Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1884, Page 6

al CLIFE DWELLERS’ CITIES, Reading the Vague Story Tola in the Traces Left by a Vanished People. From the New York Sun. Oso PuERTa, Arizona, October 24.—A radius three hundred miles long, with a ater at the point of contact of Utab, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, will describe a circte in which are enciosed the remains of the remarkable race of cliff dwellers. The very name applied to this people is suggestive of romance and lost his- tory. Whence came they? How did they live? Where did they got The area occupied by the cliff dwellers, com- prising six or nine thousand square miles, 1s @ part of the desert land of the southwest.a coun- try in general, though not entirely, arid, unpro- ductive. almost gameless. sparsely watered,and in altitude from 5,000 to 12,000 feet above the sea. Their descendants are found in the Moquis and other Indians of the mesas of northern Ari- zona. The remains of the cliff dwellers are pueblos, or villages on the low iands, caves in the higher land near by, cliif houses midway up the walls rs of stone, pottery and ol . Few weapons of any kind appear among the ruins. This fact may be due to the sudden migration of the inhabitants and not their supposed peaceable disposition. Tne Tuins of cities and villages are of frequent occur- rence. It is said that in every one of six thou- sand square miles more or less of these ruins occur. Some of the cities were built by the side of astream, in some narrow valley, and others high on a table land, far removed from any traces of running water. In the latter cases the water wust have been brought in Jars frow long distances on the heads of women, a practice still prevailing among the southwest ern tribes. The villages were often a mass of hewn stone, the houses nearly all joined to- gether, with no other exit than by a ladder from the roof. The architecture displays a civilization aud knowledge not far removed from that of the ancient Egyptians. The build- ing stones were well hewn. The squares and circles were as perfect as we know how to make them to-day. Wells and reservoirs are found in various places, in a fine state of preservation, containing pure, delicious water. Some of the cities are laid out in semi-circles. The United States geological survey has re- stored the Pueblo Bonito of Chaco Canon, New Mexico. Here we have a perfect semi-circle, | the circular part comprising a high, thick wall | of masonry, and the diametered side not quite | so high. From a central court the apartments | Tise in tiers. one above ths other. The enclos- | ure embraces 150.000 square feet. Within are | Bumerous estufas. or council chambers, por- tions ot which were used for worship. Th great pueblo of Chettro Kettle had a defensive | nz and 40 feet high, Mr. W. H. 5,000 cubic feet of ces of stone, } ollected, dressed and ve timbers had to be | erable distance, cut and i. and covered letails of win- iz und plastering, which a larce body of intelligent, under thorough disci- The details of these vast | I volumes. They show that | architecturally, though not | ¥. Were among the most superior races entire continent. | eave dwellings or places of refuge are | 5 found in some bluff. feet hizh, bordering a nm These b: a Bed swallows’ ba dug in the bioir. 160,000 h had to be quarried. put in place. The brought from a consi fitted to their p with otier cours or river valie: The caves are mere holes astered on the inside, and containing small apertures. It is supposed on account of the latter fact that they were used to hide women and children during an attack since a large man couid not gain admittat easily. On the banks above are the watch towers. These towers are also found all throuzh the rezion ot ruins. They are cylindrical structures, often protected by lower outside enclosures. of heavy stone work, and in some cases Dr. J. ewberry found them larger at the top than at the bottom They were made to serve a variety of purposes, not only for watch- ing the approach of au enemy. but for retreat, worship aad cour a many river canons se towers Were erected on the top of pro- ig rocks many by red feet high and al- most impossible of ac About the towers are usually found specimens of flint and pot- tery, showing that the watchmen were busy making various objects while on guard. The most remarkable dwellings of these people are those from which their names are de- Tived, located midway up in the niches of canon wails otten 2.000 feet high. Whether nature formed the creviced tables for the houses, or whether the excavations were made by the peo- | ple, is unknown. These crevices are walled up ‘with dressed stones, which were either hoisted or hewn from the canon walls in some remarka- | ble way. and contain living apartments, Some | canon walls exhibit tier after tier of these al- most inaccessible dwellings. Hidden in some out of the way nook, shielded trom the sun’s Fays, the explorer finds wells of clear, cold water, still deliciously pure and receiving the drippings of some minute spring in the perpen- | icular walls. No soil or organic matter can possibly contaminate the water, lying in a huge basin cut in the rock. Equally hard to find are | the ladder-like stairs, often S00 feet long, cut in the rock walls leading to the cliff houses. It cannot be supposed that the cliff dwellers lived | in these houses for long periods of time. Possi- bly they were occupied only in a case of siege. | Be it as it may, they could be taken by no sav- | age enemy unless the inhabitants were starved int« submission. The primitive artists among the cliff-buildera left their etforts principally upon the light-col- ored sandstones of the high bluffs. Here are Tepresentations of the birds, mammals, and ob- Jects known to the artists, earved in fantastic style. From thé@ it appears doubtful whether the people had any domestic animals. Certainly | it they had. evidences would be tound on the rocks or pottery. The design in pottery show | a range from a very low state of mind to one of some mathematical capacity. The clit? dwellers were beyond doubt migrants from further south, as may be seen in the simi- larity of architecture and religious customs. Not knowing of the vast fertile plains beyond, they settled in the small but rich valleys of the Rio Mancos and other rivers. Here they cul- tivated Indian corn and beans, as bins are occasionally unearthed ,containing them. ‘They caught fish in the rivers and hunted the wild deer and birds in the forests, While some tilled the scanty valley fleids or hunted, others | were engaged in building defenses on the cliffs, watch towers, pueblos, and water reservoirs. ‘There were cemeteries for the burial of the dead. Headstones are still found to mark the burial placeg, The craniums dis- covered, and which have been examined, show good intellectual capacity, and very little evi- dence of the artificial flattening in use by more modern Indian nations. The cliff dwellers Were a busy. industrions race. They may have | fled trom their quarters on account of a more superior race. as is generally held, but in the absence of tacts it seems more easy to believe that they migrated as soon as they discovered | arable lands. It cannot be possible that a peo- | ple which erected the most remarkable de- tenses of any race, ancient or modern, should aot be able to use them against savage. forces of any size or power, No enemy had missiles which could reach their fortresses, and cer- They are built tainly no enemy could withstand the avalanche of rocks whi he cliff dwellers had power to hurl down, fairly deluging the narrow bottoms | of the canons. eg ‘The * Red Sunsets” of 1884. From the New York Herald. The red sunsets which were so conspicuous a | year ago have excited this autumn great atten- tion In both hemispheres. The various theories propounded to account for the phenomenon, especially that which attributed the sky glows to vast clouds of volcanic dust discharged at the eruption of Krakatoa in August, 1883, seem to have lost ground. and some new hypothesis is | needed to clear up the mystery. The English | astronomer, Mr. Backhouse, reports in Nature his observations of a red corona round the sun, which, he says, ‘‘is still plainly visible in Eng- tand.” “It has been habitual,” he adds, “for me to scan the neighborhood of the sun for halos during twenty-five years, and I never ob- served it previous to the date mentioned ”"— November, 1883. The reddish halo to which Mr. Backhouse has called attention has been this fall noticed bt several observers. An English scientist, Mr. E. Douglas Archibald, visiting the summit of Mt. Washington on September 5, at sunrise, noted, “tn addition to the usual sunrise effects. a large sirele of rosy purple haze situated above fifteen degrees above the horizon, and apparently hav- ing no connection with the yellow and hori- zontal bands beneath it.” Though this observer had witnessed the sun rising from various alti- tudes up to twelve thousand feet, he had never seen anything so chrious as the sunrise on Mount Washington. His suggestion is that the rosy solar halo has of late become se conspicuous because. while the sunrise and sunset glows have exhibited a marked deciine in duration and brililancy since 1883, the halo has under- not more than fiity | &; wearance of a magni-| | number of its adherents. The Relative Increase in the Leading Denominations Since 1860. From the New York Sun, Baxtimore, November 28.—The presence in Baltimore in attendance at the Plenary Council of the Catholic prelates and dignitaries and the interchange of opinions resulting from their Several meetings have served to direct particu- lar attention to a table which has just made its appearance. It has been customary heretofore to gauge the growth of religious organizations in this country by comparative figures at each new reckoning. But as the whole population is always increasing rapidiy, the various de- nominations have thus always been able to show a healthy gain in numbers. Since the opening of the council an attempt has been niade by careful students and statisticians to show these resuits relatively for the better guidance of the prelates. The table which has been prepared arrives at some conclusions little less than startling. By the census of 1860 the population of the United States was $1,445,080. The present population is now estimated at 55,000,000. The gain in twenty-five years has been, therefore, twenty-three ‘and a half million, or'at the rate of 75 per cent. In 1860, according to estimates, the accuracy of which was then universally acknowledged, there were 8,600,000 Methodists in this country. They were then, as they are now, the strongest religions body, numerically. Since 1860 the total has grown to 15,000,000, which is an in- crease of 75 per cent, keeping pace exactly with the increase in population. The number of affiliants of the various Bap- tist churches was, in 1860, 8.000,000, To-day it is 12,000,000. The increase in twenty-five years is, therefore, 50 per cent.a gain in absolute bod but a falling off when considered rela- tively. The Presbyterians numbered, in 1860, 3.600,- 000. Now they number 5,500,000, an increase in twenty-five years of 53 per cent. The Lutherans, who have been materially benefited by constant and increasing emigra- tion from Germany, Sweden. Holland and Nor- way. have grown from 1,250,000 In 1860 to 2,000,000 in 1884, or at the rate of 60 per cent. The Congregationalists have declined rela- tively very much. The old spirit of the New England pilgrims seems to be dying out among them. In twenty-five yearsthey have advanced but 27 per cent—that is, from 1,413,000 in 1860 to 1.800,000 at present. On the other hand, the various Reformed Cnurches—Dutch, German, and Evangelical—show an increase of nearly 50 Led cent, from 810,000 in 1860 to 1,200,000 to- lay. The Episcopalians show a fair increase in numbers, yet one relatively below the average. ‘Their percentage of gain is 351¢ per cent in twenty-five years, bringing up the total trom 900.000 to 1,200,000. ‘The Hebrews—counting together those who are orthodox and those who are merely nom- inal—have increased from 350.000 in 1880 to 700,000 in 1884, a full 100 per cent of gain. The Friends, or Quakers, show an absolute as weil as relative decline. y have fallen off 60 per cent., from 220,000 In 18% 150,000 in 1834. The denomination of Christians, who merous in Kentucky, southern Indiana, soutl- ern Iilimois, and Missouri, number 800.000, against 500.000 In 1860, an absolute gain of 60 per cent., yet a falling off relatively of 15. But the most surprising feature of the calcu- lations just completed is the growth of th Catholic i} they numbered in the Unite , ow there are 9,500,000. This 25years. Should the same ratio of increase continue to be pre- ed they would number 15 years hence 000. The difficulties encountered in arriving at even an approximate result in religious statis- tics are many. In the United States, as in Eng: land and Scotland, the doctrinal views of the in- dividuals torm no item in the census enumera- tion. The generally accepted plan for arriving ataresult is as follows: The chureh accommo- | dation vnieh are gathered officially, are muiti- plied by a dgure ii in that denomi- nation the relation of ehurehgoers to the whole Then another table is | made of the number of enrolled members or | communicants. These are multiplied usually by five for the full population. Finally, a tilrd table Is constracted from the church records of | baptisms and marriages and the official record | of deaths. These tables are ccmpared in parallel columns. and an estimate is made from the three. The substantial accuracy, not alone of these tables, butof the aet res: 'ts deduced from | their comparison, is not questioned, though. of course, the circumstances of their compilation do not preclude the possibility of occasional | errors. | It is the opinion of many of the Catholicclergy | assembied here that in defauit ot American uni- versities of very high scholarship, Catholic reachers have to contend in their missionary labors with a difficulty not met with in Europe. This subject is one certain not to be neglected by the Plenary Council. Bishop Gross, of Sa- vannah. has sough to interest his colleagues in a plan for more efficient pastoral efforts among the colored population of the southern states, wherein (outside ot Louisiana and Texas) the Catholic church has at present, confessedly, very little foothold. It is to be noted that the churches of all creeds and denominations in the United States contain accommodations for 27.500.000 persons. or just half of the whole | ? population of 55,000,000, sete aah Protecting Chaffee’s Interests. MR. ELKINS TELLS HOW HE TRIED TOSAVE SOMETHING FROM THE GRANT & WARD WRECK. Before Mr. Hamilton Cole, in New York on last Friday,there was ahearing uponthe petition of Senator Chaffee to recover 500,000 worth of | securities loaned to the bankrupt firm of Grant | & Ward. Mr. Chaffee testified that he loaned these securities for the sake of his son-in-law, Mr. Ulysses S. Grant. jr., and the understand- ing was that he was to haveashare of the profits, which were expected to be very large. Mr. “Steve” Elkins testified as follows: “On the Sunday preceding the failure Ward called on me and wanted to borrow 315,000. He sald the Marine bank would fail unless it could get $300,000. It the bank failed, he said, the firm would follow sult. I asked him how it had come about. He didn’t give me .any satisfactory an- swer, and I became suspicious. I was at first inclined to assist him, and suggested that I should go to see Gen. Grant about the matter immediately. He begged me not to say any- thing to the General.” Mr. Eikins then recounted an interview with Mr. Ward, in which he pressed him for securi- ties to protect Mr. Chaffee from loss. Ward told him that he would be at the Safe Deposit company in the morning with the key of the vault containing the securities. ‘He did not come,” continued Mr. Elkins. “I suggested to Mr. Spencer that he should draw a check on the Marine bank for $2.500 to the order of U. 8. Grant, jr.,to test the matter. He drew the check, and that’s all I heard of it. Itold Buck that the only thing for him to do was to open the vault containing the securities. We opened | the safe and took out the box.” “How did you open the safe?” asked Mr. C. W. Bangs, Assignee Morris's lawyer. “<I didn't open it. A very expert man with a lot of burglarious instruments did it.” “Who had the key 2” “Ward. If Buck had had the key he wouldn't have gone to see Ward. “What did you do next?’ “Isent for my attorney, Mr. Larocque, and he took out the securities and carefully listed them. Larocque read them off and I wrote them down. Buck wrote his name under the order at the bottom of the list, turning over the securities to Mr. Chatfee.” “Did te take all the securities?” “No; I took all that I thought were good.” “Why did you leave any?” “Because [ thought they were worthless. I ‘was bound to protect the interest of my friend Chaffee. I constituted myself his attorney. He was in Chicago.” “What became of the securities?” “I saw Mr. Augustus Ebert, who is my secre- tary, and also does business for Mr. Chaffee, put them into atin box. I believe Mr. Davies, the receiver for Grant & Ward, got them after- watae.” —_——_---____ Peddling Hot Water. From the McKeesport News. A man in West Newton earns his bread and butter by supplying the people of that city with hot water. He has fitted up an immense iron tank and into it has run all the steam escapes about the place. The steam soon condenses, | ment. MOON BLINDNESS, Frequent on the China Sea and Indian Ocean—Cured by Darkness. From the New York Su “Moon blindness,” said an old sailor, gazing at the upper rigging of a California clipper near Wall street terry yesterday, “why, of course there’s such a thing. I’ve seen it often. I had a touch of it myself once. I don’t see, though, how the English rear admiral makes out that the foss of the gunboat Wasp was due to moon blindness. It gets its name, not because a man who has it can’t see distinctly under the moon- light, but because it is cau by sleeping with the moon shining on the face. You know at once when you have it. In tact, you often get stone blind. and remain so for a month or more. Ccan't imagine how it could oceur near Eng- land, for people are not likely to sleep in the moonshine there. “In the China sea and the Indian ocean it is well known. The Lasears frequently have it, and when a passenger steamer remains for @ night at a port the captain generally warns everybody who wants to sleep on deck—and most of them doin those het latitudes—to be care- ful to keep weil under theawning. I remember once landing a passenger at Singapore quite blind. He persisted in sleeping on the fore- castle head, as we lay fora night in Penang, and the moon shone on his face for tive or six hours. When he awoke his sight was gone. and he thought it was still night, thougn the sun had aroused him. We went back to Calcutta, and when we reached Singapore on our next trip ne had recovered, but he hated the sight of the mocn eyer afterward. “I never knew_2 case of moon blindness that was not cured. You have only to keepin the dark until sight comes back. line was only partial blindness, though the sight of one eve was nearly gone. I was well in a week. The attack is generally accompanied by a bad sick headache, but most people are too much fright- ened to think about that. I never heard ot a woman being afflicted with moon blindness.” Old Pompeii Like Modern Cities. Frot All the Year Round. Indeed, the whole Pompeian household seemed pervaded by high art, froin the frescoes inthe bed rooms to the crockery in the kitch- ens and the statues in the hall. Nor was art adapted only to the uses of the rich, Even the butcher used a steeiyard with a handsome head of bronze to serve by way of weight, and the yintner poured his wine into a drinking cup adorned with a bas-relief of Bac- chus. Verily, there is nothing new under the suo. The bread baked yesterday at Naples is precisely the same shape as the loaves found at Pompeii, which were put into the oven near two ud years ago. The coinage of that period little from our own, except that it sur- ses ours in quality of workmanship. A ng table then was turnished with a pair of a ladies toilet table with a mirror and arouge pot. Stuall boysscribbled on the walls, and played with balls and knuekle bones and whipping tops and marbles in the streets of old Pompeii, as they do in modern Paris, Naples, London or Berlin. ‘The printing press had not then been invented it istruc.and hewspaperswere wanting for the purpose of advertisement. But electors were appealed to very much as they arg now, as is proved by many mural inscriptions in the place. By these they were adjured to “Vote for Blobbius, the True Friend ot the People,” or to go and hear Buguinsius, the fa- mous Pplattorm orator, who was noted’ for his Pluck in pitching into the patricians, as speak- ers may be nowadays who abuse the House of Lords. Excepting books and newspapers, whose presence some may fancy @ not wholly unmix blessing, there are tr Poinpeil of all sorts of London-shop things aud ways and means of living. There eveu are the pass-cheeks which were current at the theater, where the people ‘vere assembled at the time of the eruption, and vhe figs and other fruit which were prepared for ent upon that fatal afternoon. eption, however, must be made. Almoug the myriad of articies preserved in the museum, I Yainly strai y eyes to see a classie corkscrew. But au nt's thought ex- plained the absence of this interes There w used when Horace, that delichtiul diner-out, begged his lost to let him taste that famous four-year-old Falernian, the savor of which still sweetly lingered in his memory, while, to keep the wintry cold out, a few more logs were heaped upon the hospitable hearth. their refresh —___—_+e. Fighting Sleep with Tea. ‘The practice of taking tea or coffee by stu- dents in order to work at night, is downright madness, especially when preparing for an ex- amination. More than half of the cases of break- down, Joss ot memory, fainting, etc., which occur during severe examinations, and far more frequently than is commonly Known, are due to this. {frequently hear of promising students who have thus failed; and, on inquiry, have learned— in almost every instance—that the victim has ea drugged himself with tea or coffee. leep is the rest ot the brain; to rob the hard- worked brain of its necessary rest is cerebral suicide. My old friend, the late Thomas Wright, was a victim of this terrible folly. He undertook the translation ot the “Life of Julius Ciexar,” by Napoleon II, and to do it inacruelly short ime. He fulfilled his contract by sitting up several nights in succession by the aid of strong tea or coffee (I forget which). I saw himshortly afterward. Ina few weeks le had aged alarm- ingly. and become quite bald, his brain gave Way and never recovered. There was but little difference between his age and mine, and but for this dreadful cerebral strain, rendered poss!- ble only by the alkaloid (for otherwise he would have fallen to sleep over his work, and thereby saved his life), he might still be amusing and instructing thousands ot readers by fresh vol- umes of popularized archeological research.— From “The Chemistry of Cookery.” by W. Mat- ticu Williams, in Popular Science Monthly for December. ——_____~e-_____ Before and After Using. From the Rockland Courier-Gazette. “I notice that they are going to tax bachelors in France,” murmured Dora, reading from the paper David bad just laid down, “That isn’t right,” frowned David, biting nervously at his after-supper cigar; “their lot is hard and un- happy enough as it is.” Dora got up and kissed David at this suggestive remark. They had been married only afew months. Time swept on in that calm and relentiess fashion for which time is celebrated. and Dora is tie mother of a six-weeks-old baby. At intervals, also, David is reminded that he is joint propietor in this family acquisition, which has astudied ambition for sitting up nights in company with its father. “I was thinking.” mused Dora softly trom her easy chair; “I was thinking about that item we were reading last winter. I wonder if they really do tax the bachelors in France.” “I don’t. know,” returned David, who was warming some sort of a mixture in a little tin dish over a spirit lamp;‘‘but,”he added malevolently, as he ti the mixture over just as it got warmed, “they ought to make them pay something for the Yoxury.” And Dera sighed as she asked if it wasn't about time to mix the food. Might Die Before Morning. From the Portland Argus, The holy hush of midnight brooded dark over the winding streets of Oxford, Me. Our worthy Justice of the peace had retired to his virtuous couch, and was sweetly dreaming of the good old days of yore, when in the street parade the snow white plume he bore; rattle-clatter bang upon his outer door. Then herushed out doors; but he came right back, for a lady stood upon the door step, and his toilet was not in a proper condition to make a favorable impression upon the heart of the soiter sex. The justice arrayed himself in gorgeous garments, and invited the lady and her escort in. They said they ited to be married. Want to be married!” ex- claimed the astonished justice. ‘* Why in the name of common sense didn’t you wait until morning?” “Couldn't wait until morning,” burst out the girl, solemnly. *‘ We've waited as long now as we possibly can. Perhaps we ehall die before mot The justice married them without further words, and straightway charged them to tell no man what he had done. Then Kart went forth, hand in hand, into the darkness—the mysterious bridegroom and his bride. ——___+---_______ A Woman of Business. ‘From the Chicago Sun. There is a live business woman in Belleville, and makes the estand purest water in the world. He has also fitted ce tank wagon, in which to deliver his stock. fore commencing whom he bas served regularly from the supplies boiling hot water for the breaktast; at noon he makes his second trip, and many a housewife need not bother roasting herself over the fire heating her tea kettle, but can have hot water left at the door when wanted. Another tripis made at supper and sometimes in the evening. On wash days very few ladies bother about heating water, but secure their water from the vender. gone no similar diminution of intensity, and thus sttracts more attention relatively than it didat first. 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Splerdid Overcoats at $8.75, $10.25, $1275, $15.50, 17.75, 819.50 and $21, fully 33 per cent leas than prices at any other store in the city. Business Suits from €6.25 up, to suit every taste and pocket. . Black, brown, dahlia, wine colored Corkscrew 4-B Cut- away Suits at #12; cheap at $20. Extra weight double-breasted Blue Flannel Suits, fast colors, cheap. Magnificent line of Boys’ Suits and Overcoats from $2.25 up, Goseamers and Rubber Coats at « sacrifice to close. ‘Immense variety of Odd Panta, $1.25 and up. Fine lack Broadcloth Suits at $20, worth $40, st THE MISFIT STORE, nig COR. 10rm AND F STREETS. Pore Axp Insviconarme, Those who may wish to purchase, either asa deli- cious beverage or for medicinal purposes, an UNADUL- TERATED WHISKEY, are invited to make trial of the celebrated brand. PPP PPP. RRR, TITT EER NN N BG BP pip Bee BRE, TUT yen yy U UPPP PPP ER RRE Tt ER NNN uP Pp E RR T E NNN wu P P KEEER R EEBN NN w ew HW 88g wwwwii yo EF ty www Hon Tt Bx ¥ Ww oH i Ss EF = Srzouz Norice RESPECTFULLY CALL THE ATTENTION OF AND KNOWN FACTORY OF REYNOLDS & 80N, WHICH 1 CONSIDER AS GOOD IF NOT SUPERIOR TO STEAM HEATING AT ONE HUNDRED PER CENT IN WALTER D. WYVILL, Exouvsrve Acuwt, ‘Mo, 462 PA. AVE. NEAR 46 STREET, DECEMBER 1 Tue Mosr Wonperrut Soar |__LADIES Goops. | __ | is F 1884—DOUBLE SHEET. BOOKS, &c. JRGANS. A. Gatoox, LADIES’ TAILOR AND HABIT MAKER, n6-Im 416 9th street, Washington, D.C. Roorrer Mas Senay 608 9TH STREET, Opposite Patent Offica Large and complet» stock of LADIES AND CHIL. DRER’S MERINO und WOOL UNDERWEAR, SILK and CASHMEKE GLOVES, COT ON, WOOL and RE HOSIERY, at very low pric ful line of HAND-KNIT Wo1 HOODS, SACQGUIS, SHIRT: GGINS, LADIES SHAWLS and 1 ASCIN Infants’ and Children’s PLUSH BUNNETS, WALK- ING SUITS MERINO CLOARS, plain and’ embroid- ered, in Mother Hubbard and other styles of superior elegance, esl ADIES' SEAL GARMENTS ALTERED. REDYED and relined. “Circular Luings vepal ered, Cloth muffs made, Miss CU 0035 1310 Sth street, vetwe Goon: een 1OKS. WE, CALE JOUR ATTENTION TO THE NEW Scouring snd Dry Cleaning Eatablish- ment, N.Y, ave. mw. All kinds ot Ladies! end with A. Fischer, 2 D Sisti Sehker, CORNER F. MERINO AND WOOL UNDERWE! b AR. Fifty cents will positively buy the best UNDERVEST. for Ladies ever shown in this city. For 6c. we offer you the regular $1 UNDERVEST; while for $1, well, we simply ask you to look at vurs after examining the wher 'S VESTS, Deere, gferina, excellent value EST for ladies, pure ‘A great barzain. Finer grades at $2. 32.25, Ladies’ extra long DRAWERS, fashioned, Also size bands for very fleshy ladies, ISS ANNIE K. HUMPHERY, M 1E UMPHERY, 430 TENTH STREET NORTHWEST, Bid gusmentoes beret Be ata cotter an “ag GER SPECIALTIES AR | French Hand-made Underelothing, Merino Underwear, a finent I om Patene Shoulder Praces end alf Dress Reform Goods | French Corsets and Bustles. i Children's Corsets, ‘and © $1 Corset (Miss H.'s own make), that for the vrice is unsurpasse N. E.—French, German and Spanish spoken. marlé | OCHON, RAN BUILDING, OS SEAN Disstn FROM PARIS sand Five Medais trom Expositions of Mabnfacturer, and importer of HUMAN HAIR AND FINE HATR WORK Ladies fine Hair Cutting and Hair Dressing, Hair dyed and shampoved in a first class mauner. to order. os SS MPTEENTA STREET NORTHWEST, Ladies’ and Gentlemen Plush Cloaks, Crape Veils, Lac fectly cleaned by this Superi LADIES' EVE EVENING DRI Ys Clothes Cleaned by this process wi reGeptlemen's Clothe ne re Hi not lose their orivinal shane, snd srease spots garante to be removed eflectunily. Troe S10 ant SLto per | ___GENTLEMEN’S GOODS. _ Sumrs To Orpen. 6 Shirts to Order, Laun 6 Shirts to Order, Laundried... 6 Very Best to Order, Laundried.. Also, a full line of Winter Underwear, Half Hose, Scarfs, &. 8. B. ELLERY, niT 1112 F street northwest. | Jost Recerven- A Large Line of NECKWEAR, for 50c., 75¢. and 8L Full Lineof Falland Winter UNDERWEAR, at lowest Prices, Large Line of DRESS SHIRTS constantly on hand. CHARLES HYATT, Proprietor, THOMPSON'S SHIRT FACTORY, 816 F strect northwest, opposite Patent Offica, ROUSEFURNISHINGS. Porrery Axp Ponceraiy. WE ARF NOW RECEIVING FROM BEST MANU- FACTURERS IN EUROFE DECORATED POTTE! Y AND PORCELAIN. SE- LECTED IN PERSON ESPECIALLY FOROUR SALES. COMPLETE STOCK KITCHEN UTENSILS, EDDY REFRIGERATORS, &c. 830 M. W. BEVERIDGE, no13-3m No. 1009 PENN, AVENUE. Gmars, LACE CURTAIN STRETCHER, CARPET SWEEPERS, and full line of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, GEO. WATTS & SON, 0028 814 7th st.. 5 doors above Penn. ave. Eveera ASOLID WALNUT CHAMBER SUITE, 10 pieces, complete, with MARBLE-TOP DRESSER, GLASS 24x 80, MARBLE-TOP COMBINATION WASH-STAND with bracket, MARBLE-TOP TABLE, 4 WALNUT CHAIRS, ROCKER and TOWEL RACK, all for $43 50.; in TENNESSEE MARBLE, $45. THIS WELL AND BEAUTIFULLY MADE SUITE WE GUARANTEE TO BE BETTER THAN ANY. THING OFFERED AT THE PRICE. W. H. HOEKE, 0020 Corner 8th snd Market Space. Te You Wasr A Hearne Oz COOKING STOVE, PORTABLE OR BRICK SET RANGE, LATROBE FURNACE OR SLATE MANTEL Call at our establishment before as we are how exhibiting the largest assortment of above Woodm in cheap, medium and first-class ever shown in this city, Also, Zin Wate, Hf ‘Goods, a. W. 8S. JENES & CO, ‘717 7th strect northwest. __ SEWING MACHINES, &. You Wu Save 40 cents a le Booxs: Booxs: ar BAUM’S, 416 SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST. test publications, at 20 percent. We cian. by F. Marion tomers in Tine. * Inferno, illustra ce #10; Parnaiae Y onl; Lost, lilustrated ir Enarav and examine onr stock of Books and Statione: ‘We guarantee our prices to be the lowest it the city.n! (Beit) As fCuiw, (Runex) Laboulay’s Fairy Tals Euphrasia and Albe Spencerian Wheel Stories, (Miss Alcott.) Our Us parol Christauas Carts ar bow oven for inspection, and we are daily rc-tving new noveltics aud handsome ‘for the holidays. ni9 WASHINGTON crRcULAT 14th street northwest as soon as published. Also fi BA-3un ‘Mrs ., 807 Feortionts Jnery at low prices ASHBURN # Uo, 428 7TH STREET NORTHWEST, Have the most cou iyuunals iu cases Catholic Prayer Books Methodi t Hymmals, im exirs Sine Laptist, Presbyterian and other ily and Pock"t Bibies, all styles sat ALY noice Ap Large Potatoes, y other house, E& CO. nl4-Im sua avenue, Avrtzs Avries Just Received, Direct from New York State 200 BARRELS APPLES. Choice varieties, packed especially for family use, at wholesale jrices. GEO. E. KE DY & SON, IMPORTERS OF FANCY GROCERIES, a7 No. 1200 F Srreer Noxrawesr. oH FER CCO K _K EEE RRR Hon ecokKK F RoR” WHH E 8 KK RRR HOH E cok K ROR GQ H ERE cco KOK RR BUCKWHEAT | 38 NOW READE. FOR SALE BY ALL GROCERS WM. M. GALT & CO., WHOLESALE AGENTS, ocl0-3m Corner Ist and Indiana Avenue, coco FEB RRR FEB co F RR FE o Eg RRR EK Qo § RR FE cco HER K KK EER THE CELEBRATED MIN: PATENT PROCESS FLOUR, # without s doubt the most BeavrIveL and the most Nererriovs Fleur in the world. ‘The Millers have not only the most perfect Mill, con- taining as it does all the most improved Machinery in- vented up to the rrosent time, but they produce a Flour UNsvRPasseD by any mill i we would simply state thata lane quautity of this magnificent Flour is shipped annually to Europe and eaten at the principal Courts of the old world. We Gvananree that it is tuade from selected hard wheat | grown in Minnesota and Dakota. It is an acknowledged | fact, that in this Flour a perfect separation of the eluti- nous particles of the wheat berry and a thorough elimi- reached, and is consequently more NurRrTi0vs, yield- best trade admits that from ‘te bread-making qualities it is the cheapest, ax well as the best, for either family or baker's use, and uusurpassed by any Flour made. Every sack aud every varrel is warranted to give eutire satisfaction, STERLING’S ST. LOUIS FANCY. One of the most beautiful Winter Wheat Pateuts ever offered to the trade. It is unexcelled by any other Patent except Ceres, and will please the most exacting house- keeper and sutisfy the most fastidious epicure, GILT-EDGE. Amagnificent Winter Wheat Patent. RELIANCE. Asplendid Minnesota Patent Flour, made by the cele- brated Hungerian process, It is a very cheap and beau- tful Patent, within the reach of all classes, and we muarantes will give satisfaction tocvery ous who will it ed GOLDEN HILL. Flour of theDistrict. Itis equal in quality toa creat many high priced Patent Mours, whilst it can be bought for considerable less money. We defy competitors to bring forth any Flour superior to CERES, ¥TERLING, GILT-EDGE, KELIANC’ or GOLDEN HILL, and we feel assured that any housekeeper who tries them once will never use anything else. For sale by all grocers. ‘Wholesale Depot, coruer Ist street and Indians avenue sel3 WM. M. GALT & CO. FINANCIAL. Sz Pres, Gio W Bio 1437 Pennsylvania Avenue (Opposite U. 8, Treasury.) Derosrrs. Excuaxcr. Daiscousra United States and District of Columbia Bonds bought and sold in lange and small lots, ‘Buy and sell on commission all classes of securities. Drafts issued on all points in Europe at lowest rat Information cheerfully given. se23-3t0. ON EVERY DOLLAR By sending Postal for our New Dlustrated ‘and reduced price list of new, latest improved SEWING MACHINES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Call particular attention to the NEW AMERICAN, No.7, (of which we have the sole agency.) iy seless, most vizople, handsome and durable work- Rianabip, unequaled lightness of running and dove not injure health. Cail or send for testimonials from over 800 drese- Spee SEW MERE Ip THIS CET, dow MACHINES FOR FOUT AND HAND POWER. C. AUERBACH, Corner 7th and H, Agency for the Saxony Wool German Hand Knit Jackets and Underwear. 229 New Home, ¥ McKENNEY’S, 427 9th street northwest, WOOD AND COAL, RGE CREVELINE, OFFICE AND YARD. 1872 Gitwe: eg of 14th st.—Long Wood—Pine, Qh per cord: Oak Kory, $7. Sawed and S| BF: Mickory, SAT nao at Joux Mrisen, WOOD AND coaL. ‘Main Office, Depot and Steam Fire Kindling Wood Mill: 4 and Virginia avenue southwest, ‘Branch Offices and Yards: 1020 14th northwest and 143 B southeast, ‘Telephone No. 261-2. 06-3 Cos. Axo Woon. WOOD. “liso: treaty mined GOL of Supeator quate Jor domestic ties all of which weofler et lowest Suarkst is respectfully invited «2 aninapection of curtock STEPHENSON & BRO., ‘thet wharf ad 19th stand Pa ave, Woon. Coa: JOHNSON BROTHERS, WHARVES AND RAILROAD YARD: ‘Twelfth and Water streets southwest, BRANCH YARDS AND OFFIOR& northwest; 2%4( Pennsylvania evenus northwest: 131¢ 90h street northwest; Cover 84 and K streets northwest, 421 Pennsylvania svenue southwest, Se mmrespees fc jecitities tor tae srresithoub Goale hee toe ‘either in the stick or preparedto pa nee Se A oa | we Patvare Sroce Txxcnara Wines WASHINGTON, BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA, EW YORE, SuSTON, &a PRINCE & WHITELY, Srocx Baoxeas, cf? a MEP eretuat Newson Henry H. Dodges, 8. Crager Oakley. James Whitely, 4 Logan, Washington, D.0. Maynard C. Eyra, Barry C. William &, Travers, Special Partnec. BUX AND YN COMMISSION ALL CLASSES SxLL ON, OF RAILWAY SECURITIES Exanch Office—539 15th strest (Corcoran Bullaiaz) 2.4, DODGE, Resident Partoen, Crotetionso? _ Ftockn sad Tondis anf mformation = garding the Marketa Tece-ved through our wires IN- STANTLY, direct fram the New York Stock Exchange All orders executed and reported promptly. Ed PROPOSALS. )POSALS FOR BALCONIES. [OR SUPERVISING ENGINEER AND hoa | (‘MPIRE Ban. Enent or e CITY OF BIO DE JANEIRO BY Gas. R°REVSPAPED Soon ax sos ranean, Large improved machinery, new type of the latest STE ne for the trade. z Good: Work. Low Prices, Fair dealing. plies te sana ria, (Jones) The Pxhibition of Wit. | diss $6 PER BAK- | oh he world. To prove that, | } nation of all weak and starchy matter bas at last been | ing more bread to the barrel than any other Flour. The | The old rJiable stand-by and the Standard family | | Bazoamss Ix Puxos Axp Oncax BOTH NEW AND SECOND-HAND. | INSTRUMENTS OF ALL THE BEST MAKES COty | STANTLY ON HAND. | Several Fine PIAN' Dut Ustle used, at 75 to €200 on monthiy No cast: payments cv- | New mie of & Every instrument sola warranted for five years. ‘Tuning and Repairing a specialty. SIDNEY T. NIMMO. mi | Braves. EDWARD F. DROOP, | (Of the late firm of W. G Mrrzenorr & Co, At the old stand——925 Pennsylvania svenua, Offers for sale @ carefully selected assortment of STLINWAY & SONS G: mare. and | ST anne: also, Fauve of TRNEST GABLER, WE | Lock GROVE TERN & FU! aud other LLER, Makerk Stirline and Bricreport Parlor Organs, iy attended ta, ave. “STEANWAY & SONS PIANOS, KAMP AND ATULIZ & BAUER Stand unrivaled for all the fine qualities of workman. stabdii ship, tone and durability, ug solidly tn tune, aud wiving unusual satisfaction, and | riehts, iets: low prices and ensy » Prompt and reliable eu, and waking atiducement te A good st ck of second-hand Pianceat low pricessnd easy terms, id but what we can give a responsibleguare | nm FACTORY WAREROOMS, 420 Oth stowet. | Mesie Asp Mosicar Moencaaxoisg, MRS. HENRIETTE 0. METZEROTT, Baving pure DROOM an the removed tolans ret Mr EDW, 204 halt co, oa No. W3 PF SYLVANIA AVENUE, Where the following ucts way be found HAL M.«. & SONS, HARDMAN, JAMES S HOLMSTRO: NESTFEN & PULL # SPECIALTY IN TUNING AND REPAIRING os, Having -d the serviccs of Beene, GEO. ELY and H, WAGNEK, for many yea with the 11 orders vy mail for tuning or music prowapaly ded to nol8-im 258 ALLET. DAVIS & CO)S THEIR UPRIGH t nid el PIANOS thik BKOS., N. ¥ prices, HLS 20th strvet mw. GE nu Also for Burdett on oc (PEE KRANICH & BACH AND STIFF PIANOS ve the Hicbest Praise from sll who kuow matic Musical In diy play their owmn music, KO.'S Music Warerooum, th street north’ the season. ial attention to wels, PICHENRACH’S PIANO WAREROOMS PIANOS arious makes tor sale gud Feit at re~ prices. Win. Knabe & Co.'s world-re+ Patios. Tuning and repairing. 42 sireet, abuve Fa. ave a | | S:sce& Co. Eamnsox, & Bavs& Co JIANOS WILCOX & WHITE AND KIMBALL ORGANS tuned, boxed: ior rent ‘by days week, Liou Rent applied if purcuused” Fudlstock of oe, Alusic. HENRY ERERBACR, 925 F STREET, Managing Partner of the late firm of Kilis R DAME DE Fo! DY FOR La. a All female complaints quickly cured. Can be consulted daily wt 1245 7th strect uorthwest. Office hours Pom 1 to 90" with Indies Rese VR toeteat Mion aaron name gavin tech? HRstiabes Expert ape : this eit rates acre in, all canes of vane val di inh Medic:ne, or no cl f poor hcdicine free’ Conmaltation onl sivice Subscribed and sworn ins free et any hour duriny th a to before me Dr THERS, April 24, 1864. nl0-lin® Crh a WALKER, Ay ANHOOD RESTORED BY USIN two of Dk. BROTHERS il cure sny bility and Impotency. Fystern, 906 b street southwest, JU HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THAT Dp SRGTHERS ie mie chat vestabieed ade ‘Using Ladies’ Physician you in this cl'y. Ladion, ridently cousult Dr. BROTHE: 8, 900 Bat Particular attention paid’ to ll dineaxin “peculiar dies, married or sintie. Al aritiee and 3 | rian troubies eucrrsefully treated B& Board, with | Rregiace gumouation aud thd 'cmevgst mares tire ds ‘oc. lim aw. to % Hi LL-KNOWN SPECIAL ‘is’, of Baltimore, can be confidentially consulted oth weutlemen and ladies every Wei and eurany from 2 to 9p. mat 48h street = near dig strent, great succe * and experiance j Justify your waiting to consult kinson these GagecotcSon \30 DAYS’ TKI FLFCTRIC VOLTAIC BELT, and other ar. Puiaxces, We will wend on, thirty dye" trial, to men, | PoUE grade: who are trom ve | sulting f causen, relict and | Sopb sso ar cect foe thusteased free Ade Gress VOLTAIC BELT CO.. i. Ja90-c0lF Price $3. Sent by mail ees it. ROBERTSON, THE £XP! who stands high in his profe feeansriad vanes $n ee Hea aig Po tee of the System, Bladder, oy i if PA PROFESSIONAL. ‘ES._M. A. FRENCH. MAGNETIC HEALER r ledium, is in at and Business Meditim, le aecin — street, where i it fi E : - 7 i Eg i E : Bu i 6, 945 Pennsylvania svent UNDERTAKERS. ICHARD 8. CAIN, SFormeriy'with we F Spindler) BR 1G UNDERTARER, No. 1011 frm Sx, R. W. Buzz =. ee €12 Lith strest northwest. AL.—JAMES Ree an street borthwest, near | mtd Im ee mp Fer —y 3 Dd. b—dove by cee Od ia Bo. Sateen en jand Sccond-Henud, sold on Montaly