Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1888, Page 6

There will be Several Tons of Candy Used During the Holidays. “Tdon't suppose it is possible to estimate the amount of candy that will be used here daring the holidays,” said an Avenue confec- tioner to a Stam reporter the other day. “I shall probably sell between six and seven thousand pounds, and I do no wholesale busi- ness whatever. When you consider the num- ber of confectionery establishments in the ¢ity you will imagine that the people of Wash- ington are fond of sweet things. Then, beside our trade, there are the grocery stores. They all keep candy, and they sell a large amount of it, They buy broken candy and cheap mix- tures by the barrel, and are enabled to sell it In fact, they have got to sell it ata ar, it and get rid of it, for they have no trade in that class of goods except during the iday season.” “Do they buy their candy here?” asked the reporter. = “Oh, no. They buy mostly in Philadelphia, | where more aun is made than in any city in this country. I was over there the other day and the proprietor of one factory told me he had made over 100 tons of candy, while at another factory 50 tons had been sent out. ‘I suppose there are at least 5,000 people em- ployed io making candy in that city.” the lower grades are most used?” eaid the Stam man. “Naturally. You see everybody wants cand; at Christmas. Even the poorest family will try to get a little to put in their children stoc! , and there is of course a greater hum- ber of in moderate circumstances than of wealthy persons. Candy is used, too, on c trees, and nearly every family with children hasa Christmas tree. All the churches, too, have Christmas celebrations, at which great juantities of candy are distributed to the chil- un, Gr coer tne Sa large amount of the finer class of candy sold, but nothing to | com) to the ordinary grades.” “Is the trade increasing each year?” “Certainly. I have been in business here for | twenty-five years, and I ought to know. As the population increases of course our business becomes larger, and as people become more | wealthy or as more wealthy people make their | homes here the trade increases in the higher | kinds of confectionery. Pure eandy doesn’t | hurt any one if it is not eaten to excess, and no | reputable confectioner can afford to adulterate his * low many tons of candy do you suppose will be used during the holidays?” “I can’t say exactly, but there will be sev- eral.” ——e Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as followa: A. J. Lukes to John Collins, part 156, B. & H.’s add. | to W. W.; $1,500. A. B. Harris to Asa White- | head, lot 11, sq. 182; @—. J. G. Slater to C. | Christiani, lot 4, sq. 13; 2.725. Gedtgianna | M. Raybold to W. Rabe, part 7, sq. 1042; #256. John Myers to Maria Satg, sub 19, sq. 441; $4,000. H. 8S. Cummins to H. B. Sweeney, part | Blue Plains; $1,272. W. E. Clark to Jobn A: | Congress and Water streets, 84 H. C. Craig to Mary W. Thecker, part 14, Old Georgetown; $1,200. | RE. Rothwell to Safah Jane Richardson, subs 27 and 29, sq. 991; $2,000. W. F. Mattingly to Second National bank, sub 82, sq. 70; £3,360. | W. H. Vernam to Amanda M. Sinclair, lots 1 | and 2, block 20, Brookland; $1,125. L. A. | Wood to A. Bur gre 7, sq. 992; gue. L r to W. C. King, part sq. 906; 1,450. B. F. Leighton et al. to Ruth A. Mc- Coy, lot 8, block 39, Brookland; 3731.77. ghee owen News from Rockville. Rocxvitxe, Dec. 20, 1888. Correspondence of Taz Evexinc Star. A special meeting of Montgomery County Grange will be held at Brightonon the 3d of January, for the consideration of business con- nected with the Grange agency at Washington. An election of officers for the ensuing term its sub: to check in the National bank at this Jrvstspacla amount to | fresh issue. $217,083.75. | In addition to the #200 reward offered by | the county commissioners, the town authorities | have offered a similar amount for the arrest and conviction of a who set fire to the | stable of Mr. W. H. Carr at this place on the | of November 29. { dwelling house on the Montgomery | mine property, near Potomac, occupied | John A. Parson, was destroyed by fire on | fednesday. The occupant saved a portion of his household effects, ‘There was no insurance | on A Mr. W. Veirs Bouic; jr., yesterday sold to Mr. Isaac N. Rawlins, of Washington, 50 acres of estate of the late N. J. Wagner, edjoinin, station on the Metropolitan Branc! for the sum of $5,000. This tract of | ded on two sides by public roads onthe third by the railroad, and it is un- will be laid out in building lots. son of Percy W. Hall, formerly » has returned to his home at T a residence of several years in | lo. empaneled here to-day before of the circuit court, to take case of George Myers, who has for fo years been confined in the Mary- for the insane, and whose money exhausted in his maintenace at that cian in charge stating that the patient wie ol cian in stat t the patient was sti insane and Bed mo means to defray the ex- Penses. The verdict of the jury was that My- ers should hereafter be kept in the asylum at the expense of this county. The same action was also taken in the case of Miss Fanny Shreeve, daughter of Dr. Chas. » Of Poolsville district, who was de- insane and this afternoon taken to the first embodied in rules of practice, and proba- bly from a much earlier period, music has held &@ recognized place in the treatment of disease. In no class of diseases, however, are we likely fe eager ayo a from er be of so Pleasant = remedy as in those Mind itself. In melancholia and aliied Staee of depression its value is generally admitted imour own day. Ancient practitioners were also cognizant of its usefulness in this respect. ‘We must all ei bE — is its i = | variety am: e ion ‘moods of the sand, and it is i onsiderable, and our readers, though possibly unable to acquire a knowledge of the art, should at least and if need- fal assert in practice, a sense of its therapeutic > e+ —____ Luck in High Life. From the Philadelphia Kecord. Jinks (at Mrs. Tiptop’s reception)—“I'm in Iuck for once. I know the hostess.” Blinks (intent on the thi of life) ‘Tn in ‘one luck. Iknow the Salter” a ———-ese_-___, She’s All Right. ‘From the Springfield Union. pletely used OL, she's al right Mrs Van ‘ke. She has graduated from a finishing sc! Just so Much Ahead. From the Merchant Traveler. Judge Tobias Jenkins, who had saved nothing im his youth, and who was far from economical ip his old age, was warned by a traveling man that he would be buried at public expense if be was not careful. In a speech a Scarborough said the Salisbury saic English, hme opinion that Saukim must not be abandoned. “As | asthe khedive desires it,” said he, “we sl maintain the Red sea ports. We are bound, under the made by Mr. Glad- stone’s government, to bé so. It would be mad- pepe benno pe alegre eve of suppressing slavery. treaty Paris we are bound to uphold The integrity of the sultan’s empire. Sir James Ferguson stated ‘in the house of commons yesterday that instructions had been — to = British consul at Zanzibar to in the strongest terms a repetit of the cruel executions which hea crak in the streets of Zanzibar. Russia is about to senda colony to a new Russian settlement in Abyssinia. Col. Aschi- noff, the leader of the expedition, has received & grant of three million roubles to found anew Moscow on the Red Sea. Herr Dilthy, the director of the German East African company, has returned to Berlin from Zanzibar. He denies that the company is responsible for the rising in East which he attributes to the slave dealers. The Berlin Academy of Science has given to Prof. Frudenthal, of Breslau, 1,500 marks to enable him to study the philosophy of the six- teenth and seventeenth centuries in England. In Mr. Parnell’s libel suit against the London Times, in Edinburgh yesterday, it was shown that Mr. Walter is the registered proprietor of the Times. Mr. Walter testified that he had given no authority to register him as proprie- tor, but he had expressed willingness to act as registered proprietor, He did not have a list of the proprietors, His own interest in the Ties, he said, was one-sixteenth, and a half of the office's printing business was his. Mr. Soames, the Times’ solicitor, said there were a hundred proprietors of the Times. ‘The court adjourned to enable the solicitor to produce a list of the proprietors. A late Paris novelty is a Boulanger almanac. For every day of the year there is set down one of the general's deeds. For instance—January 29: Adoption of improved sword for the light infantry, il 25: The general's patriotic at- titude in the Schnaebele affair. May 27: Alter- ation in the trousers of the infantry officers, and so on. 2 The sultan of Zanzibar has saluted the’ Ital- ian flag and exchanged visits with the Italian consul, and all is friendly between the two countries again. About 700 holders of bonds and shares in the Panama canal company held a meeting in Paris yesterday, and decided to forego for the pres- ent the payment of the coupons and the re- demption of the shares. All present signed documents binding them to subscribe to any last night Lord and The queen of Italy has been spending the last fortnight at Courmayeur, which isa fa- vorite resort of her majesty. During her stay she distinguished herself as an Alpine tourist, making five considerable mountain ascents within ten days. The most serious expedition was the ascent of Mont Geant, which rises over 11,000 feet, a Believes Emin and Stanley Free. THE BERLIN COMMITTEE WILL START LIEUT, WISS- MAN'S EXPEDITION AT ONCE. The Emin relief committee in Berlin an- nounce that after careful examination of Osman Digna’s letter they have concluded that proof of Emin Pasha’s capture has not been estab- lished, They will therefore start Lieut. Wiss- man’s expedition for Emin’s relief at the earliest possible moment. Dr. Junker declares that Emin’s force was armed with Snider rifles. The Berlin Post says that Lieut. Wissman will endeavor to learn the fate of Emin while enroute. In the event of the eet of Emin’s capture being confirmed he will attempt to gain possession of the positions of the slave traders by establishing stations at intervals from the coast inland. A meeting in London yesterday of the coun- council of the ish East Africa company, the majority of whom are concerned in the Emin relief expedition, came to the conclusion that Stanley arrived at Wadelai after Emin had started on the march toward Lado to encounter the Mahdists, and that Stanley is still awaiting Emin’s return. The council think that Stanle: is the white traveler for whom Oman Saleh says he is searching. seomin_oF ea Underground Wires. A NEW SYSTEM ON EXHIBITION IN SAN FRANCTSCO, An experiment is being made in San Fran- cisco with an electric railroad having the wires beneath the ground. The conducting wire is placed beneath the surface of the street and connection is made, through a slot similar to that in the cable system. This is effected by an elastic insulating covering of the wires, which is provided with a slit or separable li extending longitudinally its entire length, capable of opening to admit the eof a moving brush or arm, and automatieally closing when the brush or arm passes, thus maintain- ing contact with the conducting wire, which is also continuously insulated. ———"—<o0——_ How Some People Give. From the Chicago Tribune. Solemn-looking Stranger—“Sir, I am raising a fund for the purpose of instructing the poor little newsboys and bootblacks of our city in pa- lwontology and differential calculus. I am sure”—— Busy Merchant (without looking up) —“T’'ve no time to listen to you, sir. Here’sa dollar.” Lady (timidly, some moments later)—“I am soliciting money, sir, to pay the expense of a substantial Christmas dinner for the poor boys of the city— the newsboys and bootblacks.” Busy Merchant (looking up impatiently)— “Madam, I contributed a dollar not five min- utes ago for the benefit of those boys. Good morning.” [Bows her out.) ———-_— see. The Chances in Betting, From the New York Sun. Four clerks in an office in the jewelry district decided in October, 1880, to keep a record of a system of betting for drinks of coffee which they had established. They matched coins each morning, and the loser had to foot the bills for the day. The result. as shown in the following table, affords abundant room for thought: i“ a 8B c D 1880. 3 49 St o4t 1831 52 53 56 OB 1882. 6 8 73 69 1883 57-70) 60 48 1834. 83° 67 #79 77 1985, 6 857 «77 «(100 1886. 6 3 68 78 1887. 72 6 #79 68 1888. 6 71.69 56 561 (581 587 588 A Soldier Story. From the Chicago Herald. Capt. William Meredith, candidate for the office of public printer, tells a story of the President-elect, in whose regiment, the seven- tieth Indiana volunteers, he served. It was in 1862, and “Mr. Harrison's command—he was then a colonel—was stationed at Bowling Green, Ky. Capt. Meredith was passing tent one day, and the colonel, calling him in, said he received a letter from one of the men in the captain's company, and wished to show it to him. The letter read: Dear CotoxeL: Tam out money, it of tobaceo, out of SSE nae ee tel nel lait? ef ff iff fet ILL-TREATED BY THE MAHDI. What Arab Prisoners Say—Probable Movement Against Handoub. The nephew of Osman Digna and twelve dervishes were captured ip the fight near Sua- kim on Thursday morning. All of them were wounded, A London Times dispatch says the prisoners say they believe that all the mounted gunners were killed. All tell the same story of privation and cruelty at the hands of the mahdi and Osman Digna. None of them wished to | fight, but were forced to do so, or pe: to fight by promises of loot at Suakim and other rewards. The trenches were bare. They found no food, clothing, or money, but only Snider rifles and cartridges. The prisoners know nothing of the reported capture of Emin or of the fall of the equatorial provinces. The as — Ses Handoub kena! fall at or approach of our troo; e government ought not to lose this chance. ‘The task is an easy one, as there is not the slightest sign of any Lag of the local tribes. The emir of Trinkitat is a prisoner. He is wounded. Serious complaints are made concerning the quality of the sabres and revolvers fur- nished tothe troops, Several cavalrymen re- turned with broken sabres, and in many in- stances their revolvers became clogged and were rendered useless. WHAT LED UP TO YESTERDAY'S FIGET. Ever since the fall of Khartoum, in the early part of 1886, Suakim has been harassed by the forces of the Mahdi, but it has always been oc- cupied by the British in sufficient force to keep the enemy at bay. During the campaign of 1884 and 1886 it was the base of the British operations under Valentine Baker and Get raham, the scene of the former's overwhelm- ing defeat being a few miles to the south of the town. The present siege began in Septem- ber last, when the so-called rebels beg: ns shells into the town from an i trenched position within 900 yards. Rejnforce- ments for the garrison were at once hurricd spot, to assume the command in person. From e 234 of September up to the time of the sortie narrated in yesterday's dispatches, the rebels continued to harass the Egyptian garrison, especially at night. At times the bombardment from the rebel trenchments has been very severe, but all their assaults upon the town haye been repulsed by the garrison, with the help of the British fleet in the harbor. The Arab force in the trenches around the town are supposed to have numbered not more than 1,000, Dat many more have been lying in the adjacent buh, within a short distance of the earthworks, and there were 1,500 reserves stationed at the Handoub Wells, only 8 miles j distant. Many of the besieging forces are merely tribesmen and slaves, but there are said to be nearly 1,000 dervishes and ex-Egyptian soldiers among them. The Arabs are com- manded by Osman Niab, who began the siege against the advice of Osman Digna, the chief lieutenant of the Mahdi in Eastern Soudan. The force under Gen. Grenfell was at last ac- counts 6,500 strong. It consists of two gri- pades of Egyptian and black troops, supported y the second battalion of the King’s own Scot- tish borderers, a squadron of the twentieth husears, 300 men of the Welsh infantry, one company of mounted infantry, and a small force of Egyptian cavalr; d artillery. coe Haytians Approve the Seizure. Adispatch from Port an Prince, Hayti, De- cember 20, by way of Havana, says: President Legitime continues in power, and a majority of the people recognize his authority. The paci- fication of the country is considered at hand. Neither the Yantie nor Galena has yet arrived. Public opinion supports the government in the iatior of the pets of the steamer Haytian Republic. Her seizure is regarded as an emi- nently legal act. It is held that she was on- deavoring to run the blockade when over- hauled and made a prize by the Haytian man-of-war. sae Wee Ue ae Sauce for Society. From the Boston Gzzette. When John G. Saxe, in his one-time famous satirical poem, ‘The Proud Miss McBride,” made his deserved reflection on the youth of American uristocracy, the country was many years younger than it is at the present time. Nevertheless, his strictures are as applicable now as they were then. Our aristocracy is still a thing for ‘laughter, fleers and jeers,” and it wil. continue to be so until those who have wealth and influence, however acquired, learn to regard their humbler neighbors as beings walking upon the same planet as them- selves, and not as inferior creatures from some other world. And it 1s to be remembered, just here. that people who have suddenly acquired social position are often more supercilious in their bearing to persons who have been less fortunate, than are those who can boast as long a descent as this country can record. So we find folk whose grandmothers, per- haps, sold spruce beer in a cellar, or whose grandfathers dealt out liquor at 3 cents a glass at some corner groggery at the North as- suming arrogant airs when they happen to be thrown into the company of those who are in- tellectually and morally their superiors. “What,” said one of these upstarts, “do you speak to your milkman when you meet him on the street? I never notice any of the lower or- ders, ar in the way of business.” The father of the person she looked doyn upon may have been a general in the war of the re- bellion, atid his grandfather may have fallen with Warren at Bunker Hill; but the memory of the insolent social mushroom did not go back as far as that. She could recall with ater readiness a multiplicity of rel: er own who came over in the steer: Europe, not to be too precise in the tion of localities across the sea. We find no fault with those who endeavor to better their condition. It is the glory of this- country that all may rise to place and honor, without r ‘d to their antecedents. What we object to is the assumption of erent by many who have been brought by the whigl- time, or, in other words, good luck, toa posi ion that they never dreamed of occu the day of small things. These abould re- member that a decent affability, without pre- tentious condescension, is the distinguishing mark of all who really adorn rank and station, and that another revolution of the wheel of fortune may bring many again to the humble places from which their fami started, One may pour tea at an afternoon reception in the most exquisite of imported gowns, and yet remember that there is some unassuming sister; perhaps at the South End, who has quite’ as se: e feelings as the elegant so- ciety lady, and who may be her equal in intel- ligence and education: Don't behauty and patenaiean With insolent, of stution! Don’t be proud and turn up your nose At poorer people in plainer clo" Bul fearn tor’ take of Fur aculs repoee, And that all proud flesh, wherever itgrowm, ject to irritation.” aeeenee. abubble The Girl Who Bet. From the Boston Traveler. Peter Birch, the celebrated horse trainer, tells the following story: “Once I was at the Monmouth track—it was where I happened to sit just behinds young lady of about seventeen, who I saw.was in great trouble. Presetitly she turned and asked me which horse I tho “ er on wrong id toa fect stranger; but she insisted, and I and bet for her. After the rac TREE if @ i f a i fl forward, and Gen. Grenfell hastened to the | itish and | this year, too—and I went upon the benches,’ Goons. D. C., FIFTY YEARS AGO. Money Now and in the First Half of this Century. Rev. E. E. Hale in the It is fair to say that no young people under- stand the difficultios in which the Americans of the first half of the century lived and worked from the variation of currency im different states. Very often a bill of an Illinois bank would not circulate in New England. You had to take it to a broker, and pay, perhaps, 10 per cent of its value, in exchange for bills which would circulate. This was re- moved when, in the first year of the civil war, Mr. Chase, with the authority of Congress, in- troduced a national bank system. Nobody cares now whether. his greenback is issued in Illinois or in Oregon, or in New York. What young readers may not have noticed is that bank bills are much less used than they were of necessity in those days, and, indeed, that money, as a medit of trade, is less handled than it was then. The change comes from the telegraph. And the illustration, which Ftake from the experience, of our own states, spplies Precisely to the commerce of the worl If a traveler went from Boston to Hlinois in the year 1835, perhaps to buy wool in Ohio, in Indiana, or in Illinois, he would have taken, perhaps, a belt containing silver dollars to the full amount which he wanted to use. Perhay he would take New England bank bills. The New England banks had invented a system of mutual exchange which gave their bills a some- what national reputation. If he could get them he would take the bills of the United States bank in Philadelphia. But this bank and all other banks in the country failed in the | year 1837. For some time, then, it was a most difficult thing to remit money or ‘‘value” from one partof the nation to another. Indeed, that difficulty alone showed that it was not yet a “nation.” “You can imagine the anxiety, the real danger and the difficulty connected with carrying so much money, which could be stolen oie en che ce ae hase: IRENCH DYEING, SCOURING AND DRY CLEAN. is is now change a@ pure! r 7 x % travel north, south, east or weet, if be take €50 | RANG ESTABLISHMENT, 1205 New York ave with him he is amply provided for a journey of | tion, ‘Velvet and Evening Dresses” ANTON whatever length or for purchases however | AND. GAROLINE LERCH, formerly with A. Fischer large. He has simply to carry with him some Maieon Es eae = as | toy he by which in any large town in the coun-| A FEGNrENY AND BrP WORKE DID Gate 'y, he may identify ae pose he ar- and ? Garm ad & rives at Duluth and makes a purchase; he | Dyed without being M4 dinate veninge Sresoes | Wishes to pay at once; he goes to some banker | # we d for ennaehs Meer in Duluth and gives his name, and shows a let- + ter of introduction from a banker in Boston; Aisjeteosdimounine ask, SE al¢ i | this letter has on it his own Pace if be is i tire stranger he verifies himself by repro- ‘906 G st. B.w. ; ducing this autograph for the Duluth banker. | He offers to the Duluth banker his own check | on a Boston bank. The Duluth man then asks the Boston bank if this check is “‘good”—that is, whether they will honor it. They ay that it is, and the traveler has his money. If they | Say it is not, he is arrested for fraud and sent | © prison. What the telegraph gives is the op- portunity to any man to travel or to do busi- ness with as little actual money as he needs for personal purposes from day to day. MBER 21, LADIES’ GOODS. _ Saray ae of Use of . WHITE, 1110 F st. y GOOD AND FEEL eae ne ae os 3-30 i oy yt! HAIR DESTROYED, LEA’ i@ NO tity. freatinent for ladien antl shia oclOGa* MES Dit GABMIEL 1381 Mus M, J. Praxo. 1329 F st. n.w. (Mrs. Harrison's), FINE FRENCH HAIR GOODS. Als IF waist and perfect 180, eho SHELL, AMBER AND DULL JET OBNA: aud eo iG. AY, 421 OTH. EVERYTHIN {oo Peta i oa Par ene. ‘Bhickets, Wall Bocketa Ghnsme et Nor. eltieg, Fancy Gcods. WONDERS Bor cae oc! Habita, F: at pe Formerly ‘with Lord & Taylor, New wm. Bure Go, St Lowe: orks Tome REDYED and ALTERED. FINE FURS OF EVERY DEsCKiPrION SKINS D) MOCN’ LINED. The Misses CUNNINGHAM, 1310 8th st. n.w., bet. Nand Osts. ELDS ‘HE BEST. MANU- Brookign Shicid Go. Brsohan & ary-goods SHAMPOOIN Bangs su3l-4m" Scrol es, Brac N BRANDI 1229 PENN. AV! VE are ES ae itand work, one Sitting Sea Sam Guanwexrs, HATS, MUFFS. BOA: MADE TO ORDE! TED ong WIRED 923 F at, n.w., second floor, and houses in the Gaited océtfebl Siates. BOOKS AND STATIONERY. Sweer Narvne. Important New Etchings, inal Ete! Day Serene, and many other beautiful Holl viding very latgely forthe needs. of the children and young people, wi books, at reasonable BOifroLi0s, WRITING TABLETS, GOLD PENS, BOOKLETS and ART PRINTS. C. C. PURSELL, as 418 9th st Me BRIE] PRO! JUEEN & WALLACE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTE! 11081118 Est uw, sou as, | Houpay Goons IN EVERY DEPARTMENT. Parents will find elegant presents for their children in our CHILDREN'S CLOAK DEPARTMENT. Every Cloak Marked Down to Cost and some Below Cost, and with but: few exceptions all new goods this season. 4 Glance et last evening’s Star, and you will see the | “d10-2w* price-list, which speaks for itself. Ladies will find in our Cloak and Suit Department many desirable presents. What is better or more ap- Preciated than a good, warm Winter Wrap. Wecan accommodate you with all the best styles, the latest cloths, and at reasonable prices. Our assortment of GLOVES has never been larger | » or more carefully selected. We sell only RELIABLE makes, and you cannot afford to present your friend with anything but the best, HANDKERCHIEFS, in great quantity, all new and beautiful, from 25 centsupwerd. , HOSIERY, in Silk. Balbriggan, Cotton and Merino. UNDERWEAR, in all the varied assortments. APRONS—These have been bought for the holidays, / mb31 and are allfresh and snow white; price 25 cents and upward, < Full line of UMBRELLAS for Ladies and Men; ‘Tree Ornaments, 1 Doll Scrap Pictures, IOUSANDS of Pretty Notions le Price to Teachers, Churches, 5. JAY GOULD 421 9th st. _~HOUSEFURNISHINGS. Tue P. Haxsox Hiss ‘MANUFACTURING COMPANY. WALL PAPERS. PAINTING. FRESCO Furniture, Upholstery Goods and Curtains, 815 15th st. nw. ‘Baltimore House, 217 N. Charles st. 411-3m A full line of GA8 COOKING STOVES On hand and for sale. WASHINGTON GASLIGHT COMPANY. Canrers: Canpers:: Canpers::: ‘We are daily receiving our Fall supply of BIGELOW, WELL Lo" & HARTFORD WILTON CARPETS, BODY avery vatiety in handles, Gold, Silver, Old Ivory and | TOWERS, & RANTEORD WILTON CARSETS. BODY Natural Wood Sticks, Lowest prices in these goods. | THREE-PLYS, INGRAINS, and ART SQUARES, RUGS, MATS, CURTAINS, and DRAPINGS in great Some very choice SILK and CASHMERE MUF- oe FLERS we are offering at greatly reduced prices. Se ee se25-3m_ Elegant line of SILK HANDKERCHIEFS for Ladies and Men. Also LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS for Men.| PTANOS STORE OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL CHRISTMAS. HOOE, BRO. & CO., 1328 Fst. AND ORGANS. Bro PURCHASING ELSEWHERE SEE THE Pianos and Burdett Orcas st 407 LCE ee ac Sea. WM. H. McKNEW, Buccessor to R. H. Tarton, so Beate emtion of Holiday sarchaegra” je invited HIGHEST DECORATIVE ART. Pianos forrent. SECOND-HAND PIANOS. — ouutry, in thor y ropa. we Hz Wao Hresrrares in and in 's Losr. 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Fens ee an fulfenjoiy at Holiday’ ols ory low eo ck “| In presenting THE EVENING STAR in its new 133m __944 La ave. w._ | dress and improved form, attention is called to ite Peculiar merits as a news and family paper, as to advertisers. sligh professional authority—which in this tm : stance only expresses public sentiment—has de clared that “THERE 18 NO BETTER EVENING NEWSPAPER IN THE UNITED STATES” thea THE Stax. But even more than this may be justly claimed forit. In all that relates to the composh at ty tion of @ Arst-class Journal, devoted to news, busi- isbure, with, ness, family and local affsirs, it takes rank with iar ih at te Sane | Se 7 Met ee wo and nn pec oa BALTISIORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD ities named it ts not surpassed by any. With Fort Caan td 5-4 be ee < . For Wifanaet ee TESTE, «| eute at al comers interes, by ths tee use at i 4 the telegraph, and with the superior mechanical facilities with which its office is equipped, it covers ; the whole field of news, and is able to presenta Teflex of the entire civilized world each day up to the very moment of going to press. In these re- spects THE Stax is absolutely without « rival, and on ; fearlessly challenges comparison, within range of Parlor the termtory it occupies. For, falisinore, 6 In {ts treatment of public affairs tt is impartial 4:80) 4540.8: ‘and aims to be fair and just to all taithsand inter. #00, 3:45, 4'10.6:00, 7: esta, and it is absolutely independent, in the high- 2 u 7:20am. and 4:40 p.m. daily, | 6t and broadest sense of the term. In the publi- SREY ANG alDPa DRED" WRGMENRUS | tea steady and aro in advrating und promoting For Alezaudria, 4 F only what It believes to up right, as it is persistent To ait: in condemning and opposing what it believes to be Wrong. Itis, in brief, wholly untrammeled by any other intereet or consideration than that of serving the public, and securing as far as possible the wel- fare of the family circle, and of society as a whole. ‘With these general objects in view, what THE Stam specially concerns itself with, and that to Which it gives its best efforts, may be briefty de- scribed as THE INTERESTS OF WASHINGTON AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. To these the paper has been unswervingly devoted since its present management assumed its direction, and this policy will characterize the future career of the paper as prominently as it has marked its past history. 48 AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. ‘The EVENING STAR claims to be, and can com clusively establish that it 1, the best local advertise tg medium tn the world! NO OTHEX PAPER PRINTED CIRCULATES 80 MANY COPIES IN THE CITY OF ITS PUBLICATION, IN PROPORTION TO POPULATION. It is hardly too much to say that it is read by the mem- bers of every family in the District of Columbia. It ts peculiarly the favorite of the home circle, and 1s no less esteemed in the counting room and the a “Gu "Metfopoliias | Work shop. Itfollows, therefore, that as an agent For Frederick, +10:10am., 14:35, 15:30pm. Sun- | of publicity within the National Capital and com- ‘or stor +10:10 a: +5 3 . announce. Sete are ry ht vit | om eeneee pecnemyearenomrenn 5S pan.; from Pittsburg *8:35 am. t7: ma. in proportion to the service it gives, its advertising PHILADELPHIA DIVISION. rates rank with the lowest in the country. Being low, they are rigidly adhered to. There only re- mains to be added on this head, as an indication Of the esteem in which the paper is held by the Deny aly business public, which best understands its own ences on orders left at ticket offcea 619ani' 1301 | tterests in this respect, that, both in the number Wet CLEMENTS, : of subscribers and of new advertisements printed, = ———— Gen. Pass. Agent. _ | each year in the history of the paper shows a large POSE ener tenses oer tnprodoonn. Der coamp, uses : the first nine months of the present year the average daily circulation of the paper bas been 26,681 copies, and the whole number of new advertisements printed 30,698, against an average daily circulation of 25,427 copies and 38,594. new advertisements dut- ane and ingham, | ing the corresponding period in 1887. In shert, tare caeanee Rage, on Sane ea eed RIAL YEA ae mixehed intertiediate tations,” “OF MAPAM@OS | Charloteonlle: Loulseiife, Ccinusts a foe Lynch. Bristol, Chattsncors, 4 imam ‘Sicepere Washington ter Mecsas aia: « THE WEEKLY sTaR 1s especiaily commended to that portion of the Feading public who desire to be keptadvised af affairs at the seat of government, and are so situs ted as mot to need or care for a daily paper. itis ‘lvania avenue, and at —) sagen, iva | Bows is carefully collected, and may be depended Bip alton Gt ane’ ota, TAVIOR. upon to be fresh andauthentic. Itsecientific, lite ary, household and agricultural departments are POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. edited with the view of mecting the wants an@ Mz VERNON! utr. veRnow: tastes of an intelligent and reading public, and STEAMER W. W. CORCORAN of affording assistance to the student and those in ene nae ae pursuit of general information. Some of the most eyes noted and learned men and women of the country “316 Li ware ‘are contributors to its columns Its ample tele- a graphic arrangements and full corps of special, correspondents enable it to lay before its readers , every week all important happenings, foreign and domestic, and especially such political, social, and Parrent events as are worthy of note, in the states a ‘of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North Care ; ‘Brings tt within the reach of ail ‘Rope are co peeve ‘that they cannot afford to take it, and mone 60 rich Una, and those adjacent thereto. ‘The low price at which it is published, ONLY ONE DOLLAR 4 YEAR, ‘that they can afford to do without it.