Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1882, Page 2

he aye ee ————-— + TEE Hrsrnicer saree: The iil iaking Pre Penses of the Di During the the Sum “ppreprin Ame: the Variou stitutic i OTC ‘ islation Embodied in + approved on t $3,490.006 according to al out of the if out of the 1 in- 5.008 workhouse at astering of ' led. rs is appro- . 3600: two 1: superin- tabie farm trap fertilizers, ilaneous ex- of two new Lief of the poor nation of the i not exce ¥ 000 ‘to the Ger- 1 for the erection asylum shail issioners t man- @ institutions of eharity ap- Propriated for, and to require a report of evipts and expenditures to be mgie to th be transmitted with their annual report to ¢ ress; except that the supervision heretofore @xercised by the Secretary of the Interior over the governinent hospital for the insane shall be @ontinued. and the officers of said hospital shall port to him as heretofure. GENERAL Por the salaries and exp bookkee 21,800; one clerks a x i; one nt ex: one clerk, assistant in<pector of licenses. $600; temporary clerk-hire in gency, £2.76, contingent Por the co!) ated. as fol $1,800; book keene messenger, | $1,000. aking fund om 0 is appropri- | ated. as foliows: For sinking fund office, two | clerks, at 21,200 each; contingent expenses, $300. For the coron appropriated, | atingent ex- | ationery. books, deceased persons, making 70). y . $8,812, as follow assistant attorney, $1 6 Temoval of autopsies, and holdi For the attorne: . $4000 in | s office, 97,580, as inspector and | at Inspector, 21,000; | enger, S430; | draughtsina inspector of and county . nt, 1; three supervisors of roads, meters, and $99 for the }: s | the sealer of wei { For ens A chief cle ele veler, $1,400: | -men, at $790 | inspector of | two in-} | inspector, at & £2.40 rent of property penses, & Seers oF inspectors required in connection with | street work done under contracts au- | ¥ appropriations be paid out af | 1 for the works. and care of records of the | be expended by the Com- | ated: and for fuel, and general miscel- 3 of District offices, $3,500. ETS. ‘sling streets | 000; cleaning alleys, 37.500; | of repairs of streets, avenues | fnd alleys, £25.000; current repairs to county | Poads and suburban streets, $25,000; cleaning ‘and repairing lateral sewers and basins, $20,000; ‘Mali, $110,500. For the parking commission, $19,900, as fol- 000; 10 tO substitute other om |, and to use so much of the sum appropriated as may be necessary. THE POLICE. For the metropolitan police ed as follows: $501,980 is ap- Major and superinten- in, $1,800; property clerk, 300; one clerk, three 3; Six detectives, at $1,520 ants at $1,200 each; twenty ven acting ser- three privates, redand twenty ) each: sixteen eight laborers at '. $700; one messen: rintendent, mounted, = forty lieute . mounted, at ten. lent, driver, nd police a airs to miscellaneous and 5; fuel, 21.500 contingent expense FIRE DE For the fire d 140 is appropri- rs, at $200 urchase of hoi AO: repeal three pair ral sup- purcha: 000; rent depaty clerk, messen- eat expense 300 is apy For salaries of off ture, &¢ public se! For one supe Intendent ai ers, rents, farni- t 2500; in all, t an average salary not to he H 2. ah Schoo! building, 21.400; Franklin buildit 1H street . Peabody, V tsand Sumner buildings, ner and Steveas bnild- John F. Cook, £3, 300 each; R nd Abbott build = ‘ager to the boar: of the first six seventh les and r furniture, and take care of the heating appa tus. For rent of s p ehools: For the y and the sites, when nee: completion of thr intermedis one twelve-roon to be er first school di xcht-room building to be erected in the i phe eight-room building to fh I division. be- 315.000, to ‘eptem- lay of scho west, ore the first the District near Howa pleted by the frst day ot September next, 18; and for purchase of lots in rear of Ana- ‘hool house, fronting Jem act of Congress authorizing struction of the Jefferson sehvol build- and appropriating the sum of $70,000 for purposeis amended so as to limit the amount zed to be expended ame to the 7.000, and to the Commision- istrict of mas f the new school buildings, ground for thes rooms to accom! For furniture for 1.000: for additional easchool, $3,800; rent for date the schools until the S completed, the time for led to the Bist day of October ratus for the new high pe from fire by I ol build- ct also reduces 35,000; books for register of wills, printing, checks, dazcages, payment of surplus on sales of prop- erty for by the late corporations of Wash- ington and Georgetown, and for payment of moneys received by said’ corporations. on sales of property for taxes erroneously made, and miscelloneous items not otherwise provided for, 100. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT. For the health department, 342,580, as follows: ealth officer, $3,000; six sanitary inspectors, Meach; two food inspectors, $1,200 each; pector of marine products, 31,000; clerks, 37,000; messenger, 3540; poundmaster, $1,200; laborers, 31,449; contingent expenses, 23,800; re- moval of garbage, $15,000. To pay judments against the District of Co- lumbia 325,000, to be immediately available, is apprepriat For the payment of damages to lots fourteen to twenty-six, in block nine, of the official sub- division of Rosedale and Isherwood, by placing thereon the boundary intercepting sewer, i) or general contingent expenses of the Dis- trict of Columbia, to be expended only in ease of emergency, such as riot, pestilence, calamity by flood or fire, and of like character not other- ise sutticiently provided for, $10,000 is appro- THE WATER DEPARTMENT. For maintaining the Washington aqueduct $20,000 is provided. The $108,650.50 appropri- ated for the District water department is appor- $1,400; two clerks, at 21,200 each; one clerk, 2900; superintendent, $1,600: messenger, 2600; per day, £939; contingent ex- 400; engineers and tiremen, coal, ma- nd for high service in Washington and getown, pipe distribution to high and low service, including public hydrants, fire plugs, | replacing the 9-ineh with the 10-inch fire plus, material and labor, repairing and laying new mains. lowering mains, 349,501 12-inch water mains, with proper fire plugs and | connections, for the proper protection of the government printing office, 35,600, of which the United States shall pay one-half: interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, 244,610. It is provided that hereafter the operations of the water department of the District of Colum- bia shall be under the direction of the engineer's office of the District, spbject to the control of the Commissioners. It is also provided that the fiscal year of the water department of the Dis- triet ot Columbia shall be made to conform to the reyular fiscal year of the general govern- ment, and to carry this proviso into effect the Connuissioners are empowered and directed to he ae Sen ths: feet J: 1, 1883, ro tl mont ing January and after the of which time the rates shall be levied and ses of the tioned as follows: Chief clerk, $1,500; one clerk, | for laying | Fie funded indebtedness of the District of Co- jambia for the sinking fand authorized to be created for the redemption and payment of the water stock bonds of the District ot Columbia, as in his opinion may be for the best interest of the District. HOW REQUISITIONS SHALL BE DRAWN. The act provides that all moneys appropriated for the expenses of the government of the Dis- trict, together with all revenues of the District from taxes or otherwise, shall be deposited in the Treasary of the United States, and shall be | drawn therefrom only on requisition of the | Commissioners of the District of Columbia (ex- cept that the moneys appropriated for interest and the sinking fund shall be drawn therefrom only on the requisition of the Treasurer of the United States), such reauisition specifying the appropriation upon which the same is drawn; j and tite accounts for ‘all disbursements of the Commissioners shall be made monthly to the accounting oiMcers of the Treasury by the auditor of the District of Columbia, on youch- ers certitied by the Commissioners, as now re- quired by law. The Commissioners are prohib- ited from making requisitions upon the appro- priations from the Treasury for a larger amount than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues of s: District, including one-half of ali general taxes paid in drawback certiticates during the fiscal year. =e) _ THE STREET RAILROADS, | Report of Agent Bail of the Humane Society. THE NUMBER AND KIND OF CARS AND THZ NUMBER | OF HORSES EMPLOYED ON EACH NOAD — LENGTHS | or novres MBZR OF TRIPS AND RUNNING | TOte — AccoumovATIONS YOR THE HORSES, ETC— THE HEKDIC COACHES. At the last mecting of the board of directors of | the Soclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Anl- mals held June st , Mr. Rovert Ball, dan intoresting report upon the street of tls District, showing thelr capacity, ent and general management for the informa- & WASHINGTON AND GEORGETOWN COMPANY or use 60 cars In constant s°rv 20 of P the one horse cars which run between | the Capitol and 18th street. They also have 24 extra open cars for summer use, making 84 alto- Pe of the road. ‘The aver- way from the Navy yard to 52 minu 1 foro —Capitol 19 18th. str me length of te Hn 2. © | ment department, se. The stab re all fir: ch horse 1s a e ve pounds of corn neal, four pounds of | Tnesday evening, I beg to say that It is a sub- | wremises. Across the Potomac, AFFAIRS ON THE VIRGINIA SIDE—GOOD CRors— QUEER LAW. Fatrs Cuvren, July 14, 1882. The hay, oats, wheat and rye crops are extraor- dinarily good for this region. Early potatoes, so far as I have heard, will be light. They never delay for rain. A week of dry weather, just when the tubers are swelling, will consequently make small potatoes and a short crop. Robert F. Roberts, down about West End, near Alexan- dria, I understand has already threshed a field of ten acres of wheat, and has measured Se five bushels to the acre. That isa large yield for Virginia. Mr. Isaac Crossman, of this place, cut a very fine fleld of wheat, but his threshing is not done, so that the yield is not yet known. J. C. De Putrow, I noticed about heading time, had a very promising field of wheat. Mr. Seth Osborne and Mr: Levi Parker both have great grass crops. With alarge quondam observation lor many years in the great crass growing re- gion of the Ohio Western Reserve 1 judge that these gentlemen must have a yield of about three tons to the acre in the best portions of their meadows. The early apples appear to be not much better thana failure. Early peaches— not yet in season, (I have known them to be fit for market, some years, as early as the 17th of June)—will be small, That temperature of 24°, when the buds were ready to burst into bloom, white it did not kill had a marked injurious ef- fect. The Washington and Western railroad is em- ploying men enough in the repairing operations to make the farmers complain of short help. Mr. E. J. Birch is chosen mayor tor the ensu- ing year. He is'very highly respected, and the selection Is a good one. Ex-Mayor and Capt. W. A. Duncan was charged before the colored justice of Hall's hill with an assault on Mrs, Steves, express agent, in attempting to take a package away without pay. At the trial the Justice, report states, de- clared that the testimony was so nearly alike on both sides that there was no preponderance on either side, and decided that there was no cause of action, but held that the defendant must pay the costs. That is an entirely new administra- tion of justice and yery favorable to plaintitts with doubtful cases. “LS. A. Sas About Department Office Nours. To the Editor of Tuk Eventne Star: In the matter of closing the Interior depart- ment at 8 o'clock, referred to in your issue of ject of which Congress should take immediate cognizance, It is a question which should not be left to the heads of bureaus nor should the 1s of departments have any authority in the We see the resuit of the p he: dition of things in the closing of ¢ ept tie Hiterior and its various bureaus. This is unjust to the last degree. It isa perfectly well-known tact that the clerks of the Interior bureaus are worked | harder than those of any other department, and in the Census office they worked fa:thfully, con- aud twelve pounds of cus hay, ing ht od solid fool per i Toad uses te y, Unirty-seven i se i Ae main stem, Four hours of actual labor are | | reaucred of eaeh hors+ per day. Oo the Ith street branch of this road there are eb; Xtven minutes are allowed length of road, one ant one- h start, three min- 19. 9, SIX trips day—making | | eighteen miles of travel for each, e Stale | ble comiorts and same kin: en dali 30n the other branches, and but e¢ hours of Iabor are required in twenty-four s. th of the Washington an 1 George- ada halt miles, and the stock number alto se 5 ‘THE METROPOLITAN (¥ | from Georgetowa to Lincoln pirk), has twenty- | two cars in its daily service and sixteen extra ones | for special service, T i quired for a trip each way 1s 56 69-10 miles; time D number of hor: each having to make thre enty= r twenty ani seven-tenths miles atallis used for the horses in uected with thts company, ard is Tequired to work five louty each 2 short line from P street to the Capitol use: ume requlred for trp each way, 37 ming three mules; tine between horses employed, 56; four e uw 1 trip, 5 minw Ss required from making tw | of tra N | used lie es. ‘The whole number of horses politan road and its branches i ength of 13 tracks 15 10 9-10 inti THE BELT ROAD, ‘The Capttol, Nort! O Street and South Washinz- ton road b cars; average ttm? of trip each Way, 57 minutes; length of Ine, 47-10 miles; between each trip, 7 minutes; numb>r of ho: raployed, 85; four trips required of each hor. very 24 hours, making 17 6-10 miles for each ho: dally. Good bedding is used tn these stables, neal, nd horts anteut hay ts servel for tood— all that the managers think is required, Th eLbranch of the road uses ten ca ed for trip 36 minutes; length of ie d 45; three trips ju 21 miles Of travel per y. Good bedding Is used, with same kin of ot branch ses only two ea uired for earch trip, the omy 6-10ths of a 1 and 10 trips are mad. of travel daily. th of Daly 4 horses | ily, making but d ae mpany sth of roat 8 4-5 miles. 15131, and the aggrezate le; THE COLUMBIA STREET RATLROAD company has but o1 ft uses 17 cars, every | trip eich way requires 39 ininutes, the Ine being 24-5 miles; tle between erch trip 6 minutes. number of horses required on the line 45; each horse required to make trips per day, mik- ing 161-5 miles perday. The stxbles are motels for eonyenience and comfort to the antin us, good bedding being furnished to the horses, with 9 pounds cornmeal, 6 pounds shorts and 18° pounds | | Cut hay for each horse per day. The actual ime | euch horse is required to labor per day is 344 hours. THE ANACOSTIA LINE employs 6 cars and 18 horses; the average time re- quired for trips each way being 36 minutes. The length of this Ine {gs 29-10 intles; tims between each trip, 20 minutes; number of trips foreach | horse per day, 2¥. The stabling 1s excellent, and | gool bedling 18 used; corn meal, shorts, and cut hay being given the si jaily. THR HERDIC COACH COMPANY use 3) coaches; time employed each wy 40 min- utes; the road 1s four miles tn lengtp; timo be- Tween each trip 3 minutes; number of horses used 155; number of trips for each horse per day, 214; making twenty miles travel datly by each. Tae Stabling 1s good, with plenty of good bedding for horses, and corn meal, shorts, cut hay and oats are given for food, SUMMING UP. The total number of coaches used on all these Unes ts 290, requiring 1,167 horses. ‘The aggregate length of all the street railroads in this District is 34 9-10 miles of dounle track. i ‘The purpose of obtaining this information by the soelety 1s to know how the livestock 1s belng used, | and to correct abuses if any are found to exist. —_- A Wail from a Woman. i To the Editor of Tug Evento Star. | Why have you “let up” om the horrible state of the sidewalks in Washington? Your vigorous articles about them were read with keen appre- | ciation by all foot passengers. The sidewalks | are certainly growing worse and worse; and al- though we have the knobbiest walks in exis- pene, yet they are a painful subject for tender feet. Another thing I wish to ask, is there nota | law compelling all property owners to lower | the gas and water plugs ‘in front of their | premises to a level with the pavement? All over the city these man and woman traps exist. Thave noticed them especially on I street, be- | tween 17th and 18th streets. I'speak feelingly | | on this last point, for walking along that square i on one of those nights of Exyptian darkness when the moon was expected to shine but did not, and when the gas should have been lit but was not, I suddenly plunged madly forward, and, wildly seizing my companion’s arm, I nearly brought him down, too. I had stubbed my toe on the water plugs, which protruded several inches from the ground, in front of the residence ofa high official. If { had broken my beautiful nose or my armTI should have sued him for dat and would have gotten them too,— wouldn't [? too, they are taking up the hn doul- a nia and 19th. | in full flow, to an extent e | thoughtless or’ hi | birth has been guilty of t | to children for drunken fathers and mothers? [t | tary service; so, as Twas a descendant of that | Shadows had begun to thicken, when a member scientiously, from June to De year without And now again for two months and a-half they have not received a dol- lar. Of course this is no particular argument in favor of closing the department at 3_ o'cloc during this sweltering weather; but the thing should be uniform. No department should be permitted to close unless all close, and special and immediate Congressional lesislation should regulate the matter. He Suly 12, 1882 : ———— Wanton Waste of Water, To the Editor of Tie veNInG Stan. ‘ouhave the goodness to inform your as to the law in the use of water and its | ment in the way of luxury by people fay- ored with hose and fountains. Living near the Jowa cirele, [had occasion to proceed by 12th down to and along N_ street, en route for the | draggists, and having left a house where no | water could be had, was (at midnig little surprised to find’ sev pavements'and ran into the st the poli ail sue ‘ity t fire, re- nothing of respect f law, should induce people to cherish a Little self denial and respect for others inthis heated term. Ir the law be not enforced si soon be bronght tg bear, a hy He ha yot man who dest gard for the sick, to say ce-hammers will is for the poor must be pumps mine the supply sors have, through selfish intluen but it is not often that ai refined t have pro nanity. ning and surdde ed great eagmies to tiie spiril a @ t of hu- RIT ee age An Anxions Inquiry. To the Editor of Tu Evenine $ Is there no law to prevent: the sale of intoxi- cating liquors on Sunday, or close saloons or whisky shops? Not to prevent the sale of liquor seems as if the police were linked with the pro- prietors of those places, for. they pass them by and do not pretend to see them. There are 30 many societies for prevention of cruelty to ani- mals, C. 1., and why not for wives? Coxsrayt R. ———— A Pennsylvania Paratise. Special Correspondence of Tur: Evestxa Stan. York Senpuve Sprive, July 12th. Whilst you are at home, turning out daily your bright, sparkling St © are enjoying | the cool breezes of this lovely spot, surrounded | by mountains, and with the most picturesque | views the eye could rest upon. The hotel has over a hundred rooms, and, with its wide porches and cosy summer houses, is most invit- ing to the lovers of comfort. It was a great re- ort in years gone by, but fell off as the old tre- quenters died away. It has taken a new lease of life now, however, and under the new man- agement is doing a good business, it is so se- cluded that you feel you are alone with nature in all her beauty. There is a spring of sulphur and magnesia, and anotiver of iron. On Sunday we made a visit tothe old meeting house built by William Penn. Its graveyard contains many old epitaphis, and records many antiquated burials, some Kas 1788. 1 was acurious and rather sad sizht to see the one single member of the Friends hold his soli- pure, old community, I jo him as long as 1 could keep the children of our party quiet. We sketched the old house, and returned home well pleased with our Sunday servic There are a number ot Washingtonians here, who find the waters very beneficial. Tourist. se Paul's Prayer. From the Ellenville Journal. ‘A lady in Greenfield had company at tea a few evenings since, on which occasion her two little boys were invited to await the chances of @ second table, in which arrangement they readily acquiesced. But the visitors Ingered over the ruins of shortcake and pot-cheese to indulge in an entertaining and somewhat pro- tracted “feast of reason, -, and the evening of the household discovered the elder of the boys (it was his seyenth birthday) crouched upon the doorstep outside nursing the remnant of his patience, and asked him, ‘Where is Paul With a deep-drawn sigh, the lad responded, don't know; I s'pose he’s somewhere prayin’ the Lord for his supper!” SSS hasy Comes Easy Coes, From the Philadelphia Record, The finder of hidden treasure, the heir to un- claimed estates, the land owner who “strikes oll,” tne holder of the prize ticket in the lot- tery, orany other son of Adam who finds his pockets full of unearned dollars, is in a position of peril all the more dangerous for the reason that it is unknown and untpought of. An honest shoemaker of our ‘acquaintance, who made a good living for himself and fainily by plying his trade, a year ago received $1,600 arrears of pen- sion money. He was asober man, with no vic- ious appetites to gratify; but he bought his wife diamond ear rings, bis daughter a piano, and set himself up as_a shoe merchant, instead of ashoe maker. The sheriff sold the poor fel- low ont last week. Ris debts will follow him for years. This maa ig the type of thousands of bis follows: There ae pra py ae swifter readier means of | ing 1 r= ernment bounty. would be a matter of as- tonishment to thé Country to know how little real benefit bas deen conferred by Its ders which id have disgraced ‘oad, on I street.between 18th time tl were removed. They the carriages of our But I hear they are only to be broken smaller | and What botchwork economy! |W ace th | on the snake and then take hold of the yout ber of last |p | whisky. {| and he is now EVE’S TEMPTERS, Arn’t You Gilad You're Not in the Country! A NEW SNAKE STORY BY TELEGRA PH. Special to the Chicago Times. Limits Rock, Ark., July 6.—Col. Hiram Hardin, a plaater, living in what is known as Old Trough bottom, Independence connty, killed a curious kind of snake last Monday. The reptile was of a grayish color, five fect in length, with a horn five inches long on the tip of fhe tall, and a jong sting in the BITTEN BY A BEHEADED REPTILE. From the Savannah News. Mr. Jack Helton, workman for the Chestatee company, killed a large rattlesnake last week by cutting it in two, leaving a foot or more withthe head. Mr. Helton undertook to ex- amine the fangs of the serpent with a short stick and was struck at by the snake, or what was left of it, and its fang came in contact with his hand, since which time the hand has been badly swollen and throwing Mr. Helton into spasms. There is some chance for the vite to result fatally. AN UNIMPEACHABLE SNAKE STORY. From the Newnan (Ga.) Herald. It is my duty, thongh a little ont of my line, to deal in snake tales, but when one comes the truth of which 1s verified by unimpeachable witnesses, I can’t withhold it from the public. Mr. W. Wood, one of my near neighbors, owned a little fice dog which treed a snake. Mrs. Wood went to see what the dog was barking at, when to her astonishment she found the game to be a large snake of the coi p kind. The litte dog taking courage at her appearance, seized it, when the snake coiled its tail around the dog’s neck and made its way under a log, eand grip that it broke same day mbled snake. Mr. J.N. Nix was ance and killed the snake, tin length. pulling with such f Th the dog’s neck. upon another la called to her as: which was six fi A LARGE SNAKESTORY. From the Madison (Ga.) Madison A story of a larze coach-whip was related us the other day by Mr. J. W. Stovall, an eye- witness to the scene. and who says he will make aMidavit to the occurrence. It appears that a very large coach-whip, measuring eight feet in length, and as large a ry leg below the knee, had. v burrow of a rabbit and taken therefrom one of the young, which was nearly hall grown. The old rabbit, seeing the condition of her young, would jump, to rescue it as the sn. Stovall's attention wé nilar to that a wild hog ‘ough a canet s attracted bya noise puld make ru with ifs head about three the young i her. He snakeship d, and said that he would the top of bushes several feet high. I says this was the first time he ever abit ng fight. This goes to tis instinetive for every breathing gto fight forits young. A OOTER. From the Milledgeville Union-Recorder. Mr. Jerome Tuttle killed a rattlesnake last Wednesday abont six feet in length, with six- teen rattles. This is the fourth and largest he s killed this year. The Supple plantation, ivated by Mr. Tuttle, is a good place usly stakes, Look out where you put your air, to keep rescued by its mot all the road he want ing | fuol, my boy. NEW ¢ From the Walton News and Vidette. Little Willie Preston of Good Hope was bitten by a moc rabbling for fish immediate dd sait to the F alfa pint of ever, soon overcame the poison, wound an AFTER RATS a From the Weet Point Enterpri A friend of ours, thre cently witnessed 2 si upon a wood rat. ) PISIL niles from town re- lar attack of a snaki king in his tarm hi the fence, and ized by nake that we have hi keship was of the k hesin ci 13 inches in length, FOND OF SPRING CHICKEN. From the Jackeon Herald. Not long since Aker Randolph commenced no- ng that his young chickens were disappear- lea Hearing one Wz one st week he went in the direction of the »,and soon came upon a larze highland nioccasin with a chiekea in his coils. The snake nnide every aitempt to secure his prey, and was dispatched with ditieulty. ing without hi day kk AN ARK, ‘AS CHARMER. From the Union County Times. Mr. Black, who resides in Hillsboro’, Ark., pibits a control and influence over the reptile ynishingly mysterious. In the woods, . or wherever he finds a snake, it matters e of deadiy poison and venom it succeeds In capturing it alive, aud aufering as little from the clasp of its fangs as if it were an ordinary pin scratch. He handles and fondles them about his person with as much liderence as if they were so many harmless toys, He will allow the largest rattlesnake to deliberately strike and bury its tangs into his flesh serio consequences from the t ed or growth of vex to destroy the effect of the bite. he chew which acts like a charm. When bitten, Old Friends. The old, old friends! Some changed; some buried; some gone out of sight; Some enemies, and in this world’s swift fight: No Une to make amends, ‘The old, old friends— Where aré they? Three are lying In one grave; And one from the far-cff world en the dally wave No loving message sends. The old dear friends! One passes daily; and one wears a mask Another long estranged cares not to ask Where causeless anger ends. ‘The dear old friends, ‘So many and so fond In days of youth! Alas that Faith can be divorced trom Truth, ‘When love in severance ends. The old, old friends! Tney hover round me still in evening shades: Surely they shall return when sunlight fades ‘And life on God depends, W. J. LINTON. See Sas How Skobecleff Won His Spurs. Tt wasin the Khivan campaign that he first won his spurs and gained the reputation of being a madman who was ready to risk his life. At the close of the war he was made colonel and attached to the late Gen. Kaufmann’s staff. In this capacity he took part in the first expedition against Khokand. One singular circumstance of this campaign has been thus related by the late Mr. MacGahan, the distinguished war cor- respondent, who knew him intimately: “On one occasion,” he says, “a Russian detachment of 800 men with 400 Cossaeks was compelled to re- treat before a superior force of the enemy. Gen. Trotsky decided upon a night attack and confided his plan to Col. Skobeleff, then his chief of . The latter entered into the {dea with great enthusiasm and pro) leading the attacking column himsel to take only 150 Cossacks. Skobeleff hay- ing reconnoitred the Ree ge hs that the Khokandians had encamped within a mile and a half of the Russians in an open plain, which gave every facility for the manceuvring of cavalry. At midnight he took his 150 Cos- sacks, divided oe ee three parties, and = tiously surroun e reaneelt party, led by Skobeleff himself, to pass the enemy's outposts, who were sound Then he gave the si; for the attack by discharge of his pistol, and, followed by his 150 Cossacks, rode headlong into the enemy’ yes of 6,000 or 7,000 men, his Cossacks rage elt like fiends. Fora quarter of an hour resounded with shrieks and | duties of a minister the r | i} ed one | eut open and inside | r | rest from breakin’ dishes an’ kickin’ and swallows the juice of the weed, | RELIGIOUS NOTES. —Messrs. Whittle and McGarrahan have closed their meetings in California. —W. C. Jones, of England, recently gave $300,000 for missions in China and Japan. — The Congregationalists have four ministers at work in Utah, and three others are about settling there. —The Lutheran City Mission Boara, of Phila- delphia, has under its care ten congregations— six English and four German. — Rey. H. H. Wayne, of Baltimore, has ac- cepted a call to St. Paul's Memorial (Episcopal) church, at Tompkinsville, N. Y. — Rev. Father Sourin, 8. J., of St. Ignatius church, Baltimore, will in August 6th celebrate his 50th anniversary in the priesthood. —Rey. John McNally, pastor of St. Stephen's church, will leave ona trip to Nova Scotia as soon as his assistant, Father Tarro, returns. —The Womans’ Board of Foreign Missions Reformed Dutch church, has undertaken the support of a medical missionary at Amoy, China. — At the next annnal council of the Protest- ant Episcopal church in Nebraska there will be ten new parishes, all self sustaining, asking ad- mission. —The Board of Foreign Missions (Presby- terian) received for the year ending M ist $640,000, and will this year send out thirty more missionaries. —The Universalist convention of Maine, at its recent session, adopted resomtions urging crease oi divorcee. — The General Baptists of England recently celebrated their 113th anniversary. tw ight only to 2 —Rey. Father Boland, assistant pastor of St Matthew's church, who has been absent in) cheland in bad health, has been much improve: and will return shortly — Kev. Robert N. Baer and family are at their cottage at Rehoboth Beach. During Dr. Baer's Metropolitan M. E. chureh. ir Francis Lycett, of London, left by his £00,000 to build Wesleyan chapels in ain, and the will being contested by a a few weeks ago, sustained. er, Y., has voted their pastor, Rey. Dr. Foote. a residence and £1,000 per year, he having served = Great Bi nephew it ¥ — St. Paul's (P. E.) church, of Roel will three years. —The Methodist ministers of Providence, R.1 recently discussed the question ot ordaining women to the ministry. The presiding elder, | Rey. Dr. Talbott, said he did not object to | women preaching. baptism by immersion, for instance. . cialis - A od Word tor the Scissors. om the Youkers Gazette. Some people, ignorant of what good editing is, imagine the getting up of selected matter to be the easiest work in the world to do, whereas it is the nicest work done ona newspaper. If they see the editor with scissors in his hand, j the are re sure to say: “Eh, that’s the way you getting up orlginal matter, eh?” accom- idiotic wink or smile. interest, the y per depend inn matter, and few men are capable for the p tion who would not themselves be able to w many of the articles they select. A sensible edi- | tor desires considerable select matter ; because he knows that one mind cannot make $0 good a paper as five or six. ty and the usefulne: of a pa- Se ere — Brother Garducr on Meddlesomeness. From the Detroit Free Press. “What | was gwine to remark,” began the old man as he took an undissolved troche from his mouth and placed it on a corner of his desk, “was to de effect dat it am none of our zness what eur nayburs do, onless dey frou | stones at our dog or toss deir oyster-cans ober | our fences. One great cause of so much unhappiness arises from de fack dat sartan people want to know all about sartin odder people. Frinstance, Dea ‘Turner's Elder Dorker's wife has got a new bonnet dat neber cost less dan $12. De elder am workin’ ona straight salary of 8 per week, an’ he has a wife and fo" chiil'en. “How kin he »up $12 on sich a salary as dat? How did his wife git dat bonnet? An’ what cheek fur a poo’ woman who can’t set table for seven nor ride on de street kyar once a week to lam out in dat manni an’ wonder an’ gid mad an’ want ter pull ha'r, out an’ go to pullin’ weeds in de gar 's nobody's bizness how she got dat t. an’ yit some folks feel sick bekase they mawnin’ when she starts out, but when she re- turas dar am a hull cyclone in her left eye. She pens me up in a co‘ner an’ demands to know how de gals who stan’ behind de sto’ counters fur three, to’ an’ five dollars a week kin pay bo'd | an’ washin’ and dress in silks and satins. I | can’t tell, an’ de less I Know "bout it de madder | she its, an’ bime-by dar cums a climax an’ | somebody gits iurt. "If a gal kin make fo’ dol- a week go furder dan I kin make twenty, 's none 0” my bizness or yo" bigness. dat Blank’s an’ said dat de jedge’s hired zal in “em notice that she was about to go to entry on her annual six weeks’ vacation. . Gardner was hoppin’ mad, but I was as } cool asa red-hot crowba’. Why shouldn't a hired gal want to goto de kentry an’ have a tinwar aroun’ de kitchen? It improves her complex- shun, braces up her form, shapes her feet and often results in her marryin’ a millionaire. If de jedge an’ his fam'ly can’t aiford to go, dat’s nuffin’ to do wid de servant. only las’ nite if she couldn’t hunt her up a seam- stress who'd be kind an’ obleegin’ ‘nuit to do a few days’ work at 12 shillin’s a day. She won't git one. Dis am de season when de poo’, over- worked an’ half-paid seamstress packs her trunk, draws her money from de bank, an’ hies to de sea-shore to secure de benefits of de ozone an’ salt-water bathin’. Arter dey reech Long Branch it am hard to tell one of ‘em from de wife of a banker or broker, but dat’s none of our bizness. Let yer naybursave, squander, keep sober, git drunk, w’ar goud cloze or ole cloze--it’s nuffin’ to you’ Let us now extricate ourselves upon de reg'lar order of bizness.” sia nsinend Prese From the London Globe. A great diplomatist, who had spent many years in the service of his country with more than com- mon opportunities for forming a correct judg- ment, once declared that, among all the remark- able men with whom he had been acquainted, he never met aboye one or two who possessed. presence of mind. Presence of mind is the stances of panic or emergency which call for immediate action. the right thing at the right moment is entirely independent of merely animal or, as it may be cailed, constitutional courage, is shown by its occasional manifestation by those in whom the latter quality is largely tempered with discre- tion. Jones of Nayland asserts, indeed, that the truest courage is always mixed with cilream- spection; while Addison points out that the courage which grows simply from constitution very often forsakes a man yf at the moment when he has occasion for it. Napoleon also re- fers to this distinction when he says: “I have very rarely met with the 2-o'clock-in-the-morn- ing courage. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which in spite of the most unforseen events leaves full freedom of judgment and decision.” ‘As wit pierces the 1 landed for the i that steps be taken to check the alarming in- In the past | years they haye increased from | absence Dr. Charles Adams has charge of the | / them faithfully and well during the past twenty- | but there were some of the | could not pertorm— | panying their new and witty questions with an | The facts are that the sinall degree upon the selected | j ite | wife | j ; | runs ober to my house an’ tells my wife dat De wimmin sot dar an’ talk | ‘De odder day my ole woman cum home from | “Mrs. Kernul Dash was axin’ my ole woman | maintenance of the judgment under circum-| That the faculty of doing | Deions ‘The Man Who Saved Fred Douginss’ Life. From the Philadelphia Recort. “Yes sir; 1am the man who saved Fred Dong lass from being hanged when ‘Old John Brown’ was captared at Harper's Ferry. I su) 8 dispatch addressed to the sheriff of Philadel- pbia instructing him to arrest Dor who was then In that city, as proofs of his complicity in the memorable raid were di whea John Brown pipers oper custody.” Seated on the doorstep of his cosy a few miles outside of Vineland, N.J., ay = W. Hurn, a Sree. fe Resin man of sixty, who, when questt; |, answered as above re- ‘ing the aid rendered by him to the noted abolitionist. “At that time T was a telecraph operator lo- cated in Philadelphia,” continued Mr. Hurn, “and when I received the dispatch [ was fright- ened nearly out of my wits. As I wasan ardent admirer of the great ex-siave, who was doing ail that mortal could do to agitate the anti- slavery question, I resolved to warn Douglass of his impending fate, no matter what the re- sult might be to me The news had just been spread throughout the country of the bold action of John Brown and his intrepid follow- ers In taking the little town of Harper's Ferry, Everybody was excited. and public feeling ran high. Before the intelligence came that Brown had been captured the dispatch Ihave men- tioned was sent by the sheriff of Franklin county, Pa. to the sheriit of Philadel- hia, informing him that Douglass had een one of the Jeading conspira- tors, and requesting that he should be immediately apprehended. it was illezal to do so T quieti in my pocket, and asking take my place started on my seareh for Fred Douglass. I went directly to Miller McKim, the secretary of the contraband, underground, fagi- tive railway office in Philadelphia, and inquired for my man. Mr. McKim hesitated to tell me, whereupon I showed him the dispatch and prom- ised him not to allow it to be delivered within | three hours. I told him that I would not do | this unless he agreed to get Mr. Douglass out of | the state. This he readily assented to, for it | was his business to spirit escaped slaves beyond th ch of the authorities. I returned to the fice and kept a sharp lookout for None arrived, however, and ne expired I sent the be- lated message to its destination. In the meanwhile those entrusted with my | Secret saw Mr. Douglass and urged him to leave the town as quickly as possible. He was loth to do so at first. but the expostulations of hisfriends overcame his objections, and in an hour he left | on a railroad train which placed a gap of ferty miles between him and Philadelphia every hour. He reached his home in Rochester, New’ York, ety, destroyed the compromising decu- sand then packed his gripsack and started nada, It was fortunate for him that he | left as soon as he fd, immediately after his parture trom Rochester his home was sur- rounded by officers. ~ Those were queer times, and persons had to be careful what they did and said. I did not tell of my share in the rescue, for T feared the power of the slaye party, as they could have had me imprisoned. When I look back and think what I did to save that man from the gallows—for he would undoubtedly have gone Though T knew e it the dispatch ather operator to there had he been arrested—I feel that Lam re- | warded by contemplating that the life saved was | well worth saving.” Fancy Facts an Gin Cocktails invented by € China, B. C. 800. Shampooing Introduced by Babarossa, 1222. Quail on toast, first served by the Israelites, 65 Free lunches introduced by Joseph Into Exypt, B.C. 400. Bricks first worn in the hat by Noah, B. CG. 000) Sleyele first used by Ixion, 201. Weather prophecies Invented by Annanias, B.C. 300. Aprons first worn by Eve, 1. Circulation discovered by Harvey, 1540, Lied about by editors ever since. First great moral show, started by Noah, B. C. 500.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. pecans sir,” said Brown, “if there is one thing more than another that {am proud of, it is this, that I always keep my word. “Very true, replied Fogg; “but how can yc help it, you know? Did you ever know anybody who would | take it?’ | Here isan ingenious “Elegy to the Mem of Miss Emily y, cousin to Miss Ellen Gee, Ki who died lately at Ewell and was buried ssex,” written by Horace Smith:— When her piano-40 she ohare Such heavenly sounds did MN&, that she, Knowing her Q, soon 1 U 2. confess Her XLNC in an ITY POST OFFICE, » JULY 15, 1882. 577-To obtain any cf these Letters the applicant mt | gall for *"Apveurisen Lens," and give the date is Lint. 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