Evening Star Newspaper, August 21, 1876, Page 4

DRY GOODS. 8 REMAINING SIU JK SUMMER GUuODS, ‘We bow offer at an aansal redaction ia prices. Extra inducements on GRENADib Ko, LAWES, a4 other THia D&E! GOODS Special Bargains ta BLAOK SiLKS and BLACK OASHMERSS LACE SACQU £5, and It ts to po-chs-ers’ faterest to call now and exam- WourvuRgD 4 SHILBERG, “17 BABKET SPACB, ‘Third door fro 9 n street. CHEAP DRY Goons. 10 dozen Hck Towels <b; also #0 doze. yards Richardson's Linens, tn short lengths, 104 Rivachad and ‘ rown Shoetings, at 20 valtties and patterns We would call toa of our cnst: mere to the above 4d ashmeres. from ode, snet opened 9 satisfy every one 80 w 14 8th strest northwest BArGaINs MONTH OF AUGUST. MOW ARE THESE FOR CHEAP? jow Fall Prints, BLACK CASHMEBES Lapin’s all. Wool Casbmeres at 75>.; sold at @1. ae heavy atl- Wool Oashmeres at ‘/c.; sold at pin’ extra double weight Osshmeres at @1 at @155 BLACK ALPACAS AND MOH : IBS. “width at 30 ST3¥c at Fine quali"y double shears pure Mobair at c.; sold at 75, Bxtre bea, pure ©. M. TOWSON & CO. "26 PENNSYLVANIA AVENU WAISWALL & GWYNN, No 705 NMARKEF SPACE, NAS SEVENTH STBERT, Offer ee Lines of Goeds at less than cost HADES, NTS PER TABD. desirable assortment NEW HA 5, solling rapid!y,at 20 per cent. off NEW DOU %U8-BACK CORSET, GLOVE FIT- TANG, AT a1 © )ESETS, AT $1.50 STRIPED PiQUE, 10 cents. TORLA LAWNS, 12% cents. ALL SUMMER GO9DS AT OST, TO MAKE ROOM FOR FALL STOCK. WISWALL & GWYNN, Market Space. THE END HAS COME AT LAST. WINAL WIND UP OF THE SPRING TRADE OF OUR IMMBNSS STOCK B SOLD AT COST. ‘Dest Calleo, beautiful style, 5. yard- :cauttfal Lawns, 8 and yards foe Victoria Lawn, 18. asdaie Camb NeW YORK BrBRY yakw tu B All of our Parasols at cost. CARTERS, 707 Market Space. Pare Linen Table Damask, 50, Calice, Uotton, Dress Goods, ‘Bisck Greusdine, 17. JOHN T. MITCHELL, 931 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUS. over our stock and ‘figures, to cluee out our SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS. hell = sagen raling dar- our prices still ALL MADE-UP GOODS, ALL UNDBEWEAB, ALL DBESS FABBIOS are lower Saagne before, and tn quality that can MONDAY, July 10, we close our a. jyl-tr D8Y Goobs CHEAP! WH. biSD WYLIE bas r Much of bis extens! jelow the rates asaally obtaiued nan stores, ‘We have carefully gone Gxced prices to the lowest Fomsiping stock of Bot be surpass From aud D GEN1'S SUBNISHING EMPORIUM. 8 FOR BOYS, unfinished, 5 Chem @utehed: Bt ybes nn St oe bese SHLBTS, ae pus all partly-made Suirts. 1 have ed wi em a T'S FU SNISHING GOODS at lowest prices YHOSPSON'’S BOIT S04 F street northwest, BOOTS AND SHOES. 5 Women’s Lt. Gaiters on '¢ Last. Buskivs, Botton. 1 tp; Women's Hosea” Kid’ Site) : sac. ups Mtoe ippers. 6c. up; ¥ School Shoes. gt cp: Men's Congress Congress, @1, wi 125 worth @180. Bee ~ mt1914-1916 D | FASHI J. J, GEORGES. ONABLE BOOT MAKBR, ly J 5 me i i i lat RAILROADS. B4LrTimeae any ome BalnnoaD. JULY 77m, 1876. LEAVB WASHIBGTON. pee Nore, Philadelphia and Norfolk Bu- Riese we 30—Ha'timore and way stations. Baltsmore and m7 . Milioott ‘Frederick and Point of Rocks, (via Metro- iitan Braneh). s—iaitimore: Aunapolie and way Carcaso, Oincinnatt and Lowtser!is Bzpress Except Baturday, daily to Berkeley, Door fe titep a water peas hee E m. train on Saturday. Hagers- wi eObr Blecpers. ey Bladensburg, Beltsville, Lea- » Belay. 10:06— New York and Phtiadelpara Migat Bxpresst 10:05—Baltimor so eass petsaipel es stations, jaltimors way . 19:46— Martinsburg ard way stations, Metropol!- 1u:30—Sr Lowe ws: i Cotumbus 23 ees Baxpress. ° Sandusky, Newark, Berkeley, Deor Park gud Oakland. On Baturday for Loutsville. De They iy. Ali otber trains dally, except Sanday. &. ‘on Suaday for Bagerstown or Val- ley Brauch or for New York aud Philadelphia st 6:10 s,m. and 1: northwest, where orders pongage to be checked ens received at any ap ls-tr an vet ania 1876 Te the Kerth, West, and Southwest. Parior Osr to Pittsburg; 7: Palace Car to Onionge: and 11:60 0. ms. ally, exorpt Sunday. BALTIMORE ABD POTOMAD BAILBOAD. Osoandaigua, Kochester, Buffalo, #8! Falls, av the Worth, 6 a. m. daily, except dey; and 7 ‘m. dally, except except Bunda Limtred Ererena 0:36 ccommodation except Buntay Por Pope's Oreck Line & ', except Sunday. ‘anapolie. 6-00 and 11:50 ,m. and 4:90 B. except Sunday. RANDBIA & FEEDSRICKSBU! Bait ay AND ALBXANDEIA & WASHINGTOR BAILBOSD. andris, 6, 7, 10, 21 a.m. 1,3, "yse.t 8.,7, 00, sid >.m. On Sunday ab ». ‘Routh, via Btcumona, 11 Sunday ag via Lyushbara, el tse. op. ¥ Gall: and 10 Tickets, information, Sleep: tions can be mn spivania aveuus, Bortboast ‘corner Sic Pennsylvania srouue, and at the Depot, where orders for the checking of te Sa cites cenit ners » Mi Rg. be FEaWe THOMSON. Gen Manager Jend-1y [MIVERSAL &.R. TICKET OFFICE. BAILBOAD TICKETS to or from all points ought. exchanged or sold at & reduction of ONE DOLLa wee, ‘any other office or de’ ‘Tickets good till used. aoreenee, are aah. Pig 997 Poeun. ave., Uandy store.. —_—— TEAMERS, &e. FOR NORFOLK. Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE leaves the Company's wharf. foot of 6th f street, srhabtvatps ernst pach ane St 5 p.m., for Norfolk. Bevurnirg, leav Norts ik Tuceday. Thuredey and Seturdey, at 4 ».m. Fare, @4; round trip, 86. ‘Tickets good until FOR POTOMAC RIVER LANDINGS. Steamer JRO. W. THOMPSON leaves Oom- pany's wharf, foot of 6th streot, every TUBSDAY, Inge and ‘every FRIDAY, at 7 6 m4 for Goan iver, stopping at intermediate landings. Ss-For information apply at the office of the oppoatie iets ibe ‘Treseury, or 0 the ‘geniy at Sas CLYDE'S NEW EXPRESS LINE, BETWEEE DELPHIA, ALBXANDBIA, WASHING PHILA On 48D GEORGBTO ceived dail: Consdgvece thelr goods landed at Georgetown, 1}, please ‘have them marked @. F. HYDE, hia. Georgetown, D.0. sIVER LANDING: ArT. W. QB, at 7 clock, for landings on, the Potomac iver, as far down se Nomini, including the favorite summer resorts of GovroNs, KivER BPainos, and BLakiston's Is- Ketarnin; jngton on iil arrive in Waal DAY BVENIN OLYDE'B WASHINGTON. BOSTON ABD PHILADELPHIA Boe PROVIDENCE STEAMBHIP ‘The steamers of the above line will leave Philadel- ia every SATURDAY 22m. for ashington; retarnin Johnson's wharf every mi st 12 m., for Philadelphia ward frevzhts. Through bills of lading {1 from the above ports. igh See ioe is meet ress Shiisaiee steer No. 19.8, Wharees, Poniadelpel . Wharves, Pa ert ar es Jelé tr Agente for Washington, foot Lath st. J.w. CUNARD LINE. NOTICE. ‘With the viow Lebo gp steamers of thie g the ehavces of col- liston, tae ine takes ‘specktied course for all seasons ear. x ‘Guee 5 York or Boston, crossing meridian of 6 at 43 Iat. nothin rH : On the crossing the meridian of 60 at 4 lat, or nothing t0 the Rorth of 43. THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMERICAN ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIPS, BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LI’ POOL, CALLING AT CORK HARBOR. oon meet pa Prom ba Foy "Fires oF Passace.—Cadta, $2,910 ond gin, gold, . Beturn tickets om favorable Raitweep nectar ias GBay's FERRY PRINTING INK WORKS. PRATT & BOSINSO! Bo. 8 SPBUUS oTBSBT, W ¥O! ROBINSO! Weems rye yi a = me “T THE MANUFACTORY, AUCTION SALES. FHIS AFTERNOON. T™%.5 Wai AUCTION SALES. Tuomas DOWLIRG, Anctionser. FBENCH-PLATE MANTS! Lack Win Conve hare and eve the M4 when the winds tmcrmde Down im the dell where burries wn And a thetr woalh in sas Toot grass” throw influence in California, attended Auctioneer, 619 7th street a. w. Danville, Ind., VERY DESIR. WELLING. great Tepublican meeti Friday, at which publican candidate for governor of |i made bis openin, At the close of stantially us follows: Lack of Power in the Palpit. (From the Boston Watchman } boldly affirmea by many and quietly Qssumed by many more that the to-day ts losing power with men. doubt nsome tense true. The t day relatively less imSaence halfacentury ago. Bulis the cause to be attributed wholly, as many intimate, toa @eeline in the style of character of preact: We unto, on tue coa- T. heet= ani pat and bear the r We think not. trary, tuat it may be fear! there Was never more ability, more learning, more power tn the ranks of the Christian ministry than there is at the present time. too, that ministers of to-d @re on AN Average As devotes to their calli! 8 those of @ former Bot while mini greatly within the last fifty culture has in first time in my native feliow-citizens upon & political question. do not deny that, so fr aslam concerned, I recogniz to speak to m, ‘© that there are great cal questions hearing upon us in the foture that are not touched a y the divisions between the repablican and democratic parties — great floance, great when I find the democratic party, pacted mass, cberisil a; animated by questions in my mind are subordinated to its defeat pot what others may think, but as for see no road to does not lead over its ruins. years it has stood in the pathway of oar advance; for fifteen years it bas resisted every great politica! idea; for Steen years it has endeavored to suppress every grand litical utterance, and the time has come— yea, the fulness of the time—when It should cumiber the ground no longer. that the republican 605 H sureet northwest saie: One fourth cash, (of which $100 ‘at time of sale.) balance ia 6, 12, cure. above collection of Farul.ure can be ‘rohased at private sale prior to sas, THOS. DOWLING, Anct. Se-THE ABOVS SALE IR UNAVOIDABLY POSTPUNBD uotil THURSDAY. Avgurt, at same ho: eugil- which ti . with eight per cent i ferred payments to be secured ‘geld, or all oash, of sale are not compliod with Wile ‘sfx, dare, from the day of alo, th trasine ee fanhting purchioer, or Public notice of such eration. culture has increased years, general pi ra- to. The clergy are no longer distinguished, &s @ ciass, for their learning. Education is more diffuset!, aud is ofa higher order among all classes than it was io the times of our fathers. The pulptt is not now, as then, the chief popular intelleetaai power in the land. 1) divides its influence with the lectare sys- tem ®nd the press, which latter agency es- pecially bas acquiret prodigious potency Men need not go to chureh now to gain mental stimulus and | More than this, far greater demands are mace upon @ minister than were mate a More literary cultare is ex- pecied of the pulpit. An increased amouat Of outside work is devolved upon the pastors of our churches. The minister of to.day must be a well-read man in order to satisfy the intellectual tastes of his bearers. intelligent observer of pis, KNOW something of polities and of whatever ts agitaticg mind. When due account is m day of sale; defe A Loss te Chi Jouraaliom. reporters the departure that elty of a family by the name of Gammel, the several members of waich bave delighted the journals by furatsht end of subjects for Christmas, Mr. Gammel bas fallen bouse, drawn the first prize in @ southern lotiery. cut off three fingers with « circular saw, and had & sunstroke. Mrs. Gammel has bad « fortune left ber in England; her pocket has been twice cost of the de- days previous HOMAS BAYS, Trastes. augdeckds THUS B. WAGGAMAN. Auct. THOMAS DOWLING, Anct. JOezPa ¥. KELLEY, Anctioncer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF JaLuany PR PSETY ON Tos EAST 8 TO-MORBOW. UNOANSOB B#O8.. Auctioneers. Southeast corner %h and D streets n. w. M.T TABLES. WARDROBES, SIDEBOARDS, WaLSUT AND i Caar OTH TENSION TABLES, BPENTER’s TUUL:, Ai3s0, BATCHETS, WAMMERS, CURRY- HS, BUTCAEKS KAIVES, licked in the strect Little about thelr hens produced one of the Most comic cases ever tr court. Her daughter, M Was once abducted from the Hayes school, and not found for four days, when she was discovered at Ripon, W: to study for U in a domestic quarrel, at their castle on the shores of Lake Como, she was stabbed se- riously, returning to her paren furnish bo less than three ediloria! The youngest son,® youth of thirteen, hag titnde of the reporters by owing Paragraphs w the pRpers, as shown by asummary of nt brilliant career, ted before @ polls generation ago. iss Sophia Gammel, 1 do pot deny party has made mis I do not deny that tt has had corrupt Men sometimes for its agents, the past bebind us. Think of the great ques- tious It bas confrouted. drecs of thousands aod the handreis of . that it has employed; Jes it has passed through, the work it bas accomplished, and it seems to me miraculous that its mistakes have not been more and greater. as the bends of ine river that do but detiect its channel as it rashes to the sea. And there is this vo be said of It, [oat il made the coun- folio the lava records fu and for the Distrh and at the written request of the party secured = = hereby, we sbal! seller patil: auction, on TH COMBS, BROILE file eae DESURIPTION, On TUESDAY. MOK mencing at 10 o'clock, we will elt th DUNOANBON BROS., Aucts. Think of the nan- quare bered two bandred and six (200), in the city of Wasbington, said lot fronting 18th street abd runping back seventy-three (73) fest te ao alley, aod improved by @ two-s* ead Lereg Alla tg ash; thousands on 1 teen (16) teet on thipk of thed! preacher's time aud ener, apart from his regular ministertat work, the visiting that must be done—and many peo- ple are thoughtlessly exacting in this mat- books. reviews, aod must be read if he would keep himseif at all abreast of the age and be “@ workmaa that needeth not to be ashamed,” it ceases to be matier of wonder that his energies some- Umes flag, and he is not always so profound or brilliant as his critics might desire. It is one thing for dozen great efforts a y. @ statesman lo make a in & session of Congress, or for a scholar in the seclusion of his well-stocked turn offan elaborate review article once or twice in @ twelvemonth, and thing fer @ minister, often harassed by the or pe’ es of & parish, Obliged to deny himseif many helps to intellectual etfurt, to prodace week after week, year in and year out, ser- mons that will interest and instruct an in- teiligent and, perhaps. also earned the furnishing the Auctioneer and Beal Estate Broker ‘SALE OF VALUABLE 6UILDISG NW NORTH SIDE OF K 7 Taoey have beea bat rely’ ereat ac the rate of eight per cest. per anpam, aud eocared by deed of on lished in and com- piled from the files of the Chicago Tribune: July 5—Riew off nt pAveustzi—Feil off @ shed and broke four try’s extremity its divine opportanity, that when the catastrophe came over us tnat’good men allover the world supposed would de- Stroy us itsnatched victory even from tne Jaws of defeat, and made the event that was to biot us out from among the nations the portunity to fix upon our universal freedom, and anty of indissoluble union.” Tenchea the Wrong Cannen. ‘uns at the Grand Pacific and George Q. Cannon, Congressmea, the former from Dan- ville, this state, and the latter from Salt e, Mormondom. When this fact became Known at the Tribune office @ rattiing re- porter was dispatched to look up the Mor- mon Cannon and sbort-hand might have to say. the botel and asked tue urbane T: Congressman Canvon was around. *Tnat’s him right over Lhere—that man witha straw rodigious clerk. The re- imself, and the following conversation, @s Overheard by @ Times man, “Gilad to get away from Washington, I 2” said the Tribane inquirer. amen aud Senators get very sick of the capital,” was the repiy. «You intend going right on to Sait Laise, I P “Ou, no, sir; I’m off to Danvilleon the first train. “Danville—let me see,” porter, “wasn’t it there that the Mormons settied first, before they went to Salt Lake?” “Oh, no, sir; you are tninking of Nauvoo, I guess,” replied the Congressman. So, that your people are to pull up st@kes, abandon your magni@ceat harems and expensive churches, and start a new settlement elther in New Mexico or don’t think my people intend to do any such thing.” “Have you got all or only one of your rt. Cannon?” was the next y days trom day of sale, the right to resell the property by giving five days’ the T, pabltshed in November 3—Put torpedo on Van Baren Fell while skating and broke February 2, 1876—Set fire to Mr. Ives’ ALBBBT Fox. Sete inraiener tne eee JOSEPH F. KELUBY, Auct. Street car-track lawyer to make halfa the bar, or for ingle great 's icy the seal eit the guar- THOS. BL WA. N, Beal Estate Auctioneer, 619 7th street. PROPERTY No. 2: 'bat piece or parcel on the plat or pia ‘© , aa Lot No. five 30 B STREET. . ot I will’ offer for sais, on the tion, Lot April5—Arrested for stealing bens. Case from his father and compromised. April 19—Stole a» started tor ae Bae Hills. pril dy. lured while camping out at Dexter Park. = May 6—Arm broken by a base-bal! bat. July 4—Biew out eye hair while celebrating powder in & giass bottle. KILLED BY SWALLOWING A TrpeR.— Thursday night Eliza Wooaing, whose father, Mr. Daniel S. Wooding, sides at 829 Warren street, died after aa ill- ness that may properly be said to have con- Unued jor two weeks, @lthough no alarming indications were noticeable during the early Part of the Lime. About two weeks child (she was 12 years of age) was playing with a few printer's types, and putt! into her mouth one @ccidentaily sii ber throat until she was compelied to swal- bright, healthy child and in good flesh at the time. Medical assistance was secured, bul the case did not seem to mend. The child was re- duced toa skeleton and was falling every day. She was deprived of her st th en~ Urely, and was utterly helpless. type passed from tbe cbiid’s system, and hopes were entertained that she would re- they were vain. The polsonous Among the big fr d ranning beck one erday were adred forty-seven end a half feet to a 28 fect 10 inch a'ley, snd’ improved by « Brick Btable and Osrriage feet on K street quite another ‘Tei sale, aicte THOS B WAGGAMAN. Deowssan & GBEEN, Auctivneeis. TRCUSTEE’S SALE FRA w burned of his rate of ten per cent. Ceatecuial with Der ail cash. at the option of | aacing at cost of purchase ssle. If the terms of sale ai teven days from day of sale Tight to resell at the risk and cost TWO TWO-STORY fastidi The rapesteranreeh m lous congre- ie nui to Fe ELLIEGS OF BOSTH SIDE UF It is no wonder if, with all thar OB OR A ERUE. BatWEEN 177a AND | is expected of it, tne pulpit sometimes falis to meet the popular demand. But another and more serious di‘iculty is found in the settled and growing aversion among & large class in the community toall religious instruction. The dislike is not so much of the manner of preaching as of A late writer in the Loa- don Spectator candidly confesses this, and bis been ech: by many among ourselves, thus showing where the secret of toward the pulpit lies. , Whether good or bad, that 1s an offence. Men do not like to listea to the claims of reli trath They are restive w the pulpit. We may endeavor to correct the faults of the pulpit and to supplement its deficiencies, but it will be in v: Unis repugnance exists, so long as it 1s what Ube preacher says, and not his manner of saying it, whether objectionabie or other- wise, that is the real ground of dislike. The alleged loss of power in the pulpit Taay be abundantly accounted for b: one or other of these reasons, or by al bined, without disparaging ‘the fidelity or ability of its ministration as compared wita @ former age. The fathers ef our own de- nomination especially are worthy of doubie honor, in view of the disadvantages aud obstacles amidst which they labored aud wrought such enduriog aud nobie resnits But the young men are worthy successors of the fathers in piety, in zeal, in consecration to their work. The writer belongs to neither class, and, looking on them both, sees much to admire, much to excite thankfulness for the past, much also to encourage hope for 5 N ALLAY. ‘a deed of trust, dated Febraary id duly recorded im Liber Ho 121,0.¢ of the laud records for. hat on,” said the porter introduced Tuomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. VALUABLE REAL ESTATRIN GEORGETOWN AT PUBLIO SALE. By virtue of a deed oi Liver Bo. 175, folio 00, cf the land records of the District of Columbia. 1 will offer for sate. lic anetion, in front of rb: preaching itself. P) “Yea, sir; Congres: language has the want ofsym: am! i said subdivision Is recorded | 2/ 1s the sermon 1 remises, on TOURS. ag ice of said city un Liber 0. A, ia Old Georgetown, D on the south side of Bridge street '@ feet measured westerly from the west Lane oc Market street, a1 ing westerly on Bridge street 33 degree east 210 feet to ceotorly on said alley 38 feet 6 inch mused the re- instrections of parately. h (ot which $50 on ‘paid at time of sale); and the in six and twelve months in equal sayments, rohaser’s notes bearing south one-half to be secured by tom ésy of sale at the Ser of ei legree and place of beginuin, ‘Terms of sate: One-third cash: bal stalments at six, twelve and eighteen months, with interest st eight per cer the notes of the with the improvements, ime, of sale are not compited with metal had been retained too work was accomplished, and fn a little Eliza passed away amid weeping and sorrowing friends.—| Burlington Hawkeye. bonne a Brooklyn ladies voted on the ‘8 8 young IAdy the right to Kiss S gentleman with whom rhe takes an eve- There were nineteen affirma- Uve votes. The one negative vote was cast by @ woman with red hair and a giass eye,— No. 1321 F street northwest. Dowauay & GREEN, Anctioneers. TKE’S SALE OF THREE ta STORY Wives with you, M: question of the modest {nterrogator. “Now, look here, young man,” said the Congressman, in & vexed tone of volee, ‘this thing has gone on about far enough. have got hold of the wrox the Cannon you want of Salt Lake, the much-marries eider of the Mormon church.” The reporter apologized, backed away, withdrew from the hotel, and Joseph G. Can- non chuckled in his sleeve. 19th. BON BROS, Auctioneers, joutheast corner 9ch and D ats. northwest. B'S SALE OF HOU: BSES, Be ¥ BUALES, JEWELRY LONGING TO THR ESTATE JOBN HAMMER DNESDsY MORSIN it 10 o'clock a. m.,we LJ ORTHWEST, m street.) by virtue of three deeds of trust. dated re- spectively November 13th, A. D. 1872, Novem. ber lith, A D. 1572, and Movember 15th, A... D. 1473, and duiy recorded respectively in Liber No. 205, one of the land records tor lece of artillery— ‘ge Q. Cannon, ADMINISTRA TO! FUSNITUBE. 87-A worthy missionary cl in from the north found his colored Srothten and Bin ters quite forgetful of the moral law, and be- gan lo give them a series of courses against lying andstealing. Thecon- gregation stood it for a Sunday or two, then they revolted, one of the deacons thelr spokesman, 6% folios 299, 297 and the District of Columbia, and at thereby, Iwill sell at pub! nt of the premises, to the DAY, July B4tp, A. D. 1876, all those cort>‘> parcels or lots of in the city ot Known as Lots . Tactical dis- (Chicago Times, efter for sale at the ci twoen Sd and 4th streets, southwest, the following described erty, belonging to the estate of sald John Hammer, W shares Stock fn Oriental Building Associa- 2 Horses; 7 Wagons. single and doubi+, rt itorm Beales. Copper Boilsr, highest bidder, on x A CURIOUS PHENOMENON.—The Phila- delphia Ledger says: ‘There is a very cu- phenomenon to be seen at the Centennial Exhibition in connection with Westinghouse automatic air-brake ex- hibit, in the western part of Machinery Hail, near Column No. 68, section D. of the Westinghouse exhibit, but is an dent casually discovered ia handitag faucets of tbe compressed air tanes, used With that valuable apparatus. Ooce of these taber, connected with the principal reser- voir of compressed air, has ao ordinary fau- cet with # nipple not much larger than that of a gas burner, though the oritice ts consid- From this, when the air is turned Op, @ strong jet of air is thrown ont, and this will sustain, in the surrounding air ball or sphere of wood, glass, metal, or rab- ber without any other means of support. So although the sphere is suspended in the y invirible means, there is nothing sur- ing when the Jet of air is ejected In a ver- Ucal direction upward. But the sphere is Still kept in a state of suspensi when the jet is thrown out legrees, sometimi with @ gentile oscilla’ som ing sometimes revolving with great ray These variations are mainly under trol of the operator. One would think that in order to sustain the ball the air-jet would inge upon it squarely center of the mass, but urious MOUNTAIN SCENERY IN CALIFORNTA.— Prof. DaWidson, chief of the U. 8. Coast Sar- vey, who is now engaged with @ corps of engineere in making signal upon the 6ummit of Mount Diabolo, a high mountain on the Pacific coast, near Benicia, Cal., gives some inveresting items coucern- ing the altitude and distance of some of tne most prominent points visible from his quarters on the mountain top. from the summit ts a braces an area, including land and ocean, of no less than 32,000 square miles. The most distant point within range of observation Lassen’s Peak, in the Sierra Nevada, wnich is 183 miles from Mount Diabolo, aod has an allitnde of 10.650 feet; Snow Mountain, 7,000 feet high, 114 miles distant; Buttes, 5,720 feet, 157 miles distant; Lolo Mountain, near Truckee, 5,250 feet high and 136 miles distant, are also all visible. Nearly all the mountains on the Sierra Tange are to be seen and tne Coast Range all the way up to the northern end of the s! Of the nearer mountains Cla: street hill, in San Francisco, 32 miles distaat, can be discerned, and Mount Lyell, the of the new Lick Observat fes' and 52 miles away, is in of 83 miles the bi on all sides the eye rests upon miles and miles of the mining and agricultaral couatry of California. and addressiog their ou bery mu rious and interesting le for you; bu one hundred and f th ‘ant to make it com"! obser valions fac’ ts, ‘ou Bee, We don’t like dis yin’ an’ steal! one hundred art "e v4 Bungays for "ligton.” Derrow’s subdivisi two hundred and six (200), recorded in the surveyor's office of ber H. D. Cooke, No. 1, folio 10), the improvements thereo sold separateiy. Te ie: One-third cwh, of which $75 on time of sale; and the in’—we mus’ juare numbered * subdivision ts Jewelry. Revol BUCKLEY. August 20, 1876, Micwamt Boce- onth grand one and em- hone must be paid ce in 6 and 12 months, with interest at 10 until paid, to be ‘deed of trast’ o of said ‘and recording st purchaser's ovst. If le ere pot cemplied with insix days after sale, the trastee reserves the right to resell at risk acd cost of arene attrasses, Bedain With cther goods no’ angi? from day of sale par, T's notes erty sola to the DUNOANSON BROS , Ancts, p, 4 Dauner . ‘Auetio bh. Fri the family are invited. BROWNING. On the 2th Angust, 1876, at : at the revidenc: of ber father in- iD Prince George's A, wife of Livingston Browning, » J liam Dayton, of Washington, peer and Beal Estate Broker. erably greater. Dowaierviile o'clock W. Brows ™ EB AT ABOVE BALE OF nd forty-seven (147), eB ove to comply with the term: sold at bic risk and august 3 ist, 1576, same hour S7-THE FUBOH lot ope hundred ai scribed. having f sale. the said lot No. 147 will cost on THURSDAY, and piece, and on same terms OUTZMAN, Ti No. 1321 F street HOMAS DOWLLBG, Auctioneer, ion in the air, 0 a FOX. On the 2th August, 3876, after s short but inful tines of brain fever, Maky Lonerre Fox. of Ostheri: james sod the late J. the. Om 6, at 6 o'elcek p.m, on cel cf ground known as part of Lot numbered one 1). fo square numbered tour hundred and two for the same sixteen feet C01 nare, and ruouing the ‘weet twenty (20) feet; thence north or Atadistance 5 years and 8 wo! sea is seen, and portheast, P.m. Relatives and friends respectfally invited to attend, - thence east twenty : 2) begtnni: — Lith, 1876, late of Waan- is south Ly MODERN GETHBE WITH. A. BeDAY, August 93, 1876, the northwest cerner of G a FOBBEY. In York Pa.ow Sap END OF A GOLD HUNTER—About | fconsumption, Mrs. J D twenty-five years ago, of Plum township, this county, left fortable home for Australia to seek his for- sale: The amonnt of indebtedness ( it 10 per cent. per annum from sared by the deed sal end pe igbteen and 1 from day of sale phenomenon are seen when strikes the ball obliq left, or above or belo’ KELLY. On the 28th of a short illness, FkaNcts KELLY, @ si ‘3S years the right or the: balance ti is tantly shi! ng that if twenty four months, with {1 itstarts at right angles to the jet of air it = will gradually move around uniil the axis comes within about twenty-five degrees of being In the same line or plane with the air- There is something in all this reminds amateur astrono- bliquity of the ecliptic, the vi- on cf the earth's axis, and th sion of the equinoxes. ” most interesting phases of the bon is observable when @ large h ber ball is used; then, as the rotation of tne ball, suspended in the air, becomes more and more rapid, the ball changes cal form, becomes flattenei at the poies or extremeties of the axis of rotation, and as- sumes the form of an oblate spheroid, flat- teped at the poles and protuberant at the equator, just as our earth is shown to be by astronomers and p hysicists.”” A PREVENTION OF SFA SICKNESS.—A letter recently printed in an Engiis' Lific paper gives the following in ‘method for the prevention of sea sickness: 0 I had freqasotly to cross the Irish Channel, and was invariably sick, if there was the least motion fn the water. Once when it was very rough, and the wind was blowin @ hurrieaue, in some uacoua- table way I hit iuckily on &n expedicat, which, for me at least. is an eifectual pre- ventative, and should like to be tried by others. For what reason I cannot say, but Imade my respiration coincide punctaally with the heave and fall of the vessel; as she spired she fell I expt: pletely successfai asleep. But each time the breathing was no With the vessel's movements) I was awat- ened by sensations of sickness, which two inspirations and expirations, as above des- crived, immediately dispelied, and I com- jeted a very rough voyage ve comfort. I nave sailed since, thou: pangs been able enjoy the voyage. My inference Is that sea sickness is caused by the heavings and falls of the vessel cross- ing the motions and operations of the diaph- ‘ne a entirety, the party privilege of occupy: one zeae free ot rel obesing will be gran remised as they THOS. BOWLING. Anct. BR, F WABREB, Corner 71h and ¥ streets, . pil OF VALUABLE IMPROV! Ly st 4 UNDERTAKER ¥, HARVEY, o34 Ff STREET, Ondertcaker, WM, HACKETT lays from day of sale, he right to resell, at the risk sid cost of the defaulting purchaser, after five days’ notice in some newspaper the city of Washing! Cent adeiphia. Friends hast bedside, but, alas! the; From attendants in the that Logan had intended to visit his old and then go to the Cea- that striking! LLIAM L. DAVIS, F. D. OLEABY, CBSEGERY, SALE OF IMPROVED PROPEB- TY NEAR THE GOVERNMENT PRINT- iJ Bannevlwanta ha} tenniai. He arrived safe health when he took the cars for Pittsburg; but while walking through the aisle of @ car he tripped on the matt: and received & severe wound on the forehead. Eryeipelas set In, @nd bis face was 50 dis- igured that he conciuded to go on through to get cured before he would He was very ill when be reached Pailadeiphia, and grew nysician flaaliy told recover, and then he By virtue of @ deed of trast signed, dated 30th da . ‘end recorded In Liber By virtue of an order of the Supreme Cour! Land Reco: of the District hi from its sptier!« maiter of the estate of Joseph O. 1 RF HAKVEeY. R.*- BAKER, Calinmet Maker aad Undertakert 619 Lira Sreaer Soxrews he party ablic suction, 4 mm est bidder, ip front of the th day of Angust, 1:76, at 6 reel of’ gronnd in by -» Kaown as the cast nt of Lot 44, 10 square 677. by the dep'h thereof, (viz: the Commissioners sub lot ed by & two story Frame Hy ated on H boast. that in al Lot numbered teen (19) tn Square nunbered twor ninety (290), beginnin ‘the west Hine of 120 visit family and street west, distant sixteen ‘9) inches fram the northeast corner running thence south seventeen (17 feet along said street, thence west one haudred , thence north paratiel to said street rapidly worse. His him that be could not summoned his friends, and died withio an bour. He had some “dust” on deposit at the Centennial Bank, and is thought wo have @ considerable estate in Australia.— [Pittsburg Commercial, 19th. hi sever teen (17) feet HOTELS. RIGGS HOUSE, PLUMER @ SPOFFORD, Proprietors F.iFTESNTHR AND G STREETS, Wasninoron, D. 0. PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR FUEL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INT! Ww. Tos, Augus. 7th, el Fe ‘ ‘ purchase mone; in cosb; the balance in six and notes bearipg six per cent. interest, secured b; deed of trast on the. pro r. are not complied with in five days after ssle, the Commissioners resrrve the Ty — of the deta cS “Many years FisH as Foop.—There is much nourish. nent tn fsb, little less than in meat, weigut for weight, and in effect 1t may be more nourishing, considering bow, from its softer fibre, fish is more easily digested. Moreover, there is in fish a substance which does not exist in the flesh of land auimais, namely, Substance which may have a bea- fect on the health and tend to pre- vent tbe prodvetion of scrofaious or tubocr- cular disease, the latter in the form of p: ption, one of the most cruel with which civilized s: 1 of which @: the residue in 6, the rate of 9 per cent, paid at sale; asd months, with interest at ber ‘om the day of sale until paid, wecared by a ht to resell the same tieg paorchane: ice. All conveyancing at it of one hundred dol deed of trast on t the purchaser's a with within five the trustees reserve the rij at the risk and coat of th .B BITTENHONSE, . W. BI eeeE, B. H. WABNEBR, Beal Bstate Auctioneer. rty sold. Oouveyaiciag at the terms of sale sre not lays from the day of sale, purchaser. A lars at the time of rate will be JAMES TOWLES, JOSISH ESSEX Commissioners, W 2 And the effect was 60 co that I several times fell I suppose because longer synchronous 'NSON BUOS., Ancts. STATES MABSHAL’S SALE O| OF BROKEN STOSE, SUIT! Fou SOUNDATION OF ASP AALT PAV monery consuny, re or Lee White 2 pace Coal. iso. three hundred witn compara Bbamok t nambered three, of nestary,” containing four |, located on the Olivet Cemete 310, et seq., of the UB. 8. Marsbai DO. ATHAN WI1LS8OH, Proctor. UNSUBPASBSED. OATMEAL.—Full five more oatmeal CINCINNATI is consumed in the Unit tates now than LION LAGER. POR SALE BY DEALER& THROUGH- OUT THE DISTRICT, AND BY THE AGENT, SAMUEL ©. PALMER, DEPOT, 67 GREENE STREET, Georgetown, D. G. A Crntenntal len Se oe eter et (oor posse | ! i | : i | ii z 5 : i i I ! i § i t i i i i i i H u aru bee eRe, Tithieh pocusomanes ot the to reject any or all bids te reserved by %, CRANDLRS, Becrearz. . | 4 m FRIDAY. a) rae Sees f=} &| i fi i [ : | E : ui i | } [ Q ® 4 ‘ i i ! i i i i