Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1889, Page 6

CITY AND DISTRICT. @® Upon the basis of price per line per 1,000 cirgulation, the advertising rates of Taz Evzy- zxe Srak are only about half as high as thoseof other Washington papers. But cheapness is not the only merit. Its service is better than any otier paper in the city can possibly give! NO TYPHOID EPIDEMIC HERE. The Health Office Kecords Make a Favorable Showing for Washington. Boston and Philadelphia are suffering from an epidemic of typhoid fever, and, in a gen- eral way, it is claimed by those cities that the same disease is epidemic in nearly all the most important eastern centersof population. That is incorrect so far as Washington is concerned, for there have been fewer deaths than usual from typhoid during the past two months. In July, 1887, there were but eighteen deaths from this cause; the same month in 1988 is creaited with but twelve deaths, while this year there were nineteen. Thirty-two deaths was the record for August, 1887. while August, 1889 and 1889, are down for twenty-three and twenty, re- spectively. In September, 1887, the number of deaths was twenty; in September, 1888, aaa esent date in this mont! Sur fourteen’ persone have succumbed to the disease, These figures, when compared with the increase in population, are suffic.ent to show that the iypeadl death rate is very mod- erate and that nothing like an epidemic exists. ‘The records of the health office, scanned yes- terday by a Stax reporter, Bhow that the num- Der of deaths from typhoid have compara- tively become less during the past ten years, ORGANIZIL To Protect Themselves Against the Competition of Wholesale Dealers. Retail dealers in vegetables, fruits, produce and poultry about the market complain that wholesale men in the neighborhood of the Cen- ter market seli smal! quantities of beef, mutton, fowls, vegetables and fruit to customers, for their own consumption, to the disadvantage of the retail! dealers. It is claimed by the retail Wealers that the abuse of trade proprieties has Deen carried to such a point that an enterpris- ing housekeeper can go from stall to stall, purse in hand, Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, and furnish her larder for a week ahead at prices 25 per cent*below those at which the retail dealer can make a profit. The consignee direct could afford to sell the first cut of porterhouse steak at the rate of 15 cents a pound, while the mar- ket-butcher asked 20; he could find it profit- able to offer cabbages at a cent Jess per head. and other commodities pro- rtionatly lower than the prevailing retail rates. ‘om the retailer's point of view this is wrong. During the last two or three years the abuse, they say, has been grow! to an alarming ex- tent, aud in the past twelvemonth it has be- come positively unendurable. The honse- keeper-at-large, aud no longer the exceptional woman with the market basket, has discovered that her supplies are to be purchased at an ad- vantage from the wholesale men. The retail market men are now taking steps to put an end to a practice that works so much to their disadvantage. They have secured the signa- tures of many wholesale dealers in meat and in agreement uot to sell a penny’s chandise to a retail buyer. This at3 o'clock the retailers meet in the hall at the corner of 9th and Bstreets to make arrangements to prevent wholesale men from selling at retail. Nearly ail of the wholesale men, itis said, are ready to acquiesce in the pro- posed arrangement, as they claim the retail trade has been forced upon them by circum- stances, Customers would be accommodated, and if one dealer sold to them his neighbor felt obliged to do the same. A RUNAW Y CAR. An Exciting Scene on the Electric Rail- road. There was an exciting scene on the Ecking- ton electric road Sunday afternoon when one of the cars ran away. The car was crowded with passengers wheu it left Glenwood road. ‘The conductor started through collecting fares, and was in the middle of the crowded car when the steep hill leading to Eckington was reached. When the car started down the hill its speed gradually increased until it became unmanage- able, and then the man in charge of the brakes shouted to the conductor to apply the brakes in the rear, but there was such a crowd in the car that the conductor could not get through. By this time the passengers had become alarmed, and several women screamed. When the toot of the hill was reached the car came near leaving the track. One woman was thrown from the seat to the floor and another woman fainted. The car finally stopped, and no one was injured except the passenger who was thrown from her seat. — How a Boy Had His Foot Mashed. The iron arches to be used in the construc- tion of tae cable road are still on the sidewalks along 7th street, although complained of by the merchants as obstructing the pavement and dangerous to pedestrians at night. One of the arches was resting against the awning post in front of Ballantyne’s book store yesterday when several boys came along. They thought they would test their strength by raising and lowering the arch. Rutherford Hayes, a thir- teen-year-old boy, attempting to liandle the heavy piece of iron got it on his foot, which was badly mashed. He was attended by Dr. C. W. Bowen and wes removed to his home, No. 227 K street northwest, Wants His Utah Marriage Dissolved. Jobn Moriarty, by Campbell Carrington, has filed a petition for a divorce from Cora H. Moriarty. They were married in Utah in 1882 together till 1336, when he charges e deserted him. Strack by an Express Train Yesterday afternoon an express train on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad struck a man at the Chase road in the county. He was brought to the Freedman’s hospital by Officer Morgan, and it was found that he was injured about his shoulder, face andeyes. He gave his name as Samuel J. Wilson of Baltimore, penter, A Slight Fire. About 4:39 o'clock this morning Officers Fie- field and Slack discovered that the kitchen of gacob Franz, on the 7th street road, was on Yre and called out No. 7 engine company, which however, was not required to go into Service. The flames were confined to the Kitchen, which was damaged to the extent of about $50. Operator Kramer Gives Bail. Yesterday $1,000 bail was given in the clerk's Office by E. H. Kramer, the telegraph operator et the Navy Yard station on the Baltimore and Potomac railroad, who was presented by the Coroner's jury as having been the cause of the death of Engincer James Jamison on the 13th instant by his negligence. Charles B. Bailey Was Kramer's bondsman. —- Transfers of Real Estate. Deeds in fee have been filed as follows: Theo. Bulster to Isaac Levy, sub 16, 8q. 545; #3.500. W. 8. Vernam to F. J. Gregory, lot 14, Dik. 30, Brookland; $450. A. M. McLachlan et al. to W. C. Haislup, sub 206, sq. 271; 2,300. N. Carusi to H. C. Borden, lot 1, sq. 1114; 8. L 6. Lyon to D. Turner, lot 69, sec. 8, Barry ; $1,320. LC. Kingsley to Harriet E. Capner, sub 20, sq. 920; $2,600. George W. to W. C. Hall, part 1, sq. 413; $1,800, jie Pouline to James McGee lot 12 and part q. 656; S—. A. C. Clark to J. E. Lyons, Jot 2, sq. 14 —. C._L. DaBois to Lelia Rk. Nowlin, sub 15. sq. 751; $3,750. Marion B. Bheridan to George Burrier, lot 16, blk. 11, Youngsborough; $150. Maria E. Travis to Gabriel Jones, pt. 11, sq. 13; 3. 5. Bensinger to J. B. Williamson, lots $ and 9, sq. 1075: $—, B.H. Warner to J. Vince Lewis etal., bloc! E, lot 5 and part block F, Grammar Farm; @—. W. H. Nash to A.J. Sanford, parts 6 and 7, Square 1; 225. L. A. Barr to J. C. Davidson, lot 1, block 3, Le Droit park; Tatnot Covwrr Fam, Eastox, Mp.—The Baltimore ard Ohio railroad has completed ar- Fangements fora grand excursion to the Tal- bot county fair at Easton, Md., on Thursda morning. September 26. Train ‘will leave Bal. timore and Ohio depot at 6:40 a.m., going via Annapolis. Md.. thence palace steamer Tolches- ter to rags thence by rail so wo Le fair grounds. und-trip rate will be $2, includis @dmission to the f A There will be speci attractions on this day, including five races, in which some very fast stock is en' addi- tion to the mule and hurdle races, will also be other it attractions. Re’ % will leave ced digg at 6 o'clock evening, arriving Washington about THOUSANDS OF PAGES. The Immense Mass of Testimony in Con- tested Election Cases all Printed. The government printing office has just eom- pleted the immense work of printing the testi- mony in the contested election cases which will come up for settlement before the Fifty-first Congress. Following are the titles of the cases: Chalmers ve. Morgan, Mississippi; Langston vs. Venable, Virginia; Waddill vs, Wise, Vir- ginia; Posey vs. Parrett, Indiana; Miller va. Elliott, South Carolina; Bowen vs, Buchanan; Virginia; Kernaghan ve. Hooker, Mississippi; Threet vs. Clark, Alabama; Atkinson vs. Pen- dieton, West Virginia; McDuffie vs. Turpie; Alabama; Hill va, Catchings, Mississippi; Goodrick ys, Bullock, Florida; Eaton vs, ¥helan, Tennessee; Mudd vs. Compton, Mary- land; Featherston vs. Cate, Arkansas; McGin- niss vs. Alderson, West Virginia; Smith e Jackson, West Virginia, The largest case was that of Eaton va, Phelan; there were 2,228 pages of testimony and it is bound in two volumes. The smallest one con- tains 274 pages and is that of Mudd va. Compton. The total number of es in the entire job is 15.554, which, at 3,000 ems to the page (solid brevier), amounts to 46,662,000 ems—enough composition to keep a good compositor steadily at work six days a week for thirty years. Five hundred copies of each case have been printed. ‘The first case was sent to the office May 8, and the last one on August 13. THE FIRST GUN. Gen. Mahone and Senator Dantel Open the Virginia Campaign at Abingdon. Yesterday Abingdon. Va., was filled with political excitement. Gen. Mahone was there to make the first speech for the republicans in the Virginia campaign and Senator Daniel was there to address the democrats. Gen. Mahone held his meeting in Hurt’s tobacco ware house near the railway station and Senator Daniel spoke at the town house in the center of the town, half a mile away, The general spoke for @ free ballot and a fair count and an honest return of the vote. He ridiculed the idea that there is danger to our civilization from the presence of the colored man and said such sentiments were employed as a mere scarecrow to excite prejudice and fear in the hope of diverting the white workingman from casting his ballot for the candidate he honestly preferred. The colored man, he said, is here to stay. He is in a great measure’ the life-giving power to all our industrial pursuits. He is by instinct a repub- lican and naturally a protectionist ana his vote is needed to protect the state from the demo- cratic dogma of free trade. The general made a vigorous argument in favor of protection,and presented some striking figures to show ‘the marked development of the country, and es- pecially Virginia, under a protective policy. He strongly urged the repeal of the “onerous and hateful” internal revenue system and ad- voeated the Blair bill for the help it would give the free schools. The remainder of the address was devoted to a severe criticism of democratic me. sment of state affairs. Seuator Daniel, R. Taylor Scott and Colonel Barton addressed a large audience. Both meetings were in progress at the same time and, while the interest of republicans in Ma- hone’s speech at times seemed to flag the dem- ocratic speakers held their crowd well in hand and drew many from Mahone’s meeting. = ee HASN’T MADE UP HIS MIND. Major Warner Still Undecided About the Pension Commissionership. Maj. William Warner of Kansas City arrived in St. Louis yesterday. He said he could not give an aflirmative or negative reply to a query as to whether he would accept the office of pen- sion commissioner, “Do you mean you would not accept it?” “Most assuredly I mean no such thing.” “Are you willing to say you will accept it?” “I certainly am not. Ido not know whether I will accept or decline it. I am now on my way from Washington to Kansas City. To tell the honest truth I do not know what I will do.” An intimate friend of Major Warner said: “There is no doubt whatever that Warner would like the office, and will take it if he can make satisfactory arrangements with his law partuers in Kansas City and get his wife to consent, A. B. CAMPBELL MAY GET IT. Itis rumored at Deer Park that President Harrison is considering the appointment of A. B. Campbell of Kansas as pension commis- sioner, Private Secretary Halford said jast night that the appointuient might go over until the President returned to Washington. : oo KISSED BY CARDINAL LAVIGERIE. The Reception of Two Colored Ameri- can Catholics in Lucerne. A Cincinnati dispatch says: Daniel A, Rudd, who with R. L. Ruftin of Boston went to Lu- cerne to represent the colored Catholics of the ited States at the anti-slavery congress, ich was to have been held last month, has returned, The congress has been postponed indefinitely, and Mr, Radd’s business would not allow him to remain abroad any longer, Mr. Rudd is editor of the American Cathole Tribune, paper published in the interests of the col- ored Catholics of the country. In this week’s issue he de: tion of himself and Mr. Ruffin by Cardinal Lavigerie as follows: “When we were presented to his eminence Cardinal Lavigerie at the Villa Columbia, Lucerne, Switzerland, our reception was in- deed a warm one. When we presented our letters. they were immediately scanned; then, throwing one arm around the neck of Mr. fin and the other about mine, the great cardinal stood silent fora moment almost over- come with emotion; then, bending (for his eminence measures more than six feet), he kissed us as a father would kiss his sons who had been Lege ty. Erie absent, then said: ‘Young men, I feel that your presence here will prolong my earthly existence, will give new vigor to wearied nature, and start anew the current of life. Your coming from your far- away homes in America, bearing, a3 you do, words of good cheer from his eminence Car- dinal Gibbons, from the venerable archbishops of Cincinnati and Boston, as well as the sympa- thies of your great nation, must and will give new impetus to the work of civilization among and for the suffering and outraged people of Africa.’ Long and interesting were the confer- ences held daily with his eminence during our stay in Lucerne. We were introduced to the Countess de Staal by the cardinal and found her to be a woman of the highest order of in- telligence and deeply interested in the great anti-slavery crusade. The last evening of our stay in Lucerne we were entertained at dinner by the cardinal and his kind sister, who had been called, as it was supposed, to his death- bed. But the time had not come.” coo. Gladstone on Many Topics. Mr. Gladstone received a deputation of lib- eralsfrom Hyde at Hawarden yesterday. In response to the address presented by the depu- tation, Mr. Gladstone said that the issue of the dock laborers’ strike was pregnant with hope for the future of labor in Eugland. ‘The, polit- ical outlook, he declared, was very hopeful for the liberals. Mr. Balfour considered his refer- ence to the endowment of a Catholic university in Treland at the end of the session of parlia- ment 4 cunning stroke of statesmanship which would split the liberal party to pieces. A sim- ilar dodge in 1835 had bumbugged Irishmen into supporting the tories. The letter written by Mr. Balfour to the secretary of the Protest- ant allance, in which he says the question of foundation endowment for the f egrraa uni- versity has never been considered by the gov- ernment, is, Mr. Gladstone said, the shabbiest part of this shabby proceeding. eee French Language Against the English. Attorney General Martin of the Manitoba government hag failed in his mission, says an Ottawa dispatch, to eulist the sympathy of Sir John Macdonald to assist him in doing away with the French language as an official language in that province. His proposed measure can only one a law by the oonaet of the dominion parliament, and Sir John re- fuses to help him, It must be in the form of an address to the British parliament and pass through the parliament at Ottawa, where its defeat, considering the st French vote in that assembly, is certain, provincial government of affirm that if the Frei Manitoba are deprived of their legislature of that province, by abolishing the the speaking minority in tl province 20 far a3 ti relates to the provincial ——— oe Judge Horton, in bis to the grand ay af Chi sited wtordny that the state ws re; to and defiantly violated to es almost waltoted extent, "Guabec Bishop O'Hara of and laid the corer wows of St Sohu'w BO. ohare at THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON: D.C.; DIED IN A CHURCH. No One Identifies the Unfortunate Girl— Two Months in the Church Cellar. A New York special to the Philadelphia In- quirer says that it was thought for atime yes- terday that the starved and emaciated creature who died in the Roman Catholic church of the Sacred Heart at Mount Vernon on Saturday under such peculiar circumstances was Virginia Wagner, the missing school teacher, but investigation shows this to be a mistake. There is some similarity in the facial appear- ance of the two, but there the resemblance ends. The Brooklyn girl was s rigid Presbyte- rian, while the dead stranger was undoubtedly a Roman Catholic, An amulet, the Agnus Dei, and a scapular were found suspended from her Poor, scrawny neck, Her strange death does not clear uj mystery of Virginia Wagner's death at all, but are such curious coin- cidences between the two that the ies pee identification on certain circumstantial evidence apy ‘ed reasonable at first. ‘he most remarkable thing about the Mount Vernon mystery is that the dead woman should have been able to live in the celalr of the church for at least two months. Of the 400 people who looked at the corpse yesterday 250 were dents of the town. Not one of them had ever seen the dead woman in life. Not one had ever been asked by her foracrust, There is nota butcher, a baker, a provision dealer, a grocer or in fact any tradesman who deals in the necessaries of life in Mount Vernon who re- members having been applied to for food by any person answering the woman’s description. TWO MONTHS IN THE CELLAR. But'the queerest part of the story is the two months’ hiding in that damp.and dark cellar, where rats abound and worms crawl in count- less numbers. She was first seen there early in July, and, strangely enough, immediately after Miss Wagner's disappearance from Brooklyn. by Janitor Edward 1iowland of grammar schoo No 1, located directly opposite the church. The girl did not look thin then. He saw her first about twilight, coming from the area way which leads from the church cellar in the rear of the edifice. She had a bright tin pail in her hand and filled it with water at the well which is in the church yard and about fifteen feet from the back wall of the building. Then she dis- appeared, Toward the latter part of July some of the boys around town, while playing “fox and geese,” saw the waman start down the stone steps leading to the cellar and disappear within, A few moments later they saw her white face and big staring eyes looking through one of the low cellar windows on the western side of the church. One of the youngsters picked y a stone to throw and the face vanished. Al this time—from eurly July up to the latter part of August—the strange creature must have lived under the church floor. There is every reason to believe that she remained in that - Aton dismal shelter for days, perhaps weeks, ata time. HOW SHE GOT Simm DOLLARS. Staid Connecticut Men Wheedled by a Little Woman with a Pretty Chin. A Putnam, Conn., special to the New York ‘Sun says: A lively little woman, with a pretty little chin that was lively, too, has been fascinating and defrauding the pious and staid people of old Windham county. Her heart grieved over the condition of the faraway “heathen” steadily and she told every one she met just what her sentiments were about the heathen. The heathen must be clothed, she said, and educated out of their benighted state, and the only way in which to do it was to carry the gospel to them and inform them that they had perishing souls. To carry the gospel and that information would cost money, she admitted, and ‘if Mr. — would please make a small donation shi uuld carry the money to the missionary folks in New York, who would buy the gospel with it and ship it promptly to India’s coral strand and the Congo basin.” Not aman in Putnam or in any other place in the county tried to resist the missionary zeal that actuated the dimpled little chin and every man came right down with spot cash, Elders, deacons, class leaders and parishioners subscribed to the ‘heathen fund” that the little woman carried in ner pocket and the missionary’s daily receipts were from ¥10 to #0. She captivated the entire masculine heart of Putuam and the good folks were thinking of having her give a lecture in the village churches on the “outlook for the missions in the Brahmapuira and Punjab fields,” when the missionary angel suddenly disappeared. That is all, except that some of the victims subse- juently wrote to the Bible house folks in New fork, whom she said she represented, and they knew her not. They added that they were not “pushing their missions into Congo territory as yet.” The ladies of Windham county are very glad that she has gone, for they fear if she tarried much jonger she would have had all the ready money the Windham men possess. — 00 TWO DISTINGUISHED EXILES. Ex-Mayor Oakey Hall Living in Lon- don and Theodore Tilton in Paris. Paris Letter to Philadelphis Times. Sometimes you will meet men who bring up scenes that are of the past and are almost for- gotten. They bring up old memories—old ghosts of the past, as it were. It is but a short time ago that I eaw Oakey Hall in London, and what recollections of New York under the reign of Tweed he brought up! Those were great days for Hall, and for men who were a great deal worse than he. What a fellow of infinite jest he was, and what a bright spot he made the mayor's office in New York some twenty years ago. The older newspaper men, politicians and men about town will long remember its attractiveness, He would have been a rash man in those on who would have attempted to prophesy the height in the temple of tame to which this brilliant and witty man might not climb. What prophet could foresee that this gifted and once i man was to pass the evening of his life practically an exile in a foreign land, leaving behind ‘him on the field of his early triumphs nothing but shattered ambitions, Yet this was to be. Ina small cafe in a somewhat unfrequentod part of Paris the other day I saw another man who recalled acase, the fame ot which was world wide. He was sitting at a table, seem- ingly buried in thought of a not pleasant char- acter and oblivious of his surroundings, He had an intellectual face, but on it there were deep lines that told of past sufferings, His long hair was gray—prematurely gray. His shoulders were bent aud there was a moody brooding look on his face, But he was evi- dently a tal: man, and some years ago must have beena handsome man. ‘As he sat at the table he looked like a strong man borne down by the memory of some great sorrow of the past. Presently he arose and walked out with- out looking to the right or the left and whenI recognized him, although it has been yearsuince Isaw him before. It was Theodere ‘Tilton, the once famous editor of the New York Independent, but how changed. Inthe days of his popu- larity, tall, erect, strong and handsome; now broken, prematurely old man. He is doing some sort of literary work here, but no one seems to know just what it is. Icould not but thiuk, after seeing the man, that the scandal in which this man’s life was wrecked was more than a mere scandal. It was, in fact, atragedy. The circle of the chief actors in it is narrowing. ‘The greatest of them is dead, so are others, among them some of the lawyers and several of the jury. Ono of the lawyers, Benjamin F, Tracy, is in the cabinet of the President of the United States, Mrs. Tilton is more fortunately situated than her husband, for she has the company and sympathy of her children. But Theodore Til- ton hauuts out-of-the-way places in Paris, seek- ing neither friends nor friendships, a miserable and broken man. ee. GRANT'S VICTORIES SUMMARIZED. Inscription on the Grant Monument at Leavenworth. Palo Alto; Resaca De La Palma; Monterey; Cerro Gordo; Contreras; San Antonio; Cheru- busco; Vera Cruz; Molina Del Rey; Chapulte- pee; City of Mexico. Belmont; Fort Henry; Fort Donaldson; Siege of Vicksburg; Siege of Petersburg; Look- out Mountain; Missionary 3 Bi of Hichmond; Shiloh; Chattanooga; Welden Rall- road; Iuka; White Oak Road; Corinth; Din- widdie, Ga,; Relief of Knoxville; Grand Gulf, Five Forks; Port Gibson; Wilderness; Deep Bottom; Raymond; Spotsylvania; Fort son; Jackson Hill; North Anna; Amelia 5 Champion; Tolopotomy; Sailor's Black? Cold Harbor; Appomattox, batik 3 After the racers a bit they drew into line at 2:15 o'clock and came down for the word in beautiful Alcryon was at the pole, Pilot Knox was second, Nelson third and Granby fourth; Junemont was on the outside. Within fen f yards of the wire Alcryon broke, and an excellent start was spoiled. ey tried it again and again, and after scoring several times they rested awhile. The crowd yelled impatiently at the delay. heat—At the tenth attempt they got the word to a fair start, with Alcryon leading. Nelson was after him like a shot and at the juarter was on even terms with the gray. Then leryon broke and Nelson took the lead, hold- ing it around the track and winning the first heat by two lengths in 2.18!¢. Pilot Knox was third, Junemont fourth and Granby last. <{ Second heat—The horses had « splendid start for the second heat. All were abreast when the word was given, Nelson held the le in spite of Alcryon’s game efforts to head ‘im, and at the quarter he drew away until a length opened up between his wheel and Al- cryon’s nose. Junemont made a dash past Pilot Knox, capturing third place, and put in a strong bid for second position. At the half Al- ¢ryon shook Junemont off and began to close up on Nelson, He succeeded so well that at the three-quarters his nose was even with Mr. Nelson's seat. Nelson did not waver or seem to increase his speed, but Aleryon could not getany nearer the lead. At the head of the stretch he broke and lost two lengths, giving Nelson the heat by that distance in 2.173g. Al- cryon was second, Junemont third, Pilot Knox fourth and Granby fifth, Third heat—At 4 o'clock the stallions were called out for the third heat, There was great enthusiasm when they appeared on the track. They scored four times and then took a rest. They scored several more times before the were off. Junemont was two lengths behin and the others were on even terms, Aleryon broke badly at the turn and Nelson went ahead rapidly. ie ay recovered quickly, how- ever, and at the ha it was lapped with the Maine horse. Inch by inch he gained until only a half length separated them at the three-quar- ters. Alcryon broke again and Nelson walked away from him. He had the stretch to him- self. Alcryon fell behind and the field closed around him. Itwasa fight for place. Nelson nearly distanced the field. Aleryon continued to break and Pilot Knox finished second, with Junemont third, Granby fourth and Aleryon last. The crowd cheered wildly and flowers were showered upon Nelson. A floral collar was placed around his neck anda wreath and whip were given to Mr. Nelson. The crowd broke into the track and cheered the winner for several minutes, Nelson's time was 2.18%. He made the quarter in .34, and half in 1.0834. toe NOT A PERSONAL DEVIL. A Baptist Minister Places a Novel Con- struction on the Scripture. Rev. H. H. Barbour, pastor of the Belden Avenue Baptist church in Chicago, created a sensation in the Baptist ministers’ meeting by reuding @ paper at yesterday's session in which he denied the existence of a personal devil, and treated the passages from Scripture speak- ing of such a personage as figurative and not literal. Perhaps the most astonishing part of his paper was that which treated of the temp- tation of Christ in the wilderness, in which he said: ‘Jesus was not actually led down into the wilderness immediately after His baptism, for He was already there. He did not maintain an absolute fast, for if so He must have been mi- raculously sustained, in which case He would have been free from all hunger and from the suffering which made the temptation to turn stones into bread, The wilderness was not a barren waste, but merely a woody and moun- tainous part of Judea, with vineyards, olive groves, and many fruit trees abounding’ in it, Christ was not literally taken to the Holy Cit; and set upon a {gmat of the temple. Ha the devil taken him through the air he would have wrought a miracle, and only God can do that; had the devil attempted to walk with Christ to the temple, a journey of twenty or | thirty miles, during which the {ast could read- | ily have been ended, and then to its pinnacle, he would have been frustrated, for by law no foreigner could pass the first inclosure or court of the temple under the pain of death; the Jewish people could not pass the second, and the priests alone could enter the third, in which the temple was. And though the devil monk or priest would be for the occasion, Christ would not falsely have assumed the character.” Mr. Barbour’s paper was followed by a storm of unfavorable comment, and will be ‘the sub- ject of discussion at next Monday’s meeting. see The New Asteroid. From the Rochester Democrat and Curonicle. The new asteroid discovered by Dr. Peters of Hamilton cellege observatory on the 25th of August may prove to be the most interesting of the whole group. The first computation of the orbit indicated that part of the path was inside the orbit of the planet Mars. Dr. Peters is making another computation from later observations, and he thinks the path may be outside that of Mars, but still near enough to distinguish the new asteroid as the nearest of all to the sun, In view of this discovery astronomers may be inclined to adopt the view that the moons of Mars were picked up by that planet from the asteroids near his orbit. It is possibie that the earth picked up its satellite in the samo way. The moon has the appearance of havin; received a heavy blow which cracked the shell in every direction from the crater Tycho, The moon might have struck the earth in a way to cause the fracture of the moou’s sheel, which was afterward cemented again by the outtlow of melted matter. The lines of apparent fracture are intensely white, like new matter pushed up through the older portions of the moon's surface. The central point, or crawr of ‘Tycho, is also intensively white and is very large and shallow. — A Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue. New York hus a peculiar church organization in the congregation Moses Montefiore, Spanish and Portuguese, which dedicated its new syna- gogue Saturday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies, The building is at No. 160 East 112th street, on the site of the old German Baptist church. The new synagogue is a sub- stantial building of brick and its auditorium is 9 feet long and 25 wide. A gallery runs around three sides of the room and this is reserved for the women, the men having their places on the floor. The dedication services | Were opened byachoirof boys. Prayers in | memory of Sir Moses Montefiore and for the | government were delivered, blessings were pronounced upon those who contributed to the erection of the building, and the Rev, Dr. 8. Morais of apne oe preached, This was followed by the dedication sermon, preached by the Rev. Dr. H. Pereira Mendes of the Shearith Israel congregation, in West 19th street. The Rev. A. H, Nieto conducted the afternoon service, Services will be held in the synagogue every day, in morning, afternoon and evening, conducted by the Rev. M. Guedalia, Hazaan, A-school is maintained by the congregation, in which the children of thé members are in- structed in the Hebrew language, history and religion, ‘The Moses Montefiore congregation is strictly orthodox and seeks to keep its re- ligion free from gentile admixture. 5 cleanser ers od Indictments in the Flack Case. The Now York Herald this morning says that the grand jury which has been investigating the alleged fraudulent Flack divorce has de- cided to indict the following named persons: Sheriff Jas. A. Flack, Wm. L. Flack, son of the sheriff; Civil Justice Ambrose Monell, Jos. Meeks, the referee; Mra, payment ee Reynolds, It is understood that the indictments against Flack, his son and Meeks are for perjury, while subornation of perjury is the charge against the woman. ——_—e0e—___ ‘Wm. O'Connor, the oarsman, has sent his bacl and to this an Mores Rodgers, country, FARIS = bsolutely Pure, A “Highest test”, » Cream 0, ; a evidence the fact that the blood is not in a good condi- tion, These symptoms result from the effort of nature to throw off the impurities, in which she should be as- sisted by SWIFT'S SPECIFIC. This will remedy the Aisturbance, and bring speedy and permanent relief by forcing out the poison, and will baild up the system from the first dose, After recovery from a severe attack of congestion of the brain and stomach, my little son had s number of bad ulcers and running sores to come on his head and body, which lasted for four years. I tried all the doc- tors and many remedies which were recommended by other parties, but the sores still grew worse, until I aid not expect him to recover. My friends were confi- dent that if the sores healed it would kill him. I at length quit all other treatment and put him on SWIFT'S SPECIFIC, and less than three bottles cured him s27und and well, and he is to-day » sound and healthy child. 8. 8 8. also cured a soreon another of my children, R. J. McKINNEY, Woodbury, Texas. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga aub6-co39t2 AUCTION SALES. TOmMCKROW. Ro & LOWENTHAL, Auctioneers, 937 7th at. aye UR REGULAR WEEKLY SALE, CONSISTING 01 OUR ANLOR AND BLD ROOM FURNITURE. 100 GOES AND, BLANKETS, QUILTS AND ¥IL- WS, INGRAIN AND BROSSELS CARPETS, ‘OVES, KILCHES AND DINING NSILS, "&o.. ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER “TWENTY-FIFTH, COMMENCING AT To O'CLOC. ALSO, AT TWELVE O'CLOCK, A FAMILY HORSE, CAKMIAGE AND HARNESS. it ROOT & LOWENTHAL, Auctioneers. HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. SPECIAL SALE OF ASSORTED GLASS WARE, SEVERAL DINNER SETS, XU, 7 ON | WEDNESDAY IN >EPTEMBER TWENTY-FIFTH, 1889, at TEN O'CLOCK, 1 sell at my auction rooms a general Glass Ware and other articles. se23-2t THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. NSON BROS. Auctioneers. AKUSTEES' SALE OF A TWO-STORY BRICK DWE: TOGETHER WITH AN UNIM- ILDING LO4, SITUATED ON THE EAST COKNEK OF E AND SEVENTH STKEETS SOUTHEAST. By_virtue of a deed of trust dated July 30, (A.D. 1887, and recorded in Liber No. 1275 at folio 41, of the land records of the District of Coltmbia, and’ ut the request of the party secured, we will sell wt public auctiol, in front of the premises, ou WEDNESDAY, THE “LWENTY-FIETH D, SEPIEM: BER, A.D. 1889, ST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., the tollowing described real estate, situute in the city of Washington, D.C., known as part of original lot udmbered four (4), i square numbered nine huudred and two(40~),beginning at the southwest corner of suid square, aud running thence north on 7th street fifty-four (54) fect, and thence east sixty-two 5:2) feet and one (1) inch ‘nee south fifty-four (54) nce west sixty-two (Gz) fect one (1) inch to the place of beginning, Verus: One-half cash; balance in six, tweive and eighteen months, with iiterest,and secured by decd trust, or all cash. Terms to be complied with in ten days ‘from day of sale. All recording aud conveyanc- ing at cost of purchaser. A deposit of $100 required le. ‘at time of sale GEO. W. McKE sel d-dte HH: BERGMANN TFustees, rypomas DowLine, Auctioneer. TRUSTEES’ SALE OF A HANDSOME DWELLD HOUSE, NO. 1012 B STREET SOCTHW OPPOSITE THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIC By virtue of two several deeds of trust, one dated the ith day of October. A.D. 1879, and recorded in Liber 929. folio 178, et sed.. and the other dated the sth May, A.D. 1886, und recorded shall assortment of . 189, KNOON, all that certain piece or parcel of laud lying and being in the city of Washington, in the District of Coluwbia. known and described as Lot jettered A, in D, L. Morrison's Subdivision of part of original lot nuuibered two, 1m square north of square numbered three hundred and fity-one, ag the same is recorded in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia, toyether with the improvements, et cetera, as in said trust men- tioned. The terms of sale are: One-third of the purchase money and the expenses of the sale in cash (of which $100 anust be paid st, the tine of the sale), and the residue in equal sums, in one and two years from the day of sule, on notes bearing interest at the rate of six Per centumh per annum, to ve secured by a deed of ‘ust to the satisfaction of the trustees on the property sold. All conveyancing and recording at the cost of df the terms are uot ccmplied with property on five days’ notice in The Eveniug Star newspaper at the risk and cost of the purchaser in default. ANIHONY HYDE, Trustee. CHAKLES M. MATTHEWS, Trustee. sed-d&ds 714 15th st. nw, &2~ THE ABOVE SALE IS POSTPONED IN CON. Sequence of the rain uutil WEDNESDAY, SEPTEM. BER TWENTY-FIFTH. 1889, same hour and place. ‘By order of the Trustees, i Bel 8-d&a THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer, NSON BKOS., Auctionsers, SPECIAL AND PEREMPTORY SALE OF HORSES ONE EXP: SIX FOUR CARTS, ONE DIRT WAGON, KLSS WAGON, SINGLE AND DOUBLE NESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER TFTH, at ELEVEN O'CLOCK,we will sell, sales rooms, 9th and D streets northwest, reserve, for eccount of a contractor, Six Very s, Carts, Wagons, Harness, DUNCANSON BROS. Auctioneers, Fu E DAYS. HHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. VALUABLE IMPROVED PROPERTY, Nos. 216 AND 218 C ST. N.W. On MONDAY, SiPL EMBEK THIRTIETH, 1889, at HALF-PAST’ FOUR O'CLOCK P.M. I will well frout of the premises West Half of Lot 16, re: 11, tronting 27 It. on C st. u.w. between 2d sys. by a depth of 160 ft. ‘to alley; huproved by a ‘T-room Brick Dwelling, Also part of East Mulf of Lot 16, reservation 11, fronting 27 ft. ou U st. by a depth of 110 tt, with side alley, improved by a large 13-rocm Brick Dwelling. ‘Terms: Oue-third cash, bulance in uotes to suit the vurchuser, Leuring U per ceut interest aud secured b eed of trust on the property, or all cas. All convey aucing sud recording ut cost Of purciuser. ‘Iwo hun: dred dollars will be req’ on each property at ime of “ser46t THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. MPHOMAS DOWLING, Auctioner. CATALOGUE SALE OF FINE ASSORTMENT oF THE Mo: AARLEM FLOWER ROU: DOUBLE AND SINGLE 3, COLOKS AND FINeST VAKIETIES: NARCiS- BUS, CHOCUS AND TULIPS; EARLY SINGLE RoveLe DUC VON THOL sNOWDiUPs, without Fine Hoi and 3d EXQUISITE SUING OF ON, SEPTEMBER TWENTY- NiH, 1559, ELEVEN O'CLOCK, 5 COMMENCING within my auction rooms, I shall sella cousicument of above Bul ‘ing # direct shipment from Holland. sezdet THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioucer, npuomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. CATALOGUE SALE OF ELEGANT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND OIL PAINTINGS BY CELE BRATED ARTISTS. XESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER SECOND, CING AT TEN O'CLOCK. T shall sell cuce No. 710 11th street northwest au ele- gant collection of Houselold Furniture aud fie Oil nti embracing: fn part: ) Ascension of the Virgin, painted by Murillo in se Oil Portrait of Hapoleon by Gauban. he divtures in Pastel. Last of the Mohigans, on ine Bronze Figure, the handsome pedestal. Huudsome Ornaments. 3 klexunt Gilt Arm Chairs in Handwork Goblin Tap- estry. handsome Coopbolo Cabinet, Ne , ‘Tab es, He; G.ome Walnut Book Case. Artiscc hocking Chairs, Lapbroidered Maute! Lambrequin, ‘Muquet and Body Brussels Carpets, Fe ee Ce vanaae nies on ery Superior Waluut Marble-top © Suites, Elegant Chigouser, Folding Cavinet Besieeh enh lettres, complete, Hsndsdme \ulnut Folding Bedstead, with French Plato Mirror snd Mattress, complete, [ sew Wainut Wardrobes, ewant Hair Mattresses, Fite Feather Viliows aud Bolsters anze quantity of Bedding of every descrij Decorated Toilet W =n tion. are. Nery andsome Walnut Hall Stand, with Preuch Plute Mirror. Rewiug Ma:hine, tu perfect order, Very tine Canton Matting. Very handsouwe Oak Dining Room Furniture, Ouk Chins Cabinet, Tricycle and Velocipede, Kitchen Requisites: Se, &e. -B.—The Hi ill be Paection prlur tocsle trom 8:30 ame tte peor - THOMAS De sczedte ee JPUXCANSON BROS., Anctionsors, SPECIAL AND PEREMPTORY SALE WAND SECOND-HAND UET, = NMINSTER, BODY AND TAPES EEE oa ALL SIZES AND IX EXCH conD! by AT ALCTION» CONDITION, NG, bi Set ey coulmencing: VEN ° and D case 300"NEW AND SECONDHAND CARPETS, ALL command the sn This ale should attention of parties Yermecash » sea-te See Le AUCTION. Ge CESATTERORN como, rer *ART PIANO, AS GOOD AS PARLOR SUITE, SIX RATTAN ‘T AND IM- ‘8, THER BEDS, PILLOWS, BOLSTEKS AND’ BED COVERINGS, MANTEL ORNAMENTS, BRUSSELS AND IN- CARPETS ON THE FLOORS, RUGS. ALSO INTENTS OF KITCHEN AND PANTRY, FINE LOT OF HOME-MADE PRESERVES IN GLASS JARS, BARREL OF VINEGAR. ROOT & Sees Ancta, Nae EE'S SALE OF UNIMPROVED A PROVED PROPE! Y SITUATED WASHINGTON Es JN MA ye Court fined, in equity cause No. 1, L astrustee, will sell on FRIDAY, the TWEN- EVENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1858, at E O'CLOCK P.M., in frout of the respective prea ises, all those certain lots or parcels of ground and pretuises known as and being Lots wambered uinety- two (2), ninety-three (93), two hundred and. twenty- 224), two hundred and hity-seven (257) and two bundred and fifty-eight (258). of the official sabdivie- jon of, the village of tia, in the District of Co- jum! Lots 02 and 93 are situated at the corner of Wash- ington and Fillmore streets, Lot 224 is situated on Market street near Jackson street. improved by frame house. Lots 25, aud 258 are situated on Market street near Jackson street. Belonging to the estate of Sam'l F. Shreve, deceased. ‘Terms of sale, as prescribed by thé decree, are: One- third in cash, balance in equal installments at one aud two years trom day of sale, with interestat six percent per annum. or ali cash, at option of purchaser or pur- chasers, trustee retaining title until the purchase MVeyancing, &,at purchase required on each ie be complied with in fitteen of sale, otherwise trustee reserves the Tight to resell the proporty in default at the rink and cost of the defaulting purchaser after five days" public hotice of such resule in some newspaper published in ton, D.C. MICHAEL I. WELLER. Trustee. ., Auctioners, wel 7-cokds , Auctioneer, PAE MeL LET ARB, BASE. NY CK vi NG_AN. dU. 415 I STRELT SOUTHEAST. By virtue of a deed of trust dated October 30, 1888, and recorded in Liber 1350, folx et seq., One of the Jand records for the District of umbia, the under. signed trustees will sell at publiggauction, in front of the premises, by the request of the Hone secured fhereuy, to the highest bidder, on THURSDAY, the POURTH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1859, at 4:50 0'CLA P.M., the following described real estate, situate in the city of Washington, D.C., and being kuown as lot num- bered twenty in K. A. Phillip’s subdivision of original dot nual ten in square bumbered eight hundred and bouuded as follows, to wit, being the east twenty-two and one-half (2236) feet of bon iy lot numbered ten in said square buuibered eight hundred and twenty-iour. ‘Terms of sale: Que-third cash and the balance in hee} twelve and eighteen awouths, secured by 8 deed of trust on the property; interest on defe ymments St the rate of 6 per cent; ai] conveyancing, &., at the cost of purchaser A deposit of 8100 will be required If purchaser does not comply. with terms of sale withiu ten days after date of sale, the j gemin will be resuld at the risk and cost of default- purchaser, JOHN B. LARNEK 1514 ¥ st, AMES H. EMBKY, + _se23-dkds HOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. THREE ACRES OF VALUABLE LAND NEAR BROOKLAND, D.C, AND THR MiTROPOLI- AN BRANCH, BALTIMORE AND OHIO KAIL- AT AUCTION. Qu WEDNESDAY, OCTUBRE SECOND, 1889, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M, on the premises, I will sell three acres of land, betug Po penton of the estate of the late Elizabeth Tulbert, aud opposite Brookland and the new Cacholic university. ‘Terms: One-half cash, balance in one and two years, With ingerest, and secured bye deed of trast on the property, or all cash. ‘Terms to ‘be complied with in teen days from day of sale. All recording and con- Yeyaneing at cost ot purchaser. A deposit of $100 re- butred at time of sale. ts THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ‘CERY SALE OF VALUABLE UNIMPROVED BEAL ESTATE, ON THE WEST SIDE OF TENTH SLREET BETWEEN & ANDS STREETS NOKI- Virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the pisleict of Golusite paneea Equity Cause No. eee Ay, eer for skic, at public’ auction on WEDNESDAY, the SECOND DAY OF OCTOBER, 1889, at HALE-PAST FOUR O'CLOCK P.M., in trout of the premises, the foliowing-described real estate, situate in the city of Washington aud District of Cot Tumbia, to-wit: All that part of lot numbered oz () iu square numbered 335, beginning for the same at point distant 45 feet from the southeast corner of said lot aud running theuce north along the line of 10th street west SU feet, thence west UU feet inches, thence south 50 feet, thance east 99 feet 9 inches, to the place of veginning. ‘Terms of sule: One-third of the purchase money in cash and the balance thereof in two equal installments at one and two years from the day of sal eat at the rate of 6 per ceut per auwaus pi annually, which de! by the promissory uotes of the purchaser or asers and a deed of trust on the property sold. whole purchase money may be tion of the purchaser. able semi. jerred pay ‘Ltsare to be secured pur. Phe id am cash, at the op- 100 will be required as soon ws the property is bid oti. If the purchaser oF pur ers shall failto comply with the terms of ‘salo within ten (10) days aiter the day of sale the property Wal be resold at bis or their risk and cost. All cou- Yepaucing and rocording at purchaser’ D\iaRb A. NEWMAN, ‘Trustee, WALTER B. WILLIAMS & Co., Gust SPECIAL SALE cost NICHOLS’ BAZAAR, Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SEVENTH, 1889 TEN O'CLOCK A.M, THE ENTIRE DRIVING ESTABLISHMENT or A. LOUDEN SNOWDEN, ESQ. Valuable Trotting Horses, matched pairs; Fine Car- om tule aod ‘Double Haruces, Hotes, Bieter: &c., Stable luplements. Catalogues ‘on application, se20-5t D.P. 8, NICHOLS, LADIES’ GOODS fONS OF ALL DESCKIPTIONS, SIZES, quantity; plain or with edye of ivory; colors; nat or bal and upbolste: th st. mw. shape, order. W. 8. HILL, 912 11 Just the thing for Sum: a Always in onder vy plain combing, . MLLE. M3. PRANDIL 1329 F st. aos (Are, Harrison's), ter Fine Freuch Hair Goods, GARMENTS DYED AND ALTERED into Newest Spice by the ssi CUNNINGHAM, “FURRIERS,” 1310 Sth st. n.w., between N. and 0. N E LACES DONE upin First-class French style call at fhe only established place in the city. MME. VALMONT"s, 71 Lith st. nw, Fine Lace Curtains 8 specialty. Prices reusonable, e2-L* MURS CAVANAUGH (HAS REMOVED HER alll Dregs Making Parlors from 439 Uth st. to 621 sth st. Dress Making im all ite brauches, Terms reasonable. Perfect ut, )KENCH DYEING. SCOURING AND DRY CLEAN. Bixe ESTABLISHMENT: 1205 New York ave Lirst-class Ladies’ aud Gents work of every tion, Hush, Velvet and Evening Dresses.” AN AND CAKOLINE LEKCH, tormrly with A Fischer Ld Maison ¥riese, Paris, zt NION FISCHER'S DRY AtiaEST AND bit Wokke: Ladies’ aud Gents’ Garmen: Dyed without being ripped. & specialty. Thirty-tve years’ ex; aoderate. Govds called for aud AU NOOL GALANT: dyed & goed muvuruias Be ___MEDICAL, &«. ] ADIES WHO REQUIKE THE SERVICES iesoern Aechmea a Ith sta.be. Ladies only. Remedy $5, aul twe HAS NEVER BEEN CONTRADICTED THAT as the advertis- Dr. BRUTHEKS Jadies’ Physician im the city, Tadic Particular ~ ——— Ww sezd-1in* ; = ee EAD AND BE WISE._DR, Bee Sere ea SENSE private ‘Do. = . tion advice free any bour of nd ‘sworn to before me by init eae Meee <p itn RR r. and THE EVENING STAR is a PAPER OF TO-DAY, not of YESTERDAY nor of LAST WEEK. It prints ALL THE NEWS, Local, Domestic and Foreign, LONG IN ADVANCE OF THE MORN- ING PAPERS. This is conspicuousty true of all classee of news, but especially so in regard te Local News and District Affairs. THE STARK has a very much LARGER and BETTER force of LOCAL RE- PORTERS and SPECIAL WRITERS than any other paper in Washington ever thought of employing, and ITS MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT AND PRINTING FACILITIES ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS POWER- FUL AND RAPID AS THOSE OF ANY OTHER WASHINGTON PAPER. It ts therefore able to print each day a full report of every transaction of public ine terest occurring in the District up te the very hour of going to press. 30: By the free use of the OCEAN CABLES: for REGULAR AND SPECIAL DIs- PATCHES, and with the difference of time in its favor, it is also able to give its readers every afternoon the news of the WHOLE EASTERN HEMISPHERE for the entire day, and up to 12 o'clock midnight, thus leaving literally nothing in the way of news from Europe, Asia, and Africa for the morning papers. ——0:. Equally does THE STAR lead all its contemporaries in the publication of the NEWS OF OUR OWN COUNTRY. Receiving the regular dispatches of both News Associations; with alert and enterprising special telegraphic cor- respondents at all important points; and with wires leading directly from its own oflice to the general network of telegraph system touching every city, town and hamlet in the United States and Terri- tories, it is enabled to receive and print atonce a full report of every event of consequence occurring during the day anywhere between the Atiantic and Pas celtic Oceans. —0:—— @ NOTE THE RESULT: ¢3 ee THE STAR HAS MORE THAN THREE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR SUBSCRILERS and MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS MANY REGULAR READERS AS ANY OTHER DAILY PAPER IN WASHINGTON. It is de- livered regularly by careful carriers at the HOMES OF THE PEOPLE, APTER THE BUSTLE AND WORRY OF THE TAY ARE OVER, and it is thus read leisurely and thoroughly by EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. They know that it prints all the news, and has only the interests of the people of the District in view, with no partisan measures to advocate, and no private schemes to forward. They know it, in short, tobe THE PEOPLE’S PAPER, and nothing else. Asan ADVERTISING MEDIUM it is, therefore, ABSO- ;LUTELY WITHOUT A RIVAL. It ts in fact worth more as a means of reach- ing the public THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IN THE CITY TOGETHER. Furthermore, in proportion to the re- turns it gives its patrons, ITS ADVER- TISING RATES ARE THE CHEAPEST IN THE CITY. —_—o: In conclusion, the public should bear in mind this one significant fact: THE STAK does not rely upon empty boasts to impress the public. ITS CIRCULA- TION IS SWORN TO; its PRESS- ROOM IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; and its BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED by any one having an interest in their examination. These are CRUCIAL TESTS, which few papers invite, and which those that boast most are least able to stand. —:0:—— © The esteem in which THE STAB is held by the reading and advertising public is conclusively shown by the fig- ures given below. In the first six months of each of the five years named the average daily cire culation of the paper was: of its acknowledged value as » medium of publicity. Thenumber of NEW AD- VERTISEMENTS printed in the col- umus of The Star during the first six months of the years named was as fol-