Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1874, Page 4

THURSDAY....... .Webruary 12, 1574. LOCAL NEWS. Natwnal Theater —M Crockett.” Pord’s Bouse —Mrs. comic opera company in “The King’s Secret.” Theater Comique—A myriad of new stars in miscellaneous attractions. Corcoran Art Gallery, corner of I7th street and Pennry!vania av. Pyth annual reception of the New Jersey publication assoctation at Masonic Temple. Coudeused Locals. Go tothe Old Folks concert at Union Chapel to-night. See advertisement. From J.C. Parker have Harper's Weekly for February 21. Mr. William H. Crook has resigned as a mem- ber of the Board of Public Schools for the | fourth district, and his resignation has been accepted A number of friends of Rey. Mr. Stern, of the ‘Washington Hebrew Congregation on Tuesday | evening last. the occasion being his birthday, | him by the presentation of a beauti- fal case. Howand Division No. 2, Sons of Temperance, gave leasant literary and masical entert sin: Marini’s hall last even! an cs : or" Carolina, recitations by young ladies, musical | selections. and subsequently # dance. ——e THE THEeaters.—The bi rattling per formance of (ffenbach’s comic opera ‘Les Bavards” the Cates troupe last night, EVENING STAR._|"ree | cause, 1. TI | the usury b demonstrated one thing very clearly, and that ia, that it can no longer be said none but a | French company can properly perform opera bouffe. The acting and singing of each mem- | ber of the troupe was fully up tothe require- | ments of the piece, and the opera went off in such a spirited way thatthe laughter of the audience often drowned the word: of the people on the stage. Mrs. Oates made a dashing “‘Ko- Jand,”” Crane was, of course, “Sai miento,” and Allen a fair «Alec: iss Lar- kelle was charming as “‘Inez,”” Mr. Woodlield very funny as ‘‘Beatrice,” the chattering wife, and Jones, in m: and acting, was comi- eal as the clerk. Nothing more comical has been seen here this winter. Altogether the per- | formance was the best yet given by the com- any, and it is to be hoped **Les Bavards” will | Tepeated. The company is not a burlesque troupe, as some suppose, but their operatic por- formances are more diverting. To-night, ‘The King’s Secret.” | Washington play-goers are beginning to find | Gut that “Davy Crockett” is not © that kind of | a play,” and the result is that the audiences are | growing larger nightly, including the retined | and intellectual people who can best appreciate the good points of the drama. As before inti- | mated in these columns, any one who can enjoy | Bret Harte’s best stories will derive more are from seeing the new American play. ‘ank Mayo i a clever actor, and in some of | the scenes exhibits unusual dramatic abihty. The female minstrel troupe is one of the fead- ing attractions at the Theater Comique this week, and is heartily applauded. There are other novelties too which tend to keep the audience ina good humor. The pertormances take a wide rapge,embracing all the featares of a first-clase variety theater. | oe | THE Wasuinctow (Eriscorat) Convoca- | ‘Tiow.—Last evening, the first of a series of mis- | sionary meetings, under the auspices of the | Washington Convocation, washeid in St. Mary’s church, (colored.) on Zid street. The Very | Rev. Meyer Lewin, dean of the convocation ided. Of the city clergy who were prese the chancel, and participated in conducting divine worship, were the Kevs. Messrs. Steele, | McKee, Jackson and Crammell. The opening | address, giving a sketch of the object sought to be attained by the convocation, was delivered | by the dean. He was followed by the Rev Floridus Steele on the unity and oneness of the Episcopal church, as made up of its various parts or members. ' The Kev.John McKee came next, tracing im the history of St. Mary's the | Pious zeal of many of its members, and con- | gratulating them that the gloom of their early Vicissitudes was disappearing before the dawn | of their coming day of brightness and promise, The next » er was the Kev. Augustus Jack. sen, who also spoke words of good cheer, min- | led with some bits of practical advice relative | the prospective new church editice of St. | Mary's. As will be seen by advertisement, the | next meeting of the convocation will be held in St. Paul's church, on “i street, this evening at 7.30 o’elock, and at St. Mark’s, on Capitol Hill, on Friday evening at same hour. o- ConpITION OP THE NATIONAL MeTropot- | tas Bank.—The followin, report of the con- dition of this bank, at the close of business Jan Bary 31, was submitted at the meeting of th directors yesterday, and shows the bank to be | in a very healthy condition Kesources—Loans and discounts, 631.155 64; $ to se- overdrafts, $5.179 5; United States bon other stocks and mortgages, £° due trom red and reserve agents. $101,376.33: al banks, $20,575 60; due trom’ state banks and bankers, $7.3*2.41; banhing-house, $70,597.05; other rea! estate, $1,045 ST; furniture an tures, $2, %: current expenses, ¢ taxes paid, + premiums, and otber cash items, ©2 national banks, $12,026; mg nickels.) $809.17 legal-tender notes, $13 4s fractional currency, coin, Tota’, Sl we Liabilities—Capital stock paid in, $500 000; surplus fund, $1:0.000; discount, $6,234.12: change, $374.15; interest, $3,354 39; profit ‘and lose, $2,075.45: national bank circulation out- standing, $149,955; individual deposits, $454,- 5r aé to national banks, state banks and bankers, <9 $1,606 257.43. ——————— ‘Tue Diereicr Mivit1a—Resignation of Co! Smcot.—Col. Samuel S$. Smoot, Colonel ist ent District militia, has forwarded his Fesignation to the Governor. assigning as a Teason for so doing that his time is so entirely absorbed in the enterprise he is engaged in, of building a railroad to Point Lookout, that he finds it impossible to give that attention to the promotion of the efficiency of the military af- fairs of the District that its importance de- mands. The Governor yesterday issused gen- eral order No. 9, announcing the resignation of Col. Smoot, and also of Chas. A. Ball, Ist lieu- tenant of D company, and disbanding B com- pany, Ist battalion of cavalry. The officer re- sponsible or the property of the District gor- erpment is ordered to transfer the same to the quartermarter. specie, 961. Crancz ov Kemrine « Gawpirne Hor A Clerk in Government Office Ligh ned fc 1e—Thie morning, Detective McDevitt | R°wil not, except in special cases, Interfere sy | on a wi well, and a clerk in took into custody Benjamin Cooley, rant issued by Justice John T. Po sworn out by Thomas M. Henderson, ® government oftce, charging Cooley with persuading and inducing him (Henderson) | to take part in a game of chance at cards. and | that while engaged in playing, the said Cooley | out of the sum of one huvdred | dollars; and that defendant now uses the prem- ises in rear of No. 452, on Sth street northwest, for the purpose of gambling by cards. Cooley | was taken before -ludge Snell, who fixed the | bonds at $2,000 for a hearing on Monday next. Tes Prorosep Grris’ Kerorw ScHxoor— ‘The board of trustees and the friends of the proposed girls’ reform school will, to-morrow, at 10 o'clock a m., present arguments before the House Committee en Pablic Buikdiags and Grounds, in bebalf of their memorial to Con- gress, introduced by General Chipman a few days since. Hon. A. G. Riddle, Mrs. Sara J. Spencer and Mr. Wm. K. Lincaln, saperinten- | dent of the boys’ home of refuge, Baltimore, | will urge an appropriation in behalf of the in- stitation, while Mr. Wm. T. Weber will ex- plain the plan of the buildings. The plan is the joint work of Messrs. Lincoln and Weber. and is said to combine beauty, economy and convenience. Rear Estate Trans! trustee, to Moses Kelly, ‘$7 400; Ben. R. Plumley to IZ, $37 —W. H. W: to M. Murphy, A, B, ‘sub- of square 682, © John B. Blake an H. Cassell et al. lot $1, A. F. Dinsmore to Mary S- 2, Mount Pieasant, $1. —_-—___ BUILDING AssOCTATIONS.—At the 2th meet- ing of the Eureka association on Tueeine mane, 14 shares were advanced on at an average of 45 —, 25 sbares were redeemed by return of dues with ten per cent. interest. At the 58th monthly meeting = the Six Per | E tm General Term, the building association case of M. yoo = the Trustees, &c., of the Eco- nomical Building Association was taken up— Messrs. Davi association: Mattingly and Schmidt forPabst. Tt will be that this case was before the Equity Court, Judge Humphreys, the bill having been filed for an injunction and account, and the auditor having stated an account, the complainant filed exceptions thereto, three of which were sustained, and an appeal was taken. THE CASE OF TH: ‘The brief of the appellants ( trustees) states that Pabst was a member of the Economica! Building association. After several urchases the result was thet he held one hun- ired and twenty shares, making, in the aggre- gaté, $10,770. He gave bonds in the usaal form, conditioned for the payment by him to the trea- surer of €? per month for every share of stock held by him, and fines and forfeitures. until the association should determine and close, and ex- ecuted deeds of trust to secure them. He hay- ing failed to continue his monthly payments, the association ordered sale of his property un- der the deedsof trust. This bill was filed for an injunction against the sale and an account. Three exceptions were sustained, as follows: Be- | contract is void, because its con- | ditions are against law and violated the law of wury. 2. The contract contemplated a loan, and was not an advance of partnership funds. 3. The tines should not have been allowed. it further states that the first two present the question whether the transactions are the same in a!l building associations were usurious. Such question could not arise if the transaction originated after the passage of the act to amend 22, 18/0, for the amount received by the plaintiff’, with interest at 10 per ent, compounded every six months, exceeds the amount he was to pay. The whole scheme is One of constant reinvesting and compound- ing. Charging compound interest is not usur- ious. The larger part of the advances received were in 1869, but the balance, $4,120, was not reccived until December, 1579. ' As to the latter there can be no question of ry mare. Whether the terms of the first advances made a case of usury depends upon the scheme of the associations. The object of the association is declared, in its constitution, to be the accumu- lation of a fund, by the savings of its members, sufficient to enable the stockholders to build, repair, or purchase for themselves dwelling- houses, Kc. Every stockhokler is bed Si per month for every share of stock, and this money is to be invested and compounded until the funds will divide to each stockholder #200 per share, or twice its nominal amount. The usual mode of dealing is, when a sufficent fund accumulates to buy out one or more stock: | holders, the money is put up at auction, and whoever bids the highest premiun: for it re- ceives his future dividend of $200 per share at once, lese the premium. In other words, he discounts his future dividend at its p nt market value. He goes on, of course, with his monthly payments as usual, because the fand out of which bis dividend was to come is made up of his contributions as well as those of other members. As fastaseach one is thus paid off the time for winding up is shortened, because the associ: Temaning members are paid. A number of Enghsh and American authorities are cited, and the points are made that the association becomes bound to pay in futuro to each stockholder on winding up acertainsam which may be law- fully discounted; and the principal sum re- | ceived by the advanced stockholders is not to be returned, but only an annuity during the life of the association. ‘The case of Silver against Barnes, (the first case on the subject,) decided in North Uarolina in 1899, is cited. This was the case of a ma- tual benefit society, in which the funds were put up at auction and advanced to the highest bidder, asin this case. It was jeft to the jury | to find whether there was a bona fide partner- ship, or the whole arrangement was a coutri- vance to cover usury. ‘hey tound the former. On a motion for a new trial, Tindall, Ch. J., said: “The judge who tried the cause thought there had been no loan, but merely an advance of partnership t=nds, in which the defendant Was interested in common with the other nfem- bersof the society. The defendant was inter- ested in the fund when the money was ad vanced and when it was repaid. The rules of the socie- are, in effect, a meré ageement of partners t that their joint contributions shall be advanced | for the use of one or the other, as oceasion requires, and the transaction in «question was not a borrowing by the maker of the note from the payees.” Also thecase of Wadley agt. Baker, (6th Howe S7,) in which plaintiff filed a bill to redeem on payment of the sum advanced with legal wi:- ness. Vice Chancelior Wigram said that this Was not the case of a loan, but was a discount of the plaintiff's share, or an advance, at its then present or conventional value, of his interestin the shares he held at the termination of the | association, and that plaintiff was only entitied to redeem on payment of all future subscrip- tions on his shares until the dissolution of the association, its probable duration to be ascer. | tained by calculation and the future payments to be treated as due. The appellants further state that in the United States statutes have been in several states very much in the terms of the Engl'sh statute. Some of them seem to autnor- e the transaction under the name of loans, and some of the societies are calied loan assoe ciations. And some of the decisious seem to recognize the same features in these dealings, before adverted to, a8 at variance with the theory of usury. A case in 25th Barbour 263, decided in 1851, is ch the court say: If the principal je absolutely there could be no doubt of the usury. But it isnotso. And even when the mortgage has been foreclosed, and the moneys mentioned therein collected, they | are to be applied only to the satisfaction of the dues, fees and fines, and the surplus to be re- turned to the mortgagor. And in regard to the increased monthly payments: ‘ Besides the higher rate of interest to be paid by each mem- ber of the association, the shorter will be the period required to complete the accumulation on the completion of which the association was to terminate and the payments to cease. The money colleeted by the association = the mutual property of all the members, an the greater the accumulation the shorter being Feriod during which they will have to bear the burden of paying the moneys, for the pur- pose of accumulation, the ordinary objection to the collection of interest beyond the fixed rates is removed.” Numerous other authortties follow,and the appellants say: ‘‘{t will be seen that in most of the states there are some statutory enactments which would relieve the cases from the objec- tion of usury, even were they considered cases of loan. But the pertinency of the decisions above referred to is that they declare the trans- actions in question not to be loans, bat advances, discounts, and purchases.” As to the fines they say: “It is true that equity will never interpose actively to enforce malties and forfeitures. On the other hand, prevent their enforcement at law. Espectally, where there can be no clear estimate of the damages resulting trom a breach for which the penalities are incurred, they refuse to interfere in either way. The very illustration given of this in 2 Story’s Eq. Jur., sec. 1525, is the case of failure to pay installments on stock. In the case of Shannon ys. Howard Mutual Buildin; Association, 6 Md., it was held that the fines o! & building association did not come within the Principle which forbids a court of equity to end its assistance to enforce the payment of fines and forfeitures, and that they ought to be allowed even where the court were applied to to foreclose.” . THE CASE OP THE PLAINTIFF. The complainant (Pabst) states that he re- ceived $10,/60 and paid $10,258, leaving a bal- ance of $512, but defendant ‘claims that he wed March 1, 1872, rate of interest this {6 per cent. for three rs the principal and interest would be 2,708.00, and the amounts paid with interest for 18 months (aver: would be $11,185 . leaving $1,527.38 due the association. Accord- ing to the claim of the association only $512 of the principal being due, the balance, $7,007, must be reckoned as interest. The brief con- tinues: Thisis about seventy per centum inter- est for eighteen months, or at the rate of forty- six percent. a year. The plaintiff claims that this contract is usurious, that it bas every ele- ment of usury; is @ loan of money; its repay- ment is secured, and an illegal rate of interest is reserved. {f this is so, no disguise will pre- vent its being so adjudged. The cases of an- nuities relied on by the defendants have no bearing upon this question, because the repay- ment of the principal beyond all question, is se- its success and lite nit. The English cases relied on that transactions cured to the association. . Cox and I. L. Johnson for the | PMbi jon is then only to continue until the | _ see micron ora | _Me. Cox axp Tae Hows Ruce Leacur.— | Editor Star: In this morning’s issae of the B-— | publican and Chronicle appeared editorial alla | sions to the sentiments of Mr. Cox some years back in a book called ‘The Backeye Abroad,” which its those papers assume to be | hostile to the Irish people. In that book Mr. Cox spoke sentiments which, while they hi jarred upon the relig‘ous feelings of a | mi of the Irish people, did not apply to | them any more than did to the balance of their two hundred fifty miliions fellow Catholics. Mr. Cox's religious sentiments in those days, or at the present time, have nothing whatever todo with the meeti; | tonight. The Home Rule L e is compose: of Catholics and Protestants alike. It is a movement for the political freedom of the Irish peor The gentlemen who are to speak at e to-night will speak, not asreligion- ists, but as American freemen sympathizin, with the Irish people in their efforts for self- government. It is too late in the day to spring up the religious question to create <issensions among our people. The Irish want political freedom; they have all the religious freedom they desire. Very truly, A. BROSNAN. — “Magic SHapowa”™ will be exhibited for the benetit of Memorial Church, by the students of | Columbia Deaf Mate College, at the church, corner of lith and N streets, to-morrow eve- ning. See advertisement. Now THAT I AM SPBAKING of the social qual- ities of presidents, let me tell a little story of Mrs. Madison, which came to ~ ears awhile ago. Along while the queen of Washington society, accustomed to dictate its hours as well as its idols, she came back again after several years’absence for the winter. Qne of her old friends, anxions to do her honor, begged her to come and spend the evening with a tew friends, One of the guests arrived very early, a little before 9, I believe, and found Mrs. Madison in the dressing room. “Oh, Mrs. Madison,” she said, “I am so glad you are here already, for | now we can have a long, quiet chat, before the | others arrive.” ««My dear,” s1id Mrs. Madison, | Lam just going home now!” Imagine the length of those hours between 5 and 9 for both | hostess and guest.—“‘Haigha” in Springfield Re~ publican, Tae STRikes 1s New York City.—It ap- pears strange that at a period of such wide- spread distress and sutlering a body of men should voluntarily have abandoned work to | strive for higher remuneration. Thousands | wander about the streets eager to work for bread only, and it would seem that such a mo- ment is a very unfavorable one for workinginen to go on strike. But the capmakers and cigar- work under the old conditions, hoping, under pressure of the spring trade, to force the em- ort is being made to arrange the dispute through | state of ae injurious to their common inter- ests.—N. ¥. Heraid, 12th. Coarse AN» Fine Frour.—The London Die- tetic Reformer shows, by scientitic data, that wheat meal, which is cheaper than bolted meal | or fine flour, contains one-third more nutriment than flour does, from which the bran has been | sifted. Fine flour, according to this journal, is | not food at all, in the proper sense of the term; that 18, the elements ef the grain, which are separated in the process of bolting, being es- | Sential to perfect nutrition, those who use fine flour are obliged to subsist mainly on other | things, or lose their health—that no one, there- | fore, who makes baker’s bread a principal ar- ticle of diet can long maintain health, while those who use wheat meal bread, unfermented | and unadulterated, can maintain their health with a very small addition of other foods. Histeric Evipence 1n A Coat Deposit.— he Scranton (Pa.) Kepublican says: On Sat- urday afternoon a miner named Martin Lough- | ery, working in No. 10 mine ot the Pennsylya- mia coal comps y's works at Pittston, while in the act of breaking a massive piece of coal in the center of it what appeared to be a small | wooden box of an oblong shape. Upon touch- | ing the-box it crumbled into dust like a fungus, | and disclosed a copper whistle, having a tliat mouthpiece, and in other respects shaped like our ordinary tin whistles. The miner bright- ened it up, applied it to his mouth, and made it sound doubtless for the first time in cen turiea. The spot where it lay is about one hun- dred feet beneath the surface of the earth. Dears or Mrs. CHAPMAN AT Romg.—Intel- ligence has been received in Baltimore ot the Geath at Rome, on the i%th ultimo, of Mre. Mary Elizabeth Chapman, aged 61 years. The | dece: was the wife of’ John @. Chapman, | the eminent American artist, and daughter of | the late Fielder Luckett, of Alexandria, Va. Mr. Chapman is prominently known as havin, painted the “Baptism of Pocahontas” an “Marriage of Pocahontas,” which adorn the rotunda of the Capitol, at Washington. Both Mr. and Mrs. Chapman have been for many years residing at Kome. One of their sons, Mr. Conrad Chapman, was a volunteer on the staff of General Wise, of Virginia, during the late war. THe Wape-Kalsriaisch BREACH oF Promise Case.—dt will be remembered that about two years ago oy? f Francis Wade insti- tuted an action against Martin Kalbfleisch, ex- mayor, to recover $100,000 for alleged breach of promise of marriage. Before the case ever came to trial the defendant died, and the piain- tiff subsequently sought to have the suit con- tinued against hisestate. Judge Nelson, sittin, at special term, decided adversely to her, ‘and she appealed to the A econ ye term. Yesterday the general term rendered a decision sustain- ing Judge Nelson’s action. The case may be oor iad to the court of appeals.—N. ¥. Herald, 1th. ———————————— TE Goop Time Cominc.—No woman now goes to the wash-tubs, or a fox hunt; to pruning CaS pthc gardening, or vegetable-growing with corsets on. So we hope the day will come when horrible head-dresses, dowdy frills and fturbelows, monstrous bonnets and trailing skirts willdisappear, like other vulgar things, from the promenade, the street, the church, and such other public places as are manifestly inappro- priate for them. There is a time and place for pte rag and ladies bore need to recognize | this ‘faet in connected with their costumes to | always dress sensibly and healthfully.—Home | Journat. nr | ONE OF THE DAINTIEST TIDIEs I have seen in | along time hung over an easy-chair in Mrs. | Lester’s parlor. It was a Swiss muslin with de- | signs in fern leaves upon it. The leaves were | placed onthe muslin in geaceful shapes, and | the fabric not so covered was sprinkled with | ink; the leaves were then removed, and lace sewed around the edge with bows of ribbons at | the corners. This “phantom tidy,” as it was called, elicited many exclamations of admira- tion for its simple and exquisite beauty.—Hearth | and Home. oe ‘THE PERILs oF MATRIMONY.—A | young man named Frost, living at the village of Chrystal, in Michigan, became enamored of a Mrs. Har- vey a short time ago, and the other night shot the husband, who claimed the privi one of ing home from a party with his own wife, in. icting aserious wound. A man does not know | any more whose consent he must gain before he | pays these little attentions to his partner which were once 20 commo} ——— ON® OF THE FUNNIEST THINGS in nature Is a council of fashionable youths over a new coat | just brought home. The inspection of the cloth, | bindings and distance of buttons, anxious ex- amination if the shoulders are wide enough, the — in the back, and walking offin suspense de the final question whether the “tails h to set @ woman off in unex- ghter to dec! prominent lawyer in St. Cloud, Minnesota, carried home a nice young turkey, but was totd by the servant girl that it must be very old, as it had lost all ite teeth; whereupon said lawyer was greatly sur- prised, and replied that he had not rticulariy examined the turkey, but had relied whoily upon the butcher, who said it was —_—_—S—=—zae vo young. &7 Large numbors of colored le of Lyneh- burg, esppetall the more hardy me Ces have recently for of, the south and west for the purpose of finding work. s7-There was no dissection of the bodies of ——_ twins ree: li that was done was the perfection’ of casts, which were taken Tuesday. ” Pus sv Two “My father is in the custo house." “Mine's. inthe ststion hawas "Oty father can keep on stealing, apd your’s can’t.) Picayune. New Orleans . ®7The Atchison (Kansas) Champion says it matron winds up a cars with the ppic accu- makers seem obstinate, and refuse to return to lovers to comply with their demands. An ef- | a mixed committee, and we hope that both par- | ties, by their moderation, will put an end to a | which be had gyre discovered embedded | Pouice Court —Judge Sneil. To-day, Edward 8: » & boy, was fined $1 for throwing snowballs on the street. David Edgar, same; #1. Louisa Edelin was fined @3 for cursing too Frank Batler, a vagrant, was sent to the workhouse. Charles Jenniffer and Jesse Cook, same charge; workhouse. J. Hi. Moulton, a $3. Louis Moran, cursing; $5. Alton M. Barney, riding on foot- walk; forfeited collateral. Samuel Anderson, ‘and battery on Julia Fletcher; €5 and costs, and $100 bonds to keep ag org | Sami Jobneon, assault and battery on Bird Jett; $29 and costs. John T. Rivers, colored, larceny of a box of ginger, worth $8, from in front of a ger” store on 4\ street; $30, or sixty days in jail. GEORGETOWN. Tue Doe Nutsance.—The Board of Health deserved all the praise they received at starting for their commendable efforts to abate the nuisance of animals running at large in the District cities, but there seems to be less activity now in that direction, and it looks as it the board needed stirring up, particularly as to dogs, and the pound men never did seem to take much interest in that kind of stock. Is it becauge it is less protitable? The pound is not or ought not to be, to make money so much as to abate nuisances. Some portions of the is trict are fairly overrun with hungry, howling curs, and this is notably the case in the western Part of Georgetown, where they constitute an intolerable nuisance day and night—and where the pound man cometh not. Liz. W.S. HURLEY, of the third police pre- (Georgetown,) was taken quite ill last ing at the station-house, with a congestive chill, and is still at the station-house, too ill to | be sent to his home in Washington. INJURED BY THE Fatt oF A Horsr.— About ten o'clock this morning, Mr. Perry. of Dorsey’s hotel, Washington, was seriousiy in- jured ‘by the fall of his horse,on High, near Gay street. He was canght under the animal, and his leg injured. He was carried into the stcre of ¢. H. Sis, where Dr. Wm. B. Bowen dressed his wounds. He was then removed in a carriage to his room at the hotel. | ALEXANDRIA. THE GIRL WHO ATTEMPTED SvIcrpR Ke- covgEinG.—The young woman, Mary F. Spen- | cer, who attempted to commit suicide night before last, as stated in yesterday’s Gazette, is emt Pain oer and her friends hope she will soon be well again. Previous to drinking the dose of laudanum, which, but for the skill of Dr. French, who treated her, must have proved fatal, she wrote a letter toa young man upon whom she had bestowed her affections, bidding him a kindly farewell, but waroing him against fooling any other poor and afilicted pz. Kuver Steamens.—The steamer Lady of the Lake, from Nortolk, arrived early this morning and has resumed her regular semi-weekly trips | on ber route. The Keyport, which bas been undergoing repairs at Baltimore, returned this morning, looking as nice and neat as possible, and will soon resume her place on the Quantico line. The Arrow has been overhauled and re- oe here, and this morning recommenced er trips on the Mount Vernon line.—Guzeittr, last even 5 GENTLEMEN'S Winter | Winter suits entire for business and traveling are of English material in dice patterns or in Fassions.—Mid- small plaids of gravest color. The high vest without revers, and close folded cravat to pro- tect both throat and linen, is worn with the English walking-coat adjusted to the form, and more adapted to the season than the sailor sack, which is liked by many for its convenience. Trousers are large yet, follow the outline of the leg, and fit over the low shoe with spring in the instep and curve in the ankle, gaiter fash. ion. A second pair of trousers, lighter in shale, is worn for change. Gray “cheviot” shirts, | silky yet warm, are the best for service, with gtos-grain cravat, black or the darkest of red or blue, and large plain sleeve buttons of solid pearl or old silver Hunting and traveling shirtsof plain dark green or gray plaid flannel rein use for the country and the northwest. The reception coat is a later term for the Prince Albert frock coat worn for church, promenade, and society on all except full-dress occasions. Its length, the skirts nearing the knee, raised the soubriquet of “Evangelical Alliance” coat among youths of lively imagina- tien, It is seen in eg fl cloths, but the best style is black or dark blue meltons, armures and broad diagonals, falling weil into the back, with narrow velvet collar and easy sleeve with pointed side cuff. The points of style in a re- ception coat are the hollow back, close buttoned front, and skirts that lap well behind. Ovyei coats tit about the waist, are cut broad in shoulders and padded to give the figure a m tary air. Fine castor beavers and melwn in olive or drab are worn loosely fitting for dress overcoats. Elysian heavy Arctic beaver and rough felt frieze are stylish midwinter wear, in blue, black, and olive brown. The King Wil- liam, close sack front, military back and three-quarter cape, suits tall persone.— Golden ge. A GRAND SWInDLe ATTemPTED—The Gane Detected, and the Swindler Absconds.—About the middle of last September, a swindler, nameud C. R. Gilbert, made his appearance at Cincinnati, Obio, and deposited a ov a amount of cash, together with $60,000 in registered government bonds, and 33.000 in Unjon Pacific bonds, in the city banks. He took expensive rooms, hired & manager and book-keeper, and reported that be intended to purchase boxed meats for the European market. He lived high, paid his rent and clerks, but bought no meats. He said his wife was a niece of Commodore Vanderbilt, and told the clerks that Vanderbilt had notitied him that a crisis was coming, and that he expected to get a telegram last Friday, to the eflect that it would reach Cincinnati in four days. He sent the rlerks out to negotiate his bonds, but they suspected him to be a swindler, and did nothing. He then tried, himself, to ne- —_— the bonds, and at the Third National ank he offered a check on the Butchers’ Na- tional bank of New York for ¢9,500. The bank agreed to collect and forward it by mail. Saturday Gilbert left, taking all his bonds and money, having paid all his debts, and has not been seen since. The Butchers’ National bank pome ge myy Monday, that the check was raised trom $100 to $9,500. it is br mg that Gilbert was trying to establisn confidence at Cincinnati in order to sell large amounts of stolen bonds. His personal expenses were over $10,000, and were all paid. Brooktyw (N. ¥.) Tax Roppery.—Later developments of the extraordinary frauds in the Brooklyn tax office reveal the fact that the Stealings will amount to one million of dollars. It — the tax-payers were credited only with the payment of the tax in cases where default and interest were also » and for which they received receipts. But in the tax office accounts were so manipulated that default and interest went into somebody’s pock- et, while the tax only found its way to the city treasury. ‘Phe amount of stealing by this me- thod cam only be ascertained by obtaining the tax-payers whose default seems to have been remitted and their receipted tax bills. This has been done to some extent, and in every receipt shows the payment of the tax in defaalt and interest, while the cash book contains entry of the tax only. FemaLe Crusapers.—The organized move- ment of the women in southern Ohio, and the inauguration of a similar movement in Massa- chusetts, to compel the saloon-kee to stop selling heey" is diseussed by the hicago Tri- bune under the head of “I'he Female Crusad- ers.” The Tribune asks if it is proper to pray atsaloons ‘‘why not invade the pawnbrokers’ shops, the ‘fences,’ the Peter Funk stores, the gambling rooms, the houses of ill- fame, and all other establishments which make a living by eying upon the community? Why not also include within the sphere of their operations legislatures, boards of trade, railroad corpora- tions, and city rings? Where is this thing going to stop? A Brvurar FATsER SENT TO STATE PRISON. On eee! of the oth of January Jone re , dry goods clerk, residing at No. 183 Douglass stract returned tohis horse drunk, His child, am infant six months old, was a and taking it roughly up he threw it with, as alle; the ‘ba italighton the the floor and ‘THE SHOOTING of that Jowa Tor whose aimlable aud accompl ——— elle Court S7-The old adage that ‘winter will rot in the sky” has received new verification this ‘a7-Batb, Me., is a of eighteen inches—showing spouts Ler ee ee Washington Stock Exchange, Feb. 10. j Quotations furnished by Middleton & Co., bankers. ‘The fol werethe did and asked at the meeting of the Washi: Stock Exe! | to-day: Bank Stocks—Nat'l Metropolitan Bank, Railroads—W. 95 did. Cit: hington and “4 5; M polttan stock, 26 bid, 30 asked; Colambia stock, 20 bid, 22 asked; Washi District of Col Co. 8. bonds, 7's, J. & J., 14-1, 8 Did) 5} asked permanent im vement, 7's, 5 J., 1891, 654 did, (oy asked. (Wash 3 year certificates, 90 3 0 year bonds, 5 ~ & J., 1578, bid, 88 asked; funded loan bonds leg.) 6's'g., M. &'N.. 1902. 76 bid, 80 asked. (Georgetown}—General stock, 6's, 4. A. J. &O., at pleasare, 79), asked. Board of Public Works—Certificates, general improvement,8's,'J. & J.,1875,74 bid, Ts asked; do. {1577, 73 bid, 765 . bid, 50 asked. 4, 754 ifcates, bid, 774 asked; do. 1 2 did, 734, aske do. series, 73 bid, i id, i1y Mid, 73 Water certificates, 8's; — ss Wall Street To-day. Naw York, Febraary 12.--Tue Pos cial article says: *s tinan- The money market continues easy'atia5 for call loans, with 3 and 6 as ex- ceptional rates. Mercantile paper is, as we last quoted it, only for future market being in very small supply. Gold opened at 12 y, next sold 12\,, and has since raled at 124 al On gold joans the rates lave been 3, 5 yai per cent. for carrying. Sterling exchange here {s for prime bankere’ bills nominally 4.51 ,and 4.58. The price of government bonds in this market is mamtained. At the first board southern state bonds were strong for Teunessees and Missouris. In the stock market prices have declined \ a2 \, with little doing outside of Northwest. pect Hae ct Fhe Marmets. Bartiwore, do, consolidated, Baltimore, lings, 14% @5, changed. sixes, old, 39; a's, 11 bid to-day, yellow southern, 7: Oata du!l—sonthe a Rye quiet and steady. Os quiet, Western butter searce aud wanted; prices unchanged. Coffee—no market; entirely nominal. Whisky firmer, 9@1.00. Bugar 4niet, 10. NEW Yorx, Feb. 12.—Stocks dull. “Money, 4. Gold, 12, . xchange; long, 435; short, 3%. Gov- active. » Feb. 18.—Fiour dull and droo abd heavy. Gorn quiet and unchangel. Lexpon, Feb. 30 p.m —At 12315 p. m. the Bank of England directors posted their ca: » Stating that no change in the rate of discoant had been made. Five-twenty bonds of 1937, 109 10-40"s, 108), |, new fives,103°,. Brie, 44), @45. Loxpon, Fel). 12,1 30. m.—Erie, 45%. Paris dis- » 80 centimes, patches quote rentes at 58 france ONDON, Feb. 12,2 — x; Feb.13, $30, m— land bas increased Past.week. The proportion of the bank reserve to iwbilities, which was last week 46°, per cent., is new $67). Erie, 45. Loxvon, Feb. 12, 430 p. m.—The proportion of Bank of England reserves to liabilities, which was last week 465, per cent.. is now 45") per cent. Panis, Feb. 12.—The epecie in the Bank « France has increased 14/0 past week. Rentes, 88 francs THE WEATHER. War DErartMEnt, Office of Chief Siena Waskineton, D. 0., Febroary 12, is74, 10:90 8. m. SyNorsis FoR THR Past TWENTY-FOUR HOURS The area of low barometer that was Wednesday morning eentral in Montana. ts now represeated by two storm centers respectively in Kansas and north- erp Minnesota. and the barometer has fallen very rapidly at the Rocky Mountain and the Mississippi i Ne stations. The pressure has risen decidedly 2 bailion in the 205.000 during the Officer, land. The temperature has risen at ations except in New England aud the rthweat, Southwest and southeast winds, with clondy and threstening weather, prevail in the southwest, the Mississippi valley ‘and upp:r lake region. Cold northwest winds, with cloud, in the extreme northwest. Southerly winds and partly cloudy weather in the south Atlantic states. Light hortherly winds, partly clear, cold weather in New Eogland, The barometer bas fallen, with southerly w rd rain, on the California const t tionary or risiny weather, followed Thursday "y ‘ing rometer, southeasterly cloudy weather. For the middle states, falling ba rometer, rising temperature anil easterly winds,oc casionally increasing to brisk and high by Thurs. day night. For the lower lake region and Ohio valley. rapidly falling barometer, fresh to brisk easterly winds, veering to southwest, with cloud and rain, For the upper lake= and the northwest, xery low barometer and cloudy weather, foll: Thursday night by northwest winds and ‘very rap- idly falling temperature, For the gulf states,south- erly winds, increasing to fresh aud possibly brisk. with cloud'and rain, For the south and middle At ‘atic coasts, falling barometer, southeast to south- Neat, winds, rising temperature and Increaslic cloudiness, ‘possibly followed by rain ‘Thursday night. night ARREST OF New YorK Cock FicuTens—A Victory for Mr. Bergh.—Yesterday morning, the thirty-seven cock ir oe ee by Mr. Bergh’s officers and the police in the saloon of John Mulholland, of No. 122 Mott street, were arraigned before Judge Bixby, at the Tombs. The evidence was so conclusive that his honor decided to send the whole crowd, excepting the proprietor of the den, to the special sessions for trial at once. Mulholland was locked up, in default of $1,000 bail, to appear at the general sessions. A worse gang of ronghs were never brought before a court of justice. When the officers rushed into the pit a hand-to-hand tussle ensued, and several bruised heads was the re- sult; but the front door being locked, every one in the pit was captured. Two pair of gafts, or steel spurs, live and dead birds, and all the other implements, were taken to the station- house—a neat and clever capture of a bad and dangerous crowd. With the exception of three all were found guilty and fined $20 each. Twenty-eight at once paid the money and were released.—N. ¥. Times, 11th. ——————_ “ FLVIS.” “Bur row” cLOTHING AT NOMINAL PRICES, “CLOSING SALES” FINAL AND PEREMPTORY. 10 PEB CENT. LESS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES, “BUY NOW” AT HALF PBICE. FINAL SALES OF OVEBOOALS, FINAL SALES OF FINE CLOTHING, “BUY NOW.” BaABLE BROTHERS, Merchant Tailers and Fine Clothiers, jav29-tr Corner 7th and & Streets, LEAVE YOUR ORDERS AT KEEN’S, 422 9th Street Northwest. _SHIBT PATFERES OUT TO ORDER. jen’-4m oe | Manently cured of those most troublesome au- TRE NOFT BRILLIANT GastionT, $1 per 1,000 feet, at 1220 Penn. avenue, la o Neiteetvatl TRE WAY ‘to minister to a mind diseased, is to take Peruvian Syrup, a protected solution Of the protoxide of iron, which gives st and vigor to the whole system, restores the d ire | organs to perfect health, thereby restoring the | wind to its natural vigor. 6 ee Go see and examine the new gaslight, soft and beautiful, 1220 Pa. ie. MA emu —_—_ e—___ Taat Corrs, BuNioNs, Troublesome Nails, Vascular Excrescences, Chilblains, and other ailments of the feet deteriorate and destroy health, and thereby B irritability ot | temper, shorten life and interfere with ite du- | ties and pleasures, is probably as mach of a | trueism as that the establishment of Dr. White, No. 835 1th street, opposite the U.S. Treasury (Whose treatment is based upon strictly scie tie principles) is liberally patronised by the moet intelligent and consilerate people, in or- der to avoid, or if ailing to be relieved or per- poyances. Tur Cemarest awn World, $1 per 1,000 feet, 2 stiout in the i4 Powrp’s ExTRact cures rheumatism, barns, Piles, ulcers, toot’ che, apre throet, ‘sprains. fcalds, soreness, ol! sores, headache, colic, lameness, braises, boils, wounds, neuralgia, hoarseness, diarrhora, aud all hemorrhages, etc. Ponds Extract differs from all other advertised Preparations in the fact that it is a standard icine, treated of in medical writings, and known to be a cure for these diseases. m,th,s,tf —— Sore Throat, Coven, Coup, and smilar troubles, if suftered to progress, result in se “ ches” reach directly the seat of the disease, and give almost instant relief. oe : Brick Dust DsrostT indicates kidney com =. Check it at onee. Hembold’s Ext ucha, the Diuretic cerlienct, i# & certain specific for all diseases of the urinary organs and sexual system. Dr. Helmbold is the only man who ever really utilized and extracted the | preeminent virtues of Buchu. His preparation 8 as such superior to the s0-called “ Buchus’ as cream is to skimmed milk. In fact, it never fails. Sold by all druggists. ©0: To Gut Rip of the Chills immediately, take Dooley’s Ague Powders. They cure perma- nently, ev ee | A Frrenp ix Neep.—Dr. Wistar't Baleam | of Wild Cherry is a triend in derd. Who has not | found it such in curing all diseases of the lungs | and throat, coughs, colds, and pulmonary af- | | | fections, and ‘‘last, not least,” Consumption”? The sick are assured that the high standard of excellence on which the popularity of this prep- aration ts based, will always be maintained by the proprietors. 6 Ponp’s EXrnact is for sale at wholesale by. Ohas. Stott & Co., 480 Pennsylvania avenue, Gnd by draggists everywhere. tw, ft ‘THE COMMUNITY at large appreciate the use- | fulness of ‘Singer's Sewing Machine. 15 THERMOMETERS and are repaired and made to order by Hempler near 4 street —_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_—__ GROCERIES, &c. EL?Honzo YOUNGS & CU., GROCERS, Masonre Temple, corner 9h and F stre Beg leave to call your careful attention to the fol Jowing List of Prices; SUGARS. (Standard New York Brands.) / Crashed Loaf... 5% Ibs, for $1 | Powdered = ibe. for 1 Granulated 3% tbs. for 1 a “A” (Clarified | Ibe. for 1 Light Brown. | Ya tbs.for 1 TEAS. Imperial, Fair............ wove | 8” Good. Chotee. Extra Fine Japan, Gord : Extra Fine, Silver Leaf Oolong, Fair... i” Extra Fine... English Brepktest, Ob ive Gur oeennaee 1S) will be geen by the above list, our stock com prises sixteen different grades aud varistics, which we have a large ¢upply now on hand, aud {ncilities for obtaining the same are such that have ps hesitancy in asserting that we @ y compete fully with any house this side of New ¥. COFFES. je to ork. fully considered. the fol quotations will challenge competition, as w: give extra attention to the quality of our TEAS and OOFFEES, especially the bigher grades: » Genuine, Ra poaaes and Sc, * Boasted. 8) and 6c, Java, Old Government, Raw ~ 44 and 4c “ a Boasted.. 5 and 55, Maracaibo, Bay ae SC. bi Bo: se. Laguayra, R 3% bd Be rr Bio, Green. i & Extra Fine White Santos, o~ “ “ a. Moller’s Diamond "Broo liver Dy ol famond Drips, Silver Dri Drips, Golden Syrup, &c., &e.. MOLASSES. A choice article of on bend, a8 also other lower grades—pric FLOUR. Weich’s best Family, per sack Golden Hit! Family, per sack. Burnt Mills Family ... Teaac W: SOAP. Thirteen different varieties of Li assortment of choice andry, and a fine SU’ % ine... ‘Totlet Soaps, at low rates. DRIES. . Paper-shelled Atmonds—genuine Princess. Exvglish Wal be ri ede uts—Napies, very fine, ‘Condensed Milk, the best in use. Condensed Milk, good article, Beticn’s Divot Reaaries ai ei Ww 0 re . all varieties, ported and American ot | wh to Pickles, in bottles, Gocdsof every description, Sauces, Jellies, Sardines, and Oapers. mj ‘and Domestic Crackers, all kiods. ¥.E. Smith & Oo.’s Crushed Wheai,s packages * for $1, In short, we give our ‘ial and andivided atten- and make it our tion to the FAMILY duty to of il ‘Gur faellities for “passed, e lew York, as also to give ‘ar- and quantity—as represented, or mo- ney ELPHONZO YOUNGS & C©W., Grocers, 97x AND F STERETS, Opposite U. 8.;Patent Office BANKERS. S14N AMERICAN AN Antero OS 27H BT. Orne Ober JonN Hrrz, Prea’t 2yJ0. B. Prentiss, ash. ATIONAL BANK OF LILO, UNITED STATES DECES ETD . Bonthweat oor. of Tth aud D sie Week Lies . ©. Coliections made on all oe ‘Staion, Prompt attention given to all business beter oe td ais jav2s-tr yaciedpee. FPS£epmaqws savinas aNp faust COMPANY BANKING HOUSE, 1607 PENNSYLVANIA AVEBUR, ie hereby given, that the PER ae eiers cuisine, moder the arm eame of PALMER & GREEN Las bon diseei ven by mata st corsent, by the wicbdrawal of Robert M. Green, as a nt, dated Febroary 3, P 1b cle dme the inte lixcharce ail ite liabilites. All persons to tbe firm are reqnested te make immed! settlement of their ace car! BA it ate R Georgetown, DC , Februar Cc D.—In withérewirg from the rte of Paine Green, I desire to express wy Ubasks to oar pamerot re for w succeeds return rr " for the unflagging industry and skill which od during the period of our assoctation: and Hially reec to cet castomers, ant nbite generally, as one worthy of their entire ineerve vam hope, receive, a ORF M Georgevown. DO , Febroary 1, 14 WAMLELC + tately conducted as coptipuance of the heretofore, whic strict attention to ub Georgetown, D. ¢ ___ {Ber hiro WE BANE BREN DYRIN munity an nity for FORTY THREE YEA we are still willing. and bop to do so im the furore ‘Tharkfel for is tion by sendin W. a. WHEATLEY SS Preminm Steam Dye Wer Kinds of Seon and a » ead fn tae RSON ST Ge Gere 4° JEFPE iN ARLE BEAL LOGE BT. = twee Ss ; SKEET, GEORGE ronning t + pon which od.on the mat ck ton t be Presoyterian 8 Dawiness tree, » being Church forme Brides atreet, FL mc erty JarR-cotf Srtige quent, )OKE,Not _ Oommittae - es FARLOLE. ngs. High street. Georgetown, D. 0 DRY GooDs. SKS: ste SiLKS!): GEA AINS We are now showing a ime of BLACK GkOS | GRAIN LYONS SILKS, from 3 cents t> $34 4 Yor! ‘ard, purchased by our Mr. Brodbesd tu New last week, at whieb time th ar ket Poin: known In ten years. Thes: -dsare from the best looms of Lyom reached the lowest up, Or All goods low 44 an3} tfebla 1205 Fort CARTER’S NEW DRY GOODS STORE, 707 LOUISIANA AVENUE, (MABKET SPACE, BETWEEN BRVENTH AND Eicnta Star 6 conte, eytally BRODHRAD & 00. Teet. bet 1th and 13th ste NEW GOODS AT REDUCED PRICES, a 10% GOODS RECEIVED DAILY GREAT SPECIALTY IN BLACK SILKS. BLACK ALPACAS, OOTTONS AND CALI) ar WHOLESALE PRICES. THE ENTIRB Si 0CK WILL BE SOLU CHEAP. entt-colm ss iD. EB. W. CARTER. ys PLACE TU BUY BARGAINS. GREAT BEDUCTION IN DRESS GOODS, GREAT BEDUOTION IN DOMESTICS. GREAT REDUCTION IN HOSIERY. GREAT REDUCTION IN LINEN GOODS. GBEAT BEDUCTION IN GLOVES. MOBY BAXTER, Jan%-tr 1920 Pennsylvania avenne. TVEsty PER CENT. ofr ON ALU SALES OF WINTER DAY GOuDS, WHERE THE MARKED PRIUB i3 OVER a TEN PER CENT. OFF ON ALL SALES OF WINTER OR WOOLEN GOODS WEEBE THE PRICE I8 NOT Also, 10 per cent. off all sales of SILKS anc K VELVETs. 7 ONE PRICE TO ALL ‘S BOGAN & WYLIE, 1018 and 10¥0 7th street oorthwest, ——— ¥ UNING AND RENOVATING PIANOS con tinues to receive special attention by, G. L. WILD. Practical Piano twenty years’ experience, form: ot “Roabe's, subeeguently sof tel street, near northwest coruer Pa. ave, seed BTIEFF Pisnce, yev?-tr THE CELESRATED KNABE PIANOS! Veautifal toned MCCAMMON PLANOB fal ton eC. of f N. ¥-.cheap for cash, aud reduced prices to Ds ere. Becond- baud Pianos taken in exchange, Schonenger’s Favorite ORGANS Toning to, at c EIc! BACH'S P1ANO WARERKOOMS, janI2-tr 423 lithst., above Penns. avenue. NING D BENEWING ANOS T° OWGANS a SPECIALTY. — 4 G, KUHN, Practical Pianemak, (Formerly with Stetawey & Sous? PIANO 8TORE, 632 ‘k avenue, for alled D BOS., New York, a See raas te are ‘cunsy vane avenue, arr's, Pounsy!- yanis avenue, Fines cad Orpate tor, este of i Hls 18 THE SEASON FOR FIRES. T GUARD AGAINST PBOP! ¥e THEM ENSURING YOUR BEAL AND PERSONAL) with Tux CORCORAN FIRE INSURANCE Co, OF THE DISTRIOT OF OOLUMBIA. CA PITAL.......... 8 100,080 Office, 1429 Pennsyivania svenne. n janlo-tr 3.7. PYER, Seeteny. stint 3-3. BYBR, Scoretary. OO janioar_ mrncuants “TasifaSos on 00. Sowark, ong ara geeaee