs found a dead red male infant, | Coroner Amiranx at the Passaic county court A stock of Blank Books, Pass d house, Satarda: ht, on the body of Nichvias Dorman, a boy aged seven, who died Saturday morning from the effects of drinking intoxicat ing liquors to excess. Mrs. Dorman, the mother of deceased, who formerly kept a liquor-saloon, testified that the boy bad been drunk on a pre- vious occasion about a year and that she bad whipped him for it! Since then he had not newly-born, onthe open lot on West street, near street bridge, and carried it tothe house. Dr. Hartigan was summoned, and thinks healthy ebild, but died trom hemor- lemorandum Books, Note ‘and Paper, Le ing Cards at the very lowest pric: VERY MOTHER THE DOCTOR OF HF 4 OWN FAMILY if she gets Dr. MAL HEALTH AT HOME ot STOCKMAN & SOX be had there also. d. m2s-tr 25 Mh street northwest Two good AGENTS wanted. —The steamer Johr day for New York, with 194 pounds taNow. The COTTAGE BIBLE to ng ricki indulged until Friday, when he eame home | NEE WORK: THO: Gu ,D. D. Winn ne rossly intoxicated. She did not know where | [2% WORKS OF THOMAS GUTHRIE, D. D to #8 per thousand, -and the tayloresat @ had procured the liquor, but had heard that | ‘The Gospel in Ezekiet huuded: 900 dad doltt ot oisen he had accompanied Robert Schuler, a little | The Sainte Inheritance, source eng . boy aged five, to procure some for the mother | The Way of Life. Benj. Mayfield, shonld have been printed in | Of the latter. She knew her son was drunk | gun Parables, ustrated our list yesterday of the recentiy elected tus, | When he eame home, but did not think his cons | Speaking Character.” Sedepebaw a Paeteeteine oeeeee dition was dangerous. During the night he ap- | Plea for f * "| peared to be in pain, and on Saturday morning | ‘The City; ite rows, she sent for the doctor. When the latter ar= BALLANTYNE’, rived the boy had just expired.—V, ¥. fines, | _* 425 7th street. ; Rp eee iti. OTIOCE, Ch WO Ge peer: | sa-Connecticut, getting tired wi sol ws ize . wg tired with her select PENING OF A NEW STATIONERY STORE yepatte last pears trade ber ae eee nn” | man; bas clected Aftsen tlecteauien, OPEADD BLANK BOOK MARUEAGIORT: day afternoon tinder the management of her | 4 RA-Mr. Phillips, of Augusta, Me., has four |, Ftticlam erode at far prions, for euahs 0 new owners. The wind was blowing a pretty | daughters who assist him in his copper-shop AND BINDING DONE TO ORDEB. atin breeze at the time, and a flaw striking her | @9-A sonof the late President Tyler is was:- | _ ‘The public are invited toonitand estore ver new off the Arsenal she was capsized. and her occa- | ing his time in lecturing on temperance to | souk. BEN. ¥. FRENCH, pants thrown into the water. Californians. Under National Mets Bek however. to cling to her sides and ®7-An Iowa woman, who owns acoal mino, | sersur uakcoudes * <q 55 $s | says she might have married two men aay fur on her three o'clock trip from Washington this city, went to their relie! after some delay, and with great difticulty, rescuing the whole party, among thom Captain of the U.S. ‘Navy, and General Ryan, ot Cuban notoriety, though life in some of them was neatly ‘extinct when they were dragged on the deck of the steamer. Tuey were landed at the Arsenal wharf against which the steamer, in her efforts to save them, bad drifted and had a small hole knocked in her side in consequence, and the yacht being subsequently righted they again took seats in her and sailed back to the Navy Yard. Fhe iy loss sustained by the accident, save the damage to the steamer, was a new hat belong- ing to Mr. Frank Wolfe, proprietor of the eat ing saloon on the steamer, and an account book to and succeeded, the last two years. EZ Indiana tobacconists are pinchod to choox> between shutting up shop on Sunday or paying $20 fine for selling a cigar on that day. a7 The effect of newly aroused religious emotion in a Minnesota convert was to ind: him to beat his wife almost to death, on th ground that she was his flesh and conseg iteu Ought to be mortified. ACE YOUR MONEY WHERE te WILL DO THE MOST GooD. bol ‘There is certainly no better place in the city than the METROPOLITAN DOLLARS STORE, 31Q 7th street, where, if you invest a dollar, you may rest assured you always receive the Sull value of your money, and where a saving of 25 to 8) cents on the dollar is guaranteed to you, without the draw- back of receiving inferior goods. The variety offered OITY ITEMS ‘TRE StxcER SEWING MACHINE sales of 1472 pt fo were Save Your I 4, wtt ‘When Dr. Wis- tar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry will cure coughs, | isso large, comprising everything pretty and use- delongi Mr. Dave Lowe, both of which | colds, bleeding at the lungs, and arrest ‘the feli | ful, that it has become a vain task of enumerating were dropped overboard during the exertions destroyer, Consumption, it does more than most physicians can do. The use of a single bottle. coating one dollar, will satisfy the incredulous bg ey need look no {urther for the required js 6 the different articles of » and your attention is only called to below-mentioned goods, as all are good, desirable, and very cheap, and immense quan- tities have lately been sold: ” British - HOSE, ir for @1. Peli THON BAAME HORE ui for Bt. Childrens’ IRON FRAME HOSE, 8 pair for i Ladies’ BIAS-TUCKED SKIRT, §2, comaet be bonght elsewhere less than $3. of the owners to rescue the drowning men, but both of which could have been easily saved had it not been that the parties to whom they belonged hesitated anthey 7, “in Look: ing after own property, w ple were drown!ng before their eves.”* ee TRavE Unton.—A elsewhere in to-day’s G: will hold a meeti: PORES Eee Use Doorry’s Yeast Powpen if you retish light, sweet, wholesome Biscuits, Rolls, Pastry, Se. Nour grocer sells it. Full weight and ength. 6 ntet all next Friday night to consider the request of the jour- Ladies’ RUFFLE APRONS. primo muslin; 80c. - THE MosT UNHAPPY Penson inthe world ie | Fine English HATR BRUSHES, ymen carpen' increase ges 5 F Mate HAND MIRRO! 1, ter the Ist proxima, Several of tie master car- | the Dyspentic seat oF earnks deat dark, ant | Excaeot Rubber Drewiug COMBS, 35 and Sc, penters who have been conversed with on the | $!0omy; he seels ‘‘out of sorts” with himself and SILK BOWS, 25 and boc. subject express their belief that the rejuest wilt | @¥erybody else. Life is a burden tohim, This | Ladies SILK SCARFS all wee shui, boo. not be granted. The; by taking Peruvian Syru sidering the pay is by no ‘a protoxide of Iron.) Cases of 27 years’ stund- chave been cured by it. 6 WE SHOULD NOT SUFFER FROM A Coven, which a few doses of Ayers Cherry Pectoral will cure. Time, comfort, itealth, are allsaved by it. mw.tcw a Tae National Savines BANE, corner of New York avenue and 15th street, pays 6 per ct. annum on each month. hours, 9to4. Saturdays, 9 to4 and 6 J Tes rte tate Solid Walnut,3 Phrong TOWEL BACK. 250. oy” Leather BOO! PS, 250. Four Pieces Bxeslient SG¢ a Six Handsome GOBLETS. 0c, Beautiful Oval PICTURE FRAMES, Sire * ” A Pretty Carved te Corner and Side BRACK has Se TO PAPER ACKS, RACKS, all walnut, 21 acklowledge con- of other mechanics the request y means unreasonable, but say that the searcity of work will compe! them, in a few days, to discharge some of those they now em- ploy even at the present low wages. Alp FROM THE PEanopy FUNp.—The city superintendent of public schhols received, by last night's mail, a check for fifteen hundred dollars, from the Peabody education fund, in aid of our schools. Thig money is to be used for building purposes, Alexandria being entire- } Bown tg ith proper school houses and rniture, and it me 3 the aim of the city poor dh pee to repairthe deficiency as soon as iL RACKS, BA CLOTHES For a further list of CHEAP GOODS, SILVERBERQ@’S METROPOLITAN DOLLAR STORE, Hat each. call at wo8 Ponp’s Extract cures rheumatism, burns, piles, ulcers, toothache, sore throat, rains, PRoPERTY SALY.—Mesers. Green & Wise, | S#lds, soreness, old sores, headache, coli, oe ee: real estate agents, sol to-day for Mr. W. ‘T. | Jamences,. bruiscs, boils ali tanmcrinmen toe | | sear near Pennsylvania avenae, Eagan, a farmnear Bealton station, Fauquier | Pond's Extract differs from all other advertised Soatkiesne dae hemmanreien teen ns in the fact that it is @ standard tiene chin aw on ne ceca ns icine, treated of In medical writings; and | VIENNA EXPOSITION. a t, }, for acre, rax-tte it - pao) = ise to be a cure for these diseases. mthst! | ciRCULAR LETTERS OF CREDIT, EEE. THE COMMUNITY at large appreciate the use- : Campanio Acw » you Fans av ING see fulness of Binger's Sewing Machine, 15 Lseucndad t is stat iat Prot. ‘as demonstrat ae cook: Lo. anew the powerful antiseptic properties of car. | _SOUxD vxnr Doing Tndwspensable to health JAY COOKE & co. bolic acid in some additional exneriments lately | and comfort Bre ene come from far | one Circular Letter isa letter of introduction to made. Ile enveloped a fresh corpse in a cloth | 8nd near to visit Dr. the well-known | paukers of character throvshowt the world, Liewtily. saturated with a solution contai Chiropodist, No. 535 15th street, opposite the | jng the bearer and authorise payments to hi » for relief from corns, bad nails., &c., | required t@ the extent of his deposit with us. ei or five da; and ad) as to suitable shoes. ‘all information will be furnished upon applica- the body. entirel exhibit tion in person or by letter. JAY COOhE & CO., Bankers, aps-1m WASHINGTON. H4Y= You sre putrefaction even during the heat of summer. Ohlorine hi previously proved ineffectual to disinfect OACHES, BATS EDBUGS cannot be found iw OER: TERMS ° the atmosphere of the dead house. bere FOR: RIES ORES CEMA Neat penctrinania sce a7 e HOLMES. & BRO. northeast cor. Ist and E sts. n.w. al4-3m* Brovaeaps Shand Lisson tasks oot mertaren F°® FAMILY Us TONE MASONS AND BUILDERS. Attention ie SUL DENG STONE ae SALT I! SALT! HALFORD to suit, the LEICESTERSHIEB TABLE SAUCE, UM ANY PART OF THB WORLD. GROCERS. RAILROADS, Froer: A CEXANDEIA. & WASHING KSCEIVED DIRECT from the Mills in VALLEY OF VIRGINIA. ‘Will sell to famities Se conte per barre! less than usual prices, ALEXANDBIA'S FREPEBICKSBURG B&B. Corner of B and Sixth Sorens. Prices of SUGARS and TEAS all marked down, CATAWBA WINE, Gscparcet from Pleasant Valley Wine Company, 8. H. BACON, 709 Market Space, between 7th and sth streets. PRIcE List or mares GROCERI¥®S aT EBLPHONZO YOUNGS & co's. Pacific Expres, crpt Sunday. jon, Pm. daily ,ex-) daily, o . innatt Ex. Aaily, except Sun- 20:33 p.m, Southern Em Western Exp., tr ‘Trains tearing Washington at ¢ 5 and) S&P m.. connect at Bown wth trains for ™ lea-ing Bowie > 25 and 1h and 4 Tiving af Mariboro’? 3a. m and 12 Mane Traine arriving at Washirgt = SUGARS, (BEST NEWYORK BRANDS.) _&.8. YOUNG, Gent Pas ye wit) for @: ihe: ALTIMO} ND OHIO wwector te | Bi eaithoad sae is as eer WABthe TON ann poms hE SORE and WASHINGTON AND THE WEST too cans for joe | SOW rue as follows, cansfor 38 FOR BALTIMORE. except Bondar, at 448, 648, S00, eee 21 8:20, 620, 8390 aud 6.35 ON SUNDA cag eSADE EOE RAPTOR Call at once, as we cannot gnarantes the above an Daralieled low prices for any definite lengtb of time SLPHONZO YOUNGS & cv,, ie Hanover ‘ana Relay, jeosup's Out, and the @ROCERS, E, YUONGS, MASONIO TEMPLE. WH. sears,t a7 Nvvre and Feve. | s-tr STEAMER LINES. {EW EXPRESS LINE VIA CANAL, PxTWEEN PRILADELPHIA, ALEXANDRIA INGTON AND GEORGETOWN BAILEY adelphine Wi elphiny URDAY? at 12 ¥ 59 W, DAYs. r Arrive at 1:50. 0:50 p. me Through tick: the West cen be hat Wasbingion Biation Ticket pours at r street, Georgetown, D.C., TU! RDAY, wide ee ore nects nt! Philadelphia with “C: for P. Y at the { the vovidence, er re Sitanae ts have ther ‘vegatee i > ta hewe their ‘te z. CLYDE « valleg wd at their residence, taken ‘othe F. A. REID, Alexandri Jepot, and pat inte the baggage car, tWWALDO A. PEARCE, 94 Congross Street, Ros- c'New Work, Philadel ots and Boston soe ad- stisement of Through Line.” THOS. R SHARP, Asst L_M. COLE, Guneral Tis GEO. 8. KOONTZ apd ] ASHINGTON, NORFOLK, BOSTON, AND Ww PROVIDENCE. The fine Iron Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE having resumed her resular trips to Norfolk, will leave her wharf, foot Of 6th street, every MONDAY a: THURSDAY, at 2 onc ‘ Landings, connect tng af Nortolk! with Stommahtp of Master Transportation. icket A, H'XGTON, November 8, 1478 HINGTON and NEW KOuE = M x. ame, tie Boston ond rvideuce. ‘reig! ould be addressed “care the . Lake. Norfolk.” Bi ick o FOR NEW YORK, teivtont change of core. Lica! ihe G04 Penny ivania avenver’ Know's | Leave daily (excopt Suuday) st 8:00 8. m., 150) and sag CLAGETT, Generar nas YOR PHILADELPHIA. mis “Plante Stores incr isis aad Pat ave, | Letvedally (cxcept Bubday) 08 8 tay 1) aod 639 ON SUNDAY. for New York at 5:0 p. w., and Philadelphia ma. Sleeping cars for New York on 8: p.m. train tickets to Philadelphia, New York ant be bad st the Siation Office at all Bours and Onto raftroad between Washington, a onasp Ling. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN BOYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LIVERPOOL, CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. FROM NEW YORK. {Russia......Wed_Apl. i6 | Calabria ‘Java. Wea oA pl. Baltimore, Asunpor engers And every following WEDNESDAY and 84’ ey DAY from New You TUB. NT BOURLE rr. sat aoe :, oe Seorory. Pinte Binterrosa dee" ‘He O and for and cabin novis-ly “HAS. G. FRANCKLYB, Agent. A SCHOR LINE STEAMERS SAIL EVERY SATURDAY. Passengers booked to and from — Norws dena. Det ae isan Sg yg ime France, Wolland, Belgium and the © Cabin fare from NEW YORK to LONDON, LIV. EEPUOL, GLASGUW and DERBY, $60 and g 78 EXCURSION TICKETS. g120. oammatione, §35; Siccrage, $30; ali payable TeLcy. ‘hase tickets at lowest % te ‘yeuere spply to the ‘Agent, 0. CAMMAUK at HENDERSON Bi sea ey tion georges, MS#cHa8T Ss Line ov oTxamsnirs. WASHINGTON AND NEW TORK. sFasahag.tne tne Semmens B O. KTORT ant @ wry 8 WwW Fd 4 er, every Ba “ ‘or No. 709 G STREET, jematt Burween 77H ap 814 Starere, ‘Ta mireaiaL HOTEL, JAMES SYEES, Proprisor. TRONTING PENNsYLvaNia Avenve, avenue. BF Freight: ders left nue. or at the tended to, 3. W. THOM: Baween WA and Wh strecs, jell-t? 'PSOW, President, wine 9. &. ogee LIVERY Sakina. abies ie Pegteee Seis Se Saas B. OLUOTT & SON, est na + BOARDING, LIVERY 4 SALE STABLES, iarieb be promisss shall be found ot 416 eth street, bet. D and E,and Chain Alicy, B. | st canal to in on. between 13th and lth. Office, Willards. {Rep., Chrow CRUIT, JB. 173TH axp 181s. ae AM OStuerr, ps cartinges by day ornight,snd TS2 cumaes TEs gone Has removed to 613 D strest, Between 6th and 7th, north side, ‘TEAS cheaper than ever. Bo rent to pay.