Evening Star Newspaper, October 4, 1884, Page 6

THE COLLAPSE OF CONCEPCION Eke Terrible Earthquake that Swal- lowed Up the City. here is at present stopping in this city an eman, who has spent the y-live years of an unusually ad- eabroad. The gentleman's name . and he ts now on his way as he says, amid the after an ab: of a ury. In view of the interest re- axes in the United » arter of a ¢: excited in ¢ qi i tell you.” of Con- af. As night ap- to become more P i mock early that I retired to my » net know h ned by th 2 what avai 1 to T pack, nd prepar ed may foot there It in- | bled the ap- 1 of horsemen over a wooden At the same moment the earth seemed to rise up perpendicularly and crash The: Hecing peov y the rocking ¢ sky. ‘oans of wounded 3 T opened neath me with TEEY FOUND THE EDITOR IN. Lively Experience of the Man with a Grievance ana “Friend” who In- n, , With iron gray hair, a pistol in a 7th avenue, New York, mon Sunday morning, and was prom discharging the remainder of its con- nthe street when three policemen with weapon away and r to the Jefferson Market Ripley, a . The three policemen described + in a manner prejudicial to his a ci Areporter of the phical excerpts and they were pubilshed In next day's 7: with the announcement th out ofa huge roll of bill attled up to the Times t same afternoon, and get ont and climbed to the editorial Ss. He wore a nice hat, bronchit along with pig bi ng over two pounds, a bi somewhere about tivo f ed copy of the Ti the latter upon th athal, ty edi- into a si- ive nth, de- per ac~ nd yer must take it back what yer stuck inde Pay " interpolated the tlemen,” replied s lungs to tin n communicates with the marble p lice In Mulberre street. Ripley sprang to his feet and pounded the | bla desk with rm with great energy. essenger Is and polices a call. The calls wouldn't work, and the policemen ther end of the b Mr. B. A. ie avotrin- tulated in uch a useless Finkelste its way ing enip! ing 5! ing scenery show from a convenient rtieo with evidences of intense ap- osing but ineft building, Mr. ik and counted ce and head. tly returned with he would ac wouldn't a b exclaimed to see yo be Despatched Train. ch one eurrent of experts that road car w ting of the cireult in an ; , and shnt- the ground between tise t asif there w tual ¢ und wire and the instra By 1 of this inv OL only passe nd dispat tion to be mad will be operator act position of Mice of the rond at re » the central o als, say ev very train moving on the Foad can te seen on a chart, and if two trains Ket too close, word can be sent S$ the operators on thetroins. 1 vantage to passenzers of bein and receive dispatches while is going at tull speed, is too obvious to be dwelt upon. The passenzer could make arrangements for room at destination, or transact any other business by wire with any part of the country. = —___ An Unprincipied Scheicr. From the Filtsburg Chronicle, “Oh, Just look at those beautiful melons, they fairly make my mouth water!” she exclaimed. “They are beauties,” he replied. “Wouldn't It be nice to take one home with us and pnt it on ice for a while and then have it at supper?” “Wouldn't it!” “But,” and he paused reftectively, “you know, though I don't believe {1 y say melons are malarious. Don't you think maybe we'd better stop.on our way home and have a nice dish of ice cream with sponge cake?” iI, you know best, dear. Maybe it would ter.” she placidly be bet: A templation of antictpe: sudden and say ed saloon on tlie road home.” adds: “Weill, it’s really too bad, but it can’t be| she had a helped now, pet,” and there isa mild light of | mingled with white heather. the uajus eyes as he says greater | Tslept. but I | 1 join in the | {been de- y | were among P y | Closed a four day . | most part £0 essentially uni e return of | tj in her p ties. r they walk afew Piocke in quiet con- pleasure, she stops “But, Altred, i do believe we | cent visit to Edinburgh the sre two ninulcs; why, there sno ice cream | described as atti “Ain't there?” he saysin felened surprise, and | with silver, manmade perfectly happy in his | Wales also wore a buttonhole 7" THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, ee D. C., SATURDAY, 40C’ | GLADSTONE’S ORATORY, Methods and Piatform Characteristics of the Great Premier. In Mr. Gladstone's oratory you may find ex- | amples of nearly every charm which it is possi- ble for an orator to work upon his hearers, writes G. W. Smalley to the New York Tribune. effect he produces does not owe much to ure. There is gesture, but it often lacks ex- veness. The arms are used pretty con- stantly, but the same movement of the same uscles is made to signify, or meant to signify, y different things. It wants what on the French stage ts called largeness or amplitude, and is sometimes violent, sometimes deficient in the grace and suavity which the admirable smootiness of voice leads you to expect. The shou! rise and fall with what Lam afraid es be described aa _jerkness—indeed ents the voice If sometimes loses and harsh notes are heard. The quent passage of the right zer across the lips, and the curi- ous touch of the thumb on a par- | trentar spot at the snmmit of the broad arch of the foreiead, are pecuilarities which I mention only for the sake of fidelity, and with every | 5 raightening of ing and ion one gets from these es tary—they are dents due to the overmastering intensity ot —nature In her cruder moods of the consummate art which ng but almost continuous con- dition with the orator? If there be any defi- s of this sort, you will hardly observe mn unless after long familiarity with the peaker. It is the face which will rivet your the play of features alike delicate and | powertul, and the ever-resting, far-searchin | glance. Never was such a tel!-tale countenance. xpression after expression sweeps across it, thought pictures itself to you almost before uttered. and if your eyes by chance meet ze of sunlight which dazzles you. t ses you, and what you will with you as MANENT AND PRECIOUS MEMORY above all other things, the nobleness of pres- the beautiful dignity, the stateliness of dnence, and place ude wholly at the mercy’of the ng who stands before them. e been asked often enough by my own rymen ifany American was like Mr. Glad- | reat multi one fe JIM BECK WOUKTH’S ADVENTURES Kecolicctions of a Famous Scout who In Plumas county, California, there is a fer- tile mountain valley in the heart of the North- ern Sierras, where, for some years, Beckwourth, the famous trapper guide, Indian chief and fronstiersman, lived. The annals of western ad- venture contain no more interesting figure than swarthy Jim Beckwourth, the discoverer, in 1851, of this mountain pass. The writer has met many persons, army officers and civilians, who knew Beckwourth, and has talked with gold hunters whom this fearless guide led across the Sierras in 1851. Beckwourth was born in Fredericksburg, Va., in 1798. father had been an officer In the Revolution. About 1805 the family removed'to Missourl, and settled twelve miles below St. Charles, in a region still called Beckwourth’s Settlement. When only nineteen years old Jim Beckwourth became the huuter for Col. R. M. Jobknson's expedition to treat “with the Sacs and Fi and work lead mines in the Galena region. it was not long before Beckwourth joined Gen. Ashley's Rocky Mountain Fur company. From i817 until he started for California in 1844, his life was a succession of hairbreadth escapes, of fortunes made and lost, and of Indian battles. He served under Bent and Sublette in the west, and with Gen. Jessup ng the Seminole war in Florida. He even me first counsellor of the Crow nation, and chief, leading them in count- 8 against the Sioux and Blackfeet. < protected the persons and property while he was the ruler ot the Crows. His popularity with the tribe, whom he ruled with a rod of iron, was due to his wonderful knowledge of Indian nature and his unsurpassed moss-trooper instincts. He was never so happy as when in the saddle, leading a war party by night marches to assault Lipan or Comanche encampments, or to stampede their horses and dash away again like a whirlwind. One of the dozen or ™ Indian names he had meant, in English, “* Enemy of Horses.” One of Beckwourth’s famous feats was accom- pilshed about 1 river trapping beaver. He was pursued by over 200 Indians, and ran all day without food or wate vering, it is believed not less than 95 sre he reached Sublette’s camp. This anks in_ the tales of the west with Bent’s mous ride 20 years later. In 1836, while Beck- wourth in St. Louis and was still chiefof ‘ows, a foolish trapper told that tribe that Abeen killed. They at once surrounded rt Cass with thousands of warriors to take imme vengeance. After much parley a I know of none, nor of any European In the iate Mr. Daniel W m had in Mr. | aw and heard | poke from the | | stone. but the n an addition of eo tone robustness of which ie. Lonce when he there is r in Worcester radi is usett: ys from which | He almost ex m had in mind Webster were it | a flash of li¢ftninz he should re whether an angel ora demon were standing before him, Well, it is no compliment to Mr. Gladstone to fay that nobody would take jim for a demon, beneath a flash of lightning or otherwise. ng in ments at all. le aim is to be deserij But Webster was of the earth. Mr. Gladstone | has a light on his face that seems to come from the upper air. Webster was a speaker of extra- | ordinary powers of mind. As Theodore Parker | fd of him, he could state a case better than | any man in America. He was occasionally an | | orator. it is but seldom that Mr. Gladstone ts | not. I should like to drawa much more minute comparison between Mr. Giadstone and Wendell Puillips, for it would, I think, oe much more | iliustrative, though I ‘should begin | that neither Mr. Gladstone nor anybody j that i APOLLO LIKE BEAUTY OF PRESENCE, | of that voice of god, or that genius for c ‘ting or controlling a hostile audience which | ’ many Incomparable gifts. | But I cannot do that. I have heard Castelar ad | | dress 6,000 Spaniards at Price’s circus in Madrid | | in his all too copious Castilian; supple, sympa- | i and orator to the tipsof his heard Bismarck, when in the | white uniform of the cu’ 8, of whom he | | was major, and booted to the knee, he gave his | orders with ! | ment of Prussi greatest effort of his I I hope Tam not de M. | Versailles with what I am disposed to th | the createst single effort of oratory [ ever tened to in Europe. and he. pad a great | deal in common wit Both | | had the same miraculous flexibility of mind and | inexhaustible abundance of various diction. Mr. | Bright, the one Englishman living whose sre; | est speeches might be pr side with Mr. Gladstone | fitable for contrast than for comparison. j lucid flow of Mr. Bright's simply constructed | sentences, always direct, always the best { | in the best place, always effectiv Upro- | portion to any machinery of rhetoric evident to | the eye scanning them in print—nothing could | | be more unlike the method of Mr. Gladstone, | | and nothing could be more instructive than a | | full statement of the secret of each. But, onthe | whole, not much is to be gained by these brief reminiscences of great contemporaries, for the | Mr. Gladstone, | and it is time to have done with it. SS ee OF AN EMPRESS, —— Stately Splendor that Serves to Mask Nebie Endurance and Heroic Pa-| tience. SUFFEREN | From Mirae. de Stzel’s London Letter. range and sometimes pathetic are the ways of those royai households of which only | the cold, stately splendor meets the eye. How few, seeing the Empress of Germany fulfilling ail the duties of her station, every Inch a queen, | would guess that for eighteen months, since her accident, she has been racked with almost | intolerable pain, Unable to walk or leave her | chair, she had herself carried once a week to the | Aucusta Hospital and to the Angusta foundation for the dangiters of poor officers and those killed in battle; both these institutions are her | own work, and she dispenses in person consol: | tion, 2d and commands. Every Sunday, well or he attends divine service, not chapel or oratory, but in one churches. Empress in name— —she shirks none of the obliga- . even the most trying ones, of her station and astonishes the most experienced diplomats ablest inisters by the readiness of | her wit, her unfailing tact and profound eru- dition. Those who see her haut pas, covered | h pricele-s jewels, robed in her purple man- fringed i heavy sables,do not realize t the re in Intentionally thrown over maimed, tortured limb as nflerings are concealed under ‘she turns on the emperor at a the mistress of the robes standing ft, or on the ladies bending ‘ore her in a triple courtesy as they pass. who best could reveai the trath and tell rance and brave patience, is the in Woman who was brought from her Peasant home in the provinces to give the sov- | | ere relief by her deft manipulations. She has done nothing else since her childhood, and | the professional gift of healing frictions is hereditary in her family, as it is with many of the Silesian shepherds. This aged woman rubs the empress twice, sometimes three times a day, | according to the intensity of the pain, and is rarely away from her now. She follows her in her drives, to church, in her travels; she sits jn the ante-room during the Thursday receptions, in a tribune during the royal balls and concerts, acquaint, homely and picturesque figure. Un: willing to part from her even for a short visit to her native village, the empress sent for her daughter, already a mature woman, to come to Berlin, and lent her a court carriage to visit all the lions and places of interest. The cid Sile- sian peasant Is loud in praise of her royal pa- tient, and perhaps no more sincere tribute is paid to the courageous endurance and kindly nature of the much-tried sovereign. ——_—__-e- Werk for the President Onty. Bauk President—“Well, you may consider yourself engaged as Janitor, The position, as you will see from the instructions I Lave given you, Is nota dificult one to fill, yet it carries | with it a good deal of responsibility.” New Janitor—“I am much obliged, sir, forthe piace. There's one thing, however, you haye not told me about. Shall I clean ont the bank every night: Post-. | of the publ j tle i Express. ‘The Roya! Family, Mr. Glad- | » of three months agreed upon until 1 coutd be sent to. Beckwourth to come and cue the beleagured fort, which contained $100,000 worth of goods. A trapper named yen. was paid $1,000 to deliver the message to Beckwourth, and the Crows encamped to await results. ‘The fur company paid Beck- wourth $5,000 and all expenses to return at = ! once, and he rode, with two companions, the - | entire distance in 50 days, and sayed the fort fromdestruction. After this he traded in New Mexico, and in ISit led an expedition to California, reaching Los Angeles in January, 1844. He was one of e most active of the revojutionist of 1845, der Gen. Castro, being leader of the thirteen emen who first joined Castro. He nt of the subsequent corps cf 160 aptured the Pueblos of Santa Barbara and Monterey, deteating Sutter's forces. When, in 1847, war was declared in Mexieo, Beck- wourth and his company of trappers, number- ing less than a dozen, collected over 1,800 liorses in the Los Angeles region, and, starting eastward, re ached the Arkansas in safety. He 1 dispatches from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe and other points. On one occasion he rode 913 miles in fifteen days. In 1848 he returned to California. Here he helped to bring to justice the_perpe- trators of the Reed murders near San Miuel, where a respected English family and theit servants, eleven in ail, were killed. The ranch was twenty-five miles from the nearest house, and Beckwourth was the person who dis- covered the deed not an hour atter it was com mitted. He rode seventy-two miles that night, and collected a band of forty men, to whom twenty more were added the next day. They separated. and Heekwourth, with twenty men, overtook the fonrteen desperadoes who had Killed the family in order to get $1,000 worth ot gold dust. In the attack two or three of the murderers were killed, and the others were captared, tried bylynch law, and shot. After this Beckwourth became a familiar flzure at the old camps of the Sierras, from Hangtown to Shasta. Beckwourth ‘as rather under medium size, but possessed of great strength and endur- ance. He was famous for his vivid descriptive powersin telling of his adventures. He died in lis lonely cabin a score of years ago, a vagrant of the wilderness, an uneducated, Kind-liearted frontiersman, less noble than Boone and Carson, yet not unworthy of their companionship. oe Snturday Smiles, A steel pen—the penitentiary.— The Judge. A turn-spit—the oil-cloth. Something in the wind—dust. The Mormon church has an income of €2,000,- 00 a year.—Ex. Ella Larrabee, the burglar, isa brunette; an umber Ella.—J’hiladelphia Star, The bull is a generous fellow. He fre- quently makes a man take a horn.—W. ¥. Tele- gram. A Chicago hotel keeper recently had a man arrested for stealing a cake of soap. Thereisn’t much encouragement for a man to be clean in Chicazo.— Graphic. “Duke Ace” is the name of a recent foreign arrival in this city. He must be avery high nobleman in his own country, asan Ace always ranks a King.—Graphic. A child with no brains has been born in Ne- braska. If he lives he will never be of any use inthe world. But stay! He will make a model juryman. Paul Herald. At Newport while the realistic sham fight was in progress, it is said our_tender-hearted Presi- dent experienced a good deal of sham-pain (spell it any way you like).—Lise. The equinoctial storm has evidently eloped, but not with a conchman.—Troy Times. There ts no statute of limitations that can stop a scandal.—New Orleans Picayune. There are 600,000 widows in Indiana, A law isevidently needed in that country to prevent the use of the broomstick.— Rochester’ Democrat. “Tye 'eard of Cricket on the Hearth,” said *Arry after reading of che victory of Australia over the South ot England: “but I should call the game o’ these Autralian coves cricket at the tother end o’ the hearth."—London Punch. “Will you heip me to press some leaves?” the maiden asked her lover. “If you will fasten them in your walst belt I'll see What I can do,” he answered, and thus a popular method of pressing autumn leayes was invented,—Somer- ville Journal. A maazine writer says that ‘dress must always be an outward indication of the mind within.” Whence, therefore, the legs of a dude's pantatoons indicate that he has a very thin and contracted mind.—Norristown Herala. Arnold Pye-Smith and wife, of England, are stopping at a Chicago hotel. The Chicago people understand his middie name, but won- der why he doesn’t spell it better.—Grap First. small boy—Hello, Bill! Bin gitten yer head shingled? Second small boy, weeping— No; twan't my head! First small boy howls in a derisive and taunting manner.—Brooklyn Eagle. A graceless boy In Lebanon, Ind., strewed red pepper on the floor of the church, where a protracted meeting was to be held, and those FIRE HUNTING FOR WOODCOCK. An Old-Time Mississippi Sport Intro- duced in Pike County. A dispatch from ‘kawaxen, Pa., says: Some days since a method af hunting woodcock never before heard of among the sportsmen of this region was tried: on ajwell-known wood- cock ground along the- Shohola creek, twelve miles back in the woods from this place. It was introduced by Dr. J.R. Butte, a southerner, who, with some New York friends and one or two logal sportsmen, had been spending some days hunting in the Shohola country. The who came to pray remained to cough.—Philadel- phia Record. The New York Commercial-Advertiser said: “The two officers had a short consultation on matters of a social nature.” This is a high-toned way of saying they took a drink.—Philadelphia American, A sweet feeling of gorgeous triumph per- meates the sensitive mind as It draws the Lar iin! up Renter stun bait ht morn- ings when awaken ery 1as- lost its terrors of ‘Ice! ice!" — Pittsburg Tel, The bills ot fareof many London hotels an- nounce that American home-made pies may be had cheap. They are probably ga as building material. The English tariff imposes duties only on luxuries.—Phila. Record. Mr. Keely has demonstrated that the force he has stored in his motor will shoot a cannon bali several hundred through @ two-inch plank, and he ts confident it will also carry passengers. Perhaps it will; but some persons May object to being shot from Philadelphia to New York, no matter how much of a hurry they Herald. , no; I'll attend to that myself."—Rochester | MAY be in to get there.—Norristown ‘The Peace Table. Mrs. Ord, widow, of Gen. E. 0. C. Ord, now Queen Victoria will remain in the Highlands, | resiling at Hinton, ‘Md., is the owner of the where she now is, until November, when the |tabloupon which the articles of surrender at court will proceed to Windsor Castle. At are- | Appamattox Court-House were written. Gen. princess of Wales is | Ord commanded a corps of the federal ; red in a princesse costume with | and was present when Gens. Grant and Lee army, a kilted skirt, dark vechuna tweed embroidered | agreed upon the terms of surrender. Immedi- jet of of white {in compliment to the national sentiment. and dark bonnet. On her breast | ately after the si crimson carnations | that bad been used The prince of | drawing up the papers heather | of the cn] session he purchased the table y the great fo relating to the conditions been in the pos~ ‘ation, and it his family-ever has since. party had had poor success with woodcock, al- though indications of their presence were abun- dant. On Friday Dr, Butte suggested that the party try the Mississippt style of killing the wily ird by “fire hunting. “Woodcock are plenty in Mississippi,” said the southern sportsman, “but they seem to have different habits there than here, or at least have better opportunities for evading the hunter and preventing him from enjoying the shooting of them from behind a dog. The swamps and brakes are 0 dense about the haunts of the woodcock in Mississippi that it is next to impos- sible to make your way into them, and in these great thickets the birds lie close all day. When night comes, however, they rise and seek the cultivated open lands, where the soil is soft and loamy, and where they feed, as they do here, on the worms that find their natural breeding places in such soil. I don’t know who first con- ceived the idea of getting the best of the wood- cock on these feeding grounds, but as long as [ can remember that has been most effectually done by fire hunting. The outfit ofa fire hunter, before the war, consisted of a gun, a big pine- knot torch, and the strongest slave on the plan- tation. Since the war the slave has been left out of the outtit, but the tradition Is preserved by hiring some muscular darky to perform his duties. The torch might more appropriately be called a pillar of fire, for’ it is a fire made of the fattest kind of pine knots in a large iron wickerwork cage. secured to one end of a stout pole twelve or fifteen feet high, and carried aloft by the negro. It castsa bright light over an area of several rods around. The hunter or hunters, as soon as itis dark, roceed to the woodcock ground. The torch earer lights his pine knots and walks slowly along. The hunter follows closely. In the bright light he soon sees the lustrous, staring eves of the woodcock, disturbed in its teeding, fixed with a startled look and apparent fascina- tion on the glaring torch. Some hunters will not walt for the bird to rise, but kill itas it sits. The more scientific gunner waits till it rises with its peculiar cry, and brings It down by a quick hot. ‘The shot has got to be quick, too, for the bird is seen but a second as it flashes upward, and is then lost in the darkness beyond the boundaries of the torch rays. To bring down a woodcock before it escapes in the darkness requires a hunter that knows his bus!- ness. It often happens that a score of birds will rise at the same time and whirr for an instant in the glare of the torch, and so, generally, there are several gunnersin a party, and one evening's fire hunting may result in the bagging of a hundred birds or more. Dr. Butte questioned whether fire hunting was a legitimate or fair way to hunt woodcock where the country permitted the use of dogs in their covers; but it was resolved, for the novelty of the thing, to give ita trial in Pike county. A cornfield where the bottom showed abundant evidences that woodcock fed there by night was selected for the trial. A camp kettle was tied to the end of a long pole and filled with pine knot bits. On Friday night the hunters sought the cornfield. The torch was lighted and car- ried by a stalwart Pike county guide. The fleld had hardly been entered before three woodcock were discovered. They flushed, and each one was brought to bag. The hunt lasted an hour, and twenty-seven birds were killed. It is not likely that this questionable sport will be indulged in to any extent ty legitimate hunters, who find the greatest: enjoyment in woodcock shooting in the exciting maneuvers of their blooded dogs in the cover and the wild | tise of the game in its rush for a place of safety; but there are many men, who hunt only for profit, who will lose no opportunity to take ad- vantage of this southern idea, if it proves to be as successful as the trial of Friday night, and consequently its Introduction in game haunts, already seriously abused by pot hunters, i3 greatly to be regretted. The British Ballot System. From the Chicago Current. The distinguishing feature of the British bal- lot system is an absolute prevention of such a scandal as “stuffing” ballot boxes. A few days prior to an election the Liberal and Conserva- tive committees post to every voter on the mu- nicipal or parliamentary official list, their cam- paign literature, soliciting “your yote and in- terest” for their respective candidates, and with these papers is sent acard giving the voter his official number on the list, and a voter's card or election ticket, which, though bogus, Is an exact imitation of the ticket issued by the govern- ment. On the day of election the voter pro- ceeds to the polling booth, in the ante-chamber of which he is confronted by the presiding elec- tion officer (usnally the alderman of the ward or his deputy), who, in the presence of an authori- ized representative of the Liberal and Conserva- tive parties, also stationed in the room, asks the voter his name, which the latter gives, and, if he possesses ordinary intelligence, also gives his official number to facilitate search. The officer thereupon scans the list,and hands the voter his electing card or ticket. Personating is rare, the culprit, upon discovery, invariably finding himself sentenced to six months’ hard labor within twenty-four hours. Th ting tick ds CouNTERFoI. No. 5183. DARLINGTON, CHARLES, Wuvenrorce, Jon, Put a cross X In the space opposite the parey’s name for whom you intend to vote. if you sign your name or put any other mark of {identification besides the cross your vote fs null and void. + ons, such as school boards, there In At some electi may be twenty candidates for ten places. such cases the voter is entitled to ten votes, and he puts across against the ten names he selects. “If you put more than ten crosses, or more than one cross against any name, your vote is null and void, but you can vote for less than ten candidates.” All these instructions are stated on the ticket according to the cir- cumstances and nature of the election. Now comes the check upon “stuffing.” The voter's number is, say 786. The election officer tears out the ticket trom his counterfoil check book. The tickets bears the number 5183, and on the counterfoil only, retained by the officer, he marks the voter's number, 786, The voter then proceeds to one of the ten little compart- ments and secretly put his cross against the name of his favorite, passes on, and, in the presence of another officer and the two political agents, deposits his ticket In the ballot box. It he, by accident, spoils the ticket before deposit ing, he can get another from the officer, who, in the presence of the political agents, endorses the counterfoll “spoiled.” It follows, there- fore, that ifall the tickets were taken from the ballot box and compared with the counterioils, it could be seen for whom No. 786 marked his ticket, andthe secrecy of the ballot would be destroyed; but this is guarded against by the following’ arrangement: .At precisely four o'clock p.m. the ballot is closed, the box is sealed, and at once despatched by the presiding officer, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, rigidly enforced, to the mayor of the city. The counterfoil check books are, under like circum- stances and penalty, packed up and sealed, and immediately handed to the postmaster, who des- pasties them to the registrar of elections in ondon. By an elaborate, yet simple, process of counting at the City Hall, in the presence of party representatives the total is arrived at, and the name of the elected representative de- clared. In the event of the election running close and a question arising as to theeligibility of certain voters on account of naturalization or otherwise, a scrutiny can be demanded, and, by ajudge’s order only, the London registrar is bound to produce the counterfoils, which can be compared with the tickets held by the mayor. Tf no scrutiny is demanded the registrar and the mayor remove the papers from their vaults at the end of twelve months, and destroy them. The American system has been considered, but the pasting ot names over the regular ticket is deemed unsatisfactory, as the average voter is confused and reticent in the presence of so may election agents and amid political excite- ment. —————-—____. The New Ruvian Batioon, From the Pall Mall Gazette, The second trial ot the acronatus at Meudon having resulted in a failure the expectations of those who hope to steer balloons must now be turned from France to Russia, where Capt. Kosz- towitz, the Russian seronaut, is quite confident that he has solved the problem by a balloon which fs at it being constructed at St. Petersburg. It is of the shape of a hr anya tore screw, but Is also with sails. The inventor calculates that his aif ship. will be able to make 160 miles an hour, with an’ Baviws Mawworn Esrasrisuvet, q 416 TTH STREET NORTHWEST. DOING A STRICTLY CASH BUSINESS ONLY! ‘QUE PRICES ARE ALWAYS THE LOWEST! SPECIAL PRICES IN DOMESTICS : Fruit of the Loom, 4-4 Bleached Cotton, at 8, per ya. Lonsdale, 4-4 Bleached Cotton, at 8c. per yd. Androscoggin, _ 4-4 Bleached Cotton, at 7c. per yd. Our best qualities Prints (no. off styles), but the best qos in tiomarket at 6nsy0 Simpson's best Mourning Prints at 6c. a yd. Arnold's Best Indigo Blue Printsat 7c. a yd. HOUSEHOLD CANTON FLANNELS! wi tee theo makes the best in the country, at the following popular prices: " No. 10 Unbleached Canton Flannel 6 c.ayd. no 3p Cnet = = oe Gaye a et “10 Gaya. os to) Goo = S Bic aya “oo = “ 15 cayd. = 10 = = “ 2 cayd BLANKETS! BLANKETS! A good 10-4 White Blanket at $1.25. A betterquality 11-4 White Blanket at $2.00, ‘The best quality 10-4 White Blanket at $2.50. Astill better quality 10-4 White Blanket at 32.93, A Lambswool 10-4 White Blanket at $4.50, We: itee the prices of all our Blankets or refund you the money. COMFORTS! COMFORTS! Our Comforts have been selected with great care, are made of the best material, and filled with pure white Wadding, at the following prices: $1, $1.25, $1.50, $2, 82.25 and $2.50, at BaUM's, 416 1TH STREET NORTHWEST. VERY IMPORTANT. Having purchased a manufacturer's entire stock of Ladies’ Cotton Underwear at a trifle less than 750 cents on the dollar, we deci:ted to give our patrons the benefit of above lot by selling same at a small advance above cost. The lot comprises Chemises, Nightgowns, Skirts and Drawers, all of which are made from the very best material, finished? with Lockstitch and French felled seams, Below we will enumerate a few of the Bargains: About 10 doz. Cambric Walking Skirts, with 2 rows of Broad Medici Lace Insertings and rutile at 98c. ‘We sold same before at $1.75. Sdoz. Walking Skirts, with a 15 inch deep embroidered. rufile, at $9.42; former price $6, 100 doz. Corded Band Chemises, good muslin, at 290., at BBR A vu U MM MM ™ 55s, BoB AA U U MMMM* §°S a Bap “A “ou MN Sss8r 416 7TR STREET NORTHWEST. cl Cuear Busryess Sons. WE CAN SHOW ONE OF THE BEST VARIETY OF SERVICEABLE, WELL-MADE BUSINESS SUITS IN ‘THE TOWN, MADE EXPRESSLY FOR OUR TRADE. WHILE THEY ARE CHEAP, YET THEY ARE STYLISH. FALL OVERCOATS CHEAP. THESE CHILLY MORNINGS AND ‘EVENINGS YOU RE- QUIRE A PROTECTOR OF SOME KIND AT REAS- ONABLE PRICES. WE PRESENT A LARGE AS- SORTMENT OF LIGHT-WEIGHT OVERCOATS THAT ARE ADAPTED TO FALL AND SPRING. THESE COATS ARE NOT A LUXURY, BUT A NE- CFSSITY FOR HEALTH AND COMFORT, NOH WALKER & CO., ee27 625 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE. Prercnz Frames, Baacsers, &o. e Onr steadily increasing trade in Picture Frames is one of the surest signs that our efforts to place before you not alone a very large assortment, but also everything that is pretty and cheap is being appreciated as it ought to be, and we are constantly on the lookout toadd new patterns to our stock and discarding the old ones, We can offer this week a handsome silk plush Cabinet Frame at 49c., which sold heretofore at 99¢, We offer an embroidered silk plush door Cabinet Frame at 990, Woe offer a handsome 8x10 Gilt Frame at 490, We offer a rich 8x19 menae variety to select from, either all gilt or combination, We also have a full line of Oak, Walnut and Gilt Frames 1m all sizes, from 8x10 to 24x30, always on hand. We offer a very handsome Picture, in gilt frame, large size, 22x30, at $1.93. fine Engraving in oak Frame at 990. fine and large Oil Painting, size 22x36, in handsome gilt frame, at $4.49. Our Large Cromos at 99¢. area wonder. Our assortment of Ebony and Walnut Brackets, Oak and Walnut Towel ks; Ebony, Oak and W: nut Book Shelves: Ebony, Oak and Walnut Paper Racks; Music Stands, Easels, &c., is most complete, aon med Sao We pene a eae aes Ebony wal We also offer a line of fine at remarkably low vrices. In connection with the above wa would call attention to our low price Ostrich Feather Dusters at 13c., 20c., 25c. and 35c.—cheaper than ever before, M. SILVERBERG & CO., 8e30 812 7th Street Northwest. near Pa, Ave. INSHEIMER & BRO. ‘808 7th street, bet, Hand I, and 3151 M street. [We call particular attention to our very complete stock of BOOTS AND SHOFS FOR THE FALL TRADE. We are ole agents for BURT'S CELEBRATED MEN'S SHOES. There are none better, and are su- rior tocustom-made. We have the following styl BURT'S FINE CALF, button or plam, and pointed toe BURT'S FINE CALY Congress gaiters in broad and narrow toes. BURT'S FINE CALF Isce-hook bala BURT'S FINE CALF Congress and button. BURT'S FINE, extra broad bottoms, for old gentlemen, BURT'S BOY SHOES, in lace and button, every style f ti ve invite an inspection of these goods from all that want goo shoes. There are No better. In our Ladies’ Departrnent we have the CELEBRATED COUSIN'S SHOES. COUSTN'S FINE KID, button, high heel, and“pointed QOUSIN'S FINE KID, common-sense ton, COUSIN'S FINE STRAIGHT GOAT, button, in both '§ FINE PEBBLE, button, in common-sense 1d low heel. MISSES’ SHOES in Kid, Straight Goat, and Pebble, ame patterns, cox. aoe CAD od $0 pat : ies, Misses, and Children. feof hicel and toe. CHILDREN AND MISSES SPRING-HEEL SHOES in great variety, AIL Gf which goods wo sell at avery low price, We ask acall of all before sapere cig wg 28 we CAD save Rumber ” YS Six StriMen ean rs £08 7th and 3151 Mstreets Ger Tre Besr. “THE CONCORD HARNESS.” THE CONCORD COLLAR. aie ‘We have on hand a large atock of the Celebrated “CON- HAKNESS,” of all kinds aud description, oy at Lowest Prices, F2- Coupe, Carriage and Road Harness a specialty. LUTZ & BRO, 497 Pennsylvania Avenue, Adjoining National Hotel. cuaine CONCORD HARNESS has maker's iCOl nani cal trademark stamuped oni mylé Srzoun Norice, SPEAR, FOR HEATING TWO OR MORE ROOMS ABOVE FOR ECONOMY AND HEATING QUALITY | THEY HAVE NO EQUAL. THESE HEATERS AND FURNACES ARE BEING USED EXTENSIVELY IN SOME OF THE FINEST HOUSESIN THR crTy, WHICH WE TAKE GREAT PLEASOME IN REFER" BING TO, A CALL IS SOLICITED AND ESTI- ‘FURNISHED, ‘WALTER D. WYVILL, Excivustve Acewr, aps ‘No, 452 PA. AVE., NEAR 435 STREET. CUNNIN Miata: order. Macraz citi nastiness Su DRY_ GOODS. BOOKS, &e. 1884, 1884, FALL SEASON. E, G. DAVIS, 719 MARKET sSPace BLACK JERSEYS, €3, 4 AND $5; CHOICE GOODS BLACK JERSEY COATS, ALL SIZES, #5. JUST THE THING FOR EARLY FALL. OUR STOCK OF BLACK DRESS SILKS AND WOOLENS ARE WELL WORTH AN INSPECTION, ALL THE NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON WILL BE SHOWN. WE ARE SHOWING THE NEWEST DESIGNS TN BUTTONS. BRAIDS, FRINGES, GIMPS AND LACES, LADIES AND MISSES UNDERWEAR LARGE STOCK AND SPECIAL BARGAINS. GRAND DISPLAY OF HANDKERCHIEFS, AND PRICES LOWER THAN EVER BEFORE, TO ALL OF WHICH WEINVITE THE ATTENTION OF BUYERS. CHOICF GCODS AND POPULAR PRICES. E. G. DAVIS, 719 MARKET SPACF. Wa. Ovex Ox Mospax Nexr an ELEGANT LINE OF WINTER WRAPS, ALL STYLES AND QUALITIES. TO MAKE ROOM FOR SAME, WILL SELL REMAINDER OF LAST SEASON'S GOODS AT MUCH LESS THAN COST. THE STYLES ARE CORRECT, AND THOSE IN SEARCH OF A BARGAIN HAD BETTER CALL EARLY, AS I HAVE ONLY THIRTY-FOUR LEFT IN STOCK. 8. L. HEMPSTONE, 803 Market Space, fen ONE PRICE—PLAIN FIGURES. #029 Careers & Dasrenv. Weh 3 ed a splendid line of WILTONS ARMING TEL OL QUETTS, VELVETS, BODY BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY DInN- GHAIN CARPE 1S Mi line of DRAPERY and FURNITURE ‘An hispection of our stock is solscited. HOVE BRO. & CO, 1528 F sttect, GREAT BANKRUPT SALE or DRY Goons From the auctionof HALSTEAD, HAINES & CO, ‘Their loss hax been our ting alanze portion of their st onthe dollar. ‘his purchase has been so enormously large that we cannot bexin to get all of itinto our in mense building, We had to renta large wareroom for the balance of the goods, Never before in the history of WasLington has there been such an opportunity of get- ting wood xoods for a yery sinall amount of moucy. Woe can only mention a few of the many bargains which Will be fond on wale: 4 lots of Biack Silks at 55c., G5c., T5e., $1, fully worth fifty percent more. fz pieees new fall shades Dress Goods at Sc., worth e. ve gees Llluminated wool Dress Goods, 10c. per yard, ue 25. 4 cases all-wool Chudda Cloth, 43 inches wide, {n_ all the latest fell shades, 0c. per yard, weil worth 8735. ‘These came direct from the custom house, havin, rived in this country after the dced of trust had made. Such afticles as we bought we took the entire Jots, and therefore are shown 61 ‘by us, 54 pieces 42 inches wide til-wool French Cashmeze, in Blue and Jet Black, at 3%. per yard, worth 5c. ‘36 pieces 40 inches wide, extra fine, at S0c., worth 70c. ‘We bought every piece of Samuel’ Courtauld’s Crape in the sale, and_can recommend them as the best and cheapest ever offered. Lcese 7-4 wide all-iinen Loom Table Damask at 20c. per yard, value ies “Towels at 8. 10, 1234 and 15e., every one a genuine bar- gain. 100 dozen heavy knotted, fringed Barnsley Damask Towels, at 25c., former retall price 5 Repkins and Doylics in ondlens variety. Barnsley finest Table Damask, by yard or in. n patterns, some as Jong as five yards, every one from this great suction. BLANKETS, BLANKETS, We bought nearly all the Blankets in the sale, and only left a few sample lots, which were too much soiled fromm handling. A splendid 10-4 White Blanket 00c. per pals. g price uever before heard of. We next offer a 0-4 Blanket at $1.50. worth $2.59. ‘At $2.00, worth $3.25, At $2.50, worth 34 00, At $3.00, worth $5.00. And many finer grades in the same proportion. cases, 50 pairs each, euuine German Blankets, ins light shade of Drab, at $2.30 per pair, Cost of importa- ion 3 bales Gray Blankets at 65c. per pair. Merchants and housekeepers buying by the quantities will never have ‘chance again. such & % ‘CANTON FLANNELS. 45 cases, most, all of the celebrated Amoskras Mille. We saved’ aout 15 per cent in the purchase of these, wich is quitean ttc “on euaht staple goods. Wesball TO rheces of Caneaa Tox apronentoscate 20 pieces o for aprons ats cents per ‘Witte and colored wool Flannel, muck tebe than tho can be bought for from the acute, NOITINGHAM CURTAINS. ‘a2002 pales, in 40 dierent styles, al from the Great notion for we encceetod in eet at about forty cents 2 ‘ ~ 4, 81.40; worth $3.00, Wo have them in White and ‘Ecru, and they are no doubt tho cheapest curtains ever offered by any house, 90 pieces yard wide genuine Manchester (crape finish) Furniture Cretonne at I7e. per yard. We have them in = od “| ’ QL Ss. CG ALL BOOKS OF THE CHAUTAUQUA COURSE OF STUDY CONSTANTLY ON HAND AND AT THE LOWEST LIST PRICES, ALSO, SLL SABLATH SCHOOL REQUISITES. WM. BALLANTY z ma OR SALF—SECOND- HAND SCHOOL BOOK! ASHBY'S, 1705 Pennsylvania avenue. uate] ceived a large collection. No charge for covern, si3-Int, CHOOT. BOOKS AND SCHOOL STATIONERY : AT REDUCE be Note Paper, five pounds to the Saar on General redaction n all Standerd and’ Miscellaneous: Rooks Cand Engraving and Priuding. all. work waste anteed, Largest aswo:tinent of BLANK BOOKS in the — ‘Sole agent for JOHN HOLLAND'S CELEBRATED GOLD FENS. eas & ei Al ra sold 6x7 ana 610 ith tied hortiweat, Gaesvice A. Wirracen, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, 1105 Pennsylvania Avenue, AN the new books received as eoon an published? Sterial attention given te onlers for books not on isiting: and Wedding Invitations engraved. printed. 1105 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, ael0 Next door to Gi New Pestcartoxs \ AT REDUCED PRICES a PAUM's. Q6 frm Sreesr Norruwesn Fhebe, by the enthor of Rutivige; A Romas Singer, F" Marion “Grawtfonts athe: feataiated by Men AL. Wister Ay Avera San, bp Robert. ag Cymbals. by a. Fawcett Mrs. Linx nm Cook Book The Princes nee = by Onda: The Usu Judith Goutier, eo, sets of all the standard author, ipelnding Dat Spencer, Goethe, Irving, and others’ Harper and Cone tury for September, 30c” One thousand #vopaper novele for sgimmer reading. only 12 The finest Line of stationcry in the city eat prices. Correspond. Cuce cards and envelopes culy 15¢. per box: Eucrared, is only 29. wuzk cco A RRR pep CC AAR RP PE a © AA ERR PPP GC AAAR R R HASSOCKS, &c, ECTALTY. ads of Bigelow W and Poily Brussels, Smith's Moquettes, Roxb Smith's Tepestry Brussels and Hartford and Lowall Ingraine, sele=tea ‘ Carrers, Fonsiren, asp Urnotsvenx, SINGLETON & FLETCHER, 415 Seventh street northwest. Carpets, O11 Cloths. Lino Upholst vee 08 Funiuoy Bling eee Oe Special designs in Draperies and Iu Window Shales aud Furniture Upholstered and all promptly executed. Poles, work in our line w4-Gia Fax Orrsise. CARPETS! CARPETS! FURNITURE! UPHOLSTERY GOODS! EVERYTHING THAT IS NEW AND HANDSOME AT LOWEST CASH PRICES. CARPETS! FURNITURE! FURNITURE! W. H. HOEKE, 801 Market Sracc—30S and 210 8th «treet, Taz Cexrvraten YEERLESS REFRIGERATOR Large Assortinent, GEO. WATTS & SON, (Ecle agents for the District of Columbia, my 314 7th #t.. Sdoors above Penn. ave. —_ eer oor o*mn—n—ve WOOD AND COAL, H* ING OPENED A BRANCH OFFICE AT No, 1020 Jitu Streer Nonrawesr, Lwould te pleased to receive onlers for Coal, Wood andl Kindling Wood. Having unexcelied facilities for hande ing Coal, Yam prepared fo sell as low as any Ore tt business. I guarantee first-class Coal and a ton 2,240 pounds, Kindling and Stove Wood at bottom prices. Orders promptly delivered. JOHN MILLER, Main OMice, Raftron’ Yard, Depot and Kindling Wood ‘Mill—43g Street and Vireiula avenue southwest, ae oe aoe ‘street northwest, end Ne southeast Wharf Foot of 6th sirect touthwoat™ ee6-3n Cou. Aso Woon. We have surt received a lerge lot of Dakers’ PINE FLOOD. _ Also, fresh amined COAL. of superior quai for domectic use, all of which we oifer at lowest mark tes. "*iihe attention of consumers fs respectfully invited 4 ‘au inspection of our stock. STEPHENSON & BRO., ‘thst. wharf and 12th st, and Pa. ave, ed mi6 ;ht as well as subdued col = GREAT EARGAINS's IN SHAWLS, ‘Thil Cashme All at less than half prices. We bought three lots Ausirian Plush Cloaksai about 2eents on the dollar. eg ER Ave fall-sized Ladies’ Pinch Cloaks at ‘wor . Lot 2—Twenty all sizes Ladies’ Plush Cloaks, lined with Italian cloth, at $4, worth $13. Lot 4—Twelve Piush Dolmaus, trimmed with a light shade of Astrachau, at $5, ‘These would retail when the gold weather con:es at $20. Becure one before itis too te, 150 pieces double width fine Ladies’ Cloth in all the leading shades, at 50centsa per yard. This is the samo grade other merchants sell at 75 cente per yard. coxa gicees wenwune full 64 inches wile, imported Tricot loth, year's in all the new fall shades, at $1.25 per yard; last price 100 pieces Oriental Laces, 10c.: worth 25¢. mes ‘Oriental Laces,'6 inches wide, at 17c.; worth 40 pleces Oriental Laces, 8 inches wide, at 230. SG dozen Oriental Lace Fichius at aie: value al Lpdozen Oriental Lace Collars, at 23. ; value 50c. 38 dozen finest Linen 3-ply Shirt Fronts, 10c.; worth ‘30 dozen Ladies’ Silk Hose, oe. stitch, in six differ- ‘stock for years at these prices, LANSBURGH & BRO., 420, 42and 42% SEVENTH STREET. sel3 GBIRTS RETAILED AT WHOLESALE PRICES, Buy the Comfort Shirt, elecantly made, of the best MY usin abd 2100 liso, Setatonced ame ‘only Tocents. ‘Fine Unfinished Shirts only 60c. Finest Percale Shirts only $1.50. Finest Laundried Dress Shirts, in solid bosoms, ready to put on, for $1. ‘Six finest Dress Shirts made to ortter (solid bosoms) for ‘€y. Perfect ft guaruuteed at MEGINNIS', an?2 1002 F street. SEWING MACHINES, &e. Averssars Sewrxe Macuse Rooxs, CORNER SEVENTH AND I, Tadies. wwe tnvite your, attentiog to, our large and well-selécted stock of Sewing Mach now open for examination, embracing every vii and sty! of all the latest jiuprovements and standard makes, It will be to your interes: to. examine our stock and prices before buying. Send postal for our new illustrated catalogue aud ‘reduced price list of all the Woon Coa. JOHNSON BROTHERS, WHARVES AND RAILROAD YARD: ‘Twelfth and Water streets southwest BRANCH YARDS AND OFFICER 3202 F etreet northwas 2E16 Tth street northwest: 3740 Pennsylvania avenue northwest; 3112 9th street northwest; Comer 8d und K streets northwest; £01 Pennsylvania avenue southwest. GFST PRIVATE RAILROAD YARD SOUTER oF EWienk: sino EXTENSIVE WHARVES etving cilities dor the econouile handiiug FUEL cf all kinds, COAL DELIVERED OX CARS DIRECT FROM THE MINES INTO OUR YARD. We deal only in best qualities of ANTHRACITE an@ BITUMINOUS COAL. All kinds of WOOD, either in the stick or prepared:a, order, at our factory. CLEAN COAL, PULL WEIGHT AND MPASURE rempt deli furnished. reries abd prices as low as Fuel can B seo ATTORNEYS. M between 6th and 7th m CEABEES J. GOOCH. SOLICITOR OF PATENTS Counsellor-at-law end Expert, St. Cloud Buildicg, Sth and F street Good work, godd references, miele ate changes, asl A, SQQDRICH, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, 12 DEAR: born strect, “Chicago. * experience,” Business quieuy aud acted. YH. MILLER, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, . ‘Kooms 3 and 4, Gunton Lew 5 Building, Residence, 240 North Capitol strest ALEER, = SIONER, NOTARY PUBLIC, AND UREY POW RENTS, leading machines. Gall special atteution to the lent. | [PS ANDALL | PAR , noiseless New American, No. 7. ids Be Oe see r i Fented ahd repaired. Clani's best Masking Cottontans | Beutitrs' ehilliuly’ reformed. Gas admiuasiered, spvols for 25 cents, am toGp.m J ¢. AUFRBACH, = 62 BOTT ; corner 7th and hot Would respectfully inform hile Prices and patrons s German hand. Teruine the. practice of kis profession: ASieycle Btockins and Gaus Terseye GeD” | abkctber Int SLUT F etten wertieweee, 3328 [ARH PALSONS, COL, Oru ANDE STREETS Ta: New “@” Hows ay eR fom . cs id fhe Puan, alleviates Tail Of catiacting. Gan given, an Entirely Now Chis: bes moderate, nt . Tt, DENTISn, No ait Eigh Arm, Sewing Maching strect, thrce dcure troth corner B"Dewtiatey in alk ‘Which Excels all Others, Na Urablion “Teeth Inserted €7 pec ck All work war £old on Installments; Liberal Discount for Cash. = S27 Every Machine Warranted 8 UNDERTAKERS. — EMOVAL—JAMES BELLEW, UNDERTAK I nS pe Ce ee . ‘cant corner of G street and Now Jerecy aveuwo i, W. {HE HOWE MACHINE CO. European pesssge and draft business coutinwed. aeI9 Sicil wioiincsiak sia Soe, RIHUR ROONEY & 00, Pero ‘Washington, D.0. 209 E bear General Post Often batt ~ and residence 2145 Paunsylvania aventie northwest TUE GREAT “HOUSEHOLD” WITH OUR set of Attachmonta: in a Velvet: paces | Wy ILLIA F SPixpL Bee Bees a os atae Domestics Bverpthig'e: | “Uelephonceoueeens CSE Me 71 oun sinvet northwest. TAY 7th atrect northwest, near Te he RL, Be ae Ton eee: Roasiey New Hees | I° > GORE perenne AND HARTFORD SEWING MACHINES, Zererbone eall— V0 4 thestmplest and most durablo Sewing Machines eyer froduced, Sold on mouthly yeymenta, and liberd dis. | SCHOOL, 7 Scxoor, Scrrs on ‘Chili's Suits, axes 5 to nae ke Behable Sewing Machines and Fashion Roomy, ants, age se, oh 28 Oth street n. w.. Bt Cloud Building. “i ecg KEAS ERS