Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1881, Page 2

OUR DISTR ow It Is Constituted. Yor the information of many persons who pare no clearly defined ‘dea as Lo how our local government 13 constituted, the following, tur- pished by District Secretary Wm. Tindall in response to Inqutries from a correspondent. ts a suceinet description: ‘The District of Columbia has no local legis- tature. The form of government for the Dis- irict, of which the “Legislative Assembly” was ‘a feature, was abolished by the act of Congress entitled “An act for the government of the Dis- irict of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved June 2, ist4, and there has deen no branch of the District government Congress of the United States 13 qusite law-making power for the now the e. istrict = No pational or municipal elections are held | in the District. The privilege of voting for | certain local officers and upoo cartain local | subjects, which Congress haa delegated to the | District, was withdrawn by sail act of June | 20, 1574. The District has no governor. The act of June 2%, i574, aforesaid, abolished ihe office | of governor aiso, abd provided for the appoint- ment of three commissioners, to be vested | with and to exercise the powers, &c., of the governor, with certain limitations. | The President of the Uulted Staves ap- pointes commissioners under this law, who | eld office until July 1, 17s, ‘when | the [shops form of government went Ino op- | eration in pursuance of the act of Congress | entitied “An act providing a permangnt form of goverr ment forthe Distric: of Columia,” approved June 11, 187s. ‘Tae executive auth i ity of the visirict_governmeni under the pre~ emt form ts vested 10 a board of commissioners, composed of three members. two of wuom are from civil life, and the other “an officer of the | corps of engineers of the army whos | lineal rank shall ve abo’ an, and Major Wm. J. | president of the board, having neon selecced as such by his colleagues, under a provision of | the last meationed law which requires the | Commissioners to annually elect one of their Bumber to that positicn. The salary of each of the Commissioners Is $5,000 per annum. | They have been generally appointed without | reference to their political opinions. ‘The term of office of the two Commissioners from civil | iife lg three years, unless sooner removed by | the President of the United States. Tnat of the president of the board will expire June 30, 38%. The term of the Engineer Commission depends upon the pieasare of the President of the United States, who Is authorized to detall an officer of the requisite rank for this duty, from time to time, as he shall deem expedient itis proper to add that Major Twining, the present Engineer Commisstouer, was the first Officer assigned to this duty, and that he has continuousiy discharged it stace The act of June 20, 114, whica abolished the office of Governor and the legislative assembiv, also provided for the discontinuance of the eelegate from the District of Columbia in the House of Kepresentatives after the expiration of the term ne was then serving In the 43d Congress, viz: March 4, 1575. The population of District. of Columbia according to the 10th census (1550) Is 177,635. ‘The statute limitations tn the District ‘are re- garding judgments, twelve years; regarding notes, three years; regarding open accounts, three years. The Dist has no revi: code, although the Commissioners, under authority of law, have caused a coditication of the laws In force? andin contemplation (and the Court proced- | ure’ to be prepared and submitted to Congress. | It has not been acted upon by that body wise approval Is necessary to give It effect. The Mysterious Death of Gen. Ney. (st. James's Gazette | The mysterious and tragic death of Gen. Ney, Duke d'Eichingen, continues to be the Social topic of the day in Paris. The versions as to how It occurred are of the most contra- dictory nature. Toe General was seen alive for the last time on Monday night. On the same evening Lieut. Duvivier, the deceased's Orderly officer, nad just returned to nis apartment tn the Rue Martigaac, when a poorly dressed man rang the beil, and sald to ihe Lteutenant, who opened the door, “The General has commissioned me to tell you that he Will not come home to-night, and begs y to go and inform the Duchess of the fact. ‘The man then disappeared. ve p33 received a tele- Bram, said to be dated from 8‘. Petersburg, and signed by the General, in which he stated that ‘he did not know when he should be able to return home. The suspicions of the Dw:hess, already aroused by the fact that her husband bad not had time since iuls departure to reaca St. Petersburg, were increased by the receipt of the following letter by post: “Madame, it depends on you Whether you wiil ever ses your husband again. If you wish to, you must deposit tmmediately at —— the sum of 50 franes." ‘The Duchess dEleatagen at once went to the Prefefure of Police and made Kbowa the disappearancs of the Gen L Fontenay, 3, Ina su of Parts, where be'was woat to’ rep.ir almost every day. The Gawiots states that the General had made Up Lis mind to figataduel win M. Ivan de v —the jourualist who drev¥ btu tuio the (ists Kaulia scandal—and, not betag a had resoived to perfect atm-eit in sted down to Fuatensy After searebiug is vain in the front rooms, taey ¢: Palous oak | room on the ground floor which the a? t bad transforiied into 4 shooting gallery. Goor was locked Insite Having “knock"d and received bo “nswer, the police broke it open. Just behind the door lay the body of the Gea- eral A bulict had plerced his skull, blowtag | out bis left eye. Clasped in bis right haod was revolver. On @ Closer examination It was dis- | covered that the deceased bad been wounded | twice. The first shot bad been fired at the | heart, Dut the weapon being badly directed, the ball had only grazed the skin and torn the coat. | ‘The second bullet ‘had entered the brain, and death must have been tnstantaneous. A sum of | 1,60 francs in notes and gold was found in his pockets, together with all Lis papers and Jewels. ‘Spots of Dlood were discovered in an adjoin- lug room, and the Gaulois infers from that fact Unat It was there that the first act or the drama took place. It 1s sald that the police authorities belleve the General committed suicide, but the family of the deceased persist that it 18a case of attempted extortion and murder. The General, ‘Who Wes 46 years old, leaves six cilldren, the Joungest oply Unree Months old. Kossut’,, HIS PRESENT CONDITION —zerrsr raou us | Slicer, } ‘The San Francl=<9 a/ra prints the foliowing | letter from thc sister of Louis Kossuth to one Of his old yatriotic comrades now residing in that ‘ty: ConnRé ‘rovince of Torrino, Italy, Feb. 2, 1551 * Shortly after recelving your Hines I accepted my brother's kind invita- Uon to make home with him as long as life is ‘spared to him, and Save the annoyances of which are particularly distasteful for a | man—from is shouidera. 1 accepted, and am now settled. here. I tnought I | would postpone writing to you until | having reached my brother's, 1 could commnu- | Bicate some wews of him also.’ I had put away | your direction sosafely that in spite of my re- Peated searching after 11 only found it last Week, in the envelope of one of my preserved letters, where [ must have put itwhen, packing % I burned my superfiuous correspondence. 1 hastend to mend, 80 far as possibie, my seem- ing negligence, ‘and to assure ‘you that 1 am thinking, with profound friendsht; and interest, Of you, my dear Sir, and | have continued ito ‘inquire after you | of whomever! thought can give me some In- | formation of you. Many years have passed | = | housekeeping— | ince we met, and many changes have happened to both of us, but life also has away to a great extent, and the tlme 13 drawing nearer abd nearer when the grave will heal all the | ‘8c:roWs and achings of the head. | My brother sends bis Kindest regards and greetings to you. You will be glad to hear ‘hat he ts enjoying not only good health for | one of his age, Delng nearly +¥, but also the | perfect elasticity of bis intellect, the power of which you can find tn his recently pud- | shed work, if you are reading {t. He has now | avery pleasant villa near Turin, surrounded | by a bandsome garden, which he planted him. Self and cultivated With the greatest care, | Natural science is one of his favorite studies. -Botany occupied a great dealof histimeas long | ‘a8 he was strong enough to climb the Alps;now | he bas given it up, but has a fine collection of | plants, dried, about 4,000 specimens. waich he | auTabged with the greatest care. His sons are ‘Very Well situated, and have ample opportu- amity to put their fine talents, improved by a erous education, to show and to practice. rancis ts D.rector of the sulphur mines of Cesena, In Tuscany; Louis is Calef-Eoyia2er of ‘The Alla Italia ratlroad line. None of them are married: it seems their father does not desire tt, perhaps because they have no oppor- unity to marry Hungarian women. ~ * * Be assured, my dear sir, that I cherish the reo- oliection af your kindness to me, and belleve be, With much esteem, your sincere Lovisa Kossvra Rurrgay. A TRAMP was looking wistful!y intoa coffee ‘saloon on Galveston avenue. He smacked bis Ups and sald: “I wish I had some coffee!” A kind-hearted gentleman reached in bis and taking out ten cents, b: [ares ortunate man, saying: ' « | throne of the Eternal God I assert it, that.” etc. ; thatthey are not of my , capable of and ready to pay our indebtedae3s Tae | { | rounds It, woe Tay | tempted | exchabge the worship of God as it were for tae | | gens, but occasionally there is a case which ‘ahere,” called out the rr. you know about it. There is coffee and cloves 2 3 saucer on the bar. I've been there before.” TAtOUS NOTES —The report of the Paa-Presbyteriaa Council just issued gives the number of tris denomination in the world about 3,990,000 of communicants, —There fs too much dress-parade Chrts- Uanity, and too lttle of the campalgning kind.—Christian-at- Work, — In Scotland during the last five years more } new Baptist chapels have been bullt and more | debts cleared off tpan in the previous 40 years. —If Biblical critics showed ag much perais- | tence in essentials as they display flexibility in | thetr form of criticism, their results might be | deenied more conclusive. But their linea attack are ever shifting, and each new school | Which arises gives the death grapple to tis | Predecessor.—Jewish Messenger, | — Two churches in Worcester, Ma33., wore relieved from Indebtedness last Sunday. Tas debts of Plymouth Congregational church amounted to $46,345. Mr. Kimball was present | at two services, and $41,461 70 was subscribed. ing to $23,500, were also pald, and $2,505 was ratsed as an offset to floating obligations. —The revised edition of the New Testa- Ment expunges the story of the sinful woman against whom nobody could be found to cast tbe Hirst stone. Perhaps, by the next revise, the sermon on the mount and the young min who went away sorrowing because eternal life and great riches were not compatidie will go also. The latter story especially contatns some rather disagreeable suggestions for ‘many in- finopital and promineat church members.” Bs this shaving process we may tn time get a B. vie to sult the Umes.—¥. F. Graphic, — As @ speculative question it would ba in- teresting to know what sort of language the Rey. Dr. Talmage regards as profane. In a let- ter which he gent to be read ata public meeting In Brocklyn the otuer day he wrote: “By the This may be said to be a good $12,000 oath, the amount to which Dr. Talmage’s salary has Tecently been tnereased; but in view of what Christ sald in the Sermon on the Mount, name- ly, “Swear not at all; nelther by heaven, for it is’ God's throne,” it’ 1s odd that the doctor should nave chosen Por the form of profanity that he dia —N. ¥. Post. —Under the head of “Stalwart Congrega- Uonalists” the Pilgrim Press,of Washington,(Dr. ankin’s paper) says: There are people who come to Washington whose Congregationalism soon fades out and disappears. Bat in the his- tory of this churneh there are some names which may be recorded a3 those of stalwart Congregationalists: From Connecticut, Hon. Wm. A. Buckingham and Gov. Marshall Jewell; from Massachusetts, Hon. Henry Wilson, Hon. Wm. Washburn and Amasa Norcross; from Vermont, Hon. L. P. Polana; from Oalo, Hon. James Monroe; from Michigan. Hon. J. C. Bur- rows; from Wisconsin, Hon. Philetus Sawyer; from Minnesota, Hon. Wm. Windom; trom Kansas, Hon. D.C. Haskell. These are men Who would no more think of withdrawing from the church of their fathers than a Methodist, or @ Presbyterian, or an Episcopalian would think of abandoning the churchof his fathera, The Rev. Thomas h. Sllc7r, having nged bis base of religious operations from the Methodist to the Congregational ¢iureh, remarks to his congregation; “I have under- gone no stidden change of vfews. I have Rever preached to you a sermon on the ‘Trinity, the essential delty of the Son of God, vicarious atonement, total depravity, or end- less torment. 1 do not leave the orthodox ehureh becanse Iam in doubt—that would be double fclly—but I am crossing the line be- ‘tween the teachings of traditional Orthodoxy and Liberalism because 1 am sure.” The Christian Advocate remarks sarcastically: “To hola three ecclesiastical positions, Involving fundamental differences of belfef, in tive or six Years. gives a new meaning to the word sure. Perhaps he may die a Homan Catholic. But unless he should return toward ortuodoxy, he need never change again; for he hai entered a region where no two agree.” — Rabbi Sonnescheta of St. Lou's advocates & union of Jews and Ualtarlans. “There {3 not the slightest difference tn character, standing, Luman worth or dignity between Jew and Christian,” he says, “there 1s nothing In the Way from the standpoint of reason to declare that the banns of race prejudice shall debar the consolidation. Let us intermarry; that will help along the consoifdation. When the Vaitarian takes a Jew toto bts church the con- Vertis not baptized. He makes no confession of faith other than that which be hai held be- fore. The race prejudice is a stubborn fact In the Way of consolidation. The Christians are further on the road to progress than we are. They take me tn just as fam. I require them to become Jews before I allow them to bacons members Of my family. I decline to enter into common communion with them on the ground race. When we are fo them, then wa can eater into a consolida- tion with them.” —Carlyle had no patience with people who dented the existence of God or in any way set i: mseives up as wiser than the Author of all W sdom. Concerning one whom he considered o be chaigeable with this offence, he sald: , 1t’8 asad and terrible thing to s2e alzh a whole generation of men and women profess- to be cultivated looking aroaadin a pur- d fashion and seeing n0 God In this unt- 1 suppo. 18 a reaction trom the (12h Of cant and hollow PB. etence, professing » beileve what in fact they do not betleve. Avo Unis 18 what they have got to do. All bogs frow frog spawn; the gospel of dirt the Of the diy. ‘The older i grow—and now nd upon the brink of eteralty—the more vmes back to me the sentence fa tne cate- eh'sm whieh I learned waen acatidaad tae fuller and deeper its meaning becom 3: ‘What is the chiefend of man?’ ‘fo glority Goi and to enjoy Him forever.’ No gospel of dirt, teaching that men have descended from frogs through monkeys, can ever set that aside.” — The real estate speculators are reported to have fixed their eyes once more on Trinity cbureh, New York, and the valuable grave- yard, containing several acres, which sur- andthe story 1s that a syndicate now stand ready to pay A million and a hait of dollars for It. erie values in that part of the city it would be assuredly cheap at that price, Dig as the figures look, but iLisa que} Uon whether the venerable corporation 2 tq a better mood to entertata, the propvsai than when It was made to ham a te: years azo, & Scie lt: al whic". prompted the late Dr. Higbee « # terribly denunclatory sermon upon prcenary en of the age, which thus men to disturb the ashes of their fa- thers and mothers for the sake of gain, and to 1 worship of mamma.” It 13 many years ance that memorable discourse was delivered, and since that time the venerable corporation has undergone an almost entire change of person- nel, but, from all that can be ascertained, its traditional policy against the sale of the prop- erty remalus the saine, ~ Just now there ts almost an epidemic of al- leged marvellous cures in response to prayer. Of course many of the so-called miraculous cures are nothing more than the trade of char- | e hesitates to pronounce mere fraud or self. deception. For tustance, in the spring of 153), Mrs. Sylvia Taurston, of Camden, Me., stepped into @ hole fa the road and fell with such Violence that the bones or her foot aud ankle were wrenched out of joint, and her back was baily injured. For two months she was sick of a fever and at the end of that tme could not walk without crutches. The foot was bent out of position and entirely rigid and the circulation of blood was so. imnpeded. that the skin turned almost black. after her doctors had abandone all Who has made an afidavit to the facts, mined to pray for her recovery. ‘This they did with all earnestness and solemnity. That night there Was no improvement, but tn the morning the foot and leg were completely restored their natural and healthy condl- Uon. Further petitions were followed by a complete restoration of the patient’s health in all particulars. Tals case 1s well attested, and there are many others Uke it in which it would apparently be very easy to detect falsehood or ee oe — And yet mankind ‘ather a myslery t scarcely dare to trust bimselt. a teviote — Tue Rev. Frederick von Schiumbach, soma. tmes called the German Moody, began bi; re- vival work in New York, yesteraay, having just got through with the German population of Boston. Mr. Von Schlumbach @ large man, weighing more than 260 pounds. He has afine physique and a Wertul voice. His head Is large, and well-shaj and his fea- Uures regular. The exp! lon of his face 1s leasant. Hehas a brown beard, not very jong. aud his hair is dark for a German. He Speaks eloquently and earnestly in the lan- ‘usge Of his fatherland, and shows a remarks- bie familiarity with the Seriptures. Until isés Mr. Von Schlumbach was aninfidel. He Was born of a noble family in Wurtemberg, is42. and after a liberal education entered the qnllitary service as a cadet. His military life was one of dissipation, and his father refusing tosupport him longer, he came to America ta 1859, settling in Philadelphia, At the breaking out of the war hi ith the Patladelphia Turners. jolned the Twenty-ninth regiment of New York, and continued with that regiment through the war, being promoted to 4 first Se . = — tume after the war a was engaged © grocery trade. In Grant cam Of 1863 ge was employed by the repul 8S a stimp speaker, and in August of the same year he was converted un- der the influence of Gen. Albright, receiving his first Le perenne in the M list Episco- chi at itimore in 1872, Since that r princi among German young men in behalf o! Christian riko Ye Men’s : He was Mr. Moody tn St. Louis for eleven weeks last year, converting many among the Germans | The debts of the Untveraallst church, amount: ! > The Decorat! Far Tewn Houses, {Harper's Bazar.) In furnishing our houses we must not be misled oF those imitative upholsterers who aa- vertise their Wares as old English, Georgian, or Medisval, as the case may knowing the buyer's ignorance is their best ally. It may bo & question of taste, but It s assuredly one of ed- ucuted taste, Much furnishing can be had independently ofthese people and their pseudo styles by erecting fixtures, although exorbitant land- lords give tenants small inducements to d9 so. Such things, however, can be made distinct from the house, screwed to the wall, and taken away on removal; {f of soft wood, like the wood-work of the room, and palated the sams, they will be inexpensive. Furniture has always followed the fashion of architecture, and the new methods tn bullding create new ideas in furnishing. The eighteenti century simplicity was a revolt from the six- teenth century voluptuousness; its chief di signers, Chippendale and Sheraton, who tofl1- ence the designs of inftuenced partly by the Pompellan, and pirtly y the recent intercourse with the Orieni. Heppelwhite’s articles were in a more solid fashion, and Adam had an origioal geatus, In all our best productions now there are hints from these designers. For ordinary wear, furniture should be useful, | simple, and comfortabie. Cabinets mate to dis- | Play their contents sbouli not themselves be | objects of ae Tables should be stroaz, of seasoned stuff, and carrying theiriegs weli 9 «:k; while chairs should have stability, breaitn of surface, and no projections to hurt th back or tear the clothes. As for the sideboard, rath:r than try that which has long been an expense and an abomination, and as many use the din- ing-room commonly during the day, and neeia place to put away papers and work, tt woald be better to have one made to fil all requiremu's, and ff of the less rare wooJs it should co3t com- paratively little. It should have shelve3 for glass and china; space for dinner and breakfast service; cellaret for wines and sparkling waters; drawers for table-linen, for drawings, papers, and work, cupboards, and a sunken glass, witn no turned ornament to catch the dust. The mantel pieces of most ready-made hous23 are tomb-like structures, but they can be taken down and put away for the landlord to have again on requirement, and the tenant at small expense Can put up suitable ones. Wherever there is a one existing, with aay nice adaptation of Greek outline, graceful enrich- ment, or delicate inlay, it Is invaluable. Once tke mantel pleco was the most important fea- ture of the room, carved and blazoned trom tloor to ceiling. In England and France thore are superb examples bullt up with the walls, with deeply recessed chimney corners, inlaid and sculptured, and tn mansions like Audley End and Hatileld House they are elaborate continuations of the carved wain- scoting, with curiously wrougat columns, and cunningly devised niches framtng por- traits. All the room led up to such man- tels, and they bad massive grates and won- derful Bre irons. Wood is better for a man- | tel still than anything else, with lining of hlack or yellow Stenna marble, with tlles in the lower panels. and with the upper panel for pte- ture or portrait, surrounded by plain wainscot to the ceiling, or by recesses for figurines, or by lies of shelves for bric a-bric, the top elther coving Over and lined with some decoralive fabric, or joining the picture rall below the frieze. A pleasant drawing-room mantel may have panels filled with delicate embroldery, or with Japanese lacquer, or with painted porce- lain; recessed shelves above may be lined with velvet to set off china, and the center may brighten the room with a splayed Venetian glass. One in a library Is serviceable with small glazed flanking cupboards for pipes and tobacco, with some shelves for books, in order to carry on the general purpose of the room, or, Without shelves, for tishing-rods aud guns. Many ple who will pay two or three hun- dred dollars for an ordinary painting think any matter-p.cce answers, yet the same money Would vuild a mantel ‘lined with tiles tnat would be itself an artistic plece of turatture; bul any common butider can make one of suit weod, ata really trifling expense (we have seen a desirable one in common ping, red iacquered, with grate and tiles, for twenty-tve doliars.) Tn cramped bedrooms a mantel can often serve as a dressing table, with cupboards and gas brackets on either side, and a glass bet.veen. But even where tt 1s not best to renew the @1n- tel already In piace, it can still be treated deco- ratively; and one neat way is to bracket, over the main shelf, to the height of the picture rod, a cluster of shelves, and cover them with a pro- fusion of china tn a dominant color, runniag along the under side of the lower sheif'a divided curtain of leather or velvet or embroldery, to ba drawn when the fire burns. For the grates under these mantels, the slow combustion opes are best of a cast tran front, or, Indeed, bronze or brass, with flrebrick sides, ‘« and bottom. Openings of existing fire- laces Can be altered to suit these grates, and a ining of red or other tiles reifscts the heat and adds to their virtue. Plain h cat down toward the fire for clean fa these, and movable screens of io hig’ mi er brushing, wire netting a steel or brass frame, or, If one prefers a h fender, It can be made of wroughtiron bars "4 In With plerced brasswork; but ormolu ornuments should be avokled, and that steel werk which makes so much work for servants, Wit. no adequate return, I» ail large rooms of any height the surface ot ‘be walls Should be broken into dado aad frieze, or the sake of gradations between floor and cll ng. ‘The dado 13 the lower space, the frieze 5b st the cornice, and the wall space Iles be- Ween. One of Mr. Walter Crane's papers shows D srtisuic use of the three divisions by repre ser ting ip the dado a pebbly beach, tin the wall water through which fish are daritag, * mermaids rise trom this water into the irk ve above. A moulded rail of three or four ibe .es, costing but a few cents a foot, will mark the dado division, not quite three test from the flvor: ‘a similar all marks off the {rle7e.and answers for the picture-rod, ralleving the frieze from lines of cord or wire. In a dining-room a low dado is good to save the marks of char backs, but tn a drawing-room it foterferes with larger pieces of furniture. A trleze 18 of value everywhere—in reception rooms for decoration, and {n b-drooms for plain Surface $0 treated ag not to absorb bad alr and germs of disease. ‘The papers with which we can cover thess Spaces are various, but the purchaser should exaraine them by night-light as well a3 day- Ught. There are beautiful and costly Papers; uearly a8 pretty cheap ones; and there are aerate embossed leather-papers whose low Teltet gives A play of light over their rich tone and hard varnish. English papers are Unree inches wider in the roll and three yards longer than the French, and are usually of better design, although M. Balln, of Paris, re- Produces fac-simlles of brocades and cut vel- Vets that are quite superb hangings. Flock Papers, and those having a good deator gold, require nice (imminy aud much time in the hanging. Tn painting walls and wood-work we shall find that an old wall will not bear varnish, which brings out every imperfection, and even its Papering demands a ining paper. In enamel- ing wood-work, the varnish is rubbed down after each Coat. as in in coach-patoting: and in ster the color is rubbed over an open pattern ‘Anitely continucd. Delicate tints Tequire colorless oll; a little turpentine’ is necessary where work Is exposed to the sun, which should be excluded, to hinder blistering, although silicate palats do not bitster. The street door should be dark, and var- ished for protection from weather and dust. ‘Two-thirds of the helgutof the walls of the vestibule hall should be painted in a color con- cealing finger-marks, with slight ras and If here and there is a pictured" panel, 1t better decorated with a good flower than a poor Ngure; @ moulding at the top of this makes a narrow shelf for majolica. The space above may be plainly distempered, and the celiing Should be tinted in soft shades, the cornice only perceptibly darker. Or the walls can be anelied & man’s height, and lacquered; if, for nata:.ce, in red or dark blue, then with a paper {rleze of cream with flecks of reddish goid. Better than anything are marble mosaic slabs, the wood-work in two darker. shades. Where the inner door or screen is of jewelled or leaded. glass, {ts colored lights ada immensely to the cheerfulness of the entrance. Flower designs Of this jewelled glass, by the way, might often be set here and there into the white panes of the upper part of the windows of town houses to advantage. Where we have no mantel in the inner hall, the grate can be framed in tiles ae in place by mouldings, with groups of diminishing shelves for china and curios above each other. On the walls a bright reddish tint for the lower portion, with a yellowish one above, is enlivening, and so is a golden brown with Pom- Pellan red dado and black skirung, and a frieze of light color with nes in golden brown and Ted, the wood-work black unless there is a great deal of it, and in that case in two shad Pi Pleasant. Pictures be hung on the rake of the staircase, keep- the eye-line, and there may be figures and China on brackets at the angles, while a hang- ing Jamp in Jemgpied glass, to match the screen, alds the decorative efect. In the hallof the town house there is room for little other furniture than one or two high-backed chairs, or @ sofa and an umbrella stand; but & ing aS atable. On the landing a comfortabie ia bright scarf, and a stand for flow- ers, nel the effort to ‘turn the long dreary vault of the stairway into a path of pleasure. it the rail and balustrade are ugly, Dy-the-way, We are hi ipless, except for partial concealment by cunning use of color. A drugget should cover nearly the whole width of the steps, and prayer rugs ile on the 1 Some of those lapanese fans and scrolls, where the artist with 80 few touches gives nature and life and move- ment, can hang on the walls, or the outlines of their chief figures can be traced and used in stencilling the Bae oe tho panels of doors wo colors, the pattern ~ taking the Barkers i Vallke the French, the English use the din- ing-room @ great deal, and It is @ room where a dark dado and bold chalt rail are advisable, Dane! to-day, were themselves | ard stone fenders, | darker tone again. Jute and lea are excellent here; and tonne 4 bonized to) e for the table shows off glass and sliver hand- | Lima's somely. A sliding hatch can be fitted into the sideboard, through which dishes can be pissed, and a dumb-waiter can be concealed there. The square Carpet is always half unseen, but it should be darker than the remainiog’ color of the room, but not so dark as to absorb al the ight from the brass sconces and the hanging lamp with its tinted shades. The library should be another place of com- fort, with luxurious chairs and iow tables, and with a desk of countless pigeon-holes, and a revolving top defying dusters. Around the | room should run the book-cases, these going to | the ceiling, those broken for busts and vases, Deing left beneath for drawers and Closets, | whose top serves asa shelf for ornaments and things of use, Stained wood fitted to the wail 1g as good as costly cases, and spring blinds may be fastened to the cornices, to roll dowo and protect the nicer volumes. Rugs should cover the painted floor; and Japanese la2quer- work or porcelain plaques on the front of the | book-case Closets, and brackets bringing out | the recesses with busts and china, are elements | of brightness that take away from tho stiffaess and austerity of the sacred place, | wie, MACOMBER’S HEART- \ SERINGS. | How They Were Repeatedly Torn to Tatters by Fickle Samantha (Milford (Pa.) Cor. N. Y. Sun.i and some of the boys were sitting around the Crissman House stove talking about it. As the girl in the case was soon to have been married, the burden of the conyersation was the disap- pointment and Eret that must have over- whepned the deceived bridegroom. “Yes,” sald the sheriff, striking a match on his trousers | and lighting thestud of big cigar for the iifth time; “yes, the poor fellow must have felt bad; but what Is his disappolat- ment to that of Wig. Macomber? I don’t Know whether you ever knew Wig. He was asolenn cuss, and lived down in Ulster county. H3 was in love with a girl named Samanta Jane Mor- ris. This was before the war. They were en- to be married. A fellar named Jim Archer came to the town where they lived. He was a tinker, and set upatin shop. He fell tn love with Samanth. I'll call her Sa- manth now, but if she was here I woulda’t. ‘I'll tell you why. I was a young blood in those days, and a mackerel soaked for a month couldn’t be any fresher than I was then. Not Jong after I went to the town got acquainted night, and introduced me. of the boys sald: “ ‘You'll like Samanth. If you want to make a good impression, don’t be too formal. Act ag if you'd known her far years, you.’ “Wig. and I went to the house. once that Miss Morris was a girl whose apps- ifte must be goed, and that she hadn’t Been raised on Ice cream and cake, She brought out Some of her old man’s cider. That cider wasn't Intended for boys to tamper with, There was ten dollars or ten days to every two glasses of it, 1 didn’t seem to get along with Miss Morris very well. 1 thought maybe I wasn't famillar enouzh, After I had drank two glasses of that cider I made up my mind that I'd show her [ didn't come there to pat onairs. Shesat by a window. It was in July, and the window was | ‘There was to be a festival in the Methodist | Uwalks over to where Samanth sat, ood 10 front of her. Are you going to the festival, Samanth?’ I Then I thought to myself, ‘That's Before I went one 1 i sald. famiiar enough to suit her, I guess,’ and I | mi d all over, Loys, Miss Morris got up like a jack-tn-the- box. She swatted me‘on the side of the head witi her flat hand. 1 dropped outof that win dow as if a coal train had struck me, and doubted up in a barrel of ratn water that. stood under the window. As I crawled out I saw Sa- manta leaning out of the window. “*Samanth, is it?’ she yelled. ‘You ever come ‘round these digzin’s again, an’ [ll git Jou up a festival, an’ you'll think they’re crain- min’ ice cream down you red hot. “J found afterward that Samantua was a Nuule tender on being called Samanth, and the boys liad played 1t on me. “Well, Jim Archer set up his tin shop, and fell in love with Samantha Jane Morris. She was a blame good-looking girl, If she was a lit- Ue particular, and her qid man had the rocks. 1 feit sorry when Samantha shook Wig, Ma- comber and froze on to Jim, for Jim was a stav- ing good fellow and one of the boys. He used to set up With us and take a hand Ia our little ten-cent ante, four shillings limit, and gen- erally beld his own. | “remember a funoy thing that came very near breaking up his match with Samantha, He sang in the choir of the Methodist church. One Saturday night we had been holding a | session at poker a little later than usual, but Jim went to church all right Sunday morning. ‘The preacher was a tlowery young rooster, and when he began to preach Jim fell iato a doze. ‘The preacher preached along, and grew elo- quent. He began to deseribe a scene at day- break. | -see where it comes,’ he sald, ‘the morning, | all atush—— “Jia woke up just then. He'd been dream- | tng, i s'pose. “*‘A tush?" he sald, loud enough to be heard | allover the church. A flush ts good, old min: take the pot.’ ‘Jit. saw where he was, and walked out. Samantha was there. She got mud, and tt Look Jim a good while to fix things with her. ‘Taeu they got married. Wig. Macomoer was all | broke up over it, and ne grew moe solenn than ever. “Poor Jim died a few months afterward He left lis widow $300, s0me second-hand stoves, and other store goods. Maybe you woa't be- lteve It, boys, but a year after that oe was engaged to Samantua again. ‘Ten Frank LawWsen came to town, and went to tending bar at the tavern. He had a black mustache and the biggest watch chain I ever saw. Samantha met Frank at a picate, and I hope to get shot if she didu’c break off with Wig. azata, and she and Frank were engaged. Wig. was ali bound up in that girl, and you can imagine how he felt. “ Well, sir, while Frank and Samantha were spooLing, who should come to town but a young tcllow named Will Wiggins. He was from Poughkeepsie, and went to clerking in a store in town. You may think I'm stretching it, but I'll treat if he didn’t capture Samantha, After she had given Wig. the slip for Frank Lawson, Wig. wouldn't speak to Frank, he felt 80 CUL Up, hen Frank got the grand bounce, Lremember seeing Wig, meet him in the street, | He went up to Frank tn his solemn way, and without @ word shook hands with him and passed on, That was a comical sight, and no mistake, “Tt wasn’t long before it was nolsed about that Samantha and Wiggias were to be mar- sted, Frank Lawson went away, but Wig. stuck toi. Well, Samantha didn’t marry Will Wig- gins. He got full of beer one afternoon, and the boys put nim to bed. He slept unti} neariy an light next morning. He looked at watch. It was halt-past five. He thought it was half-past five in the afternoon of the day he went to He was to eat supper at Samantha’s house at stx o'clock the same afternoon. He dressed himself and hurried down to the house. He thguxat it was funny there weren’t any lights | ta the house, but he knocked and banged al the oe Pretty soon a window was raised up stairs. * ‘Who's that down there, and what are ye ing that door fur?’ |“ It was Samantha’s mother's voice. ft aL I've come to supper,’ sald Will. Ain’t you well, Mrs, Morris?" “ Mrs, Morris came down stairs, She opened the front door. Mr. Wigging found that Mrs, Morris was quite well, ‘ae match was broken off, and if you ever wanted to see a man get up and hop, all you had to do was to ask WU! Wig- gins to take Supper with you. | _ “Now, see here, boys, [don’t want you to be | suspicious of what I'm going to teil you, for iU’s the tronclad truth, and if you ever go down in Ulster county they'll tell you the same, Wig. Macomber and Samantha Morris made Up. and the old engayement ‘was renewed. Wig. was as certain of her this time as he was of bis dinner. I’m blamed if you couldn’t get & smile ®ut of him once in a while, and he went in the tavern one night and set ’em up for the boys. ig. an uncle named Parker—Job Parker—one of the jolliest old bachelors that ever lived. He wasn’t much older than Wig. Macomber. He lived up the Rondout Cree! and had about $25,000 stowed away. He hi Tecle cet backs with Samantha, kind'o' maitag little set jam ” making him. That rather riled Wig., and he ht be would get even with his uncle by invit him down to see him married. Uncie Job "tC have much todo just then, and he came down a couple of weeks before the wed- ding day ‘to kind 0° acquainted with his new relations,’ he said. Boys, 13 a solama act, and ahard one to believe, but if Wis.’a Uncle Job didn’t cut him out with Samantha I E | the lower shelves for the larger books, space | There had been an elopement up the river, | with Wig. He took me over to see his girl one | mdition as Described by a Newspaper Correspondent. (Papame Star and Herald. Lima, Feb. 6.—Calm reigns in Luma, tt 1s trae. but 1t is a most suspicious calm. There ts no government, no police, no attempt at organiza Uon, no public spirit, in fact, not one of th accessories Of a well-organized state of 80. In exchange we have martial law, we have fre. | quent burglaries, frequent robberies from the person, and a continual state of alarm which maintains stores and shops only half open, and prevents business running its wouted chan- | nels. It ts true the Chilfans are falrly well be- some Diack sheep,and these men are fastearning & by nO means enviable reputation for tne whole army. All the farms and hactendas in the neighborhood of Lima, with one or two ex- | ceptions, have been plundered. Plarola sent | bis first proclamation from a place called Choc- | tas, thence he proceeded to Obrajiilo. and at | last reports he was at Tarma, three days from here by rail and horse. Several of his partisans | have been to see him, beggtag him to cross the Cordillera and come ‘to Lima, bat he will not | sten to them. Toe last communication re- | ceived from bim announces that he feels con- vinced the country requires peace, and that he | 1s wilitng to treat providing matters be allp wed j to revert to the position in which they were | prior to the battle at Miraflores. Thts proposi- | Uon the victors refuse to iisten to, and so I sap- | Pose the present state of uncertainty andalarm Must continue indefinitely, The Chillan authorities are placed tn a pre- | dicament by not finding a single official who | will treat, or any group of individuals who will step (orward and accept what they consider the opprobrium of signing a Peace. “Two or three efforts have bean made to holda meeting of distinguished citizens to discuss matters and form a provisional government, but they wili not attend. The majority of the Peruyians a knowledge they are badly beaten, and princ pally through their own fault, and that they cannot hope to make headway agalast the Chill2ns, but false pride prevents thelr stepping forward, acknowledging this fact, and making the best terms they Gan in order lo prevent the country suffering further 1033. Perhaps, also, fear has a itttle to do with their hesitancy. Many of them think the Ilves of those who sign eace Will be in danger directly after the Chil- laus leave. After recent events, in which bri- | Dery and treason are sald by the populace to ‘have played a conspicuous part, it would not be surprising if there were some ground for tnis |fear. Under any circumstances, I belleve a are would follow if the Chillans were suddenly to withdraw. Party strife is already | Taising {ts head, and anxious politicians, | now thrown out ‘of employ by the arrival of the Chillans, erly await their departure to comme! sury which may yet remain. The communists and sae'll take to | are also on the qul vive, and declare that the 1 gaw at | next time they will commit greater dam: and take their revenge on the forelgnera quelled them the other day. The fears here expressed of further trouble are by no means exaggerated, and that they are warranted Is borne out by Lima, Callao, Yea, Pisco, Huacho, Chicla, Traj!!io and other towns, and more particularly Plara, whence many families are reported to have fled in alarm at the threatening aspect of affairs now the negroes are trying to take command of the town. The country really seems to be break- ing up; and If Don Nicholas de Plerola does not recognize this fact_and take control of tt, Tam afraid, instead of a confederation, we shall see worse. paper mvucy—BNd NO specie, first, there are the notes issued by the banks, aud the pas. antee; then we have the Inca notes, issued by Pierola at eight soles each, then fun up by him to fitteen soles. then reduced to nothiay by, tbe entry of the Chillans, then given a value of '°2 soleseach by a meetlag of merchants, who promptly refused to receive them when ten- dered at that value, and now procurable to any amount at six soles to the Inca. The third class is poorer in quality than ef/her of the former. It consists of five and ten soles, Peru- Vian, notes, captured by the Chillans, and now being forced into circulation by decrees of Ge: in which to pay bis troops. Anson, Chorillos and Chancay have been closed to commerce, aud communication ts only permitted through Callao, in whica port the despatch of cargo and vessels 13 conducted by Chilian officials. The Peruvian export and import customs dues are collected in silver. AS the tariff was calculated for the depreciated paper Sol, and not for specie, neither importers nor exporters will be able to pay this charge, and business will remain at a stand still, Callan produce is admitted duty free. Refine: mts of the Dressin {The Queen.] Nothing so marks the distinction between a Woman of refined taste and habits, and one of a coarser libre aud more slovenly nature, as the appearance of thelr bed rooms. The room ofa wom of Innate reflnementis pervaded by a subtie charm, due to that vague suggestion of 0 Hoo: Tcminine grace end delicacy which han: er all the details of her tollet. Ivory ed brushes, tortolseshell combs, lace’ curtains looped back from oval mirror; all these may be lacking, and yet 8 room may strike onéasa bower. fustance, a woman of the kind we have tn view would soften the ugline33 of her plain wooden brushes by the neat cases she would make for them. AU night, when sae undre-sed, she would conceal the’ plainess of her removed garments by the square of white muslin edged which they lay. The elegance of her combing jJackeis and dressing gowns would atone forthe inexpensiveness of the materials; and the lack of ornaments on her toilet tabie would -be remedied by the delightful freshness of fhe muslin with which she made up her pia- us shion. We will begin with the brush case. This 1s made out of a leon of mauve satin or glaze, 21 inches long and 22 broad, covered on one side with spotted muslin. This is then doubled in half, and the two sides are stitched up. Tne case itself lying now finished before you, you proceed to trim the uppermost side or cover. Aplece of narrow insertion must be placed all round Close to the edge and on to botn sides of the insertion some narrow white lace must be sewn. The lace on the outer side should pro- ject %; Inch beyond the sides of the case. The 2%; yards of pale mauve ribbon should be made up into six small bows, one of these bows being placed at each corner, and two in the center. ‘he center two must be sewn on to the corner of the case, at a distance respeotively of about Ubree inches from the top and bottom, and the stltches fastening them down must ode taken right Ubrough to the under side of thecase. By taking these stitebes right ts a couple of divisions are made into which ship the brushes. A brush case of this kind can of course be made up in all colors to suit carpets and wall papers. The toilet-tidy, which generally hangs on the right hand of the dressing table, should match the brush case. A plece of very stiff paper, 3 inches long and 63 inches wide, should be cov- ered with the mauve glaze of spotted muslin. ‘Then it should be rolied up into an ordinary sugar-loar bag, and made to retain its shaps by & couple or so Of stitches. From tne. conical point at the bottom two or three short ends of narrow ribbon should hang, while the mouth of the bag and the projecting point at the top should be bound round with ribbon and finished off with a small bow. A second bag, made of note or newspaper, should be pl: inside to recelve the hair, and should be renewed every fortnight. The nightgown case Isa very simp'e affair. Remembering to have it accord with the rest of your tollet appurtenances, you make this also of mauve glaze and muslin. You re- quire a plece of glaze 32 inches long and 13 inches wide. When you have covered your 1aze With muslin you turn over @ length of 12 Roches and stitch up the sides. You border these with lace and insertion in the same way as you have trimmed the brush case, but the rojecting pee you cut into a point and merely Bing round with ribbon. The square of muslin to throw over your clothes at night is less often seen than the other things we have been describing. Yet nothing is more desirable in a bedroom than {t consists of three yards of the muslin ef which servants aprons are med round with torchon lace, When you are travel- ing 1t comes in nicely asa wrapper to put over «the tray of your box. ‘The combing jacket should always be of some washing material. A three-quarters-length loose-fitting jacket with long open sleeves is the best kind to have. White muslins and per- cales in summer, and white flannels and og in winter, are the most suitable materials; Dut ordinary prints, if the pattern be pretty, will answer every purpose of home wear. If meant for invalid wear they should be made hope to holler. Cut him out dead, and, more Unao that, married her. “Disappointed? Wig. was all tore to strings. Talk about this young fellow up the river whose girl ran away With another man! Why, he'd thizk asoothing balm was running ali over his heart if he should mest Wig. Ma- comber. “T was confidential with Wig. in those days, and one day I went to Dim and told him to € T UP. ‘Uncle Jobill peg out one o’ these days,’ I sald, ‘and then Way can't you tackle Samantha ain?” 1D? *e Wig. sighed and shook his head. Then ne lemn wi: 20) as an owl: ss "No. It can’t be done. Under any other ctr- Kae pretend poe oe walt. me never could ribg m:; marry my TT hadn't hoUugut of that, His bride that was to be had me his aunt Samantha janet” Efforts are made _to increase the en- dowment of the Eimira Female College by at least $50,000, A Vil journal expresses ot would deciare @ homicide by duol murder, that Carolina who | friends, is made as follows: Rt juettishly as possible—of pale blue cashmere, with jabots of cream-colored lace falling down the front. Dressing gowns are worn more by the French than by ourselves; 80 to them we may look for uidance in this particular. Wesaw the other a remarkably pretty gown, made as Z Along flowing robe of paiest pink washi matel with a Watteau plait descending from the neck. It was fastened in front with cardl- nal colored bone buttons. All the way down the front of the gown, at a distance of about three inches on elther side from these buttons, aseries of buttonholes mi 23g taches long had been made; a distancs of 3 inches sep- arated each buttonhole from the one beneath it, Through these buttonholes cardinal col ribbon 3 inches broad was: broken lines of the dark color ran down the frsted Hbsas, ne ot pale bine, Ons of sted ‘on » ok ‘of dark cardial Soca S loops. Bows same ed the sleeves. Alt quilted sateen walkiag skirt. fighting and trouble in every sectfon of the re- | public. ment of which depends on a government guar- | haved, but among 20,000 men there must be | i 4 i ice fighting for the skeleton of a trea- | a2 | who | Part of the dressing gown, {t must be cut up in front from hem to watst, and fastened toretaer in the ordinary way with buttons. You thea choose some pretty chintz of Pompadour mate- rial and make up ‘a lodse polonalse, separaung into two side curtains in front, and bunched up behind. You fasten the band of your quilted petticoat securely to the watst of your polo- | haise,and you are then able to put on tue whole arrangement as you would an ordinary dressing gown. you will present a picturesque tout ensemble which wiil be in marked coatrast with the usual Impression of slovenliness calied up Dy ordinary dressing gowns. In short, you will fod that, with such gowns and combing jack- | ets, and such bedroom appointments as w have roughly described, Doth you and your room will be fit to be seen at any moment, and that both alike will merit the eptthets you wtil hear bestowed on you—"A most refined woman —A most charming roo) Bismarck’s Strength and Weak news, {London Spectator. } ‘There ts a weakness somewhere tn Prince | Bismarck. If he is tobe judged solely by his career,there never was & man sostrong. He has attempted the most terrible undertakings, and has succeeded in them all. He eagaged Aus- {ria to help him in wresting Schleswig. iTolstein from Denmark, then deprived Austria of her Share In the spoil; then 1u a seven weeks’ war drove Austria from Germany, adied one-hat fo his master’s dominions, and finally estab- Ushed the hegem ny of Prussia. Wnhile accon- piishizg these feats he Kept Russta qutet, Soothed the Emperor Napoleon with promtsoa, and then, when he was uo loager trusted, tourched On I’anis, overthrew the Napoleoatc empire and clutched two provinces m chavsing Germany into an emotre, he ruled it tor ten years with completa’ suc: thus far—that he has mastered a reluccast court and a discontented people, has kept off all enemies, bas controlled all alltes, has a8 sum d a kind of diplomatic headship in Earope, has made the army far stronger than ever, Has filled the treasury, has reduced parliament (94 debating society, and, with Germany at une top of the world, has compelled ail Germans to accept him as the necessary buckler of the country, the one indispensable man. It isa wonderful career, one which only Carlyle could have Attingly described; but there ts a weak. ness in the hero, nevertheless. He cannot make, or find, or keep deputy Bismarcks. There never was & man of his rank among statesmen who had such trouble with his agents, who failed so utterly to secure the help withoat which any brain however great, any energy however matchless, must ultimately be ex hausted. Determined to be Married. (London Truth } ‘There bas been & good deal of scandal in the West, In consequence of the sensational vlope- ment and subsequent marriage of the daughter | of a well-known clergyman in Cornwall. The young lady left her ome ostensibly to visit a relative in London, but got out at a station in South Devon, aud proceeded to the humble abode of a relative of her future husband, who 1s a plasterer. In the course of a fort night she was traced, and her father and nfs solicitor visited her and implored her to cast cf her infatuation and retutn home, but she declined, and belng “of full age and compe- tent understanding” 1t was Impossible for | them toremove ber by force. The Rector of Baqiiedano, because he has no other currency | tariff has been declared in force, and | with lace ‘she would throw over the chatron | the parish, a friend of her father, was placed in a pecullarly awkward position, for the requt- | Site residence having been completed he could } clme to marry the couple. Financially, matters are going trom bad to | not possibly decline y ip! We have now three distinct classes of | A license was obtained, and one moralag last Week, soon after dawn, the bride and Dride- groom made their way across the flelds to the church, when, after a considerable delay, tue ceremony Was performed by the reluctant Rector, who Was threatened witn the direst penalties of the law if he refused to celebrate, The lady 13 stated to possess a fortune in her own right, Yot Water in Coal Mines. (RoSding (Pa.) Times, March seal at shel chuy kill coun- The borough “f Shenandoah, ty, is greatly excite? Over the preseace = ed Water in one of its sever ©Oal mines, anal prehensions are entertained tus* — ee entire. AS a precautionary meal"T? @ wate fsconstantly Kept in the lowest ute [OF {ay sign of fre, but up to the present, witu ‘2° exception of the warm water, no Cause for alarm has been discovered. The foreman of the colliery stated that he never kuew water, found under the circumstances above stated, to have been heated except by fire. Several ex- perlenced miners who nave visited the mine state their unbelief in the existence of a fire, but can give no satisfactory reason for the pres- ence Of the heated water. Warm water has of late been found in one of the workings of Tur- key Run colliery also. This colliery is located at the southeastern boundary of the town aud West of Shenandoah colilery. The workings are unconnected. Turkey itun Is also operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The officials at this colilery are just as much In the dark relative to the cause of tne strange presence as are those at Shenandoah colliery. A solution of the mystery is anxtousiy awaited al Shenandoah, and may be expected th @ Week or ten days. Lieutenant Koper ai a Preuy American ¢ ls Acable dispatch from London to the New York World, of yesterday says: London Trui), Mr. Labouchere’s paper, bas it from Stuttgart Uhat Lieutenant Roper, of the Royal Engineers, who was found dead under mysterious circam. stances at the Chatham Barracks on February 10, Was rejected by a pretty American girl to whom he proposed, wiille spending Chris: mas at Stuttgart, and the taference is that he com- mitted suicide. Mr. Koper wasa young man in the flower of life and strength. He was quartered at the barracks of the Koyal Engi- neers at Chatham, and on the eventing of his death he left the officers’ mess-room about 8.30, Saying that he had some letters to write. A quarter of an hour later he was found on the stairs which led to his quarters. He had been shot through the lungs. There was some evidence of a struggle. A six-chambered re- yolver, with one chamber discharged, was picked up near him. Some stray cartridges | were also found. There wasa poker lylag by im, and there was also Mr. Roper’s purse, which, when opened, was found to contain a few shillings and stamps. The revolver had been taken from the quarters of a brotner officer. The cartridges were traced to another setof rooms, from which it is believed they had been abstracted. The poker was part of Mr. Ropers’ own furniture. A post-mortem ex- ination was held by five medical oficers Tesident in the bi They all agreed that the shot which caused death was fired close to the body, the mess jacket and waistcoat belng actually charred and burat by the dischi It was im| ble, in their opinion, that Mr. Roper could nave fired the pistol with bis right hand and that it would bave been extremely dificult for him to have fired it with his left baod. Tneir conclusion, therefore, was that he was shot in the course of a struggle, and that the assassin must have almost pressed the revoiver against him when he tired it. Acting on this theory the home office offered a reward of $100 for such information as would lead to the arrest and conviction of the murderers, ut nothing came of it. A fortnight ago a sergeant major of the engineers, also quartered at Chatham, committed suicide, and it was at first surmised that he had been implicated in Koper’s murder, but on inquiry tt was found that the act was committed from other reasons. The Stuttgart story throws quite a new light upon the matter. A Bloodiess Duel. {London News.} Few duels end so merrily as that affair be- tween Darcier, the singer, and the manager of the theater in which he was engaged, which has recently been recalled to memory. Darcier was playing at Belleville,and in a melodrama had the part of a hero who shoots a villian in a duel. Most unluckily, Darcier’s pistol was loaded by ap over- ht of the property-man, and the poor player who took the role of uhe villain was shot. Dar- cler at once flew on the property-man and beat him severely. The manager tried to interfere. Darcier, whose blood was up, sent the mana- ger about his business. Next day came the Thanager’s seconds. Darcier, a noved fencer, chose swords for weapons, and Boulet, the fencing-master, for second. Tuey ali went. down tothe Bois de Romainville, and Boulet tried to get Darcier to fight with pistols. His own reputation would suffer with the Police if ete tiem Butthe actor wasol te, sagen pals walteL. cs to each other. They waited on tor a quart tor ot an hour. Then Darcier satd, “Sir, where are your ” “Sir,” said the man- ager, “where are yours?” The principals went iu search of the emoins, but these worthy men had thought better of the whole and had “scuitied,” as Lord ‘says 10 his dignified way, with the weapons of war. Fight- ine was tmpocoible, and Darcler and his msa3- ger returned to Paris the best of friends. YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Gilhooly sauntered up to a frull-stand, and, after examining some of the fruit, asked the te mand if he believed in ple. “+I do,'* the rej “Ihave been a member of the rary absence of their 3 At Laurel Grove, near Danville, Va., Monday, Mrs. burned to death by ber It you make, in addition, a | Musiin mob cap, trimmed with crimson ribbon, | Ee TAST CF SENATORS AND BESIDESCES, C. A. Arthur, Vice President, Tos téth et now, Allison, W_ i. 5 . Iowa, 1124 Vermont ave nw. 1807 H st. nw. Anthony. HB. ROT Del. | Bayard, T, F. BK . 6. 11208 Rist ‘Capitol st, Ga eur olitan Hotel. ALE, Rises M.C.,S.C., S07 1st. aw. Call, W., Fla., Nationa; Hotel. Camden, J. N., Va., Ariington Hotet. Cameron, J. D., Penn. i Cockrell, F. M., MO., 920 1 ide, M4 14th st. nw. Davis, D.. Iitinols, National Hotel Davis, H. West Virginia, Arlington Hoval. Dawes, H. 1.., Mass, 904 14h Sl. n.w. Edmunds, G. P., VC, 141 Mass, Fair, J. , Riggs House. Californta, ith st. n. w. . Nautonal Hotel 519 2 . 7. Mississipp) B., Marylan w. Wiilard’s Hotel. 3K st nw. Groome, Grover, 'L. ¥. Mass., 929 I st. n.w. tiamilton House. | Jonnstod, Jonas, B. | Jones, ©. W., Jones. J. P., Nev., cor. N. logg, W. P., La., Willa mar, LQ. C., Mins. 9 cogan. J. A., Hl. S121 ~ and I st. aw. 's Hotel. Bst. Mahone, W Maxey, 5. B., Tex., 413 4th st. n.w. Miller, J. F., Cal, Willard’s Hotel. Mitchell, J. I, Penn., 729 13th st. nw. Morgan, T. J + Ala, 401.4 st. now. Morrill, J. Vt cor, Vt. av, amd M at. now. Pendleton, G. H., Ohio, 1301 K st now Matt, © H., Conn., Arlington Lutel. | Platt. 7. C/N. ¥., Arlington Hotel Plumb, P. B., Kan., 1407 F si. nw. Pugh J. L., Ala. Metropolitan Hotel. Ransom, M. W., N. C., Metropolitan Hotel. Rollins, ., 145 East Capitol st. Saulsbury, Ell, Delaware, Willard’s Hotel, inders.’A.. Nebraska, iticgs House. r, P., Wisconsin - sberman, ev Slater, JH, Teller, H. Vance, 7 nw. -, indlana,2’1 Penn, ave. Arkansas, 720 13th st. n.w. Kentucky, 1405 F st. nw. Willams, J. 8. 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Reynolds # Saw" 0 i x K, Btone Eben ¥ Seltes Fes ; Banders dona; Bern Joseph; Sumpaon Staat Julius; Shelley John : shall ; Shane Mi reser D; Wilbams ‘Young John M; Inidor; i Walker Bove tigre Sing Joun D: FHIGORLLANEOUS.—#08 Bat. 1121 14th at. m. iist oF LETTERS NG IN GEORGE. Tidd OF LETTERS REMATRING IN ( X, D.C. Os! sei Manon 127s, 1881. LADIES’ LIST—Johnson Miss A H. Sweeney au Pop cath fines fata #20; Young