Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1881, Page 6

AUCTION SALES AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. __ FUTURE DAyYs. | | | oypuomas DUWLING, Auctioneer. SMALL STOCK OF Gx0C BARROOM APD BiehE FX) Unter. jOUS stv .D AND. KITCHEN FURNITURE, AT avv- Will be acid on MONDAY MORNING, | CH Bru, AT J EN © LOOM, at the sor: { ef Mrs. M. J. H:lis” Rosslyan, bove stock. ‘Terms cash = een | PROPOSALS. | peeves FUR ADHESIVE PJISTAIE STAMPS. Post Orvice DerarTMest, INGTON, D. O., March 26, 1851. Wa eal sre invited fron Bteel Plats Mogravers and ft» Printers, and will be received it this Depar UNTIL 12 0°cLooE ». ox WED- WESDAY, ia8 27ra pator Aratt, 1581, for fur- ishing all the Postage Stampa which the Deopsrt- Ment may reacire for public snd official usa during BS period of four years, commnezcing on the Ist day ef July, 1881, viz 1. Btam)3 for tho use of the public. 2. Officis! Stamps for the use of the Executive Derartments. 3. Newspaper and Periodical Stamps. 4. Postsxe ‘Stamps. Blank forms of bids, with full specifications, Will be furnished upon application to the Thirl FUTURB DAYS. FHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. HOUSEHOLD FURN, TURE, TOOLS, &., AT On TUESDAY MOWNING, Marcu 29Tz, Fa 3 70 o'cLock, at residence No. 1817 Tota’streets I shal soli the fodowing eifects, 2" Walnut Hair loth Parlor Suit, C, ind Boleters, ving Table ‘hins and Glass Ware, tove, i Kitchea Rejuistter, mai “ THOMAS DOWLING, An HOMAB DO NG, Auctionser. TRUSTEE’S KA = AT AUQTION D: VALUABLE K¥AL FSTATE, ON B PRE iT. = ON THE 8 )U0TH Cooking Let Too! EO BRIDGE STREET, IN BETWEEN FoEDELICK AND MARKETATS., , IMPROVED BY TWO BRIGK HOUSE OMBERED, RESPECTIVELY, 3320 AND 3322. By virtue of a doed of trust, dated the fix day of Ce'ober, a. D. 15 Tec rded among the land reo rds of the District of Coluwbis, in liber No. 85, folio 393, and by the direction ¢f the party secured thereby, tha undr- Hianed Trustee, on Folbs¥, THe £tast Day oF APRIL, AD. 1631, a7 4:30"O'cLocK P.M, will Offer for sale, eubjéct to all taxes and asseasinént , at public aucti frontof the premises, ali that certain piece or parcel of ground eitnato and lying in Georgeiown, in the District of Uolumbia, aud beixg known gnd érscribed as parts of lots am bered thirty-#fx (:i6) an« thirty -seven (37), i» “uid Georgetown: Bevinning for the sume at a point on the line of Bridwe st (37) feet and eiunt (s tersec ion of the sc Une dividing lots distant thirty: inches easteriy fromthe 2 one handred sud ten (116) feet, to the line of an alley, tweaty (20) wide. thence westerly along sald alley to inter- ine drawn ecuther'y from the point of be- ing, and parallel with the second line above deveribéd, and thence northerly with satd 1 versed ene hundred and ten (110) feet, to the place of bexinning; andalso the free use forever of the alleys reserved and described in the deei from. William I. Dyer toElizaM L. Boucher. Toxether with the improvements theraon, consisting of two commodious brick dwe'licg houses, each having store rocm. The said houses, with the ground thereto appertaining, will be offered for sale sep- arately. in One-third of the _ Terms of sale: archase money in cach, of which one hundred dollars on each par- celeold must be paid az a deposit at the time of sale, and the residue in two equal mstalimeats in Sx sud twelve mouths from tho day of sale, for which deferred payments the purchaser will required to give his promissory notes bearing date from the eaid day of sale and payable respectively insix and twelve mouths after date, with interest from their date, semi-annually at the rate of seven ker cent per annum, watil pal and, sevured DY & ed of trust, to the satirfaction of the Tcustee, on i Id; or all caah, at the option of the purchaser All yeyancing at the purchaser's erms tre not complied with with: 8 from the day of sale, the Trustee reserv the right to reseli the property or any parcel ther. of at the risk and cost of the purchaeer in default, taut Postuzster General, Washington, D. 0 THOMAS L. JAMES, marat-2awaw Postmaster Gener: pee ee HOUSEFURNISHINGS. TUDENT'S LAMP: $4.50 WILL BUY A GENUINE LARGE SIZE HICKEL-PLATED, GERMAN STUDENT LAMP, WITH ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS, AND A GALLON or RYNZAU'S ROYAL SEOURITY OIL, BEST AND SAFEST OIL IN USE. AL other oods in his line at the lowest possible prices. Call and examine. mar2¢ MYNEAL’S, 4158 2th st. eer rrr NEW CHINA STOBE. WE WOULD RESPECTFULLY INFORM OUR FRIENDS AND THE PUSLIO THAT WE WILL OPEN MONDAY, MARCH lita, WITH A NEW AND COMPLETE STOOK OF CHINA, CROOK- EBY, GLASSWARE, FINE PLATED WARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, &c. AN INSPECTION OF OUB GOODS AND PRICES IS SOLICITED. WILMSKTH & EDMONSTON, marl? 700 Market Space. RRoeeas BROS. TRIPLE PLATED ENIVES, $2.00 3 dozen. BOGERS BECS. A. 1 TEA SPOONS 32.00 % dozen. ROGERS BROS. A. 1 TABLE SPOONS, 84.00 ¥ dozen. at SCHAEFFER'S, 2030 Seventh Street, mart Anove New YoRxe AVENUR. (aoc: ERY, CHINA, GLASSWARE, OUTLERY, FINE PLATED W. AND HOUSEFUENISHING GOODS. OOMPLETE BTIOOE. BEST G@ooDs aT LOW PRIOES. M. W. BEVEBIDGH, Lares Wars & Brveras, tenia MEDICAL, &e. 'O CURE NO PAW!—To all afflicted with private diseases come at once and you shall be cure without mercury. Dr. southwest. mar26-1m* DR. BROTHERS fails to cure male Weakness, Irregularities thirty years” experience in S06 Bat. southwest. opposite msrls-lm* INSULT DR ROBERTSON, every Wednesday and Saturday, st his office, 456 st. north- west, aan SEs from? ae vancins pn 15 years” ce, wuarantecs cases Of the Urinary Ureans, Nervous and, Seminal Ss etc Oe yr ny ‘contbected: bos: morshasa Or Sy piuiia, recenn oan Q tively cured m From to 10 days Gonediesden Fay and separate offices for lsdica. Main office, 19. Buthw ef. Baltmece irre iat ruaw ety ore. oderate. feb? TE — Ie ‘ANHOOD RESTORED.—A victim of early tm. prodenes usin nervona devil, peewatare , ete., having tried in vain every Knowa reme- 2g, has discovered stuple, means of scit-care ww be will bie send free to hia fellow-suterers, oct7-eo&K 43 Chatham st.. N. FERRE SS SEALTH IDR. EO. WEST'B NERVE AND BEAIN TREATMENT: A for. H. ‘on vaisio Heres, Sen ‘Meaint toprol toe 2 patorrhy . Involant Suortioes ‘welt abuso. a nae 57 which - 3 wi leads to misery, a . One box will bo: AM DE FOREST HAS REMEDY dadles. iA femalecomplaints much cures Omics houre from T too p mee fot —— THE TRADES. Gur BROTHERS PRACTICAL BOOK AND JOB PRINTERS, D.C. 1012 Pern+yivania ave.. Wa Sa Fine Printing a specialty. a OOK BINDING—The Lycert Brsp} firet-cluss Workmen, and turns oul supeciee + dt is one of the ol leat establishments fa'ene oe! ave., 34 floor. th ALKER’S, 206 100g Srazer. LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, CARPET LINING Lt, FELT an nov? GRAVEL ROOFING SUPPLIES. rt ¢ days’ advertisement the tar. oF ON TOHALD i O8 . mar2l-d&ds No. 8520 Oat , Gcorgoiowa, D.O. SONCANSON BROB., Auctioneers. TEWS SALE OF TW QRUs' STORY BRICK HOUSE AND LOT ON EIGHTH STREET, BET E AND Q BIREETS NORLH- ETWEEN P AN WEST, AT AUCTION. By virtue of adeed of trust giyen to me and duly recorded in liter 814, folio 95, ous f of the land records for the District of Cohmbia, and at the written request of the party secured, ¥ will sei] at public suction on TUESDA Marcu 20Tp, A. D. 153}, av 5 O'CLOCK P. af. front of the premises, sil that cartain pi Patcel of vround situite and lying in theeity © ashington and known and described as lot aum- bered twelve (12), in Thomas Youog and Samuel Fowler's eubdivision of eqnare numbered four hundred and twenty-one, (421,) tozether with all the improvements, ways, essciuent, richta, priv- ilewes and appurtenavces to the same belongiug or in any wise spre: S pins. : Oge-third cash: balance in six, twelve and eighteen months notes to bear interest and to be secure by deed of trust on the property sold, or all cash st option of purchager. Conveysncing snd recording at purchaser's cokt. | A_ deposit 00 me plied with in seven days, otherwiae the Trustee re- serves the right to resell at the riek and cist of the defaulting purchaser after giving five daye’ pablic netics of such rerale In some newspaper pabueued in Washinston, D.C. ROBT, H. WARD, Trustes, marli-eokds 380 £54 st. northwest. UNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers. ASSIGNEE’S SALE OF ENTIRE FIXTUSES, SAFE. MIREOR. OONTAINED IN STOKE, No J10SEVENTH STREST NORTH- WEST. On THURSDAY MORNING, Mancu Sist, at 10 o'cLocg, I will sell sil the fixtures, &e., in the Clothing Store, No. Ji0 7th street northwest, con- sisting of— Shelving, Connte: Tables, Drawers, Catliee's Desk and Rail Silver-mounted Show Oases, Btov Sewing Machi ree, n Lock Safe (Miller's ) snvas Awning, &c., Ko. JAS. 8. EDWaA) tuew Aseignes of 8. J T. COLDWELL, Auctio. . ager, No. 515 7th street. TRUSTES'S SALE OF THE HANDSOME MOD_ ERN FRAME DWELLING HOUSE, KNOW. 14 TWELFTH STRELT NORLH- TOGEIHEK WILTH TWO FINE Lois. 3 By virtue of a deed of trust, dated Angzet 20 28th, 1880, and duly recorded in liber No 945, folio 340, ono of the land records for the District of Columbia, and at the request of tae Party secured, T will fell at public auction, in front of the premises, on 1 AY, APRIL STH, 1851 at 5 o'czoc o lettered “4” and “8,” of Alfred H '4 subdivision of original lots in eguare numbered two hundred and seveuty-tures (iS), towether with the improvements, ‘Terms of eale: One. fourth of the purchase mone; with the expenses of the sale, in cach, and the bal- ance in six, twelve eightoen and’ twenty-four months, with interes! per cent per aasum. Becured by deed of the property sold; or ail cash. Conveyancing at purchaser's cost. deposit of $100 required at tue of sale, and terms to be complied with in seven days, or the property, will be resold at cost aud risk of default- ne purcbaser, after five days’ advertisement targs-eodela JOHN T. ABMS, Trastes. t six rust On THOMAS & SONS, Auctioneera, “ M ‘Nos. 139 and 141 South 4th street. PEREMPTORY SALE OF VALUABLE SEASIDE PROPERTY, ON THE PREMISES, AT CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. THURSDAY, April 7, 1881. To cloee the Sea Grove Association. All restrictions removed. 87 and 66 rooms, ali S furnished hotel*, 126, equipped for the summer husiness. Billiard rooms and bowling alleys. 7 elegantly located cottages, on or near the 70 bath houses, with full supply of robes, towels and fixtures. One and a-qoarter miles ocean shore, with Pehts and privileges a8 granted by state of jersey. Pavilion, with tower 85 feet high, water works, eas machine, stables, rowing aud sail boats, &c., and C00 choite building lots, ocean fronts aud ad- Jacent. pA. be sald peremptoriiy to the highest itder. Excursion tains will leave Market street ferry at § o'clock on morning of sale. Catalocues, with full d-seriptions of properties, cn application to J. 8. WHILLDI 14h Chest. put Street, or at our suction rooms, Nos. 139 and iil Fouty 4th st., Philadelphia, Pa mar24-St,eod HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF DESIRABLE REAL. TATE, IMPROVED, ON THE SUUTH OF G STREET SOUTHWEST, BETWLE! SIXTH AND BEVENTH STREETS. Under and by virtne of a deed of trust ated the 13th cay of September, 1870, an folio 392 et'seq.., ~ strict of Columbia, aud in writing, of the party secured thereby, we wil sell, at public auction, 1a front of the premises, on MONDAY, ArBIL LITH I8Xt, aT 5 o'croox ¥.st., all those pieces of gronad in'the city of Wagtingtom, District of Columbia, known eslots C, Band F, in Chureh, Howell and Riley's subdivieion of lots numbered 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24, of equare 465—said lot O having’ a front of 16 fect on G street southwest, and runnin back be- tween parallel lines 79 feet to = 10-foot alley : the ner lote having a front of 16% feet with the lepth, with the vement \ereon. improved by a two-story Brick House, No. 628 street southwest ‘Terms of sale: One-fourth cash: residuo in six, ier ew same is a thin fivedaysfrom day of sal will eo SoG Mayan. dal kPa after five days’ notice in The Star. WM. A. FENWIOK, ALKER, roart9.28,26,90, ap6,0,1 CAN: BROS., Auctioneers, D™ noe ob ‘and. D streets northwest. USTEE'S SALE OF FOUR-STORY BRICK FEONTING ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, AT AUCTION. trust to, bearing SRS Cr oh lo ps for ‘aie District of Oolun- and by direction of the and wl gv in which $25 to $100 can be invested. faformation on application and Financis: ‘Sant Iree, Janl2-mw! mar23-d&ds ‘Trustees. provements thereon, being the old ‘Town House | tyelve; eighteen and twenty-four months, evi- | and No. 6 Engine House: Provided, That the Bu. | denced by notes of purchaser, and secured by | gine H sed by the District until a | property sold; or ail cash, at purchaser's option. | Sew @ House is construsted: but the purcha- | 350 deposit on the sale of éach lot will be required | Ser ital thercfor at the rate of at the time of sale. Conveyancing at purchaser's | six per cent on the purchase money for such mao. cost. If te of sale are not comp:ied ae Part of lot two hundred and forty-five (245), in I st public auction, in front of the prem- t 3 deed of trust, bearing date dees, on TUE: DAY, THE STH DAY OF APRIL, A. D. meneidag or August, Tao and duly re- Asel, aT 4:30 o'cLocx P. M., all that cartain plece corded in liber 948, folio 142, &c., one of the: of Waste on ‘and in isnd records of Waeh ‘county, in the District red t eee SCLOOK P.M. nt of the pre e fol- re SEC fowing-descri roperty, Base of lot twenty Geo: for the wan pape {oewest lins.ot Botorman etrese at spank sists 6} Groupe by Jacob Ai feet north of the north line of ‘eet, ant D No 6, folio ice north wiih iine of Potoinae atroct nine ton County, in ssid teen (19), feet; thence west Atty-fonr, (64), fect, | improvements, ways, easements re mor 1e86, Fear line of said lot; thence | and appurtenances to the same south ninetesn (19) fest. i iptos | “Terme: One-d " IVHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, TRUSTEES SALE OF VALUABLS IMPROVED WN, 8! A z BUTCHES UR MARKET GASDZNER. | By virtue of a certain deed of trust, exe. cuted on the 25th day of September, 181 im and recorded in Libor 763, folio ST, of dis land records of the District of Oolumbia, and by the direction of tue party sscured thereby, de. fault having been mace in the payments of thie Ine | Aebteduens srcured, the tadersiened will oer, at public sale, "on tie pretuises, on FIIDAT, ‘the 4 OF MaRoH, 153i, Ac 4 O'CLOCK P M., the foi- lowing described premises, to wit:—All tuat part of a tract of land called ‘White Haven," lying on the Ride Road, west of Georgetown, b: S Govt & bounded hickory trae, standiog at the bavinning Of the 2ist line of the resurvey of Alliance; then. hort 19% dewrees west, twelve (12) perches with the 20th “line of ssid Alliance reversed; thence south 85 degrees west, thirty-two porches to a bounded stone standing on the east line of the Kile Road, end belux st the end of the 18th line of said Alliance; thence» down said road on the east line thereof the two following courses and tances: Bouth 15\ dewrees, east 4 erohes svuth saving aid road e8 to an inter- south 87 degrees, east 46 6-10 porc fection with the 2ist line of said Alliance, and thence with the said 2lst liue reversed to thd ba- givning, containiny 11 acres. 3 roods and 21 per- ches, more or less, and be.ng the same land con veyed toraid Avgnatus D Sheele by Richard P. Jackson, trustee, by deed recorded in Liver R M H. 1, folio 56, et seq., one of the laud records for said ‘District. ‘The improvements are a dwelling house, a Slaugh‘er bouse aud otuer building? especially enitable for a butetier. ‘Terme of sale. $1,500 in eash (of which one hundred dollars must be deposited at the time of tue sale), the balance in equal n-talmenis at one and two years, secured by the nots of the pur- chaser, bearing interest, aad a deed of trust of the property If the terms ara not complied with ia seven days after saie the Trustee reserve3 the rizat to resell the property npon oue week's uotice Aaxee paid to January. 1, 4 Oouveyaaciag at the cost of tue purchaser. S marlidts JOAN MILLER, Trasteo. 2 ABOVE BALE IS POSTPONED ON (count OF the Minese of the Erantes wai Mow, ‘TH,wame hour and place. m25-it Warne B. WILITAMS & 00., Anctioneers. SILVER-PLATED WARE AND ROGERS OUr- LERY, FRESOH CLOOKS, PLATED SHON CASRS, IRON SAFE, JEWELRY, STORE FIXTURES, &., AT AUCTION. On TUESDAY, Mancy 20TH, 1881, ar 10 Q’oLocK A om, ‘we shall sell the Stock and Fixtures in Store No. 1209 Pennsylvania ave- pue northwest, consisting of Six French Clocks, ‘Ten Nickel-plated Alarm Olocks, Sixteon Different Style Waluut-frame Clocks, One Regulator, Two Stiver-plated Show Cases; One Large ase, Glass Front; Breakfast and Lianer Oastors, Pickel Jar: Dake Baske's, Butter Disnes, Ioe Pitchers an other coods from the well-known Meriden Manu factories; Rowers Cutlery, Jowelry, Eye Glasses, Bhelving, Counters, stove, Office Chairs, &c. ; Fire- proof Safe, McParland, niakers; Awnigg, &c. ‘To be Sold without reserve. q Cash. ine StWALTER B_WILLIAMS& 00., Aucts. REED WILEIAMS © 00, Anois ALTER &. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. TRUSTEES’ BALE OF TWO-STORY AND BASE- MENT BRIOK (MODEBN IMPRUVEMENLS), No. 1613 5 SIREET NORTHWEST. Py virbue of a deed of trust, dated March Ist, 1877, and recorded in Liber No. 850, fo io 71, One of the land records for the Dis: trict of Columbia, and at request of party sscared thereby, we wi leell at pubhe auction, in front of the premises, on THURSDAY, Apkic ira, Isl, aT 5 O'cLOOK P. M., the following described real estate situste in «i y of Washlagton, said Districh, Lot No. 7, in Blske and Kelly's recorded subdivi- sion of Syuare No. 101, with the improyereats thereon. Z ‘Terms of sale: One fourth cach, of which 875 ranst be paid at time of eale; balance in six, twelve, eighteen ana twenty-four inonths, in equal pay: ments, to be secured by purchaser's notes, bearing Six percent interest from day of sa'e, anda deed of trust on property sold, to the satisfaction of the ‘Trustees, or all cash st option of purchaser. Qon- Yeyancing snd recording at purcusser’s cost. ‘Lerms of sale to be complied with in six days, else Trusters reserve right to resell at risk aud coat of urcharer in default eee ee MF HOLTZMAN, mar26-ec6t_ ALBERT F FOX, 'S UNOANSON BROS., Auctioneers, KECELVER'S BALH OF UNDERTAKER'S WAGON, COFFINS, &c. By virtue of an order issued’ by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, in Equity cause . 1,518, docket 20, I will sell at public auction, TUESDAY MOsNING, Mancu 29TH, 1851, at 11 o’cLocg, at the auction rooms of Duncaason Bros., corner 9:h D streets northwest, One Undertaker's Wawon, ‘wo Coflius, One Wal. Desk, Curtatng, &c., &¢ ‘M. KLNG, Kecelver of the late firm of W. 8. Sigournsy- mar2t-3t \, BENSINGER, Auctioneer. ‘T° wil cell, in front Trust:es.” i the premisas, on TUESDAY, Marcu 29TH, ar 4 P.M, Lot E, in Square 24, lot 30 feet by 30 feet, ‘situate on C street, between 12th and 13th streets north- west, improved by a brick atahle with a hall over stable, now occupied as a sale stable, under rent to a jenant. Terms: #200 cash; balancs in one, two, three, four, five and six years, at 6 per ¢ -nt inte ION BL! S_BENSINGER, Auct. NHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY AT MY. PLEAS. » WASHINGTON COUN- By virtue of a decree of the Supreme (outt 4. of the District of Oolumbis, passed in equity cause No. 6,292, wherein Willan . MH is complainant aud Juhu Easleston snd others ¢ feudants, the uudersicued, as trustees, will sell pruute auction, in troat of the premises, on MO AY, THE 47H Day OF APRIL, I88L, aT 5 O'oLOo8 | P. M-, ali that piece or parce! of grotud lylue and being in Mt. Pleatant, in the county of Washine- | ton and District of Columbia, ani e. scribed as follows: Bewinning on the 14th etrest road, leading from ths city of Washington, at & pointed stove, and running thence north 34 a areea west 60-100 chains ence north 31 desres t 8 63-100 chaing; thence north 45 west 3 42. thence south 9 ees West 5 33-10) thence south 3g degrees west 40-100 nd south 85% degrees east 5 70-100 chains to the beginning, contaiving two acres of lana to- zether with all the improvemente thereon and tue appurtenances thereto belonging. ‘Derma of eale are as follos, to wit: Three hun- dread doilare cash at the time of sale; one-fourth of | the purchuge money cash on the day of sale, or within seven dass thereafter, ana the residue in three equal instalments st six, twelve and eighteen montus from the day of sale, the purchascr iiving his promissory notes for the deferred payments, bearing interést from tha day of sale anti paid; oF | qe purchaser may, at bis clection, pay all cash, | Deed to be retained until last pa; . If | the terms of sale be not complied with, the trastees reserve the right to resell the property at the risk | aug ee the Ged purchaser, after te1 38" notice in a city paper. CAZENOVE Gi. LE! } . 342 D street n.w., WATSON J, NEWTON, 509 7th street, RP. JA Ni, i No. 156 Bride st., Georgetown, | mar23-dte ( jOMMISSIONERS' BALE. Orrick or tHE Coxatsstowens, Disrarcr ov Conumeta, WasuinGron, March 17, 1881.' Pees ofthe third and sixth sections of act of Congress, approved March 3, 1881, the fol- lowing property of tue District will’ be offered for sale at public auction. on THURSDAY, Tae 8Ist INSTANT, Jn front of the premises, commencing at 3o'clock p. m., with the lot first named herein, and continuing in the following order: IN| WAEHINGTON: All of Jot three, (3), in squara three hundred and | tighty-two (382), and improvements thereon, known as Central Gnard-House. situated on Louisiana avenue, between 9th and 10th streets horthwest, containing 10,594 square feet of ground, more or less. Fart of lot three (3), square four hundred and ninety (490), situated oh the north eidoo! O straal vetween 43 and 6th streets northwest, containing 4,277 square feet of zround, more or less. A certain parcel in equate south of equare one hnndved and eighty-one (181), beginning at a point on the north side of N street udrthwast, for:y-elht feet two inches west of the west line of 16th running thence long N street westerly eich: feet; thence northerly sixty-two hundredths feet to Massachusetts avenus; southeasterly along said avenue nineteen and sixty- ty-nine hundredths feet; thence fifty-four and tweuty-seven hundredths feet south to the point of beginning on N street. ‘Erustees, } In Fi S & 8 IN GEORGETOWN: Part of lots forty-seven (47), forty-eight (43), and forty-nine (49), in guars fhirts Oe with im- Cie ninety-z ine (99). he terms of sale are one-half of the purchase | pore oo cash, and balance in six and twelve months, with interest at six per eat secured eed of trust on the property purc oR depositor One hundred acliare doers at time of sale will be required upon each piece of property The Commissioners reserve the rizht to reject | any and all bids if, in their judgment. the pro: perty offered does not bring a fair market price. By order of the Commissioners. ml8,f&s.4t WILLIAM TINDALL, Secretary. rpuomas DOWLING, Auctioncer. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF FRAME BUILDING ON MAG STREET, BETWEEN PROSPEOT AND FIRST “BIBRETS, " GHORGHIOWN: | of bi db; ion the parties se- Cred thereby, the undersigned trustees will ast, | on FRIDAY, THE He Ae ae APRU Didi AT & of : One- 3 tue in equal paymieats at sxand twelve months, with paid, ane "iced of trast on the two i OO _ ___§$$§$<_$_<_ as THE EVENING STAR. DOUBLE SHEET. SATURDAY. March 26, 1881. LETTER FROM NEW YORK. | 4 GLIMPSE BEHIND THE SCENES—THE DEMOCRATS DISCONSOLATE AND DISGUSTED — TAR FIRST BLUNDER—THE POTTER COMMITTRE—THE NEW YORK NOMINATIONS—THE NEW OPERA HOUSE— TRE OLD UNION LEAGUB HOUSE—WONDERS OF THE MOON—THE HESS TROUPR—PSRSONAL, RTC. [Special Correspondence ef The Evening Star.) New YorK, March 25. I was offered the usual card of admission and acigar a few nights since for a pleasant hour in the luxurious quarters of the Manhattan Clud, on Sth avenue. Although the attendance was not large, democratic politics formed as usual the main stay of the conversation ani I was not a little surprised at the dazed tndlffer- ence with which the proceedings at Washington Jast week were regarded by leading democrats, “No leadership” was the burden ot the talk, not only about the Senate, but about the party generally {broughout the country, though tuere were two sides to the question,one party instst- ing that In the Senate there was a want of 1t, and the other declaring that the trouple was that there was too much of it in the thirty- eight leaders now there’ However, the result, proved to be the same in either case, and tne consequences of Gen, Mabone’s “ disaffection” were variously discussed and commented on In Getail for the present and future of the party. ‘The feeling seemed to be something of a de- spondent one, akin to that of ex-Senator Nes- mith’s obituary on the mule, * w no longer had any pride of ancestry or hope of posterliy,” but plodded along its weary way, to be beaten at almost every step. it seemed to be agreed that the continued re- publican triumphs were altogether the resul: Of inexcusable Dlundering and folly on the part of the democrats. Politicians are of course the wisest of men after events; but there was an average Verdict as toall of the causes which Made “unmerciful disaster follow fast and follow faster,” while the usual crimination and recrimination explained it. The Potter com- mittee Investigation was the burden of the story. That step, it was admitted was the be- ginning of the blunders, was forced on the party by ex-Speaker Randall at the instigation of the New York Sun, which secretly plied his ears as well as those of Mr. Tilden with the wonderful tales of republican rascality in Lou- isana at the time the Monee statesmen of both parties counted the vote of that state. These details need not be rementioned except the effort to fasten the alleged Weber letter on Sec- retary Sherman. ‘ believed that such a letter really existed, that thelr tnformant had seen it, and that it cou!d be produced before a congressional investigation. By a persistent pressure, and almost in the face of a dowbt of its expediency, one was forced on the demo- cratic caucus against the better judgment, as it afterward appeared, of most of iis leading mem- bers, Mr, Potter, it was also admitted, held out to the last moment his doubt of the evidence of such 3 letter, questioned seriously the propriety of an iivestigation at that Ume, and expressed his apprehension as to the result of snch an inquiry at any time. But the tempting bid of continued political Preferment and promotion eased his convic- Uons, and the committee went to work, with what result 18 100 well known. Mr. Potter was deceived and Mr, Tilden was betrayed. Tie “whirligig of time” has brought around the dismissal from sensational journalism of tne Man who concocted the whole investigation tn the spirit of profit, if not Of aprophe. That is only one blunder I heard commented on; but there were many more that are hardly worth my time and your space. THE NEW YORK NOMINATIONS, The nomination of State Senator W. H. Robertson to be collector .of the port of New York has astonished everybody. He had never thought of the place, though some of his friends resented his name a few days ago, Every- dy accepis it, however, a3 a most explicit declaration that the administration 1s golng to be independent in its appointments of federal officials in this state as well as elsewhere. This was Indicated first, in @ quiet way, by the nomi- nation on Monday last of Mr. Tyler as collector of Buffalo over Mr. Gould, who was Senator Conkling’s choice, and Is now decidedly empha- sized in Mr. Robertson's selection. As you are aware, Mr. Robertson was one of the leaders in this state against a solid Grant delegation, and Was first on the list of signers for the open re- volt of some seventeen of the New York dele- gates al Unicagy waicn Jed to tae partial sup- Port of Mr. Blaine. Who that was there can ever forget the look of scorn and rage which Mr. Conkling gave that minority a3 hé strode into the Chicago convention and slowly took ils Seat while Dennis McCarthy, of Syracuse, was impudently seconding, on behalf of the entire Gelegution, the nomibation of Washburne as Vice President! THE OLD UNION LEAGUE CLUB. The Union League Club having moved to its | new bullding .up town, Mr. Leonard Jerome, the cwnerof the old clad house. antielpated Serious loss. Several projects to convert 1t into a hotel or apartment house, crossed his mind, but at last the happy fdea dccurred to him of making 1t a proprietary club, such a3 are Brooks’, White's and Boodle’s in London. Tals will be the flrst club of tts sort in this country, and will afford the jeanesse dores opportunities for poker playing and other gamuilng which are forbidden by rule in the clus to wach they already belong. The new organization ts called the Turf Club, ts very select, and the entrance fee and yearly subscription are only thirty dol- larseach. Mr. Jerome wil! probably realize a large yearly profit trom this rental. THE BESS OPERA TROUPE. The Strakosch-Hess Opera ‘Troupe was too large to be profitable, and has been absorbed by other opera companies, It made the blunder of going to Texas towns and other out of the Way places where the receipts could not poss!- sy meet the capenses. Marie Roze has joined her Papa-in-law’s troupe at the Academy, Henry Peakes left some time since and joined Abbott, and Carleton has appeared tuis week in * Olivette” at the Bijou. Yet {Nym Crinkle says this was the finest English opera company ever organized in this country stnce that of Parepa Hosa. Considerable sympathy ts felt for Mr. Hess, who 1s one of your townsmen at Mi. Pleasant. THB NEW OPERA HOUSE, The new opera house is a fixed fact. It will | cost about a million dollars and a-hait, The auditorium will seat three thousand People. There will be one hundred and tweive private boxes and two galleries above the boxes. There willbe thirty or forty weli lighted dressin: rooms, A spacious covered carriage way wil extend through the bullding, trom itn avenue to Broadway, and, best of all, the building will be absolutely fire-proof, even to the curtain, which will be made o! steel slats in the Vene- Uan pattern. The building will be finished in about two years. WONDERS OF THE MOON. One of the attractions in New York jist now 18 an Interesting exhibition at Stenway Hall of | @ colossal moon. It 1s suspended in raid-air over the stage like a monster balloon and ts a Wonderful piece of mechanism. Years have been spent in constructing it. Me. Bissell, a graduate of Yale, who has made astronomy a Study Of years, gives an interesting practical lecture of the late developments ef astronoui- cal sclence. The results as to the moon, ne Says, cannot be questioned. He pointed out tie positions of vast mountains rivalling in attitude the Himalaya range and the far-reach- ing shadows cast from them, Other polnts of | interest were likewise indicated as volcanic craters and caions, exceeding respectively 10 their extent and depth Those on Tie earth's | Surface. In conclusion, he phowed that if the moon 1s inhabited its’ inhabitants are an en- Urely different set of beings from those peo- pling our globe. His opinion 1s that it 1s a Yast, uninhabited waste, for the reason that there 1s no air there, no water and no vegeta Uon, Another conciusive reason given in sup- Port of this theory was the wonderful thermal Changes, the thermometer showing during the lunar day, which {s fourteen of our days, 319 degrees Fahrenhelt, and Ce the night of equal length an equal number of degrees below eT0, PERSONAL. Miss Anna Story, so well-know in Washing- ton, has made another engagement with Law- rence Barrett, and leaves here for Omaha and the far west. Barrett has had great success here during the past two weeks. Hon. Helster Clymer, who is in town, says he intends to make Washington his winter home hereafter. Paymaster Gil. Thornton, who was for a long | time stationed 1p Washington, is here on a now 19- cal James Breslin (rot the Breslin of Breslin & Cooke of Willard’s) leaves here t2 open the new Southern Hotel in St. Louts. Quite a number of the summer hotel men are in town. Wn. Wilkenson is going to manage ‘the Congress agaia this summer at Saratoga, and Harris & ‘kam, of Washtogton, open the Clarendon there as early as June 1. Gen. Grant been down to the Branch looking over his summer residence. He 1s pestered with office-seekers, but the only man he has endorsed 1g John Russell Young for min- ister to Mexico, Jno. P. Foley, for many years on the Wash- ington Republican, has become an editorial writer on the New York Herald. Ass Dean McConnell, who was compelled to resign from Fanny Davenport’s company on account of ill-health, 1s at present in Wasa- Tapvony ak her home, replay improving. 1. Tom Crittenden, 17th infantry, who has been in Washington for some time on leave of al », has Tequested to report at Ge: Hancock’s headquarters for temporary duty. 7 te peeiee the Piusturg Will occur on" Apr cen rose te ot, unless demand of the men for an advance of ten par cent in wages Is to, a ‘bilef visit from Boston, where he is ted, PUBLIC PRINTING. Prodigious Progress from Past to Pres- ent--Ohanges of a Qentury. 1789 to 1SS1, UNCLE SAM'S GREAT PRINTING oFrickK—THE ARGSST IN THE WORLD” —WABRE THR PRINT ING FOR THR NATION IS BXSCUTED—EIGaT ACRKS OF SPACE OCCUPIED—AN ARMY OF PROPLE BMPLOYED—TWO MILLIONS OF DOLLARS A YSAR EXPENDED—STACKS OF LITERATURE PRODUCED The average American has but an impertect idea of the gigantic proportions of the govern- mental institutions of his native land, and not until he has visited and inspected the grand Central headquarters of the several departments of the government at the capital, can he real- ize the vast magnitude of the several paris which are needed to compiete the whole to = ply the requirements of a nation of titty mil- lions of people. No matter how well posted, or how tboroughly famillar with state or na- Uonal institutions elsewhere, the visitor to Washington, after an inspection of our great pub- ic buildings and a glance at the interior work- ings of the several departments, invariably ex- hausts the adjectives in ejacuiations of surprise, and leaves more than ever impressed with a feeling of pardonable native pride, that he forms a constituent part of “the greatest nation on earth.” The Capitol, the Treasury, the President's Mansion, the Army and Navy de partment, the Patent office, the Post office, tue Pension office, the Census office, the Ayri- cultural deparument, the Smithsonian institn- tier, the National Museum and a host of lesser objects of interest ali come fn for a fair share of Wandering critleism. But there 1s another in- stitution in Washington which ts an ALL IMPORTANT ONE, which furnishes a vast amount of the necessary «“workipg material” for all these several de- periments, and which is possessed of attrac- tions for the stranger second to none other—at le for ali those who can aporeclate the growth, perfection and development of the art preservative, the art of printing. This tnsti- tution 1s what is now known ana noted over the civilized globe as “the largest of its kind {n ex- istence,” and which excites the wonder and ad- tmiration of the representatives of foreign na- tons who come here, at the discovery of the fact that the youngest nation has taken fore- most rank, even among all the older ones, in its provision for the most perfect production of overnment Mterature, or printing suppltes. ‘he reader may know that reference fs had to THE U. 8. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, the tlke of which may not be found anywhere in the known world. It 13 located in the north- eastern section of the city, not far distant from the Capitol and although plain and unpreten- lous in architectural appearance, at once strikes the eye of the stranger as a structure imoposing in its vast magnitude, if not in its cxierior” attractivencas, Toward’ the close of the day (6p. m.) when the ordinary labors of the day are Over, the shrill whistle of a steam engine In the works sounds grateful muste to the army of skilled artizans and employ¢3 en- gaged therein, and within a few minutes a host ofmen and women—for both sexes are em- ployed at the works—pour forth from the many entrance doors, and the streets and avenues are fairly allve with @ cheerfal, buboiing, hur- Tying mass of humans, who wend their way to thir several homes. Count the men as they pass by, and the number soon reaches 30, then 600, anon 1,009, and ere the rear rank has passed over 1,200 men—many of them the most expe- rienced, intelligent and skillful representa- tives of their profession in the country, have gone by. Mingied among thei, all imbued with the same seemingly energetic spirit of push, or, as Americans are Wont to express it, go-a-head-a-tiveness:—are noticed as many as 500 to G00 females of all ages, from the grandame of sixty to the miss in her teens, whose deft fingers have been handling thousands of snow-white shects at the “presses” or other thousands of printed pages in the “folding-rooms” preparatory to ibelr being “gathered” and “bound” into books Tor the use of the millions In our land. ‘hese operatives, reader, represent at least 5,000 dependent ones, at perhaps, a thousand differ- enthomes in Washington, which horoes are rendered Sunshiny and cheerful by the pro- ceeds of their labor. The men represent every State In the union, and they furnish a rare study of human character and personal pecu- Iisrities; but there is a band of Brotherhood among them which permits no neely or eilllcted one to suffer the pangs of wantor the woe of poverty’s biting hardships and priva- Uons, The female operatives are, many of them, widows of the nation’s soldier-heroes, Whose deaths deprived home of a bread-winner and the widowed mother of helpless children Went forth to be both mother and provider for ber atfspring. ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE PUBLIC PRINTING Before going intoa description of the great works which sustain this army of employes it may not be amiss to trace thé early ae Iuelpient growth and present magnitude of ths public printing. .The trst American Congress mot Ip Naw York, March 4, 1789, at the Old City Ball, and Wasli session for 210 days. The secon m was held in New York in 1790, sion In old historic ‘Carpenter's Hall” in lacelphla, when all of the original “thor- P cen” states were represented. ucd to meet here up to May i4, 7 ond session of the Sixth Congress Le Old Capitol buliding in Washingio: that year, and from that day to the present never lefuthe Capitol, “Public printing” 1 ) in an awkward way, but for years tates Senate sit with closed doors, aid only the lower house agitated the printing Of debates, «¢ In 1794 an appropriation bili Was passed which contained # quaint and re fieshing paragraph, as follows: “For the expenses of fire/7ood, stationery and Frocing rork and all other contingent ex- penses of the two houses of Congress, ‘en “ou- sind dollar This was fought most vehemently as an “outrageous plece of extravagance.” In 1501 Mr. EE ee first proposed a “public printer,” butitfalled to carry. Up to 1S19 the *con- tract” system for the printing of Congresstonal proceedings prevailed, both houses re to create a “pational” printing office. About this Ume it was decided that each house elect its own printer, and Gales & Seaton received the joint appointment for both houses of Congress. ‘Lhey Continued for several years, but in Ts27 & lot ight was made for the Senate brining be- tween Duff Green, Gales & Seaton, Peter Force and Thomas Ritchie without a choice. At the Lext session Dull Green secured the Senate and Gales & Seaton the House, From this time up to 1M0 there was always a contest for the work, asit Wag now assuming considerable magni- tuce. TRE SEVBRAL PRINTERS were Gales « Seaton, Blair & Rives, Taomas Allen, Ritchie & Harris. Tue cost of the douse Printing alone had now reached $200,000, and there was universal complaint of extravagance. ‘The whigs wanted rates reduced 20 per ceat, aud they were reduced, but wader Gales & Sea- ton were advanced again. Thomas Ritehte, of the old Richmond f#uysuirer, was the next printer, but was oustea through the whig in- fivence Of Garrett Davis, who again introauced the “contract” system under a joint Congress- ichal committee. Under tbls renewed system things seem to have grown “from bad to Worse” under Wendell, Van Benthuzea and Boyd Hamilion, who was bursted and rulued agacontractor, ‘The public printing for the Six years Up Lo 1552 reached $3,500,000 23 4 total, and in that yeara “Superintendent 9 Printing” was created, who was mad: accountable for all public goverhmment auspices. Jonu ne whig, was the first appoint ceeded by A. G. Seaman, Geol and In 1559 ‘May 12, 1561, i} r ‘Towers, an old He was suc- ’. Buwmaa, by John Heart, wie served up to A NOTED QUARTETTE, In 1852 a Memorabie coutest was had for the Positions of Senate and House printers, in which figured four prominent personages,— Gen. Robert Armstrong, Horace Greeley, Wm. P. Brownlow aud Heary J. Raymond. The Jast named Ulo were deteated, and Armstrong won the race. 1n 1858, Cornelius Wendell, who is really the founder of the Goverament Prinung Ollice, had a Close contest against dokn D, Detrees, the present printer. Wendell Was elected and expended large amounis in bulidings and machinery, hoping to hold it. ‘The new law Went into force unger President Lincoln, and he appointed John D. Defrees superintendent, Andrew Johnson removed him and appointed Cornelius Wendell. In isé7, Congress Chabged the law and made Mr, De- frees “Congressional Printer.” In 1:09, A. M. Clapp succeeded Mr. Defrees. In 1sié, the power of appointment was re-conferred on tne President, and Mr. Clapp was continued a3 “Public Printer,” and coutirmed by the Senate, In i577, President Hayes appoinied Mr. De- frees again, Who still hoids the responsiple Position. ‘i BIGHT ACRES OF\PRINTING OFFICE. The U. 5. government printing office is justly termed “the largest in the world,” and that it {sone of the fMnest as weil 1s attested by the Verdict of all representatives of foreign coun- Utes, master printers and others who are sur- prised at 1s roagnitude and perfection. ‘To give some idéa of its immensity some brief sta- Ustics ure used. Tne Di , OF Dulidings, have thres fronts, one on H street of 303 anotuer on North Capito! street of 194 feet inches, ald a third on an aliey t the west end ofthe property of 147 feet 9 inches. All the Luildings are tour stories in height, with an average Widths of 60 feet. Thus 1t will be seen ‘Unast about 0,000 square feet 0: ground is Cov- ered, and with four stories, gives a grand total Of about 220,000 square | feet, or equal to nearly eight acres of tloor space occupied by ‘he employees, machinery, stock, &¢. The ground floor 13 occupied by the press nd ary Fess FOOLS, Paper Ware-room, carpen! lier rooms, &¢. On this floor will be found constantly at work no less than SIXTY-THRER STEAM POWEE PRESSES, Ubrowing off sheets of every size and form at { the fate of from 1,000 to 15,000 per hour each. Among these presses are some of the finest in the world—costing from $10,000 to $25,000 apteoe. One of them—a huge “Bullock” press— jone prints about 500,000 volumes a year, ‘There are €mployed here 1 foreman, 1 assistant, 144 pressmen oy oes and 91 females (feeders.) In the * ae the aoe 30 hands are employed. ‘The secon: ol premises {3 Indeed a busy corner, subdivided into Reveral departments, the most Important tm _ the vast works, On the North Capitol | Street side ts the oftice of the “Public Printer,” where a clerical force, telephone and telegravh | operators, chief and financial clerks are kept | ever busy in directing the vast details of the Works under the eye of their experienced and ever watchful chief. Just across the passage are two large apartments, known as “TEE rROOP-ROOMS,” in which are always engaged some 25 or more of the most experienced and accomplished practical-printer proof-readers Porhaps In the known world. Here are men who are capable of reading all languages, through whos® hands goes the first proof, sips of millions of pages annually, and which, when read by the first readers, the ‘silent readers” and the “revisers” will stand any criticism for absolute correct - ness in point of typography, grammatical con- struction, or punctuation. TRE DOCUMENT ROOM. Extending the entire three hundred feet or front on H street is what 1s known as “the Document Room,” or main composing room of the works, At the east end of the rear room | in @ nearly enclosed private ofice where the “Printers” Assistant Foreman Davis looks oat on an acre or more of printing “cases” ranged Ou either side, besides the hundreds of windows in “alleys,” as they are termed. each alley hav- ing four skilled “typos” as tenants thereof, whilst In the center are “ston d and “galley stands,” and the thousand and one appurtenshces of a large office, About 230 compositors, representing all the states of the Vaton, are here reguiarly engaged, and at, this time over 300 hands are in employ in this singie room. There are 202 double stands; 2,39) pairs y) of cases; more than 200,00) pounds of besides about 150 fonts of type for title pages: 350 large chases; 6 proof presses; 1 Washington Dress, 24x38, and 14 cabinets, with a capacity for S00 cases. The most dificult precise and intricate work in the art of printing, in every known language, 1s produced here, such as ectentine work: phical and geological reports, bureau reports for all the government departments. An average of about 1,000,000 ems of type are set daily 1n this room, equal to 300,000,000 monthly, or 560,000,000 ems a year, which if paid for by the piece would cast $150,000 a year, Dut under the present system (he bulk of work is done—by the best artizans in the states—at 40 cents per hour, Among the compositors are three young ladies, who rank among the best typos on the force. THE BINDERY. On the third floor of the bullding, fronting on both H and North Capitol streets, is the vast bindery of the institution, where the skilled mechanic would be in bis glory in the exami- | pation of some of the most ingenious, intricate and expensive machinery ever made for book- making, About 4,000 square feet of space is required to accommodate this branch of the works, In 1360 only 46 persons were employed ‘nu this deparument. The number now reaches 515, There are 163 separate machines in use, among which are 20 ruling and 9 cutting ma- chines, 36 standing presses, 5 board cutters, wire sewing machines, 11-paging and number. ing machines, 5 stamping machines, 3 perfora- tors, 53 plows and presses, &c. Abtached to this are several sub-departments, each of Which gives employment to a large force. The “Folding Koom” 13 especially interesting, owing to its vastness. Up to Isil the space occupied was 60 by 200 fect. A year later 6) by 113 feet was added, and agatn In 1879 6» by 6) feet more was added. From time to time ‘the force of employ¢s in this department have been increased, ae se are ee 09 859 OF e- ratives, Ski aud Gexterous females. No briet gets See doés any justice to this branch of the work; it must be Seen and examined to be appreciated intelligibly. Here the folding, pasting, gathering, collating, xe, all distinct operations—are €xecuted. packe away in 500 sheet bundles until a volume is gatuered, and then turned over to the binders in isil the documents, &c., requtred 12,000,000 insets of llustrations, mapsand diagrams, Some of the jobs are simply Immense, For Instanc», an Agricultural report contains 11,400,003 sheets; an average hand-folder—who folds 3,000 Sheets a day, would be 3.500 days in folding this single work it working alone. Formerly Uils work itself would keep half the force em- Ployed. Now it 1s principally done by ma. chinery. In 1s70 the ‘Congressional work” reached 4,605,250 copies of documents. For the Segobd Sexsion 1ast Congress thera were 11,704,555 Copies folded, with “reserve docu- ments” added, aggregating 34,661,000, Tn = Single day 200,000 pages of matter nas been landied in this department. THE CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, ‘The debates of Congress nave for many years required a large amount of labor. Up to the present century all this was done by news- papers alone, and thelr garbled accounts created many a disturbance. [A 150, however, the id National Intelligencer became a sort of fiicial organ” and published correct reports. A stenographer was given a seat “within tha bar,” bat Speaker Sedgewick claimed that the P ic had no right to Know aught of Congres stonal matters pending debates, and the re- porter Was Ordered first to uhe gallery, and “out of tbe hall.” ‘The full reports con linued to appear, however, just as usual la the hueligencer, Various efforts were made, but without success up to 1s24, when a contract S made for the printing of the debates from 9 to i824. Gales & Seaton published 27 addi. ‘tonal volumes in book form, bringing the work down to isii, when the Congressional Glove was begun, and in this shape—large quarto size—the official record has been preserved down to 1873, 1n 105 volumes. In the year 1ST3 the Public Printer was given charge of the work, and then began Tie Congressional Record, Since that time the debates of the 43d, 44th, 45th and 46th Congresses have been printed under government control, reaching nearly 50,000 pages of fine print. The “Kecord” room is 55x53 feet, and gives employment during Congressional sessions to {rom 6) to 100 men. ‘There each day’s debates are printed at night, and delivered to elther house on the next mora- ing. The vast amount of work thus done in a few hours would seem almost impossible, a3 there are frequently 40 to 75 pages of a single day’s proceedings. During the 46th Congress 40,260 volumes were — In 1578 Congress purchased all the old records, bound volumes, plates, &¢., of the Congressionai Glove, and now Owns all the old debates down to date, OTHER DEPARTMENTS. Ix addition te those departments named there are several other extensive branches of the vast works to describe, which would occupy too much space for newspaper columns. “The Specification Koom,” where all the blank forms for the Patent Ofice are printed, gives employ Wo about 50 men. The “Job oom” ts 53x30 feet, bas 445 fonts cf type, 1 requires a large for printed ali the blank: Schedules; P custom house, Pension oflice, raulw&y service and other blanks, Tne “Stereotyping and (rotyping” department is another large concern within itself, and in addition to ail these there are branches’ at the ‘Treasury, Navy, Interior and other depart- ments OL the government where smaller detail work 1s done. CAPACITY OF THE WORKS. The capacity of the office for work is simply Wonderful to contemplate. From the last re- port the following extracts were made of work done in one year, to June 30, 1580: Bianks, Nigiieusns & ents) men: setae Blanks, envelopes, &¢., (Congress)... Pamphiets, (No. of copies) (ex-depart- ments... RECAPITULATIO! Blanks (exec, and Con; i). Pamphlets (exec. and Bhi books (exec. and Congress)... Miscellaneous bindings exec. and COngreas.........-.4.--.. Memorandum blocks (exec, and Con- gress) 149,110,858 resent rate of increase year (toMfune 30, 1852) will show an increase again of at least 25 per cent. The largest edl- Uon issued is the Agriculvural report, which B00 G0 650 5 Orders tor b! der je Capitol tor “4,000,009 or 8 000,000 envel at @ ume, not ee ee 400, port on Boge cougressiouat ““tranks” for Census Years 19,000,000 to foo extra printed are used. When it is that every custom house in the TeGaatinge Se ectlatat eed of Se gs oe aban ond ee awaiting delivery. O08T OF PUBLIC PRINTING. The Guring the war (especially in ‘was very lange, and the increased cost tn allthe made It very expensive. Ina single ex) os for ms htc J over printipg for the War depari- Ment tn 1560 Was less than $21,000; In 1361,1¢ wae 487,058.11; In 1862. $279,611.97; I 1868 $255,750.41; th is64, $221,245 77; and tn 1885, the last of the war, it fell to $116,648.68. “In the de- ents, the Increage was Not so great, DUt Single year, 1865, the oMlce disbursed $2.227,099.52 for printing for the government. Mince the War, with fifteen years of growth of Our country the sgxregaie expense bas very paturally ther i Fount pbgfeased UAL Tt now averages aDOUS materials, its the NOTES OF INTERRST. q One of the largest jobs ever undertaken at the works ts now In hand. This is “le Rebel- on Kecord.” It is estimated by Col. Scott, who has the work In charge, that these revonds Will make 96 large octavo Volumes of 300 pages €ach, OF 16,50 Ten thousand copies of each'volume are to be printed for Congress. It Will require 45,000 reams Of paper and will re. Quire 230,400,060 ems of type to produce It Some wonderfully hasty and rapidiy executed jobs Of work have been done here. Notadle among them are “. S. Revised Statutas,” comprising 1,058 pages, printed and bound in three days. ‘As these were ‘statutory laws,” they had to be Uterally pere’ and without crror, and Were so in the incredibly short space hamed. A Senate dscument of 440 pages was Printed and delivered in 56 hours. . In isi] @ stagle order was given toa New York type foundry for 69,60 pounds of type, Which Was subsequently increased Uo 75,00) pounds, belng doubutss the largest order ever ¥Siven or filed tn the world’s history. During the late war the employ¢s acted a3 soldiers for tue protection of the Goverument Printing Office, taking certain hours dally tor drill, aud doing regular night duty for an allot- ted period “on guard.” In iol the wages for skilied workmen were $14 per week; in 1863, $16; In December, 68, $13; in June, 64, $21; and lu November, ‘Gi, g24 week. Under the present law the rates were Teduced to 40 cents per hour for composition, and all operatives were reduced in similar pro portions. Tne men earn from $50 to $1,200 @ Year; Ube women all the way from $150 Wo B15 year. THE OFFICIALS IN CHARGE. The following is the Offictal staf of the Gov- ernment Printing Ofice at this time: Hon. Jobn D. Defrees, Public Printer. A. HS. Davis, Foreman of Printing. C, M. Robinson, Proof Reviser. Jobn Furlong, Foreman Proot Room. RW. Kerr, Assistant to Foreman of Printing. THE para. Much more might be said of this interesting Institution, but Mmited space forbids tt. The above, and a host of other, interes! ing facts and Ngures, descriptions and incidents, ta (all de- tall, may be obtained ere long in a book now in Preparation from the pen of K. W. Kerr, esq. ot the oficial staff of ube office, fa which an ex: tended history of public printing, and a copt- ously Ilustrated detaliea description of the Works, with its beautiful and costly machinery, all sketched, will be given. sor much of ti above data we are indebted to the author, wao kindly permitted a glance at the advance shecta of the forthcoming book, which Will De entitied “Public Printing: Record of a Century, from 1759 to Issl,” Tt will doubUess have a large circulation and become a standard lUbrary volume, a8 1t ts full of live interest. The Dust Clouds of Old Washington, MARCH WINDS ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUEIN Jae DOLD DAYS” BEFORE VRE Wan [The following eraphic iption of a Washing ton dust-storm in the daysof Lang Syne, was writ- ten years ago, by Dr. George B. Wallis, a famoug old-time correspondent of the.V. "raid, and was read by him at the jiessant entertainment at the MePber*y House Thursday nicht. It will re- tall vividly to old citizens tie condition of thine here before the streets were payed J When his gor'western borne, Sonorons and shrill, over valley and lil, With the sound of a horn, — The clouds from our skies to the wide ocean eoour, And the slop on the Avenue dries in au hour, — fy but drying + ¢ breakfast is d From the porch of the Oapitol then looking down, You would say **A «reat fire is raging in town. The Avenue is lost in the dust is that ram Down the line, rollin up and eclipsing the sun,— Clouds high as Olympus. Bise, Thompson, and sine For Washineton city the coming of Spring.” t from old Borcas is Invisibly The mud be: my t before noom. As the pillars of sand, Stupendous and grand, ‘That move like dark in terry O'er the} ~a African waste, — Ahese dense clouds of pulverized crauite and clay, Go whistling and curling, And roaring and soaring, Ard loweri d towering and scouriag away. Dlexnes Gi kiypt! Oh!” Moses and Aaron, you mur Knock under to Washington's plague of the dust. What whirlwinds of dust! Heads up! and mouth shat. And, now, faciug the cust, Let us try thisold Aven woods and roc lones of dust. 4, dried apples and lor, a dusty display. are dusted the col rian, whiose bi 1s just from Aralia. In dust he’: Opticians come forth! @reea vogles or blu Buy we must, for the dust of this blind avenus. And the fair! Here they are. Our Washinuton iris can with any compare. Al sizee, allazes, all stylea. Here they All powder'd with dust, and some muitled, and some Are snorting, and sneezing, Some coughing and wheezing, Some crying ¢ lauxbing, esculding, some chaff air, — ‘They are strangliny with dust, but how can they be ab? Your opinion is mine. Our ladies can’t shine In this eray crust of dust, for, uo matter how fine, tures of dust, sud not creatures di ‘Who will cive us relief From this dust, and will bring down our rulers to wrief. Qh! blind them with dust! Blow, Boreas, blow! Come down with a gust, that will choke them with dust, — Choke them into their daty. ‘They're humbuse, you know. ANantacket whaler, A Jolly old sailor, — A jolly old-sea dog, tough, rucved and ruaty, Stumbling over a Senator here, rather dusty, Stepp'd aside, and broke out,’ to our Solon's aur- rise, — pardon—dust blind—heave shead—mind our eyes! I'm blind with the dust; I'm out on a Columbia! Columbia! tovlory arise” Look 0 lor Mer! Editor Sta: ‘There is a woman operating in the suburbs of the city, soliciting donations ostensibiy for the purpose of “Building a church for Garfield.” She ts of medium height, dark, With black eyes, and carries @ basket of cheap fancy articles on her arm. WHO Was Taken In, NeEwrorT News.—Property 18 sald to be changing hands at a large increase at Newport News, Va., the prospective eastern and deep- water terminus of the Chesapeake and Onlo railroad. Lands that a month ago were held Gt $10 to $12 per acre are now held at $50 or $60. Quite @ town has been laid out. DIED ie ste March 25, 1681, at hie late reat- so. ete Street northwest, Mr. Ropent Baocuvs, aved thirty years Funeral wil taxe place from Fourth Baptist Church Monday, 28th inetast. Relatives and frends are invited to attend . BROSNIHAN. On Friday, March: 25th, 1941, at 3:30 o'clock p.m . BATE BROsNtHan, @ Dative of County Kerry, Ireland, in the forty-first year of Funeral will take place from the residence of Corneling O'Keefe, corner of Eighteenth and 0 sts. eoutheast, then from St. Petsr’s Church st $ o'cik p.m.» Sunday, iT remains will be ia- t Mt. Olivet cemetery. * CAMPAU. On Friday, March 25, 1881, st the residence of her ‘Mra. James Hoban, No. 1421 Kstrect northwest, in this city, in the’ sev- enty-firet veer of her age, Miss Emitie Camrau, or Her remains will be taken to Detroit for inter- ment Friday, 1881, On, dated vi Barah BACUH ‘LAYTON. March 25, ASTHCRS. only child of William HM. and a Ex Faneral take ine froin Fgh} st. vg 4 east, Sunt re, FE ‘clock p. be Relatives and friends spare ore Totes DAVENPORT. At his reei 2 street north’ Saturdsy, Marcd 188i, at 7: am, Ouas £. DaveNrons, of the War Depart= ment Further notice Monday morning. - NGcrakilie warzanied fo care Gouri CEDAR ‘Oren a Gore it. If not satisfied retarn the battle afd pe money back. Bold by W. Fee ree me ale. janl2-3m UNDERTAKERS. HACKETT, (0. 816 Pa. ave. ‘ae Detwoan £4 ts FFE"). srINvLer, UNDERTAKER, fanis 1233 Teh street northwest. JOB” B. waicns, UNDERTARER, 1837 10th etreet a.w,