Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1882, Page 6

Why Phitadciphia Sporting Men Me- lieve ‘Tney Mave a Sare Winaner—i Wrestlers Kemarkabie Record—iiin Chaticnge. ¥ From the N. ¥. San. When the steamship Wisconsin arrived at this port, on her last trip from England, a medium- sized soung fellow stepped ashore and began to Wook around with his keen eyes. Although a very temperate man, he passed two days, accom- panied by a friend. quietly visiting the sporting Fesorts of New York. without making himse!: merally known. He proceeded to Phi ipbia.takin-e up quarters in Arthur Chambers’ | Chaimpioa’s Rest, in Ridge avenue, where a Sua Feporter found iim the other e€ . The mnt man had become a Hon among the ath- tes who make their home at t Rest, in boxers, wrestlers, spri "3, pe- from the inner circle. The stranger is Joseph Acton, of Wigan, Lin- eolnsbire, England. rorthy of his performances, he is undoubtedly the most wonderfal wresticr of modern times, and, taking hile size into account, possibty of all aces. Acton is keeping vecy shy at the Champion's Rest. and neither he nor Chambers talk about proposed wrestling Acton is to take part. or his present condition ard chances tor success. All the information | jj they would give was that a chatlen<e trom Aeton would appear in this week's Clipper, aud that would tell all worth Knowine, A sporting man, who is weil Informed about what ie going on in Chambers? piace, aai@that the boys belleve that they have a sure winner | fa the Little Demon, a name given to Acton in England from the fact that he had enceeeded in downing every wrestler of note, little or big, from his favorite style of catch-as-cateh-can up to the French method, in which there is no catching below the waist. Acton was born March 8, 1853. He is only 5 feet 5 Inches In height, and weighs a little over 340 pounds. He says that he will not wrestle under 140 pounds. His hair, eyebrows and moustache are of the color of a raven’s wing, and his eyes shine out from his clear complex- jon Ike of highly polished black onyx. ‘He has the apparently small, rounded, compact form that is so deceiving as to size, strength and endurance to the ordinary observer. Any ene passing him on the gtreet woukl not be apt | to pick him out for an athlete of extraordinary | sicpeay His shoulders ere of breadth, his ehest le not prominent. His back and legs are of proportionate length, as are his Dejedged from secing hen’ in oriinary cetsec ‘rom seel bim ordinary clot indents unusual strength. But those who have seen Bibby tackle aud throw giants of the wrestling arena here can judge of Acton’s prowess when informed that be had encoun- tered Bibby in eight matehes, winning five, in- etuding the last. In the long list of Acton’s achievements his eneounter with Toi Cannon. a noted wrertier, last October, is one of the most remarkable. Acton had chalienzed, in the Sporting Life. any aan in the world, and conceded four stone, or | 56 pounds, in weight, for 2500 aa re: style. Cannon stepped into the ring, weiching | 154 pounds to Acton’s 140. The match was to be three falls out of five, with Bfteen minutes’ rest between. Cannon gained the first fall in 7 | fh minutes 15 seconds. [mn the second bout the Little Demon nearly imitated Her- | [i h with Antiens, | ayy the fon of Terra. Anteus was a mighty | kot it used to be possible to distinguish be- cules in bis wresthog giant, whose strength was invincible so lonz as he remained in contact with his mother Earth Hercules, finding that it wasof no availto him. held him up in the air and st: The Little Demon lifted Connen in the dashed him head downward on same time falling on him. The Sporting Life. Which reports matiers ina cold-blooded manner, said: ‘The thud was heard ail over the building. Cannon became insensibte. and was unable to come to time.” Restoratives were applied to the paralyzed athlete without effect. and Acton was deelared the winner with the eonsent of Cannon's backers. ‘The time of the finishing Yourd was 3 minutes and 30 seconds, Acton began his wrestling career when a lad Im Lincolnshire, where boys twine their arms and legs together for a 1all about as soon as they learn to walk. Some of his noteworthy contests are as follows: He first appeared in public about 1870, when he defeated James Jewell, of Wigan, winning nea In which | THE STOCK EXCHANGE. New York’s Place of Finaacial Per- tarbation. ‘THE BUILDING AND THE MANNER OF ITS URE. The New York correspondent of the Boston Herald writes: The New York Stock Exchange ‘as very recently eniarged its building and spent }0,000 in making it the most ornate stracture, except, perhaps, the gigantic D. 0. Mills balla- ing opposite, in the financial quarter. Tue Ex- ehange is convenient rather than handsome in shape. It has the shape of a long-stemnied T, the being the narrow house on Wall street, and the cross-plece belng the board room and other apartments running the length of the block from Broad street to New street. By the purehase of a strip of land straight across the | block behind the original structare, a year ago, @estrians, and leapers. His fame had diso | = - . grown to be a topic of conversation in the |; outer circle of sporting men, who pride them- | ¢ selves on keeping posted with the latest points | this erose-piere has been thickened and the ve gained more room just where needed it the most. The main front on r giomeration of architectural and ornamental devices, consistent only in being all of white marble and all covered with carving. Before these changes were made, the Stock Exchange has been the seene of transactions whose mag- nitude was only exceeded by the Stock onden; but now it Is be- in this = it yet ranks has become the first estab- ‘nt in the world in point of the eomplete- of the facilities it possesses for the pursuit its business. The first floor of the Wall street stem is merely a passage-way. The first floor of the crosapiéce is in four subdivisions: it, the grand entrance guarded by un!formed porters and messengers, and beautitied with col- ored inarb} ard wood, tiling and freseo work. Next is the “long room,” the loafing quarters for members and subscribers, and opposite the fiembers’ reom, in which members only are adinittea. Of the two, the members’ room is the grandest. It has a marble floor, a gayly colored ceiling, an enormous open fireplace, a great mantel, bearing bronzes and bric-a-brac,. and luxurious, Jeather-covered, padded loanges and chairs, with carved legs, arms and backs. These two loafing rooms serve as a retreat from the bustle aud dinof the board room, as the market place is called. THE BOARD ROOM is 200 feet In length, with a width of 60 or 65 feet. The floor is bordered by a railing on all sides, and on the plain pine boards, plain and of pine because anything else under the con- stant rush of feet would be too slippery, none bat members are allowed, There is a ak in the railing only where the rostrum protrudes from the wall to the market floor, On this rostrum, behind the great desk, sits all day jong either Chairman Mitchell or Vice Chair- man Aleck Henriques, ready at any instant to settle a dispate between brokers or to announce the faiiure or death ofa member. Outside the Tailing. subseribers who pay #50 a year for the privileze may talk with members on the floor. A gallery projects on all sides of the room overhead, wherein anybody, who behaves himself, may go and remain as long as the Ex- change isopen. Above all is the rich ceiling, panelled and fseseoed mainly in dark blue and gold. Apparently, next to the richness of the } qu nd the comfort of the members, the pr ili dea of the governors in improviny ed Exchange has been to lessen the noise, for which the establishment. like that of jon, is notorious the world over. To one ciently acenstomed to the babel of the mar- tween the sof the brokers transacting thelr sales and the shouting of messengers, porters, throw | and subseribers calling to oue another and to led him. } the brokers. alr and | yoinme of disorder has been recently obviated the | by modern devices, maiuly orizinal with this ;Exehanze. On the south side of the board This large fraction of the original Toom there now sits a youth before a table, through the top of which protrude MANY SPEAKING TUBES. There is one tube for each of the numerous oors from the aides into the epace beyond the tail. Each broker has a number, and if a sub- ecriber or other person wishes to see a broker while he is.on the floor, a messenger calls for that broker by number, if he knows It, or by name if not, throuch the handi tube. The youth at the table has beside him an index to the number of each broker, and instantly touches an electric knob. which turns over on its pivot a two falls in 14 minutes. He followed this by a | square foot of the huge blackboard in froat of victory over William MeKniht. of Wigan. His} Bext opponent was Jolin Asharat, also of Wigan, whom he defeated: but in a retarn match Ash- urst turned the table. Acton then remained quiet until December, 1873, when he downed William Petty, repeating thé performance in January, 1873, in an off-hand match at catch weight. securin¢ both falls in 33 minutes and 6 minutes respectively. He next defeated J. Tonge (Eckersley) twice in eucces- sion, very cieveriy, in the usual two-eut-of- three back falls. Hia next encounter of note was with John Ruttail, ot Farnsworth, whom he defeated with- ont very strenuous exertion His reputation as an invincible wrestler was new at so bizh a piteh that he was ched With the famous wrestier, Edward Bibby, in Decetnber, 1873, at 6 score 12 pounds, for $100 a ®ide, at the Snipe lon Grounds, Adenshaw, the contest terminatin In Actou's favor. In February, 1874. Acton beat Miles Sweeney, and prostrated his old opponent, John Ashurst, again. Then Elijah Harrison, of Chowbent, Se cnsch peg hin catch weight. Elijah went wn like the others. After this contest no one peared tobe shorn of his strength until April, 330, when Edwin Bibby answered Acton’s chak Tenge toany wan in the world. Bibby was con- fined to 6 scvre 16 pounds, and suffered defeat. Acton securing beth fils in’ minutes and 4 minutes respectively. Bibby then chailenzed Acten at catch weight, and the men met in Royal Ouk Park grounds, Manchester, November 13, 1875. The ground was ankle deep in mud, and Bibby won both falls somewhat easi The friends of Acton were not satisfied with this defeat, and another Match took place between the wrestlers in Oid- ham, April 8, 1576, Acton being contined to 123 pounds and Bibby to 140 pounds. Four thou- Band persons gathered to see this match. Bibby ‘Won the tirst fall in 4 minutes 30 seconds. Acton Won the second in the short space of 30 seconds, and the third in 2 minutes 15 seconds, winning the mateh. Acton was next matched with William Lomas at catch weight. Lomas won the second and third falisand match. They met again, when Acton had not to exceed 130 pounds, while the gaMery and displays the number of the man called for. The amount of lung and throat wear and tear and the extent of con- fasion that this remedies is seen at once in the change it has produced. Another and almost equally advantageous change is that in the method of delivering letters and tel- egrams. Formerly the messengers charged with the delivery of missives pnt them in their pockets and, ing upon the floor, tought. pushed and serambied threugh the tangle oi men, pene Oe names of the brokers they wanted at the top of their shrill. youthful voices. Finally, when tired and discouraged, they gave ap the seareh, they woutd Join the never. thin- ning group at the feet of the crier, who used to stand on the rail near the New street door, yell- ing with the noise of a double bags saxhorn any name that anybody asked him to. Now, ifa tel- ecram comes to a broker who isin the habit of recelving telegrams it is put in one of theenve- lopes he provides for the parpose, on whieh is printed in big and showy characters his NUMBER IN THE EXCHANGE. If the telegram is for one who has not fur- nished euch envelopes, his number is stamped on an ordinary enyelope, and in either case the messenger takes it, and, holding it at arms’ length above hia head, works his way in and out among the brokers uatil the number on the en- velope is seen by the man to whom it fs ad- dressed. Unqnestionably, the next reform will be as to the crowding on the floor, a goodly share of which is unavoidably the work of the messengers and the reporters, as the telegraph operators are called. These ‘are mainly the young men who gather and send out the quotations which the so-called “tickers” give out in the hotels, clubs, bar-rooms, and offices all over town. Inthe center of the board reom floor there is a row of short posts, each repre- senting @ conspicuous stock. There are many other posts on the south side of the room, under the gaNeries; representing less prominent secur- ities. These posts bear on cards the names of the stocks they rope es and under these cards are bulletins whereon the membera record the sales and prices of their transactions. The 3 came at catch weight. This time Acton | cepercere gather these figures constantly and downed his man handily. Lomas was dissatis- fled, and faneying that he could cope success- fully with the Little Demon, as Acton had now come to be called,he faced Acton the third time. Acton won the first fall after a hard struggle -) twelve minutes. Acton only required two min. Utes to make a bundle of Lomas in the seeond bout and win the match. Acton and Bibby wrestled again Ang. 8, 1878, for $500 & side and the 144 pounds chamnpion- ship. Bibby gained two falls in ten and five minutes respectively, winning the match. The two touzh opponents eame together again Feb. 8, 1879. Little Demon tossed Bibby in the jirst bout, after # struggle lasting 16 minutes. In tiie second bout he placed Bibby onhisback within 35 seconds after the first grapple, winning the stakes. On May 3, IXT9, Acton and Bibby met for the elghth time. The engagement was fieree and brief. The Little Demon piaced Bibby on his back im the dirst bout inside of three minutes, gained the second fail in2m.30s. This gave feton his fifth victory over Bibby, During Acton’s famous long-drawn contest with Isaac Swith of Aspal last year all of eight thousand persons were present. The strugule continued for two days, when the crowd pressed the men so closely that they Were woable to work, whereupon the referee deeiared the mateh a draw. Here is Acton’s first chalenge In America: PHILaDeLPura, April 34. 1883. Mr. PRanx Quesn—Jear Sir: 1 hereby chal- Jenge any man in the world to wrestle me u fair Fy = catch-as-catch-can or Greco-Roman style, for v0 ‘The Circay Fever. seis ‘apb them from the sixteen instruments In r quarters on the Moor. The head reporter, haplain Beecher,” who haa charge of thebond quotations, is honored with a place on the ros- trum. The membership of the Exchange is now lim- ited to the present number, 1,109, and the price of a seat is today 25,000. Membership can only be had by the purchase of a seat of a retir- ling ora deceased member, and then only after the purchaser has successfully passed a search- jug examination upon his financial standing and reputation, and has paid the initiation fee of $1.000. After the panic of 1873 and up to 1877, while the financial depression remained general, seata in the Exebanye sold as low as $3,000, but in what is locally eailed THE BIG ROOM } ofa year and a half ago, seats were sold for a3 high as 233,000. A seat in the Exchange cannot be wilted to anybody, It must be sold at a pri- vate sale. By arecent decision of the supreme court, it Is not tanzible property, and eannot be attached by a creditor; therefore, when a mem- ber becomes bankrupt, if he is wise (in a busi- ness, not amoral, sense) he will have squared accounts with Biden member a the ioe 8 The moment a ion is announ members who have uncompleted transaeti with the bankrupt rej them at the and the transaction is repeated an closed at once, the difference, if there any, being charged against the bankrupt. pose, for instance, that A has bought of shares of Lake Shore on Tuesday at 09 and has tl a A faile jon ebange. Even this has been so Lad ard hat it is ber ship In the firm of W. E. Conner & Co.,of which the alert and handsome “Wash” Conner is the head. Conner does not do Jay Gould's bust ness, and could not, since his operations would be detected at once, but he distributes Gould's work among the brokers of his or Gould’s se- lection. There is great saving in a hip of this kind, since one broker can do business for another for a commission of $2 on 100shares, while an outsider must pay a broker $12.50 on each 100 shares. Rufus Hatch, familiarly known as “Uncle Rufus.” is not a member, tho he was once. After tie opposed the Western Union consolidation and MADE HIS BIG PILE thereby, he sold his seat. The reason generally imputed and never denied is that thereafter it would have been inviting sudden and certain Huancial death at the hands of Gouid te have remained in the board. The two are bitter ene- mies. Hussell Sage, the third greatest operator in this country, is a member. He is the heaviest | operator in the membership. One of his big operations was the sale of Cyrus W. Ficld’s ele- vated stock a couple of years ago. But Russell Sage is said never to have entered the Stock Exehange building. Membership with him is solely a matter of economy. Jim Keene is not a member, but has his business done through Sam Boocock, who does belong to the Exchange. Vanderbilt's operators are Daniel T. Worden, Eugene Thompson, F. B. Freeman, Breeze & Smith, and Sam Barton, all big and busy opera- tora. ‘The members, otherwise, are pretty generally divided into factions, each with its leader. For GEN. SCHENCK’S GOOD HEALTH. Cured of Disease by Drinking Skimmea WH. ‘Washington correspondence Baltimore Day. Your correspondent had a mere glance at Gen. Robert C. Schenck, and only time to eay a word or two, a few days ago, and was agreeably sur- prised at his appearance. Instead of finding a very decrepit, worn out, on his last legs old maa, as he had been pictured in the T found an aged man it's trae—he is over 70 years old—but one whose physical appearance gives assurance of some years yet to enjoy this life. He sald he had been about given up some months ago as incurable with Bright's disease of the kidneys, when some one told him to use skimmed milk as his only dict. He says: “i tackled the skim milk, stuck to it, and here lam slmost a new man, _I believe the skimmed milk is a specific for Bright's disease.” MILK FOR TYPHOID FEVER. T wanted to learn, but was interrupted in my Inquiries, why skimmed milk? Asto the ure of mailk, plain, unskimmed, in the treatment of | typhoid and other fevers, and of the treatment of typhoid with buttermilk successfully I had heard before. Surgeon Generai Barnes, about | three years ago, héard of an allopathic physician in Virginia who, it was alleged. never fuiled to eure typhi fever, As ‘there were many pa- | tients in the United:States army dying with that instance, Chas. F. Woerishoffer is the leader of | disease, General Barnes concluded to visit the the German element in the exchange. C. J. Osborn is the LEADER OF A GREAT BAND of shrewd operators, among whom may be meutioned Addison Kamack, W. L. Scott, ex- chairman of the democratic national committee; D. P. Morgan, Henry N. Smith, the millionaire, and a dozen others. Thea there is the Windsor hotel , in which Kamack is again conspic- aut Gat which, unlike the 23d street gang, does most of its business in the Exchange. The 23d street gang, as it is called, has for its head- quarters the Cumberland house, aud operates wholly by means of the telegraph. A glossary of the terms which, taken together, constitute the mystic langaace of the Exchange, would fill a volume of itself, and that volume would have to be constantly revised and en- larged. Yet the methods of transacting busi- ness on the strevt are not so dificult to compre- hend, except when one comes to the Intricacies of “puts” and “calls” and “privileges,” and theee there is no room and but little use to de- seribe. Stocks are usually bought and sold either “cash,” “regular way,” “seller three,” “buyer phe These methods constitute the entire busin action does not «ditfer from the purchase of a pound of tea ata grocery. The “reular way” is, however, the general way. Suppose a Mr. Perkina believes Lake Shore stock Is going to advance in value. He determines to speculate. He goes to the office of a broker and states his purpose. He is told he must pay down 10 per cent on the par value of the number of shares he trades with. He gives an order for the pnr- chase of 100 shares of Lake Shore at 100, and pays down $1,000. This is called “the margin.” It secures the broker against loss. He sigus an order reading thas New Yore, Aprii 30, 1882. John Smith brokers, No. 110 Wi street, New York: Buy for my risk and accoun : 300 shares of Lake Sire at 100, : (Signed) — PEnxins. A memorandum of this is sent either to the broker on the floor of the Exchange, or he takes a memoranduin of It when he starts for the Ex- ehange in the morning. He fills the order, IF HE CAN, at that figure that day. Otherwise he haids the order until he can. Let us suppose he buys the shares at 100 the first day. The rule is that the breker of whom he buys must deliver the stock the next day before or by 2:15 o'clock in the afternoon. Before he has delivered it he gets from Mr, Smith, Mr. Perkins’ broker, a check for $10,000 on Mr. Smith's bank. He sends his boy with It to Smith’s bank, gets it certified, and has it depos- ited in hia own bank. It ia then just ten times as much the property of Broker Smith, as it is of Perkins, Use speculator. Perkins, in the meantime. must write another order to some such effect as thi ‘Sell at 105 and stop at 99° — that is,he limi profit toun advance of 5 points and his loss to adecline of 1 point. Suppose Broker Smith, having knowledze of this order, buys the stock on the first day in the morning, and sees it advance to 105 in the afternoon. He sells it then at 105, and the next day, when it fs de- livered to him by the broker he bouzht it of, he inust deliver it avain to the broker he sold it to. He would then have cleared $500, and deducting his commission of $1250 for buying and $12.50 for selling. would hand Perkins, bis customer, the $1,000 he deposited and the $475 profit, forit is not at all likely he would charge him any interest f day. If, however, as is generally the case, he had been obligea to carry the 100 shares of stock many days while waiting for it to rise to 105, he would charge Perkins the interest on $10,000 for the number ent per annum. it the shares “seller three,” he would mean to giye the broker the option of delivering ft on either of the three days follow- ing the purchase. This would save Perkins the interest, but would give the broker an opp’ tunity fo add to his profit, because, beiny ordered to buy at 100, he might in the course of the three days be able to buy at 96, but would pay at 100. “Buyer three,” is where the buyer can demand delivery of the stock at any tine within three days, but must take it and pay for it by the third day. THERE 15 STILL ANOTHER MARKET PLACE in the Stock Exchange. It is called the bond room, but is atthe same time and primarily the governors’ room. It is a big and hand- somely appointed room,ju which the forty chairs of the governors are arranged like seats in amphitheater upon an incfined plane. Her from the president’s rostrum, occ! every morning what is known as “the call,” relating onty to bonds, but different in no otherwise from the call of other securities by which the Stock Exchange Is formally opened at 10 o’clock each morning. It consists in the rapid reading ot the roll of the “listed securities," and the bids and offers of the brokers who want to buy ‘or sell these securities, in response to the call of the chairman, constitute the opening prices of each day. The bond room is a dull place nowa- daya, and, althongh the opening formality is regularly observed, transactions are few and far between. The oes of the large dealers fix the market quotations, and the large dealers virtually monopolize the speculations in bonds, whith are too slow and steady going and offer too little opportunity for gambling to satisfy the atoek brok ses Dr. Lamson’s Confession. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Dr. Lamson wrote a letter yesterday in which he virtually admita bimselt guilty of the mur- der, and explains the state of mind into which he had fallen through the constant injection of morphia and other sedatives. The letter wasaa follows: My DEAR Mn.—I feel tt my duty to yon and all my friends, and espectally to my own + and relations, to sey a few words in th...) my last hours upon earth In reference to the o:fense for which Tam condemned to forfeit. my life so shortly. f ou much, and endeavored to. make clear to you ny own impressions and ideas as to my mental and moral condition for a long time revious to the act for which I am sentenced to tay long period of Imprisonment at Clerxenwell, and while there, necessarily, the total deprivation of the drug I had so long ‘been accustomed to. With great mental and physical suffering was the weaning accomplished, Ving, however, strongly results. ‘Then the fearful Ordeal of | ancient Virginia doctor and learn how he treated , his typhoid patients. When ho met the old gentioman General Barnes Inqatred :—‘What is the mode of treatment by which you succeed ?” “Why,” replied the venerable physician, ‘ it’s the elmplest thing im the world. All you've got to do ts to get the patient’s stomach in good order and then diet them on buttermilk; that’s all. I never lose a patient, if he isn’t already In & collapsed condition when I get to him.” Sur- geon General Barnes tells me that he adopted the buttermilk treatment among the soldiers in the army. and has found it most efficacious. It @ppears that some ten conn ago the medical scientists of France and Russia compared notes as to the use of plain sweet milk in the treat- ment of their hospital typhoid patients, and concurred In the decision that, milk not only ts of wonderful efficacy in typhvidal cases, but in the treatment of fevera generatly. An eminent medical man, a professor in a New York eclectic medical coliege—Dr, Newton—tnformed your correspondent a few weeks before he died (his death took place abont a year agu) that he had found to be substantially true aft that Ie set forth relative to plain sweet milk and butter- milk, and that the latter ‘‘acted like a charm in eases of nervous debility. It’s a great blessing— thie dicovery,” said he. 2 THE SUNFLOWER RAGE. How Mr. Oscar Wilde's Visit May Tend ‘Towards Lean Chickens This Sum- mer, New York Paper. “Have you, ahem, any, ah, any sunflower seeds?” asked a young lady timidty of a dealer in garden seeds the other day. “Yes, madam, plenty,” answered the young Man, in such a business-like way as to relieve the young lady's mind of any idea that it wasa matter for ridicule. “Which do you want, the all or the large?” he asked with a pleasant te, as he placed before her several small square envelopes filled with the seed. The lady took two packages, for which she pald 30 cente and departed. “Do you sell much of that seed?” asked the reporter. “Do we sell much of it? Well, now I guess. I’never saw such a demand for one particalar kind of flower-seed since I’ve been in the busi- ness as there is this spring for sunflowers. There won't be a back yard in New York from to Harlem that won't have ite elump growing sunflowers this summer, Judging from the demand there is for seed.” “And this is due to the esthetic movement?” “Why, cer—. Yes, of eourse; if it hadn't been for Oscar sunflower seeds would be as they have been for years, a drug in the market. Peo- pie may talk as they like, but he tas been the means of causing money. to flow throuzh a good many ehannels, aud the secdsmen’s turn to thank the advent has arrived.” “Ts the flower a,difiicult one to ralse?” “Why, biess youyino. . It Is the easiest of any. {t requires no care, and: will grow rapidly any- where whére there ig plenty of sun.” “What have theseeds been used for hereto- fore?” the reporter asked. “‘Oxear Wilde says in his lecture that the im- preasion that the sinflawer is used as an esthetic diet is erroneous—be ia ihistaken. In Portugal meal is made frem the seeds, from which bread is made ; and when‘roasted they make a splen- did substituge for coffee. | The see: in its natural state is eazerly sought for by birds, and in the egnntry sunflowers are: raised for the seeds, which are used in large quantities for chicken food. It is yery fattening, so if, you are served with lean chickens at ‘your country boarding house this summer you may thank Mr. Wilde and the more Important demand he has created for the seed as a feast for the eyes. The seed contains a great quentity-of oil, which Is fit for burning in lamps and which is 9 some Enropean vountrics made into a substitute for olive oil. There wont be & garden or door-yard in New- port. Saratoga, or any of the principal waterini: places that w have its Helianthus annuus, tuberosus or maltiflorns this summer,” said the young man as he was called away to weigh out @ half a pound of cabbaze-seed. toe uN CAVENDISEE IN AMERICA. ‘The Assassinated Lord Once an Adven- turesome Hlamger-Om of the Army vi the Potomac. New York Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer. I met Gen. Averill this morning, who told me asingular story about Uavendish, ‘You may uot be aware,” saia he, “that Cavendish was in the Army of the Potomac in 1862, and I enter- tained him for a while. He came to this country with his brother, Lord Hartington, now the Marquis of Hartington, and with Sir John Rose. I was on my way from Washington, where I had been ill, to join McClellan, just before An- tietam. On the way certain Poglishmen,seeing me with a general's insigala, introduced them- selves as Lords Cavendish and Hartington and with tnem was Rose. I was pretty il, being barely convalescent, but lying down as I was most of the time I heard them talk and divided Innoh with them. Cavendish waa a young fel- low, pretty well made, of a frank, blutf style. His elder brother, Hartington, was something over thirty years old. When we got out at Ber- lin, in Maryland, to find the army these young fellows still went along with us, and we came to aasmall house at the roadside. standing rather on a hill, which had but one bed in it and was inhabited by a poor woman. We concluded to stop there tor the night, and these young lords lay down on the floor with my staff. making ni complaint, and insisted on my taking the bed. “The staff officers got to like them pretty well, and used to sayto this Cavendish who was killed Saturday: ‘Cavendish, give me some of your tobacco.’ They stayed around camp some time. and suddenly Harti n disappeared andturned up in Lee’s army. The others did medias I never inquired as to whether General McClellan ey Hartington to pass the Mines, but have the idea that he just walked out of the picket line and went over. Sir John Rose, Sane 5 sae hie ee in peer rather apolog! for ington’s disappearance, hh was the first time I knew that hehadgone ———__+e-_____ How Opium ts Packed for Smuggling. From the San Francieco Examiner, May 6. b adoble tin box about 18 inches equare, covered with heavy sall duck, perfectly sewed together, then painted with white lead, and aftér thfs had dried upon the cloth, painted black. This could not have been i the pg. all along:the would be no necepsit: be enntatn bil i | of ‘a required i thmme of sale. ane TU NCANGON BROS ducts, §2"THE ABOVE SALE IS POSSPONED ON AC- SPaRA AE Pe zaim, until WEDNESDAY, MAY SEVEN- fame hour and 5 mis DUNCANSON BROS., Aucte. ‘ALTER B. WILLIAMS & 00., Auctioncers. pis on exhibition st our: Sioa sneer eee ey nae eens Hee reserve TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY La MAY ~ SIXtERNTH AND SEVENTEENIH, al ve oe Ladies ape particularly invited to Sune ‘erms caah, mi0-d WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucta. TO-MORROW. f Mets DOWLING, Auctioneer, SALE BY CATALOGUE OY THE HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS OF HIS EXCELLENCY M. OUTREY, Tae Frenca Minister, AT HI8 RESIDENCE, SOUTHEAST COR. OF OONN. AVE. AND L S8T., Emsnacixa ELEGANT PARLOR FURNITURE, ARTISTIC OABINETS, LOUIS XV. TABLE, and oifier Furnitnre of that date; SUPERB MANTEL SETS, Artietic Objects, Turkish Carpets and Rugs, Persian Portiers, Guipure Lace, And other fine Window Hangings. BEDROOM FURNITURE OF SUPERIOR MANU- FACTURE, oe bs SUPERBLY CARVED LIBRARY AND DINING ROOM FURNITURE, HINA WARE, SHEFFIELD PLATE, BAOQOARAT GLASS WARE, FRENCH KITCHEN BATIERIE; ALso, MADVIRA AND SHERRY WINES of rare value, FRENCH WINES, &c., &0.; LANDAU, HORSES, HARNESS, AND GENERAL STABLE PARAPHERNALIA. The sale wil commence WEDNESDAY, MAY SEVENTEENTH, AT HALF-PAST TEN O'CLOCK, and continue THURSDAY, AT SAME HOUR, when balance of Furniture, Library and Engravings will be sold, and on SATURDAY, MAY TWENTIETH, aT HALF-PAST TEN O'CLCOK, all the Wines, Horses and Carriages, &e., So. The articles will beon view MONDAY and TUES- DAY, May 16th and 16th, commencing at 12 o’clook. Ma. M. B. LATIMER will conduct the eale. Mesers. FITCH, FOX & BROWN are agents for the property. om m5-13t Walter B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, ASSIGNEE’S SALE OF A LARGE AND WELL-AS- SORTED BTOCK OF HARDWARI COUNTER SCALES, IRON SAFE COMBINATION LOCK, WAGON AND HARNESS, STORE FIXTURES, COUNTERS, Ero., AT AUCTION. On THURSDAY, MAY FIGHTEENTH, 1 s mencing at TEN O'CLOCK A. M., and’ continul from day to day wntil entire stocx in a of, I fell, a€ the, well-known store, “No. 613, Penneylvants northwest, a large ‘weil-assorted of tabinet Goods and Cutlery. d * Butchers and Bell-haagers Supplies. Pechanles Tocls, Lawn Mowers, Belting and Packing. Iron, Safe Combination Lock, Steel Wheelbarrows, ixtures. And agenoral assortment of goods usually found in » first-clane hardware store. ALSO, AT ONE O'CLOCK, FIRST DA’ Tron Safe Combination Lock, Store, Fixtures “Wagon Sale poriine it being by virtne of ascigrnment bj Je nosi of an ment Sanmel Gittings Zor the benefit of his ereditons. | he attention o! ‘the trade and private buyers is called tne reruus: Cash. mis-d) WALTER Be WHECTAMS & CO., Aucta. HOMAS DOWLING, /ucuoneer. CATALOGUE SALE OF A FINE COLLECTION OF PICTURES; SEVERAL CHOICE OIL PAINT- INGS: NUMEROUS ORIGINAL SKETCHES IN OTL BY RESIDENT ARTISTS AND OTHERS; A FEW BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVINGS, ETCHINGS, PHOTOGRAVURES, &o., &c., gold atanction on THURSDAY and FRIDAY ITEENTH end ‘abe EVENINGS, MAY _EIGH' by TEEN ‘tH, AT HALE-PAST SEVEN attention is invited to this ibition. THOMAS DOWLING, Auct. fPHOMAS DOWLING, Aucuoneer. AUCTION SALE OF VERY VALUABLE PRIVATE RESIDENCE AND BUSINESS PROPERTY, No. 71, ON NORTH SIDE OF K STRE“T. BE- TWEEN SEVENTH AND EIGHTH STREETS 2 5 NOWN AS MOUNT VERNON THE PARK; ALSO, VA- NT LOT IN REAR. on THURSDAY, MAY EIGHTEENTH, 1882, ai SIX O'CLOCK P.'M., in front of the premises, I] hail rell the west 24 feet 2 irches of tot 4, in 4.6, the same having a depth of 100 f¢ enidenice ‘with alt mddern, tmpeovelncnts, ta loos residence ‘with all’ modern improvernents, Wtory being xdapted tor business purposes and ately ured 86 & ie store. DIMEDIATELY AETER he. shove we will sell ot ,,in same and adjoining the above prope in the rear, the same having a front of 16 fect 8 inches cn the alley by a depth of 21 feet 954 inches, suitable for bre I i diridean estate. It is ‘command the aia UCTION SALE OF A DESI! LOT, ON TEN: BENSINGER Auenoneer, 8. ‘Washington Horse and Carriage Bazaar, AUCTION SALE OF HORSES, CARRIAGES, HAR. EAUEVERY TURSEAY. THUMBDAY SATURDAY MORNING, at QOCLOCK, | & attention wien, to the sales of tinal consijummanto Gato} ENSINGER. Anct. yt * 1416 F street northwest. A GOOD CHANCE FOR INVESTMENT. For mnetion, the following deeirable im-, ec bd tutnsy Saved real ‘celaie ot the ‘aston Inontioned below: t SIX ho. 806 Back toa a Ei FURNITU! CAR. ae BEY meets! TEN O'CLOC! r.taatg, | Trustece, mi6-4 WALTER B. WILLIAMS & OO., Ancta. BEAUTIFUL COTTAG i OK WALTER B. WI pat bee sacellent o XEOUTOR'S BALE ROPERTY, STORY AND Aric Puaue HOUME NO STREET. Z ‘virtue of authority vested in me as Executor, vill ad torlament of Letitia We at ‘OF VALUABLE IMPROV] WEST, iverhisement jachiogion D.C. iH, Ex. DUNCANSON BROS., HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. CHANCERY SALE OF _V, PROPERTY ON THE deo'd. jum bia, on mis-d&da_ | July. 1860, in Equity Ghee Now iy ‘Americs a poncea’ an ited said decree ALUABLE IMPROVED ‘AST SIDE OF TWEN- WEEN E AND F STREETS Court of the, Soa sell, 1882, at SIX G'CLOC! follow 5 it ». 525. of a decree of the 8uy tue of 8 reme -D. Equity 7716.10 tiff and Daniel Brooks as Trustee, will sell at public auction, in Fpepegtive premlaes, the following a ON MONDAY AFTERNOON, MA’ ‘OND, AT FIVE O'CLOCi Jot 1] and part of lot 12, equare 171, front ue, ‘with an average depth 432 equare feet. 20 feet front on 17th street of lot ¥ north fet; contains 2. 200 DIATELY 28 feet on north F street, osite Rawlina’ equare, inch. ensions and immedi- islt FS MAY TWENTY- 'CLOC! a a depth of 102 6 DAY AT HALI-PAST FT K, frouting 65 feet 6 inches on Cs aver streets. with an dey if on WEDMENDAY AETERNGON Bet T inelicn of tot 10, egnete S57, on 19% | NO. 639 157m STREET, (CORCORAN BUILDING) avenue and north, with ‘of $6 fect, improved by a small frame house. No. ON SAME DAY, AT SIX All of equare No. 645, fronting “T" and south Terms of sale as Si ae Pee, the Supreme Court of, aE a Pe Stay A. De daa JR ONTOOR ' tite interes of the, to Ci geo imran topart of Lat tte gu ‘One-third cash; balance in six and twolve montiny with interest {rou day of eale, of all cash ag B. DUVAI Me BLS Bova Tot PYHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioncer. laa SALE OF A DISIRABLE BUILDING WiTd TWO SMALL ONE STORY. Fuk KODRES THEREO! ON EIGH BRE BETWEEN 8 AND f STREETS NORTHWEST. On SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY TWEN. TIE? H, at SIX O°CLOCK, in front af tho premises | Ti at public auction, ‘ot ecien nel (CHANCERY SALE OF VALU, FRAME, BUSINESS AND DWEL! QOLNER. BAND NINTH pro. J, FISHER & 00., CHANCERY SALE OF CITY PROPERTY. Gacy ae ee a cee 3 ot al, for vacant W ALL STREET OP£RaTIoNs, ‘The old-establiched Banking House of JOHN A. DODGE & 00., Ro. 12 Wart Stxeer, New Your, seMall the Actiye Stocks on three to five Pay andor margin. They wad Fane oe memory “WEEKLY FINANCIAL REPORT,” tithe | showi = be realised from invest- TWENTY MES: | meenta of $10 to81000. me ine ERSONS WISHING TO OPERATE IN ween Tan end tect P STOCKS, of about 75 fest, and | to the extant of $50 to $1,000 or upwartls,sbould writel® HENRY L. RAYMOND & 00., COMMISSION STOCK BROKERS, No, 4 Pine Street, New York. Stocks carned on 3 to 10 per cent Eeotiena orders executed sati«f - Comieks int Seating io Wall Bireck trateactione free; our Weexly Financial Reports, Our junior - no BETWEEN WASHINGTON AND NEW YORE. H. H. DODGE, on south and 8th streets | Bonds, Stocksand Investment Securities Bought wd Bold on Commission, Agency for Prince and Whitely, Stock Brokers, @ Broapwar. New You by the decree: One-third | Every class of Securities bought and sold on commis® cash, and the residue sion in San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and Washington. Orders excouted on the with | New York Stock Exchange at one-eighth of one por cea commission, Private and direct telegraph wires to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and Boston, throug which orders are execnte on the Stock Exchanges rect from the New York Stock Exchange. THE CITY OF ‘thenes avenue, 161 fest to rear line of said ith 42 feet, 10 Sieh angres wit eald Corner of said twit ce southbeastwardly, ‘aveniun, 127 feck tothe place of Ray, 8.9, 10, 1, PEELE GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. VONNINGHAM, “HATTER. *_SPRING Bulk Hate monde togeder Ona Cs ‘Hate of all kinds ‘ancl Manilla. e specialty. CUNNINGHAM: 60 Hih stress "1 2 : SiNGH Prollewine et on | northwest. ‘ain DERSFLLING EVERYBODY is DRESs SHLiTS. Linen Contere, Cafts, Silk Neckwear, Cotton sacha, Underobirts and Drawern: Fine Percale Shirts, only 75 conte. Finest Dress Shirts to order, elegantly made, only $2. Bix fine Dress Shirta to onder for 99. All goods are guaranteed to give eatisfaction in every “mis MRGINNIN, 1002 F street northwest. i peeceees, : : 1] h a