Evening Star Newspaper, March 20, 1886, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. MARCH 20, 1886-—DOUBLE SHEET. A LITTLE GHOST. BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD. Sess (Copyrighted, 1886. Al! rights reserved.] I suppose she was a little tool—but she was auch a pretty one! Lange, limped wondering Dine eyes with lashes almost long enough to tangle, askin with the rose-leaf's blush on it, ® mouth as sweet and innocentas a baby’s, Q@nd light, loose-flying hair halt-ringleted and @lustering round her white forehead, all made her face look like one in some old marvel of ‘au fvory miniature. And then there was a @ertain appeal to your tenderness in her very ize, fairy creature as she was; you could as easily find fault with her seriously as with a sprite; and it was useless to try and reason With her, as she could never by possibility see anything but her own side of the case. She had little other education than that given by her desultory reading, although she could paint and play and sing in a pretty fashion enough. She was an orphan, and had been brought up chiefly in a boarding-school; she had some property, sufficient for her needs and uses, under guardianship, and Mr. Sang- hurst was her guardian. What Mr. Sanghurst saw in her to marry—this same little fluttering ‘hing, neither woman nor child nor elf—was Past our comprehension. But he was going to marry her for all that; and now they were only waiting for the arrival of her trousseau from Paris, as she entirely refused to be married with only a home-made paraphernalia, All we could do was to say we were thankful it was no ‘one of us that was going to marry her, which, as ail of us,except the old Colonel, young James and the Professor, were women, was father supererogatory on our part, Mr. Sang- burst, however, seemed to be completely satis- | Ged with the arrangement, fortunately for both of them; and she berself Was the blithest, hap- piest little flitter-fintter of a thing you ever Saw—till Agnes Fairweather came. We were all ng with Madame Sanghurst Mére, at her p by the sea, where she usually ngered till the close of the year, taking care to Qi the house with cheerful people who did not Mind autumnal gales. Madame Sanghurst nad Used to stay there iu her husband’s day, and she could not bear to deviate from the routine appy years of hers; and there were always a pleuty of us who found it as pleasant aa she did. Of course, Iselin—that was her pretty little absurd name—was always a member of the Sanghurst family; and one never knew, till missing her, how'much her novel ways, her galeties and ‘giooms, and jaughing tones ‘and tempers, and perpetual dancing and lilting up and down the house, with all herown trifling but intense interests and strange commotions about other people's interests, added to its sures. PSDe you like that Miss Fairweather?” she said to me, sitting one morning in the bay win- dow of my room, the red woodbines and the biue October sky through their meshes makin; strong background to her delicate beauty. “! don't see what Madame Sanghurst asked her here for. 1 never shall when I’m Mrs. Sang- burst. She's exactly what I particularly dis- like for hiscompanion. I always did hate those intellectual beings—sort of monsters, J don’t think a woman ought to know anything!” “Why, yes. I like her well enough,” I said, Feplying to the original proposition. “She is ‘very magnificent in her manners—" “Yes. She'd be a splendid head of a house, wouldn't she? I daresay every one thinks how much finer she'd be at the <—t ot Manor here than this little fool. T'dlike t her tace for her! That's wag I'd like to do!” “Iselin!” “on, yes, you call ft what you please, vulgar and low and all therest. Perhaps I am vulgar and lew and all the rest of it!” She eried. “But I don’t go about stealing other ‘women’s lovers, And she’s so superior, so very superior! There's nothing she husn’t read—the Hebrew Scriptures ward and the books of the Sibyl. And there's nobody she hasn't seen, from Prester John to Blind Yom. And there's nowhere she hasn't been—down the crater of Vesuvius and up the top of Cotopaxi. Perhaps she hasn't been into Symmes Hole. I wish 'd go there and stay there. There's nothing, Of course, you can speak of that she doesn't know about already. I an to tell her some- time that when I was a baby they took me up in aballoon aud we stopped at the Louse of the man in the moon, and she'll say, oh yes, she spent a fortnigat tere once, and ie eream was deitelous. She ought to be at the head of a female college. Sie knows too much to live With white folks! “Iselin! What feeble little spite! You ought to be ashamed of your self. You are. growing soslangly that presently you won't be able to. talk properly at all, and you are infecting ail the rest of us.” “Not her, not her! I wish I could!” cried Iselin gleefully, “Hear her talking greek roots and things with the protessor—it’s disgusting ju awoman. Td like tochange them into a couple of greek roots if ] knew Obi! You are encouraging a very wrong feeling,” I said, with severity, “toward a most estimable " be “she’s no business to be so estimable and so handsome, too!” burst forth Iselin. “Look at her great black eyes—they’re bold enough fora &YPsy’s. Aud she bas the color of a gypsy queen. I'm only a little wax-doll. It you put me in the sun [li melt. And those teeth of hbers—I wish they were false—they always put me in mind of a wolf or some other bird of prey Tliask her to go inw the serf and drown ber. i would if I were big enough—and it wasn’t too cold. Ob, isn’t it dreadful to be so little as I am, not equal to—" “Yo drowning the people you don’t like. But really, Iselin, you musn't talk so. You will be . You would like Miss Fair- © very much, if you knew her.” T don’t want toknow her. I her. She is just thesortot t is hateful tome. He likes hera great deal too well for me to want to like her any. Ob, why wasn’t I made tall and dark and rich colored, with great black eyes and some sort of a mind in my bod: And all at once Iselin was in alittle heap on the floor crying like a baby. “Ob, it’s too bad ior him to be tied to an idiot like me. Ioughtto set him free and tell him to marry Agnes Fairweather and let me go off and diesomewhere. Idon’t care where— there she comes now. I know her step, it’s just like the stepof the Empress of ali the Indies. Hid quick! And don't you tell hera word I «Vilkillyou! Yes, 1 will!’ And before 1 dd expostuiate, and without waiting for any hiding elim had gone skipping out of the other door, %, “Good morrow, good mother, with'a voice like a little flute. Of course you wonder now, as much as I did, why a man so learned, so gracious, so elegant and fastidious ‘as Mr. Sanghurst wished to marry this marsh- light of a young girl; but when you have Watched meén,as I have, from a spinsier’s post Of observation, for sixty years and over, you will only come to the conclusion that men are as incumprehensible as they are unaccountable. ‘It was quite evident that Iselin had chosen to be jealous of Miss Fairweather, for no good Feason, of course, for nothing could be more circumspect than Mr. Saaghurst’s behavior; but because she had been struck with the per- ception of what she was and what she ought to be herself, and with the feeling that Mr. Sang- hurst would be much more fitiy mated to an intellectual and cultured woman than toa flib- bertigibbet, and to her mind Mr. Sanghurst’s Yeal wishes and tastes and preferences ip the Matter were not so important as those which Bhe felt they ought to be. Perhaps I should have given Mr. Sanghurst or his mother some hiut of the state of the child’s feelings; but it was something too med- Glesome for me'to do. So L only tried to console her in @ quiet way when she was quivering with excitement at seeing Mr. Miss Fairweather’s heads t man book, or Mr. for Miss Fairweat ng in her gloriou volce that seemed too large and noble tor any thing but the muste of oratorios, or when, worst. of all, he Joined her in a walle through the shrubbery or along the beach. He might hold book with apy one of all the rest of us, or sing ‘with us, or drive or walk, it signified nothing at all. but with Miss rweather—that was quite cett autre chose. It that did not signify anything, she felt very sure that it ought to do so; and presently the affair began weighing on her feelings so that she lost ber appelite even for her favorite snow-apples, In whose red skin she bad been setting her tiny white weth wherever you came ucross her, lost her voice, even tor the Gill and Sullivan tunes, lost ber pretty color, her light step, and went Creeping round the house like # little wan Shadows 1 coniess I did think of speaking to Miss Fair- weather, and asking her il she had not better gut short her visit; buton the whole that seemed B betrayal of Iselin; and 1 felt persuaded her folly-would not lust, and thought it possibly Detiewthat she shoul see it safely through, for bnee and all; and I thought, tor my own part, that the woman of whom I was jealous was the last one Whom I should wish to know it, or bave extending to me ber magnanimity. But you see, never having had occasion, I knew Botbing’about jealousy, or the way it possesses one like a madness, disturbs itself with talse ‘visions, and fladsa reason for what never ex- isted. ‘Mr. Sanghurst might seek for Iselin, and sitand stroll and ride with her, turn to her, sppeal to her, take her in his arms—nothing to ber eyes was as it was before; ne did ail that, phe wes sure, because he meantto be true to her and to marry her,even though his heart belonged toa very different persou. And so as she went moaning about the bouse jike an un- easy spirit,in those golden Indian summer days, her poor little heart half broken within ber,and she was makingup her mind ta great renunciation. It was really —— to see how ignorant Mr. Sanghurst kept himself of what was on in this young ferment. But he evi- SE net not the ante snopicion cn in te ‘was even so imprudent as to praise Miss Fair- weather to Iselin, and to advise her to profit by her knowledge of something or other. Iselin ‘was holding fis hand at the moment; I think she bas as good a mind to bite it asever she had to eat; bat she contented herself with inging it ‘trom her like a missile with which she would like to hit Miss Fairweather. Go where you would now in the house, you met Iselin ta her restless rambles. Sometiines Sbe bung a moment looking at some of the old Gopleys, ove or another of the Sanghurst women, as if wonderiug what manner of women they were and seeking some sort of mute coun- sel of them, Sometimes she sat on Madame urst’s footstool, holding the oid hand against her cheek, but saying nothing, and sometimes again she went on long walks, alone, along the beach, with a feverish swiftness, as if she sought to Ure out the spirit within her. ‘Ouee she overtook me, a mile or two from the house, and led me a dance into bop and oF mires’ and the edge of a frighttul quicksand, showing me the curiosities and charms ot thé waterside. “It's not at all a safe coast, you know,” she Said, “either to vessels off it ‘or people on it. There's nothing easier than to get into that quicksand and be sucked down—to China for anythingI know. And he: ive me ar hand—step on that rock—now this—theret Isn't that a pretty cradle to lie down in and let the sea come up quickly and creep over you and put you to sleep?” “Iselin!” I cried, “1s that a proper way to talk? What do you mean by it? at would Mr. Sanghurst say to hear you?” “Mr. Sanghurst!” she sald, with a bitter, short laugh. “He'd say how superior Agnes’ Fair weather was to that sort of thing. She ¢s— awfully superior. She gives me — fine aa, vice! You may call it superior if you like,” she cried in one of her sudden furies; “I call itinsolent. If { talked that way to ny one you'd call it sancy—you wouldn't? Y. then—sassytrassy! “ Well, but really,” she added presently, skipping back to my side along the jutting rocks, “it would be pleasant tolike a person for whom you were going to make @ great sacrifice, wouldn't it? ‘m not going to make it for het she cried. “I’m not going to make it for her. It's for bim—all for him! I know he'll be happier and better, and live out his own life, and all that, with a oman than with a child, a sprite, a little imp ike me!’ And down she went crouching in the pool of salt_water and crying tears as salt; and I succeeded in pulling her up and gettin, her out on the shingle, and turned homewa: for arapid walk. only after her skirts were draggled nearly to the walst. “Ugh! how cold. water is! [’m such a little thing it wouldn’t take much to drown me, you see,” she said spreading her wet skirts as if to take dancing steps, and the rest of the way she was as joyous as she had been gloomy, ‘That evening the wind to blow; alight scud of clouds obscured the stars, and mists came driving in from sea and surrounded the house in spectral sort. It was chilly witb a penetrating chill; and Madame Sanghurst had @ great log fire built in the drawing-room that might have made the windows resemble acoast beacon. Iselin sat on a hassock in a corner b; the roaring blaze, like a little salamander, as if she should never get warm enough. Mr. Sang- hurst was having a lively wrangle with Miss Fairweather about a Dantean passage, and ‘went to get his manuscript, for he was engaged on one of those amateur translations where the help and counset of other scholars are precious. When he returned they bent over it together with a vivid interest, and now there was a murmur of voices,’ and now a laugh, and now Miss Fairweather’s silver tones were rippling through that sweet southern tongue, and “now Mr. Sanghurst was look- ing at her in open admiration as she spoke, with the color in her cheeks and the luster in her eyes. Other people were singing and pla: ing. Twas busy with my gold and silver threads, Madame Sanghurst was half asleep and nodding over her needles, when suddenly Iselin, all rosy with the fire and with her wrath, tood on the other side of the table before Mr. Sanghurst and Agnes Fairweather, “ You wiil not have to make love in Italian any more!” she flashedout. And as suddenly she was gone, no one knew where, and perhaps no one but her astonished lover thought to conjecture where. And as tor him, really, he had of late become so accustomed to her tempers that he did not re- gard this as anything very especial; and then, moreover, I fancy he had justa trifle of righteous indignation that caused him to go back to his book as if nothing had been said. And Agnes Fairweather’s voice rippled on, and the piano and violin playing was just as soft as before,and nobody but me heard the whistling and wailing of the gathering storm. There was no Eselin to bid anyone good night that evening, and in the morning there was no Iselin to make an uproar at the breakfast table with her “quips and cranks and wreathed smiles.” But there was uproar enough outside in the tossing of the broad elm boughs, the roar- ing of the storm, the crying of the great white seas,white out as faras the eye could see through mists and bursts of rain. It was later in the day betore anyone began to inquire about Iselin, it being then tull time that she was either seen or heard ot. It was Mr, Sanghurst who came into the dining-room and startled us with his tone, “Has anyone seen Iselin?” And somehow, without knowing why, there was one outery through the whoie house. “Has anyone seén Iselin?” Aad nobody had. W bat a day it was! How full and how fearful! Mr. Sanghurst had his horse saddled and went givens through the storm to the next house, selin's words and looks of last night may have rushed over him with new force; and all the men on the place were sent up and down the shore and into the town, telegraphing and in- quiring, and allin vain, while work and play and almost life itself seemed suspended in the house, and still thestorm raged on. At nightfall Mr. Sanghurstcame home. There was not a trace of Iselin. I myself had been out battling with the tempest as faras the place she had sbown me the day before, but the cradle was a boiling pit of foam and spume that no one could approach—only ona jag of Tock there was caught a tiny shred of blue wool, arag of Iselin’s skirt. It might have caught there the day before, assheclimbed and skipped about the rocks, light as a mountain goat. But all that could be certainly known was that ske was gone and that her long water- proof cloak was gone with her. They reasoned, with their white faces and faltering ones, that she had gone out into the storm last night, for her bed had not been sieptin; as yet they hardly dared state the supposition to them- selves that doubtless some tide,some wave, some wash of the sea had swept her in as she ran along the shore in thesudden fury with which she had seized her cloak and ran out, I hardly dared look at Mr. Sanghurst; he did not keep still a moment, white as ashes and restless as @ leaf in the wind, out inthe storm and in again twenty times an hour after the dark set in. And what a night it was! The tempest re- sounded through the black heavens and the house rocked and trembled; the huge waves pounding on the shore sent 'a thrill through every timber; the scream of the breakers made us start and shiver; sheets of rain slapped against the eastern windows with a force that made the heart every now and then stand still in asense of suffocation. Through it all we heard far off'a faint repeated minute gun. And to think of this little creature out in ail this tumult of the elements—we could not think of it. Wecould do nothing; but we could not sleep, we did not think of separating for the night; when the clock struck two we were still in the drawing room,or going and coming about the house; nearly every room in the house was lighted; and one after one thesearch- ing parties had returned. drenched and worn and unsuccessful. At length Mr. Sanghurst came infor the last time. fis mother went out to meet him; and Miss Fairweather started up and took his hand and Jed him to a seat, taint and dazzled from wrestling with storm and darkness. And just then, I know not why or how, perhaps moved by a‘sudden blast of cold air from an opening door, perhaps by the com- mon impulse of our overstrained nerves, we all turned to one of the long windows, and’ there, cloaked to her feet her hood thrown back and all her hair flying in the wind and rain, a little form leaned against the frame as if blown there, and a little white tace pressed against the pane, wild and ghastly, with wide-open eyes, fixed in a sort of horror—not because of the storm, or any of its fatal possibilities, but because of Miss Fairweather there, leading Mr. Sanghurst to his chair, She could not contain herself. “I see you!” You mustn't think I don’t see you!” piped her voice shrilly above the gale. “Iselin! Iselin?” eried Mr. Sanghurst, “It is her spirit!” cried his mother, “It is not Iselin. It is a little ghost,” But almost before any one spoke, Miss Fair- weather had leit him, and Mr Sanghurst had dashed through the open door in the hall, and round the piazza, and had grasped the little ghost and brought her in among us, strag- ling and flere. What in the world is all tht fass about?” she exclaimed breathiessly. “Oh, Iselin!” eried the mother, wringing her hands as if she lameated her lamenting. “You have given us such a fright! We feared you had gone out—we feared you had destroyed your- Self—or been lost in the storm—" What should I destroy myself for?” erted Iselin. “Because I couldn't destroy Miss Fair- weather? I hope I have a littlespirit! You must have thought I was a fool. Well,”she con Unued, throwing off her cloak, “I will tell you the truth; I did go out to He down in the cradle and let the waves cover me—but it stormed so £ Was afraid—and Iran back and went. up into the west attic and stayed there till it should be pleasant again. Ido so hate a storm! And I thought at last I would come down and get something to eat, and have a breath of air, and found ali this to-do, and the bouse lighted as if there were golng to be a wedding and—” “There is going to be a wedding,” sald Mr. Sanghurst, taking her arms and drawing her into his own, while several people melted sim- ultaneously from the room, feeling, if they felt asl did, that they had wasted a great deal of vitality for nothing. “And that to-morrow,” he went on. “I shall wait no longer to make ‘sure of such an elf—" “Do you inean me?” she asked, withdrawing and looking up at him in a slow wonder. “Whom eise should I mean?” “I thought—Agnes—” “Miss Fairweather?” he exclaimed in great spirits. “she is to be married next week herself to the Protessor. The ring, and the eake and the veil are all ready.” “On?” cried Iselin then, with blazing eyes, and totally regardiess of any auditors that were jeft. “Then that is the reason! You would never have taken me if you could have had er—"* ‘Hush! you absurd tyrags!” half whis Mr. Sanghurst. “Jealous of a dictionary! would never have taken anybody but you! I love a lock of your hair better, you tormeni- ing sprite, than I could love all the brains and body ofa blue-stocking. And if there were ‘& justice of the peace in the house, I should. In- siston marrying you here and ‘now, that I might never let you out of my sight again—” “Ob!” eried Iselin in something like real distress, “I don’t wonder you all thought I was a fool, or I never would submit toethis But—I suppose—" and she smothered the rest with her face in his breast. “Are you sure you mean me?” she pint ceo Q And then suddenly starting toll of ‘the clock, “It is striking 3, and all these people out 6f bed!” she exclaimed, her rosy dazzling with its glitter of tears and ‘smiles and blushes. “Mr. Sanghurst, may be a fool. suppose I am. But not such a fool as to be married without vell and a wedding cakeand allthe rest. And we can’t bly arrange those things to-morrow. Besides it's to-morrow ow.” “We will borrow Miss Fairweather'’s,” said ‘Mr. Sanghurst, ™ “I bless Eve for eating that apple,” sald a young lady the other day as she stood betore ey ae kea s ?” asl companion. “Because there is such delig! trying on anew dress when it its wel” =) RELIGIOUS NOTES. (CHURCHES HERE AND ELSEWHERE — Rey. and Mrs, E. M. Clark, Baptist mission- aries from Assam, India, are visiting Mrs, Baltus De Long, in this city. —The Salvation Army is contemplating ar- Tangements for holding in London # monster international religious convention. —The Women’s Foreign Missionary of the Presbytery of Washington has now twenty auxiliary societies in the churches and is sup- porting @ missionary teacher in India. — As stated in THe Stax, measures are being taken for the erection of a Catholic church at Hyattsvillg, on the site presented by Messrs, Johnson & Wine, and at a recent meeting, after an address by Rev. Father W. S. Caughy, of Laurel, over $1,200 were subscribed. It is con- templated to lay the corner-stone In April. —The fourth Young Woman's Christian ‘Temperance Union and the first Young Men’s Christian Temperaece Union, Philadelphia, have secured the services ot Major George Hilton, of thiscity, tor a series of evangelistic meetings, beginning at once, in the Westmin- ster Presbyterian church, in'that city. — Bishop Horatio Potter reached his eighty- fourth year last month. —The Presbyterian league have set out to raise $100,000 for church buildings in Chicago. — Mr. Sankey has given a new building lot to the Methodist church in New Castle, Pa, —There are five Chinese Sunday schools in Chicago, with 632 teachers and 760 pupils, ‘An eight day mission was recently con- ducted in Calvary P, E. church, Louisville,Ky., by Rev. R. 8. Barrett, of Henderson, Ky. —The Moody and Sankey meetings in New Orleans stirred up an enthusiasm in that city greater than any ever known there before. —The L. P. stone lectures of 1886 of Prince- ton Theological seminary are delivered by Rev. Jas. F. McCurdy, Ph. D., of University college, Toronto. —— The second of the churches in Florida, under the auspices of the board of freedmen, was or- ganized last month at Gainesville. -- The Rev. H. Lovejoy, M.D., formerly chap- Jain of the Episcopal hospital, ee but iately of Tacoma, W. has resigned his posi- tion there, and will return east. -- The Methodist Episcopal church, of Spring- field, IlL., celebrated on February 22 a jubilee day in commemoration of the conversion of 1,000 persons during the revival of the past six weeks, =~ There was a net gain of 24 Lutheran min- isters last year, and 30 new churches erected. | Forty others were rebuilt _or renovated, the total expense being nearly $300,000, — Dr. Wangemaa, ot Berlin, sent two mission candidates to the German Presbyterian semt- nary at Bloomfield, N. J., but they preferred, however, to remain Lutherans, and went to Philadelphia, —The will of Mrs. C. C. Cuyler, of Philadel- Phia, leaves to the home for widows and single Women of Philadelphia, $3,000, and_ to the Presbyterian hospital, $5,000, to’ found a free bed in the hospital to bear her name. —Arecent revival at Drury college, Mo., re- sulted in every student but one, every girl in Fairbanks’ hall, and all the servants becoming Christians. — A“Faith Cure” convention has been held in the Carroll Park Methodist Episcopal church of Brooklyn. The services were held three times each day, and attended by hundreds of People, —Rey. Dr. C. 8. Robinson, of the Memorial Presbyterian chureh, of New York city, has given notice of his purpose to resign his pastoral charge to the presbytery of New York atan early date. — Rev. 8. R. Preston finds the combined care of the Presbyterian church and the Plumer Memorial college at Wytheville, Vu., too much for his strength, and his tendered jis resigna- tion of the pastorate, — James Hughes, father of Rev. L. B. and Rev. J.S. Hughes, of the Philadelphia confer- ence, Rev. E. L. Huzhes, of the United Brethren contérence, and Rev. ©. L. Hughes, local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal chureh, died last week. —Rev. Robert 8. Rowe, of Baltimore, has pulled against the popular current and has ex- cited unpleasant remarks in his own congrega- tion by pronouncing against what he calis the “godless hops given in the name of sweet charity.” — By the will of Daniel A. Jones, of Chicago, the Old People’s home of that city receives the income of $250,000, and the sum of $30,000 is equaily divided among the board of home mis- sions of the Presbyterian church, the board of foreign missions and the Presbyterian hospital. —The work of putting a new roofon the old Episcopal church of the ancient city of Williamsburg, Va. has been suspended on ac- count of bad’ weather. The improvements to the church, both inside and out, will be exten- sive. Rev.'Mr. Bureh is soliciting funds at the north. — The supreme court of Iilinois has virtually decided nuil and void the will of Isaac Foreman, beaueathing about $100,000 to various charit- able and religious institutions, including 5? ,000 to the American Bible society and the Methodist Publication society. He died at @Fallon, IlL, in 1878, and the will left bis widow almost destitute. — The Methodist Episcopal church will estab- Ush another theological seminary on the west- ern coast. It is to be located at San Fernando, twenty miles north of Los Angeles, Cal., and is the gift ot Rev. Charles Maclay. He gives a ten-acre plot, and the buildings, which are to be of brick, with stone foundations and trim- mings, and’$150,000 for the endowment. — Si Claas Moxleys’ Comfession. A MURDERER'S EXPERIENCE WITH A BOGUS MEDIUM IN HIS PRISON CELL, In October last Mrs. Marion Moxley, of Keytes- ville, Mo., died suddenly and, according to a correspondent of the St. Louis Republican, under suspicious circumstances. Her husband took his three children and joined his father- in-law in the Indian Territory. After he had gone the body of the dead woman was disin- terred, and it was found by the three doctors at the post mortem that the woman’s neck was broken in two plaves. ‘The result of the inquest was a verdict against Moxley for murder. He was brought back and incarcerated in the county jail at Keytesville and. put in company. with a young man named Burton, who had been committed for thirty days for somo slight offense, Sheriff Moore told Burton the circum stances of Moxley’s guilt, and asked him to elicit whatever acknowledgments he could. Burton shrewdly pretended to be a medium, aud to while away time proposed to bis tcllow risoner to make some tests. The proposal Ing accepted, a loose-jolated chair that re- sponded intelligently to adroit pressure was used in place of a table. A system of signals ‘being agreed upon be- tween the medium and the supposed spirits,the question was put: “Is any spirit present’ ac- quainted with either party in the flesh?’ ‘The answer was three raps for yes. Burton then arranged the questions so as to elicit the tact that the wife of the murderer was present. “Did you die recently?” “Yes “Have you any recollection of dying?” Three raps for yes, very decidedly. “Will you try to relate to us your experience) by means of direct questions from us?” ‘Three raps, lively. “Were you willing to die?” ‘Two raps. No." “Did you die suddenly?” Three raps, At this point of the investigation Moxley was in a cold sweat, and declared his convictions clear and his curiosity gratified; but Burton's zeal was growing as he found himself increasing in ability to delicately manipulate his subject, and he continued to press questious upon the “spirits,” and watched the effect upon the cul- prit, The questions were put so as to establish the identity ot Mrs. Moxiey most thoroughly, and then the query, “Since your death was at- tended by unhappy experiences, please state if you died what 1s called a natural death?” | and Pe ‘The chair, responding to the intelligence of Burton, gave two raps, “No.” tBid you die by aceldemt?” “No. “By foul meanst” “Yes.” “At the hands of an unknown assassin?” “No,” “Were you killed by a relative?” ‘Three loud raps for “Yes” mado Moxley quail afresh and gasp. In this manner the interrogations were con- tinued until the facts of the case as they bad been previously given to Burton were substan- Hally Drought out, and the trembling eulprit, unabie todeny anything, gave Burton the money he had to let him’ sieep with him that night, for he dared not face his own conscience in the dark. Singular as it may seem, this novel method in the end made Burton full pos, Sessor of Moxley's horrible secret, that he had Killed his wife by breaking her neck,so he might be free to marry her younger sister. He ‘afterward told Burton that he loved his wife, him to kill her was to him unexplainable. It was ascertained that Moxley struck the woman twice, each time breaking her neck; that the murder occurred at 12 o'clock at night, and that he took his two children to a nelghbor’s without s stitch of ‘All t strategy of facts have since been ——_—-—+e+ _____ SrReeT Caz MEN anp THerr Hagp Lor.— A prominent and observing physician of New Ofcourse, men ih some occupations 18 longer those In others. But the subject of street car drivers! che excessive fatigue of these men when obliged to work more than ten hot combined with their exposure to excessive col in winter and excessive heat in summer, is apt to bring on pleurisy, Pneumonia, ‘brouohitls, THE GREAT OBJECTOR. Mr. Holman’s Imitators in the House— How Members Revenge Themselves. Mr. Holman has not figured so prominently asan objector in this Congress, Several, both in this and in the 48th Congress, tried to fol- low his example and gain a similar reputation, but none have succeeded In putting the fine touch upon it that he did. He has exercised a power of nice discrimination, which has pre- vented his becoming universally hated, as sev- eral have who have tried to follow in bis foot- steps without appreciating his motives. Though he has been the cause of many bitter disap- pointments, and has called forth momentary Tesentment, he has the entire respect of the House, and’ is never accused of captiousness. His was an original crusade upon Jobe, and he cultivated a new field of fame, which ‘none of his imitators have been able to cultivate. In fact these imitators have brought, “objecting into disrepute, and that, Paes iy, is the reason he cares less to occupy’ that position. He has Probably not made more objections this ses- sion than any other member. Asan expert, he is probably disgusted at the failures. An ob- fection from him seldom provoked resentment. e had a genius for the role he undertook. He objected to the passage of a measure when he knew it wax improper, or thought it likel be. Prove to kim that it is all right and he does not oppose a bill. RETALIATING UPON OBJECTORS, Members have a habit of retaliating upon each other in this matter, and generally @ member who is about ask a favor of the House is careful not to interpose an objection to a similar request by another. Mr. Holman ap- parently has never been influenced by this con- sideration, and has seldom been retaliated upon. He has trequently been known to check @ bill by his objection and immediately after- wards to ask and to obtain unanimous consent to take up some measure in which he was in- terested. < Mr. Weller, in the last House, who was en- vious of the ‘great objectors tame, succeeded in getting the whole House down on him by objecting indiscriminately. Members chated sounder this persecution that they were thank- ful when he was not returned. THE OBJECTOR OF THE PRESENT SESSION. But Mr. Beach, of New York, who began to show some of these traits last session, stepped right into his place in this Congress, and passes as the universal objector, He willobject toany and everything, of a private or local character, where his one voice can have any effect. He occupies the first front seat on the democratic side, rizht in front of the Speaker's desk, and In the line of his eye; and enters hts objection when he hears unanimous consent asked, fre- quently without raising his head. He always smiles immediately afterwards and looks satis- fied, which makes the disappointed members mad. Some times some of the stern oid mem- bers who are in the habit of having the House respect their requests, will stand and Icok straight at him for many minutes, with a bitter cutting sort of a glare, after an Scourrence of this sort. He doesn’t seem to mind it. is probable that no request by Mr, Beach for unanimous consent would ever begranted, as too many members are waiting for a chance for retaliation, and the resolution which was intro- duced by Mr. Weaver the other day, and ruled out on account or its disrespectful wording, is said to have had reference to him in the pre- amble. Mr. Holman is a very modest man, given very mucit to blushing, and these things: have driven him from the field. He devotes much more time to committee work this ses- sion,aad is not watching the House proceedings so closely. aS es HOW TO COOK AN OYSTER. A Man Who Knows All About the Bi- valves Gives Solid Information for Nothing. “Oysters are now at their zenith,” said a Fulton market dealer to a New York Mail and Express reporter. “I mean that they have reached the perfection of condition. It hasbeen @ very successful season, and over 30,000 vfit- rels of American oysters have been shipped abroad. England takes the most of them. Talking about oysters, have you ever consid- ered that while there are many thousands will- ing and able to eat them, there are very few who know how to cook them? ‘The best oyster cook I ever knew was an old colored woman at Glencove, Long Island, where { was raised. She had a way of making a stew that no one else could successfully imitate. The first pro- fessional oyster cook I can learn any- thing about was a colored man known as Black Sam, who kept a basement in South street, near Oliver slip, In the old Duteh days "Broad street: was an oyster mart ari street was paved with oyster shells. When Mr. Dorion, sr, Shatfer and myseli started in’ business here in Fulton market, thirty years ago, we had a halt dozen tables, & dozen chairs, some crockery ware and @ range. It cost over $30,000 to fit up this place e it to-d But, talking about cook- { want to say right here that the plainer oysters are cooked the better, Oysters don’t wear any frills. Now, in order to ‘make 4 stew, put your oysters in’ the stewpan with their own liquor, add a small piece of butter, some rolled cracker, and season with pepper aud salt according to taste. Place over @ hot fire, allow to come to @ boiling heat twice and serve in hot dishes, “When you want to try oysters, dry them in ac lean towel and dip them in freshily-beaten eggs and cracker dust. Have ready a hot p: ou a hot fire with one portion of buiter to three of sweet lard; fry your oysters brown and serve ona hot dish, ‘To broil oysters, prepare them the same as tor frying; place on a broiler over slow fire until cooked; dip in melted butter and serve ona hot dish. Panned oysters take a lit- tle trouble. The oysters should be freshly open- ed and placed ina chafing dish or saucepan, with a very sinall portion of their own liquor only, cooked about the same length of time. asa stew’and served in a deep hot dish withasmall Piece of butter. Ii you want to roast oysters, place them on a hot ‘fire in the shell with the deep side down. They should always be served, on the halt-shell. Some people like escalloped oysters, and here is the way to cook them: Pat your oysters in a deep dish with a small portion of butter and no liquor, Season with salt and pepper, cover’ with rolled cracker, bake in a ‘hot oven and serve in a hot dish. For an oyster omelet take twelve large oysters, sIx eggs, one cup of milk, three tablespoonsful of butter, chopped barley, salt and pepper. Chop the oysters very fine, and deat the yelks and whites separately,” the whites until they stand in aheap, Pat the three tablespoonfuls of butter in a frying pan and heat while you are mixing the omelet. First stir in the milk intoa deep dish with the yelks and seasoning; then add the chopped oys- ters, beating them well as you proceed, pour in the 'melied. buiter and whip in the whites as lightly as you can. Have the butter in the pan 8 hot as’ possible; pour in your omelet batter and brown both sides. ‘This, when properly put together, makes a most delicious breakfast omelet. Now you know almost as much about cooking oysters as I do myself, and I would like to have you Jet me know how you succeed as an oystermin. —-—s0s. Kidnapped by Gipsies. A YOUNG GIRL IMPRISONED IN A WAGON AND NEARLY TORTURED TO DEATH, Cora Green, a pretty fourteen-year-old girl, escaped, at Greenville, Ohio, Monday night, from John McVey, a roving gipsy, and his two female companions, who kidnapped her two years agoon her way home from school, near Lebanon, Ind. The girl's story is a terrible one. She says she was kept a prisoner in McVey’s wagon, and traveled all over Ohio and Indiana, He shot her in the head, kicked her, cut heron the body with a hatchet, beat her with a club, flogged her with a buggy whip, and outraged her person. He also drove a nail through ber foot, fastening her to a board, and swung her up to the wagon bows. Matks of the girl’s wounds are still plainly visible. Replies to tele- grams confirm the statement as to the place where she lived, her name and parents, now at Jamestown, Ind, McVey fled as soon as he found the girl had escaped him and his two companions. The gtrl’s parents have been tele- graphed to come, and officersare rec ee gully. outlaw, “The people are much excited and lynching fs tatked of. Sending His Finger as » Love Token, St. Louis Special to the New York Tribune, ‘Among the prisoners in tho clty Jail are Sadie Hayes, convicted of murder in the first degree, and William Lacy,» burglar, under a peniten- tary sentence. Both are colored. They grew af fectionate of lave, and notes ofa tender character frequently were smuggled from one to the other, Tho woman assured the burglar that he was the only object of her affections, and requested him ithe thought as much of her as he pretended to send her file finger with the ring on it. Lacey i tostart for the penitentiary temorrow. Alter receiving the note he toreopen the sole of his thos and “cetracted “the Vateel “ehanic and arpened it to a razor edge on the walls of is cell. Hie then cut off the simall hnger of hisigne hand at the second jolnt, placed the ring on the severed finger and sent them to the call of the woman, He ted up the stump with a plece of string and then wrapped his hand up ina hands Kerehitef,. The Jail guards discovered the blood and. soon learned what had happened. ‘They took the dismem bered finger irom the wore, only explanation for bis condust ia: “i loved her.” He is perfectly sane. ge ene CoNscIENCESTRICKEN ELoPERS—A short time ago Benjamin Scofield and Mrs. Coates eloped irom Menominee, Wis, accompanica by seven-yearold daughter of the latter: Ate traveling about the country for two weeks thi couple @ conscience stricken, and tele- franca ‘Mr. Coates to meet them lis, The latter arrived there Thi ‘and the parties had a long interview. Mra, THE SPRING STYLES. SHORT WRAPS—STREET SUITS—JERSEYS AND HOSIERY—DINNER TABLE FANCIES—NEW COS- TUMES—-AMERICAN SILKS, ETC. {Ut DEsasr spring wraps are short, "ALE BRONZE {8 @ popular color in spring goods, Bors Rounp and pointed bodices are fash- fonable, SHOES AND Boors are less pointed, but not square-toed. ‘THE BEsr wet weather coat is of rough frieze, bourette or boucle cloth. BIG AND LitrLe BoNNETS will both be fash- fonably worn this spring. SKIRTS oF SrR#eT SurTs are made longer and barely escape the sidewall. A JACKET of Jet and lace is among the indis- Pensable things this summer. Loxo Wraps will be worn only for traveling and rainy weather this spring. STRIPES OF ALL WipTHs and inevery variety of cluster are immensely popular. PLAID BurToss of ivory and of mohair come among other novelties in big buttons. THE Porxtep Warstcoar front is the marked feature in young girls’ spring frocks. Serine Jackers are made longer, but re- main shorter in the back than in the front, THatT HATEFUL NUISANCE, and unhealthy garment, the rubber waterproof, is moribund. DRAPERIES THE CoMING SEASON will be worn both long and ample, short and bouffant, Wurre Perticoats are no longer worn di- Tectly under the dress skirt, except for indoor CoRDEREINE Is the abbreviation of corde de la reine, the sister fabric of corduroy, its older big brottier. THe NEW CRINKLED SEERSUCKERS are al- most as warm as if they were woollen, instead. of cotton, FASHION DECREES that old and elderly ladies may wear colors as well as black and dark gray. ANOTHER SEASON OF BLACK Hosiery is predicted, but not to the exclusion of colored stockings, SOME OF THE NEW Dresses bave full over- skirts shirred on_ to the long bodice, which is pointed back and front. Sort Loose Jacket Fronts opening over long-pointed waistcoats are seen on some of the new spring street dresses. Daxk BLUE, dark green, pansy shades, gar- net, bronze and drab are worn by elderly as well as by younger women, BLACK SILK and fine glossy black alpaca are the materials used for the long petticoat worn under the skirt of street trocks. SPRING JACKETS of fine striped or checked cheviot are trimmed with cord ornaments, the culfs being of moire antique or velvet. CasHMERE and camel’s hair are used in com- bination with novelty woolen goods for young women, and with watered silk tor older ones. SoME of THE NEW Woon CANVASES are striped with velvet, others with plush and still others with chenille bands between those of ‘wool. FLoweErs will be used In profusion to trim the summer ball costumes, making clasps, belts and necklaces, besides the usual wreaths and garlands, “Farry Ligurs” is the namegiven to the new English dinner table lamps, which are set in the middie of a flower vase and shaded with colored glass. WueN Hooks aNp EYEs are used to fasten the bodices of dresses they are so placed amid the fullness ot the plastron waistcoat as to be invisible. WHEN THE SAcQUE-ForM of frock 1s used for little girls it is now so trimmed as to simu- Jate a long, round waist and full skirt,with high hip draperies. Laptes’ CLoru Boprces of brown, blue, gray and red are worn with skirts of figured, plain or striped material and are trimmed hussar fashion with cord. IMMENSELY biG BuTToNs—too large to pass through a buttonhole—are used simply deco- ratively, being sewed on dresses that are fus- tened with hooks and eyes s MERVEILLIEUX with open- work embroidery, and aiso of batiste and Hnen in the same style, will be worn as adjustable draperies for suinmer dresses. Tie London Lancet is using its steel on the rubber overcoat, asserting that some of the very worst forms of muscular rheumatism e from wearing rubber Waterproof gar- nts. ‘Tue LEGo-MUTTON SLEEVE, says the New York Evening Post, appears upon some of the antique house dresses made in Paris tor early aad wear—these mostly in “early English” style. SILK GLoves for the evening were never so pretty and tastefully trimmed, and the most lovely shades in ‘cream, pink. sky blue, gold lace embroidered tops of the same hue. NTINUE IN Favor and are as varied in design as dress bodices. Some are covered with beads in a variety of patterns; others have vests, collars and cuffs of velvet, plush or surah. THE Clothing Gazette for March predicts, but deprecates, a change in the near future in the form of gentlemen's evening full dress. The new style proposed is the cavalier’s costume ot two centuries ago, Corron Dresses with white muslin guimpes and dog collars of embroidery or velvet will be much worn, Sometimes the guimpe is supple- mented by a vest harmonizing or contrasting with the dress, ENTINE OVERDRESSES of wool guipure, made up without lining, will be worn over silk slips for seml-dress occasions, and fine grades of wool guipure net wilt be conspicuous in dresses pre- pared for summer resorts. A Gypsy Bowser of fancy straw has the brim lined with ecru silk, closely shirred. It is trimmed witha cluster of hedge roses, with their foliage. ‘The strings are ot ‘ribbon of the same tint as the lining, SILVER Disnes, silver tea and coffee urns, silver soup tureens, silver candlesticks, and all sorts of silver decorative pieces for breakfast, dinner, tea, and luncheon tables are again 1 favor, and are more favored than ever. BONNETS with no trimming except a diadem front of beads or of velvet, differing in color from the crbwn, are now making in Paris for the summer, and, plain as they are, the milll- ners regard them'with favor as another blow at the bird and feather fever. AN ENGLISH Docror thinks thatit might beas well to amputate the second toe before trying to wear narrow French boots with pointed tips, According to hin the number which have to Ee amputated after the wearing is really alarm- ng. ‘Tux Latest FANcY IN FLOWER DECORATIONS for dinner parties is to erect a canopy of net over the table and from it suspend cut flowers and small bouquets, forming a crazy quilt pat- tern of color and & cloud of bloom over ‘the heads of the guests. ‘THE Cloak and Suit Review for March calls at- tention to the fact that when tailormade dresses first eame in they were models of sim- plicity and easy-fitting gracefulness, but that ow they are almost as much pinched, padded and bunched about as a dressmaker's frock. TuE Young Ladies’ Journal for April with its “gigantic supplements” of fashions and fancy work is out, These alone would make it worth double its subscription pace and then in this number there fs found the first ten chapters of Miss Florence Marryat’s new serial “Miss Har- rington’s Husband.” A TEA-GOWN OF Moss-GREEN PLUSH has a wide band of tapestry wrought in soft colors, with here and thereaglintof bright golden yellow and a bit of dark red on white plush. A narrow band of the tapestry covers the back seam of the elbow sleeves, and the turned-down. square collar is also formed of it. A Dress oF WHITs ErAMINE with lace border has the skirt made with wide plaits, bordered with the trimming. The short apron Grapery 1s, bordered in the same way. ‘The pl bodice has the high collar, cuffs and lastron of black velvet. ‘The broad gash at the ft side is also of black velvet, A Costume oF BLACK FAaILe FRANCAISE has o plaited skirt with long straight drapery at the back. The vest, collar and cuffs are of plombgray,satin, ‘The mantel is made round. ing at the back, and has long tabs in front. It is edged with marabout trimming, and is lined with plomb gray satin. The bonnet is of black faille Francaise, with a monture of plomb gray metal oats, and’an algrette to correspond. “The strings are of pearl plomb ribbon, Tae Noveties 1x Frocxs for uttle girls emphasize the fact that there is a complete de- parture in the outlines of form in children’s clothing. The waists are nearly all round and short, with no helts. ‘The V-shaped back and frontof the body, the absence of sleeves, and the use Of the white gulmpe are almost uni- versal, The skirts are. plain, made of straight breadth ungored and gathered full on to the Sicceeatie pian a cay eat y_ when orbarred alli or Wool Tue New Corron Goons, says Harper's Ba- zar, are 80 habdsome that itis safe to predict ‘another season of favor for them; they resemble India silks in thelr softness, in colors, and in | This was his condition at twent; = Hosanmiz Surrsame FROM A SKIN DISEASE, WHICH 18 CURED BY THE CUTICURA REME DIES. For two years my wife has endured the most horrl- ble suffering from askin disease,so mucb so that I thought she would never get well, It started with neuralgia, which sie had never had before, and after week's sickness a humor broke out over her right eye, in the edge of her hair. The doctor (Dr. —) called it a little eruption, caused by heat or some other cause, and gave her iodine to paint it with, but the eruption continued to grow, so that she was obliged to discharge the doctor after paying him ten dollars, and get another physician. The second (Dr. —) Pronounced the disease Eczema, and I paid him twenty-five dollars without benefit. I tried third (Dr. —); he said, “10, yes, I can care her: it is only Eczema; that is easily cured;" but be wasno better than the rest; so I tried a fourth (Dr. ——), but to no Purpose, At last we came to Trinidad, Colorado, to a couple of homoopathic doctors (Dr,——and Dr. ——), and doctored with them for three months, three visits a week, but my wife grew worse, and finally got 80 low she could not raise herself in bed. ‘The eruption extended down into her nose and throat until she could neither breathe through her nose not swallow anything, and every night she could scarcely live from the pain and neuralgia inher head and chest. Seeing that something must be done soon, I went to the doctor and asked him if he could do anything more, for my wife couid not live long, it was plain, in this condition. “No,” he sald, “Iam doing all I can or anybody can do for her.” I turned away in tears, thinking there was no hope for my wife, and in two or three daysa bill for sixty dollars ($60) was pre- sented. Thus I went on, until ten doctors were em- ployed at a cost of over $400, my wife no better, but getting constantly worse. Thus closed two years of the most awful sickness any one could live through or think of About this time, and when is despair, I met a lady whose child had been afilicted for three years as my wife had been, and who had been entirely cured by the CuTICURA REMEDIES. She presented my wife with a bottle partly full of Currcums RESOLVENT and box partly tull of Currcuns, and the result was a success, Itried another bottle of the CertctRa Re SOLVENT and a box of CuTicuRa anda cake of CuTI- ‘CURA Soar, and in two weeks the eruption ceased to spread, and even with the end of the ninth bottle of ResOLVENT, two boxes of Curicura, and one cake of Cericcna Soar, at an expense of $10.25, my wife is entirely well and life begins to look as it used to before this sickness. I thank God, after spending all I had, Tean give you the praise for saving my wife for so trifling a sum, If it gives you the same great pleasure to read this letter as it does me to write it, I trust that you will publish It, that all who suffer from skin and blood dis- ‘eases may be cured by the CUTICURA REMEDIES, W. H. FOSTER, La Veta, Colorado, ‘We hereby certify that we are acquainted with Mr. W. 1 Foster, and believe bis statement to be true in every particular. R.A. REEV! Stamford, Colorado, A. ZIMMERMANN, ‘La Veta, Colorado. A LITTLE SUFFERER. Cleansed, Purified and Beautified by the Caticura Remedies. It aff.ds me pleasure to give you this report ofthe | cure of our little grandchild by your Curicvna RE pies. When six months old his left hand began to | swell and had every appearance of alarge boil. We | Ponlticed it, but all to no purpose. About five months after it became a running sore, Soon other sores formed, He thes had two of them on each hand, and | &s his blood became more and more impure it took | {me for them to break out, A sore came on the pin beneath the under lip, which was His head was one solid scab, discharging a great Ceal. vo months old, when T undertook the care of him, his mother having died when he was a little more than a year old of con- sumption (scrofula, of course). He could walk a little, but could not get up if he feil down, and could not move when in bed, having no use of hishands, I immedi- ately commenced with the CUTICURA REMEDIES, using the soap and ointment freely, and when he had taken one bottle of the Curicura RESOLVEST, his head was compictely cured, and he was improved in ry way. We were very much encouraged, and con- tinued the use of the Remedies for a year and a halt. One sore after another heated, a bony matter forming | in each one of these five deep ones just before healing which would finally grow loose and were taken out; then they would heal rapidly. One of these ugly bone formations I preserved. After taking a dozen and a half bottles he was completely cured, and is now, at the age of six years, astrong and healthy child. The scars on his hands must always remain; his hands are strong, though we once feared he would never be able touse them. AN that physicians did for him did him no good. All who saw the child before using the Ccrrcuna REwEpIEs and see the child now consider ft wonderful cure. Ifthe above facts are of any use to you, you are at liberty to use them. Mus. E. 8. DRIGGS, 612 East Clay St., Bloomington, Il. May 9, 1885. ‘The child was really ina worse condition than he appeared to his grandmother, who, being with bim every day, became decustomed to the disease, U MAGGIE HOPPING. FROM 115 LBS. TO 161 LBS. To the Caticura Remedies I Owe My Health, My Happiness, and My Life. A day never passes that I do not think and speak Kindly of the Curicuna Rewepres, Seven years ago, all of a dozen lumps formed on my neck, ranging in eize from a cherry stone to an orange. ‘The large ones were frightful to look at, and painful to bear: people turned aside when they saw me, in disgust, and I was ashamed to be on the street or In society. Physicians and their treatment, and all medicines fuiled to do any good. In moment of despair I tried the Curicuna Remepres the small lumps (as I call them) graju- ally disappeared, and the large ones broke, In about two weeks discharging large quantities of matter, leaving two slight scars in my neck today to tell the story of my suffering. My weight then was one hun- dred and fifteen sickly pounds; my weight now is one hundred and sixty-one solid healthy pounds,and my height is only five feet five inches. In my travels I praised the Curicuna ReMepres, North, South, East and West. To Curicuna ReMEpIEs I ow MY ‘HEALTH, MY HAPPINESS and MY LIFE A prominent New York druggist asked me the other day, “Do you still use the Curicuna Remxpres; you look tobein per- fect health?” My reply was. “I do, and shall always, I have never known what sickness is sincs I com- menced using the Curicura Rewepres.” Some- times I am laughed at by praising them to people not acquainted with thelr merits, but sooner or later they ‘will come to their senses and believe the sameas those that use them, as dozens have whom [have told. May the time come when there shall bea large CurIcoRs Supply House in every city in the world, for the bene- fit of humanity, where the Currcuna REMEDIES shall be sold ONLY, 80 that there will be rarely a need of ever entering a drug store, ‘M. HUSBANDS, 210 Fulton St, New York, N. ¥, Dmricvrixe Humors, Humllisting Eruptions, Itching and Burning Tortures, and every species of Itching, Scaly, Pimply, Inherited Scrotulous, and Contagious Diseases of the Blood, Skin, and Scalp, with losg of Hair, from infancy to old age, are posl- tively cured by the Curicuna REMEDIES, Curicura ResoLVENT, the new blood parifier, cleanses the blood and perspiration of impurities and Poisonous elements, and thus removes the cause. Curicuna, the great Skin Cure, instantly allays ‘Itching and Inflammation, clears the Skin and Scalp, heals Ulcers and Sores, and restoresthe Hair. Curicona Soar, an exquisite Skin Beantifier and ‘Tollet Requisite, prepared from Coricuma, ls indle- pensable in treating Skin Diseases, Baby Homors, ‘Skin Blemishes, Chapped and Oily Skin. Sold everywhere. 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Sold tn Xow ricans, Cincinnati, Ohio; Bam Franetseo and O&ki: IZE, $75.00. “ee, Shares in proportion, lo hereby certify that wwe supervise the arrange ments Jor alt the “Monthiy) and. Qunrerrty Draw The “Lmitsiana Sate Lottery Company, ana 1 por som manage vind control the Dr Ciuat the samme are conducted with honesty Jarret, a | mgood faith ‘trcard all parties, and we authorise (he Company to wae this certiieate, with Jacsimiles of OW signatures «attached, in is advertasements.” ay tay Ve presenied al our counters 3.11. OGLESBY, Pres Louisiana Ni | Legislature for Educational and Charitatl | Monthly. and the extraordinary Drawings ry offensive. | $00 poy 100 Bo439" Loy Bigot tes S543 100 BAVC Lennon ——— I Boo 86321 100 27636. 100 56323. 100 86824. 200 2967-100 56521 100, 500 "200 5659 Incorporated tn 180% for twenty—five rears by the le purpuasos = ha rowerve has since been added, ever voted on and endiureed by the alerly ory Uhh bs instead of Se sist CAPITA 000 Ti Fractious, in Fitts, in LIST OF PRIZES. 2 CAPITAL £1 2 a > 2 PRIZES OF $6000. 5 do 20. do Jo do 500, APPROXIM. PRIZES 9 Approximation Fries of §750. 2 = “00. . - 200. 1,967 Prizes, amounting 0... ‘Al ication for races to clubs should be amde ouly ‘oflice of e Company in New Orleans. dormuition write clearly, «giving fall | adares. “POSTAL NOTES, kxpress Muney or New York Exchange ta “ordianry rency by E: pwards at B.A. DAUPMIN, New Orleans, Za, P.O. Mi apd address: Make P. 0. Money Orders payabie ad NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK, mah20 ‘New Orleans, |We Axe Now Orrzsmo Goods at Lower Prices than have been quote@, for years past. Our stock is unegualed, both ia Extent and Variety. Purchasers secure ad- ‘Vantage by calling and give our Stock an ins spection, consisting of MEN'S DRESS AND BUSINESS RUITS, MEN'S SACKS, NEWMAKKET AND BUR ‘TOUT OVERCOATS, BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S DRESSSUITS, SCHOOL SULTS AND OVEROUATS. MEN'S UNDERWEAR NECKWEAR, SHIRTS, GLOVES, &c, &0. Inthe Manufacture of Custom work, we will make the same Iberal discount to those whe preter Clothing Made to Order, NOAH WALKER @ 00, 625 Pennsylvania avenue <____, TO-DAY YOU CAN BUY BARGAINS IN MEN'S, BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S SAMPLE SUITS. OUR GOODS ARE MADE TO LAST, AND FROM THR BEST BROADWAY HOUSES; AND WE SAVE YOU FROM 30 TO 40 PER CENT ON ALL THE 9DS YOU BUY OF US. WE HAVE ABOUT A UNDRED MEN'S SUITS MADE IN BEGULAR CUSTOM STYLE AT LESS THAN HALF THE THEY WOULD Cost You IN NE YAN? TO SELL THEM, AND THE WILL Do IT. SEVEN MORE OF TH ALBERT COAT, SOLD FOR $15, NOW $6; SIZES 33 TO 36. WE HAVE A LOT OF BLACK CLOTH COATS AT JUST HALF-PRICE BOYS AND CHILDREN'S SUITS MADE OF THE Best NEARLY HALF-PRICE. IP You 2D GOUDS AT LOW PRICES T COME AT ONCE TO THE GREAT SALE OF SAM- PLE CLOTHING AT 824 TT STREET XW, NLASD MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE. DS YOU EVER THIRTY CHLir S SUITS, FORMER PIUCE $8, 87 AND. #6, $3.90, AGES 3 TOS YEAHS. HEMEMBE GREAT SAMPLE SALE OF EN'S CLOTHING. IT TAKES YEARS TO ACCUMULATE A DRY, PRIME, SELECT STOCK OF HakD ‘WOODS, SUCH AS WE WILL PRESENT FOR SALE JANUARY 1ST, 1686 IT TAKES FOUR OB FIVE YEARS Fol SUCH LUMBER TO SEA- SON, AND THEN WE HAVE TO SEARCH FROM MAINE TO CAFIFORNIA 10 FIND THB CHOICEST GRADES, ‘282 is 2. 28831 100157839. 500 $7478... 100 28971. 100/58062.——. 300 87503. 500 20086. 300 | ‘WE HAVE BEEN QUIETLY AT WORK SINCE 1880 ACCUMULATING SUCH LUMBER, AND ON JANUARY 1ST, 1886, WILL OFFER A STOCK OF THE MOST SELECT HakD WOODS I= WASHINGTON WILLET @ LIBBEY, az Cor, Gth street and New Yorkavenus, Hesvovarrezs For ‘Tze CELEBRATED WHITNEY BABY COACHES. Also BICYCLES, TRICYCLES and VELOCIPEDEA, BOYS’ WAGONS and WHEELBARROWA ‘Largest Toy and Fancy Goods House in Washington, DOLLS 4 SPECLALTY— Prices Inviting. Fos Waorr, | =e 2d end 1 ma ond 2d end D ee