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BOULANGER’S ROMANCE. For Seventeen Years He and His Wife Have Lived Apart. 4 DOMESTIC DRAMA IN THREE ACTS—THE STORY OF A DUEL OVER MME. BOULANGER AND ITS TRAGIC TERMINATION—HIS DAUGHTER'S NUP- TIALS WITHOUT MATERNAL SANCTION. From a Paris letter to the Chicago Tribune an interesting bit of domestic history is given anent the “Man of Destiny:” The domestic drama in the Boulanger family began, say the gossips, soon after the Franco-Prussian war. From the first scene of it imagine the sitting- room of a young cavalry captain, discreetly mentioned as Roger D. Though it is little after dawn the young captain is out of bed. To his amazement a woman is announced. Throngh the thick veil he can see that she is exceptionally handsome. She is tall and “A woman's visit,” says she, “at such an hour as this cannot have failed to surprise you.” The young captain is too polite to admit it. “TI can only say.” says he, “thatI shall be happy if I can serve you.” “Without knowing me.” she asks, a faint smile being visible through her veil. From her voice the young officer begins to suspect that she is not wholly a stranger to him. The face of a fair unknown, seen in the streets and at the races, has been haunting him for weeks, “You are getting ready,” she continues, “to fight a duel with my husband.” “Your husband?” cries Roger. “Iam Mme. Boulanger,” she says. that you knew me. Nothing could have astonished the captain more. He certainly had a duel on hand that morning. He was to meet Col. Boulanger. The meeting grew out of some vulgar mess- room quarrel—some woman whom Boulanger was befriending. “You area fool,” said the friends of Roger D., ‘‘to be drawn into a quar- rel about such a creature as she is.” But the oung man was high-spirited and would not t moved from his determination to fight. He now turned quietly to Mme. Boulanger. “Are you aware,” he asked, “of the cause of this quarrel?” she said, “I have learned. “I sup- It wasa quarrel about cards at the club. At least, that is the story they told me.” “The story is correct,” said Roger. “AndI have come,” she continued, “to in- tercede with you. Between two such men as you a fatal result is certain, And they tell me that you are the better swordsman.” “Would you have me forego my advantage?” cried er, guessing at the purpose of the visit. ‘hy should [ not try to kill this man now that I have an additional reason for hating him?” “What reason?” she demanded. “The reason that he is your husband,” he cried. Things were getting dangerous. The visitor made her last appeal. She told of her two lit- tle girls. She said that it was only for them she feared. She added that she could ery with shame for her visit, but she could not see her ehildren orphaned. It was not wholly on her children’s account that the young man prom- ised, first, to avert the duel if an apology would avert it, and, second, if this failed, to act only on the defensive. Hating gained her point, the visitor went quietly away. ACT Il. For the next act of the drama shift the scene to a big house in the suburbs of Paris, with a garden much favored by duelists. The duel took place. Mme. Boulanger, reassured, was calmly waiting the result, when a strange lady entered in great dietress, said that she was the sister of Roger D., and waited, too. “All will be well.” says Mme. Boulanger. “Heaven,” says the other. “will not allow my brother, who fought so gloriously in the war,to fall at the hand as wretch like this.” ‘A wretch?” cries Mme. Boulanger. “Yes,” she says, ‘a wretch. If he were nota wretch would he. a married man, the father of two children, be fighting for a woman?” “You calumniate him,” says Mme. Boulanger. “Would I did,” replied the other. “But I have the tale from my brother, and my brother never lies. o are you that undertakes this man’s defense: “I am his wife.” says Mme. Boulanger. “His wife!” cries Roger's sister; and before another word could be uttered a messenger ht the news that Roger was grievously wounded. His sister hastened to get help. Roger was carried into the room and placed upon the sofa. For a few moments he was left alone with Mme. Boulanger. She knelt beside bim in an agony of remorse. “Who is it?” he faintly asked, regaining con- ciousness. I,” she cried, “seeking your forgive- “T have nothing to forgive,” he said, slowly. “I meant to die for you.” “Hush,” she cried. “I will flo anything to repair the harm I have caused. I will nurse you; I will watch over you. Live—only live!” But the young captain could only motion her hand to his lips, and when her husband en- tered with his arm in a sling he found her kneeling beside a corpse. act TIL. The scene of the third act is the mayor's Office in the 16th ward of Paris. The day is October 29 of the past year. M. Marmottan, the mayor, has just given his daughter in mar- riage, and all the municipality was taking a holiday. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon General Boulanger entered with his daughter Marcelle qq hisarm. Her dress was of cream-colored with embroidered skirts. Her hat was of the same color as her dress, ornamented with flowers, and perched on a forest of fair hair, Captain Driant, in his uniform as an officer of zouaves, gave his arm to his mother, stately in black silk. Behind him came the witnesses— Count Dillon, M. Griffith, General Faverot de Kerbrech and the bridegroom’s brother. In its account of the marriage the Figaro wrote: “Mme. Boulanger, still indisposed, found herself forced to remain at Versailles in the company of her elder daughter.” The usher announced the mayor. M. Mar- mottan, after saluting the bridal party, stood behind his desk. He then read the customary service. Then, as the law demands, he turned to Gen. Boulanger. “Do the parents consent?” he asked, There was a pause. The bridegroom seemed disconcerted. After an instant the general re- plied, ‘The father consents.” “And the mother?” asked the mayor. “The mother does not consent,” said the general buskily. “The law,” observed the mayor, “requires that the reason shall be stated.” “The reason,” said General Boulanger, who had evidently nerved himself for this ordeal, “ds that Mme. Boulanger and I have not lived ether for seventeen years.” it was seventeen years since Mme. Bou- langer had knelt by the dying man, and even Row, when her daughter was standing at the altar, she found herself unable to forgive. And in these three acts are told the story of ger divorce. soo Pugilistic Lord Cecil. HE ENGLISH PREMIER'S SON GETS THE WORST OF A FIST FIGHT AND RESIGNS, The resignation of Captain Lord William Cecil, son of the Marquis of Salisbury, from the Grenadier guards has caused a great stir in British military circles, according to a London dispatch. No reason for the resignation was given tothe public, but it is asserted that its withdrawal was due toa fist fight which his Jordship recently had with a brother officer at the Knights Bridge barracks. From the re- = in circulation itis gathered that Lord il got very much the worst of the encounter, and, besides receiving two black eyes, sustained other — atthe hands of his antagonist which necessitate his retirement from pub- lie view for some time: It is understood that Right on the heels of this story comes the re- port of another fight besween a major and a te he major, it is stated, private during parade express comrades his burning ‘take to punch the officer's head. After the the for the private and afforded him an sav to gratify his desire, but the ’8 physical strength and ilistie skill were equal to the measure of his am- bition, and he is now quartered in the hospital. A Set of Books Worth $50,000. ‘From the Philadelphia Record. Probably the most costly set of books in this city is the twenty-nine volume edition of Mot- ley's “Rise of the Dutch Republic,” owned by Mr. Clarence H. Clark, the banker. These volumes are said to have cost their owner Originally the set consisted of nine printed volumes, which have been extended the insertion of some 2,500 por- traits, engravings, autographs and maps, mak- oy ANOTHER SILENT MAN. A Unique Figure In Congress—A Friend of Grant, the Silent. ‘From the New York Mail and Express. Down in a front seat on the republican side, in the Hall of Representatives, a visitor at the capitol may see a man of full habit, with red- dish mustache and hair getting thin on top, who takes no part in the debates, but who sits there day after day, and has sat there for over twenty years, silently serving the interests of his constituents. A physical defect prevents his taking part in the rough and tumble fights of the House, his hearing having been affected by the reports of cannon while commanding in Sherman's army in his march to the sea. But no member is better informed as to what occurs in the House or in the committee-rooms. ‘The Congressional Directory says that Gen. John H. Ketcham was born at Dover. N. Y., in 1932. He was supervisor of his town when twenty-two years old, assemblyman when twenty-four, state senator when twenty-eight, and leaving politics at thirty entered the war in "62 as colonel of the one hundred and fif- tieth volunteers, Afterward appointed bri; dier-general it was while with Sherman that he was wounded nearly unto death, and, after six months’ illness, he resigned, having been elected to Congress by an overwhelming ma- jority by his people at home, in a democratic district, while he lay wounded in the south, He was afterward appointed major-general by brevet. He continued in Congress = the Thirty- ninth, Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses, and as a candidate for the Forty- third Congress he met with what was probably the only itical defeat of his life. During the Grant-Greeley campaign his district—known as the Hudson river district—contained many republicans who sympathized with Greeley, and Gen. Ketcham was notified that if he would not push the canvass for Grant he would go through all right. The general notified them that he rose or fell with Grant. A Mr. Whitehouse was the democratic congressional candidate, and he was elected, having spent 225,000. “The contest was probably as hurd a fight as ever took place in this country, but the republicans were overwhelmed, and Ketcham was retired. Grant knew of the fight and_the motives un- derlying as every one knew them, and in 1874 he appointed Gen. Ketcham Commissioner of the District of Columbia, he serving till 1877, when he resigned, having been elected to the Forty-fifth Congress. At the beginning of Ketcham's reign the District bonds were of small value, and when he left they were above ar. Since then the general has served in the Forty-fitth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty- eighth, Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses, and has been re-elected to the Fifty-first by a majority of something like 14,000, and this in a district naturally 3,000 democratic. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is the only man in the present House who has served his people longer. No representative from New York has ever served as long as Ketcham. He never makes a speech at home or abroad, The Poughkeepsie district is as rich and educated as any in the country. Democrat after demo- erat has bucked up against him, always with failure, save once. It is said that he accumu- lated some little property through his faith in the old Harlem road and in some of Austin Corbin’s early successes, but his election ex- penses are no larger than the majority of the northern members. What, then, is the secret of his success? One of the greatest Senators New York state ever had once said that John Ketcham had the best political judgment of any man he ever knew. is friends at home say that no man, black or white, rich or poor, Protestant or Catholic, ever asked a favor of him in reason but that he spent his time and money to bring it about, and that he is as frequent a visitor to the houses of the poor as the homes of the rich, after an election as well as before. A department clerk here says that when during this administration any of his people were discharged from the de- a Gen. Ketcham took care of the fami- ies till the heads could find something else to do, and he knows it because he himself was stranded by a dismissal. And no one ever hears of these things from Ketcham himself, And so one rather imagines as he sits there si- lent and unobtrusive, while others are filling the public eye and posing for the applause of the people, that he is sent there again and again because of “his humanity to his fellow- man.” aeeieie os Came for His Old Deposit. Philadelphia Special to the New York World, Jan. 15. An old man rudely clad, with unkempt hair and beard, called at the mint in Philadelphia yesterday and laid claim to some gold he said he left there over thirty years ago. He said his name was A. Squires." Upon investigation 124 910 ounces of gold, worth $2,210, were found credited to A. Squires as deposited on Jane 11, 1855. The old claimant had a faded slip of paper resembling the receipts issued by the mint in 1835, but there was no trace of writing on it to prove his claim. The old fellow said the deposit was made op Monday and the depositor fast before’ bim wee named Backmaster. This was found to be true also, By way of identitication he produced six checks on Wells, Fargo & Co., of San Francisco, for $3,000. After leaving the gold at the mint, he said, he returned to California. He knew no- body east of the Rockies. Superintendent Fox said he would have to report the matter to the Washington officers. coe A Crippled Boy’s Suicide. Glens Falls Special to the N.Y, World, Jan. 15. Apathetic suicide is reported from Johns- burg, in this count Two years ago Rob- bie McBride, a playful, light-hearted boy, met with an accident on the Adirondack railroad that resulted in the loss of aleg. He bore the amputation heroically and vided with a cork leg. After passing his eigh- teenth birthday last summer he began to realize that he was disabled for lite. Then he became gloom: a brooded over his trouble. Two daysago Robbie left home with a gun, tell- ing his mother that he was going rabbit-hunting. Not returning, a search was made and his body found in the woods. He had shot himself through the heart. On a stump near the bod was a crampled piece of paper, upon whic! was written: Deak PARENTS: Got through pégging through this Good-by father, world. Am going to shoot myself. good-by mother, sister and brother another world. Ro: A Farewell Banquet to Mr. Phelps. THE MINISTER SAYS HE FINDS IT VERY HARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE. Mr. Phelps, the United States minister to England, was the chief guest ata banquet given by the Fishmongers’ company in Lon- don last evening. Mr. Phelps, in a speech, said that the only complaint he had to brin against this country was that the people ha‘ made it more difficult for him to say good-bye to them than to perform any duty that he had had to do since he came. He hoped often to have the pleasure of seeing in one country, if not in another, his numerous English friends. Therefore. in ‘saying farewell, he would adopt the poet's sentiments, ‘Say not good-night, but in some happier day bid me good morning.” Sir Charles Tupper, Lord Coleridge, Consul- General Waller, Mr. Henry White, secretary of the American legation; Gen. Stewart, Sir Francis de Winton and a host of distinguished petgons were present at the banquet. Mr. Phelps caused much laughter by amusing ref- erence to the fisheries dispute. A Postmaster Warned. THE PERSON WHO IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SENT THE NOTICE FINED FIFTY DOLLARS, An Indianapolis special to the Philadelphia Press says: Twelve good men, constituting a Madison county jury, have determined that $50 shall be the fine for posting a White Cap notice in that community. The postmaster at Myers, Chas, McKee, found on his door, some time ago, the following: Cate, Coker: Let us give you a little advice. 0 act the rask: sittizens doant intende for you Jonger in this pabor! We The “fotographt’ crip sn of z, pht” was a rns a a. Page a around his neck. that the author of this notice was Abe Doyle, a wealthy farmer and an influential democratic politician, whom ht had prosecuted. The trial, which has just closed, been in ess & week. The ji deliberated all night over the law and evi and gave the plaintiff a verdict for damages to the amouni of $50. Mary Anderson’s Kiss. From the Boston Transcript. A few days ago, as Miss Anderson was pass- ing through one of the great dry goods stores, HAZING IN FEMALE COLLEGES. It Is as Bad Among the Amazons as One Could Imagine. Human nature is very much the same in all institutions of learning, says the Philadelphia Record, and first-year students who venture to be too presumptuous are usually disciplined by their upper classmates. It makes no differ- ence whether they are attending a college for the development of football players and crack oarsmen, or are cultivating the graces of dancing, music and needlework in an institu- tion where the sterner sex is not admitted. The fresh girl is treated very much the same asthe fresh man, When a young miss enters @ boarding-school she generally thinks she owns the half of the world which does not belong to her strapping brother who is just matriculating at college. He sports a high hat and carries a bag and cane, and the same irit prompts her to climb into high-heeled shoes and don a sealskin sacque and wear a bustle. In such a case the youth is put through @ course of sprouts by the maturing sopho- more, and the same thing must be done to her of the bustle to mold the giddy girl into some- thing like womanhood. This is how it works: The young lady of fif- teen determines to wear ‘a sealskin coat, although such articles are prohibited by the sophomore girls of the college. A sealskin fight follows just as naturally as a canerush. It would not do to tear up seaiskins promiscu- ously, so when the young aay. wants to appear defiant she dons an imitation sealskin, some- times made of cheesecloth, and parades before her irate elders. Then the fun commences, Half a hundred young Amazons pounce on her, screaming and shouting, and the way that im! tation sealskin is ripped and torn would shame a flock of vultures, Within two minutes the sacque has lost all resemblance toa neat-fitting garment, and the victorious sophomore girls goon parade, each decked with a sort of imi- tation sealskin bouquet-de-corsage. High-heeled shoes meet with much the same treatment. But the glory of the female col- lege shines brightest in the bustle fight. It's a bold, first-class girl that will wear a bustle before she has aged a year in college. But now and then some war-like adica determines to take to herself that article which has been likened to ‘*man- ufactured to-back-her.” She purchases one of abnormal size, and once arrayed in it, starts forth to onset. The bag fight, the hat fight. the cane fight are nothing tothe slaughter that follows. She’s torn by finger nails, crushed, seratched and pinched until the bustle yields and is made into a football, As the girls draw off for a breathing spell, there goes floating off in the breeze tresses of hair shaded all the way ly. But the result of this harsh treatment is that the fresh girl is no longer fresh. She gives up her lien ona large section of the globe, and is not thereafter head and shoulders above her mates, Some- times fresh girls receive a different kind of treatment. One method is for the sophomores to summon them to a feast, the viands of which are cooked by sophomore hands. Imagine the misery of such dining. But ivilization of the nineteenth century is driving out these middle-age horrors. soe. A Hobby for Watches. From the Boston Transcript. The late Mrs. Gardner Brewer had a hobby for collecting watches. In a case, of which she kept the key herself, was a choice array of time- pieces, ranging from big Dutch affairs, which can be peeled, layer after layer like an onion. to the daintiest of enameled jeweled watches used by French beauties of the empire. Some of these had once belonged to those whose names are famous in literature or society. Mrs. Brewer employed an expert to look up these things, but depended on her own judg- ment as to their value. This agent reported that an old lady in Washington, indirectly connected with George i ada silver watch once y President. Mrs. Brewer found the old lady in destitute circumstances and aatte willing to part with the watch for a small sum. After verifying the data given about the watch, Mrs. Brewer told her it was worth many times the price she asked, and after consultation with other connoisseurs of antiques, she deposited in the bank a sum which insured the old lady every comfort even if she lived to be a century old. ——— Queer Articles of Food. WHERE THEY EAT EVERYTHING—CATERPILLARS A WEST INDIAN LUXURY, From the Gentleman's Magazine, In South America the inhabitants eat every- thing, even serpents and lizards, Humboldt has there seen even children drag enormous centipedes out of their holes and crunch them up. Puppies are choice food on the Missouri and Mississippi, and at Emaraldi the tid-bit is a roasted monk The flesh of the larger animals is appreciated variously, in Arabia the horse, in India the elephant, and in Egypt tie camel. The Chinese taste is for cats, dogs, rats, and serpents, while bears’ paws and birds’ nests are dainties. But the Pariahs of Hindos- tan have still stronger stomachs, for they con- tend with the dogs, vultures, and kites for the putrid carrion. ‘The nearest approach to this remarkable taste is afforded by the inhabitants of Cochin China, who prefer rotten eggs to fresh ones, At Terracina a guest will be asked whether he prefers a land or water eel. Inthe West Indies a large caterpillar found on the palm tree is esteemed a luxury, while the edible nests of the Java swallows 80 rich that the ingredients cost as much as £15, A curious taste prevails in many parts of the world for clay. According to Humboldt it is eaten in all the countries of the torrid zone, but the practice is also observed in the north, as hundreds of cart-loads of earth contain- ing infusoria are said to be annually con- sumed by the country people in the most re- mote parts of Sweden, and in Finland a kind of earth is occasionally mixed with bread. This latter custom is more civilized than that ob- served by women on the Magdalena river, who, while shaping earthen vessels on the potters’ wheel, put large lumps of clay in their mouths, In the same place it is often necessary to con- tine the children to prevent their ranning out to eat earth immediately after a fall of rain. The Otomac tribe of earth-eating Indians knead the earth—a true potter's clay—into balls of 5 or 6 inches in diameter, which they roast by a weak fire until the ouiside is hard, They re- moisten them when they are required as food, and according to a monk who lived twelve years among them, one of them would eata oe and a quarter of this peculiar food ina Ye Refurnishing a Small Parlor. From the Art Ainateur. Stain your floor a dark walnut and get a rug of mixed colors of whatever material you can afford. Those of American make imitating Persian rugs are good, and will not cost more than, if as much as, a Brussels carpet. Paper the walls with a medium shade of olive green, with small pattern of a darker shade of the same color, This will harmonize with the wood-work. Your walls are too low for a frieze, but you might have a simple border of alighter color than the field. In your win- dows have sash curtains of India or Persian silk of a soft shade of yellow and long curtains of Madras muslin with a very light olive- greenish tone. Your corner shelf may be ebonized as you suggest, with the addition of a curtain of Per- sian silk running on a narrow brass rod, match- ing the sash curtains, A Turcoman’ striped tiere would do very well if judiciously se- Jeeted. ‘Try and get one with olive ground and stripes of deep blue, red, old gold and white, with perhaps a threadof gold running through. ‘Throw an afghan of harmonizing colors over your unsightly sofa, if you cannot make up your mind to remove it from the room. Cover the rush-bottomed arm-chair with the rich dark stuff resembling old tapestry, which comes in quaint designs; this is better than the spun silk’ you ted, Cover the small chair with “old gold” plush and ebonize the frame. Do not ik of such a thing as painting your “ginger-jar.” Leave it as itis, Puta few pea- athers in it, and stand it on your corner ———-—- see Made Her Fortune by Speculation. From the Atlanta Constitution. A wide-awake lady in Charlotte has made enough money speculating in cotton futures da the three years to purchase a com- foriatle home. pie ea Sa Social Debts Promptly Paid. From the Philadelphia Record. A Mrs. Westend—“Who was it that called?” Marie—‘“‘Mrs, Grubbs; I told her you were out.” “Mrs. Grubbs is out making calls then’ Iwill return the call be- THOUGHT HER A CHAMBERMAID. EDUCATIONAL. GENTLEMEN'S GOODS. _ A Texas General Fails to Recognize an Psstsyer NS ON PIANO. | BEC rik English Countess. Interview with Jno. Oakford in New York Star. “When ex-President Pierce visited England after his retirement,” said Mr. Oakford, “I happened to be living at Sydenham, a few jal 7-30" ‘ASTER OF ARTS, WITH HIS UNIVERSITY Mi dady apivient, eo Pay, ant Eveums ‘cucteurel vcr canes of Soe ae record in charge of New Hebei normelechools, Address Mra HALt, 221 G. T. Kes miles out of London. I had taken a charming LESSONS FOR $53 IN PAINTING AND DRAW- TAILOR Vill near the eryotal place fora yearyin fuck | hog momen me fats tees the grounds adjoined those of the palace. Se en = eae st. nw. Jalo-6t They comprised only five acres, but the skill | F)\GUISH. HIGHER MATHEMATICS, LATIN BY | oco.4en 414 9TH STREET, of Sir Joseph Paxton, who had designed the grounds of the crystal palace, had also laid out my five acres, and by winding roads, groves of oaks, splashing fountains, and other de- teacl shecialty,, private lessons 50 cents, Day and Even: Yollessons, 4. Address TEACHERS, 225 6 at. nw. ere jal iw PARIS EXPOSITION —A COURSE OF PRAC tical conversation in French st moderate foes. H. D. Base. from + to ee PROF. and MME. DES vices, had made them seem at least a hun- | GARENNES. 1203 11th st. n. w. jal2-2 IMPORTER AND 7. wee ee ag a es cae oe on an tawenne “How did the ex-President enjoy his visit to | Daiv Paris Vitite tere Se Procks o apa | Reve tect ereivcd. Save FOR Chet bite England?” modern languages. 903 16th st.n.w. 1-im*_ | Mr BARK personally fite all garments made in bis HORTHAND IN SIXTEEN SIMPLE LESSONS S'Gitsses dat cn “He was like a schoolboy off ona holiday. x. ‘Tuition by ‘mail a specialty, gallos He was delighted with ever I never | send pamphlet. Type-writing ~ 1111 PENNSYLVANIA AVE. shall forget the day I gave him ae dinner at — ‘Head school Acnie a. | _mbi7 Washington, D.C. Greenwich. We rode down in an open car- | ¥* —= riage, and the ex-President was so effusive on the occasion that the very boys on the streets noticed it. He threw his arms around my neck, and in this strange fashion we drove down Piccadilly, and I was a of the undignified conduct of our inguished countryman. Gen. Campbell, of Texas, whom Pierce had appointed American consul at Lon- don, was living near town, and we went to the Derby together, The general was an old WAsExer N CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, St Piano, ¢ Voice Violin, Flute Cornet, ke, Wree advantages. 0. B. BULLARD, Director. _js10-1m* _ RIVATE LESSONS STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL persons whose ear! jon has been Elected or forgotten. 8. W SeLYN ie a8 FLYNN, A M., Ivy Inati fute, Southwest cor, 8thand K sts. nw. JalG-lu: 1223 Stee The MISSES KERR’S School for Young Ladies snd Little Girls, RAILROAD IEDMONT AIR LINF. a Schedule in effect January 13th, 1889. HoXville, Rome, Jeans,” Pullman Slee 11:24 A M.— Fast Mail Da Jofterrilie, Gordonewitl, Sea yachbure, Rocky Mount, Danvil mi to Warrenton, Char- Shes. & Ohio Route, lle and Stations be- i 7 tween Lynchburg and Danville, Greensboro, Raleigh, campaigner, had fonght inthe Texan war of Charlotte, Colui Aiken, Ai mine independence, and although nearly eighty | ~7ueSecond Term begins FRIDAY, Feb. 1st. js rg, New Orleans, Texan and Calif ham, Mouteomery, N ‘Texas and California, years old at the time he was in England, was ASHINGTON SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION Sleeper New York to Atlanta; Pullman Parlor N M. STEVENS rn a tory, 904 M st. u.w., Mra. cars Atlanta to Mont, 7 - wee oe as an Indian and as game as @| HART, Principal. Voice cultureand Natural Expres- gomery to ‘New Orieane ad Mann ‘Dondoi Berens Mohawk. When he arrived in England, | sion carefully eet UM MERING for Birmingham, Vicksburg. and Shreveport. Beverly Tucker, who was at the time our con- Sleeper Greensboro to Columbia snd Augusta, Solid sul at Liverpool, had very kindly accompanied | 72fouehly cured. References to patrons, ja5-1m* S 0. route points Sunda; : f AVE YOU CONSIDERED THE BENEFIT YO! : . him up to London, after securing rooms for | Hf Stor dnanes mead bene toe toe Bas eae einen Sunday, for Manasras, him at Morley’s hotel. They arrived in town | training? Miss EMILY E. PRECH, Teacher of Lloct. naan +, -% ae nee. about 7 o'clock one evening, and, after stop- | tion. Address 514 L st. n.e. for et om Gordonsville, Charlottesville, Louisvie, Cimennath, Pullman Sleepers and Solid’ Trains Warhington to GHORTHAND.—iNSTRUCTION TE i ii it nough to ping in their rooms only long enoug! fal; Ueetnnine. sheseceh, n vn ng pie Louisville: also for Lynchburg, Bristol, Chattano: Take 0 hasty toilet, they descended to | Seed ciassestoc indice sud gentlemen; dictetion clas | MempadarLictio Beck cat ail cotteese ee the dining-room. After dinner, he went | aspecialty, every evening, under direction of Mr. rourh Pull Sleepers Washington to Memphis at once to his room, while Tucker re-| P. Hanna. For further intormation apply at. bs teh S s mained below to give some instructions about | 1409 New Yorx ave, = Dauivilie, Raleish, Atheville, Chaciotte, colne, the baggage. Going upstairs in a couple of T STUDENTS’ LEAGUE, § iken, Augusta, Allapta, Montgomery, New Or minutes, he found General Campbell in a 1317 Fst. Day and Evening classes. Dra’ leans, Texas and California, Pullman Ventibale Sleeper | , ad Gener and Painting in Oils and Water color from life. Class a8 m to New Orleans via Atlanta and Mont strange room, parleying with a lacy. It ap-| for beginuers. Instructom—A. G. Heaton, E.G. Mes: | gumery Pulls Sleeper Washington to Aucusta, peared that he had missed his room, and see- W. H. Holmes, and 8. Jerome Uhl x Ga., without change. ‘Trains on Washington and Ohio division leave ington #:00 ALM. Daily except Sunday, Daily; arrive Round Bill 11:30 4. M and Returiing leave Round Hill 6:05 A.M. Daily and PAL Daily except Sunday, arriving Washington % A.M. and 3:5. Th Charlotte, Dan- ton 6 AM. asec, Bristol yneb- AM. and 9:40 P Ls Chesayeaks and Charlottesvi t Y: £ Strasburg Localat 10:13 A Me’ St 840 PM ser, D. W. G isos Oe ing a lady enter one he had followed her, and Tucker heard him say, as he came up: ‘My good woman, ean you tell me where room 69 | is?” Tucker drew him out of the apartment, and whispered to him: ‘Do you know who that lady is?’ ‘No; I thought she was one of the chambermaids of the hotel.’ ‘You have made a dreadful mistake, That lady is the Countess of Erroll.’ and, before .Tucker could GUARANTEE. TO TEACH ANY ONE TO MAKE life-size Crayon Portrait in 15 lessons; no knowl- of drawing necessary; call, examine specim: aN NOLDS, May Building, cor. 7th ad My Wasb- 5PM IDWARD C. TOWN: of Elocution, eache! Correct (deep) breathing Voice Cultus st torical Dramatic Action, at 133517 13th st. Orta T. JOHN'S COLLEGE, ANNAPOLIS, MD. ~ “ : stop him, the old general had rushed back and | aideictnente ant bs cre ‘Tickets, sleeping car reservation and information Abiat hha hail a chien ee furnished, and bereuce checked at office, 1300 Penne apologized for his mistake, rida SPECT Ae ‘ ci hed. 3 and at Passenger taken her for achambermaid. When Tucker TENTION GIVEN TO nia Railroad, 6th and Bsts. "JAS. L met Campbell next morning he told him that | ™? PREPAUATION (OF | CANDIDATES YOR | "Jaid General Passer the unfortunate mistake of the previous even- | For catalogues, address President, HE GREA: ing had been communicated to the Earl of | _¢ HOMAS FELL, A. PENNSYL) TO THE NORTH, W DOCELE TRACK” TEEL RAIL Erroll, and that he was terribly angry that his lady had been taken for a chamberinaid, and | was going to ehillenge the American who hed been guilty of such conduct, ‘I will fight,’ 2. We ‘storn section, teacher accompanying. peek reading tauyit the de TFICENT EQUI AVE. WASHINGTON. FhoM STATION, SIXTH AND B STREETS, AS FOL! . ft IOLIN LESSONS.—MR. H. DONCH said the old general, ‘but I really had no inten- ceive a limited number of pupils at his reside: LOWS: tion to insult the lady.’ After keeping up the ene Hat nk For Pittsburgand the Wwe joke for some time, st. nw. a24-1m nullman Vestibuled Line, 9:50 a.m, with Sleeping Cars and Harristurg to. § Gay, to Chicago, with Sleepiis cago. Western’ Express, at Sleeping Cars Washington to connecting daily at Hi: Sleepers for Louisville : 0-00 Yee West, with thr & Tucker told Campbell that hoax.” the duel was only INSTRUCTION IN Fal te or inclas t TIONAL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SOLE i] aud see the wouderful progress of studeuts Me™ VERNON ‘SEMINARY, 1100-1104—1116 M STREET AND 1128 11TH STREET. BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES AND LITTLE GIRLS. pecs te ry a A Happy Old Landlord. From the Pall Mall Gazette. A bridegroom is generally supposed to be in a generous mood upon his wedding day, and there are a few charitable benefactions up and down our land which date their foundation from the “happiest day” in the founder's life jarrisburg and Memphis, m. daily, for Pittsburg and the ugh Sleeper to Pittsburg, and Pitts- ure to Chicaxo, BALTIMOKE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. For Erie, Canandaiscun ochester, daily; for Buf- F ept Saturday, 10-00 p. shington to ‘Rochester. The grent hotel-keeper, Frobler,of Buda-Pesth | | Thoroush instruction in al branchesin secondance aven, and Elmira, at 8-308, & a A 7 i wi e best modern thods. Cor ion we ae @ who has just been divorced from his wife. is | Miboi'puiusding, henten by stoam and having abundant a East, 7:20, 9:00, 12:00, and of the quite contrary opinion, It was not upon | sunJight and fresh air, For further information apply ya 49 4:20. 10:00, and 11:20 p.m. On his wedding day, but upon his divorce day, | to the Principal, Mrs. ELIZABETH J.SOMERS.d1-81n ae m eae uh Palo that he was inspired with an enthusiasm of CADEMY OF THE HOLY CR¢ 1312 Masi 7 ‘ ‘and P chusetts ave. —Thoroueh Mu i iy, except Sunday, aud 3:45 p. th daily use of ‘Tech: Organ, Harn Gatte ws yuse of Technicon, Organ, Harp, Gui Banjo. Bpecial attention given to ma E thorotch Dans classes: also to vocal. PENCERIAN BUS! | humanity, In gratitude for his divorce and | in perpetual memory of that “happiest day of | Te of me en | ts of Brooklyn Annex, affording I fer to Fulton street, avoiding double his life.” he has founded three charitable in- stitutions—first, a pension fund for decayed Hungarian journalists; secondly, an exhibition | Sand Dsts. n.w. Established 1864. . pac ‘ew York City. 5 for echool-boys of Austrian birth who can pass | Cummodious baila and claweroopuee Superior methods, | FOEuuagelpiis, Re eye ioe 00,00d.11 40 ian © s | Full corpsof instructors, Its well-trained graduates are 5g 20d. #:10.6:00.8 20, a opm. the best examination in the Magyar language | filling responsible. business and official positions, On Sunday, 0. i 1:40 a.m. 2-00, #:1 00 aud literature, and, thirdly, a village hospital in | Day and night sessions. Large attendance of young Me tare agi 20 pm, Limited E: Parlor Cars, 9:40 sm. week day: daily, with Dining Gar oa and Baltimore, 6. ‘Aunsnuensia course: Proccical Euaion Soeeal eee: ananuensis course: Practical English; 8} n: | mauship: Delsarte’ Course in Expression, Tuition yates: by the year, quarter, or ‘mouthiy. installments Eutct any time, Call Or wend for lustrated circulars oa NC incipal. A CER, Vice-Principa! IANO LESSON upil of Wim. ttle his own native ‘ae Inzersdorf, Future gen- erations are to be glad and rejoice because a wealthy landlord obtained a divorce, but they will hardly be able to say they owe the endow- ment to “the pious ancestor.” ————+e2+-_____ A Mystery of Holyrood Palace. A BABY SKELETON DISCOVERED UNDER EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES, From the London Morning Post. Some visitors who lately went through the queen of Scots’ apartments, at Holyrood pal- YP. s For Pope's Creek Line, 7:20am. and 4: daily, except Sunday. gpeetisehpeed For Annapolis, 7:20 and 9:00 am. 12:05 and 4:40 pam. duily, except Sunday. Sundays, 9:00 a m, FREDERICKSBURG RATL- NDRIA AND WASHINGTON 40, 9:45, 10-578. iA AND 'D ALEXA: “BERLITZ SCHOOL OF TANGEAN 5:00, 6:01.8:05, ace, were shown by the guide, who seemed to | PY4E BERLITZ SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES day 89:90. 0:45, have spoken a little beyond his commission, a Seaiihiahincnin: am and 5-00 certain passage and a large jutting stone like a step, and the following curious statement was | _au29 723 14th ‘RIENDS’ SELECT SCHOOL—A PRIMARY, termediate, and High School for buth sexes 1811 T st. uw. au29-6m THOS. W. SID COMMEXKCIAL legraphy and T; then let fall: Ashort time ago, when some re- pairs were being made in the queen of Scots’ room, a stonemason struck the jutting-out stone above mentioned, which rang hollow. He had curiosity enough to turn it up, and discov- Sunday at 9:1 9:32 and 1 ation at the office, northeast cor- 1 Pennsylvania avenue, a1 ARTYN'S ‘Sel ~ an be lett for th ing of ered the remains of a paby wrapped in cloth of 5 from botels and resides ae Business College in An Splendidiy equi a residences. gold, and marked “J.” Now, it is well-known | fed. ‘Tue lanvest and most cominodious bude ta _— nh ose ie that Mary Stuart gave birth to James I of Eng- | the city devoted to business traning. Catalogues free ae a. Ss. Sees. land and VI of Scotland in the adjoining room, a HEARTS Pree oot Samltted. D OHIO RAILROAD, and that immediately after the birth the child | A/S +e PE SCL | pave Washi ae cllect Dec. th. ABER. was removed and brought up elsewhere, the A HARVARD GRADUATE DESIRES PULLS: ‘and Get opted 5 aye For Chicago and Northwest, vestibuled > press, daily. 8-33 ain. express, 00s hat eee queen showing small interest in her offspring. | > 8.0 For Cincinnati and St. Louis, express, daily, 3 and ie Now, supposing the real child, the real James, is the infant wrapped in the cloth of gold. lying under that stone. who was the other child who afterward reigned as James I of Eng- lang and VI of Scotland? Did this question ever occur to the authorities? This will best be answered by asking how they are said to have treated the discovery. They telegraphed at once to the high personage in London whose business it is to control Holyrood palace. What did he? He sent back word “to make no | fuss about it,” but to replace the baby in cloth ingly or in small classes. Apply to erie OWN ECTS _8e19-6mo At Sanders ROF, SHELDON'S D3 Spey fore itay man’s, NCING eption of pupils URDAYS Gall MO! or m., and express, 1 local stations, eek days, 5 _ PIANOS AND ORGANS. _ Saxpers & Srayman. DECKER BROS.. WEBER, FISCHER and ESTEY of gold marked “J” under the stone, and pre- | PIANOS.” Sold on accommodating terms and for rent, Baltimore, for Washington, week snttably diets he still lien "Gas the questlons | Svecial attention called to our new style (iS tae eee | remain to be answered: If that is Mary Stuart's ESTEY ORGAN Odand Ti pan, baby and the rightful heir, who is that other baby? and why, when the supposed original tured up in eloth of gold, was there no fuss to be ma Two hundred and four thonsan organs have been made and sold. ferred organ for Home, Chure Use. Handsome Y-stop Estey 0) monthly payments. Call and 8. 1: 4 For Annagx pan. Ou Sui | Ss7am.4-10p. “s wm. Leave An 4 4:35 Pp. m., 12-05, 4:10, pin. “Sundays, ee, a Yor Stations on ‘the Metropolitan Branch, +6::35, Joux L. Surtivay Drunk Acarn.—A Boston Frotee ee Hy 1d, Pam, for, principal stations only: special to the Philadelphia Tins says: John L. | sa2 2. +445, and +9:30 pan, For Gaithersbure inte: x r me i and intermediate points, 19:00 a Suilivan seems to be a backslider, and once 3 t11-20 pan. again tohave fallen a victim to his old foe— R EFORE PURCHAST pELSEWHERE SEP THE | gro-no an” wt mterediate stations, 17:00 p.m. whisky. He was in Boston to-day acting in a <rakauer Pian ease Pianos and Burdett 1 train leaves Washington junday at 1:15 very boisterous manner. Failing to do any- | Offaus at 407 10th B ktm | topping at all stations “on Metopoliion Brauch. For Frederick, 10:10am, 14:35, t5:30p.m. Sun- thing with him, it was said a number of his friends had persuaded him to return to New fr \ KK days, 1:15 pan. York, and he was shipped there on an after- KK Fer narerntown. +10:10 a.m. end t5:30 p noon train. KK arrive from Cl ) deily 8:35, a.m, anad9:33. kK Pan.;from Ciuciuuati and St. Louis daily 6-20 a.m. K kK and) 1-59 pan; from Pittsburg "8:35 am, 17°20, 23D PIAN UNEQUALED IN TONE, TOUCH, WORKMANSHIP AND Berapcee. Special attention of “Holiday Purchasers” is invited to their “New Artistic Styles,” finished in designs of HIGHEST DECOKATIVE ART. Pianos for rent. OND-HAND PIANOS. comprising almost every wi country, in thorongh re ___ LADIES’ GOODS. i» SMOCKING, PINKING, BUTTON- les, Whole skirts (accordion) piuited: Latest im- proved Demorest Sewing Machine $19.50, all attachments. LUCAS, 908 9th st. A ZADY: FORMERLY CARRYING ON | DRE: making ‘in New York, woul like the patronage. A large assortment, ‘known make in the 101 pair, Will be closed out at veri SPECIAL INDUCEMEN TS ofvered both of Pierre MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS when d ereve on orders left at ticket oficea Gre nen’ EL Ware, Howann & Co, MB bie 1 Market Spece Wit Cements, CHAS. 0. SCULL, 25 WEST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK, ALLET & DAVIS’ PIANOS: SUPERB IN TONE; | _@5 __ Gen, Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent. perfect in workmanship; elexant in styles; low in = Pie edunigant ea ‘POTOMAC RIVER BOATS. . VERNON! IT. VERNON! =e STEAMER W. W. CO! mS RCORA 7th- = bie yond wharf daily (except Sunday) for Mt. ‘Beg to announce that they have opened their Brauch House $15 15TH STREET, N. W, «for two weeks only.) yyY RETAIL PRICES FOR COAT. al until changed, are as tollows ; ver Landings as far down as Siro With the largest and handsomest stock of White, Ash Baws, pet_Son ef 3.200 foe | Shout S330p. a, eturning, reaches Ws = “ “ 6 BLAKE. Captain. IMPORTED COSTUMES, = Br ; on " oF : Shamokin Stove, 2 we. TRON er EAMER OW AREFIELD™ DINNER AND BALL GOWNS, Red Ash one aves 7th-stroet whart on MONDAYS, THURSDAYS WRAPS, BONNETS, MATINEES, ‘aitna le . DAYS». sng ot haves Lykens V: ——. = Fas ui Creek, Va., St. Clements TEA GOWNS, &o., &c. | 8. #8, Pine Wout per cord. Bakara sae te, Comms with Bond OE. B Ever brought to Washington, and which will be of- ca for large ord W. RIDLEY, Manager. net Special prices fered at less than their Pa avan.W. 1020 L4thstens OCEAN STEAMERS. UPERTLUOUS Halk: Sis y my electric nm Sa11-6t_ OYED, LEAVING NO every. Ugg eS Ten ae tice z GRADES GE co, tel ree a ty. Elect adie A “ HORT ROUTE TO LONDON, Mya Soe MNS DI CABREL aes Semee MORGES Cite FR SUMBERLAND COAL, i) NORPDEUTSCHEL LLOYD 8. 8 00, Miss J. Bocarss hear deo Mere Ween 3, 10am! Baal Well Sah. 30. MODEL RIDING HABITS 6210/3. Fulda, Sate Feb. 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