Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1880, Page 2

. s eee RLA OTES ‘THE YOSRMITE IN 1550, By the new carriage road to the Yosemtte Valley from Madera, a station on the Southern Pacific railroad! the amoufit of staging ts con- Siderably reduced, as well as the fatigues of the trip. At the same time the trip has not been Simplified and shortened to anything lke the extent stated in the newspapers and the guide- books. For instance, “Crotutt’s Pacific Coast Guide,” which ts the current guide-book for Overland tourists this year, telis how, by this Toute, the Yosemite trip (Including the Mart- | ope Big trees and two days in the Valley) can made tn less than five days from San Fran- cisco. This is the program lald down in the “Guide™: leave San Francises (say on “dine at Lathrop at 8 p_ui., 10, Tuesday morning.” Rest ve ar Clare nat 3 a arrive at Clare’sat 3 p. a1., an Distances : from San Fran- ive, Lathrop to Madera 91 to Yosemite 3 in Valle e sleeper and t 4 p.m Teach Late Sa dseo at 12.35 p. Sow this is all right, so far as the railroading fs concerned, but it 1 hot true that one can get into the Valley from Madera by stage -Gay: or that tere 1g Dut 75 mntles of st Madera to the Valley, or that the roa: Madera to the Valley runs throus trees, In the frst place It takes The vest “ e rallruad to of two days to get from t valley. It is fully 70 miles, insteat of 5, 1 Madera to Clark’s, (styled the Big Tree st:t the road is we and is weil ve work of a capadl or 7) miles Of § Valley 1s ‘over graded road. must be taken by cuples from five to six hours of the No stich schedule as this quoted h: tempted or is practicable. What th is can do. and does do under the working schedule, is je leaves Madera at 6a. m. and at 6or7p. m., and amazingly glad he ts to get there, too. The ext day he goes into ‘the Valley via Inspiration Polnt, remains as long as his me permits, leaves the Valley on his return in the morning, reaches Clark’s by 1 p. 12., takes stage for the Special trip to the Big trees, which occupies four or five hours of the afternoon, re- turns to Clark’s for the night, and the next day goes on from Clark’s to Madera and the rail- Toad. Alihongh the trip in and out fr railroad by this route occu da of two, as qouch the qi and easiest inode of aceess to the Vall: he fare for the round trip from San Francisco to the Valley 1s $58 by Uhl: Our trip tothe Yosemite Valley Uhis route, with the exception that Madera over the new Southern Pacttlc road frou Angeles Instead of by the Way of San Fran- se rinse part of the route, after leavin; Los Angeies, 1s through the fertile and weil-cul- Uivated Los Angeles valley, but after passing Ubrough she San Fernando tunnel, nearly 7.00) feet in length, under the San Fernando mountains the country begins to assume the desert look. vegetation growing scantier every mile and soon ‘appearing only tn the shape of ‘Stunted pines tn tne distant gloomy 3 or canyons and nearer tn the curious Yucca pal, a species of cactus which grows up in tree-form frequently to the height of fifty feet and with a diameter of from two to three feet. ‘Tals tres- «actus occurs with such frequency on portions Of the route, and has such a resemblaace to some kinds Of fruit trees, that the train seems tobe passing through an immense orchard planted out and growlog in the mitdle of a ce Sert. Sometimes the monotony 1s varied by the appearance of whole seres of small bright-col- ored flowers that seem somehow to thrive on these parched, barren wastes; and frequently a bare litliside will be dotted with specimens of the “Spanish bayonet,” bearing 1s Ddeantiful white tower twenty or thirty feet_bigh at the top of its slender, graceful stem. The stzas of human habitation are few and far between, but occasionally a hut or cluster of huts in the Vicinity of some Wwater-course or spring shows Where some of the native Mexicans still retain & foothold on the soil; the barren country not affording a temptation for the invading Amerl- caps to displace them, Everything about these habitations is of the rudest and most priml- Uve description. The children of both sexes, and some of them pretty well srown, were runaing around perfectly naked. A dismal looking gorge in this part of the country ts polnted out as the haunt of the famons band of Mextcan robbers whose chieftain Vasques was captured and hung im 3515, and many others of whom have since Suffered the same death,with Maryland celerity, at the hands of their — We took supper at Mojava, a station on the Molava (Mo-ha-vey) desert, (rom which freight ts shipped on wagons to the mining country in Inyo county. The amount of freight-hauiing between Mojava and mines, 150 and 200 miles distant, fs enor:n- ous, judging by the nuraber of teams; and the Sight Of tuese ereat Caravans moving across the Twise perfectly desolate and barrea waste ed Of Une Oriental orde! THE “MOHAVEY” ZaPoyR. Another pecullar feature of this station inthe Tl isthe force of the wiad blowing here ‘This blast is a steady thing, and has acquired Ue fronical name of the “Mojava Zephyr.” i have experienced wind-storms tn a good many quarters, end especially on the top of Mt ashington, where tt ts said to blow sometimes at the rate of miles an hour, but I think never Kbew the wind to rave as it did that eve. bing across the Mojava desert. It was amus- :hg, as long as no bones were broken. to see the way the passengers were shot off the plank walk leading to the eating station and Into the din- ing-room, by the wind, and yet fainter to wit- hess the Ume they had in getting back to the Cars after supper. One of the Pullman porters, (@ new band on the road.) who was verdant enough to undertake to carry a cup of coffee from the eatinghouse to the train,sacceeded after Superhuman exertions in reaching the cara with ae <a and saucer, but every drop of the coffee cen, biown out by the wind. The cars ed upon the track in a way that indicated the possibility that we might be blown from the ralls. Altogether we were treated to & convibeibg test Of the force of ons of these western “zephyrs.” Just why the wind snoald Take these plains with such force ts not ex- Plained. The eory that tt may be the trace Wie coming up the funnelof the bay of San Francisco does net seem to explain the fact tuat Mt ts so much more powerful after traveling Sov miles trom the Golden Gate than it i at its source. As In the case of the Inco: prehens: “northers,” the California land winds like tle D misiral, bitght shrivel everything in their track, the Mojava zephyrs must be put down corologi¢al mysteries 01 the Pa- everything guea by contra ly after Mojava the trata mb up to achapt summit, the highest point on the road and hes that Quique feature in raliroad The & Loop dab Pa the road circles the curte exte in juntain = road-mi a dd finally passes o' | atan ¢ Of 7S feet higher thai x | throug tunnel below. Next we come to Beat Station named for our Gen. Beale, WhO OWLS oF did own Some 2,000 acres of laud hereadout. It lcoks ike pretty poor land. to pay taxes upon, but Is sald to have a consider. able amount of hie Pasturage. Passing en, however, We speedily reach a streak of Tiehest land tn Caltrornia, the Mussel Slough d. eports, Indian corn grow pears, the feet high, sweet potatoes are raise Ine pounds pumpsins pounds, potatoes 15 pouads, and £0 OB. reached —Madera about 5 O'clock Im the morning. and alter break- fast took our seats in the Yosemite stage, tu company with some pleasant peop!e from San Francisco, who bad come up from that city the previous night. ur drtver, a morose, red-eyed, fred-nosed individual, bore the name of “Buffalo Jim.” From bis scarred features and ferocity of icok ft was supposed he had acquired hig name from his desperate exploits as @ slayer of wild animals, but if turned out that he was named for his nattve city,—Buffalo, New York. He Was an exception tothe western Jehu, in his sour Feticenee all day long, but he was & driver and kept his six-horse team (with relays) 2 aoe of ere hill and down, and d the corners of the sharp zig-cags alo the mouutaln sides, that took ao tier the seventy severe miles to Clark's In something fess Ulan twelve hours. ‘The first. twenty from Madera was over a dusty ‘but rey, level road across the San Joaquin (San Walkcer) Valley; then came the foot-bills and the mountains.” The last thirty mules Was through grove after grove of immense ‘Sugar pines; a more stately impressive tree iy Gogg end than the senwia or “Big tree. inaccessibility of these superb trees to market has saved them thus far from the ax of the lumberman, but there ts already talc of a railroad through this district to the Yosemite, and when that is bullt they are doomed. It the So owns yet auy Of the land occupied yy these noble si @ national park reservation should be established over some of the finest groves, for their like ts notbe seen elsewhere tn the world. We werea tired and hungry party that lim) out of Butfalo Jim's aye Tar might at clarks. © mount invented sieep.” ride Yosemite Valley, the next day, Cipiious mountain road that was yet £now line, and is as cold asice to the touch, Acontiuuous feature of the Every now and then we found by the wayside oneof the Tude sleighs or sleds, used until within atew days to convey passengers over the mountain shows, THE NEW “INSPIRATION POINT.” For a considerable distance the road runs in Sight of the deep canyon of the Merced river, at the fo: tof the Yosemite valley proper, and the traveler {s apt to mistake it for the famous gorge itself, but it is only on reaching a loop in the road running out upon the face of a great Precipice bearing the name of Inspiration Point that the first view is obtained of that wonder- ful combination of the sublime and beautiful, the Yosemite. The Inspiration Pouint of the carriage road is, however, some 1,500 feet lower than the locality of that name on the old bridle trail. Still 1 am not sure that the lower point does not give a bejter general view of the valley. Since visiting the Yosemite eleven years ago I had traveled through the grandest and wildest of £uropean scenery and was a little afraid tn revisiting the valley that I should find its wonders somewhat dwarfed by comparison; but a momentary glance at the weill-remembered scene was reassurin; and satisfying. The Yosemite is unique an unhapproachabie fn {ts way as_a combination of towering pr ees, mile-high waterfalls, pas- toral green dows and beautiful pellucida streams. There isacharm about the atmos- here ef the valley, too, not quite deseribable, But which ts felt, I believe, by every visitor. In One respect the aspect was quite different from that on my previous visit. ‘Thea it was late In the summer, and the waterfalls and streams were about at their lowest. Now, with the melting of the great snows of the past winter, everything was flooded. Not only were the numerous falls of the valley greatly swollen, Dut scores of those spring cascades, styled by the guides ‘Widow's Tears” from their ephemera! nature, (lasting four or five Weeks,) were futiering down the great _prect- pices in ribbon-like bands. The “Yosemite fail whieh makes the almost inconcelvable leap of 2,640 feet, OF more than seventern tinws that of Niagara, was swollen now in a way to cause its breadth to bear some proportion to its as- tounding height. The Bridal Vell fall was, however, rather Injured by its increase of vol-- ume, Instead of swaying inthe alr and dis- solving in a pearly mist before reaching the ground, after the manner that Caused its name to have a certain appropriateness, it now fell in a rather stiff, formal column of the mill-dam order. Descending to the Valley, we found the Merced river overflowing its bounds every- Where, and for a mile or two our road was al- most ‘conunuonsiy under water. As we pro- ceeded up the valley to our hotel,—the old Hutchings house, now Barnard’s,—solid ground Was reached, but still one could not go far in any direction without strixing a flood or a mud- hole. . DISGRACEFUL NEGLECT OF ITS TRUST BY CALI- FORNIA. Since I visited the Yosemite In 1869 the val- ley had been given to the state of California by the United States to be preserved as a national park, and under that trust commissioners had been appointed to have charge of the valley and attend to the preservation and improvement of the property. It was natural to expect to fod great aud much needed tmprovements made in the valley under the state management, but Uhis expectation is disappointed. In most re- ‘Spects the condition of affairs 1s not so satis- Taclory as was the case years ago when the val- Jey was in the loving charge of its vi tual ciscoverer, the enthusiastic Hutchings. ‘Tue valley roads (except the tralis kept up by private enterprise) are @ disgrace to the state and the commissioners. Uaderbrush haz been allowed to grow up In every direction, aai with fallen Umber, debris, and rubbisu, make ac- cess for ladies to the foot of the Bridal Veil Fall, the Yosemite Fall, and the base of the j howe eiiffs almost impracticable. The six orses Of a Stage team have to exert all their strength to keep their footing and drag the car- Tiage through the numerous rocky-bottomed fords of the streams in the lower part of the valley, aud through the, as continuous, mud- holes in the upper part of the valley. Compare this condition of things in the Yosemite, the great natural marvel of the Continent and the especial boast of its custodian, the rich state of California, with that in tne Valley of Cha- mouny or any of the Alpine valleys, where the Carefully-tended roads are as smooth as a house-tioor, and the impetuous streams are Kept within bounds by stone dikes, which, like the roads, are mended dally! California, in ac- cepting the trust of the Yosemite, should have hci and expended at once not iess than $250,000 in making roads, tratls, and bridges; in Cty Ege draining the foul-smell- ing frog-swamps in the vicinity of the three hotels; in clearing up the musquito-infested Jungle of the valley below; in making easy paths to the foot of the fails and preciptces, and free trails to their tops; and generally, tn im- proving the valley district, aveording to the terns of the trust, and making aceess to it easier and cheaper to the pubilc. At present, it costs Inore to visit it from the east than It does absolutely to cross the Atlantic and make the tour of Europe inciuding Switzerland and Italy. The state should long ago have abolished all the enormous toils that are levied at every step in the vailey and make {ts tour so expensive. For iess than $20,000 all these trails could be bougut from the men who constructed them, aud a small yearly expenditure would keep them fn repa! “the State of California allows the tol:-nutsiiac? to be kept up, and the tourist who goes to Glacier Point, or Sentinel Dome, or the head of the Yo semite Fail, or Eagle Point, or the Cascades, or Nevada Fall, or Clouds Kest, or over any of the tmaany trails has to pay a dollar toli 12 each case, ‘This adds very much to the expense of tle ti to the Yosemite, and in that way prevents very many from visiting the famous valley. THE YOSBMITB A MINT VOR CALIFORNIA. Up to 1ss0 there were 24,090 visitors to the Yosemite valley since tt was opened to tourists in 1855. These visitors left to California about eleven million dollars; estimating their indl- vidual expenditure in the state at the low ave- rage of $150. Therefore, if the state has no price in the Yosemite, Its business instincts should prompt it to care tor the goose that lays the golden eggs. One hitch seems to be that the other counties of the state are jealous of Mariposa county (tn which the Yosemite 1s) and 80 higgle about appropriating money for the improvement of the valley. At the same time the commissioners appointed to the charge of the valley have shamefully neglected their duty, The most of them are mere figureheads, who are absorbed in business or politics in San Francisco, and do not care to bother themselves about the great works of nature, except as exhibited in a bo- nanza vein. They have turned the whole Yo- semite management over to one of their num- ber, a person by the name of Asudurner, who in igrn seems to e di “4 a iquor- y the name of Santth, to control matters It {8 a curious feature of the graceful basiness that Cais man Smith, who bus about a3 much taste for tho sublime and beaut $ , Should be heid in such ! Uiin all the hotels together, but his rent has been reduced from $500 to $20), whlie the hotel rent ts m2 at $1,500, a preity stiff Tent, considersu ull size ‘of the hoieis, the shortness Of Uae season, and the fact that there fs so if tle profit on eatubles as compared With drtukables. It should be added that Clark the nem uardian’ of the valley, appointed by. the amissioners, 15 an old Manu in his dotage, who has lately married a tortune-teller. ** J0C3T TOOMBLED HOFF.” Ramsdell may like to know that Bailey, the Yorkshire guide, who caught his horse fof him on a certain occasion on his visit to the Yos”. mite Valley In 1s69, is now toll-gatherer on the Nevada Falls’ (rail Bailey says he remembers periccUly Well the Horsee Greeley-looking chap Who “Joost Luombled hoff bis oss, and then pre- tended he got ho! ©. » SN. Where Partridges are Plenty and Move at Leisure, (Becent Connecticut Lstter.] The ruddy squares seén on some distant slopes mean that there a buckwheat field has ; just been cut. The wiid pigeons know all about it; a flock of them has just flown silently overhead, and they. like the plentiful quail, Will visit these buckwheat felds If tne opportunity offers. Riding down from the neighborhood of Harwinton into Bakerville we saw a large pheasant—the New England parc ridge, or fed grouse—coolly wall the road, not ten feet from the nor did he go skurrying off, but calmly watted im the edge of thie Wood for the carriage to org Partridges, or pheasants, are plenty in his region, notwithstanding ‘the mer-itess wholesale slaughter with shotgun and snare. In October, two years ago, there were pl 1 up in the railway station here no f-wer than 4,00) of these plump birds, which had been brough in by trapsetters in this region and sold to “an expreasman. Boubdtiess went to the New York market. i There ts good woodcoc: Shooting also in the neighboring oushy valleys YOUNG SMOKERS OF CIGARETTES.—The habit of smoking is becoming alt ENT CLERKS. Their Lot Not a Happy One. ‘The many people in Washington who make their living in government employ, are, as a rule, considerably torn up in mind. They are hopeful of a continuation of the republican party in power, yet very anxious about results. ‘Their interest in politics ts at the highest piteb. ‘When they pick up a newspaper they invariably read the political news before looking at any- thing else. In some of the offices public bust- ness is impeded by the absorbing discussion of politics, There isan unsettled feeling which bangs over all the departments. Here and there will be found a clerk who belleves that Han- cock, if elected, will not ‘make so many changes.” There are also those who content themselves with the reflection that it took them three or four months to learn their duties, and. that it would take the average democrat the same time to get his hand in. With but few exceptions, however, the clerks believe that with Hancock would come a clean sweep of all republicans, without any delay worth putting any faith in. There 1s always an unsettled con- dition of ee in the departments just before @ presidential election; but never have the clerks been so torn up as now. Many of them have houses, which they are paying for in tne staliments. ' Very few of them have any money ahead. Asarule, they always keep pace with their salaries. The men with families are many of them behindhand to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker. Since the Cincin- nati convention there has been A SPIRIT OF ECONOMY abroad in the departments, especially among the married men. The visitors to the disburs- ing clerk before pay day have decreased tn num- ber. The household expenses have been kept down. ‘We want to saye enough,” they say, “if ‘worse comes to worse [n the person of Hancock to get out of town. The walking ts not good in Marcb.” Merchants have watched the sudden- ly developed economical habits of the govern- employe with deep concern. The cigar men around the departments and the lunch factories say they are starving. “Why,” sald a cigar man near the Treasury to Tug Stax reporter “I don’t make anything like what | did four months ago. Men who used to buy two or three tive cent cigars every day, don’t smoke at all now; and those who used ‘to smoke ten-centers now buy ‘em three for ten.” If this thing keeps up Tam going out of the business.” WHAT THE LUNCB MAN SAYS, A luneh fiend told the reporter that the clerks used to take twenty-flve and thirty cent lunches and a glass of beer or a stovepipe. “But it is different now. They generally buy a sandwich or a plece of pie and drink a glass of water. Mighty few of tiem ever spend more than fifteen cents on lunch now,” with a sigh. Despite this forced economy the clerks will not tind themselves by any means saving a fortune. Somehow or other, with exceptious here and there, as already stated, they seem to live right upto their salaries, no matter how large or Small Achief of one of the divisions in the Treasury department sald to the reporter: “{ don't believe there is a clerk under me who has saved anything to speat of. I have studied the thing pretty closely. ‘The only employé who saves money is the messenger or laborer. They generally have Money to loan and often do a Uttle busiaess in that way. I don’t know why it is, but the clerk, as arule. mauages to spend all he makes. Promotiens don’t do any good. Let a man be raised from a $1,200 to a $1,400 or $1,680 clerk, and instead of the difference betng Saved le’ wi!) live just that much better and wonder how ta the ‘world he ever got along on 0. The higher they get the better they live;’ but they don’t save anything. Yes, I suppose, as you say, the ‘come easy, go easy’ tralt in human nature has agood deal to do with it. If there fs, achapnge of administration I don’t know what many poor devils with families are going to do.” Altogether, while he will joke with you and ask as to the condition of the walking from here to different points the frame of mind of the average government employé Is not a happy one, Lacked the Conveniences. “My dear sir,” began a cheerful-looking gen- teman not particularly well dressed or smelling very pleasant. as he broke into the Eule’s sanctum yesterday and grasped the city editor's hand, “My dear sir, you do not recognize me?” “No, I don’t,” responded the city editor, gruitly. “What's your racket2” “Don’t re me! Why, don’t you recognize—did you ever see Dr. Jarver, the famous rifle shot?” “No, I didn’t,” replied the city editor. “Ob! well that accounts for it,” said the vis- ltor, breathing easter. “Are you Dr, Carver?” asked the city editor, suspiciously. “The same,” responded the seedy man. “I've dropped into ask a bit of a favor. Coming across on the boat from New York I made 4 thatch with &man who is waiting down stairs for me. We are to shoot right away, and Ihave ce in to borrow your gun untll I beat “Where's yourown?” “In New York. Haven't tline to get it. Tne match comes Off In an hour, and i must have a gun. Happened to think of you and stepped In. Will return it in two hours.” “But I haven’t any gun,” sald the city editor. “Never did have one, and don’t want any.” “ Anybody round the office got one?” asked the dector, “Do you know anybody who has y don’t you buy one?” This mateh is for $1,500 a Ty cent of change I bad to e stake. Haven't got a quarcer left, $0 compelled to borrow a gun to win my mohey You Wait here, and I'll see the man, and he'll do,” and the doctor shufied across t to where aman in a slouch hat and torn trousers was trying to decipher a theatrical Foster. Atter a few moments conversation, the loctor hobbled back. “« We've fixed it,” he shouted gleefully. ‘He consents to shoot with a pistol. Twelve hun- dred yards with a revolver, which lets us out. The man’s a stranger to me, but he seems to be ee genleman. So now we're all right, en? * It looks so,” sald the city editor, “good-day. Hope you beat bin.” “There 1s only one trouble,” continued the doctor, “and that is { haven't any pistol with me. Ifyou'll just lend me yours tli I finish this match, it'll be the best thing you ever did for uae paper,” and the doctor winked mysterl- ousiy. “But I haven't got any pistol,” remonstrated the city editor. ‘here isn’t ‘a pistol in the office funny. I'll ask him again what Well, that’s we'd better do. Ouce more the shabby doctor and his shab- Kier triend entered into negouations and the doctor returned convulsed with mirth. * He says he will throw penknlyes at a mark with me, provided I furnish new tmported Stock. Of course 1 can beat him even at that, but 1 haven't the knives. He’s the queerest chap T ever saw. You haven't gota conple of nice penknives, have you?” 0,” responded the city editor, “I haven't any. “T don’t see how we are going to have the match out,” said the docior, “unless be would consent to shy clubs. Have you got any In- dian clubs or nice wal!ing canés about you?” ‘othibg Of the sort :” I reckon i'll have to go to New York for my gun, but the worst of itis I’ve put up my last cent of change on the mateh—fifteen hundred dollars in cash, and I haven't two cents to pay the ferriage. Of course I must pay for him, be- cause he’s holding the stakes aud I don’t want to Jos Sight of him. | Got # quarter?” “No,” sald the city ealtor. “Haven't any- thing of the sort.” z y * Of Course I don’t need a quarter, ‘cause the fare is only two cents aplece. Lend me a nickle ull T get my gun?” “Haven't got it.” “Very well,” Sald the doctor, with a shade of disappointment on bis face, “then the match 1s of.” It won’t be shot and I lose my money.” ‘Ten minutes afterward the doctor and his friend flew through the swing-door of a Saloon on their way to the curbstone, and the city editor looking on from his window felt his cone Sclence ease Up on him as he noticed, that the doctor was a length and two necks ahead of hig competitor, and that he had won one match oo Whe forfeited in the other.—Brooklyn ge. ee eee A Bank Robber’s Effects. ‘The sparkling gems which the bank Rollins fad smuggled into the Eastern See tary in a shaving brush handle, and which Rollins promised to give to the keeper, Hustis, it he would assist Rollins to escape, have been examined by a lapidary and prove to be paste, instead oi Brazilian diamonds. They were un! doubtedly, Epicparen with the sole view of hood- winking Hustis. One of Rollin’s wives, who has been waiting the report of tne expert in the hope that she ht realize something to reimburse her for the $10,000 worth of real diamonds of which Rollins dispoiled her, has left the city. His other wife is tn Chicago, The only other effects Rollins leaves, beside the paste diamonds are a pat of French gattorgs with false heels, in which were hidien some fine saws when Rollins reached the | Sheet a reversib’e silk cloak, capable of if folaéd up and carried in the \eit pocket, and a marvellous hat, purckased in which could be ‘changed into six different shapes and two colors. Pulla string and it roe = wee Diack hat; pull again and this chameleon head turned into a light cassimere; pull once more and the crown sani and it was metamorphosed into a low-crown ;another Fs and the brim rolled up and a fap took the place of all the above meu- Uoned Ules. It is said Rollins had thts hat made for ex) ‘pose of bani idenu- Heation. whi conduct! a his heavy forgery ooerations in Nev York. He took it with him tc Chambers! along with a of be-uutally mounted vers, @ heay wieknife wud & sword cane, when he and Wicks attempted to gag lessersmith and rob the bank at Chambersburg. The articles mentioned are ties “Mollins’s father may yee elsias thoes em. —Philadelphia Times, THE WATER WE DRINK. How to Test it—Causes of Water Pollution — Analysis of Potomac Water. In bisannual report to Engineer Commis- sioner ‘Twinlng the District chemist, Dr. Do Smedt, says: “Thus far the water of 11s pumps has been analysed with the following results: Good water, 76 pumps; still usable but in dan- ger of pollution, 16; mineral, 5, (4 tron and 1 sulphur); unfit for drinking purposes, 21. Pure water Strictly so called, {8 not to be found in nature. All water contains more or less impur- itles, and it rests with the analysist to deter- mine if a water has the ee quallttes to be Classified as a good potable water or ought to be Mera as euent ao Rchprtoe d Purposes. To forma judgment as to the char- acter of waters thers must be a microscopic exaroination, and the amount of organic mat- ter, the existence or non-existence of the pro- ucts of the oxidation of organic matier, such as nitrates; .the amount of chlorine, the emounts and mature of the saline con- stituents and degree of hardness ascer- tained. The most” important is the micro- Scopic examination. Mineral particles may at- fect health on acconnt of their mechanical ac- tion. Mineral stit or clay or fine sand causes diarrhea, and dead antmal and vegetable sub- stances may have more iiportant effects as when st nded foecal matter produces irrita- tion of the whole alementary fact. Living things, such as the ova of Eutozoa, the men- atoid | worms and small leeciies may ee rise to certain grave disorders. Taere are, jowever, numerous living creatures, both anl- thal and vegetable, found in water to whlch no Specal effect on heaith can be assigned, and are tmportant only as showing the preseace o organic Impurities, which serve as thetr food 0 aS indicating putrefaction. Water containing bacteria or fungi, or swaritny with the lover forms of life, should be condemned. All wa! even the purest, coptain some organic mast and the excess is alone objected to. Tue doccor describes the methods employed by him—the estimation of the amount of ammonia present in the water, the amount of nitrates, chlortae saline constituents, and degree of hardness; aad under the head “CERTAIN RULES FOR JUDGMENT” says if @ water ylelds merely traces of album- noid ammonia it may be called organically pure despite of .05 parts of free ammonia per million. When todhis free ammonia .15 parts per mil- lion Is added water begins to be suspicious. Free ammonia being absent or belng small .10 per million of albumtucld ammonta begins to be very suspicious, and even .15 parts per mililon ought to be condemned as untit for drinking purposes. The average quantity of nitrates and nitrites in the poe waters of the city is from 4 to 10 parts In 100,000, but a water con- taining 20 parts along with a great quantity of chlorine he would consider as ‘In dauger of pol- lution. In the presence of oxygen the nitrogen of animal matter is transforied in great part Into nitric and nitrous acids, and these by combining with the basic substances always present in poliuted water are in their tura coa- verted tnto nitrates and nitrites. The change {s most rapid and complete when polluted Water passes throwzh aerated soll, but when the soll 1s overloaded with organic matter or by some unknown causes the purifactlon by oxl- dation may be stopped, aud hence the pollution of water. The average quantity of chlorine contained in the pump water in this city 1s from 5 to 10 parts in 100,000 parts of water; 15 parts oS be properly presumed to have a bad origin. The analysis of Potomac water ts as follows: Appearance, somewhat turbia; vegetable and nerai substances in suspension, 15 parts in 1,100,000; hardness, 3 degrees; solid residue, 0 15; organic matter and volatile, 0.04; free ammoata, slight traces; albuminold ammonia and nitrates anid nitrites, traces:mineral substances—calctum, magnesium, potassium, sodium, albuminum; silica, chiorine, carbonate acid and sulphuric acid—traces; chlorine, .004; opinion, very good water. A mere filtering makes this’ water almost organteally pure. Lieut. Hoxie adds: “This water is ordinarily clear. It 48 only turbid after storms on the upper river.” Light for Streets and Alleys. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT BAILEY. Mr. W. H. Batley, superintendent of street lamps, in his annual report to the Engineer Commissioner, shows the total expenditure of his office for the last fiscal year to have been $126,032.78, The street lamps of the city have been Ugited during the past year 2,220 hours— the extra hours were rendered necessary for the protection of the city owing to the large influx of strangers which crowded the city during the month of May to witness the exhibition of the ational fair and boat race. The extra hours were by order of the Commissioners on a re- quest of the chief of police as an aid to the po- lice department, and which proved a valuable auxillary. Owing to the limited appropriation for the erection of lamps, a small number were erected during the past year, and they mostly in the northeastern and western gections of the city. The northeastern section 18 still without proper light, which can be remedied as fast as ‘Uhe gas company lay their mains. LIGHT AS A PROTECTIVE OF CaIME. Many depredations have been commit to. this portion of the city during the year. Tuiriy- two lamps have been erected in alleys duriog the year, which have had an effect in the sup- Pression of crime, as in nearly every case of robbery reported the premises have in en- tered from the rear through those alleys. There still remains some fifty of these alleysin the Worst portions of the city which require light- Ing, as it 1s almcst Impossible to make an arrest in them. and an officer's life 1s not safe after dark. Every facility has been given the city by the gas company in lighting these alleys, as the company has run the service pipes free o! ex- pense. It uires, in some instances, six or Seven hundred feet of mains to be laid for one jJamp. By the aid of the police department the great destructton of glass and lamp3 heretofore Jeported has been suppressed, except in some portions of the government parks and the city of Georgetown. x ALOUT THE GAS COMPANY. The superintendent recommenas that the gas company be held responsible for the break- age of street lamp signs. The signs are fast disappearing, and will require to be renewed within the next two years unless some check is placed on the lamp-lighters. Upon an order from the Commissioners, the control of the gas 1m the Varlous departments ot the city govern- ment, with the exception of the District offizes and market houses has been turned over to the heads of those departments so Ubat they could jiave a personal supervision over the consump- ton of gas, 1) belpg impossible for him (the superintendent) to do, owing tothe fact that the varlous buildings recognize no authority trom bim (the superintendent) in the economy of gas. A contract was entered into January 1, iss0, with the Washington Gas Company which reduced the price of gas to $l.i5 per thousand feet for street lamps, which will be a large saving to the city. Revivalist Harrison’s Big Job. UNDERTAKING TO “MAKE HELL MAD AND HEAVEN AD” IN THE TENTH WARD, The Rev. Thomas Harrison, the noted revi- valist, 10 Was so successful fn Talmage’s ‘Tabernacle that 500 converts jolned the cauren ina few weeks, began revival services in the Forsyth street Methodist church, last Sunday. Pastor Morehouse said, in a prayer at the open- ing of the first meeting: “O, Heavenly Father, give Brother Harrison the same wonderful re- suits here that he has obtained elsewhere, though the field be difficult.” The confident revivalist said to the small congregation: “Be- fore this week is through there will be such a tue In this church as the oldest member never saw. Brother Morehouse has alluded to the Gifiiculty of this field. ‘There are no diticuities that I can’t overcome. God 80 promised me when he gave me my commission. While your astor was pray! Iheard the rumbiing of ehovah’s chariot. For years I have been in Successive cyclones of glory. We're going to have one here. It we don’t, this willbe Che first experience of the kind since, at the age of 16, Istarted out on my work. It we don’t, It will be your fault, not mine, for I shall trust im- plicitly in God. I have witnessed the saving of 74000 souls in four years; but I have been taking a vacation fora week, and I can’t live much longer without seeing somebody con- verted. -I must save fifty souls right off, to make up tor lost time. I shall make hell mad aud heaven glad.” ‘The Forsyth Street Methodist Church is out of sight, belng back of a row of high tenement houses, which have been bullt on the front part of the church plot for the sake of that iacome Which failed to come from ordinary sources. Formerly this congregation was the largest one 4n the Methodist denomination of the city; but its members gradu: moved up town, and the present ulation of the 10th ward, in which it ig situated, does not take to Metho- dism, nor much to religion of any kind. Tae Seats are free, but few can be Induced to occu a ‘them even on these easy terms. The K2v r. chi E. A onsite, ree -ntly Se wa ea , 18 mi rous effo1 uy; the c] ure, ees ee = Revivalist Harrison had a full church on Sun day evening, and in that meeting he rem irked “In the dry Me Wa3sh- t) keep the sidewalks clear. In Was the same; and it is going to be just so uere.” But on Monday evel the congregation was smaller, and on a cee ee was Plenty of room to spare. Only Uhree staners told ng about death! and, stepping over the cbancel rail to topo a sand on @ seat in the midst of the people, exhorted long and fervidly. Yeeterday atternoon only gatsered, and most of these were A nging to the church. A knot of listeners stood ae ‘idewalk enjoying the singing, but would “There is something lacking somehow and somewhere,” sald Dir. Harrison im a prayer; “teach us what tt ts, O Lord,” In the evening the revivailst closed his labors in the Forsy th s1 ehurch.—Y, F. San, }a handsome MEETING OF THE ANTHROPOS. Curious Aboriginal Mound at Ac- cotinck. ‘The winter session of the Anthropological Society was formally inaugurated on Tuesday evening in the regents’ room, Smithsonian in stitution, Major J. W. Powell, the president, occupied the chair, with Profs. Ouis T. Mason and Elmer R. Reynolds secretaries . Col Mallory read an elabo rate paper on “The Scheme of the Tenth Census for the Enumera- tion of the Untaxed Indlans.”” Secretary Reynolds read a paper of much in- terest on an Aboriginal Ossuary near Aquo Tink creek, in King Geo county, Va. He eae on exhibition and presented to the mithsonian Institution, through the society, a collection of copper discs, Lal beads and earrings, some . beautifully and polished shells, beads of bone, shell and baked clay, a pierced tablet, and pipe made of serpentine. ‘The mound or ossuary In question was discov- ered on the 15th of April, 1389, by a party of carved gentlemen from the South Shenandoah Valiey, | Wao bad come over on business to the fishing banks hear Accotink. The party consisted of | Lorenzo S. Printz, D. K. Varner, J. D. Printz, J. F. Lucas, H. Bixlerand A.J. Hutlman. Tae Ossuary was discovered on the farm of Lewis Ashton, esq., of King George county, near the | Contiuence of Accotink creek and the Potomac, at Marlborough. ‘The discovery was caused by the washing away of the bank. Human re- mains and impiements were rojecting beyond the surface. Mr. Printz and his com panions set to work, and in a short time su ceeded in Gigging out the bones of twelve very | large Indians. They had been buried with their feevto the east, under a stratum of earth six feet deep. Thesketetons appeared to be between SIX and seven feet tong, and correspondingly large in other réspects. Around the head of One of the skeletons were four oblong shells set verucally in the soil and lapping past each other like the scales of a rsh. Each Shell was aboat six inches long by four inches wide. A human lace, in tolerably bigu reliet, was. ¢: up. each, and also flye grooves or “talil To al- Gition to Uese, a fiftn shell was found lying near the head. It was about four ioches in diameter and nearly cireular in shape, with a rudely carved human face in the sand in toler- ably high reliet, Next to this semi-circle of Shells were found four round shells smoothly carved and polished. Each was about four inches in diameter, and had several perfora~ tons. Another perforated shell was found; this, however, was only an inch and a halt in diameter. Next, six circular.disks of copper were found, varying from two and a half to six inches in diameter. These were also per- forated like the Shells. In another direction they found six oblong plates of copper, varyiag trom three to four inches in width and from five to seven inches tn length. Four small shells,each about four inches ta iength, were gound in an- other pile bear the central skeleton, and near by about quarts of beads made of roiled copper cylinders, bone, Clay and shell. The copper beads were Irom 1‘; to 2 inches long, aud were strung upon what appeared to be a thread having a coarse linen texture. The thread was 1 a good State of preservation, and the fraz- ments exhibited still show the Character of the material used, In another part of the mound or ossuary six smail triangular pleces of copper were found, two earrings made of rolied brass tubes, a beau: tiful pipe made of stone with copper ornaments attached, then other finely-tintsaed stone pipe: ‘Two small copper bells shaped like mod sleigh-bells and an earthen dish were found in rear of the head and other objects named. A cross of white metal andof rude construction | was found in an erect position, sustained by the earth, between the thumb and foretinger of the skeleton. The other eleven skeletons had noth- ing about them but beads. All were in an ex- | cellent state of preservation. The mound has since beea washed entirely away by the tresi- ets, and nothing remains to mark its tormer position. Prot. Mason read a highly interesting papor on the late meeting of the American Associa- Uon for the Advancement of Science, in which he reviewed the field of American anthropology since the session of the association in 179, ‘The several papers were discussed at leagta by the president, Col. Mallery, Prof. Mason, Dr. ‘Poner, Mr. Bigelow, Profs. W Dr. Reynoids and others. The meeting, altogether, was one of much in- terest and promises’ weil for the future. The | proceedings of the society for 1si9 are now ta Ube hands of the printer and will soon be r for exchange, after which the publication of a monthly journal will be commenced. He Couldn’t Help It. There was another case yesterday of a boy who couldn't help it A nifled citizen was lookin; third story window of a biock on Jeffer. son avenue, which he had thoughts of rent- | ing, when the idea suddenly struck him to look into the alley in the rear. He ralsed the sash of a window and peered out upon ash boxes, coal scuttles and barrels of straw with- out number, and was about to close his obser- vations when the sash came down with a thud and struck him behind his shoulders. In his Be he fell to his knees, and while the solid of his body was all right the lighter was over the window sill. In addition to tae welght of the sash any movement of the body was ac- companied by pain. The sash could not be reached with his hands freely enough to lift it, and it soon occurred to the prominent citizen that he ought to have help. He could not ex- pect it from behind, for he was alone in the store, but as he looked down into the alley a boy came stumping along to find something awal called the citizen. cried the boy as he looked up. j Ri Say, boy, come under the window here: | | ak you.” want to speak to you. ‘Not much, yer don’t,” chuckled the gait “You can’t drop no coal scuttles on my head. “ But I don’t mean to.” | “Mebbe not, but you’ve got a bad face on you forall that. When did you get out of the ju Xv Boy, I want your help.” “So does yer aunt! Don't get me to stand In with no such duffer as you are!” “ T am caught in the window and want to out.” ge “'So would I: Been brospecting for old Juni, | ur” eh! You'll get six months for thai “If you'll come up stairs and help me out I'l | give you a dollar!” “A dollar! You can’t play no dollar store on me, old man! It you make up another face like that at me-T'll hit youin the eye with this old lemon, 1 don’t look starched up, but 1 don’t let any man insult me, all the same.” ‘oon you know who I am? eit ©. softly asked the Naw, I don't, but Iii bet the perieece dot You've got one of the hardest mugs on you IL ever saw, and I've a good mind to give you one, just for luck! Look out, now. He made as if he would throw, and the citizen dodged. This was such fun tor the boy kept luup for ubree or four minutes, offer of #2 had no effect on him. The ered six or eight old iemons and orang gether and sald: “I believe you are the boss hyena who Knocked dad down at the caucus, and going to drive your nose back exactiy an in’ “Ii you throw at me Ill call the police! claimed the citizen. ‘ “The sooner ye call the sooner ye'll be jugged! Here's to hit you square on the nose!” The opening of the back door of a store and the appearance of a man disconcerted the lad’s aim, and the lemon struck the citizen’s hat instead of his nose. Tis yells brought ac but the air was full of tropical fruts, e as the boy dusted down the alley and turaed a corner. ‘The bey couldn't help acting that way. was bora co. It wouldn't have been a bit like a boy torun up stairs and release the inan. He didn’t have a Tair show with his spotied lemo: but boys soon get over disappoiniments.—F Press. gatn- es to- xy A Reliable Man. HOW FELIX 3’CLOSKEY FAITHFULLY OUT HIS ORDERS. Aproposof Felix McCloskey, who ha3 recently become prominent a8 a political leader, the following good story is told by a reliable cor- respondent: Shorily after the war a prominent tobacco mer- chant of tbis city became invelved with tue Federal Government in a sult for a large sum of money, to be tried at New Orleans. The tobacconist thought Felix might be of service in the case, and so dispatched him with proper credentials to hisabie resident counsel, the venerable Judge eect at that city. Felix in due time presented himselt, and fouad the venerable counsellor to be a man of great robity Of character as well as exteasive Fearning, who expressed himself as confident ‘of success respect! CARRIED against him. and advised jury Was not pa im. a v1 felix to make parucular inquiry regarding the antecedents of the parel. ‘Nothing more was said upon that branh of the subject, and in a few days the ca-e was brought on for triaL Itso happen:d that the counselior was late on the morning of the trial, and did not appear in court un il after the jury had been drawn, so that, in‘o the court room, he made loud inquiry for felix, that the latter ht jualin With the personelle he consternation W1 Pointed out to him as the Foreman of the jury, and wuo pe- sistently refused toeven so much as recagae the counsel. Jit BEALTH IN VALLEYS.—According toa paper by Dr, Haviland read betore the London Medical Association, there 1s often to be found in inhab- ted valleys much rheu which frequent- jy results in heart e cause of this Hi and the inansions of the rich are found in these troughs of dissase—val- reys. ‘ard and Wilson, | rouiinent and dig- | through the RELIGIOUS NOTE —The New York conference of the Free Methodist church, in session recently at Brook- lyn, N.Y., appointed J. T. Micheal as pastor of the Washington. Alexandria and Georgetown circuit, twenty-five members. —Dr. Leonard Wo ods, of Andover, used to advise the young licentiates when going to preach In the city to take their Dest coat, but if in the country their best sermon. —Principal McVickar received applause at the Presbyterian councti tor the following sen- fence: * The weakest part of a man’s creed 1s that which he holds alone by himself, and the Strongest that which he holds tn common with all christendom.” | | — The Congregarionotist characterizes as “too | ' good to keep” the story that one of the oldest and ablest of the Unit ministers of this vicinity, when recently asked: *:What do Ual tarfans believe?” replied, “They believe that 1500 years ago. in Rethiehem of Judea—novhi in particular happesec:” —A wniter in Zion's Heralt antagonizes the loose theological idea that Noab’s flood was not anentire drowning out of ali bat one select family. “Upon the theory of a partia’ tiooa,” he says, “what reason cah be given for crowd tpg the ark with birds, whose iostinect even would have borne them On swift wing far be- youd the reach of danger.” —'The Fulton street prayer meeting tn Now York is as much of a fixed institution as tf 1t were a college or uulversity. A few days ago iU celebrated its twenty-third anniversary. A prominent feature of ils prayers t% that many of them are offered in obedience to | anonymous requests. These reqy | cetved at the rate of from a dozen to ten times | that many a day. ‘Tuey come by mat! from ail | | parts of the country. | —Mr. Stopford Brooke fs a serious loss to | | the church of England, and to the broad church school, of which Dean’ Staniey is the head, nis pcession 18 an irreparable biow. To the Unt. Martineau. Hiis secession is an incontrover- bie proof of the sincerity and depth of bis doubts, as not chiy has he to resign his royal chaplainey, bat be would certainly bave re- ceived high preferment trom the preseat min- istry. — The seven largest Congregational churches in this country are Plymouth, Brooklyn, members; First Chicago, 1,195; Central, troo lyn, 1,048; Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, 968; Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, Church of the Disciples, New York city, M47; First, Oberlin, Ohio, 743, —The Presbyterian Evangelical Alilance tn Philadelphia Miustrates the fading out of ¢ neminational divisions. The change ts grad- ual, but it ts very great, between the epoch ot one hundred years ago, when a Presbyverian church tn Scolland excommunteated a stone- mason for laying up the wail of an E; chureh, and that of the present era, when Dr. iitchcoek, before a representative gathering of Presbyterians of all classes and from the whole world, advocates the restoration of the “Cay Year” and a partial use of Liturgical services.— Christian Union, — The Rey. Uriel Graves, who has been con- ducting meetings at Maryland Institute for eral weeks, proposes forming a new church | | { | organization to be known as the People’s churen, with the simple cread “Love your | nelchbor as yourself.” A committee has “been appolnted to consider the matter. The idea ts 2 reform In religious organization—a sort ot re- ligious soctaiism, if the local press furalshes a ‘orrect report. —A young woman who died at Washington, Pa., the other day, was buried with serviess performed jointly by a Catholic priest and a Lutheran clergyman, as she had requested. Her father is @ Catholic and her mother a Lu- eran, but she belonged to netther cht believed to be the fir- an- sylvania of a Catholic pri and a Lutneran clergsman conducting services together. —Mr. Moody, at his convention in North- field, said: “Shun cliques fa your churches.” And agaio: “I have no sympathy with those that want to go outside of the chureh to get into the higher life. Stay fo the church a help purify that.” And again: “Oae of rime evils Of Christian lite in this day 13 fag stories to raise a laugh, Avotd hobdle: —The Archbishop of Canterbury, England, recently said that the tendencies of the age were toward a lax view of christian doctrine and teaching, unlike anything with which the country had yet been familiar. Presenting itself under the guise of an improved and more ratioval Christianity, speaking with the r= est respect of the Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles, professing to regard them as the great benefactors of the human race, and even | admitting that historical christianity was in some sense a wonderful manifestation of God brought near to maa, 10 virtually substituted for the old gospel’ a system of philosophy from which the supernatural was eliminated. —Itis no sign of culture to scoff at prayers and ceremonies which were sacred to our fa thers and mothers, and are still regarded as holy by people socialiy and tntelie equals. What one feels tndispo ence, he has no need to ridicule, Oae mi with more show of justice scoff at the hollo + ness of a culture which fails to Insill sy contemplating Its own superiority, ch: and fine manners, instead of ming less favored brethren and raising (uem to a gs with higher plane.—Jeirish: Mes — Referring to the address of the pastors of the Evangelical churches of the District ot Co- lumbla, to Christians of all denominations, urging them to pray fervently for an houest | election and a fair count in November, aud for | the success of the candidate whose election will | be Tor Uke best interests of the ( events Wil be placed in an embarrasstag post- | lon between the two pariles, Tae pious demo- crat will pray just a8 cCaroestly as the pious re- | publican, and loos for an answer that will meet | Dis views of what is for the best with as mnch confidence as the latter. The republican will | Season his prayers with opinions of his own, and present as eptoy inducements for a favor- able response as his democratic brother, }; —he eloquent Broad church preacher, the Rey. Stopford Brooke, who has recently s2- ceded from the English church, contradicts the report that he has joined the Unitarians. In | bis closing address to his congregation he rep- résents his separation from the church of Eag- land as turniug on the question of miracles, his opinions with regard to which have been ex- ressed In recent sermons. lie still retali however, all the great spiritual traths wit which the belief fn miracles has been asso- ciated. He does not leave the church to be- come a mere Theist, and will still continue to read the church of Engiand service, with some ene, inciuding the creeds, in the Bedford ehapel —A few thoughts in church last Sunday: This sermon is a bore.” : low fauch longer will he preach?” uungry for dinner, Than isi't at all bad looking. onder if Emma ts engaged.” if olé Mrs. Foo-Foo isn’t wearing a [ wonder how much that bonnet cost.” “Tt sounds as if he was going lo close up tae sermon.” “Ido wish the Bernhardt season had com- menced.” be great mind to have it trimmed with scarlet. “T must order a pair of new shoes to-mor- row, and the matertal for that wrapper, and visit Mme. X's to try on that dress. “There's Ed. Cochunk we saw at Newport Jast summer. if “ How that girl does lace. - “ amen! my! isn’t it nice to get out agata?”— N, ¥. Graph A PrisONER’s DesrrxaTe ATrEurT TO Es- carg.—While Sherif George P. Conover. with his deputies from Barlington county were on their way to Trenton. ., Tharsday, with « number of prisoners for the state prison, among whom was Thomas Fitzgerald, ot New York, sentenced for two years for stealing a diamoad pin from Geo. C. Evans, of Philadelphia, during ‘tue encampment of the Grand Army of the Ke- public in Bordentown. When near Florence tation Fitzgerald jumped from the train, hav- ing picked the icck of his handcuffs with a octbp'cs, which he held in bis mouth. As soon as his escape was discovered Sheriff Cono- ver gave orders to kis deputies to proveed on their way with the prisoners, while he and two assistants started In pursult of the fugitive, who had made for a dense piece of woods. won chasing him for about two .ulles he was: conan and tied with ropes, and 1s now fn prison. On ‘his capture Fit Jd warned the sheriff to look oUt for him, as he would try it again. PuILaDi & Reapine R.R. DIvipenps.— The rece vers of Sey Pueasoe & nator Tatlroad company give notice that they on November 9 of the one-half of i $1,000, Out Gunder the order of court of May 1 130, Suzcraxt N. M. Richmond, | rians he will M1 the long vacant place of Dr. | © The Horse Murrain. 4 ‘he horse distemper now prevailingin and about this city has appeared, it seems, in Chica- go. In ist2.3 the nic pursued a different course, proceeding from west to east instead of from cast to west. Opinions are divided as to the Identity of the present visitation with that of seven years ago: Dut even were tt otherwise, and were that identity fully established, the would be little gained in foreshadowing eltber } the geographical Progress Of the epizooty or its | relative severity at different points Even tts development in different subjects was io the former case extremely Various Some horses had the disease very badly, others very mudly some Lad It for a long ‘and others for a short time; a Tew died, and far the greater number of Une animals attacked recovered. : Whether precisely the same or not, the mur- Tain Row prevalent is very like Its predecessors, fave that It 1s, in general, of a milder type, aud itis hoped trom this fact that it will lisewise prove commensurately ephemeral both Cases the disease ts primaril of the mucous membrane pation on further inv alogous 10 ba rade ance in their raape 1 and excessive se ulation and digestion brain, and the at resaion are the same, or nearly Ut th instances, The question, then, naturally whether we can go back from © and tind for bot These class: t itke acommon ort Hay tev posed, we believe, to be duc to from the cut, dry grass, whic fuvisible, make Uhetr way to ( | sages, ard, finding fwvoraby develop the inflammatory dl sons, as ts well Known, an fever every year, unl armas Of tie udject {0 Waalever may be in new nay {much more than human ngs are; and yer there is with horses no perlodical recar- rence of similar affection counted for On the membranous surfaces horses than in men. come as We Se occasion ( ‘This su rhis may broadly a That tue ologic ft ri Isso, and so far treme drought. rought, th of water for the nourishment of veg: the corresponding dryness of th: $n 115 auturan, Ist any connection with the epizooty? We oniy, venture to offer the suggestion, without at- tempting any positive repiy. 10 15 perhaps less 1 Presumpr sclentist to explain th: ay toastered. ‘The possible rela ructive and protracted droughts of cattle m ‘ains Is at least wort vestigation; and as we have ju breaking out Of a disorder among horaed o in Virgina, at points where tie scarcity water IS Cause at distress, data are sup- piled of more than one sort to sustain Ube p!aus~ ibility of the foregoing conjecture. Sirgards the teatmeat of the equin ment the methods used tor human p. seem good bkewise for the horses. The warm mash is a substitute for gruel,and tle solution of chlorate of potash ts not far froin what ts ofveu rescrited io humanity for coryza. A dry aud ean stable and light K are essentia prompt recovery; but the sick horse, no more than the sick man, atilicted with parallel eviis, should be entirely'confined within doors; an: gentle alring on each ine day ts a nal feature to secure early and complete cence.—. ¥. A Wasr IN AN OLD Man's Si .—Ther times in the life of the stnall boy when he feels very sad from the use of a sitpper or switch upon him. If anything happens to the person who has thus anticted hima, his joy ts gret, as Wil be seen from the following incident: A gentleman returned home from. his daily voll and had pulled off his boots and was golng to put on 1s slippers, when a howl of latease agony resounded through the hall. The allrigut- d lamily rusned to the door, and bebeld taeir papa heaving the shadows’ with wild ges- tures and frantic gyrauions. “Take 1 oil, he shouted, and mide a grab at his but, missing ft, went on with the war dance, “Waiter!” he shricked, and starte | Stairs, three at a step, aed turuing came ba in a single stride. “Oh, I'm stabbed!” he cried, and sank to the floor and held his right leg above his head; then he rose bis tect with a bound, and, screaming for the bool Jack, held ils foot out toward Uls terrified family. “Oh, bring the arnica,” he yelled, and with oue despairing effort he reached hi» sitpper and got it of, aad, witha groan a5 deep a8. well and as holidw ag a drum, sank into a chair and clasped bis fost im both bands. “Look out for the scorpiua,” le whispered hoarsely; * in a dead man. The small boy was by Unis Ume out ia the woodshed, rolling In the kindlng in an ecstacy of glee, and pausing from time to time to ex- plain to the son Of a peighbor, who had drop an Co see if there was auy Innocent sport g) on in which he could thare. “On, Bil! he sald, “y day, scmehow or other,a vig into the 01d man’s slipper, and wh: home and put theta uu—on! Sti, know what fua I'ye had.”—D1/ rad, L OF LETTE! 1 WASHINGZON CITY PUST OF FLCK, Saturday, October 9, ISSO. | g2-To obtain a must call for * the date of this list, 897 If not called for within one month they will ve Beut to the Dead IST. © LADIES’ LIST A—Anderson Mazwie E; Armistead Sarah; Alli- | son SEC Mire. Bromwell AB Mrs, 2; Barnes Acnes It, Bay- liss C Mrs; Brown Fannie Mrs, 4; Bates Florence; Barrett Jas Mrs; Butler Mary Eliza; Beunett Miss: Brand Miss, 2; Beny M Mra; Baraes Mins: Bray Mary: Lotte M A Biss; Boose Sophy; Barzobaiwn Sarah; batler Loutss; Vryant WF Mra. —Cuuningliam Alice Miss: Gross Bes: tan Charlotte; Uiemerts Hattie M, Chase Molli. P; Cox Mavete M:; Corr Mary ; Carter’ Maria, Coltri Mary; Callarray Martha; Carroll P BE Mrs; Caid- welt Sue; Comb Sallie Sra. F Davin Corneiis; Dean J Miss: Davis L E Davis Moilie: Drew Mary A. neworth @ Li Mr : laus G lirs; Ford Eleanor; Farmer Fan- > Fry ML Mrs. 4s—Gailt Emily \. Holeman Hattie; Ha) Julia; Hall J Miss: Hof mM g Harr Minuic: dart Mane: Harlan Chris- | | yuan Mrs; Hardy Sue; Herudon Mary Jauc; Husaes Jon liza; Jackson Flora. Jolneoa Mary ; Jul Jackson Maine: D Johnson Matilde; Ja —Labnnum Kila: Ann; Lewis Bebeoca. M_Biitchell Aupie V: z Meads ; Juckson Sely hnie, Lewis Mary Ethe: Porter £ a. Motineon Clas Mrs; Ronier Kiizabeth Kaneom icttie; Rows mou 8 P Mra, Rollon W ‘S Sherman Aille; Sanborn Ella; Simpson F May: Bmith Geo Mre: Scott Laura; sestt Lucy A; , Margaret; Smith Maw Seat Mires potas Ssrah, Shopl phates attics Tsho. Bane h: Teyiee Sounie pleapan Hatue: Lute Jane A. nuts Feito Mary Mrs: Tolbut Alias: Dhrfih Mary; ‘Thompeon 8H Mrs. 4 ‘ogel Ann West ALG; Waugh AF Mra; Weeden Ida; Walles S Mrs. ¥— York Julia E. GENTLEMEN'S LIST. A-—Avery Ames 8; Armin Frank; Aérisn Harri- ecu cAndereon W Prot acer William, |p Be A; Be-ry Charles; 5 gry echo’ Henry; Blake Jatnon! 'M; Baxter M; Brown Ned ; bay2ey Ullie; Bont ‘W: Bowman § tier Thomus: Bramat Win ‘Bowen WL 1; Boose Wiliam; Brown WK; L: ; Bro 1 q or WM. Gon gos Oak 3 W; Campbell J F jr; Conk Geo 8; Giapp Geo H; Corwin lieury; 4 eo trick. pote Join; De Matt Wm; Donshue W H; Dewey W F. RJ, Bie Mr. E-Fuler'a 8; Feonan Artiue; Froiness Ghas Frecis Jobp ; Frederick 1; Fitzerald M; Faller a B; Fort 8 W; Fessenden 8 D; fergerson Wm, ts Fos- 7 WSs. s—Goodrich Frank W; Gunner Bartha; Gridley % “Grynold’ Chas; Gilleapio ‘Geo, BE: 5 Grace d a; oe, a. ‘wn ‘W,Gen. DIscELL AND OUS—* ath St Wash Oo a. D B. AINGER, Por‘unester.