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. Chan: THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, ‘SATUR ‘TME WASHINGTON ASYLUM. Reforms in the Manageme: PROPER DISCRIMINATION PAUPERS AND OF CRIMINALS—WHITEWASB— CROPS—RAISING SWINE AND POULTRY—CTE- LIZING THE OLD MAGAZINE PROPERTY, ETC. IN TREATMENT OF Since the present intendant of the Washing- ton asylum (workhouse and almshouse), Mr. Walter H. Stontenburg, took charge of that institution, several important changes have | beva made in the management. Among these es is included the discipline of the in- Mates, a marked distinction now being made the treatment of those in the alms- ¢ and those In the workhouse—the latter | ainals under restraint, and the former | vietims of poverty. Hitherto there had been lit t distine- at In} | it it is demerali: to put them in contact with the | alciasses. Discrimination in favor ef the uniortunate poor is made in the diet, clothing, | ehoice ota, labor, &c." This can | be now done much mor workhouse has been complete! have been bef readily since the new | than it could ere are at the present time | of the institution, of both | yes, about 340 Persons to be fed THE fs in two wings—one for males, the other for | to the open females—with no c mication between them | as was formerly the case when the accom moda- | tions were more limited. One matter has been a source of concern to the Intendant; that is the large number of half- | dd bors, ve no occupation, x with the old sinners, thoroughly versed in the knowledge of all sorts of eime and vulzari r nnot well be Prevented at prese: dant pro- Poses, as soon as pi to establish a Seiool, in which they tay learn the common | radiments of an edueation—reading, writing and arithmetic: thus their time by £0) they are release 35 or 40 of this cl steady employ A re; vhen nouzh to ol teacher. A their Tooms takes p morning, and consi sted among them for cleanii wir, The walls of th workhouse hay ter, the oniy most freely used. e coat as often as twice sh, which is square inch receiving a month. This fills up all | easily see every approaching boat. | extra precaution is always taken by the boat- | men to halloo when nearing the said curve in the stream. | is done at the long-range that the targets are boats. plates of the targets or bullet-proofs directly Invariable rule Be is to always open the targets for passing oats. and mid-rang that the missing bullets bury themselves in the ground at a great distance short of the river. | ments. the 30th of May last a boatman from the navy | yard landed on the marsh at the side of the tar- | seeing that they were not killed on the first \ from thi | coun: condition to fire upon them would ent the | Eagiand a: the Egyptian Situation. lives of the markers, as the tops of the let- | To the Editor of Tas Evexrwe Sr: | lg in which they stand are then open, and Although a naturalized citizen of the United ‘he “splash” from the bullets which strike against the = target: rect! +g | States, serving Uncle Sam diligently and faith- eet mer rae 2 ee es ee fully, and removed for seven years from the heads would cut them to pleces. These rules and precautions are observed the | immediate arena of European politics, I never- theless take a lively interest in the action. same when boats are coming down the stream. The sides of the targets and bullet-proofstoward | of the government of Great Britala—‘‘tive best,’ » according to the late Ralpn W. Emeraon, “of the river are always open, and the markers can actual nations—the modern world is hera— the When the grass is tall and small boats are passing, the English have madeit day by day.” Well, she is now involved in trouble arising out of the Egyptian revolt. All Europe, through ambys- sadors, m inisters and the press.express approba- tion of the course she has adopted—but not one nation offers a helping hand—and out of her isolation springs a ridiculous notion that she must succuinb to circumstances! She will not! The page of modern history shows that, in all the most critical events of the century, she has stood alone, and triumphed by her steadfastness of purpose over every difficulty. When Napo- leon I. had lost all means of contending with her at sea, owing to the victory off Trafalgar, he thought that he might ceteie her trade by Is- suing a decree in 1396, at Berlin, commanding ail nations, at their peril, to hold commercial intercourse with England. Portugal, alone, held to her alilance, for Englishmen drank Port wine, and she could not exist if Joho Bali were deprived of “the fruity.” To supply the defi- ciencies of the French navy, Napoleon encour- aged Denmark to prepare a nuyai armament. The destruction of this armament by Great, Britain was a sine qua non. “The might of England flashed, to anticipate the scene.” Ac- cordingly a fleet aud a small army were sent to Denmark in 1897, and Campbell's stirring song, nger line,” and deliberately walking around | “The Battle of the Baltic,” tells how the deed des of the targets and to within | was done. 50 yards of them, he gaye each one of the two hen Denmark blessed our chief colored mar! who were then in the targets, That he gave her wounds repose.” a charge of shot from his double-barrel gun, and But England was all alone in this exploit. Spain and Portugal were oyercome by French armies in 1803. England, unsupported, sent a There is not a day when shooting hot opened from one to a dozen times and kept open several minutes each time for passing This precaution is taken to cover the possibility of some shots missing the targets for all bullets that strike the heavy underneath are ground into small atoms, the *splash” being dangerous only within the di tance of a few feet. Notwithstanding the fact that the ** misses” are few and far between, the | r the governance of the mark- This does not apply to the practice at the short targets, which are so situated “Pro Bono” is very unfortunate im his state- Two years ago the 30th of May last he 8a boatman was seriously wounded while passing our long-range targets. No one was wounded there on that date. Four years ago | et, at a point several hundred yards below the round he instantly extracted the exploded shells | and reloading his gun, he gave each man another | small force to Lisbon, thence to Oporto, under shot. This was the unprovoked and wanton | Wellington. The result was the battle of VI act ofa cowardly, drunken boatman, who was | miera and the passage of the Douro, which cleared out for a holida: The markers at once opened | portugal, and five years later, after continuous | targets and displayed red flags, when it was | fighting, every Frenchman,’ including King seen through the telescope at the firing point | Joseph Bonaparte and his court, fled to France, that they were both wounded, and the | Wellington holding the Pyrenees against all party of gentlemen there ran to thelr as-/fresh attacks. Thebdattle of Toulouse wound sistance, the boatman, in the meantime, | up tle affair. Spain was thoroughly emanci- having made his escape by crossing the river. | pated. Both markers were wounded with bird-shot— | * In 3815 Napoleon I. had returned from exile one seriously, the work of extracting the shot | and challenged all Europe. England alone met m requiring the services of two sur- | him on the felds of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. geons for eral hours. it was afterward | Some Dutch troops proffered ald, but Wellington. ascertained who did the shooting. and the man had no faith in their courage and steadiness, was arrested. indicted before the grand jury, | and desired them to quit the fleld before the and his trial set for the fall term of court ; froin | battle began. ‘They very readily acquiesced. this it was continued till the spring term, | For twelve hours ‘the pounding match,” as the and again on the statement of the prisoner's | Duke called it, continued, until, at 8 p.m., the 1 that important witnesses were absent | final charge of the Guards and infantry drove it was further postponed. and finally the two | the French to ery Sauce qui peut” and beat a men who were shot failed to appear against the | confused retreat, Napoleon taking the lead. roffian and the case went by default. No other | The Prussians coming up at the juncture, old case of wounding onthe Beuting’srangeoronthe | Blucher, at the Duke's request, pursued’ the rivernear it. has ever occurred during the seven years that range has been in existence, and the pubile can rest assured that the members of the Columbia rifle association will at all times ex- ercise the utmost care in their practice, as the occurrence of an accident of the kind so reck- lessly mentioned by “Pro Bono,” would reflect the interstic dc! in the brick work When this coating of whitewash becomes so thick that it scales off. the occupants of the Fooms are supplied each with a steel hand- scraper, and th ce, even the rough. yjections of th mak ing army, and thus capped the climax of victory. In 1854, to save Constantinople from the grasp of Russla, England alone blockaded the Black Sea. The Crimean war followed. In 1855 eighty million of Mahomedans, sup- ing a new founda’ This | Pocess, so often repeated, has had the effect to Make the walls almost as smooth as if white- | 9 ar workmen in the plastering e entire surface of the walls which undergo this scraping process in this building is 23¢ acres by actual measurement. The rooms | Vary in size, containing from three to twelve ch, THE DORMITORY. making three the ceilings being quite high. These bed- ds are made fast to the floors and walls, so they cannot be wrenched away from their fastenings by any rooms being well make very comfor All the able-bodied of both sexes are required Yo labor daily, and plenty of useful employment is always found, either on the fa PROMISING CROPS. Almost the entire enclosure, including the old military and naval magazine grounds, are all under a good state of cultivation, and an im. mense crop of vezetables may be calculated on | this year with absolute certainty. Two crops | ek thade ‘tis year on much of the land. | Seven or more acres. where a heavy crop of oats | and rye was larvested a little more than a week | ago, is now set out in cabbages, upwards of | 35,000 of these plants being in gord crowing | condition. A three acre fieid of carr: ts. thickly | set in rows and very large and thrifty, attracts the attention of vi This is in the old | magazine grounds, where the land is ri yield must be very heavy when in condition to | pull—not less than twelve tons, Carrots are Very much used in the diet in both house: of the Washington asylum, owing tity of soup used; not less than three bush- of carrots daily being consumed all the year Tound. Another jield of four acres set in beets is worthy-of note. These are about equally »detween the mangel-wurzel. French | sever, ant the long red “bect,—and all in a fine exe state, the crop promising to be very ing apartments. A field of five acres is devoted to the wing of corn fudder for the cows and horses. is not much pasture land, and such stock has to be fed. This crop, too, is very heavy, and grows so rank that much of it has been lodged by the bist winds and rain. zi ANOTHE EAT ECONOMY has been discovered, that of keeping hogs for | fresh pork instead of buyin it. The slops and offal from the tables serve to keep a stock of | fifty-four swine. The slops and offal used to be | given away and carted off by outsiders. It is | now carefully preserved. and results in a great seving, furnishing fresh meat for about eight } months of the The b of hogs is the Berkshire. and they are i d condition. The | large number of broods of ehiekens also help the y in the hos- foot supply very muc pitals. THE OLD MAGAZINE BUILDINGS. ‘The buildings foynerly used for magazine pur. poses are all brought into requisition. The one formerly used for storing powder—35 by 100 feet, with a high ceiling—has been fitted up as a ward for old decrepit colored men, and supplied with cots and furniture suited to their wants. It | makes one of the most complete hospital wards to be found in this District, being constructed ; with the view of having it kept always ary The floor is close and smooth as that of a bail- Foom, and the windows low and with excel- lent ‘ventilation. There are about twenty beds in this ward and room for more. One end of the room is fitted up with shelves and drawers, separated by partitions, so that ach inmate may have a place to store his cloth- | img or other articles under lock and key. There fs another well-built frame structure, formerly ; ‘Weed as a drillroom, which the intendant pro- Em have removedto asite near the asylum , for use as a stable. It is large, and will afford all the stabling room n for | the horses and cows. The present stable ac- | @ommodations are totally inadequate, being | Rothing but old sheds without floors.’ There are several buildings, heretofore used as officers quarters, which eceupied by old colored | Women who are unable to work. i so ‘The Long-range Kifle Practice at Ren- Bing?s. ‘To the Esiitor of the NG Star: ” in your paper of the 22d Instant, exhibits gard of the trath as to certain usages and cir- eted with the long-range rifle practice at Bennin<’ able to reply to him for want of time. It is not true that the markers in the long- range targets on the marsh pay no attention to the hallooing of passing boatm and it is not true that a man in a boat on the er great ixnors | oh ther grea’ aorance or a total disre- oruwoare tnfarned, | to their employes regarding their behaviour and | other places of business in this city, are largely | ernment employes in a uniform and torbidding | of a little stimulus. They are, however, I learn, | there may be occasional eyasions of the law. and | your efforts in our behalf, our section of South- | ® Private inquiry, induced by the movement | east Washin; | neglected. | to suffer the most intolerable nuisances known | | to any civilized or uncivilized community. It | i} | now actually have the impudence to locate at | Thave not sooner been | n on the river; | river two years ago the 30th of May last. orat | any other time, was wounded while passing those tarzets. The facts are these, as hundreds of gentiemen who haye practiced with the rifle | cars, there. or who have witnessed the shooting, well know:—The two large iron targets stand on the marsh, three hundred yards from the river, but in such a direction from the firing point at the grand stand that all builets which miss the tar- zo for some distance almost paral- | times as much business travel as over all the river's course. Seme three | other bridges, combined, leading to the city. or four hundred yards beyond the targets there | Herein, we are most sadly Is avery considerable curve in the stream, and | not Lieut. Greene give this matter his atten- above this bend ail missing bullets that have | tion? The late lamented Twining would hat yond the | rectified this evil had his most useful life been gets Tel with the safficlent elevation to oarry them bey marah would strike into or cross the river; con- curve marks our “danger line.” sequently. t Tnvariabis far below this point, where the river | and are entitled to have this umes nearest to the targets, Soatmen who are passinz up the stream and who are not familiar ‘With the line of flight of the bullets, begin to halloc to have the firing cease. Our markers, whorknow precisely the course of missing bul- Say say to such boatmen, “We'll stop in for you,” and then when the boat or boats near thecurve before mentioned they open their targets, these targets being so constructed very act of ing them displays signals” at tops, wi more | half. ported by one hundred million Hindoo fanatics, massacred nearly all the English in India. In | less than two years (by 1857) England, unaided, and keep truth in view when he rushes into | stamped out the military rebellion and brought print with such charges as “Pro Bono” has | the whole country under the dominion of Queen made, even though he shelters himself behind | Victoria, who.has thus become “Empress,” to anassumed name. Respectfully yours, the great delight of the Feudal Kings and | J.0.P. BURNSIDE, Princes, who were ruffled at being ruled by one July 31, 1882. Pres't Col. Rifle Asso’n. | o/ theirown rank. The imperial dignity assumed Pera by England satisfied them ot her superiority, A Growl About Department Drinking | gid no greater blessing was ever conferred on Houses. nation. Compare the condition of India in 1882 To the Editor of Tae Evenine Star: with its moral and material state in 1857. Edu- Allow me to make the following suggestion | cation, religion, loyalty, prosperity are now the as a remedy fn part for a great and growing evil | distinguishing features of Indla. = in our midst. Although neither a teetotaler, | _ After the Crimean war the Emperor Napoleon prohibitionist, or believer in any radical measure | IIL invited the Royalties of Europe to ge Con- reyarding whi sople shoul a k or wear, | ress in Paris, with great political objects in atta that oe ae Mee reas nin OF Wea, | Flew. ‘The trembling Princes of the continent fs of Europe crouched and accepted the invitation. Two or three of the Great Powers waited fi the action of England. Her answer was: ‘ will not come.” That was enough. The Con- gress could not be held. It is unnecessary to call to the recollection of the reader that at the Berlin congress In 1873, Lord Beaconstield represented the “might and majesty” of old Engiand, and that the conse- quence was her sending ald to Turkey against ussia. She was again alone in the task, and Russia, even alter the victory of Plevna, was obliged to abandon the Idea of getting to Con- stantinople. England ‘received’ her reward thi the cession of Cyprus and a certain control over affairs In Asia Minor. ‘The misfortune of sending a small force, under an Incapable commander, to meet an immense body of warlike Africans in Zululand led to a terrible sacrifice of soldiers; but England lost no time in dispatching reinforcements and an able leader—the effect of which was to paralyze the Zulus and make prisoner of their king, Cetawayo. any one thus clothed from entering a public | England had no foreizn aid. house under penalty of dismissal. In case of | . Passing over several foreign negotiations at sickness medicine could be procured by an order | different times regarding France, Spaln and from the office, as it often is now in cases of | Italy, in which England distinctly refused to feminine indisposition. Join, I come to the present Imbroglto. The letter-carriers are very properly forbidden | _England has endeavored to obtain the assent from drinking while on duty; any one caught | 82d support of Turkey th her operations against indulging In that way being punished. It would | Arabi Bey—more In her political justification be much easier to enforce a rule of this kind to | than for any need of the doubtiul Turkish apply to clerks in general than it is to the gray- | troops—and in all that has been said to the coated boys, whose actions are less liable to be pales ls en Danere, Ree ae et etiare ve Great ain, SI e has gi discovered and who are doubtiess much in need | Of Gre Tee a Gan ee Ee ee | Khedive with authority and troops, England would do the needful alone; and she is fulfillin: the promise. And now comes the question o the immediate future. The delay has enabled Arabi Bey to do much mischief. He has as- sumed the holy character of a khalif, making the contest partially one of religion; he has increased_his force by the alliance of Bedouins The only sufferers that I know of that would | and raised fortresses at Aboukir. The same de- be caused by the maintainance of such a law | lay has promoted the embarkation of British would be the saloon-keepers; but perhaps they | tToops and the dispatch of @ force from India, mizht do an additional trade at night to make | 49d when Sir Garnet Wolseley with 20,000 men up for noon losses. At ali events there is too ; ands in Egypt he will renew the prestige of much capital invested in the retail liquor busi- | Ralph Abercombie at Aiexandria in 1801, while ness in this city, and it would be well to turn | Seymour imitates -Ne!son at Aboukir. History some of it into a more respectable channel, | often repeats itself. If the guns of the admiral Looking upon it from a mere business point | do not reach and silence the forts, Wolscley’s of view, the effrontery with which restau- | troops will storm and spike the guns. If Arabi rant keepers demand such enormous profits is | Bey gets together too large and efficient a force astonishing. How many of their patrons would | forthe English to contena with, the latter may allow themselves to be thus Imposed on in the | have to get aid in men from Belgium and Hol- purchase of other goods? What wonder that | land, from Portugal, from Canada and the col- arkeepers grow rich, shine in spotless linen, | Onles, and again from India. Her resources are wear diamond pins and are generally gotten up | boundless. ‘The cost of all this will fall on regardless of expense, or that their employers | Dgypt, and England will not que the country build Inxurions houses and aim to be feading | Natit she has been reimbi This is the men in the community. Meanwhile the propri- | humble opinion of youra, etor of the market store on the corner, whose book is fall of long unsettled accounts, ‘is sold out by the she Rune WINE. Bini aoe Southeast Washington Grievances. To the Editor of Tux Evextsc Stan: - Itis a most remarkable fact that despite most seriously upon the members of the club. | It is also necessary for aman to use precaution habits during the hours of labor. It is well known that drinking houses, like all patronized by government clerks. This is espe- cially the case about lunch time, when the trade done in plain and fancy drinks is enormous. Every department has several of these establish- ments as near to It as possible, and each one isa bonanza to its owner. This regular habit of drinking by employes is not merely a waste of “fools pence,” but Is also a loss to the govern- ment of many pounds in the. way of lost time = incapacitated clerks. It also leads to other xtravagances which, to procure the means for gratifying, theft is resorted to, and the abscond- ing defaulter can generally trace his downward | career to the habits engendered while drinking | at the bar of his favorite eating house during | office hours. The habit of clerical dram-drinking might be checked in a great measure by clothing all goy- temperate class of men’as arule, and although doubtless would be many if applied to the whole clerical force of the District, yet there would be much good accomplished by it, many a dollar saved to families who now neglect to pay the butcher and baker and much more work accom- plished for the government. J. H. Sippons. John Brown’s Family. - We are able to present the following authen- tic account of the condition of John Brown’s family in California. The letter is in answer to now making to raise a fund for them: “In answer to your inquiries concerning the family of the old hero and martyr, John Brown, I will say: They reside ona wild mountain farm of 160 acres, mostly unimproved and unim- jeovane, located ten miles weat ot San Jose. ie improvements consist of a few acres of clearing, a part of which is planted to fruit | trees and vines; a little cottage, costing a few hundred dollars, which was on the place when they bought it, a year and a half ago; and some little fencing. The place cost them, I believe, about $1,500. When I first met thé family short after the mrcleas, anil started move ment for their relief, they were owing $1,000 on peg Pee eae | the place. ‘They had no team, farming imple: uy - Baltiv ere COM | ments, or stock of any kind, and were really in pelled to leave the vicinity of Baltimore, and very straitened circumstances. The unmarried daughter, Sarah, was then teaching some two or three pupils in music, three miles distant down the mountain, at the little village ot Sara- toga, whither she went on foot, going and re- turning the same day. I raised about 2500, and the Chronicle foiks nearly $2,000, which placed them out of debt and put them in possession of 4 [ee of horses, wagons, a cow, fencing ma- , ete. “The family consists of Mrs. Brown, Sarah ‘mentioned above), a married daughter (Mrs. blinger) her husband and four children, the - 4 latter from a few months to six or eight Then, again, we refer to the approaches to the | Orage, all. girls. Thus the faaihy coring on is so terribly maltreated and laltreated, because we are allowed would be a purification of our atmosphere, at times, if a ship load of guano were blown up by some engine of war and the whole air impreg- nated with the odor of the bo What do our ealth officers mean? Look at the horrible fac- tory of stenches on James’ Creek canal, another at the corner of 9th and M streets southeast,— indelightful proximity to the officer’s quar- ers in the navy yard,—and there Is stili another | one at the entrance to Anacostia bridge. The | lust named is an oleomargarine factory, worse at times than an: the mouth of our most used and handsomest bridge. We thank you for gently indicating to our health officer his plain duty in the premises, We boil over with indignation, and trust that we do not cry in vain tor your aid in the premi- ses. ‘The insufferable nuisance of the great Penn- sylvania railroad turning one of the most beau- tiful of our avenues into a park for their freight we believe, is about ended. We look to the District Attorney, Riddle, for aid in that be- dier, who was considerably “about” in those | the vigilant chatrmaniof the Senate committee. | In five minutes that committee was In sessi | and voted to do the same thing that had | House had taken its action about 9 o'clock in ae THOSE CIPHER DISPATCHES. Hiow the Semate Get Them to Club { widen With. Washington Lettst to Now York Tribune. The general congratulation over the recent Oregen election brings to mind some facts in connection with the ‘‘electoral count,” and the investigations of the two houses of Congress, in which an earller Oregon election played a part: facts not generally known to the public, but which even at ‘this day may be of interest to the public. In days, however it may be at this time, all original telegrams were, at certain beriods, gathered from all the offices through- out the country and sent to the main office in New York for deposit and preservation. The Teaders have not forgotten the close and bit- terly contested result in the states of Oregon, Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina in the Hayes and Tilden fight. It seems that an officer of the Western Union telegraph com- pany, who could have access to these gathered telegrams, and who was a good democrat, was kept awake nights with the hopeful idea that among all the telegrams sent back and forth in regard to the canvass in these states by the active republican leaders, resident and forelgn, possibly there might be found something to compromise these men and their party, and, if made public, help reconcile the country to the meditated attempt to seat Mr. Tilden, or secure a strong sympathy if he were counted out. So this telegraph official, with a stealth out-run- ning his cunning, went to work, day and night, With this mass of returned telegrams at the New York office, and picked out every telegram sent during the campaign by any man of political eminence, from or to the politicians of either of these four contested states. He hadn’t time for sorting, so he gathered all the telegrams, cipher and otherwise, of the men of both parties, and stored them away in-a half-dozen capacious and weil-locked trunks. It will be remembered that during that Con- gress the democratic House had an investigating committee smelling about for whatever might be thought of service to the claims of Mr. Til- den, of which the late Clarkson N. Potter was chairman—as honorable a gentleman as that party has had in Congress for the last quarter of a cerftury—and it was a committee well watched by the republican Senate committee on privi- , leges and elections, with that most vigilaut of republicans, the late Oliver P. Morton, at its head. When tie democratic official of the telegraph company had his telegrains, which were to shock the country and blow the republicans entire! out of water, safely trunked and locked, ne came on to Washington, and at a hurriedly called meeting of the demo-~ cratic members of the Potter cominittee divulged | his terrific scheme. Then was the democratic heart glad. And a subpoena duces tecum under | the broad seal of the House and the sign man- | ual of its speaker, was at once placed in the hands of its sergeant-at-arms, ordering all_ the | officers, presidents, superintendents and direc- tors of both the Western Union and the Atlantic and Pacific telegraph companies to appear forth- with before the Pottercommittee, bringing with them all the telegrams that for six months had passed back and forth between these politicians, naming some 49 or 50 of the more active men of the time, and covering all that were in the | trunks. So good a thing could not be kept. Just one hint had to be made—toa friend *‘incontidence”— which soon reached the ear of Willlam EB. Chan- days, id through him was communicated to en Or It was now a dered by the House committee. The contest for possession of the telegrams. the morning. Jt was after 3 p.m. when the long summons, covering two or three sheets of fools- cap paper, reached the office of the sergeant-at- arms of the Senate. John R.French was then fill- ing that position. Taking in the situation,he soon had half a dozen of the readiest writers of the Senate force making copies of the subpeena, a couple of trustworthydeputies awaiting orders, | and a quick telegraph’ operator with a wire for | New York—and enjoined upon all dispatch and | absolute silence. Before thelamps were lighted that nignt thellong summons had beer. tele- graphed to every one of the more than 20 tele- graph officials, and befere the sun set the next day, to make all sure peradventure any legal cavil, personal service had been made in every instance, at the homes or place of business of these men, wherever they lived, in the state of New York or:in New England; and the morning thereafter, on the arrival of the train from the north, came these men, with their trunks of telegrams, and reported to the ser- geant-at-arms of the Senate that they waited the yore orders of that body at Willard’s hotel. That morning, about 9 o'clock, as was his wont, the rotund sergeant-at-arms of the House, perhaps thinking over the many fields he had won, and lost, In the Buckeye state, all the splendors of which were to be eclipsed by the trap which he was now about to spring, was leisurely taking his comfortable breakfast at that same Willard’s hotel, when a fellow- boarder across the table asked, ‘‘Why are all the telegraph men in town?” adding that he had just left a dozen of them in one of the par- lors upstairs. ‘Glad to hear it,” replied the democratic official, “for the presence of these men in Washington saves me the trip of a deputy to New York, and he went on with his | morning meal. Later he hunted up the tele- graph men in their parlor, and after a general introduction and a quiet discussion of the topics of the day, he unrolled his ponderous summons and proceeded to read the same to the body col- leetively. Upon Ins conclusion, Dr. Green, pres- ident of the Western Union company, remarked that they were law-abiding men, and would as~ suredly respond to the summons of the House as soon as they and the papers called for were released by the Senate; that they were in Washington with their trunks of telegrams, in | obedience to a writ from that bedy; and when } it was through with them th-y would im- mediately report to the House. The Senate was not thro: vith those tele- grams until about five minutes before the final adjournment of both houses—though during the meantime somebody went throuzh them and brought to light the cipher dispate XDO- sure which laid the foundation for a great deal of wholesome political action on the part of the, American people since. Seyeral “lessons” may be gathered from these facts by the thoughtiul politician, and it may be well to put them on record as’a part of the history of an interesting time. The outcome mist have reminded the mousing democratic telegraphic official of what has becoine proverbial about certain ‘schemes of mice and men.” ses A Very Common Mind Trouble. One of the common ways in which the trouble arises 1g the mischievous practice of trying to do several things at once or to “divide the at- ‘ention.” A scholar will insist on having sev- eral books open on his table before him, and he unconsciously forms the habit of spreading first his mental perceptions and then his thoughts over a wide field, andof taking in the largest ossible number of At the outset this isa habit ot physico-mental sight, then it be- comes a habit of the ‘intellectual organism; or jit may begin as an fntellectual exercise, and | afterward come to be; ing parely pussies! way, sensory. Literary men often lish the dis- treasing condition deloribed, by work which re- quires continual reference to. books or papers, and the ‘bearing in mind” of a large number of data for the purpose of collation. It is probable that Dr. Jonson, the great eS rapher, formed his habit of post-touching in this way. Men‘whosé mental work consists in “managing,” may Contract the same habit if they are ther selves ‘stationary—sitting in a chair at a lar désk, while books, papers, or persons crowd in mn them. Another an very dissimilar dlasé of minds, which, instead of being worried by a multiplicity of brain-work, have so little to! occupy their attention to their consciousness forms & habit of dallying with the details of every little thing that fails in its way, suffers thé sal dy. So long as the habit is purely mental it exerts a mischievous effect on the mind and lowers the tone of its in— tellectuality; but It does not generall attention until, or unless, it extends to thesenses, then the evidences of doubt declare them- |.Belves, and the mental state finding e: ion. Anacostia bridge, beyond which are the most. eight | persons. They are plain, unpretentious ‘lightful drives, and over which there are three | People, and have been trained in the hard school of poverty until rie learned how to get with very litt Thelr place—or about one-fourth of it—could be made productive, but much labor and money would be required. Tt think it is about an even with them to ob- are le to employ help, ing the only man about the has been a schocl teacher, and fs not much fitted for hard manual labor. ‘They are all excellent, most worthy neglected. Why can- spared him, and we hold that to Lieut. Greene we must look now. Unless he fa that we need corrected the Engineer Commissi: joner may never hear of our wants. in acta, ig rapidly confirmed. The lence of ‘one sense 1s a longer sufficient to convince the DAY, AUGUST to the eccentric acts I have enumerated. ible ie, however, the same under ail its divers forms and varieties. I do not mean to procured by the lication of additional sensory tests, but that In'the method instinctively taken to remove the doubt, and it throws light on the nature of the neurosis. The consciousness is doing work for which it is un- fitted, and it does it in a and clumsy fashion, which occasions much needless effort and is in itself distressing.— Good Words. —— Farmer Stebbins at Ocean Grove. BY WILL CARLETON. Dear Broraer Jonx:— ‘We got here safe—my worthy wife an’ me— An’ pitched our tents within a grove contig’us to e sen; We've harvested such means of grace as growed within our reach; We've ’tended all the mornin’ talks, we've heard the Bishop preach; An’ everything went pleasantly, until we had a whim— My wife and I—one breezy day, to take an ocean swim. We wouldn’t ha’ vent’red on’t,I think, if Sister Sunnyho) Hadn't urg over an’ ag’in, an’ said she knew the rop An’ told how safe an’ sweet it was “in ocean rills to lave, An’ “sport within the foaming surf,” an’ “ride the crested wave”; An’ so we went along with her—my timid wife an’ me— Two inland noodles, for our Arst acquaintance ‘with the sea. They put me in a work-day rig, as us’ally is done— A Wampus an’ short overhauls all sewed up into one. Thad to pull an’ fus an’ jerk to make the things go ‘round (You are aware my peaceful weight will crowd three hundred pound). They took my wig an’ latd tt up—to keep it safe, they satd— An’ strapped a straw-stack of a hat on my devoted They put my wize into a dress too short by full a thira— ’Twas some’at in the “Bloomer” style, an’ looked a bit absurd. You know she’s rather tall an’ slim—somewhat my » opposite— An’ clothes that are not cut for her are likely not to nt; But as we was we vent’red in—my faithful wife ’ me— an’ An’ formed our first acquaintance with the incon- sistent sea, Miss Sunnyhopes she went ahead, a-lookin’ trim an’ sweet; suit all fixed an’ trimmed An’ went out an’ grabbed the rope, just as she told me to; An’ wife come next, a-lookin’ scared, scarce know- in? what to do. But Sister Sunnyhopes to me a smile 0’ sweetness gave, An’ said, “Now watch your chance, an’ jump— here comes a lovely Wave!” I must ha’ jumped, I ruther think, the wrong time o’ the moon; Atany rate, the lovely wave occurred to me too soon. Tt took, me solid, with @ rude an’ unexpected shock; Te drat thé stoutest patr o” horns there fs in all my jock. An’ then, to top the circus out, an’ make the act more fine, Ttrled to kick the lovely wave, relinquishin’ the ne. On connty tale an’ "lection days, in walkin’ through acrow Pm rather firm to jostle *gainst—perhaps it makes me proud; But if it does, that wave discoursed how sureness never pays; An’ seemed to Shout, “How small ts man, no odds how much he welghs!” It sat on me, it jumped on me, in spite of right or a Wy An’ whisked an’ whirled me all about asif I'd been astraw. An’ then it latd me on the beach, right thankful for my life; Au! gcrambltn”up, Igave a gaze to find my tatth- ful wife; But she had'sort o' cut the wave, with all the edge she had, Au’ stood a-holdin’ to the rope, uncommon moist an’ sad; While Sister Sunnyhopes, with smiles, was lookin’ proud an’ gay, A-floatin’ on her ‘dainty back, some several rods away. She looked 0 Pegian emer there (an’ knowed it ‘The crowd was all admirin’ her, an’so was I my- AD’ ™ aie Aa ‘I grasped the line beside my wife My oe joomid rove Sister S., her beauty an’ her When oS at once another wave, tremendous broad an’ ey Come smashin’ down on wife an’ me, an’ tossed us in a heap, Heels over head, allin a bunch, my wife across 0” me, An’ Ion some unlucky folks who happened there My hat untied an’ floated off, an’ left my bald head are. 4 When we got out, tf I’ ha’ spoke, tt would ha’ warmed the air. We drank a good part of the sea—my gaspin’ wife an’ I— While Sister 8, still floated soft, a-gazin’ at the We Ae that we'd got enoygh, an’ crawled out of he way Before another wave arrived, an’ bid the sea good- ay. We looked as like two drownded rats asever such was called, With one of ’em a mighty fool, particularly bald. But, like a woman true, she said—my watchful ‘wife—to me, “We will not mind: there’s others here that looks as bad as we.” Now Sister Sunnyhopes, by-’n’-by, came back into our tent As sleek Ot Siceker than before, an’ asked us when we went. Says I, “My dear good Sister S., please do not now pretend You did not see our Vyage through, an’ mark its doleful end. If you would have you But we're too old to take boats nen A faithful wife an’ me.” larper’s Weekly. ‘The Prince of Wales’ Garden Party, From the London Trith. On Thursday, July 13th, the garden party at Marlborough House was the largest ever given there, 8,000 invitations having been sent out against 2,000 in previous years. The crowa of brilliantly-dressed women on the lawn, most of them in white or whitey- brown, the Indian tents, the music of the two banda, the ripple of chat, and the many greet- ings of friends, made the scene full of life and color and movement. The Prince and Princess received the guests on the lawn, and the Queen arrived about half- past five, and was received at the entrance by their Royal Highnesses. Her Majesty looked remarkably well, and as she walked round the gardens on the Prince's arm she smiled most kindly and nal = eayeseeetted = peter of guests, often pausing to recognize an ake hands with ladies of her acquaintance. Lady Mandeville made a pretty group with her twins in Mother Hubbard bonnets. Saturday Smiles. waleelag'placa be’ te going to tus omatmer lace summer.— Movkig Seaarny w= When Mr. Hubbell assessed the proved opportunity for somebody to pea hina roved 0) y for somel on inside Oddities. dl — Ladies, when being courted, ought not to object to the moderate use of tobacco. They should recollect that where there is a ‘flame’ there must be some smoke.— The 3 —II ustration of the politeness French. “In Wagon one voyager, having prayed the others not to smoke, illumes one cigar. All the compartment revolts himself. ‘It is very simple,’ cries himself the voyager; ‘I cannot support but my own smoke.’ ”—Literal Trans play the mermatd fair, why, such Pa main, stationary.” This is truly ungrateful remain ee is on the part orthe rivers. After the liberal ap- priations that have been bestowed on them, They phinild cant am! all tiec, if only to express their thanks.—Boston Transcript. a for the harbors and streams of J« ye When the ite companies of New Brunswick ai sil tor a —_ throw Terme hundred or 80 once an Enterprise. —“Are you a member of tem ganization?” asked a clerical RELIGIOUS NOTES. —Rev W. F. Ward will visit Newark, N. J., next week. —Rev. RB. N. Baer, of the Metropolitan M.E. church, is in the city. — At Coney Island a Union church is being —— . It will cost $7,000 and seat 400 per- — Mr. Sankey has returned from Englatid for ashort rest, but will join Mr. Moody in Sep- tember. —Rev.C. H. Richardson, of McKendree, will spend his vacation at Atlantic City andin Baitt- more county, Md. — Rev. Dr. Wheeler, of the New York Metho- dist, returns to his Post this week, after a three months’ sojourn in Europe. — Evangelist Moody is anxious to retura to this country, but his work in England will not Permit him to do so at present. — Every Catholic tn the world is requested to give five cents toward the erection of a mona - ment in memory of Pope Plus 1X. —Rev. C. M. Haddaway, of the Reformed Episcopal church, will occupy the pulpit of the Southern Methodist church in Alexandria. — The Wesleyan Methodist conference in ses- sion at Leeds, England, has elected Rev. Chas. Garrett, the temperance advocate, president. —A temperance bush meeting will be held in Loudoun county, . next week, and Rev. Dr. T. L. Poulson, of Alexandria, will be one of the speakers. — “With a large portion, probably a large ma- Jority” [of Congregationalists], says the Rev. L. White in Zion's Herald, ‘‘Calvanism is an out- grown dogma.” —Sister Aloysia, formerly Miss Patton, of Philadelphia, died at Providence horpital last week and was buried at Mt. Olivet. She was in her thirty-fourth year. — Mexico has proved a very encouraging fleld forthe Methodists and the Presbyterians. Nearly one-third of the foreign mission membership of. the Presbyterians ts in that country. 3 — Miss Eilen McMaster, daughter of Colonel MeMaster, of the Freeman's Journal, is a postu- lant at the Carmelite Convent of St. Theresa, Baltimore, and will receive the white veil in Oc- tober next, i — It is probable that the next general confer- ence of the Evangelical Alliance will meet in Stockholm, Sweeden, in September, 1883. The Queen of Sweeden is warmly laterested in the | work of the Alliance. — At a chapel of St. George's church, New York, a clergyman {s in constant attendance | awaiting calls to visit the sick or bury the dead. | Most of the churches which close their doors in | summer make no such proviston. — The Sunday schools of Washington during the month of July were attended usually by nearly double the average in warm weather, an indication that there are many stay-at-homes among the attendants this cool summer. — Henry Bayley, formerly a China merchant on 7th street, who for atime assisted Rev. Mr. Taylor in the missionary work in California, is now engaged in mission work in East Balti- more, and has had much success in the bad quar- ter of that city. — There is about to be formed in Great Bri- talna “Green Riband” army, composed of all members of the Roman Catholic temperance or- ganizations throughout the kingdom. A green | riband will be worn at the.button-hole by each | member of the army. There is already in active | work a “Blue Riband” army. —A new Methodist Episcopal church South, near Mitchellville, P. G. Co., Md., will be ded- icated soon. The congregation of this church 1s that which has worshiped at McKendree chapel near by, oyer which there was a controversy about a year ago, and In a suit which follow a decision was rendered for the Southern Meth- odists. ° —The recent Sunday school assembly at Mountain Lake park, the new religious resort inthe Alleghanies, was a great success. Two of the lectures were by Rev. Thomas Guard, of Baltimore, who it Is understood will be trans- ferred to the Philadelphia conference in the spring, and appointed to the Spring Garden church in that city. —The Methodist says: “The camp-meeting season is upon us, and It may be hoped that all concerned will use thelr best endeavors to make it productive of the greatest possible amount of good, with the least of harm. It will be well to recognize the fact that, except in the most se- cluded rural districts, the camp-meeting of fifty years ago no longer exists, and that what we now have. while it bears the name and the tra- altions ofits ancestor, has really developed Into | © quite another thing. Our new-fashioned sacipelry ochre gtoves ed fs “yr ide—for rest an ion—poasibly for gossip and display, witha very mild infusion of re- | ligion—or else for the promotion of some spec- ialty—must not be looked to as to any consid- erable extent among the evangelistic agencies through which souls are to be saved. As an in- expensive device for summer outdoor holidays, with the accompaniment of religious restraints to guard against dangerous excesses, and of re- ligious exercises for agreeable and not alto- gether unprofitable pastimes, these gatherings may haye thelruse. Let these be carefully conserved and little further either expected or aimed at.” | — A correspondent sends the following to | Tue Star. Loveland camp ground led Mr. Harrison to be- Neve that they had given to him that which they | had only lent to him—and that conditionally, too, | to be used as they choose, and not as he would? | And is that riot a pretty slow, mercenary spirit | which disposes of that which is worth €500 for | $200? Ah! Mr. Harrison is certainly slow. slow on the money question if that Is the best he can do. The ladies evidently have a much closer eye to business than the evangelist has. It is to be hoped that the bishop who is now to be favored with the ‘present’ will be so thoughtful H as not to occupy, as it might be the intention of the ladies to displace him in the midst of his occupancy, that they may give to another whose turn it may next be that which they present to him. We are glad to learn that Mr. Harrison in coming this way. The last time THe Star told us anything about the dear preacher he was away off in Minnesota. We have no cottages | EuvG ‘here to give him, but we care more a great deal forthemanthan forcottages, or@500either. Will Tne Star please extend our sympathies— where?—well, where they are most needed, and our congratulations to Mr. Harrison that his trouble is of so slight character.” prourr ACTION 18 NEEDED WHEN CRAMPED. DONT EXPERIMENT ON YOURSELVES, i YOU NEED RELIEF AT ONCE! Get it, if possible, by using the GENUINE FRED'K BROWN’S GINGER. ‘thousands of qur countrymen and women who have ex- perienced its effects are sware, but are backed up by The Costume of Men. At a meeting of the Architectural Association in London, a paper on “Art in Costume” was recently read by Mr. J. A. Goteh, in which he spoke of the costume of men, and made some suggestions. He said: “One of the most obvious things shout a man's every. dross is itxugtiness. When on pleasure be . = T pretty much what be llker. and, as e matter pottalinys, boating a only wi on jens, OF pay performing ‘some oc ecessary Dice s. iemeeif. the doce ado ‘ine & call, or go oventionality. he conniciete 1 to be particularly inartist.cand um- After condemning and ridiculing the “top hat” and the ordinary frock coat, Mr. teh went on to say that the worst and ugliest feat- ure in modern costume was trousers, which seemed to have been evolved fr trousers and Wellingtons of the century the ku earlier. History once so simple an “Trousers are not these, in preeches and stockings J rown from ANe years had no record of a garment af dso ugly. economical, inasmuch ag won their turn, having bagy at the kuee long before 1 are hext is the total disuse of th and the more frequent use of Koft n covering. A bilities, while the “wide-awaki or “billy-cock” bat bas capa- ‘an: arti- shanter’ is an excellent ie, ready to the head. Coats could not be 80 absolutely condemned, but the k “If the coat-slee: cturer suggested some modifications: vee were ticht and the coll toned high there would be no sibility, of «ta soearity for a ‘gine gua nan we lies in the colar, Do away with the ‘# then disca fs jersey. Sup He collar might anpest above tye cont, tte the siee jet it be optional, 1 liar. Fors might be introd reat eral wear are both ase cony the wood of wearing an open chest-v-rotector ut upon the coliar aud for that ix the focus the eye naturally lichts in conversation, = it color is very “jrectous’ in ‘these days of Piece of bris! soniber hues. The author of much room for improve: the colors of our clothes. and showing the jersey dor mn commeqnently hat then? Iss linen ? Notatall. At present nly cuffs aud shirtt-front appearing. nd cuffs an be any col mi like, t open of dishabiile ax now. while according to the cut of the ixht desirable to ornament Knows, duck, taypli 1 shirt-tronte for wen- unhealthy. What ie inelea jerneath it neoktie will weil repay the trouble, f mnie ooten rat = A ‘nmall the paper thought there was nt and attention in Of all the horrible inventions of feeble clothmakers the shepherd’ plaid pattern was, dressed in a black co: hesaid, the most di Aman 3 trou- ar , shepherd's p sers, and a nondescript artificial necktie, was @ sight to rouse pity in his bitterest foe.’ Black was much too freely used n rather less than formerly. for it, except a desii lecturer said: “Avoid artificial yourself, learn. W ‘adays, though There was no reason to be in the fashion. The If yo wave the i cannot tie one neckties. ho r his serious Consideration would consent to wear a atif board on hie carefully ade to look Like hat dows in stuck in t Yet Lb ‘wear such tings wear, by all meas @ necktie whore xtra it does no 00 IST OF L If you have a p wear it; only choowe for ite ture requires it, and not one nas to gloves if oR REMAINING WASHINGTON CIT’ IN THE POST OFFIC! 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