Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1879, Page 2

DESTITUTB CHILDREN. “Do ye hear theth'ldrea ws*ping, O my brothers, Ere the rorrow comes with years? time of the others They are weeping in the p in the country of the fre Have we then no place, “Where the outcasts of to-morrow By gentle words and rules be Ma learn the uses of their sorrow’ I. THE INDUSPRIAL HOME SCHOOL. OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA—THE WORK IT HAS DONE AND SUCCESSFULLY MADE—SOLVING OBLEM OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING—WHAT EDED, WHAT PROPOSED—SHALL IT BE MADE TO SUPPLEMENT THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 7 We have a number of charitable Institutions in the District where destitute and fleglected children may find a home, but they are nearly all under denominational control confined to boys or girls as the case may be, and their in- mates have no connection whatever with the public school system or is their management in any manner controlled by the Iaistrict authorl- ties, saving In the case of the INDUSTRIAL HOME SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This institution, according to its last repo to the Commissioners of the District, has been struggling for some fourteen years to do ina very imperfect manner for the District, what within the space four years by the wise and bountiful provisions of its leztilators has been 0 successfully accomplished for the state of Michigan. The Industrial Home School is providing a home, clothing, educating and tratotug to indus- try homeless, dependent and neglected children of both sexes, endeavors to nila serious void which would otherwise exist in this locality among the instrumeantalities of social science and in the words of the far seeing commiastoner of education aims to “supply an important iink in the chain of preventive3 between the com- pulsary education act as it relates to common senools and the reform school for juvenile de- iipquents.”” To recite the vicissitudes this Institution has encountered in its prolonged and it would now appear successful strugzle for existence and re- cognition seems needless, further than tosay that the “Home” has unremittingly given shelter to as many “wards” as it possibly could, but, that for the want of funds, and consequent proper facilities. the educationa!, and more especially the industrial feature, at times suffered serious drawbacks, until some prominent members of ol ss, recognizing the valuable service the institution was alming to perform, enlisted the interest of that body to .the extent of Its do- nating to the school by act of June, 1S7l, an oid steam engine and sundry machinery. This gift proved tnvaluab’e in promoting tlie end in View, it having ever since been utilized in the workshop of the institution on Congress street, Georgetown, where, when not occupied with ‘Studies at school, some ten or more boys, under @ master workman, are taught the use of tools, and tn the course of time have given evidence of ter industry and sxill by turning out many thousard articles" of carpenters’ — cabdiaet makers’ and lathe work. During the official term of Governor Dennison 2s Commissioner of the District, that enlight- ened statesman took a lively interest in pro- moting the ends of the institution, and was largely instrumental in having the District au- thorities assent to the transfer of the children to the present. most eligibly located premises, the property of the District, on the helgits of Georget wn, formerly used a8 an asylum for adult paupers. And within the past year the efficient board of trustees of the publi¢ schools, after giving the subject most thoughtful con- sideration, has established a pudlic schoolon the premises, so that the idea so long conteaded for, and so successfully carried out in Michigau, promises now to culminate, as at Coldwater, tu amost important adjunct to the pubife school system of the District of Columbia. Important fromthe stand point of social science, because it rescues from dangerous association innocent, helples$ and neglected children, and from an educational point of view, still more edge because it not only affords these children the advantages of instruction under the public school system, but goes further and trains them to vocations wherewith they can earn an hon- est livelihood, and thus promises practically to solve the question, so far as tLey are concerned, of industrial training in the public schools. How eastiy this is accomplished where the facililies of alternating between studies and training at manual labor are at hand need not be enlarged upon. Pestalozzi, Fellenberg, WI- chern, and more especially Wehrli, demon- strated the practicability of this mode of com- bining menial, moral and manual training of youth more than half a century ago. PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SCHOOL. A recent visit to the Industrial Home School of the District of Columbia, whereof at present Charles M. Matthews, esq., untiring in educa- tional matters, is president; W. W. Curtis, esq., vice president; Huldah W. Blackford, secretary, and M. V. Buckey, esq., treasurer, elicited the following: Prof. L. Barnes, the efficient super- intendent, and his wife, the beloved matron, as foster mother, are in charge of the children, whereof fifteen are girls and thirty-seven boys, ranging from six to sixteen years of age. Thes look healthy avd happy, like cheerful brothers and sisters, under kind and devoted yet firm parents. The bright countenances, orderly de portment, and perfect freedom apparent, indt- cate excellent discipline, kind treatment, acd a renning influence to prevail in the establisi ment. The older girls assist thelr younger com anions and out of schoo! hours attend to hou:e wld duties. Sewing and mending classes 0: boys and girls take turrs in the sewing room. Seme of the boys assist about the house ant garden, whilst others, when not at scnool, wor: in the shop on Congréss street, but its distance > Irom the “Home” has proved a serious detri ment to properly alternating industrial an ( mental training. The mana-<ers are, however with the approval of the District authorities and school trustees. now erecting on the prem- ises a suitable workshop, laundry and school- room, sO that, more Parga during the winter, children attending the school, whether iumates of the institution or residing in the neighborhood, and old enough to do 50, may systematically alternate between thelr respec- tive branches of manual labor and intellectual | studies. | For the present wants of the institution the | lagpsip charge of the sewing room capably | {igghe position of instructor in tailoring, cut- | Ungmand:dressmaking. An tntelligent master shoemaker, however, is wanting and Isto be @S\s00n as the proper person can be J dmitime no doubt a good cok, to give inaiguttion tp Bimail classes in the art of plain conki pg, Wil begound advantageous In promot- inga hmowdedae othoushoid economy and train- ingps@me of thedomates regularly to household Service, . The: mipie area of the premises also st at gt gardener and horticul- Luxist). & farmer experienced dairyman Showidebe adited at Shé earliest practicable mo- Inent, as it wonlé-de much toward encourag! adovefor the cultivation of flowers, fruit ant veget abies, Reopinwral beegsthtsing of chickens, Ana casquiting @ fond netsdut! Agricultural pur- Suits ee Cond ucivg ditke ia-promoting the moral audcphysiuM boutinon bt thewajority of the inniaces Of suetvan tastttation Aopresent the maiarefforts of uie super Stemcesht fai this direc- Tien isinearssartly Le rider a end of raissug!sufiticnent_predioe:to! nis fam- liy, aud the questiaa ofvapstematte idstragtion can receive pu a as bee! : F \idnt In phls -fADAD tie tah uk TouRDa NCHich Sommeneshee hav Ber : Engtconearcttte Org Menace et at ex? pebse to the’ jyrstenh totaly h Epartor the rebel AUaplaated ednditing GP thpghiain’ Banfi APhIgh as/a realy i Baas eae Bre MU IERDIE ¢ be na “ een i 1 ChAT RPL bio AS YAM CAS OLS Bere y aah erralo | and packed in pasteboard boxes. | cannot afford sealskin. These two furs are now INTEGRAL PART OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF TEE DISTRICT, and be subjected to the supervisory care of the board of trustees of the public schools. It would then, as in my opinion it should, authori- tatively constitute a ‘“‘Home” and also an edu- cational and industrial training school for abso- lutely destitute, neglected and maltreated chil- dren of the District, rescuing them in time from the baueful effects of their evil-tending environ- ment. Farthermore, let the police and others interested in the healthy moral growth of the District see to the proper execution of alaw for the punishment of wrongs fo children, such as has already been presented in Congress and re- | ferred to the judiciary committee, and the germ of nog and crime will have been attacked at the very taproot, an untold amount of destt- | tution, indigence and wretchedness averted, and good citizens made of many who will other- wise assuredly drift into the almshouse, peal- tentiary and jail. Increase, then, the capacity and facilities of | such institutions Mke the Industrial Home | School, and it stands to reason that you lessen the necessity of enlarging your police force, overcrowding the docket of your Police Court, and building additions to your reformatories, almshouses, penitentiaries and jails. And to do this, I assert, is Not the work so much of charity as it is the duty of those who would themselves wise rulers. We have in, or adjacent to the District no less than four institutions ranking virtually as uni- | versities, viz: Golmintan peer sand oe | Georgetown and Maryland Agricultural Col- leces- where the moré sifted and favored wi'h | means may qualify themselves to enter upon the highest of scientific callings. But how | many technological and industrial institutions have we in the District where tie youth of the laboring classes, the future bone and sinew of the community, can enter and practically ac- quire the means of self-support and material advancement? Iam grieved to say, with the exception of two denominational schools for girls, none other than what Is offered to the most destitute of the poor by the limited means and facilities of the Industrial Home School o¢ the District of Columbi: How Sealskins Are Prepared, A peep into a fur manufactory in hot weather reveals a busy scene. The fur that commands the widest sale now Is that of the seal, after it has been made into handsome cloaks and boas for ro and into hats and gloves for men. The skin is usually imported from England al- ready dyed. Only one firm in the city dyes the skin, changing it from {ts natural tawny yellow color into the lustrous velvety brown seen in the finished articles of apparel. The natural skin Is moistened after the greasy iateguments are scraped from the peit, and then put into an oven to hasten slight decomposition. This 13 preparatory to removing the old, coarse hairs that stick out from the fine thick undergrowth. ‘The coarse halrs are to be removed and the un- dergrowth is tobe retained. The skins in the oven are closely watched lest they should be- come too soft, and thus entirely ruined. When they are at a proper stage they are taken out and laid on a board and scraped with a blunt iron knife that pulls out the long hairs and leaves the undergrowth. If the short growth comes out with the coarse txen the skin Is, of course, ruined. ‘Then comes the dyelng. The skin ts patnted with a solution, consi principa'ly of nut- galls trom Smyrna, and allowed tu dry. 101s then shaken ahd beaten, and painted another coat—cftentimes eighteen or twenty coats. At this stage the skins are packed and seni to this country. Asthey are unpacked in bundles and stacked on the shelves in the fur house they look not unlike the big bundies of overcoats that seamstresses may be seen in street cars carry- ing to their taskmakers. When askin Is un- folded tt is oval, and has at each side two nar- row, oblong slits. The skin looks as though it might be fitted to achild elght years old by thrusting the child’s arms through the two slits in the skin and letting the tail hang down to the child's heels, while the upper part projects above its head like an ultra-fashionable collar, The skins are always cleaned before using by putting them moistened into a woodea cylin- der, like those used in a court room for the jury ballots, only larger, with sawdust. The skin is cleaned by being revolved in thecylinder. It is taken out and nailed upon a flat table todry, being stretched as far as it will go. This was formerly all that the skin was subjected to be- fore being cut for garments, but within a win- ter or two ft has been customary to take out the coarse hairs that are broken off by the process of removing them with a knife after heating, and also those hairs that are too short to be reached by the process. The result is to make the fur “freer,” as the furrier would say. ‘That itis softer and flner to the touch after the second operation, any one may detect by rubbing the hand over it. ‘To do this, a girl is given a skin in the morn- ing, and seated at a table with adozen other girls all with skins. Her left forefinger ts put under the pelt side of the skin and the fur side bent over the finger. The girl blows the soft fur to one side and leaves the stiff, coarse hair ex- posed. Then she clip3 the coarse hair with Selssors. ‘The operation is tedious and requires a day or longer to finish a skin. The blowing and clipping of a tableful of girls makes a curi- ous sound. The. the skin fs looked over for any imper- fections. The slightest hole is sewed up. The sewing 1s cominonly done by hand, but a glove- stitebing machine is used when possible. ‘Taen the cutter receives the skin. He must be a man ofexperience. The extremest economy 1s useil in selecting different parts of the skin for vari- ses. Even the bits of fur are saved forfelting fur hats. Around tone. iow tables sit women who rapidly make up seiskin cloaks from the pleces furnished by tne 7 The sewing is entirely done by hand. Tae stoutest of needles are used. In a separate room another bevy of women quilt lintugs fur the cloaks, and when they are fitted the c 9a%s are hung within a thick curtain at the side o the wall and afterward taken toa storeroom ‘These operations were witnessed yesterday in a wholesale manufactory in Mercer street. Be sides the sealskin, a cheaper fur, the mink, was being made into boas and muff3 for those wh» most indemand. For trimmings for silk gar- ments, however, the fur of the chinchilla, a little white and black animal found on the Cor- Pte South America, was being cut up.—[V. . Sun, Blaine’s Memory of Faces. Senator Bialne’s wonderful memory of names and taces—a faculty of no smail value toa poli- Ucian—ts thus illustrated by a correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial: Many times bave Mr. Blaine’s powers of memory been shown since he entered Ohio. At Bellaire he recognized at once oid classmates whom he had not seen for thirty-tive or forty years, called them by name and referred to trivial in- eidents in the past which had often ttmes passed from the memory of him addressed for many years. For instance, as he was entering the dining-room, Dr. Weltrich, of Maritn’s Ferry, stepped up and sald: “Mr. Biaine.” Blaine turned Inmediately and replied: “Way Israel Weirich, sure as I'm alive. I'm glad to see you, old friend.” He had not seen Weirica since 1344 or heard of him. Again, another old man asked him, “Don’t you remember me?” “Why, yes,” said Blaine, calling his name; ged! you thirty-tive years ago at Caldwell’s was the reply, “I never was there; you istaken. “No lm not,” said Blaine, and he named the day, a-many years ago, and an Incident of the ay. ‘The old man brightened up and sald: “ Well, "il be doggoned, but you are right. I was there, ud I've never been there since.” 9-or I either,” said Blatne. @e.editor of a weekly paper in Eastern Ohio yasMpresented to him. ‘How do you do, Mr. “£5. sked Mr. Blaine, cordiaily ee his ess ‘ou are the editor of the ——. I be- ieved lone meeting yee sare the last apa en I was speaking In Oblo. You Ey} Munsee your cousin in with you then. s he still with you?” This is gn lent, as the newspaper man old tt He. added: “I had but a min- ; Wy when I saw him first” r ¢ seochires 1 ge ee ae peess =f ou! mtb ied mechanics of Bir- pint ai (Sh Qo cn be found witha eR Of thrift, economy or Min ewee very od sy Bie, It is regarded as ngy” rt of a working- fe”. hoard up fora ‘Weld scout at "or vralay diy 2°. G¥is‘obhn Bee: e1 D Dy ny’ THE HATCHING :OF'&) Mat ‘VigwEp PROW & Rar_roaD Train—A and recon- (acrea. ‘There & GovDhe about veer Bare inian Tey batehé {udetslops: Wises tapas prove | ay WHAT MAY BE SEEN AT SAN ANTONIO. THE FAMOUS MARKET—WHAT IT AMOUNTS TO— SUNDAY IN SAN ANTONIO—COCK-FIGHTS, FAN- DANGOS, AND SO ON—CURIOUS MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. ey [Correspondence of The Star. SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, Sept., 1379. ‘The City Directory of this place, in a page of advice and information to pilgrims and strang- ers, as to what they should see, and where they may see it, and how, says: “One point should never be neglected and that is the early morn- ing market on the Military Plaza. This will require the tourist to rise at daybreak, but the walk in the early morning, with the peculiar sights to be enjoyed, will more than repay the exertion required.” So expecting the largest kind of a dividend of gratification I deducted from my morning’s sleep last Sunday two good solid nours, and invested them in a visit to this market; not that Sunday is the only market day, it is an every morning occurrence; but Sunday 1s the day to see it at its best, and it one desires to witness a cock-fight, or a fan- dango, or buck against monte, or attend a the- ‘trical entertainment, or see a crowd at the springs, Sunday of all others is the day to do it. Sunday the bar-rooms are crowded and the churches are empty. The average San An- tonian prefers whisky to religion every time. Up to as late as 11 o'clock stores are open and business as generally carried on as on a week day, and many of them continue open through the entireday. The Anglo Saxon leaven that :hculd have leavened the whole mass has fallen into Ue manners and habits and customs of its Mexican and German nelghbors. The Sunday aw, which passed the last legislature, is as dead 4 letter here as though it were never on the statute book, and trials under it are perfect farces. THE MILITARY PLAZA, or Plaza de les Armaa, Where this market Is held, is a treeless, grassiess square, surrounded on {ts four sides by places of business, and if there is any hotter place in the whole world at noon on a September duy—exposed as this 1s to the dl- rect rays of a well nigh tropical sun, and shut off from any chance of a breeze—ih must be one of the other two plazas here! Tiis plaza is, as old as the town. and was originally intended, as its name indicates, for a parade and camp ‘ound, and was long so used, tirst by the Span- ih, then by the Mexican. and perhaps afier- wards by the Texan soldiers; and the bulldings that then surrounded and enclosed Jt, some of which still remain, were used for barracks. ‘The picture that presented itself as i entered the plaza was a disappointment. I had antici- paied seeing something very like the Freach market of New Orleans, but the crowd of busy buyers and sellers, the hurs of animated trailic, the gay and pecullar dresses of the people, and the quantity and variety of articles displayed for sale, 80 common there were conspicuous here only for their absence. Six lony rough board tables,each covered with an oll cloth,and presid- ed over by Mexican bandits who looxed as thouzh they would have as s00n severed one’s wind- pipe as have served him with coffee, and would bave done one job as cheap as the other. tirst attracted my attention. They were kind of out- aoor Mexican restaurants, Where for from tive cents to two bits one can get a breakfast. I did not tarry atany of these tables, for beside the very strong Indications of dirt, the guests already assembled around them looked very like small-pox dissemtnators—a disease quite prevalent here—and I knew beforeuand ¢ tue specialties of the Mexican culsiue are ot a character that, unless one has a cast iron stomach and a copper lined throat, they had best be let alone. But any tourist who has 2: .clination to pry into mysteries may do tt here to bis beart’s content and his stomach’s disvon- tent. Chile con carne, a stew or hash of pelon dog and chile pepper; tamales, a dry hash ot re fuse meat, chile pepper and garlic, done up in corn shuck; frijoles, Dolled beaus and sarlic; tor- Ullas, corn cakes without salt, are dishes nat the American comes to eat only on the verge of starvation, and to admire, if he ever does, atter long and continued practice. A3I passed on | found scattered around promtscuously small tables, and Yrreceees oer upon the ground, on which were displa in small piles such arti- cles as the vendor had for saie. Tne first one I came to held three piles of buiter beans, six of eppers, One of corn and three of okra. ‘I'he utter bein and okra pile contained about oae good handfull each, the pepper pile about twen- ty peppers, and the corn pile five ears. The piles were ten cents each. That's the way things are sold here. There was not a measure or pair of scaies in the whole market. Ifyou asked one of these Merican traders how mich his wares were by tne peck, quart or pond, he wouid say, “ No understande;” but put your finger ona pile and say, “ How muchey,” and he is ready for a trade at once. I found, after a pretty thorongh canvass of the whole plaza, that this was a representative stock. Of course otkers varied from it somewhat. Some dealers, beside the above-mentioned articies, or in place of them, had a few radishes, sweet potatoes, water mellons or stalks of sugar cane. One had a luxurious display of fish, three blue mud cats each elght inches long. Fish is a scarce article here, except canned salmon, from the rivers of Callfornia,and dried cod and salt mackerel from our 5,000,000 dollar Canadian purchase. Another dealer had three tin buckets of aseml-liquid substance, that here passes for butter, in oae of which as I passed a negro customer had just inserted his finger up to the second joint to sample it. The supply of chickens was the only Uulng that wasabundant. There were as mtny as ten wagons from the country drawn up side by side, full of them, and they were cheap, two bits each, but they sell them only on the noof, and if the purchaser be as easy going as the seller, he will eat them feathers and all. Be sides this there were three loads of hay, per- haps ten of wood, and twocr three of apples. ‘The stard-tenders were neariy ail Mexicano, a few were German, and one, the clerk in tie fish mai ket, Was Coi I looked tor THE BEAUTIFUL. BLACK-EYED SENORITA, who smiled and showed her regular, pearly teeth that Mrs. Spofford saw when here but I could not find her, unless indeed she has grown. into the ugly two-hundred pounds of avoirdu- pols that presided over one of the coffee siands. ‘This was allof the celebrated Mexican mar- ket of which I had read so much, and heard so much, and expected so much. Why, ifa caterer for a hotel iike Willard’s should forage through it, he would sweep ff bare fore and aft, and then be as Oliver Twist was, and the head of a tol- erable sized family would have bankrupted any three of Its stands to have filled his basket. TEXAS MEXICANS. A word about the Mexican residents of this place, as one sees them in the street, or at their work. They are not particularly attractive; swarthy complexioned, hard featured, strangely dressed, with a decided tendency to bright colors and loud patterns in the women and to broad brimmed hats and cigarettas in the mea; but one must see them in their homes to know them for what they are. Over on the west side of the San Pedro creek, along the Alzan ditch, in “Chihuahua,” we will find them, in a settle- ment of their own, which ts a3 distinctively Mexican in all its characteristics as any In the land of “God and liberty.” This people has not yet emerged from barbarism, or,at any rate, have not yet wiped themselves dry of many of the habits, characteristic and prejudices of that es- tate. Their jacals, or huts, have mud walls and brush roofs; they are destitute of windows, and the aperture which serves for a door 1s closed, if at all, only by a calico curtain. They afford tbelr inmates but poor protection against the summer’s Sun Or cold of winter, and none at ail against rain. They are provided with little or no furniture, the hard floors of dirt being used for table, chairs and beds. Their domestic arti- cles are few, and of the most primitive kind. Their metate or mill consists of a broad, flat stone and a long round one. HABITS OF THE PEOPLE. Thetr women may be seen at the doors of thelr jacais at any time when not engaged in hugging their children or washing their clothes la the ditch, down on their knees working away at these mills. The flat stone rests one end on the ground, the other on thelr knees. The corn is placed upon it a handfull at a time, dampened with a ttle water, and then rubbed into a pasty mass under the round stone, which is held as our women hold a rolling pin, when used in a domestic and not an ive way. Their cooking is principally done in the ashes ofa fire which burns in the middie of their jacals, and as the same are without chimneys they are never without plenty of smoke. So they live, men, women, children, cats, dozs, chickens, goats and donkeys all in one room. The younger children go in astate of nature. ‘The women affect the Eastern fashion of tryin; to Conceal the charms of their faces bahin« their shawls. The men are lazy toafault. I have seen one of them climb a tree and lop off a branch sooner than cut the tree down, and when they cultivate the ground it is witha bent stick for a plow, as their ancestors did hundreds f yearsago. They build their carts without a Tae auae them together with thongsof raw id@y and they strap the yoke to the horns of geen ‘They are the most frugal of people ja thelr diet. pobre Of corn And ss rnany pep rs will com. pon tore habia hipece it’s eae y eran § g without corn. A beggar day onanenemact, and tue horse eppents were y OD: @ horse a) more joudiy-somy-charity than the man” do nepeé willl give your readers an ac- count. catiana descriptive, of the “Mis- fons? neart ers, bese wonderful relics of an hervis: ageand of early 8; do- | | this connection: “One thing BELIGIOUS NOTES. —The Georgia papers tell of a lady of Carrol- ton, in that state, noted for her energy and in- dustry, who bas read the Bible half through this year while churning. —The Christian Stateshan quotes the editorial of the Christian Union, (Beecher's p r,) which declares that the Puritan Sabbat for 3; and finds this the only sentence which ft can io- dorse: “ Heonly really alas in forming the Sab- bath of the future who practices the Sabbath which he preaches.” —The New York Herald, treating upon ‘‘Re- gious Bores,” thinks the public, religiously dis- persons included, will be poe jearn of ie im) nment of @ man who has long made @ number of ne taiserable by ranting on she ferryboats about religion. The Herald says, in upon which Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant fully agree is that the privilege, gained by the Pilgrim Fathers, of worship) where, whea and how one chooses is inestimable and not to be parted with, and that every one who urges his own faith upon others and against their will and their peace of mind and ly 1s an intolerable nuisance.” —Three Methodist ministers have died this season of yellow fever. —Dean Stanley has been scandallzing the ritualists again by preaching in a Presbyterian church near Perth, Scotland, —The Pope's name-day, correspond'ng to birthday in our usage, was marked by the lay- ing of the corner-stone of a new church of the Sacred Heart on the Esquiline hill at Rome. —The western religious papers are not a little excited and scandalized over the subject of “churchly theatricals.” The Chicago Churca Choir Pinafore Company was formed under the management of a theater proprietor who hid been conspicuous for his violations of th: Sabbath, Komal eed the Advance, and now “the Rev. Thomas North, of Illinois,” is engaged in “the moral show business” with a dramatiza. tion of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” —The four largest Presbyterian churches in this country are in New York city and Brook- Jyn: Dr. Cuyler’s, with 1,635 members; Dr. Tal- masge’s, with 1.658; Dr. Tucker's (Mad'son Square), with 1,600, and Dr. Hall’s, with 1,570. —Mr. Moody and Mr. Sankey will begin to hold aseries of meetings in Cleveland, Onto, this month. —The Inferior does not see why the United | Presbyterian Church, when 1t requires tts mem- bers to sing the inspiring psalms exclusively in worship, including ‘Praise the Lord with stringed instruments and organs,” should, when they undertake to praise the Lord with such instruments, excommunicate them. —The Germans some years ago appointed a commission of distinguished divines and lay- men to revise Luther's translation of the Bible. ‘The commission has not yet got beyond the Book of Genesis. —The “spicy and racy” religious papers of Chicago carry their spiciness and raciness into thelr“ discussions. Instance: The Interior strongly insinuates that the Advance is in the employ of the Indian ring. —A Scotchman has been countinz th prom- ises in the Bible, and reports that there are over 31,000 of them. That, he thinks, ought to be enough to meet all possible wants. It surely ought, particularly as we are assured that not oue of that number shall fail, —The New York Nation says the call of Inger- soll’s ‘‘Ifberal league convention,” which lately met in Cincinnati, was “addressed to all those who were oppressed by the grinding tyranny of the Sabbatarian spirit which permeates ‘our modern soc! and comes to the surface in various shameiess ways, from openly resisting one day in seven to the frowning upon the distribution of obscenity through the mails.” —One of London’s greatest Catholic preach- ers, Monsignor Capel, the Catesby of ‘Lothatr,” wil embark from England soon fora tour {n Ubis country and Canada. He hopes to return with money suffictent to extricate him from the pecuniary embarrassmeuts into which he plunged himself to establish the Catholic Unt- versity at Kensington. . —The Reformed Episcopalians in England have proclaimed their independence of the Re formed Episcopal Church in America, from which they sprang. Bishopp Gregg announces that henceforth the Reformed Church of Eng- land wil! known as the “Reformed Episcopal Church i the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.” —The Methodist thinks that churches are too easily taken with shining qualities in ministers. “If aman unusually brilliant is avaliable as a teacher or preacher, his brilllancy is often ac- cepted as presumptive evidence that he i3‘a holy man. If Balaam were now on earth, he could probably find a prompt settlement with a prominent church.” —As an example of the truth that “history repeats itself,” the Christian Intelligencer men- Uons some facis as follows: “One hundred Years ago piety declined, the preaching of the moralities unsurped the place of the preaching of doctrines, creeds were abused, dogmas were denounced, liberality was praised.” —A Catholic congregation in Baltimore have come out ahead in an amicabie contest with thelr priest. Father Lee formed a highly trained choir of boys at the Baltimore Cathe- dral to sing Gregorian tunes, but the change awakened great opposition, and the women stingers who had been dismissed found many influential friends. So the choruses and solos of Mozart and Weber have been resumed, and the sound of femate voices ts heard once more. Father Lee submits with regret. The Law of Excursion Tickets. An English statute enacts that if atiy person travel or altempt to travel in any carrlage of the company without having previously pald his fare, and with intent to avoid paymeat thereof, he shall for every offence forfeit to this company & sum not eras forty shillings. ‘The respondent (in the case of Langdon agatnst Howells) had purchased the forward half of a tourist ticket from Ludlow to New Milford from a Mr. Aaron, who had used the ticket from Ludlow to Hereford, which was a portion of the journey to New Milford. The respondent then fag fee to use the ticket from Hereford to New Milford, when his name and address were taken, and the charge was pretorrea against him by the Great Western Railway Company. It also appeared that tourists’ tick- ets are available for two months, and allow the holder to break his journey, but are indorsed, “Not transferable.” Cockburn, C. J., said: “I think this case clearly comes within the statute. It is pot even the case of a ticket taken by A, which A makes up lis mind not to use,and hand3 itovey to B, that gee be open to a different consideration; but this !3 a tourist ticket, as to which everybody 1s perfectly aware that the Ucket ts issued at a cheaper rate, because the person who takes it 1s about to make his re- turn journey by the same ratlway, and the com- pany therefore finds it to its advant to Issue the ticket at a cheaper rate,upon the under- standing that the tourist ticket shall be used by the man to whom the ticket was originally 1s- sued. But, if it is given at the end of the jour- ney, by the person who originally took it, to some one eise who Is to have the advantage of it on the single journey, and who would not be en- Utled to get a ticket at that rate if he tooka lcket only for the single journey, it is quite clear the conditions upon which the ticket was issued are violated, and that the man who seeks to travel by such a tourist ticket, not Devine ise originally taken it out, does not pay his fare, but defrauds the company to the extent of the difference between the tourist lcket fare and what would have been the fare for the single journey. He therefore does not a his fare, and as I think in this case the evi- lence 1s abundantiy clear to show that he took his ticket with the intention to avoid the pay- ment of his fare, he 1s, therefore, within the terms of the statute.”—/{ Albany Law Journal, Strange Discoverie: the Oil egions. The oil territory has brought light to many phenomenal well3. Principal of these 1s per- haps the well near Millersburg, Butler county, which produces refined illuminating oll, ready for the Jamp, and of excellent quality. This well-known “hole” is not, however, without an equal. Some months ago, as is well known, a party of operators trom’ Titusville and St, etersburg began operations in the newly-dis- covered oil region of Trumbull county, Ohio. They have struck a vein of petroleum of a character heretofore unknown in the oll ousi- ness. It is lubricating ofl of the finest quality, and it comes from the earth refined and re: for use on the finest machinery. This well is flowing five barrels of this oil which the operate have a ready sale at $16 a barrel. Ordinary oil, in the Pennsylvania be pas is now selling at sixty-two cents a bar- rel. The tract in which the phenomenal well is located is near West. Mecca. Two thousand acres have been leased at enormous prices by other speculators. The discoverers of this re- fined bitter | oll are putting down o:her Wells on the lan Among the sand rock taken trom Tew & ‘Thurston’s new oil well near state line, at a depth of over 1,600 feet, was a piece thickly studded with sea shells and bearing the im- pressions of curious fishes. Four miles from Clintonville, Venanzo co. & well was sunk three months ago to the deat. of 900 feet. No oli, but a heavy vein of gas was found. The owner of the well attempted to re move the casing. It was ratsed a foot. fresh water at the top of the hole rushed ay no indication that it will ever burg Despatch. i ershe ‘Wood of Philadelpnia has de- that the Grand Army of the Republic is society, and that therefore Catho- : pe enenitn Mlecting ho! bel Mee: ni ead taoaail Spparatus, with xy hook, ana they Bguords a Luray Cave and the Way to Get ‘There. Editer Star:—Among the marvels of our school days were the stories of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, and doubtless many of us dreamed of a visit thither in maturer years, But with most of us it bas been only a dream, like many other boyish fancies. Now, however, the Mam- moth Cave ts almost at our Goors, and hundreds of our citizens who desire for the coming au- tumnal months, bright, clear and beautiful,some i little excursion, could not do better than to visit Luray. Taking the 8:35 a. m. train on the B. & oO. ae ee hours brings us to Harper's.; Ferry, rich in beauty of location and historic reminiscences. Theneighty miles up the maz- nificent Shenandoah Vall Part of the “greas valley of Virginia,” the garden of the state, shut In between the Blue Ridge and the Allegnantes, and we reach the little town of New Market. Then a stage ride of sixteen miles, over a smooth, hard road, crossing the Massanu'teo mountain range at an elevation of 1,800 feet, and fording the Shenandoah, brings us to the pic- turesque little village of Luray, thoroughly Virgtnian in all its surroundins A mile fron the village, on a side bill, stands a small frame house. ‘This you enter, pay your dollar, earoll your name, receive a cand!e placed in a tin re- flector, ard are ready. Your guide opens a door, and you apparently start down cellar, by afilght of stone steps, through a passage cut in the solid rock. A descent of perhaps fifty feet bricgs you to the vestibule, a magnificent hall fifty feet_in diameter and thirty in height, filed with columns; one called Washington's Pillar, twenty-five feet In height and ninety feet in circumference. Avenues lead in various directions, stalactites depend and stalagmites ascend, and allis weird and strange as any of the pictures of the Arabian Nights. For four hours we wind our way through “marble halis,” vauited passages and ghostly chambers, with bart little of discomfort or nard climbing. Statr- cases render the ascents and descents safe and easy, and plank walks almost remove the ne- cessity for rubbers. Generally we can stand erect, but in the Elfin Ramble it seems as if heaven and earth were coming together. A roof of solid limestone, without support from columns. covers in area of 500 or 600 feet square, and fs only from two to six feet above the too! ‘Trenches cut tbreugh the ylelding soll allow our passage; but there 1s a constant feeling of appiebension lest it shall cave tn and crash us. the largest and finest apartment yet discoveed is Giant’s Hall, perhaps, 100 feet in diameter and 60 or 75 feet high. Columns, some of purest alabaster, rise 40 or 50 feet, and large stalactite. of equal length, depend from the ceiling, Some of the chambers, known as Nalad’s Baths, Bridal Chambers, &c.. are of snowy whiteness, and apparently ‘pitted up with all the par- aphernalla of the tollet. At the bottom o: one deep chasm are to be seen the bones of some poor unfortunate, who must have fallen from the cliff, forty feet above, perhaps thousands of yearsago. Again we look through lofty halls niled with statuary, which we may name and enjoy as the wildest imagination shall dictate Altogether it 1s a place of wonderful beauty and attractiveness. The trip can be made com- fortably in three days. allowing one day for the qoanney, thither, one day for the cave, and one or the return. The B. & O. railroad sells round-trip tickets for $8. Board at the hotel ts $1.50 per day, and the charges for horses and other extras are veryreasonable, J. W. C. Scenes at a South Carolina Camp Meeting. Last Sunday special trains were run to the Sandy Springs camp meeting in Anderson county, and the crowd at the ground did not number less than five thousand. There was preaching in the church and at the shed in the morring, and much feeling was manifested by the devout worshippers who gathered about the altars. The disorder, however, became so great throughout the camp that the afternoon ser- vices were dispensed with and the meeting was effectually broken up for the day, After din. ner tbe excursion party gathered at the ratiroad crossing, and for three hours awaited the ae as ure of the train which was unavoidably de- It was three hours of mortal agon such as we hope never again to experienc Crowding upon the crossing the drunken, sweai ing, vulgar rabble latd violent hands upon every passer-by, and outré all decency by their obscenity. White a x ck, Inen and woinen, were mixed up in almost xtricable confusion, and there was no escape or security from the outrageous mob. A negro, with a whisky bar. rel mounted on a pine table at the side of the road, sold cider at five cents a tincup full, and just under cover of the bushes an improvisoed barroom was in full blast, where the druuken bullies got drunker still,and on every side could be heard the most awful profanity and the foul- est songs. A negroman who had married a white woman was the special object of the mob’s untempered wrath, and was inst merc lessly handled. He was driven off the grounds, kicked. cuffed and cursed step by step, and was stabbed in the back and beaten over the head with a pistol. It was a mirac‘e that he escaped death, and those who assaulted him should be severely punished. On the train the scene bez- gared description. There wasno re: t shown to the ladies, and such an infernal desecration of the day never before occurred in upper Caro- Iina.—[A bbeville (8. Medium, Sept, 24. Birds IN THE Rocky Movntatns.—In the mountains there are a great many little birds which are deserving of some notice, as they give life to the landscapes and are interesting in their habits. A gentleman up here has made a discovery in regard to the habits of swallows which is very tnteresting, to say the least of it. ‘The male and female make a nest in some shel- tered place, where they raise a little brood, taking all the care of them imaginable. After they are crown up and are able to take care or themselves, the mother lays some more eggs, and when they are hatched out both fa‘uer, mother and the older brother3 and sisters all engage in supplying the little ones with food. ‘This fs a most singular fact and has never be- fore been noticed, so faras known. The young birds that are able to tly about engage inthe huntfor gi oppers, moths, elc., which they carry to their little brothers and sisters in their nests, feeding them with as much care as it they were, in fact, their parents. In the hot weather the tiny swallows are almost sweltered with heat, and lie in their hot nests panting and unhappy until they get large enough to go out in the world and do sometiatng for them- selves. They must be supplied with water in some way by the old birds, who-probably bring it to them in their bills.—[ Wyoming Letter. NERVoUSNEsS Consists in an intense suscepti- ble state of the perceptive organs, and itis a curious paradox that in some things men are proud and in others ashamed of such a condi- Uon. Thus they are proud of being good judges of wine and cookery, which means nothing more than that their palates are nervous and dell- cate; they like to be considered connoisseurs of works of art, which implies that their optic nerves are highly sensitive; and they profess a retined horror of bad music and bad smells. which signifies exctteability of the nervous Ussues of theears and nose. Yet they would be ashamed to have it believed that they would dislike active military service, in which they would have to encounter inferior wine and cookery, loathsome sights, heart-rending sounds and pestilential odors. If at home they lived lke Spartans, or if they were to own that their accustomed luxuries were but idle indulgences, they might be consistent; but we can conceive no greater contradiction than the simultan- eons profession of delicate tastes and military ardor, Much of what is usually and appropri- ately termed nervousness is involuntary. Trem- bling affords a good example of this. It Is quite possible to tremble w.thout feeling in tie least afraid. This want of control over the neves is not only inconvenient, but sometimes fraught with evil consequencos. Surgeons and school- masters of the mildest dispositions have, when performing the corporal operations incident to their professions, committed actual brutalities through sheer nervousness; and dogs have been sald (by their owners) to bite, and horses to kick from the same cause; but the origin of such unpleasant results is a source of little comfort to the kicked or bitten, the patient or the school boy. Men with excitable nerves, although they may be weak and unstable, become heroes of forlorn hopes, save the livesof ethers under desperate circumstances, aud give heroic sums to charities when suddenly appealed to. Yet in every-day life the same people frequently prove timid, fanciful, weak and foolish. Most of us probably know instances in which old officers, who have been distinguished by their brilliant personal bravery, have almost nulli- fied the services they formally rendered to their country by the flagrant follies of which Shey were afterward guilty in civil and social ie. HorsesHors OR No HorsEsHoKs.—A corres- pondent of the London Times writes:—“‘Some months ago there appeared In the Times a series of letters for and against horseshoes. gument against them seemed to me so strong, and convenience of doing without them so great, that I resolved to try the Accordingly, when my pon’ out I had them remove month’s rest at grass, with an of a mile or two on the highroad while his hoofs were hardening. The result at first seemed doubtful. The hoof was a thin shell, and chipping away until it had worked down beyond the holes of the nails by which the shces had been fastened. this the hoof grew thick and hard, quite unlike what it had n before. I now put the pony to full work, and he stands it well. Heis more surefooted; his tread is almost noiseless; his hoofs are in no ger the rough of the farrier, and the change altogether has been aclear gain ‘withot to set off My pony, I ‘add, was between four and five years old; pe Deere eeuany moneD the present year. He now goes r without ‘oes than he ever did with them, and without shoes he will continue to go aslong as he re- LETTEXNS FROM THE PEOPLE. Suffrage im the District of Columbin. Editor Star ;—The rights of man are of two kinds, viz: 1. Personal rights; and 2. Property rights. Governments are established to enable ndl- viduals to protect themselves in the full enjoy- ment bell henge personal and property. In a republicah form of government all author- ity comes from the people and is supported by the people by a tax direct or indirect, and this tax 1s borne by the male citizens and the prop- erty of theentire nation. Necessarily this must | produce suffrage, the prime principle of which 4s that the government exists by the consent of the governed. This, carried out to its fullest extent, would entitle every person—man, wo- man and child—to suffrage. This ts found to be utterly Impracticable and various limits have been pro) propositions are self-evident or have Seve been settled by higher authority. 1. No female should ever be permitted to take apart in defending the rightsof men; or, In olwer words, in the government of a nation; and hence should never be permitied to cast a per- Sonal vote. There never was a more barefaced 1atidel proposition submitted to the human race than “female suffrage.” This is one of the Tings that the Supreme Being bas definitely ad- Judicated, and tf revealed religion has any Dind ree at all this question has beea piaced dour reach. It, therefore, any one {3 dis- to contest this potut the discussion ts not me. Thus one-half of the haman family ts exc uded. iufants and Innocents cannot vote. Civil. iatious are generally agreed in conferri iiage On CoMpus mens males at the ase oF years. st € now come to the real problem. It inen were in an equal condition tne dulica: cf the question wouid yanisi Hur are not “all mea born free and equal? iva certain sense, yes. They are equal be to ethe law. They have the same Claims 0 humanity, They have the same rigits tine ture andin many other respects are on a p fect equality, Notwithstanding all thls the: lo a very great dezree tn condition, educa- . wealth, power, intel leges, aud tn very many other respects. Suppose w me Uhat all infants are equal, {t is we:l known tuat seme develop under very favorable cireum- stances, others develop under very many disad Vantageous conditions, 80 that at maniood we pracucally find all degrees of power, education, Wealth, position, intellect and success. We find the ignorant and the learned, the drunken abd the temperate, the immoral and the vir- tuous, the poor and the wealthy, the wretched and the happy, the low and the high, form- ing all the grades of society, from the mos’ ie und degraded to the highest Christian cly- jization, Now, when we take in this actual condition of men ft really seems ludterous—a farce —to give every man one vote. It 1s a well-koown fact that larger numbers of our best men stay away from the polls. Itts uot in men to put theruselves on a level with the lowest and mst degraded. Uvnlessevils become unendurable aid they are compeiled to go to the polls, the ‘Wiil not go under these cond!tions. In this city we are glad to be under a “board of commissioners” where voting 1s impossible. ‘Thousands of men witness against returatng to suffrage, and even those that desirea revurn gat partisans. hered at the polls w! ith money of demoraliz d It ts not necessary to elaborate Uli nee ition. It is very we! ny ity by all our people; tn f: s very Wi derstcced all over our nation. One ian ts not ¢quel (0 another on the question of suitr. tic it bas been proposed to establish an educa- ai Dasis, and this has been tried fn several the states and has pre utter £: x ‘he aifficuity is that it d sa portion of a community, while it ts not sufficiently eifec- lve to remedy the It does not cover the case. As first stated, there are two kinds of righits— personal and property—so there should be two kinds of votes—personal votes and property vutes. 1. PERSONAL VOTES. ‘To equalize ‘to some extent the personal yot- Ing and avoid the present evils, L propose the fsllowing plan: Let there be’ four classes of personal voters, 1. Every male person (compos mentts) over | twenty-one years of age suall be entitied to one yote. 2. Every male professional graduate in any ot the liberal arts or sciences, or professing an equivalent education sail be entitled to wwo votes. 3. Every male person who has received a r ular degree of bachelor from a corporate call or university, or has an equivalent educatioa shall be entitled to three yotes. 4. Every male person who has received a reg- ular degree of master from a corpora:e cullese or university, or an equivalent education shall be entitled to four votes. ‘There is nothing in this proposition but what is perfectly proper and right, and suifrage on this basis would be far preferable and more equitable than the present. Intelligence would then have its proper intuence. But no govern- ment ever existed simply to protect persoua! rights. More than half of all the lawsare mide to protect property, aud more tflan half, yes, nearly two-thirds of all the busie3s of a gov- ernment consists in protecting tt. Now the foundation of a governnent ts “by the consent of the governed,” and hence pr), erty should be governed by its owners. A man that is not able to accumulate and hold proner- ty isnotafit person to control the prop rty of other people. Again Impecunious persons are always directly or indirectly subjects of caarity and certainly the giver should direct his caar- ity. More than this, men of large properties are educated in business, understand the laws of finance and are competent to direct commer- cial and financial transactions. Nothing can be more detrimental to a country than to have its finances in the hands of an ignorant person. How long would a bank remain solvent with a ecmmon laborer to control its affairs? Yet our present system of suffrage gives an ignorant drunken person as much influence in the con- trol of our government in conducting its finan- cial affairs as the most skillful and successful financier. Property qualifications have been tried and abandoned 1n most of the states because it dis- franchised nonproperty holders, and in otner respects proved unsatisfactory. To equalize to some extent the property voting and give a full representation I submit the following plan, in which no one is injured or deprived of his rights: 2. PROPERTY VOTES. Every person who owns, is assessed and pays tuxes on property shall be entitled to vote ac- cording to the following ciassitication of votes: 1, Taxes paid on $1,000 shall entitle to one Notes Pa aarhias 7 “ “ 2 votes, Bo 4 “ “ 3. votes. sm TEER 8 “ “ 4 votes. 5h “ “ 5 votes. oe pring one more every time his property is doubled, Under this plan of suffrage several radical evils would be cured. Persons, education and property would all be equitably and fairly repre- sented. ‘Taxation without representation,” so much complained of, especially by the women, would be avoiced by a property vote. Manhood would be recognized without disfranchising to- telligence. Property would not be at the mercy ot ignorant non-property holders. The men ard women who pay the taxes and support the government would be represented in the gov- erpment. It is true that property is not equally repre- sented. Every one knows how hard It ts to ac- cumulate the first thousand dollars, and how easily it 1s to aa up afterwards. Hence to ain an additional vote a man must double his fortune. The evils or drawbacks connected with this or any form of suffrage can be easily obviated if the political parties dexire it, 1. By requiring a continuous residence of ore year in a voting precinct, and 2. By making a voting precinct so small that every voter shall be known—say not more than two hundred voters in any one precinct PALMERSTON. Canaries as Concert Singers. An entire novelty in the concert-singing de- artment of musical art is promised to the lovers of sweet sounds by an ingentous citizen of Phoenixville, South Australia. This gentle- man has for some years past devoted himself exclusively to the training of canary birds in every known method of vocalization, and, as we gather from antipodean journals, with extra- ordinary success, But he recently crowned his erent as avery Lam) of feathered songsters by inventing a mechanical apparatus by which his yellow pupils will be taught to perform music ofa more recondite and compli- cated character than mere ballads and opera airs. He proposes, with the aid of this con- trivance, not only to Heats canary soloists, capable of executing: lke “Dip Your Chair,” or “Dee veames de Pluche design: abiein his day, but to teach pup! sirging and the rendering of the most mcdern operatic choruses. These astonis! cess: The cages inwhich the professor’s puplis reside are hung up in front of a mirror, behind which 1g fixed musica! box, which plays the solo, part-song, or chorus they are desired to form. The birds listen eagerly to the music, i ning their attention to es quarter whence It roceeds. gaze urally, the mirror, in which they see the reflection of Bea Ge Ret asta pa? that’ nit mente a iive canaries, melodiously = MUSICAL AND DRAMATIO, —The season in Washington Isa little late ta getting started, but the houses continue to im- Prove nightly. Monday evening Carlotta Patul appears in concert at Lincoln Hall well sup- sorted. The Rice Surprise Party open at the National. This company has been drawing jarge houses in New York, Brooklyn, and 803- ton. Edoutn, Miss Searle, and all the favorites: are In the troupe. At the Opera House tho “Strategists,” which has made a hit in Palla- delphia, will hold the boards. Tgp bew English opera prom- ises to be @ great success. He calls tt “Sleepy. Hollow,” but does not clatm any t new style for tt. The Musical Tinet sagen tee music is light, pleasing and ¢ intercalated Some of his former work opera; for instance, a vai: 25 for Mme. Laborde, wheu she appeared in di Chamounix.” —The opening of the dramatic season tn Now York ts @ great success. Sothern 13 the Park in the “Crushe in on Yast season. The Emma Abbott troupe stul attract large audiences at the Grand Opera House and in Brooklyn. —Miss Rachael Sanger, who has just arrived here from England, ts cess in Boston, phia, Strako:ch opens with It Monday. The “Tourists tn the erd their engagement to-night at the Page McCarthy's “Buttons” seems to hata tt success. It now goes to New York. ~—In Chicago the principat 1 week has been Denman Tuomps Whitcombe, at MeVicker’s. ‘The basiness been immense, and the play has be: What improved. At Hooley’s, the =*F ty are doing a good given over to “Pinafore dohn Mccullough began a week's eagagemne 1! du tns which be Wil play “dask Cade) “Ver gintus,” “Othelio, Honeymoo be diato: sar,” “Richard HL, —In St. Louls a new theater (Po; opened this week. At the Olympte thy . Swiss Bell Ringers attracted moderaie iu Buffalo Bill ts at the Opera House. —In Indianapols Jefferson is playing + Van Winkle.” He fs making a y —Magzstie Mitchell closes a suecesstir night in Pittsburg. company Is anew one. same. —TIu Savannah, as on the evening of wth | the dramatic season was opened by the Joan | Ford Dramatt sociation, sO Monday ev witnessed the Inaguration of the musical by the Savannah Musical Association. —Mary Anderson fs playing tn Canada. has been successful as (ae Countess tn Kno STOVE “Richelieu,” et,” 1 rs “Damon and Py: Was her tne —The Salisbury Troubadours and the Colviila Ojera Burlesque Company filed the bills this | Week in Cincinnatl. —Eawin Booth opens an engagement at Ford 3, in Baltimore, on Mond: to Hamlet He still adheres to his deciston not to appear ta Washington. —The following local musteal memoranda are en from the New York Muyira! Tu ar has been ten the positioa ¢ Matthew's Chur “The Trintty nized, and, in- 10+ stitutec Ada Moa’ pngerbund has a a leader, ede ler. of Chester, Pa., w mong musical cireles as a composer. Miss Mary Joins: daughter of Judge Johnson, who has been sumdy ins in Philedeiphia, at the School of Muste, for Use past two years, flgured in several operas last Season. “Professor F. Kley, a popular teacher here, has returned from a trip to Cape | May, where he enjoyed the tirst holiday he has taken in ten years. Professor Henri Peribeau, who has been identified with Washington for the last twenty years, has made his taal adieu, and gone to Boston to settle permanently, NING IN POST OFFICE, L's 4th, 1879. F2 To obtain any of these Letters the applicant mwt call for “ADVERTISED LETTERS,” and «ive the date of this list. $i7-If not called for within one month they wil be sent to the Dead Letter O:tica. LADIES LIST, A-Apnéerson OK; Austin Eila Mre. 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