Evening Star Newspaper, November 8, 1876, Page 3

; Be DRY GOOD ee ageme Be. D CUB SSW ADVERTISSMEAT tr 44°" CHEAP DRY Goons. Seal Brown Bering, @7 Market Space. one yard wide, very fire, 61, OABTER'S. 707 Black Casimeres worth jarket Space. 125. a1 0, @1 Ts jarket Bpace. Devhle tel Pcpin Mobatre—Dara Green, Ses! Brow. French Giev, Navy Blue—onls 98. wer bh. wbie-fold Biack Alpaca, very flue, oaly 28 wort 9 east sit* White Wool Blankets, 92.40, worth We are selliog the best Canton Flannel fn this a for city for 12; also the beat yard wide © remnpnis, 12: go-d Canton Flannel f- L Tow: Is. 8: Calico, $; Pure Stik Monsir Black Alpace, 8, vort best yard Double Beron ich at B. worth ig. DOM ete E BARGAIN 31 BRODBEAD 4 ©o., STEEET, DETWEES i2tu anv 1378, wien smut Prints for quiiting purposes at 6¢ Faso ine pine ime | oD Bette at i: -+ { @! , Sweets sesacegubeeiath facb. for 8g Breit of the Loin Bleached Notts, We Ciark's beet he. 5: jpoo! Cotton. Good Undiear ned pel, To. Bleck S1iks, 78 coc ts and ap, (inclu ing Gutoct & Belion 's c:lebrated makes.) All Wool Biack Freoch Cashmeres, doub’e width ond orignal dye, eo spon bs eed Pisin and Pisid English or Sil ard uy. # fe . reuced from @1 = Parts Kids. tr all colors, @1.35, |. width acd standard make, 3 Katckernooxer. PIaid, Bas- DBESS GOODS, aosarpawed Sad many of which ot Sound slerw bere in market hea} mary other 6 sirable coods equ ood and chei SF Do not fail to ¢ ve us a cail “i BRODHEAD @ ©0., 1206 F street. bet 12th and 18th. SELLING orf ket Obeck a: fm quality an novi-tr SELLING OFF! 4 LARGE AND EPENDID STOOK OF FIRST OLASS FALL AND WINTER DB¥ GuODS, BY J. W. COLLEY, Comnar Eiohta STREET AND MARKET SPacz, FOR THB NEXT 60 DAYS ONLY. ited, at gready reduced prices, witbcut reserve, and macy at less ‘haa cost of importeticn Bleck Cashseres very cheap: Merinoes. Black Alpacas, very cheap: Pins Mobaire. Poster, ome Ciah Olek —— andsome cake ab ° A fall stock of Clothe and Oassimeres, Blankets, Bed Spreads. . Table Linens. Bapkire and Tow: we eval stock of cowelt be Be Staple Gooes adapted to the wanis of families, and they are iee'ted to examine this stock before bay: ing else ran ated as represented, and op. at COLLBY’S, cctS-soSm #01, corner Sth ard Market Space. SLE VELVETS. aving et heavily et the recent fmmense Agtiog hates, we cou now stfor thetargert strech of (BLVetS ia the city. Among our bargains we offer. Also, oar 2 Kait Ouderweer House Furnishirgs at the cheapest store in the city CONNOLLY’s, octts-tr OS Kb street, opp. Patent Ofice. pry GOOL REDUCED. CLOSING OUTOSRPET Sum. i i- t. i best Brassel elas, whk sx’ allowance’ of icons ‘yacd of for ‘Wool Carpets, 625 to 75; low prices. Carpets, Isic to a0, cheap. Dry Gooas very cheap. ‘Beat Caltco Remnants éc. Calicoes 8c : Good Canton Fiacnel, 7%0., up. Worl Flannels. 15 t 7c. Casbmeres. all woe!, Blankets snd Comforts FN Ravpatn, 79 Marxet Space. On the Ist «f Jan . 0? soocer If posible, we GOOD+ bus:ness at our f Dress Guods, Bicnwie. ed Coaree, Waite Quite, Fianoels, codteny for men end boys, materials, cents. Heavy Oanton Flanr tigo UN DERSHIRTE, 10 cts ples of any of the above recel = given above. at Mi AIST FAOTOBY,75 aL cetas-tN19 jayette street, A 1012 F STREST NOBTS WEST, Wasbiogton, D. U. (MITCHELL & MARTIN, (Successors to John T. Mitcheit,) 031 PENNSYLV:SIA AVB, AND 934 DBT. b rchased from the bost maaufactare of York » very targe lot of Ladies’ sad Ubildren’s DEBW £44 that are slightly sutled. THEY WILL BE SCLD AT HALF PRICE. Al, the goed are made of “Pride of West” cotton, and in best m-noer. In the lot will be found everything needed for Indies and cbiidren. Also, s large lot of Pillow and Sheet SHAMS: “One Price, marked in Pisin Figures.” S77 For the present all carriages will have to come ‘to the D stree. eutrance ‘'TCHELL @ MARTIN. D®* @00DE, CARPETINGS, &e. and most destradie stock and CARP ETISGS ever ox- foand at ogh from ©. gton can now be O. Largest lot of LADIBS GLOAKS in the city, from $3.80 up to @28. SCE HEE Sree set OsSHMEBBS. BLACK ane aLPacas. HOUSE FUBBISHING GOODS. BLASKETS! BLANKETS! ‘wool ers tite,’ 780. . jo. Lease Oreton’s dark one ee MT aS eT sept-tr WISWALL @ GWYNg, D*®*** seit manuractosy eanTs SMPORIUR. 2 PERRY 4 BROTHER sve made Jarge wid'tioas to th.tr already well- BLACK, a COLORED, and FANCY SILKS, Wbteb will be offered at exceed: These goods having been ro) f Deasy scvavee in price * Upon the failure ot (be siti oreey - UL Ba BOLD wer have sech an Shite at the prices now fclends, customers, and rie, BP tin consequent ONE PRICE ONLY I ca ] nd *e * 3 Hi i 3 5 Feserve the sk aud coat of the defaultin, PEBPSYLVANIA AVENUB ABD ‘a ST. Boré- cost STILL GREATER BARGAINS 1” BLANKETS! BLANKRTS! BLANKETS! fig, aud Es eater ett: 200 Bates ; bu: all wool, fe nail wool, besvy, substantial in plaia color, et 123 cents, pen end boy's wear, from lotba. seal Brown, navy blue, black, for Red twill Pinncele 30c..S7%0., Sle., etc. ledicated Flannel fr aval orps of Shawis,ch-ap. va and Mohairs, deuble width, 250., re C M. TOWSON 4 COo., 636 PENNSYLVABIA AVENUB, oct23-cotr Nxax 71H Sraeer. RAILROADS. BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD OCTOBRE 167n, 1878. $6@—Baltiaore, Miteoes Git ana Wey Stations, fos atria" SsT ihaeaat soa. Buco :40—New York. Philadel, and Norfolk Ex- ar asaanice kates, : rom oh set he and Way Stations, Frederick } 4 30—Raltinore and Laorel Expr: 4:30—Fredrrick aud Potat of Br « lites B auch ) Connects o1 agerstown aud Winchester. S—Baitimore, Annapolis sod Way Stations, rear ick. | 6:39— Baitimore and Way Stations to Annspolis unetion 4:45—Oincinnatt and Louisville Ex, Ex- cept Saturday Hi ot iagerstown and Wiachoster. | Biresive cars to Olsclanad end Louisville. 8:50—Pornt of Rocks aud Way Stet | 7:€0—Phtindelpnia snd Baltimore Bx press | 7:15 Batt -reand Way Stations | | —Pittaberg, Obicrgo, Uolumbus. 9:20—Baltimore, Alexandria Junotion, and | Relsy. 10:00—Bew York and Philadelphia, Night Ex- 8 g Oare to New York. ‘and Way Stations to Annapolis ixprees _Omotnnati and Chicago, Satardey ‘pers. 30. fey, Batata, ane nd 11: 0 a.mand 4:30 p. LERAMDSIA & FREORRICKSUURG BAI “Wa ALEXANDRIA & WaSHINGTO! 2:16, 10,11, om, | ls ‘On Sunday at 9 ) Roath vie Richmond, 2:15 a.m. daily; “and vie Lynchburg, 7-10 ea. and 12pm, a — a andria for Washington, 6, 7, 8. Ont Sate RO Sand 7pm Satard it 4 p.m. Fare, | Tiokets good ‘untht used. D. M. JR. FRANK THO! 8 aM. a "b Gent Manager. The Great Anodyne and Nervine, BELT’S STOMACH AND TONIC BITTERS, e Te bs had of all Drusrists, Send for Pampas SALTS GALIPEA BITTER, Depot, 13 Oamden SAIL TYLER, Jr. WHOLESALE AGBRT, GBOR9S HB WHITE, Trustees. WH. B. WOUDWAKD, { 5 O0130-Saw aed proer 8 VALUABLE EEAL BSTATE iN STAFFORD COUNLY, VIBGINIA. By virtue of two several deeds of trust dated the one on the 16th and the other on the Séth’ day of s-ptomber. 1876. both of which ba been duly Sdmitted the county court of Stafford c ey At the requcst of the party secur: sell at pubic auction, upon the premises 2 day of November, 1876, SLE or PATURDAY, the 1¥0 clock m . the following real estate, situated the county sforesaid, to wit:—All thet certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in stafford oo both sides of the Bishmond, a and Fotomac, Rallroed, betog about ove mile below Bichmond Steron, bound on the north by the land of Fitzhugh Lee on the jo South by the land of J. Lee. tue Potowne river, and on the is of J. D end eat J. N Harper, containing by 8, 1 rood, end 4 535 scoureyed bs seid Dear- ra, willbe required, red of cron aeer Property +0 ill be requii the time o! A ponte of th in seven day nove 2 I TNITED STATES BSHAL’S BALE, OIL PAINTINGS BY WM. H. ABTIET In virtue of — ot iD o'clock tha'D streets northwest, STO an west, 4 Olt Paintings, Setzed and levied upon as the goods Wiliam H. Powell her wharf, foot of Sth street, every MONDAY and. THURBDAY MOBSIBGS, at aes on the Px cmt. 7 o'stoc! ‘Washington, on }, aboat otomac itver, tle Fe Betorn next day at7 octlo-ak OR NOBFOLK. Jorapan} every MONDAY, WEDNESDA _ an¢ FRIDAY. at 3'p.m., for Norfolk. Be arning, leave Norfolk Ti y. Thareday FOR POTOMAC a LANDINGS. pany's wharf, foot of €ih ucrect- every Tewsyay, gor and ‘every FAIDAY, st Ta my tor Goan ‘st Intermediate landings. er, stopping CLYDE'S Rey Sxraees LINE, HILADELPHIA, AL DBIA, W. ie PHILADON AND GHORGRTOWD: DLO.” is ata Rdg every 180: ra ovess x guard pensege fom Gueenstown to Hew eee ne a aan tian Of 60 at GS jas, ist oruethiogs we sormot THE BRITISH AND NORTH AMEEIOAB 2 ERA RE yORE ann POOL, CALLING AND VaR AT CORK HARBOR. From Buw Yor: Faom Hew York. Le Nor Wed., Deo. 13 =o of Oat -Wed., Deo. 27 § PartaiacWeder Jan; 10 WEDBRESDA ¥ and SATUR- os * do not carry steerage passen- i Barks ov Paseact —Oabtn, @90, $100 and 918, % ding to accommodation. ‘Ticket to i ie slahnhWrsrs keto ret rms. wifes Moret punt nadia given on tor 2 the Gontitcet: and for Meditersaneen eight and Bo EW DEPARTUA: YDE’S WASHINGTON, FHILADELF’ ba SAD PROVIDEROM TRAM steamers of the above line will lea’ ee SATURDAY. Philsael- it 23m. for returning, will 16a ‘every ONDA ia. tts HOTELS. HOTEL AUBRY, WALNUT STREBT, From Thirty-Fhird te Fhirty- PHILADELPHIA, PA. arth, ON THE BUROPEAN PLA. STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS. BEST HOTEL IN THE CITY. myh-waeam LADIES’ BOUDOIR CANDLES, eULTANA BAISINS, NEW. MALAG4 GEaPsgs, PRaES, BANANAS, B. W. REEDS octas-tr 1916 F STSEBT. ATHLETIC PASTIME, A MUCH-EEBDED WANT SUPPLIED. FIRST-CLASS BOWLING ALLEY TO BE OPENED. - AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. FYER! Hiing par five cays’ potios of such reaale hed, is W sebingtop. 0. 0. ALLAN, BEGIN Gin ® { trastees EsDaLL, To-mosAAUW, [pUNCABBON BROS, Anctioncers. “ALE OF ENTIRE CONTON ©8 °F HOUSE No. oe. , 1TH STREAT NOKTHWEST -T ag’ ro Ov TBURSOAY MORNING, Nor-mber 91b. commencing at 10 o’clock.'we will sell ar the abo-e honse the entire contents, con: ehting Wal Washstends, a Condle, Bolsters, Bets Cheirs, Pideboard. Extousion Table, Orr; ictoth, Marting, Heating € ron. Crockery Cool je, Kitchen Beq nov4-4t DUBU. ‘TON, youre @ MIDDLE ron USTER’S BALE OF VALUABLE BNAL E: TE ON THE BOSTHWEST TH ADD H oTHEETS BN vi of a a Estate Auctioneers. ~ and it of the execurrix of the grantor in said of trust, 1 -hali sell, et public auction, in front of the premises on THURSDAY, the 9tu of November 1:76, 30 och weg m those cf ground Rnown a jeeorl ae lote 4 ead 8.io tots 1 and 6, in eqaare nam- tin Use ge of ore ‘Torms Of ale: One third cash: and the balance 9 twelve aod eighteen arer notes wil: be Written request of the party secured theret h the consent day lote fn four payments tn rix, a1 months, for which the P cost of cefaniting purchseer, all conveyancing at purchacer s cost. 'W_ 0. DENNIBON, Trustes, oct dfds YOUSG a MIUDLATOG; aacts ‘THomas DOWLLRBG, Auctioneer TSUMTBES’ BALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED P BB’ IN GEORGETIWN—3-8PUR BBIOK DWELLING HUUSE AND RAM BL 0B HOUSE ON FAYET «RS STBERT. By virtue of 8 deed of trnst, dated Augast ‘WZ tb, 1874, and recorded ia Liber 764 cae | ry of the laud records of Wasbingt.a county Distrios of Uclumbia, and by direction in writ the bolder of the note secured thereby, we will sell, ‘8 public auction, 1 front of the premises, on PBL DAY, the 3d day of Buvember, 15/6, at 4% o'clock, Htuste aad belag ia 2 in seid addition He- for the same at aputut on tbe east side of ‘ayette street 2s feet 4 iuches froin the uor.heest corver of seid Jot, and runuivg thence wiih said tart line & feet § laches, more or 'o+a, taence east- erly end parallel with’ Ist atreot 18 fest, more cr leas; theuos wortherly and paral el wih Faye te street 60 fect, more or levs; theace westerly aud parallel with lat street 7 feet; thence southerly aud Parallel with Fayette street 24 fect 4 incbes: ead thence westerly and garallol with let strvet 113 feet, more or less, to the beginni Lmproved by a two-story Brick Dwelliug aud a Frame Store. Terme of sale: Oue-foorth cash; balacc in 6, 12, 18 and 24 monte, secured by notes and a deed of — on the property. The notes to bear the rat ally. chaser’s cost. $100 dowao whea too Sy, struck off ifthe terms are not complied with ip deye, he Trustees reserve the rigtt t. rese'l at the st of es yarchascr, andthe cash pay- 8. P Dave La B7-AT THB BEQUEST OF THE TLES IBFREROTED the sore sale tp PoStPONKD to MOB. 3ta st seme hour and Ait be sold eeparately, 8. BOWLING, Acct. youre & MIDDLETON, auctioneers. TRUSTBES’ BALE OF A DBSI: ‘UBY BBICE D' LLL L, { Trustees. on it 436 celook p. Teal estate, situste in the city of ‘of Colambia, to wit: All that Sacer a ear or 'y a bam! ia Mayhew’s subdivision of lots numbered one (1,) two, (2.) &e., in square numbered two bun- @ed Ce four (24) together with the improve- mente, &o. Terme: One-foerth in cash,and the balance six, twelve and sigbiecen months, with interest eight per cent pr en trust on the property s0l4, cr all cash at 0} 4S nwa derosit’ of @100 requi ‘time of sale. and eucing at convey YOUNG @ MIDDLETON, Estate Auctioneers. TRUST DW. By viriue of a deed of Jannary Mth, A. D. 3873, and recorded ia Liber No,70/,fello 120, one of the land re- coids for Washington county, D.0., and at the re- qneat cf the helaer of the note thereby, £ 8 ablio auction, in front of the AY, November Oth, 1876, at 4 Oc p. m., the following deseri| estate, to wt: All tbat certain piece or parce! of ground and d stinguishea Lot ty -three the improvements, cousistiag et si ap a at a Z from January 14th. ues of the sae in cach, and the baie: TSUSTSES’ BAL! MaBYLAND aV 6 jaTs W By virta: FEM" HOUSE ON BET WaEY We ASD ofa deed of trast to the subscrib- lovember 18, 1871, and recorded in 867, fotice 208, &c Jone of the lend ‘of Washiagton county, D. 0 os the requrst [powsaan ‘& GREED, Auctioneers. Farliculare see cirenlar. to bs hed at the of bem Pio» mau, Lospector of Sutldings jer of th. Commirat ners D. 0. L BOXIB, Lieut Bogineers U8 Ay 6t Evatveer of v. 0 HOMAS DOWLING, sectioncer Ov7-¢ "THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneor, AUCTION Baus. phi tistic 7 Gi-bert, representing the Fathers on Piymoa, guarded the ole medals ernaifonal &xbii THE JACKSON CITY FISHERY FOR BauT UcTIOn ion, pagummes. Movember 0 > 76, at 3 0'o at my - tion Koome, I will rent bd bite suction the Spove mentioned Fishery for the sea- fou vf 1877, s ove-8t THOB DOWLING, Auct. Ceascess SALE OF BBAL ESTATE In By vintue of 0 dere weds by toe Buprome 5 2 Court of the District of Columbia, in cause nombered 3.388, Equity docket 13. between, ai complaina.ts. and Kate a. ndente, the undersicned trates remicsa, veuber 1576, aud p-om- = Lot irty sigat, nd bousds a ng at the distance of 4) Inches from G street es, to the piace of beginain, 2-story Srame House, One third ceah; and io e clr g. &e . at cost of purchaser. A deposit of $20 time of sale will be required. If terms are ost com- plied with within five days Trust Fight to resell at risk of defanttiny LOv6,14 WM. W. B DUsOENSON BROS.. Auctioneers, Southeast corner 9h and U streets u. w, TRUETBYS’ BALE OF VALUABLE IMPRO’ bPaL ae eH THE SOSTH SIDEY STBERT. Oa STH aod TENTH virtus of a deed of trast, dated Jane lat, 4 i Liber 788, fol! oh ambi, the WEEN BL An! NOBT: rqnaere tl dred myo ue 1s of record tm the office of the surveyor of cl Terns of sale: One-half cash; balence in two ard three Sears, for which the re notes will be taken, seeured by adeed of trust upon the property. and bearing interest at the rate cs Bove St cI Pprscanson BBOB., Auctioneers. X ECUTOB: ALE OF VEBY * 'WO-STO) OK Dw: itt GON sex ‘REBT SOUTHBAST. D BUILDING FOTs ON OUT! ‘x drawer, WA Ore TBRBET SOUTHEAST. AT a! ‘We, the executors of the iast will ment’ of James A. Crane, deceased, will, Dy Virtuo of ihe autbority vested in ue, selt, at public auction,on SATURDAY, with day of Bo- front of tue that pert of square 928, beginalng tor the aus tte point ware nas; same a! bn Oth atreet cast 69 fest from the scuthwert of said square: ranning thence vorth 21 feet ches on said #th street, and Fanning back 83 feet to = cites: tmptoved by a substantial two-story Brick welllbg. ‘Aino, fuimediately thereafter, part of said equare $28, fronting 73 fect inch on south MK street. be- tween 8th and 9th streets east. ‘This part of satare is unimproved, and will be sold as ® whole or Ciyided, ft requested. Terms: One fourth cash: halance tp three equal peymente at 6, 19 ard J" moc ths: notes to be secured 7 sold, with iuterest at 8 the option of the jece at time of i ferro to be chin seven Gaye froni day of ale, or 1..Bt to resell at Cust of deface ing purchseer reserved Conveyancing, &¢ , at o of purchaser. JUDSOB T, CULL MICHABL ObaNe,{ Bxecutors. }» Auctioreer, folio 143 et seq , one of the lend records, District of Qolumbia, and at che request. ty mcured thereby, we will sail at public 1 the premises, on TAU eb day of November, 1376, at those certain pieces or parce’ Lirgin por yg ond of 2 art of hed fi ae x i if SE con nears Si Cusnoanr wuigh Bist BOTATE O§ CaP. of 28 0 decree EVENING STAR. WEDNESDAY... Nevember 6, 1876 The Bema Book agent He came in briskly aod sat dowa with a . One end of his paper collar reared over is left ear; a qualmy Smell of last woek's aren hung about bim. He == his glass pon Us, Bnd loosening his Ludia ru> ber topgue he 9 ~~ “The Universal History of the Universe — ‘Im 2 000 instalments—50 cents au instalinent— 300 epgravings—” “Brop my friend. Restrain the tntetiec- tuai flow. Up that torrent of elognence. Lisien to me—do you know what has come toxe since I saw you last? It was in Octo —” Gs iT," iterrupted the book agent. “You pever sew me before!” Impossibie! Could one podie ‘on those oeaments Could that forgotten, coy wart on October is—" ion me, sir,” exclaimed the book Sent, rolling his brass eyelids in despera- ration, “you are—" «Pardon me, sir; I cannot allow avy man to bold the reins of conversation over me—{ will not be tpterrupted—to resume: my great granc mother was the pertest woman of ber Sre that you ever saw. She was one huo- cred and thirty-two years old, and yet was @* chipper as the best of us. My brother, * ho was an inventive man, put her on « pair of wheels, aud it would have Jove you good to bave seen ber scoot around. I sappose Would please you—have you a child?” “I am the father of thirteen miserable cbildrev,” be replied. “Ab, then, you can sympathize with my Story. You bave been @ mother yourself. Ah, who cap sound the depths of a mother’s Jove? It is as deep as an artesian well, as high @s@ liberty pole. It soars like a Chi- nese kite; it grovels like @ ground hog. It is Sweet to bem mother. It gives us a new life snd Gills us with a broad, . BWweet—” “Really, sir, I haven't the out the perplexed and “Now, there you go outevery time. Bat to versation. I do think dog I ever saw. Although he was quite young when he was born, he seemed to take to learning naturally. When I would send bim to drive the piss out of the yard, he would take the lillie pigs patronizinly by ine ear. “Ha! ba!” langhed the book agent, dole- bright dog—quite bright—bat would you If J fally, “quite this univ. te gg aye | me again there! But it don’t matter. To resume: As I said before, the boat was very small and cranky. It rocked wildly, and the girl became excit’ id was bard to ® time,” broke agent. Joints scapping viciously. He cast one wild, seared pee eceee bim and made for the door, Having the door be turned *nd looked back hangrily. He brighwoed Up, as if he were — to open the conversa- tion again, but he guipea his sorrow dowa hastily and fied. “Come back and see us again,” we called blandly over the stairs. “You are such a goes listener it’s @ pleasure to talk to you. ‘Yes, come again! Come during the next oen- tennial!"— | Adanta Constitution. ee eeeeomerermnas WEY THE MuLE Was UNBaPPy.—And then, with the sad eyed male with parabolic Spine laboring in advance. the little street- car went on its way. The engineer was sociably inclined, and so we fell into inti- mate converse. * Dov’t it require a goo! deal more genins to steer @ mule than it does to baudie horses *”" “Yessir, you bet! You see mewils is dit- ferent from’ ; you've got to know *em to git along with 'em. Let a green hand take that yere mewil an’ he'd go to kavortin’ around &nd gittin’ on his ear, and raisin’ h—1 to an extent that would just more'n ‘out? je don’t look like that sort of abair pia— What's be grieving in love, and is kinder You know how It is re awful sentimental and falls in love jest like any ober critter, but there don’t seem to be any satisfaciion in it, somehow. The more he’s in love the woes he seems to feel.” “A case of blighted, unrequited affection, you think?” “Cervin! You give that yere mewil a «bance and he’d git off a piece of poetry on the state of his féclin’s which ud draw tears from a sick oyster. Wooa! you d—d mad di«-beaded son of thunder! Where are you 6 ‘This interruption was caused by the mew!) taking @ side shoot, and taking the car with him. It required much effort on tne part of the sallow driver to restore the status qac— much cursing, which musi have lacerated tse soul of the sorrowful animal, much as his sides were braised by the heavy boots of b's manager. Being finally Kicked and sworo y vvng track, we resumed progress.—{ Crricago es. OF LATE YEARS the Spanish Nation has taken @ laudable interest in &: ng the memory of Cervantes . On the anni- versary of his birthday, the is in all the prine! cities improve occasion by a iums and reciting verses in honor author of Don Quixote. The Madrid Epeca, under the heading of “Tae Prison of Oervantes,” calls attention to the alarming state of decay of the house in the “Al jasilla del Albra,” in the cellar of which, &@s an extemporized dungeon, tradi- ears since the Madrid publishing house of ivadeneyra erected a their edition de luxe of house was, some time since, purchased by the late Infante Don Sebastian, with a view to a complete and carefal restoration; but political changes and his death pre- vented the realization of bis project. Tae Epoca now calls public attention to the state of decay of the house, with a view to | an immediate restoration. THE TRUE ART Of being agreeable is to ap- pear well pleased with aii the compaay, aud rather to seem well entertained with them Unan to give entertainment to them. A maa thus disposed perhaps may not have much Jearning or any wit; but if be has common sense, and something friendly in his baha- vior, it conciliates mea’s minds more than the brightest talents without this disposi- Uop; when @ man of such @ tarn comes to, old age he is almost sure to be treated ith respect. It is true, indeed, that we shou'd sotdissembie and flatter in company; buta@man may be very agreeable, strictly ith truth and sincerity, by @ ce where he cannot concur, and Ht Press, Sud printed | on Quixote. Tne | Te a Phttedetputa [“Laertes” in New York Graphic | Philacelphia powesses three elevator tow- ers or franies, of extreord Ascended Ove yesterday w the largest cigar m: try, ard with « weil this tower, aa¢ ne bad to be taken down immediately, Tae | tower is a doubie elevator 238 fee! above the warm, while between two burdred feet of made of plated iron, tn slender ube, riv- eled Logether and sirevgthenes by diagonal bolts. re is po surface to une site of the elevator was Schuylkill. and therefore we of nearly 35 feet above outlying landscape, which ue © Oreste of on its lofty reservoirs. The birds uncer Us; the water that suppited lion headed populace mounuad to levels 150 feet under oar porch. The that blew on & thousand masts were Gown, and there we stood in lofty isolation, coup! >of house flies in a light house. lta ‘steeples and the long, white or cloudy green ages elike Delaware rive; woodland of walis and forests, the ideatity of the city lost tp its extent, uotil at the far- ‘best outlines the blocks of houses looked Nike land avd the woods likea city. Pinnted Qirlly on ope high plateau the temple of Girant strode forward on its fai ike ® lion in a desert beadiand, its marb) petiment, like @ low forehead M&n, bringing out the power of ite form The battiemented penitentiary, on wh: solitary captives Dickens shed bis profes. sional tears, developed its radiating corri- Gore. Bridges leaped the crystal grean thread of the Schuyikill like golden girdics on @ venuous snake, and trains ueseen in «yivan ambushes whooped softly as nut.gatherers whistling to each other. Tue vast in of cheerful brick took shadow and s: upoa it, lost in its irfintty and hardly eonscions of its monotony, as if the mind of William a -y" there —! smoked his clay ¥ ing in everlasting peace for the Spirit to move and the silence broken bye yea or nay. er What We Find in Coal, Professor William F. Roberts says; “The Coal itself even where itis most abundant, constitutes but an insignificant portion of the whole thickness of the strate of the ancient coal formation. Most Of the coal seams rest upon an under clay, cobtaining stig: i, tne fossil reotiets ot une it cali aria. Professor - pertexamined the coal fields of Germany, and stated that he deected in beds of pure coal the remains of planta of every family, then Known to occur, fossil in the coal. Many seams, be remarks, are rich in laria, lepidodendra and stigmaria, the ter insuch abundance as to appear to form the bulk of the coal. Io some piaces alinos! Sl the plants were calmaties. in other feras. in & cut fora railway in Lancashire, Eag Jand, ia the distance of ove hundred faet, six fossil Lrees were discovered, standing in ver- Ucal position to the dip of the surata, which Was fifteen degrees south; the roots were embedded io an argiliaceous shale under- lying & seam of coal about eight taches thick. Beneath the coal seam aod around the base Of (be trees more (han & bushel of fossil cones Supposed to be the fruit of the lepidoden- Croo, were gathered. In the carboniferous strata of Coalbrook Dale,and in other coal Deids, these fossii cones are met with, some Of which are five inches long. Oae of the trees found in the cut measured 15 feet at the base and 7 feet at cloven feet its discovere beigit. In the New Castie, Bristol and other coal Geld, these vertical stems are called oy the miners coai-pipes. These cyliudrica! casts of fossil trees, now forming solid sand- stone after the coal is mined from under- peath, sometimes side suddenly down au cause fatal accidents, The lofty cliffs kvown as South Joggins, on the sea-coust of Nova Scotia, affords admirable seotions of the coal-bearing strata containing fossils of the forests of the carboniferous period. trunks of trees @re seen standing al right angles to the dip of the sandstone showing that they were, before this strata was deposited, standing in an upright po- sition; bow they iociineat an angle of 150 from the vertical gt iat is exposed to Lyell and Dawson in 1852 made exemination of portion one strata. 1,400 feet thick, where the coal seams eal ee ee and found root-' Dg soils at sixty eight levels, clearly showing Satjeeighe forests, ranged one above the other, in this coal field in the above mentioned tuiekness of strata.—[ Coal Trade J; pe nh nnn JEENS RoBERSON’S Last ILLWESs—A Jonesboro’ negro, while waiting for the train = out last nigot, strack up with several - ye ng Ly Jeoms = one, after usual “time had been ee = you hear bout Jim?” queried Jonesboro’ darkey. = ed “I ain't beerd fam Jim since be cut loose fam , He ain't down with de i ‘peered § bin fool wid dat mule before, an’ I tole Jim he better not git tangied up wid her. But he “lowed he wuz @ hoss-doctor, an’ den me for @ chew of terbacker, an’ an’ cotch de mule an’ got on her—well, I speo I better go git my ticket. Dey dis train goes a cally bootin.” * Hold on, ain’t tole us "bout Jim,” said one of his dusky auditors. “idone tole you alll kaow. Jim goton de mule, an’ she sorter humped herself, an’ den der wuz ascuMe, an’ when de dus’ blow y I see de nigger on de groua’ an’ de mul eatin’ at de troff wid one uy Jim's gallases | roun’ ber 7 Den arterwards de kar’ner | hecum an’ sed Jim died sorter accliental ke. Hit's des like I tell you; de nigger wozo’t sick a minntt. Weil. f got ter ve gittin’ en. So long, boy wat Conatite- } |. BROOMS AND CARPET SweEerrnc.—i | bave found that brooms wet with bouing | soapsuds once or twice &-week, Will become very pliabie and tough and will not cat the carpet in sweeping, @nd will last much | Jopger; @lso, that a bandfal of salt eprinkied | over the carpet before sweeping will carry the dust along with it and cause the | to look bright and clean. A very dusty ca.e | ed Tay also be cleaned by ipl the room. cold water, shaking o} ali the Crops, and sweeping @ yard or so ata time, | then wash tbe broom and t until the room is swept.— Germanior graph, _——— s7Said @ woman be in a New Haven suffrage meeting: “Woman is im every re- Spect the equal ofman. Her tation for beroic bravery—" At tbat point @ mouse ran into sight, and orator jumped on the ta- bie and screamed. 87 Man spit @ quart of tobacco juice street-car and got one Bo; DIED. wrerautwon inoaee sen’ of 5 L on Louise ingslls, aged tseare, $month ‘Selene. stp pines an ae see UNDERTAKERS, R.?: B48vEr, os4 F STEBBE, Undertaker. WM. BACKETET witn R.¥. MARVEY. ears -e BR. s4nann, Cabinet Maker and Bnderteker. 619 Lira Gracer Hosrawsss. Joma s. waiear. Undertaker, ectt?-Om* ‘A337 00h ctrest sorthwest.