Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1889, Page 8

LOCAL MENTION. The Weather. FORECAST TILL EIGHT A.M. WEDNESDAY, For the District of Columbia. Maryland and Virginia, fur; cooler; westerly winds, He Sat Dows ox It, but he couldn't burt it, because it was one of our @1 crush hats, Just the thing for traveling, to wear to the office, &c. Fraxc, One Price, Cor, 7th and D, be “Hox” Croan! Havana! Delici 60 6-4 CHENILLE Covers, worked on canvas fo ag not to pull. Were €2, for 21.38, at Baca's Porunas Suorrixe P.acr, 7th, 8th and D sts. et Cleaning Works, elephone 787-2 YVisrr the Empire Carp: 631-635 Mass. ave. n.w. Hewprer, Orrician; established 1859. Noor’s Spectarty is a fine quality black hose for ladies at 24c., worth 320, For Size axp Vaniety our stock of overcoats has no equal, especially our $15 assortment, which includes all the shapes, shades, designs and fabrics. E:seman Baos., 7th and E, Manufacturing Clothiers and Tailors. A Carp. After you have read all the advertisements of other furniture dealers and examined their Stocks and prices give me a call before pur- ehasing and see How you can save money. H. O. Tow es, 1007 Pennsylvania ave. AMES Hewpersoy, wall paper, window Pe ng an 93 F Telephone call 854-3. Brronr ¥ © Bo your carpets and furniture bee W. i. Hoeke’ stock and get | his prices, Bor Your Coat, Coke and Wood from Jonx- sok Buoruzns, the leading firm in the Dis- trict. AvrHonities ox Dress gay that cape overcoats are quite the thing this season; we have some beauties at $15. ‘IseMaN Bros.. 7th and E, Manufacturing Clothiers and Tailors, W. 8. Fisuzn, florist, 1425 Pa. ave. n.w. ‘W. B. Moses & Sons are now carrying a large Qnd Varied assortment of artistic wall papers Gnd picture moldings. . They guarantee their work to give satisfac- tion in every particular. ‘Their two fresco decorators and designers are classed among the first in the country. W. B. Moses & Sons, F and lth streets northwest. Furniture, carpets, upholstery goods, wall papers and fresco decorations, Rewtsoen’s Ice Cream. 235 G street n.w. Arririciat Exes Perrectiy Firtep. Largest assortment in Washington. C1iar.iy, Optician, 1205 F st. Tue Leaver. In our men’s department are our famous $15 frock and sack suits; excellent qualities and first-class workmanship. Etsemay Bros., 7th and E, Manufacturing Clothiers and Tailors. CITY AND DISTRICE SED LOCALS. A reception was given last evening at Grand Army hall by the following local divisions of the Ancient Order Knights of Jerusalem: St. John’s, No. 1; St. Luke's, No. 2; St. Mark's, No. 6; St.@homas, No. 7, and Nimrod encamp- ment, No. 1. Ata meeting of the South Capitol Street | bridge association yesterday officers were | elected as follows: President, A. K. Brown; vice resident, P. Mann; secretary, P. H. Heiskell, ie assistant secretary, Dr. J. K. Halley; treas- urer, R. J. Beall. Yesterday Judge Cox made a decree of di- yorce in the case of Alvis Panli against Paul Pauli. The bill, filed by Mr. Simon Wolf, set forth the marriage January 17, 1881, andcharged desertion January 14, 1884. A. C. Marshall, sixty-tive years of age, was found dead yesterday afternoon on Hall street near Ssouthwest and bis body was taken to the morgue. Last night, about 12:30 o'clock, a dispute took place on 7th street between north and south B streets. between Howard Half and Robt. Owen, and the former shot five times at the latter, but did no damage. At the regular monthly meeting of the Wash- ington cave ass ition last evening arrange- ments were perfected for the purchase of a 30- foot Peterboro wa cunoe for use on the Upper Potomac next summer. This canoe will ac- commodate ten pa Vers and an equal number of their friends, The appeal of the Inland and Seaboard coast- ing company from a decision of the District Su- preme Court in favor of Francis A. Folsen was dismissed in the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday; opinion ly Chief Justice Fuller. A dozen good wagon loads of Prince George's | county voters drove out from southeast Wash- | ington tods The beneicial association composed of teach- ers of the public schouls has elected B. ney. Isaac Fairbrother. Francis L. Cardoza, M. CO. Lazenby and Mary E. Rowe directors fi the ensuing term of three years and to iil v cancies, | The order for the painting and framing of the picture to be presented by the several | classes of the Georgetown law sche college at its next annua! commencement has | been given to Mr. Jose B. Correa of this city. When bids were opened at the Treasury | department yesterday for approaches to the | federal building at Montpelier, it was found that Martin Hendricks of Washington was the lowest bidder at A slight tire occurred in Philip Hall’s store | on F street this morning. but was extinguished | before the engines arrived. A bill has been filed by Elizabeth Dawson against H. C. Juvell ¢ for an account. | lets Corps’ Fair. sir of the Corcoran Cadet } iy opened last night in the armory of the Washington Light Infantry Corps by Gen, Ordway. The hall is festooned with flags and bunting, giving a pleasing background to the pretty faces and costumes of the lady as- sistants. One of the features of the fair is the booths, each one bearing the name and colors of some company in the national guard. To- night the National Fencibles and Logan Guards will visit the fair. ec A Chess Tournament. A chess tournament will take place between the clubs of this city and Baltimore. The first | game will be played in Baltimore next Satur day and on the following Saturday the Balti- more players will come to this city, Washing- | ton will be represented by the following layers: Prof. Newcombe, A. Braid, I. Y. Knight, E. N. Grabill, rick O'Farrell, Jacob Frech, W. A. Guyer and two or three others not yet selected. Plans are being dis- for a grand international chees tourna- ment to be held in this city during the expo- sition of 1392. —~_— Sunday Whisky from Drug Stores. “The Sunday liquor law is being observed better now than it ever was before,” saida policeman to a Star reporter. “The best proof of it is the fact that so many of the drunken men arrested on Sunday have bottles of liquor labeled: ‘Pure whisky, —- ——, druggist.’ Drug store whisky usually costs more than or- dinary saloon whisky, sud the fact that common drunkards —— the more costly liquor is pretty conclusive evidence that the saloons are either closed or no one but regular customers are admitted on Sunday. It looks like a farce to close the saloon and let the drug stores do an open business and furnish liquor to all comers, in any quantities. After a while the saloon keepers will object to thix mode of doing business, as they will claim that the law oper- ates against them in favor of the drug stores,” peau se Ae alos The Most@3eautiful and Cleanest City. From the Chicago Staats- Zeitung, The strongest ground in favor of Washing- ton is that it is audoabtedly the most beautiful and cleanest city in the country, and in con- trast with New York and Chicago, who in the 1 to the | 7 “Well, 'm up here at last,” he said, with » long breath, ‘but where’s mother?” The speaker was a young man about thirty years old; the place was the lookout of the Washington monument. He had come in from going back to the old home in the empire state. The aged lady, Mrs. M. J. Butts by name, though bowed with the weight of years had a heart as light as air and a step as nimble as that of childhood. She had “done” Wash- ington that morning, and now having out- walked her son to the top of the monument, was looking down by the aid of the attendant’s glass upon the magnificent distances she had traveled. Her airy, talkative disposition, to- ether with the many years of her pilgrimage, ‘ew to her the attention of all present, and. made her the bright and only star of the oceasion, The numerous visitors were highly entertained by the ancient lady, But the climax was reached when, in response to a compliment of her mar- velous powers, she stated that she had learned the “Charles county breakdown” while living in Maryland, and without further solicitation than the applause of her hearers grasped her skirts in her hands and gave a two minutes’ ob- ject lesson in a weird dance that would have aroused a soul so dead it had never painted a city red, and then with a pigeon-wing she bade all adieu and only her footsteps were heard as, followed by her son, she clambered down the stairs and departed for the land of her child- hood, while leaving behind one that shall know her no more forever. a The Odd Fellows’ Trip to Wilmington. At a meeting of the committee of the Washington Grand ¢éanton, 1.0.0.F., last evening final arrangements were com- pleted for their trip to Wilmington, Del., Thursday next, on the occasion of the dedica- tion of Eden hall of that city. The canton will leave 7th-street hall and, headed by the Third Artillery band, will march to the Baltimore and Ohio depot and take the 8 o'clock train for Wilmington, At Baltimore they will be joined by the Patriarchs Militant of that city and will afrive in Wilmington nt 10:26 o'clock. A special train will leave Wilmington after the day's fes- tivities close. eee He Did Not Vote Today. George Newell, who is employed at the gov- ernment printing office, left here on the 6:20 train last night for Richmond, Va., to cast his vote. About 9:30 o'clock he was found at the south end of the long bridge with his head badly cut. and suffering with pains in his back. He waz brought to the city and sent to his home, 511 14th street northeast and was at- tended by Dr. Hughes. It is thought that as the train sped around the curve he lost his | balance and was thrown off. decmhker tenes oe Question of Bail for Frank K. Ward. Yesterday afternoon in the Criminal Court room, Judge Montgomery sat to hear the mo- tion made by Messrs. Wilson, Brown and Duha- mel for the admission of F. K. Ward (indicted | for the murder of Maurice Adler) to bail, Mr. Wilson was about to read the testimony taken by the coroner, when District Attorney Hoge objected and after some discussion, in which the district attorney said the notes were only sent up for guidance, the hearing was ad- journed until Tuesday afternoon of next week. | a Sausage and Hominy Too Much for Her. “Will you please give me something to settle my nerves?” asked an elderly woman, as she entered a drug store Sunday. “Certainly, madam,” responded the clerk, “what's the matter? “I ate some sausage this meruing,” explained the woman, “and it proved bad for my diges- tion.” “Is that all?” ‘No. Late some hominy also, and it was the first I have eaten for years. It never did agree with me.” “Drink this,” said the clerk, handing her a dose of some sort of nervine, ‘‘and,” he said, “I would advise you not to eat amy more sau- sage and hominy.” ———— Five Cents Not a Nickel. “Say, mister, what is the matter with there scales?” asked an elderly lady as she stood on one of the nickel-in-the-slot machines in a down-town dairy the other night. “Nothing at all,” responded the clerk. have to put a nickel in the slot?” “That's what I did and still the scales won't work,” said the woman, who thought she had been swindled. “I was told to put in five cents and I did so.” “What kind of money did you put in?” in- quired the cierk. «Five pennies,” replied the woman, “Oh.” exclaimed the clerk, ‘I thought some- thing was wroug. You should have put in a nickel.” “You ll, ain't five cents and a nickel all the d the Crawer, took out the | the woman anickel, She ies and gav weighed 145 pounds. Is THe Sate or Fixe Property to be sold at auction, the advertisement of Edwards and Barnard, trustees, is presented ditferent classes and character of property to choose from, viz: Improved business property, vacant lots, dwell- ng houses, summer resort and farms, The | sale will cotmmence tomorrow afternoon with two ware houses on 7th street opposite center market, and will be continued each afternoon | this week with thi roperties advertised, | Frxtvnes oF J. Kann’s Jeweiny Store will be | sold at auction Thursday, November 7; also a | fine driving and saddle horse, buggy and har- ness, * ———— | Trarys leave Washington at 8 o'clock p.m. | for McMillan-Ready contest at Alexandria, * | | How Chinamen Evade the Exclusion Law. In an interview in the Chicago Times Mr. H. K. Arnfby of Victoria, B.C., is represented as saying: “Your goverument ought to expend some of the surplus in building revenuecutters to patrol the northern waters of Puget sound | and the waters of the strait. The Chinese who | land in our country are just swarming to Cali- | fornia. All the railways of our city have done | an immense business in shipping their goods to | California. The collector at Port Townsend | took alarm at the vast quantity of Chinese per- sonal effects which appeared without owners, He discovered that the Chinamen had smug- led across and were sending back for their | Bousshold goods. Then he put a stop to it. Not long agol called upon the collector at Port Townsend, He said: ‘I know very well that a constant stream of Chinamen is passing, but I can’t guard 2,000 miles of coast line with ouly seven inspectors, Ihave caught a few of the celestials, but a greater mumber pass} unseen.” "" Mr, Armby thinks that Mongoli immigration to the United States will be lim- ited only to the capacity of British Columbia to receive them at 50a head and discharge them upon us. me time ago,” remarked he, “a revenue agent came to our place and subsequently reported at San Francisco that no Chinamen were crossing the line. He needs to use but one eye now to see w systematic line of human smuggling, in which many Cau- casiaus are intereste ‘see ‘Women as Firemen, From the Minneapolis Tribune, While young women are looking over the field for lines of activity allowable for them to follow for subsistence;it probably docs not oceur to them that membership in fire com- panies can come i their range. A recent Lon- don paper speaks of women in that city having gone to Paris to give instruction to French women as to service they can render at fires. It is not very fully indicated what their assign- ments are in connection with fires, They do hot, of course, help operate the machines or wield the uxe, but itis said they have saved jaatter of ungleauliness and mud, compete with each Sere Washington is of course to be pre- forred. Another reason is that a large num- ber of Senators and Members own peoperty there, andagreat number of Wealthy men from all parts of the United States also make the city of Washington their winter headquar- ters. Another great hope for Washington con- sists in the expectation that the rivalry between New York and Chicago will result in that city in between the two, as either of the two would prefer Washington if they are to lose it, One thing may as well be understood that the claims of Washington are not to be underestima’ They caunot be away asa great many Chicagoans are doin; bat deserve to be carefuily watched. * apes Grocenizs art Avctiox.—Rateliffe, Darr & Co. will sell tomorrow morni many lives by entering buildings where prac! cable and encouraging frightened and ti females to use the tire escapes. They are said to become quite fearless in this work and really render valuable service, They are women in ood standing and do not lose in repute ne Sar connection with the fire department. Si it is not likely to be a crowded vocation. ee — ‘Two cowboys perished in the recent blizzard Col HF ‘Thomas, sixty-t years old, and Jol. H. F. Thomas, wo years old, an esclomg Byve editor of York, Pa, rs, with powder by a boy of paper asa fuse. BS A Farr is being held on 82d street above M street under the —— of the Sisters of Mary for the benefit of the Ca Manrxer.—The f. sales of live stock at Drovers’ Rest, D.C., yesterday are reported: 188 cattle up; all sold. Best, 35¢c. to 3%c.; good, 330. to Sigc.; medium, 8¢. to 3}¢c.; common, 2c. to 28{c. sheep and lambs. Lambs, 5c. to 6{c.; sheep, 3c. to a calves, 5c. to 6\¢c. 30 cows and calves, to $40. Market fair. TEMPERATURE axD CoxprTtoN OF WATER AT 7 A.M.—Great Falls—temperature, 48; condi- tion, 8. Receiving reservoir—temperature, 55; condition at north connection, 12; condition at south connection, 30. Distributing reservoir— temperature, 56; condition, 36. feocatns siete tl DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES, Washington, London, Paris and St. Petersburg. Gath in the Cincinnati Inquirer. Nothing proceeds so crookedly and unex- pectedly as the development of cities. New York, for instance, expected to have all ite Power through its shipping, whereas at the present time its main source of growth and stability is first through the manufactires and the next accessory source of strength is through its social attractions. In the same way London has grown to be the greatest city of the modern world, and the greatest city, indeed, of any age; yet you may travel 10 miles in London and not. see any- thing bigger than a public house where the in- habitants congregate or toil. The infinitude of small trades constitute an aggregate of empire in a general capital like Paris or London. Some obstacles exist in the nature of the territory to extensive manufacturing at the city of Wash: ington, but it is the opinion of those who have looked at this question closest that the future power of Washington is not to lie.in trade, but in society. At the same time there is nothing about Washington so artificial in incentive or_situa- tion as to leave it high and dry, like St. Peters- burg, for example, which was the conception of ‘an energetic tyrant to overawe his European neighbors, I found St. Petersburg last summer t0 be ap- parently duller than Washington city, though with a much larger popuiasions et I under- stand that the winter of St. Petersburg is the great factor of influence in the whole empire of Russia, with its population of 120,000,000, Hardly any of the real capitals of Europe con- tained anything to indicate their extensive growth at the ontset but the political idea. Paris was merely a far inland and island strong- hold upon which the crown of France and the parliament thereof soon settled and held fast, and os result has been a city of 2,500,000 of people, Berlin was an after thought rather than an original choice for a capital, but the imperial | tide of events has made it become a place of | nearly one and a half million of ople. Vieuna took its prominence from having ome the favorite city of the dynastic line of Roman German emperors and it is a place also of a million of people. As na tind their out- j lines and secure their routes of communica- tion, the path-finder in the course of time be- comes the capital finder; this has been demon- strated time and again by the founders of great external movements who have come to Wash- ington to prosecute their equities and there have settled and died, Long after Robert Fulton was in the grave his grandchildren and great-grandchildren at Washington obtained a settlement in equity for his great invention, Then there came John A. Sutter, on whose place gold was dis- covered in California, to ask for some com- pensation which he could not obtain from those who had profited directly by his toils, and he is buried in this vicinity, Schoolcraft, who investigated the Indian tribes, left his widow and family about Washington. We have now entered upon the second chap- ter of this social federalism in that nearly all men of intellectual force find their own coun- try to give the greatest promise of social em- ployment to come to Washington. The large merchants. of the west, like Mr. Leitor; the railway Stanford; the manufacturers, like those from Springfield, Ohio; the chief operators on Wall street, like D. P. Morgan and John G. Moore, look to Washington as the place of ultimate settlement, in order that their money may give them a better sort of intercourse than they get with their pawnbrokers and stock operators. 200. STANLEY AGAIN HEARD FROM. He Will Reach the Coast in January or February. Mr. Mackinnon, the head of the Emin relief committee, has received a dispatch from Henry M. Stanley. The explorer says: “I reached the Albert Nyanza from Banalaya for the third time in 140 days and found out that Emin and Jephson had both been prisoners since the 18th of August, 1888, being the day after I made the discovery that Bartelot’s cara- van had been wrecked. The troops in the equatorial province had revolted and shaken off ullallegiance. Shortly after the mahdiste invaded the province in full force. After the first battle in May the stations yielded anda panic struck the natives, who joined the in- vaders and assisted in the work of destruction. “The invaders subsequently suffered reverses and dispatched a steamer to Khartoum for re- inforcements. I found a letter waiting for me near the Albert Nyanza exposing the dangerous position of the survivors and urging the im- mediate necessity of my-arrival before the end ot December, otherwise it would be too late. Larrived there on the 18th of January for the third time. From the 14th of February to the 8th ot May I waited for the fugitives and then left the Albert Nyanza, homeward bound. By the route taken I traversed the Semliki valley, the Owamba, the Usongora, the Toro, the Thaiyana. the Unyampaka, ‘the Antrori, the Karagive, the Uhaiya, the Wzinza, the South Victoria and the Nyanza, No hostile natives were met. “Since we left Kabbarga we traveled along the base of the snow range Rugenzori. Three sides of the Southern Nyanza, or Nyanza of Usongora, which is cailed now Albert Edward Nyanza, are about 900 feet higher than Albert Nyanza, having an exit at Semlik which re- ceives over fifty streams from the Rugenzori and finally enters the Albert Nyanza, making the Albert Edward the sourse of the southwest branch of the White Nile, the Victoria Nyanza being the source of the southeast branch." Mr. Mackinnon says the committee has given orders that supplies for Stanley be hurried on to Mpwapwa and beyond there if possible, Stanley is expected to reach the coast in Jan- uary or February, ———+e+—____ PITTSBURG’S BENEFACTRESS. A Romantic Story of a Pretty and Rich Young American Girl. Mrs. Mary E. Scheniey, nee Croghan, has given Pittsburg a tract of land worth $500,000. She was born in New York and eloped with a British army officer from a Staten Island school nearly fifty years ago. She has since’ resided in England. The tract comprises 300 acres and is beautifully situated. The gift includes an option on an adjoining tract of 100 acres at the price of the last recorded sale in the vicinity. Mrs. Schenley is also anxious to have a school for the blind established in Pittsburg. Some time ago she proposed to give 10 acres for this purpose, The land is worth $200,000. Mrs, Schenley inherited the vast estate of Col, Wm, Croghan, who died twenty-five years o and was very prominent in the history of western Pennsylvania. He sent teen years, to a boardi: thool for girls on Staten Island, ‘The school wns J han. It pct apo pe gpeanige tmecnag Site Whitehead has been made a| ground is not but —< baronet. refused to entertain the shah un- til he was promised a baronetey. vast income therefrom rich Mrs, Fannie Sheedy of Norwalk, Conn., secured have always resided in England, 0 and iio anaes for nr in the | Schenley is long since dead. heat New Haveu last une ee et Benes, Thos june, jas. Ex-Mayor Seth Lowe of has de- | Edw. at Towsontown, cisded to accept the ‘presidency of Colnmita | Basan Goshen nee ae college. ~ | Lloyd, were released in $5,000 bail. wers of the Pacific coast, like eal daughter. Mary, then a beautiful miss of six- Faber over by a Miss Schenley, who had a brother in the British army. He visited his sister and met ‘was a case of love at first ABOUT THE PLANETS. ~ Some Interesting Events During the Present Month. From the New York Times. ‘The sun for November continues his south- ward course, although not with the same rapid- ity that he traveled in October. The moon presents four phases during the month, being full on the 7th, last quarter on the 15th, new moon on the 22d, and first quar- ter on the 29th. On the ist the moon was in the constellation of Capricornus and on the 30th it will be in Pisces, On the 8th there is conjunction with Neptune, on the 16th with Saturn, on the 18th with Mars, on the 20th with Uranus, on the 21st with Venus, on the 22d with Mercury, and on the 25th with Jupiter. Jupiter will continue alone in his glory as ev ig star until toward the close of the month, when he will be joined by Neptune. He the month in the constellation of the Archer. On the 25th. three days after the new moon, the planet and the moon will be in con- junction, and, although not as close as last month, the cresent and the star will in the cool, clear atmosphere of this season of the ear present a celestial picture well worth see- ine. During the month Jupiter grows smaller, as hie from the earth is still increas- mus, the queen of the morning stars, ranges under her banners all other planets with the exception of Jupiter. One by one they have succumbed to her superior attrac- tions until her rival is left to shine alone in his glory. Venus rises about two hours before the sun, Saturn attracts more than ordinary attention this month from the professional star gazers, | a8 on the Ist, at 8 o'clock Greenwich time, there occurred a remarkable conjunction, that of Iapetus, its outermost satelite, with another satelite called Titan. Tnese two, moving in different directions, passed within three sec- onds of each other. Shortly after this close ap- proach Iapetus entered the shadow of the ring system, and, as Saturn was then near quadra- ture, the entire passage of the satelite through the shadow was clear of the planet as seen from the earth, The satelite’s path traversed the shadow of the rings on both sides of the planet and the clear space between the planet and ring on one side. It was a matter of great | interest and importance to note if the satelite | shone out when crossing the projection of the Cassinian division, and if it was at all visible when in the shadow of the dusky ring or crape veil. This rare and interesting occurrence was much better observed in extreme Jatitudes— about Australia, Saturn itself is in conjunc- tion with the moon on the 16th and in quadra- ture with the sun on the 25th. It is the second in importance of the morning stars, and its size is mally increasing as it gets nearer to us approaches a convenient position for ob- servation, Mercury, another of the morning stars, rose about 6 o'clock on the Ist, and gets lazier as the cold weather increases, not appearing on the horizon on the 30th until about ten minutes before sunrise. Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Venus are to be found in the constellation of the Virgin. Mars is a morning star, and one of the few whore size is increasing, as the planet is slowly approaching the earth. Mars will make his a| pearance earlier and earlier as the month ad- vances, rising at its close at about 2:15 in the morning. Uranus, also a morning star, meets both Mer- ecury and Venus as he increases his distance from the sun. He is in conjunction with the latter on the 9th, meeting the moon on the 20th. He rose on the Ist about 5 o'clock in the morning, and on the 30th will rise about two hours earlier. Neptune, the last of the morning planets, continues to be ranked as one of that remarka- ble galaxy of brilliants only until the 25th of the month, when, being in opposition to the sun, he leaves the fair queen of the morning skies to serve under Jupiter. Of the constellations for November the oF per is well placed for observation in the north- ern section of the heavens. In the southern portion we find the ruling constellation to be the Fishes, below which is the sea monster Cetus, In the east the stars of Orion are rising. Above the hend and shoulders of the Giant are the horns of the Buli and above these again the constellation Perseus. The Milky Way runs nearly vertically along the left of these constel- lations. All the original bird constellations are to be found in the west. The Lyre was one of these, being callea the rising bird, while the Swan was called the falling bird. The divided portion of the Milky Way is now well seen in he west, it bemmg particularly bright to the right aud growing less sq as it gets nearer the horizon. The Date of the Declaration. From the Philadelphia Press. Prof. John B. McMaster, the historian, was asked last night for his views of the letter of Thomas McKean that was read by ex-Secretary Bayard at the unveiling of the monument to Cwsar Rodney on Wednesday.” Mr. McMaster said: ‘There is nothing in the letter that was not already known. It is well known that the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 2 and was read to the public from the state house steps on July 4, and so became a public document, It was not at that time signed by all_the colonial delegates, for the Treason, among others, that several of thém were waiting for clearer instructions from their spective colonies; It was signed after these instructions had bedn given. The secret jour- nalsof the ied Congress have quite all been published in fragments, What remains | of them are on deposjt in the State department at Washington. ioe contents are well ‘known, It seems tome that Congress ought to make an approprintion to have them all printed, together with letters and other man- useripts throwing additional light on the sub- , ject. The journals are now, of course. neces- sarily impertect, ‘The sessions of the congress were private, Nobody was admitted except members, unless by leave, and only a record of | proceedings was made that would be safe. The | Journals were also partly burned when the itish were in Washington in 1814; and after- ward by an accidental fre.” The principal claimant to the earldom of Caithness is Mr. James Augustus Sinclair of | Aberdeen, Scotland, He bas four sons, one of whom, John Sunderland Sinclair, is a resident of one of the Dakotas, Jasper James and wife of Bates county. Mo., | were so tortured Saturday night by robbers | who demanded their money that Mrs. James , died. $400 were stolen. | Harry Price, recently pardoned from the | West Virginia penitentiary, tells u story of the | inhuman treatment of convicts for trivial | offenses and says that men who are sosick the | eannot hold up their heads are driven to wor! and required to undergo brutal punishment if they complain. He will ask an investigation. Jay Gould will be given within the next few days a series of sittings for his portrait in oil to Benj. Constant of Paris in that artist's studio overlooking 5th avenue, New York. So far as is known Mr, Gould never sat for an artist be- fore, Wm. Uhler of Barrick Switch, Western Mary- land railroad, went gunning and shot off one arm and put out one ey es & 33 vy | E. PAB TERE See re Uwe ey Bh ET ih FF oe WY RPP. ‘This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be sold in competition ‘With the multitude of low-test, short-weight alum or phosphate powder, Sod oniy incans, KoYaL Baking Powben Co., 106 Wall street, N.X. pol2mytutbas their children, who take pride in their beauty, purity, ‘snd jhealth, and. in bestowing upon them a child's greatest inheritance,s skin without blemish, and s ‘body nourished by pure blood, should not fail to make trial of the CUTICURA REMEDIES, the purest, best ‘snd most economical cure for all humors of the skin, pe Ip peuteg From the London Spectator. “The difficulty of producing it cheaply alone prevents aluminum from becoming the uni- versal metal. That this is no fable may be easily realized if we stop to consider the intrin- sic advantages of aluminum. To begin with it is present everywhere, and were the process of extraction easy not only no country but no dis- trict and even no parish would have to rely upon its neighbors for its supply of the prime necessary of industry and'commerce. Iron can only be produced where nature has deposited lodes of a particular ore and the nation not possessed of this natural gift is forced to pur- chase it from without. Aluminum lies every- where close at hand. In slate, in feldspar, in many kinds of rock and in ordinary clay it rests concealed, and hence, could only a simpler rocess of extraction than that now in use be levised, it might conceivably be as easy to manufacture the metal as to make bricks and pottery. Asin many parts of the country the earth that is dug out of the foundations sup- oer @ great portion of the bricks required to nild the house, so aluminum might be duced on the very spot where it was required. “Bearing in mind these qualities and imagin- ingaluminum to be ured where iron ig now —se itis obvious that many of the great roblems of mechanics when applied to in- ustry would be solved. Take the case of speed in ocean navigation. At present one of e great difficulties is the weight of the ves- sels. It is practically impossible to get engine power sufficient to obtain more than 20 miles an hour, Sup) , however, the weight of the material out of which ships are constructed re- duced by one-half and their sides coated with a highly polished, non-corrosive substance. Un- der such circumstances there can be little doubt that the vantage in favor of land trans- port as regards oe would be done away with and we should think nothing of ves- sels crossing the Atlantic in seventy-two hours. A swift nos ship, built of material offering as little resistance to the waves as glass and lighter and more buoyant, might easily accomplish 50 miles an hour, Then, too, ships drawing only the same amount of water as at present might accommo- date a great deal more cargo, while large and commodious vessels would require far less depth of water to float them than at present. In inland navigation this would be af the ut- most importance. It is calculated that a shi which if entirely constracted of irou woul: draw 26 feet of ‘water, would, when made of aluminum, not draw more than four or five. Practically, then, the light metal would treble or quadruple the number of miles of navigable ri in the world, “Whether those who are now endeavoring to make aluminum the metallic staple will in the end succeed, or whether the search for the metal of the future will prove as fruitless as that for the philosopher's stone, remains to be seen. Possibly some accident may bring about the usurpation of aluminium in a very few Years; but, equally possible, further research may show that it must remain physically impos- sible to produce it except at great cost aud labor. We are in the habit of saying that in the end science conquers all difficulties, but this is by no means really the ease. We hear most of those it overcomes; but, as a matter of fact, there are as many defeats as victories, Suil, there is some chance that the secret may be discovered and the ideal metal be yet forth- coming.” ——---— eee Fort Sumter Again Bombarded. Charleston's great earthquake festival opened yesterday with cloudless skies and charming weather, The public buildings, private resi- dences and commercial houses were be- decked with flags and Lunting from one end of the city to the other. A hundred thousand United States flags were displayed and not a confederate flag was in sight. King street at night pores a fairy picture, with its tri- umphal “arches, illumined show windows, swinging Chinese lanterns, gay throngs of sight-seers, bands of music, and military pa- rades of both white and’ colored troops. ‘There was a grand pyrotechnic display on Co- Jonial lake, with a mimic attack of the federal fleet on Fort Sumter. oo _____ The state officers of North Dakota were sworn in yesterday and the governor issued a eall to the members of the legislature to as- semble November 19, Rusaixe Norses in the ears, sometimes a roaring, buzzing sound, or snapping like the report of a pistol. are caused by catarrh, that exceedingly disagreeable aud very con:- mon disease. Loss of smeli or hearing also results | from catarrh, Hood's Sarsaparilla, the great blood Purifier, is a peculiarly successful remedy for catarrh, which it cures by eradicating from the blood the im- purity which causes and promotes this disease, Try HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA “I used Hood's Sarsaparilla for catarrh, and received wreat relief and benefit from it. The catarrh was very disagreeable, expecially in the winter,causing constant discharze from my nose, ringing noises in my ears, and jains iu the back of my head. The effort to clear uy head in the morning by hawking avd spitiing was painful, Hood's Sarsaparilla gave me reliet tmedi- ately, while in tine 1 was eutirely cured. I am never Without the mediciue in my house, as 1 think it is worth its weight im gold "—Mus. G. B. GIBB, 1029 Sth st. nw., Washington, D.C, CURES CATARRE. “T feel it my duty to say that T saw Hood's Sersapa- rill advertised and took two bottles. Iam completely cured of irregularities and constipation of my bowels, catarth and bronchisl affectious. I cau recommend Hood's Sursapsrilla to strangers and friends."—H, H. DURGAN, Atlantic City, N.J. N.B.—Be sure to get HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA Sold by all druggists. @1; six for 85. Prepared only by C. 1, HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. + 100 DOSES ONE DOLLAR. Now Is Your Cuaxce. BUY WHERE YOU CAN SAVE YOUR MONEY. GREAT SLAUGHTER SALE WORTH OF MM T INN NERERRRY Y¥ Musa it i E TINNNE R RY ¥ fs MM MU LLLLLLLLU N NN EEER ¥ AND ccc L 00 A K UK S53 gob £8 fh Be a Bx, of G08 L “oo a4 6 K TO BE SLAUGHTERED. 7EMEQANT WOOL FELT HATS AT 50, 60 AND aTRENCH FELT HATS, sll the Jeading and newest WINGS. “BIRDS AND TIPS, PLUMES, st prime manufacturers’ prices. ee TLLL 00 Vi -FIVE THOUSAND LADIES, MISSES AND CHILD SLAUGHTERED. JACKETS at 82, DIK! select O18, 7, $8 and #10. Take our advice -i¢ will Ue 45 ths smteseat of af in sete sree oer ea ee qHegiwil canramtcnesoving of ‘26 per cent by KINGS PAL AGE AT 814 7TH 8T., BET. H AND I STS. Our Mocha and Java at ‘30c, can not be equaled elsewhere, “Sun Rise Chop” Tea, 50c. Ib., finest 50c, Tea in America. Samples given to housek for trial, Pure Clam Juice in cans, deligh: article for sick Persons or those having weak stomachs. Trya can. Dr. Price's Baking Powder, teed ab- solutely pure, We will forw: by mail Dr. Price's valuable cook book to any one sending us their name and address, First-class White Potatoes S5c. per bushel. Granulated Sugar fees, or order at away Give usa M. & P. Merzorn, The Live Grocerymen. a 417 7th st. ow. Se. “Hoy” Cigar! Sales 1,000,000 « month! Look—50c. Cash, 25c. Weekly—New credit system, ” Silver Ware, Albi %, Lace Curtains, Table Linen, Portieres, Address Gay, Star office; will call with samples. 11* Apollo will tell you all about it Inter. nt-2w* Baliley’s Dollar Store, 820 7th st. n.w. 5c. Hatchets, 55c. Razors, 55c. Plated Spoons, S5c, 4-bladed Knives, All guaranteed. n5-6t Very Fine Creamery Butter. 30c. 1b, ae M. & P. Merzoen, 417 7th st, nw, Use Brown’s Bronchial Troches for eee beac _— all other Throat cca “Pre-eminently the best.".—Hev. Henry We Beecher. n5-eo3&k Phillips’ Digestible Cocoa Does not distress and adds flesh and weight. 2 Se. “Hoy” Cigar! All Havans and Sumatra! For Throat and Lung Affections nothing is 80 good as Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. 25¢, 2 Full Cream Cheese, 5c. Ib, Merzorn’s, nw. at Too Light to Hurt the Weakest Spine Is the Wheeler & Wilson number nine. oclS-im Office 437 9th st. now. Apollo will tell you all about it Inter, né-2w* ky, 75e. qt. zoeR, 417 7th, Smoke and Water Sale STILL IN PROGRESS, Having made a settlement with the insur- ance companies I can now sell Shoes and Boots of all descriptions at half price. Ladies’ Fine Kid and Dongola Button, 1, €1.50 and $2; sold for $2, $2.50, $3 and $4. Gents’ Fine Calf Shoes, in all st; $1, $1.25, $1.50, €2, €2.50 and #3. Boys’ and Youths’ Shoes from 75c. and | Ssturday £ upward, Misses’ and Children’s Shoes, heeled and spring hecled, from 50c. upward. Chil- drens’ Spring Heels, from 3 to 7, 20c. a pair. l early to secure the biggest bargain ever known in Boots and Shocs. This is positively a bona fide gale and it will continue until ev pair of Shoes are disposed of, Look show windows for big bargains Saturday morn- ing. Bostox Suor House, H. Goxvstery, Prop., 912 7th st. n.w., bet. Iand K. 0c25-1m Sign, Blue Shpper. Hovse & Hexnwasss EQUITABLE CREDIT SYSTEM. THE SECRET OF SUCCESSFUL HOUSEKEEPING Liks IN ONE'S ABILITY TO COMBINE THE GREATEST COMFORT WITH THE LEAST POSSIBLE PERSONAL INCONVENIENCE. THIS IS AN ALMOST INSUPERABLE TASK IN THE VAST MAJORITY OF CASES, WHERE THE SOLE DEPENDENCE IS UPON A SCANTY WEEKLY OR MONTHLY SALARY. OUR EQUITABLE CREDIT sYsTEM WAS DEVISED TO REACH ALL CLASSES OF HOUSEKEEPERS, WHO, THOUGH POS- SESSING LITTLE READY MONEY, YET HAVE A TASTE FOR AND TAKE A JUST PRIDE IN A NEAT AND COMFORTABLE HOME. ITS EXACTIONS ARE WITHIN THE REACH OF ALL AND WITH SCARCE ANY OUTLAY OF CASH THE COMFORTS AND EVEN THE LUXURIES OF HOUSE- KEEPING CAN BE ENJOYED, GRANTING YOU THE PRIVILEGE OF REPAYING US AS YOUR CONVENIENCE DICTATES IN PAR- TIAL PAYMENTS BY THE WEEK OR MONTH, YOU ALL THE WHILE ENJOYING THE USE OF THE ARTICLES WHILE PAY- ING FOR THE SAME. LOW PRICES, HONEST REPRESENTATIONS AND EQUITABLE DEALING HAVE EVER BEEN THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF OUR EMINENTLY SUCCESSFUL CREDIT SYSTEM, HOUSE & HERRMANN'S CASH AND CREDIT HOUSE, 921 and 923 7th st and O50 Mass. ave. ow, se2-4m Sixs, Vexvers, Prosues, AND BEAUTIFUL NEW STYLE DRESS GOODS. SIDE BAND CLOTH SUITING, wide double width, Pure wool. Special Cash Barguin, 40c. BLACK SILKS. Special Cash Bargains, 75c. HANDSOME CASHMERE PLALDS AND STRIPES, wide double width, pure wool, new styles, S8c, nteoal Cash, Bargains in SILK FLUSHES, new des 5UC.. 7h 5 DOUBLE WHITE WOOL BLANKETS, $1.50. KUYAL FRENCH SEKGE, pure wool, wide double wid, ail colors 37546 ue, Oe. 711 MAKEET SPACE. DREDIT, but the very. styles, extra size, x KA HEAVY "AND IMMENSE SIZE WHITE WooL, BLANEE’ ial CASH bargain €5. \. 3) x Ts, BiLVEK GAY BLANKETS, presents with a purchase ki be be . fine oy ae tone of the followinx presents with a; Guilt, C & Doren Fine Danusak orth $1.50, or two Pairsof Large-size Fine Damas: Towels worth 1-50. oces ‘Towels, worth WEYL'S ONE-PRICE CLOTHING HOUSE, 311 7TH STREET, Is packed with « stock of Clothing for Men and be city. While we guarantee asaving of at least 25 per cent in prices, FOR BOYS FROM 4 TO 11 YEARS. A Fine line of Suits from $2.50 to 89.50. An excel- Jent line of Overcosts from 82 to $10. FOR BOYS 14 TO 18 YEARS, A complete line of Suita Sacks and 4-button Outs- ways from $4.50 to $15. A beautiful le of Overecats from $3 to 815. FOR MEN AND YOUTHS, PANTS.—A splendid line of Odd Pants to suits! ‘tastes and shapes. AMUSEMENTS. UGH'§ GRAND OPERA HOUSE. r Albeuseh bogs leave to an wren perform ee wl J & Ee q u GRAND ENGLISH OPFRA a Under the directioy of Chase aches S.ranos and Contraltor mrss earma J0CH LiZdie MACNICHOM a ern OCA, SUsiE TEONWART. 16th DECCA and CASTLE. on oe i ent woat™ EISCHUTZ.JUCE jote.— iption. All historically correct as to place and od. of prices @2, $1.50and @1, according te Som The sale of seats commences at 10 am.on WED NESDAY. Nov. 4, Miller's Rook Store, 530 1 th at. The celebrated Steinway Piano used by The Emme. Joch Grand Engliah Opera Co pany Bot ‘4 —S 4 a LS ee eventh st. ecuch of Peuneyivenis Ovcaa The Palace Vandeville Theater of America, LSON'S GREAT WORLD COMPAN urope’s Acrobatic NELSON PAMILY DAY. THURSDAY AND SAT UnDaY ISS MAMIF WILL SING AT THE CONCERT to be given during the FAIR atCAKROLL HALL and 10th ste,on THUKSD. G st, between ith AY, at pm s “ne ae EW NATIONAL THEATER a Every Even'g, Wednesday and Saturday Matiness, ‘Special engagement of the distinguished tragediam, Mr. FREDERICK w w A RRR nr weww ay Fh pM, ER Yeuw £3 . gee DD EEK we'w 2“. ER Bow kee 2 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Evenings and Saturday Maczinee, THE MOUNTEBANK. GASTON CADAL, inf a RICHAKD IT londay, November 11—EVANS AND HOEY in A PARLOK MATCH. 4 AbPsvaus GRAND OPERA HOUSE. EVERY EVENING, MATINEES W LDNESPAY AND SATURDAY, coo A RRR Lo FEE ITTT 00 OC AA R Lo T © ORRS © AA KRE L FE T O ON® © © AAA KR Le: tT O ONS coe aK x Luu Kee 7 NW UPL A OO MPANY In the Greatest of all New York Successes, * Oftewbach’s, Sparkbine Opera, a 50—— CHOKRUS——, NEW AND BEAUTIFUL SCENERY. GOKGEOUs COSTUMES, ong, Beck-E MAMA SUCH GKAND ENGLISR ua MBER 4 THE MAGIC QUEEN. COMPANY OF 40 PEOPLE—40, ud S0e. to silpartsol the house. Mati- a ve Monday, Nov 4. and during Week, KELLY & BELMONT'S AGGREGATION CE STARS, Matinees Mow riday and Saturday, Admission at © Bc, and 40c Oc RE By the Poct Editor of Boston, JUHN BOYLE O'REILLY, For the Benefit of St. Peter's Church, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, ISSy, & PM, AT THE NEW NATIONAL THEATER Subject: The [iustrious Irishmen of Our Century, _ Admission 50c. No seats reserved né-6t_ URNSIDE WOMAN'S RELIEF COR Prome PUTpowes. is Pleasant evening is assured. Admission Resse LOTT, OF FOUNDRY Church will Lecture on The Goiden Age in Auditorium of the Fourth st. M. E. Church THURSDAY, November 7, 1880." Adminsio: Proceeds tor bevesit of the Church. DANCING ACADEMY, COR, H AND TUESDAYS and FRIDAIS from rivets Jenene, given daily tor Lig Cat or CALDWELL, RAND MILITARY FAIR BY THE CORCORAN CADET CORPS aT THE WASHINGTON LIGHT INFANTRY'S ARMORY, NOVEMBER 4 TO I3, INCLUSIVE. SP MILITARY COMPANIES IN ATTENDANCE EACH EVENING, MUSIC AND DANCING. ADMISSION 10 CENTS. 0030-12 HENICS.—MISS DORSEY'S CLASS AT Mali, 3116 O st, W, Washing! For terms, etc., aj (esses ar MY DANCING ACADEMY HAVE BEEN KESUMED. FOR MISSES AND MASTERS ON TUESDAY AFTEKNOON, 3:30. AND ON BAT OON 2:30, FOR ADULTS TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENINGS 8 TO10° Mrs, FLORA C. DENNISON, cadeimy and liesidence, 4 M st. TAYLOR'S, 933 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE iret Pv JAGKETS. WRAPS. SUITS. JERSEYS. LADIES’, MISSES' AND CHILDREN'S GLOVES, HOSIERY, UNDERWEAR, CORSETS, HANKER- CHIEFS, &o., &c, ‘WM. 5. McKNEW, Guccessor to RK. H. Taylorh GRATEFUL—COMFORTING. EPPs's cocoa