Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1890, Page 3

AUCTION SALES. BREAKING THROUGH THE CRUST __FOR_RENT—HOUSES v, probate ar, 512 Dst. me ‘9r, Hou Rat. bet. Coun. rior ish is most artis Fominent architect: handsome leet; BO Wood Use y to MILL & JU! 9 tic. des ed by. st.ae. ‘Ist SAUNDEES & CO., Saecd tn ‘bath ‘Too, £00. 1407 Fat iTS. tment in the OR REN’ UNFURNISHED. 1 K conn, ave. = YER PLACE. bath, me reted vetuia on wecund four. WM. B welling, yan and w my... with large stabl Fe REQT—ON JAN. 16, 120 MASS_AVE. wont, Bay-window Brick JK. HERTFORD, 141 Kore! st, E: K Yd floors, 1503 Va. onter. large yard, ball and seven rooms snd fonth 1. advance. Ast and i sts, u.w. i—FURNISHED—ON GEORGETOWN Vere kine Washington and the Pot | North Capitol st, 50 Pat. near Dupoiit cir, b ve! 1 Sth and 19th. 00 G st. bet. Luth and bet 13th € T3u, ste., with stable, Jette pine. .W, BEAUTIFUL elegautly papered ; every With rooms over it, rent 860 to a de @a1-3 DAVID L. GITT : adjacent fayette square. sdJucent to Ari JQOK RENT—1713 G hotel... 200 R st. bet 13th ate, ; 176 G at tet. isi STi Sth tibet iad Wis 73 BE OBTAINED Ot AN. BE ALL MOD. IM Lat {OR RENT — HANDSOMELY FURNISH Toom House, Rest, near 14th nw. Fent to good tenant, BULLETINS CAN FICE. “THESE ONLY BY PEKMI: NINE KOOMS; MOD. lern improvement 0, ER, 1304 Fst. at. ..... 80 an Stable nearConn.aves!) Dupont circle, per £00, ©, HOLTZMAN, KEAL us3- sid Iasurauce Broker, 10th aud P eta. KENT. -BY k 1437 Penn. ave. FOR SALE—HOUSES Conn. ave nr Ns 2 bet. 14th « 15, 22: CIRCL Usth or. 1, lor. ly decorated ; ult; very bright; fur- it; $9,000." DISCOUNT FOR J. B. WIMER, 1513 F st. teas from 8.0 te 200 each, raat et te und barn; thew, houses under fair reutals, 1 will consider auy rea- offer for this prop 2 nn, av. (renr?...30 RO HOLTZMAN, 10th ond F ste.nw, y ST, GEORGETOWN, SIX wert: all mod. imps ; BAKNES & WEAVE Coun. av. (rear rWO VERY CHEAP HOUSES; EASY sand bath; well built: y Window Brick; 14TH ST. NW UK SALE—THIS WEEK ad English Basewent 11 ted in the northwest, figure to insure & good iny, BH W BY FISH & MILLER FURNISHED— Mob. IMi ‘This property will be nt, + finished in best BAH. WAKNER & TOI on New Hampshire ave. 1 entrallecation, pear Peusion office, 6-room Ad new 4 Koom Brick; water aud sewered; s Apply BELLINGEL & CU., U3:5 F st. nw. Ly SWORMSLEDT & NFUKNISHED. PUNISHED. 2TAT Dist, LSrs...81,800 1511 YLEK & KU rooms and bath ¥ -STEAM LAUN late, DLEY Est. ow. ms r. ¥ or any other bust- OK SALE—NICE out t + B40. KUTHERFORD, 1307 F st. ALE-JOST COMPLETE House of 9 rooms, ear Duy mantels, electric bells, & reasonable, House 01 above. A. H. SEMM. 1416 Fost. 22 fooms umd ES, Rooms 59, Kell X-ROOM BRICK DWEL- r OME ON RHOD south trout; 1 7” ff was bulit by day work, i tritus stone aud pressed-brick front, cos. ticular. For permit to inspect apply to, AKNES & WEAY ee ereery 2 408 Lith uw se. he SALE —TARGE DOUBLE BRICK FAMIL sion, with lars Address Hox 12, Sur LE — DESIRABLE SUL . Linproved aud Unimprove bUsiess center er Fi uses and lots in all W. 0. D! ___ Real Estate Agent, LE-—HOUSES AND Lo’ te tk TIEN THOS FE WAGGAMAN, MEAL ATE BROBE LOST AND FOUN ST—SUNDAY, DECEMBER ud Baptist Church through 4th to H aud th. GOING FROM is) THEATER. T vr 31, Lady's Mu ward if eft at 1 st iw. hicao,” trom 1 teutave. lust uight, please returh same sud USi — A GREYHOUN 4 Finder please return to 1538 1 st. now. el reward if returned to 1U: S TUESDAY, A sue a lovers knot Li | of Palais Koyal, UST—A SMALL COLLIE DOG, BLACK, TAN AND hi tae ON 4y aportion of the property on ; =e Tore Puitice for bulletin ieeued on SCARF TIN REVKESENT 1 THOS. AGG. eral reward sf left at ofice t st. N.W. 9 ROOMS, ALL xvod nelchborhood. quire of FRANK BLO: nw. 1205 6th st. anu be paid for his return. ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, BETWE: w Harpabire ave. i Blavk Book, size about three inch reward if ‘returned. to to S40 Couter Market. GULNG FROM Ww vel. probably on G rucelet with two returned to 704 New Jersey ave. nw. ral reward will RY ST. low Dox. Liberally )St-A BLACK AND TAN ScoiCH COLLIE ausweriug to the name of Clyde: liad onsilver colar With haine of owner, ceruiug his whereabouts thankfull WIGHT, Kendall Green. Auy information cou- ly received: oun FROM 22D ST, feb nod Chains renee a + tw ~ mus. Liberal reward ou Rein Sat nw., Ge. 6th stow, 2r.2: — ON MONDAY NIGHT, Al Ok NoAR . T,ouw will be paid for ite bau suitable reward return to 1761 N at ae | 081 DECEMBER 50. Goi Dew York ave. to Al beuxh’s thester vis Loth st. mouogram, ou reward if returned to 10 New rypuomas DOWLING, Auctioneer. QATALOGUE BALE or LARGE STOCK OF GROCERIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION AND AFINE LINE OF BRAN- DIES, WINES, WHISKIES, KUM, GIN, ETC, nN Wwod AND GLASS, REMOVED TO MY STORE FOR CONVENIENCE OF SALE. On MO’ \¥ AND TUEep MORNINGS, JAN- UARY SIXTH AND SEVENTH, 1590, commencing at TEN O -K EACH DAY, within my auction rooms, I ‘sell an immense’ stock of Groceries of every description as well saa and valuable line of Brandies, Whiskies, Wines, Rum, Gin, &. This in a vaiuabl ck of ‘and slould ationtion of dealers wmf the ymttie da2-at ‘THOMAS HUMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. ‘TENSIVE SALE OF GROCERIES, COMPRISING THE ENTIRE STOCK OF STOLE NO, gus BEIDGE (ORM) STREET, NEAR CAR ST. EDNESDAY, JANUARY EIGHTH, 1890, com- mnencing at TEN O'CLOCK A.M,, at store No, 3218 Bridwe (or M) street, Georgetown, D.C., I will sell, withoutreserve, the entire stock, such as ‘Teas in Caus or Chests, ‘Ten Bois. sugar, > Fancy Shelf bacco, Sack ant Willow Ware, Bois, Sega: and Molaases, Brushes, Muiches, Scales, Coffee Mill, Desk re tu to attend. e fively sold, and im lots to suit, as roi Dial ‘Terms: Cnab. $2-dts ATCLIFFE, DARE & CO. Aucti RATE DE Eos mae 920 Pennsylvania ave, B.w. IMPORTANT SALE BY AUCLION oF AL and Beautiful Assortment of Unframed STEEL PLATE ENGKAVINGS, ETCHINGS, ke. WUE Waica Will Ve LUUU Udo) as ieee 2evues ae LANDSCAPE, ‘MARINE, FIGURE AND HISTORICAL PIECES. On MONDAY, JANUARY SIXTH,1890, at ELEVEN O'CLOCK A.M’ and HALF-PASL SEVEN clock 20 Penusyl- will posi- Owner fe our ‘THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioueer, 2.M., we will sell ut our Art Galleries, Yais ave. u.W., 4 choice assortment of Richings aud Euyravings and to which we tuvite geueral Oe ey ROE Dank & Cb. Auctioneers, OR SALE--MISCELLA NEOUS dds LOK SALE—FINE YOUNG DRIVIN 3° your own price. Be seen at 180? 14th Fx SALE — TWO GOOD WORK HOKSES, FOR waut of use, Apply to ‘Coal Yard of 8. C. CARTER, Ja2-3ee L000 D st. s.w, OK SALE—CHEAP—A GOOD SQUARE PIANO, in good order; Owner has no further use for it! Feain; Will seil'on installments if Dect Ad: dress Box 153, star office. Be JOR SALE—CHEAP—A FIRST-CLASS dure-proof Safe; round corners au lock; bargain to sell at once: cash or tin if wanted. Address Box 143, Stur office, PG SALE SIE BEST PaLING GROCERY AND Provision Store in North Washington. Will be sold by iuventory or in bulk. Goud reasous for sellin Kiven upon application to A, M. HUDSON, 1” et new. Fry SMALL NOTION, CIGAI Ay bacco Store doing &¢ood business dwelling house attuched ; cheap reut; 530 43g st. wow. 1 Coupelette, nearly Wagon. 2 0M Biacies, 9 Mule Wagons, “1° Furniture new; 1 Landau. 1 Closed 7 Dayton terms." COUK & J. aBT-3tt VOR Carriage aud 5! Black Japs Waxol AKBUE, 3: other on eusy Mat., Georgetown. OODWARD & LOTHROP CALL he following special values in Fur a Robe Natu at Wolf Fur Kobes, $12.50. Robes, Raccoon Fur is 0 Corser i1th and F ats. nw. J SALE—PIANO BARGAIN. ved 6 more of those be: Pianos, with embossed bronze y iatest wi. “These instruments sre kuown for. ther Fich e atid splendid wearing qualities. Price 8289; $10 wand $10 per mouth. Lf you waut the finest Piano iu the world xet the SOM ek Piano. JGO_WORCH & C1 liner Piano Ayents, a7-6m 7th at. vow. ROE SAGE ORE OF THOSE BEAULIFUL SWiET toned Kranich & Bach, slightly used, Parlor Up- Hight Vionos at a bargain, at G. L. WILD & Bu0s., 7 7th st. nw, 28-lw* JOK SALE— SEVERAL BEAUTIFUL UPRIGHT PIANOS, medium and large styles; finest makes; at surprising bargains tor casi or monthly paywents. ‘Take advantage of this opportunity. It's for this week ouly: GRIMES’ PIANO EXCHANGE, 913 Pennsylvania ave, — Ls KITCHEN RANGE AND call at pew house 1400 New Hamp- aud ask for ths Phuiuber. d im NWAY PIANO, $1. pricht, (ew), $490. ie ShouinWer iy wow ‘sold by Oliver ‘Heading piano.” “THOMSON & C FE SALES DHA Also Shouinger Mahon: $10 monthly. Pitson Co. a 211th JOK SALE sot ne ee RED ZELLER. 231 PENNSYLVA SIA ave. UW. Dealer in Luported Birds aud Cages aud find Food aild Fancy and Common Figeous, dl 8- Tu" JOR SALE-AN ELEGANT CHICKE full iron trame; overstruus, GY j an youd order. dhe price will surprise you. PEELFFEK & CONLIFF, 514 11th stow. Fo SALE-WEKAPPING PAPER Al 7 T REAS Lega Avply to Business Uftice Evening Star 7 —ONLY #300 FOR A NEW COUPE Latest Style Coupe Family Carriage, sed but little; Oue New Leather-top Landau, uly a few tues, $790; 6 sets Fue Loug ‘Tuucue Double Curriaxe Harness, ‘best ui coupe + Single Buggy Harness, full’ rubver, aU.’ We have algo lure stock of Lap Kobes and Horse Blankets at cust. ‘These goods correspoud with aby in this city or ‘abroad, ut WM. F. GEYEL'S Grand H. Display, 406 Foun, ave.uw. Sign of the H. JOk SALE — P. KOA F or Steamer: feet long, 14-foot beam; light Graught; will carry 100 passengers. JOHN CUM- BEKLAND & SON, Foot of F st. u, cies th QUK SALE-LARGE CHINESE RACKED-LILY Bulbs, and Wire Flower Standa. SCHMID'S, “317 Ttub st. uw. ad F ‘OUNG PARROTS, MOCKING BIKD: Canaries, Caer, Goldfishes, Aquariuss, Fish Food, poratt's Dog Food and Medicines. send tor illus. Catu- eund Price List SCH MID's Bird Store, J17 1Znw. zn JO SALE—FINEST IMPORTED JAPANESE k 1 Gold Fishes ever offered in this city; for sale EDW. 3. SCHMID'S Bird Store, 317 1th st dl4-Im F Kk RENT—NEW BRICK STABLE IN rear of 1633 O st. nw, ; 3 stally and room for 3 ¢ Buges; water aud ga “Apply to BEALL, Js 2. st. FOR, SALESBEFORE 19 iy oF exchabiiug your o BURY PA UF MUSIC, 1 aud see the beautiful new Uprights in cases of Mabox: any, Circassian Walnut, Enilish Oak, Cherry and ew |. Sold tor cash or on mouthly payments of S10. Old Squares taken in exchauxe allowed, kok SALE— THE “OTTO” GAS ENGINE KE- quires bo boiler; avoids ull expenmve atteudauce; ‘by loss of ine, wo bundling of fuel, Send tor circular and price list. D. BALLAUF, Ax't, 73 Car Fx dALI MPORT: GERMAN) CANARY irda. Bird Food and Cages cheap at the BIRD STORE, 1133 7th st.n.w. 5. HAKRTB a {OK SALE—CARRIAGES, WAGONS AND BU sof all kinds on easy terms, COOK & JAKBUL, ss M street, Georgetown, al OK SALE—MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE. within the District of Columbia at lowest rate of iuterest, in suis ty suit. GEO . NEINS, d5-3m Cor. 10th and H sts. n.w. Penimylvania ave., COUNTRY REAL ESTATE. 5 roy -RENT—DAIRY OR miles rom wew irou bridge, out Pe 1a ave. east; Lich, healthy; six-room ‘dwelii rn. pure well water; $1790 per month ek. BHTLTLES, Tilly New Jork s ‘i TIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD. +100, at Wilwou"s oF Landover sta, 6100 acres, U-roou: House, 82,000, ies 2 krame Houses, adjoins Burrville, D.C. iaudover, S-room Dwellinx, all out: 00. 13 acres, Landover, $50 au ucre; me ck, B1,000; Lots 02150, 815, Hines: park; 140 deres, Seabrook sta. @10; 145 acres Well uujroved, $12, seabrovk sta. ; 6U beautifull Lots, Hyattsville, $200" to €60", and several Houses for sule aud ats; % 10-room Houses, Fast, Blude ds, fruit. wurden, $2,000 aud $3,000; 43 acres, Branchville, for building, $123 au acre’: Lots iu aluddox’s subdivision, Kock ville§ 150 to #400, acre Lote iu Joseph's park, Rock creek val- ley. S400; L s below Insane ‘asy! rom city, parts of Md. ‘T & FORD, 617 ¥ ot. now. Fo, SALE—ON METROPULITAN BR; and O., Lots, Cott . at te, Cottages, Couutry Homes aud Fi Easy terms, ‘COUKE D, LUCKEY B26- 3m 959 F atuw BOARDING. HOUSE, 807 H 8ST. N.W. 32-30" First-class Board to be had at reasonable prices. : i ah nd nr snd HK NEWPORT, 401 Massuch: its ave,, corner of 14th st. 1» FOULS BLE pointer ty uns elegaut tert Floor Lvs — an SErViee; Riso rrenwreuse with parties ‘meals’ Conducied by KOBINSON, trom Newporc ke “aici HE LITC! SHFIELD, 906 FOURTEENTH STREET, EW. ER, SAS 13 ST. N.W.; 7 NS pebate Sema st20 s y h an Abd points of iuterest, nw liquors, oe ORTH Woasurxatox Luous, ~ PLEASE TAKE NOTICE. We are Fruit of Muslin ot Sige. An- arraconein at fe, “Padtea Ball ieee tai, rer sek 2-3 tour bee aw A NATIONAL UNIVERSITY. THE GONDOLIERS. BURKE IN HONDURAS, Some of the Inconveniences of Living |The Project of Establishing a Great | Notes on the Story of Gilbert and Sulll- | The Ex-State Treasurer of Louisiana im Over Au Anthracite Coul Mine. Correspondence of Tar EVExINe Stn. Wrixesparae, Pa., December 28. Readers of Tur Stan have been informed by telegraphic dispatches of yesterday's ‘‘diastrous cave-in” of a mine near Wilkesbarre, Pa. So common and so exaggerated are many of the reports concerning these “droppings” that the outside world has come to look upon the in- habitants of the co.l regions as peculiarly un- fortunate and miserable beiags who, living upon a very thin crust of honey-combed terra- withou!-the-firma, are in hourly dread of being precipitated to the bottom of some deep mine. Your correspondent does not deny that some- times singular and provoking things may happen when a part of an apparently solid earth Crops almost out of sight, but give the coal regious their due. No person, as far as I know, at the surface has been seriously injured by acav.-in of a mine nor has much prop- erty been destroyed nor @ very large area ot ground been affected. The story so piquautly given in some of the New York papers to the effect that a daughter, while inside a certain house conversing with her mother, who was sitting outside upon a step, was startled by uot receiving an answer to a ues- tion and upon investigation found that her unfortunate parent ha dropped out of sight and was afterward found uninjured many feet below the surface, is, as far as I know, after patient and persistent necge o tion, unsupported by any probable facts, But the story told about three years ago of « horse and wagon tumbling into a mine, together with @ m.u and woman who were out for a drive, is tru. Tho accident took place in the same litt.c town and not very far from the spot where yes:erday's cave-in appeared, This took place hear an outerop, which is the point of a coal seas romins to the surface. and fortunatel; the fall was only from twelve to fifteen feet. passed this 5; of today while on my way to the uewest Cavity. Soucar was the mine to the surface that the timbering supporting the roof of the mine was in plain sight, and the horse, dropping to the floor of the mine, was safely conducted through the workings and led out about a mile from the scene of his unexpected drop. The man was not burt at all and the Woman was lifted to the surface by ropes, also uninjured, . _ THE SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT, ‘he little borough the scene of yesterday's caye-in is about three miles from Wilkesbarre, on the main road to Pittston, the next largest town in the vicinity of Wilkesbarre. A rapid balf hour's walk brought me into view of the place. Near the top of a hill, the highest place in the neighoorhood, stands a large frame church, ‘his is near the center of the town and well covered with houses, The church from distance did not appear to be at all affected, but from a long distance a large house next to the church seemed to be very lop- sided, On close inspection the road was found to have sunk about six feet. An area of ground from sixty t) seventy feet in diameter was affected. Th» foundation wall of the church was broken in front but the church was not otherwise damaged, although the press dis- patches erroneously said that the building was tipped up and badly damaged. The parsonage next to the church proved to be the building so badly cut o! plumb. One end of this large frame structare was tipped over, while the back was lifted up from its foundations, the plastering was cracked and some other da:nage one to the foundation wall. The house is still cn the surface and $300 will cover the injury to it, The pastoral residence is not “almost a ruin,” the dispatches to the contrary notwith- standing. I succeeded in getting a few min- utes’ talk with the servant girl who was in the kitchen of the house when the ominous crack- ing and settling began to occur. Some few things were broken, she says, and she naively added that she did not wait to see how much. The roadway has several cracks, but not very serious, and notice that the vebicles ayoid this part of it. I peered into the cellar of the church and the house, but found, with the ex- ception of the walls, nothing very serious had happened, And yet the area of cave-in may in- crease, If it does then a large number of houses will be affected, and I doubt, even now, if very many of the houses in the vicinity will have sound slumbering occupants for the next few days, WHAT CAUSES THE CAVE-INS, The cavse of all this dangerous state of affairs is an old story in these regions. The pillars of coal which should be left to support the roof of the mines as avein of coal becomes worked out are, in the vernacular of the mines, robbed aud te weight of the superiucumbent earth crushes the scanty column left and the earth drojs iuto the vacant chambers, The Mill Creck colliery has been working this mine, and atthe point of the cave-in the mine is probably within tifty feet of the surface. The whole township of Plains is honey- combed by the workings of the mines, and no doubt there is much danger in certain spots to property. Bat not a very great area in this re- gion is in similar danger. At least we are in the habit of quictiug any fears we may have by the fact that the most of the region around is still unmined, and that extraordinary care is gener- ally required and given to supporting the sur- face above the mines, and that it is the exception to find coal near the surface except in spots, and that in case of deep coal mining no danger need be anticipated from cave-ins. The people in the Wyoming valley also may remember that the coal velow their ticlds and towns is gener- ally far removed from the surface... H.C.D. oe DISTRICT GOVERNMENT, VITAL STATISTICS. The health officer's report for the week end- ing December 28 shows: Number of deaths, $1; white, 40; color 41. Death rate per 1,000 per annum, white, 12.2; colored, 5 total population, 16.8; 24 were under five years of age,l4 were under one year old and 12 over sixty years; 14 of the deaths occurred in hoapi- tals and public institutions. ‘The deaths by classes were as follows: Zymotic, 8; constitu- tional, 22; local, 39; developmental, 8; violence, 4. ‘The principal causes of death were: Croup, 1; diphtheria, 14 consumption, yphoid fever, &: pneumonia, 7; congestion of the !ungs, 3; bronchitis, 5. Births reported: 13 white males, 16 white females,18 colored males, 15 colored reo Marriages reported: 25 white, 11 col- ore —<——— Marriage Licenses, Marriage licenses have been issued by the clerk of the court as follows: Frank A, Fran- cesco and J. L. Paul; Alex, Lee and Sarah A. Harrison; W. L. Elgen and Mollie T. Rogers; E. A. Shaw and Virgie E. Robey; C. N. Beaton and Blanche T. Jones; Johu Bb. Schlosser and Auna E, Welcker; George W, Wells and Redin G. Osborn; Elisha P. Taylor and Mary V. Jef- fers; Luther M. Wise and Hattie Granby, puabecit en eccaa New Year Day at the Y.M.C.A. The parlors of the Young Men's Christian as- sociation were beautifully decorated with ever- greens, holly and potted plants yesterday, From 2 p.m, the building was thronged by young men. A moderate estimate gives over five hundred. At4 p.m. there was an exhibi- tion in the gymnasium, and during the evening college songs were sung by merry groups about the piano. At 8 o'clock the Y.M.C.A. orches- tra, twelve pieces, under the leadership of Pro- fessor Theo. I. King, renderéd several selec- tions, Mr. Warren Young sang three solos and Mrs. D, 8. Foster also sang. About thirty ladies assisted, and the day was the most successful in pointof numbers and sociubility that has been known in the ry of the association, ——— Fighting Men and Women Fined. In the Police Court this morning the Stanton averue neighborhood was well represented, Officers Marr and Branson having quite a num- ber of colored women before the bar on the charge of disorderly conduct early last Sunday morning. It was testitied by the officers that there was a gathering of colored people at Win- field's and that they got into a quarrel aud fought all along the road for a di of over halt a mile. The women were Ida Middleton, Hattie. aud Margaret Curry, Henrietta Hol Mary Smith, Anna Young, Julia and Annie Young. The men were George Bowie, Walter Nelson, Jake Beacham, James Conway, Edward Jobnson, Dennis. Harris, Fr Waters and Charles and Dabney Fleming. two last named forfeited collaterals and the others stood trial, Edward Johnson and Con’ were dismissed and the otherg fined $5 or 7 days each, —>__ A Freak of the Season. To the Editor of ‘Tax EVENING Stan: T enclose herewith a well-developed leaf and flower of the Cydonia Japonica and a full leaf of the Acer Pennsylvanicom which I found in the ope This is . Protestant Institution Here. From the Philadelphia Press, Today. Senator Edmunds is of opinion that the quadro-centennial of the of America cannot be better celebrated than by the estab- lishment of a national university in Washington city. The suggestion isa familiar one. It was a favorite of President Washington, and was successively recommended by Jefferson. Madi- son, Monroe and John Quincy Adams. Various schemes and plans have been proposed, prob- ably the latest being that of Rev. Georg D. Boardman, D.D., of this city, for the establish- ment of “an American Christian university” at the national capital, The peculiar advantages of Washington as the seat of a great university are manifold. It is, except in the summer vacation months, one of the pleasantest places of residence on the continent, There the national life is centered more than anywhere else. Already it is the scientific capital of the nation, while its educa- tional appliances, available for the st dents of the university, are more than equiv- alent to the endowments and accumulated equipment of our oldest and wealthiest colleges. Nearly all the leading scientific bodies of the country hold their annual meetings in Wash- ington. There is the Smithsonian institution, the national museum, the geological survey, the bureau of ethnology, the patent office, the army medical museum, the naval museum of hygiene, the weather bureau, the coast survey, the bureau of hydrography, the national ob- servatory, the Agricultural department, the botanical garden, the zoological garden, the department of education, the Corcoran gallery of art, the Anthropological society, the Biologi- cal society, the Botanical society. the Chemical society, the Geozraphical socigty, the Histori- cal association, the Mathematical society, the Philosophical society, etc., bringing together a national body of some 600 eminent exper There also is the Congressional and other libr: ries, containing more thana million of volumes on every possible subject, and open to every student. ‘ Dr. Boardman recites these facts in a little pamphlet advocating his national Christian university. He is of opinion that the Colum- bian university already established in Wash- ington should be taken as a basis on which to build up a great non-sectarian Christian uni- versity worthy of the nation and of its name. A university, in Dr, Boardman’s conception of the term, “comprises, or ought to comprise, an assemblage of colleges; for example, a co lege of literature, a college of science, a college of medicine, a college of law, a college of the- ology, a college of arts, a college of philosop &c. Whether it should include an unde: oe college is still a matter of debate. in all events, a university is an institution where everything that is proper for youth to learn may be taught.” There should be no difficulty, Dr. Boardman thinks, in the Protestant sects working together in harmony in the matter of education. He says: ‘ Isee no reason in the nature of things why in an institution that has the right to the ex- alted name of university the Methodists may not have their own theological department. the Congregationalists theirs, the Episcopalians theirs, the Presbyterians theirs, the Baptists theirs, and so on. If any one wishes specitic training in this or that branch of the Christian church, let him go to the proposed university for it, ‘just as he would go to it for training in Sanscrit or in biology. But whatever the specitie study, let the university as a whole be distinctly and avowedly conducted in harmony with the precepts and character of Jesus Christ. The scheme is feasible and reasonable. government has appropriated between Afteen and twenty million of dollars for scientific nnd educational purposes, and the university estab- lished near to this gets the full benefit of that endowment, Already a Catholic university is in contemplation. There is no insuperable dif- ficulty in the way of the establishment in the same advantageous field of a Protestant unive: sity of universal learning, such as Dr. Board- man outlines, The —____.e@0—_____ Light on a Murder Mystery. The coroner's inquest at Atlanta, Ga., in the case of James F, Woodward, who was shot on Thursday night, has brought out some start- ling facts, J. H. Bone has confessed to the crime. Woodward had been at Bone’s house and it is presumed that trouble arose between them. Bone says Woodward had brought dis- grace to his family. ‘The Lone family is noto- rious in police circles as one of burglars and “hard characters.” while Woodward was a prominent business man, The case is one of mystery. Monday night unknown persons exploded a large dynamite bomb in the stairway the Independent printing ofiice and the Western Union telegraph office at Waverly, Iowa. The explosion demolished the stairway and front of the building. The bomb was an inch and a quarter gas pipe, about a foot long and sealed at both ends with several ounces of lead. It is thought to have been placed there by some one who had a gradge against the printers of the Iniependent force. a A Relic of Brandywine. A skeleton, believed to be that of a conti- nental soldier, has been unearthed on the farm of Eli Harvey at Chadd’s Ford, Pa., on the Brandywine, and near where the memorablo battle of Brandywine was fought, The skele- ton was only two feet below the surface of the earth and was discovered by a workman en- gaged in digging a trench for a water pipe ona sloping hillside to the east of the old Harvey mansion, ‘The process of decay had long since destroyed almost everything about the remains save the bones and a brass buckle of the belt of the uniform and parts of the soles of the shoes, ———— Buying a Corner Lot. From the New York Sun. Pittsburg is enjoying a boom in real estate just now, and the competition for choice lots runs high. Mr. Bilgus owned a lot on the corner of Sth avenue and Madison a week or twoago, but he does not own it now. This is how he happened to part with it: ‘Two men walked into his office one afternoon and one of them said: “Mr. Bilgus, I believe’ es, sir.” “I understand you want to sell that lot on the corner of 5th and Madison. What will you take for it?” don’t know that I am anxious to sell that lot, id Bilzus; “still I might if Lcould get what it is worth, “Well, what is your price?” “That property is worth every cent of #30,000, and I don't know but what I ought to ask $35,000. Do you want to buy?” “Oh, no,” replied Bilgus” visitor, taking a memorandum book out of his pocket and put- ting down some figures. “My name is Gerrish; I'm the new assessor of that district, and i merely wanted to get at the value of your property.” Bilgus smiled a sickly sort of smile. “I was only in fun,” he said, presently. “I don’t suppose I could get more than $15,000 for the lot it I had to sell it, and the man who would offer me 320.000 would be suapped up so quickly it would make his head swim.” The assessor smiled just a little, but went on making memoranda, “Say,” exclaimed Bilgus, jamping up, “don't put that lot down at more than $18,000. I'll take that for it, "pon my honor I will.” “Very well,” said the assessor, **I’lll take it for that. Here's a certified check for $500 to bind the bargain.” Bilgus was speechless now. “I thought you were the assessor,” he gasped presently. “Well, can’t an assessor buy property?” Bilgus kicked like a dozen mules, but it was nogo. Mr. Gerrish had hia witness to ve that Bilgus had offered the lot for $18,000, and rather than defend against a threatened law suit the unhappy man made out the deed. ‘The real estate was worth $25,000 easily, but I am sorry to say that Mr. Gerrish told an un- truth when he said he was the new assessor. eee John Green, the colored farm laborer who butchered his wife on the streets of George- town, Ky., in broad daylight on the morning of soeuee ah bas bees sentenced to hang Janu- ary 1 At noon yesterday the ground under the Le- high Valley railroad locomotive el iy Wilkesbarre, Pa., which are located over acoal mine. caved in. The foundation walls of the buildi cries ar aana of the ding to | van’s New Opera. From the Saturday Review. The story of “The Gondoliers” may be very briefly summarized. One of the two, Marco cr Guiseppe Palmieri, is believed to be her to Barataria; they have both married; but if either is king ho was married in infancy to some one else; so that there are two husbands and three wives, and mystery attaches to the problem who is at once king and bigamist, A very neat end is, however, provided, for it ap- Pears that the king of Barataria is quite another person, and that he has long been de- Yotedly attached to the girl to whom he was wedded at the age of six months, This is the main story, the clever satire of monarchy tempered with republican equality being incidental, The able to find a rhyme for “equality,” peats the word. Casilda, daughter uf the duke of Plaza-Toro, an impecunions hidalgo who is being made’ into a limited compan loves her father's “suite,” his drummer Lv the sole attendant upon the impoverished « Casilda learns that she was married in infancy to the prince of Barataria, and, as he lives, Luiz and she must part. “Henceforth,” she says, ‘my life is another’a” ‘The dialogue con- tinues: Luiz—“But stay—the present and the future —they are another's; but the past—that at least is ours, and none can take it from us As we in naught else, let us revel in that, don’t think I grasp your meaning” Luiz—~‘Yet it is logical enough. You say you cease to love me? Cas. (demurely)—“‘I say I may not love you.” Luiz—“But you do not say you did not love me?” Cas.—“T loved you with a frenzy that words are powerless to express—and that but ten brief My own—that is, until ten minutes since, my own—my lately loved, my recently adored—tell me that until, say a qua ter of am hour ago, I was all in all to thee!” (Embracing her.) Cas,—I see your idea. It is ingenious, but don’t do that. (Releasing herself.) Luiz—There can be no harm in reveling in the past, Cas.—None whatever, butan embrace can- not be taken to act retrospectively. Luiz—Perhaps not. Cas.—We may recollect an embrace—I recol- lect many—but we must not repeat them. Luiz—Then let us recollect a few! (A moment's pause. as they recollect, then both heave a deep sigh.) Luiz—Aah, Casilda, you were to me as the sun is to the earth! Cas, —A quarter of an hour ago? Laiz—About that. Cas.—And to think that, but for this miser- able discovery, you would have been my own for life Luiz—Through life to dedth—a quarter of an hour ago! Cas.—How greedily my thirsty ears would have drunk the golden melody of those sweet words # quarter—well, it’s now about twenty minutes since. (Looking at her watch. ) Luiz—About that, In such a matter one cannot be too precise, The verse is frequently poetical, and it is charming to note the manner in which Sir Arthur Sullivan enters into the spirit of the lines. The Gondoliers’ duet, “We're Called Gondolieri,” is ight and gay until a refere is made in the course of it to vespers and vigils and serenades, and then a shade of sentiment is cunningly suggested in the score by other means than a simple piano, The good ideas are discrectly handled and not overdone. The fantastic notion of turning the duke of Plaz Toro into a limited company is a case in point, A few sentences spring from the announcement. The daughter traste that she may never be called upon at any time to wit- ness her honored sire m process of liquidation; and her mother admits that “if your father stops, it will of course be necessary to wind him up.” Otherwise little is heard of the duke in his novel capacity until the excellent satire of the song in which duke and duchess describe the nature of the functions they fulfil, the duke aining how he secures honors to satixty cheap ambition, advertises ~ready-made” tailors, at whose ufacture he admits that Robinson Crusoe would gibe; while part of the duchess’ confession runs: 1 write letters blatant On medicines patent, And use any other you mastn’t And towany co Xion Derives its pertection From somebody's soap—which it doesn't. “It certainly doesn’t!” the duke quaintly echoes. The ladies who at once advertise’ themselves and soap are so familiar, and the business is so obvious and absurd that itis a wonder satirists have had nothing effective to say hitherto, Sir Arthur's music is unfailingly melodious and the freshness of it, considering that this is his tenth opera, is quite extraordinary. Only iy rarely indeed do we catch a faint echo of | his own work in ugeoe scores (at times we do so, it is true, but we will not quote and per- haps strain example); still more rarely is there a suggestion of the work of any other musician, except when he purposely imitates—always with tuste and abalone #s—the manner of a school. One of the most remurkable and delightful features in the score is its variety, Sir Arthur hasa marvelous aptitude for fitting his music to the occasion, and can be gay or tender with equal ease and appropriateness, while he always struck us as the one composer of tl day, at any rate the one English composer who can extract genuine humor from an orchestra. The long opening number is full of melod: and the duke’s eutry with obligato is not to be with a grave face. The song of the duke, allegro marziale, is without special but the baliad for Luiz isa little gem, ‘al respects the Savoy operas are far superior to any cotemporary work of the sort, and this ballad furnishes an example. Mr. Gilbert has adopted the style of the seven- teenth century poet—though for some reason he has chosen to date the opera at a later period, 1750—and Sir Arthur has entered into the spirit of the words with wonder- ful feeling and refinement. Such work is, it may be feared. wasted on many hearers, but it will be cordially appreciated by those who have perception, Tessa’s song, “When a Merry Maiden Marries,” is again an in- stance of sympathetic expression. It is bright, with just a touch of sentiment; while Gianetta's i Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the HeartOur Lives to Part,” is equally charming, though in some respects the reverse of Tessa’s song in treatment-sentiment slightly —_pre- dominates, but there is aslight undercurrent of humor. So wecome to the quartet. “Then One of Us Will Be a Queen, arst of unmiti- gated joyousness and fun, and surely the fortu- nate circumstance that Miss Jessie Bond was to be the representative of Tessa must have been in the writers’ heads when the number was set down. Ouce more we find the happy blending of sentiment and the gentlest humor in the verses, with the beautiful refrain of “O My Darling, O My Pet,” which the brides sing to their departing lords, And we have spoken of the!melody and signifi- cance of the music without mentioning one of its chief sources of fascination—the instru- mental scoring, full of » fancy and - gestiveness, e horns have had a deal to that is always curiously effective; the other brass instruments are very seldom employed, but the woodwind is constantly into requisition; and the writing for flute, clari- oboe and i net, will remain a model of what can be accom- united to a lished when perfect taste is oouk mastery of the orchestral resource. Passing on to the second act, we would direct the special attention of the hearer, if he be a musician, to the accompaniment of the tenor song, ‘Take a pair of sparkling eyes,” a cap- tivating molody in G flat major, six-eight time, circumstances the 4 _ recalling that had been 4 gondo! and so acquainted with barcarolie. ‘The chords are exceptionally rich and at the same time singularly delicate, woodwind being joined with pizzicato violins, The Divorce Was Not Good in New Jersey. OF August 10, 1878, Charles W. Bligh was married in Brooklyn to Mise Julia Waters, High Favor There. A New Orleans dispatch says: From a gentle- man justarrived here from Honduras it is learned that Maj. E. A. Burko, the state treas- urer of Louisiana, charged with being a de- faulter, is now in Tequtiagalpa, the capital of the republic of Honduras, where be arrived some three weeks ago, well provided with money, furnished by the English syndicate, which is interested with bim in his Honduras mines, Burke was given a royal reception by the president of the republic, Gen. Bogran, and stood in high favor. the Honduras officials looking upon the Louisiana incident as a mat- ter of little account, President Bogran gave him important additional concessions, which puts him in virtual coutrol of the mining ope- rations in the large province of Olancho. itis understood that Bogran is himself inter- ested with Major Burke in these mines. The latter succeeded further in securing the good will of the Americans in Honduras, and is said to have won all of them over to his support by interesting them in bis venture or giving them employment m his mines, and now has backing of nearly the entire Burke's headquar coongalpa, . but several excursions near which the mines are situated, The machinery, seut there vin New York and 4 Francisey et arrived, b nM already from the and the gentioman who brought this ne several specimens with him. He ridiculed the idea of Bogran’s surrendering Barke at the re- quest of the United States, and said there was hot the slightest chance of rt. The ex-treasurer is popular with the presi- dent, with the natives, as well as the Ameri- cans, and promises, he said, to play an import ant part in Central American politics, see = A NEGRO NURSEMALD’S CRIME, Sent toa Reformatory for Two Attempts at Arson, Lavica Williams, thirteen-year-old negro girl, employed as a nurse in the family of Jno, W. Dorsey o! cott City, Md, bas been sent colored industrial school, beimg accused of arson and attempted murder. Considering her tender years her criminal propensities are remarkable, A short time ago Mr, Dorsey lost by fire a corn house and stable, and only by strenuous efforts was his handsome house saved. The origin of the fire wasa mystery, and at the time no suspicion rested on any one, On December 19, a few minutes after the nurse had been chidden for some offense, the infant was found in an upper apartment enveloped in flomes, and was seriously burned about the body, face and head before the fire was ex- tinguished, At the time the presumption was that the child had left the ertb in which be had been put to sleep, had thrown down the exte- rior and imterior fenders of the fireplace in the room aud thus caught fire. On December the nurse was again reproved for some misdeed, and her mother, who is also a servant in the Dorsey family, agreed to punish ber daughter, in the meanti jering her upstairs to per- form some household duties near the room where the baby had been put to sleep a few minutes previously, This time the family was siuamoned by the infant's screams, The fire extinguished before serious injury bad sustained. The heavy fenders were again found down, but not as if knocked down, Search im the story above, whither the nurse had gone, disclosed a half-burned taper behind rash stand, and a partly burned match, both uich were barely cold. The family's eus- ions were confirmed, and the girl was placed under arre THE CLOCK WINDER. Naught to Do But Wind Clocks for Twenty Years. From the Jewelers’ Weekly. “O, yes! When any one has wound clocks for twenty years.” said Jacob Kringle, the gov- ernment clock-winder at Washington, “be will probably reach the conclusion that he desires nothing so much as to forever leave the tick- tack sound behind him, and to eternally shat out the vi of the clock-face from before him, The first week Lever spent winding clocks I thought it was quite an entertaining business. I started my rounds in the morning, and until the late afternoon found pleasure in the new scenes of the department buildings and in the faces that confronted me in the various offices, I gradually became acquainted with nearly every body I came im contact with. It was not until ‘al mouths had passed away that I became aware of the terrible sameness of my daily task, which above all things had to be regularly pere formed. “The motion of winding a clock, that un- ending twisting and turning from left to right, became ro much a matter of habit that I felt uneasy when Sunday came aud I was pot called upon to go about and wind the clocks, [ did not notice the lack of something to occupy me until abou ock in the morning, when, as if palsied or suffering from St. Vitus’ dance, my right hand would begin twitching, twitch- from left to right. - “I had no difficulty in stopping this motion, but as soon as I permitted myself tosbe inact- ive and discontinued the mental effort to keep my hand still, 1t would begin again. As I — up my monotonous labor of winding cloci from year to year, my twitching habit in- creased, so that very ofien as I passed along the streets it would attract attention, It was accompanied by a feeling of uneasiness which could ouly be gratified by a renewal of my work of winding. As I have said, almost auy- one, having pursued the calling that I have followed, would make up his mind that the only thing he needs is to go off on a vacation or into some other business where he would be forever relieved. ; “Such was my idea after I had carried on my work for several years, and I went away down to my old home in Virginia, where I intended Temaining for a month. But I came back ae wiser man. I learned the force of babit, and within a few days was going about my old hauuts, and it seemed to me that I bad never ing clocks the next few days. I have been awakened on several occasions in my life in the middle of the night by feeling some’ strike the bed covering and have disco’ that the twitching eed a was the cause. “I have thought that the great regularity with which my work has to be done accounts for my nervous habit. I have to wind hun- dreds of clocks weekly and arrange the work 80 that every day a sixth of it is covered. Each day's work is about all I can do, so that af I should get behindhand on a score of clocks it would be a very difficult matter ever to catch up without help from some one. Then en can wind a clock only so fast, and I Ihave reduced the work to a science. Ican the departments and wind all the as few motions as it is possible to cover the ground. “I could almost go over the route and per- form my work blindfold. Iknow the number of steps in every flight of stairs that I have go up or down. As for the to think lack of about, I often count not the steps of the stairways, but pace of tee ictases one clock to another, going one other between them, and shortest