Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1885, Page 3

Ad =. : > THE EVENING ‘STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C., SATURDAY,“APRIL 18, 1885-DOUBLE SHEET. Rae f : RELIGIOUS NOTES. CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE. — The President's rule: “No callers on Sun- ” is approved by several of the religious Papers, who say it would be well to have such @ ule in every dweiling in our land. a ‘hington correspondent of the New York Examiner (Baptist) sai : Of the 76 United States Senators, least thirty-two Capt. Philip Inch, A.S.Cazwood, Eiphonso Youngs, N. Skinned » committee uring esti for altering tioning the pews, the interior t which is now being & Childs, of this city, H. Morrison, of Louisville, has been in Baltimore asisting Rev. Dr. Murkland’s esbyterian church in protracted services. . E. Frierson, of Marion, Va., has ex- the Lewisburg (W. Va.) 2: — Funds are being rat window int Prince rian churen. ed to place a memorial al charch at Woodville, has appointed a standing committee on “literature and printing,” to promote the eulution of evs Land denominational ets, books and p fh the congregation. hood of the Holy Child Jesus, on the invitation of Rev. Father Jenkins, of Leon- ardtown, Md., ited that place for the purpose of scl < a site for a school and convent, will locate at the residence of th iston. — Children of the Protestant Episcopal ehurch throuzhout the diocese of Maryland recently contributed a penny each or more for further- ing religious work colored people. The cont sted by Bishop Paret, and was called the hop’s Penny.’ — Monsignor A. jlorieux will be conse- erated ia the eat Baltimore to-morrow as bishop in partibus infidelium and vicar apos- tolie of Idaho. Arehhishop Gibbons will be the nd Bishop Gross, of Savannah, of Oregon, and Bishop Maes, of Covinste be “assistant consecrators, Bishop Keane, of Richmond, will preach. — Recently Rev. M. B. Lambdin requested a letter of dismissal from the Maryland Presby- tery, so that he could join the West Hanover ept a call from Chesterfield led that they were in need , und a committee was appointed to draft a letter from the presbytery to that etfec — The presbytery of Maryland at its session at Laurel, Md., elected Henry Renshaw, elder, and Dr. J. H. Prentiss, alternate; Rev. R. L. ate. to the general assembly. The iil be at Rockville on September r. Dr. Lefevre, chairman of a special committee of the presbytery of Mary- land, reported favorably upon a proposed amendment to the-confession of faith, prohibit- ing a widow or widower marrying near rela- tives of their deceased partners. 15th next. A Rhyming Post Office Protest. There has been received at the Post Office De- partment a petition from a man in a western town asking for the removal of the postmaster in the town. The petition is in doggerel rhyme and the gist of it is contained in the following lines: And now we pray for your protection, ‘The office here does need inspection; Post office and saloon connection, And gambling too, In the same room does need dissection, Tl vow is true. ‘When the inspector came around, No truce'of whisky could be found. All cards and dice was underground; They knew bis coming. ‘Then showed a reverend face, Profound in perfect cunning. ———$+o0+_____ Murdered in Her House. ‘THE TRAGIC DEATH OF THE WIFE OF A VERY WEALTHY FRENCHMAR, Pants, April 16.—A tragedy, which is likely to take a prominent place in the long list of sen- satioual crimes in the French capital, was brought to light Thursday morning. The wife of a wealthy cotton manoufacturer has lived alone in the suburb of that elty for over a year, j while her hushand was absent in Pondicherry, © capital of the French settlements in India, here he manages a cotton mill, em- ploying upward of 8,000 hands. Fabulous Stories were told of this gentleman's wealth, and his wife was supposed to be the custodian of a great part of his fortune. Her only companions fn the house were a maid and @man servant. Thursday morning the girl dis- Soxered, the body of her mistress lying on the floor, clothed only ina night dress. The bead had been eompletely severed from the body by a knite or hatchet, and there were a number of stabs in various parts of the body. It is be- Heved that the woman's head was cut off after She bad Uecn stabbed. the murderer desiring to make doubly sure that bis work was fatal. The Ian servant has disappeared from the house. The police have not yet obtained any clue to his whereabouts. Robbery was undoubtedly the motive for the erim EE An Amateur Athlete Defined. The National Association of Amateur Ath- letes of America at a recent meeting in New York adopted the following definition of ama- teur: “An amateur is any person who has never competed in open competition, or for money, or under a false name, or with a professional tor a prize or where gate money is charged: nor at any time, taught, pursued or at athletic exercises for money, or for valuable consideration. But nothing in deiinition shall be construed to prohibit the competition between amateurs for_medals, cups, or oth m money. And it Is ex: ition is not made of amateurs shall z ordance with the provisions of the old definition, and that the foregoing defi- nition shall take effect on and after Ass: a el ea An Eye for Business. (0 Herald. aChicago business man, “pack f'm going to Washington.” hope, James?" Life is too short. But I've read ‘text fall the administration grand rush of office-seekers.” ot to do with that.’ u know that _ barbed i. It's just the thing for sbineg Senator and it around his n’t sit on the for 'em to Isella train-load iv in the morning wait Bet fiver th Enough to Begin With From Texas Sift Wilson ¢ lies, one of the most poverty- men of Galveston, applied to ‘or the hand of his daughter. “In the first place I've sent in my application to Preside: eland for a position in one of ¥ other resources?” asked the jatber-in-ls' I'm sertously thinking p smoking. 4 the “voung lady, “that’s enough for us to begin with, ain't it?” see ® Great Social Center. ington Correspondence of the N. Y. World. A prominent New York gentleman who has spent a couple of winters in Washington said to me this mor you kuow I am pery fectly fascinate life of the capi- tal? We hav. in New York. You go to any bs and you find them in the f f a lotof young insur- e ‘sand downtown busi- ing but stocks, petty Old men are regarded a3 or intellectual gentleman s something outside of club topies is voted @ nuisance. You ty and you find it still nor woman over thirty years of inacorner. The young dancing and the buds run everything. Here in nm literary gentlemen, philanthro- men, historians, and the very best people — =e every where, Youns dancing people too, merely employed to ‘Ail in the ¥ are not the feature of your society. Any one who ever enjoyed “a winter fa Washington society could never be satisfied With the society of any other city in this coun- try. Itis the only town where men of brains and position are not driven into tne back- ground by the long-legged young men and the le-footed young womel gtaduates of the dancing schools: = ———— 9 —___ ANOTHER OUTRAGE IN MARYLAND. — Last Saturday night acolored man named Charles Collins, ‘twenty-five years of age, committed fn outrageous assault on Mr ‘Hin, aged sixty years, near the Furnace three miles from Snow Hill, Md. A son of Mrs, Hill, armed with a sho! drove Tollins to bis own house. He was brought to Snow Hill and lodged in jail. Mrs. Hill says that when Collins entered the house to make the assault she struck @ match, which he blew out, but not aps. ‘They a be- she nized him, and he then assaulted her. Collins ‘a very‘badonnas in te h- borhood, and there is already a writ against THE FUTURE WASHINGTON. Hate Field Says it is to be the Center of Art, Society, Literature, Fashion and all Intellectual Activities. It 1s dangerous in this age of transition to come to conclusions about anything, particu- larly in the United States, where geography, as well as humanity, seems to undergo revolution every seven years. Nevertheless, even with the awful example of Joseph Smith staring me in the face, I dare to prophecy that within ten years Washington will be the social and intel- lectual, as well asthe political, capital of this re- public. It ought to be so. If government be the grandest of all sciences, the greater should include the less, and the best of art of society should te attracted as naturally to the natio: legislature as steel filings are attracted to magnet, It is manifest destiny. Look at Eu- rope to-day. London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Ber- lin, Madrid, St. Peterburg are the social, scien- tifie, artistic, no less than the political foci of thetr respective countries, Time was when Ed- inborough asserted an intellectual supremacy over London, but the inevitable exodus of brains to the center of the kingdom now causes the beautiful Scottish capital to live upon past glory. Florence, Naples, Milan, Venice, once gil powerful when Italy was cut up into petty kingdoms or dependencies, hide their dimin- ished heads now that a national parliament and king govern the entire peninsula from the Rome of the Cesars. In Europe commerce gravitates as naturally to the capital as do no- ciety, arts and science. A like result would be seen In this country did not the United States embrace the best part of a great continent. When a nation extends 3,000 miles from east to west, and 1,500 miles from north to south, no one town can usurp commerce, though one town may, for a certain period, be a financial despot. New York to-day rightly claims this power, but New York in the future will be but one of the many business marts, When the Wonderful southwest teems with humanity, when Mexico resumes the sway she once pos- sessed, when South America looks to North America for aid and comfort, when Cuba breaks away from the tyranny of Spain, when Asia awakes from its centuries of sleep, and Europe no longer dictates to the world, Gotham and the Atlantic seaboard will be of no more conse- uence to the republic than New Orleans and the gulf of Mexico are to-day. Inthe ratio that commerce is diffused, gov- ernment will be centralized, and with it all that makes life beautiful and interesting. Of course, noone willbe rash enough to assert that Washington must ever remain the national capital, but after the millions spent upon pub- lie buildings and improvements, and since an- nihilation of space by modern invention and discovery makes neighbors of all parts of the country, a change is not probable. Therefore, as years go on, Americans will look to Wash- ington as the Mecca of thought in all phases, ‘The bigger the republic grows, the more nec- essary willa rallying point. became North,south, ast and west will meet on common ground: Sectional egotism will disappear in the fuli light of national glory, and as to-day atrip to Europe is considered neceseary to a liberal ed- ucation, s0,{n @ not distant to-morrow, a sojourn in Washington will be regarded as necessary to all who would have thorough knowledge of this republic. Think of the transformation that Washington has undergone since the war! To-day Washington is the only well paved town in this country. So clean and smooth are its streets that pedestrians walk on their asph- alt in preference to the brick orstone sidewalks, that might be improved. Bicycles abound in consequence, and the lovers of driving and rid- ing heave a sigh of relief at the absence-of the noise, holes and cobblestones peculiar to our great towns, hideous facts that make exercise on wheeis or in the saddle an agony instead of apleasure. Admirable private dwellings line the west end of the capital; still better houses are about to be built. At fast it begins to look as though the student, the artist, the states- man, the retired trader, the man and woman of the World may find a place on this continent Where escape from the din of money-zrabbing 1s possible, where culture can shake hands with genius in all forms, where merit, not money or grandfathers, is the entree to society, where per- sons of leisure may hobnob with other persons ofleisure and noi be regarded as public nuis- ances, and where the stock market is not the chiefend ofman. If everapeople needed to from themselves and cultivate repose it is ourselves. If ever this repose {s acquired it will be in Washington. $0 convinced have some Americans become of these probabilities as to have metamorphosed the national capital. People of fortune are making it their home, in order to enjoy life under the most favorable cir- cumstances, For similar reasons people of mod- erate and settled incomes are lured there also. Comparative poverty is no badge of dis- grace where ladies and gentlemen serve the government for moderate salaries, where re- tired army and navy officers rank above the wealthiest jof nouveaux riches while | livi modestly on half pay. “Bless your soul,” sal transplanted Philadelphian, “you ean ‘enter- tain all your friends here for $1.75. It isn’t what you give to eat, but whom you bring to- gether, that attracts.’ New Yorkers are trying to introduce extravagant ways of entertaining, but they only get talked about in no compli- entary strain. ‘The majority of us won't coun- fenance anything of the sor.” ‘We want life to be made as easy, charming and inexpensive as in European capitals.” Amen. ‘My impressions, after a month’s residence in the shadow of the White House, are that no where on this side of the Atlantic can so many interesting people be found as in Washington. You meet men and women from every part. of the country, men and women who have done or are doing something, who have ideas, who represent some liviving issue. You meet the iegislators of the nation, and while they are not as clever as they ought to be in many in- stances, still they are worth studying as signs of the times. Some of them possess undoubted capacity. In the Supreme Court may be found great legal lights, The ablest representatives of the army and navy may be found without much seeking. Science has its headquarters in the Smithsonian Institute. Though the art displayed on Capitol Hill, and for which the nation has paid dearly, is 48 bad as bad can be. Ibelieve that the best painters and sculptors will eventually seek studios in Washington. The highest culture makes the best atmosphere for art of every kind. When honored and yen- erable George Baneroft decided to live in Wash- ington, he became the avant garde of his guild. Authors are looking more and more toward the national capital as a permanent abid- ing place. Various are the writers con- nected with the civil. service, ‘the mithsonian institute and the Congressional library. Col. John Hay is building a fine house; other iitterateurs are following his example: More than one novelist has set up lares and penates in the town that not longago was made up of boarding houses. Retired actors appre- ciate a repose wherein there Is no possibility of stagnation, and Mrs. Gen. Lander leads where Lawrence ‘Barrett will probably follow. Not the least attraction of Washington is its cli- mate, Though by no means perfect, its spring is earlier and autumn later than in northern cities, hence outdgor life and sports have longer reign, while the neighboring country is both historical and beautiful. The Potomac opens a charming passage to the sea, and Kort Monroe is an inviting resort during all seasons of the Year. It should not be forgotten that Washing- ion’s market rivals that of Baltimore, which is the best in the country. One never would know it, Judging by hotels and boarding houses, but it’ is a fact that housekeepers readily prove. Meats are cheaper than in New York. Fish comes straight from the sea, Canvas-back ducks, terrapin, softshell crabs, are natives of the Potomac, and every concefvable vegetable thrives. Fruits abound, Comparatively low rents, good markets, climate—as climates xo—gv0d roads, brary, good company. Whit other Anierican town can show as good & 2 ss ——___+e+______ Every One Should Walk. HINTS ON THE GAIT, THE DRESS AND OTHER MATTERS, Every healthy person, man or woman, should be agood walker, able at any time to walk six to twelve miles a day at least, and double that when gradually brought up toit. The pointsto be attended to are to see that the walk be brisk and vigorous, not of a loitering or dangling kind; that there be some object in the walk be- sides it being @ routine constitutional, and, if possible, in pleasant company; that there be no Light clothing, whether for the feet or the body, which will constrain or impede the natural movements of the limbs and trunk, and that the walk be taken as far as possible in the fresh country air. In regard to the latter particular, although towns are increasing so rapidly as to make it almost a journey to get out of them on foot, still we have so many suburban tramways and railway lines that in'a few minutes we can find ourselves in the country, where the air 1s fresh and pure. | Whenever an ‘opportunity pre- sents itself for alittle climbing in the course of walk itshould be taken advantage of. We variety of muscular action, as well as increase the exertion, and we get into regions of purer air and fresher breeze at the same time. What may be considered as the weak point in walk- ing as a mode of exercise is the comparatively small play which it gives to the muscles of the shoulders and chest, while it is still less for those of the arm. This should be compensated for by the use of light dumb-bells or Indian ¢lubs, or some other form of exercise which brings in play the arms and shoulders. One of the forms of exercise which requires the action of the muscles of the arms and shoulders, as well as those of the trunk and legs, is ming. This, however, for many reasons, can- not be used as @ means of exercise except by & few, and at certain seasons of the year, but where possible it should always be practiced. The great pity is that boys and girls do not learn it while at school. Every large town should be well supplied with swimming baths, and If It could be made compulsory for scholars at a certain age, say twelve, to learn to swim, it would be a great advantage to all, and also’be the means of saving many lives, ——~ 09 Little Girl Visiting St. Louis, ‘From the Boston Post. “Ob, mamma, I think this must be heaven.” “Do you, pet? Why?” “Don't you see, mamsall the ladies and gen tlemen in the room have wings; but the; “Hush darling, those are not wings.” ———_s99____ Balm forthe Subseriber. ‘From the Norristown Herald. ‘The supreme court of Obiohas decided that subseriber cannot swear over @ telephone line ‘without the consent of the company. But the ean derive consolation the fact that he is still to How Continents Form and Disappear. OUR CHANGING GLOBE. UP WITH THE DENTIST. ‘Attending the First THE APPOMATTOX APPLE TREE. QFFCuL pRawixe oF THE LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY, SINGLE NUMBER CLASS “p.” Drawn at New Orleans, La, on Tuesday, April 14th, 1885. FULL PRIZES. 2) A White Flag Sent by the Rebel General from Under an Apple Tree to Prevent = Impending Attack by Union Treops—The Real Scene and Circum- stances of the Surrender. ‘The student of history reads of the great sea fight which King Edward IIL. fought with the French off Sluys; how in those days the mer chant vessels came up to the walls of that flour. ishing seaport by every tide, and how, acen- tury later, a Portuguese fleet conveyed Isabella. from Lisbon, and an English fleet brought Mar- From Every Other Saturday. With eleven teeth had I parted without the aid of anesthetics, Unconditionally I sur- Tendered them to the dentist, who was willing to receive them for a consideration. A twelfth must go. As I took the chair of torture, I re- From the New York Sun, At the Chicago convention In 1880 Senator Conkling began the speech with which he nom- Meeedeciietes garet of York from the Thames to marry suc-| marked that it wasa fourfooted molar and | inated Gen. Grant for the Presidency with a| 335 199 cessive dukes of Burgundy at the port of Sluys. | would hurt, couplet which was then believed to be his own 18) eal In our time ifa modern traveler drives twelve | “Take gas,” suggested the dentist. composition: FS miles out of Bruges, across the Dutch frontier] “What is gas?’ If you ask us where he hails from, this our sole Tesponse shall be, That bal from Appomattox and its famous apple ‘This was pronounced with the dramatic force of which the speaker was a master, and brought about one of the most impressive scenes ever ‘witnessed in a political gathering. The allu- sion tothe apple tree revived the recollection of the climax of Gen. Grant's career. The homely, and, in fact, wholly hypothetical incl- dent by which Gen. Lee's surrender was typi- fied, the Appomattox apple tree, has gone into story, he will find a small agricultural town sur- rounded by cornfields and meadows and clumps of trees, whence the sea is not in sight from the top of’ the town-hall steeple. This is Sluys. ‘We turn now to.the great Baie du Mont St. Michel, between Normandy and Brittany. In man authors we read of the vast forest called ‘Setiacum Nemus,” in the center of which an isolated rock arose, surmounted by a temple of Jupiter, once a college of Druidesses. Now, the same rock, with its glorious pile dedicated to St, Michael, is surrounded by the sea at high tides. The Story of this transformation is even “Nitrogen monoxide—the best . anesthetic known. It is harmless and serves well. “Tl take it; oe me enough,” The dentist’ brought forth a rubber bag, the Wooden muzzle of which he thrust into’ my mouth. With bound I Spreng. into the air. I at- tempted to fasten my hold upon something, but everything gave way—even agiantelm came up by the roots, I realized that I had but a few minutes to live. All my friends—I saw every pne—were rwatching me, My deeds, good and bad, filed past me. I will not say which formed the longer procession. A man to whom I had BEEEBEEE Ee ang the two ast capital prize of rvised th g F59.000-—-S25, ‘The subscribers having #1 ber Drawing, Class “D. hereby certify that the above this day dr wn 9000 placed in the with those other dramatic symbols eel, With the prizes carresponding to thei. more striking than that of Sluys, and {ts ade- | given a pewter quarter asked me howI liked It, | with which people epitomize the carcers of Withoss car at New Orleans, La. this Tues quate narration justly earned for M, Manet | and said that be knew I would come to it, their heroes, Wellington's “Up, Guards, and day, April 34th, S85, Now I was going upward, and when I had reached a great height I swooped down like a bird of prey and dashed through 8 wall of solid masonry—just a hundred feet thick by actual the gold medal of the French Geographical so- ciety in 1828. Let us turn for a moment to the Mediterrane- an shores of Spain and the mountains of Murcia, at ‘em; Sheridan’s “Winchester Twenty Mile and Sherman's “Marching Throu; rgia,” the only war songs that survives, tell for 'the people the story of success in a 3. T. FEAVREGARD, J. A FARLY, Commissioners, Prizes cashed in full without deduction, Those rocky heights, whose peaks stand out | Measurement, A dozen times I soared aloft, | breath, Asie from. his laconic utterances, No, LOUD draws Capital Prise $75,000, sola against the deep blue sky, scarcely support a | and as many times I sailed down. When f| Gen. Grant had given the people no single dra Ficmatinite, Savannah ace; Winktall, ind, a6. blade of vegetation. The ‘algarobas and olives | decended alll the stone fences, cobbles, bowlders | matic incident that could be selzed upon to SIS drwy second Capital * $25,000, 8014 at their bases are artificially supplied with soil, | 2nd trees ran to meet me. I hit themall. Now | tell his story ina word, until this apple-tree ew York aud San It is scarcely credible that these are thesame | I was ascending again, but in a different man-| myth at the end of his military career. The 5 $10,000, sola mountains which, according to the forest book | Her. A balloon miles in clreumference was | dispatch that set the country on fire with its Washington, D.C, aud of King Alfonso €l Sabio, were once clothed to bearing me upward. Iclung to its lower part | simple announcement that Lee had surrender- their summits with pines and other forest trees, | With my teeth. My hands were in my pockets, | ed to Grant was followed by another asserting S71, draw cach $6.00, sold tn Bos- while soft clouds and mist hungover a rounded, | for the air was chilly. Above me was the bal- | that the surrender had been made under an ap- enon. ote ee Oe shagey outline of wood where now the naked | loon car, and out of It leaned a man resembling } ple tree, and the country made fer itself a ple- R057, draw rocks make a hard line against the burnished | the dentist. In his hand he held an immense | ture of the two cominanders beneath the ew Ye ‘kiyn, Hostor sky. But Arab and Spanish chroniclers alike | Pair of tongs. He regarded me with manifest | branches of a blossoming apple tree, the one ex- i, Chicago, Washington, Da record the facts, and geographical science ex- | displeasure. tending and the other receiving a’sword, and Memphis, 7 jeuvenworth, Kau, and Sai AD plains the cause. There is scarcely a district in | _ We were rising at a fearful rate of speed—so | thus ending the greatest war of history. tonto, T he whole range in the civilized world where | fast, indeed, that I could not shut my eyes. | When Gen. Grant was asked about it some fa” CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.88 some equally interesting geographical story has | The wind blew the lids open and held them | days later he said: “There was no apple tree.” Tickets only in proportion. not been recorded, and where the same Valua- | back. At last the manin the car said: “Now | But his soldiers had selected one, had hewn it LOUISIANA COMPANY. ble lessons may not be taught. This is compar- | J'll pull that tooth; you must cling with your | into bits, body, branches, roots and all, and ” We do here ative geography. nose while I pull.” I obeyed, knowing that I precious relics they are now, scattered through- the Capt. LU. Herandeen, who nas spent years in | ¥as in his power. ‘The tooth came out on the | Pre qon country. end of the tongs, and was placed in the car. Soon after Iheard a tumult in the car above, ‘The dentist appeared and shook his clenched hand at me, and shouted: “Confound your old tooth! It is growing so fast that it will crowd me out. Pretty fellow, you ure, to shed such & monstrous molar.” I thought this was very unkind. I had not asked him to pull the tooth, and how could I be responsible for its Again the dentist appeared and cried in great wrath: “Ishall throw it overboard—lookout!” Itdid not hit me. Tsaw as it whizzed by that it was many times larger than the Capitol build- ing at Washington. I hoped thatnone of my. friends were standing where it would fall upon the earth. “We were now near the sun and ap- sailing the Pacific, relates facts that he had observed, which tend to prove the theory set forth by Dana that there is an immense area of the Pacific ocean bed, lying under the equator, about 6,000 miles in length and about 3,000 in breadth, that has been gradually sinking lower and lower for thousands of years. The first thing that called the attention of scientific men to this fact was the formation of the innumer- able atolls and barrier reefs in that part of the Paeifle ocean, They found on the outskirts of this area that there were islands. fringed with coral reefs, “As they sailed past these beaut ful islands they saw other islands with a barrier circling them. A coral reef a few feet below the suriace ofthe water girdied the island at a distance from it varying from a half to thirty miles, and | Protching nearer at lghtning speed. The whose presence was marked by a ring of snowy | dentist sat on the edge of the car, dangied his foam made by the breakers, Aw they pene | lex and smoked. He had the impudence to asit trated farther into the region of the sea they | ™é why I did not smoke. It was so warm from came apn atolls, which are formed by circles imity to the sun that I decided to go no It was the opportunity of the writer to meet two gentlemen on the Appomattox field some Years ago, who, as civilians, witnessed the his- toric events that took place there on April 9, 1865, Just twenty years ago. They were probi bly the only civilians who were eye witnesses of those scenes, One was Mr. E.G. Hix, the owner of the Appomattox farm, and the other Mr. G.T. Peers, the clerk of the Appomattox county court. The Appomattox river threadsa valley, very gently sloping. Itis a small and easily ford- able stream. Half amile west of {t,at the place where a level plain stretches westward, 15 the hamletimown as Appomattox Court House. Hereare the dingy brick court house, a tayern, acountry store, wheelwright’s shop, a brick house, then owned by Major MeLane. Between thishamlet and the Appomattox river 4s the house of Mr. Peers, On the easterly slope leading to the river are fields, and one of them aseven-acre lot, had at the time of the surren- d all parties, to use this certipcate, with Incorpo. Legistaten ed in 1868 fi Educational and ¢ 004,04 0.000 has wince been mdded. popular vole its franchise was of coral enclosing a smooth sheet of water. | further. Trelinquished my hold and shouted, | derashed on ii near the road. In this lot was December 24, + a ermrsatae ne one These lagoons were found to vary in diameter | “Good-bye, old Jawbreaker.” Quick as thought: | an apple orchard. The Richmond and Lynch- The oniy Lottery ever voted on and endorsed by the from thirty miles or more to only a few feet, but | insulted, indignant, the dentist rushed for his burg turnpike road ran through the village, and peuple of any State. corals do not build their reefs at a greater depth | tongs. “I'll pull them ali,” he said, and as I fell |. bridge over the Appomattox river was about nd center scales or poxtpones. than a hundred feet, and yet by sounding these | the tongs Jengthened and gaye chase, but |'a stone's throw distant. from the entrance to Its Grand Single Number “ Drawings take place singular reefs in the Pacific ocean it was found that the coral reached as far as the fathom line went. ‘The conclusion of selentific men was that the bed of the ocean was gradually sinking, and that the corals began to build fringing reets on the islands, and as the lgnd sank, the corals kept steadily at work building up as fast as the land went down. As the land disappeared, the fringing reefs became atolls or circles of coral enclosing a calm lagoon. It was found that the reefs below a hundred feet are dead, and itis inferred that at a lower depth than that the corals were killed by cold. ‘This is the gen- erally accepted theory in regard to the subsi- dence of the Pacific. A few years ago I stopped at Pouynipete Island, in the Pacific, in east lon- itude 158° 22’, and north latitude 60°50’, The island is surrounded by a reef, witha broad ship channel between it and the isiang, could not overtake me. After falling all day and all night, I came near the earth early in the morning. As I flew down- ward, a gilded weathercock ona church steeple crowed. I considered this offensive, and by some unknown agency, arrested my flight and went back to the weathercock and demanded to know what he meant by it. He crowed the louder. ‘This was too great an insult, I flew at him, when, presto, he began to crow louder, and to grow larger. 1'was on the earth now, ficeing from a monster cock. “The church and’ steeple were still attaebed to him, but he had become so much larger that they were no impediment. I remonstrated with him, but his only repl: was a blow from the foot that held the churel and steeple. He was on the point of dancing a hornpipe on my stomach, when I emerged into Anew world in time to hear the dentist say: the apple orchard. On the morning of April 8, 1865, the main body of Lee's army appeared on the Richmond road, about a mile east of the Appomattox bridge. Tt: went into camp there, and the cavalry and skirmishers were throw rapidly forward through the village toward the depot on the Petersburg and Lynchburg rai way, four miles to the west. They were feeling for Sheridan’s advance forces, and they found them, The night before, Sheridan, with Cus- ter’s cavalry ahead, had reached the depot, and during the night alarge body of infantry” had come up. Sheridan knew that he had headed off Lee's army, and sent out his cavalry to find it. The skirinishers met ou: the Lynchburg road, about a mile west of Appomattax Court House,and a, very brisk skirmish followed. Lee monthly S55—180th Monthly CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000. “TP CAPITAL I 1 4 2 PRIZES OF 5 10 forces withdrew, as did Sheridan's, and troops Lee was informed that the Union MATION At places in the reef there were natural | “There it is!” at the same time holding up a | were ahead of him and commanded the Lynel © Approstnsiion Prinsoe breaks, that served as entrances to the harbors, | tooth. “Did you know when I pulled it." | bung road. ‘The confederate general's last s 2 do. do In these ship channels there were a number of | “Yes; I saw you and your tongs pulling, but I] hope was gone. He could not reach * do do islands, many of which Were surrounded by a| felt It not. “You were a great while aout It! | burg, and he knew, though. his army did not wall of Stone five or six feet high, and on these islands there stood agreat many low hou built of the same kind of stone as the walls about them. These structures seem to have been used as temples and forts. The singular feature of these islands Is that the walls are a foot or more below the water. When they were built they were evidently above the water and connected with the main land, but they have gradually sunk until the sea ‘has risen a foot or more around them. The natives on the island donot know when these works were built; it is so far back in the past that they have even no tradi- tion of the structures, Yet the works show signs of great skill, and certainly prove that whoever built them knew thoroughly how to transport and lift heavy blocks of stone. Up in the moun- tains of the island there Is a quarry of the same Kind of stone that was used in building the wall about the islands, and in that quarry to- day there are great ‘blocks of stone that have been hewn out ready for transportation. The natives have no tradition touching the quarry. There is no doubt that the island was once in- habited by an intelligent race of people, who built the temples and forts of heavy masonry on the high bluffs of the island, and that as the land gradually subsided thete blufls became ands,” How long have I been here?” The dentist con- sulted his timepiece. ‘One minute and twenty seconds.” ———__— ee Reform in the Treasury. - From the Chicago News. The lights in the Treasury department were dim, yet every room was lighted up, and it was evident that all hands were at work, in accord- | ing on the morning of the 9th of April Casters ance with Secretary Manning's order that all | cavalry and Gen. Chamberlain's brigade ad- BAG A A OTA eee eres eer 8 | Nerace, aoe ie ean ook reenter aicen luty at 4:30 a.m.every week day. President | #ttack, E 1 Cleveland entered the Treasury building and | S7pni rel Gen. Lee that there should be any fighting that day. Gen. Grant having ridden asked the Janitor where Col. Manning was to be | pretty much all night had arrived before morn- found, Ing of the 9th, and had made his headquarters “fe is down in the vaults counting the tna grove of pines Just off the Lynchburg road money,” said the janitor, “and cannot be dis-| Poul, $, mule west of Appomattox Court turbed.” House. ‘The spot is now the site of a negro hut. Gen. Lee, whose headquarters were about. 4 Mr. Cleveland expostulated, and was com-| mile and a half east on the Richmond an pelied to disclose his identity before the janitor | Lynchburg road, surprised that fighting was. would listen to him. But being satisfied at Jast | being forced by the Union troops on his left, that the visitor really was the President, the | decided to quit his tent and ride to the front. Janitor conducted him through, devious’ pas- | He believed that Custer and Chamberlain must sages, down winding stairways and under cu- rious’ moats, until finally the labyrinthine have been misinformed about Gen. Grant's vaults were reached. Here, surrounded by piles purposes, or had failed to receive crders sus- pending fighting. Gen. Lee was dressed in the of shining gold and ‘silver pieces, sat the Secre- tary of the Treasury, counting’ the national uniform of a confederate colonel, and, callin his etaff, he mounted his iron-gray horse an hoard by the dim light of a candle. rode slowly forward down the slope toward the “Iam sorry you came,” said the Secretary to | Appomattox river. He turned into the apple the President, “for I really have so much work | Orebard, probably thinking that the shed there to do that I have no time to talk.” offered shelter for the horses, and because from Then Mr. Cleveland observed that Col, Man- | that field a good view could be obtained of the ning was attired in naught but an ander- shirt, his trousers, and a pair of high-heeled at that time, that in a few hours all would be over. Gen! Lee had already been in cor- dence with Grant relative to surrender, and when he found. that Sheridat had cut him off he determined to surrender there at Appomattox. The confederate pickets were thrown out on the west side of Appomattox creek, crossing the road directly opposite Mr. Peers’ house. ‘Through some inisunderstand- or Hofer STALL a By ney Orders, or New York Exchan; in ordinary letter. Cur rency by Express (all sums of $> aud upwards atour expeuse) uddressed is ‘ ‘Orleans, La. Make P. O. Money Orders payable and address Reg- istered Letiers to sii NEW CRLEANS NATIONAL BANK, New Orleans, La 200 44100., 50)44111 10044619, 50 4 Coxrtere Tx Every Derax. OUR BOYS' AND CHILDREN’S DEPART- MENT WASNEVERSO THOROUGHLY STOCKED AND COMPLETELY FILLED IN EVERY DE- TAIL AS IT 18 AT PRESEN’ 3: 26 S008 Sy 46014. ———+e+_______ Flies and Mosquitoes. ONLY THE FEMALES OF THE LATTER INSECT STING. From the New York Times, April 5th. Driving rain did not preventa large attend- ance yesterday at Prof. Bickmore’s lecture to the public school teachers on flies and mosqui- , AND WE DO NOT THINK THAT IT LACKS ANY GARMENT TO MAKE IT COMPLETE. entirecountry. Dismounting, he, with his staff, gathered under an apple tree, while the horses toes ‘i «| boots. fwere led to the shed. Gen, Lee swept the coun. Reatreeny eT eer epee vata | <.uGo0a! thought the President. Then he try with his fleld glass fora moment, and then — be 2 3 * 27 a ¥ ie cat down on an improvised scat made from the closest attention to the professor's interest. | Why are wa Wine Toe eek ee ene fence rails by one of his orderlies. Here he saw Gen, Chambe:lain’s brigade coming through the woods ready to attack his advance. He at once peréeived that there would be more bloodshed unless something was done, and gave a hasty order to one of his alds. That officer, with a plece of linen, either a towel or a handkerchief, fastened to a'stick, advanced at once to meet Gen, Chamberlain.’ Thus from under that tree went the white token of surrender, and Cham- berlain’s men supposed that there the surren- der was made. ‘All hostilities at once ceased,and in a few moments the federal pickets were advanced beyond the court house, and the cohfederate pickets were withdrawn ‘nearer the Appomat- tox. Thus the house of Mr. Peers stood on neu- tral ground between the two picket lines. Soon after a federal officer passed through both lines of pickets. It was Gen. Babcock bearing a message for Gen. Lee from Gen. Grant arrang- ing tor a preliminary meeting. Tt was arranged that the two commanders should meet within the lines within an hour. At the endof that time a number of Union officers passed through OUR LINE OF CHILDREN’S SUITS, SHORT PANTS—AGES 4 TO si akes corms a FULL LINE OF =i PRICES RANGING FROM $3.40 TO $18 A = OUR LINE OF KILT SUITS, TO FIT AGES 2% TO6 YEARS, CONTAINS ALL THE NEWEST SHAPES. THE PRICES RANGE FROM $25070 $12 A SUIT. _ why are you using this wretched tallow dip?” “'T have had the gas meter taken ont of the building,” said the Secretary, “and have re- turned to the good old democratic simplicity of candles, By this means the sum of $90,000 will be saved to the country annually.” “And what are you doing now?” asked the President. Counting the money in the Treasury,” re- plied Col. Manning. “I intend to know for myself whether any peculations have been in- duilged in by my republican predecessors. Al- ready I have discovered a number of question- able things, For instance, I have found the tail feathers pulled out of a large numbet of the eagles on the 1877 coinaze of $20 gold pieces, and I intend to trace the burglarious outrage to its uttermost until the guilty party is brought to justice. © That is right,” said the President, and, ashe walked away, he felicitated himself and his country upon’ having secured the co-operation ofsuch an honest, fearless patriot as the Albany Journalist, ing and graphic talk and the pictures that he was illustrating on the screen. The professor said that the typical insect leg was not com- posed of an indefinite number of joints, but usually two short Joints, and the femur, tibia and arm. A numbet of flies were projected on the big sercen, The robber fly attacked other insects on the wing as a hawk would attack a pigeon, tearing them to pieces and sucking out the juices of the unfortunate victims. The long-legged fly known as the mosquito got its name from a Spanish word. meaning little fly, The female laid aseries of eggs, long-pointed Uke rifle cartridges, and placed parallel to each other. An audible smile went around the lecture room when the professor calmly observed that it was only the female mosquito that was ad- dicted to biting, and he suggested that it seemed that all’ the mosquitoes were of that gender. The males quietly kept aloof on swampy areas while the females went out and —_—__+e+_ preyed on any unfortunate vertebres th = pmeuiper ot U ie omicars Deans h IN BOYS’ SUITS, AGES 11 To 17 YEARS, : eriebre they! Darwin and the Divine Purpose. the federal picket line and rode slowly towar could find. osquito’s mod pera 5 Sra to tive ante ier Tictin horny masiite | should like to say a few words upon the the. | the slope that stretches down to the Appomat- tox river. In the highway, just opposite Mr. Peers’ house, the mud was very deep, and the Union officers turned into the vacant field ad- foining toavoid if, Mr. Peers saw one man, dressed ina rathd shabby blue uniform, and wearing a felt hat, ride a litle ahead of the rest and then rein in his horse nearly under a locust tree, which was the only tree in the lot. This was Grant. Looking down the hill Mr. Peers saw Gen, Lee riding slowly up. He knew the LONG PANTS SUITS, WE HAVE OVER SIXTY making alongragged blade. Drawn through the skin the two parts together made a sort of tube, Evidently a poisonous fluid was left in the skin after the punctute was made, because a puncture by clean, sharp steel would not pro- duce the swelling,’ sometimes quite serlous, caused by a mosquito’s bite. In some of thé males the antenne were beautifully plumed by aseries of long, soft, flexible hairs. “And so even in pests,” philosophically observed the ory of development due to Mr. Darwin. I have never thought, and I do not now think, that his theory isin the least degree Inconsistent with Divine purpose and design. But then it must be properly understood, with all its facts clear- ly ascertained, and with all such language elim- inated from it as shuts outfrom our view the obvious purpose and the prearranged directions STYLES AND COLORINGS FOR YOU TO SELECT FROM. THE PRICES LANGE FROM $5 TO §20 ABUIT. aa feds but did not know Grant. IN SAILOR SUITS, AGES 3 TO 12 YEARS ET weatilgon tink RIES Fen eon that | of tie path whisk development has taken in| Gon Lee's fice was artially hidden by a Fray ae ox sd rae Seemed strange | the history ofthe world. My own strong im-| felthat. When within hailing distance of the that out in Siberia many mosquitoes | pression 1s that there are a great many | Union commander, Gen. Lee's staff fell back, OUR LINE IS COMPLETE, AND ANY STYLE YOU Yrere found, but the birds went north | Ecientific men in the world ‘who are a | and Lee slowly rode forward to meet his con. _— to nest on’ account of the insect life there. It was a serious matter to travel through the swarms of mosquitoes. They rose up in strata like a mist. When an animal died in the summer time the flies scented the battle from afar. They hatched eggs on the body, which afterward changed apparently into Giains of wheat and then into perfect, insects, ‘lies were found in various forms from the level of the sea to the tops of the highest moun- tains, aud there were about 150,000 varieties, The house fly laid her eggs in damp places, where were found decay flesh and sub- stances which the larva could appropriate. The larva was not the cause of decay, but on the contrary removed the material that produced decay. There was @ pest that troubled the ox as it buzzed around the beast. The female had a lance-like tube, and thrusting it through the neror. Each saluted at the same moment and en began ashort conversation, ‘They appeared to Mr. Peers as men who had met by chance and were discussing some trivial matter. In less than ten minutes they saluted, turned, and each went his own way. It is now known thatat that conversation the two generals dto meet an houror two Jater and sign the articles of capitulation. Gen. Lee rode to his headquarters and dressed him- self in his best uniform, and, after a hasty lunch, started with his staff for Appomattox village. On his way there he met near the court house Major McLane, whom he knew personally. Reining in his horse, he asked Major McLane if he could tell him where he could find a room with a table to write on, and Major McLane at once led the general to hisown house. Word great deal more Darwinian than Darwin himself was. I have seen some letters published in scientific Journals from which it was quite obvious that the writers rejoiced in Darwin simply because they thought that Dar- win had dispensed with God, and that he had Giscovered some process, entirely independent of Design which eliminated altogether the idea ofa personal Creator of the universe, Now, it so happens that I have some means of knowing that this was not the attitude of Mr. Darwin's own mind. In the last year of his life Mr. Dar- win did me the honor of calling upon me In my house in London, and I had a fong and very in- teresting conversation with that distinguished observer of nature, in was above all things an observer, He did not, profess tobe a theologian or a metaphysician; it was his work DESIRE COME HERE AND EXPECT TO FIND Ir. — THE SAKS SHIRT, WAISTS IN PERCALES, ARE COMPLETE. ASK TO SEE THEM. . IN CHILDREN’S CLOTHING, AS IN EVERY DESCRIPTION OF FIRST-CLASS CLOTHING, WI ; reo : ‘was sent to Gen. Grant that Major McLane had skin hatched its eggs. ‘The larva deposited was | seg "thems falthhuly and” honanle: arg | offered hie parlor for their convenienes and ia ARE LEADERS, er than the parent itself, fo. connect them with theories aux’ a few moments Gen. Grant arrived. He had no fow does a fly fly? asked the professor. . This ‘was not easy to eout. While the wing was 20 comparatively, narrow, it_made up for it in lateral motion. ‘The wings did not beat back and forth in one plane, but made, as it were, & figure 8. The wings of a fly vibrated 380 times @ second, which went to show its muscular wer, Ifcaught fast a fly would keep buzzi for a long time before it stopped to rest. wit! this 8-like movement. The eyes of a fiy had considerable motion and could see some dis- tance around. When magnified they showed a series of facets, which were the lenses. These facets combined produced sight. A fly of se- theses, which were constructed, at” ail events, for @ temporary convenience, as all hypotheses in sctence must be before being proved. Butin the course of that conver | ¢! sation Isaid to Mr. Darwin with reference to | bi! some of his own remarkable works on the “Fer- tilization of Orchids” and upon “The Earth- worms,” and various other observations he made of the wonderful contrivances for certain purposes in nature—I sald It was impossible to look at these without seeing that they were the effect and the expression of Mind. I shall never forget Mr. Darwin's answer. He looked atme very hard and said: “Well, that often sword, and seeing Leein his finest apparel, sword and all, Gen. Grant at once explained the woming: discourtesy of apy in rough slothes by saying that he arrived ahead of iis effects, and had no other clothes with him. After the articles of capitulation were signed, and Gen. Lee had been visibly touched by Gen. ee oes lex yy Grant’s suggestion e Soldiors should keep their horses for they would need them for their spring ploughing, he saluted Gen. Grant, quitted the house, mounted his horse, and rode away. Gen. Grant rode leisurely and without apparent emotion back A.8AKS & 0, ONE PRICE CLOTHIERS, al7 816 AND 318 SEVENTH STREET. A Bout. rious importance was the tsetse Oy, which was, thov to his headquarters, gave a few 1 or. however, confined to a Ilmited atea. ‘To pass | chee tiwisn and no SHOOK Li hey eae ciee | ders, and thin started’ for Washineios: leaving Ian’t it a “bull” to call April a Spring month? through a swarm of them was deadly to horses | ter times,” and he shook his head vaguely, | ers, end then st ‘Was any joketintended when Taurus was made and oxen, but not to sucking calves. They aid | #0912 hich we lave-e: ace, there went up tremenduous cheers all the Zodiacal Sign for the month? hot affect’ mankind. Livingstone, the explorer, | He Janaus in the book of Job, in which | slong the Union line. and blazing fires were We leave you to answer the questions at your spoke of one occasion when it was certain that | that truth is expressed which every ‘Christion | kindled that were kept burning all night for holds, that in nature we cannot see the Creator face to face, and that there are difficulties and Yells between ‘and the visible methods through which he works, “Behold, Igo for- ward, but He is not there; and backward, but I gannot percelve Him; on the left hand ‘where He doth work—but i cannot behold him; he hideth himeelfon theright hand that I cannot see Him,”—The Duke of Argyl, in Good Words. ‘rue to the Letter. the men knew that they had fought their last battle and had won. Next mo. Gen. Lee pace army drawn ies Ag fees an plar read his s sad_farewel foie men, ‘and thon mounting his horse left rever. The federal soldiers got word from Chamber- Snapple ireo.and they. were shows the tse ant were shown Sader which Lee sat when he seat oot ie Ase oftruce. In an hour nota trace of it was left. Even theroots and tendrils were dug oo ae only twenty or thirty of these flies a and yet they caused the death of a large num: ber of cattle. The effectof their bites on the beasts would be first loss of appetite and fur, ‘and then death from inanition. The southern and central portions of Africa would be quite accessible were it not for this pest. It wasa question how these insects could be destroyed. ————+o-___ A Paradise for Gamblers, LOWEST. We have no old styles or old stock. From a New Orleans Letter. EVERYTHING IS FRESH, and s customer oy of obtaining NEW GOODS. 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