Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1890, Page 6

D.C nomen FEBRUARY 10, ee, CITY AND DISTRICT. P The local circulation of Taz Evestxa Star is not only the iargest and fullest, but it is also the nest, since the paper goes not alone into the hands of the people of the District of Columbia asa body, but regularly info their homes,—into the families of all classes, and into those of the money-spending as well as the money-earning portion of the community. An advertisement in its columns therefore reaches the eye of everybody worth reaching. THE IOWA DEMOCRACY. . Pusey Says They Are Not Through Ratifying Yet. One of the most prominent Iowa democrats is Hon. W. H. M. Pasey, ex-member from the Council Bluffs district and a banker of that city, whose bulky form was seen by a Stan reporter in the lobby of the Ebbitt house. Whenever the people of southwestern Iowa are Yeally sure they want something done by Con- gress they induce Mr. Pusey to come to Wash- ington aud see if their bill is buried ina pigeon hole. On this occasion 1 was a bili for another bridge over the Missouri, and as it passed two days after his arrival Mr. Pusey is in a good bumér. “Tom Reed will make an able Speaker,” hi responded to a query by the reporter. “Of course some of these rulings will haunt the republicans for ye. but it was about the only thing they could dv.” “What about Iowa? “Oh, that was a great political turnover, based largely on the under crust. It was the echo of Grover Clevelan educational cam- paign, and while prohibition gave us some Yotes in the cities our largest gains were in the country districts. Qur boys are not quite done ratifying out there yet. AN U3 PY POSTMASTER, The Government Will Protect Him From Persecution by His Townsmen. Postmaster General Wanamaker Saturday directed two post-office mspectors to proceed to Sharon, Taliaferro couaty, Ga., and investigate the case of Edward L. Duckworth, the recently appointed postmaster at that place. From statements received from Duckworth and cor- Toborated by others it seems that there is a combined effort—led, it is reported, by the old postmaster aud his friends--to prevent Duck- worth from taking possession of the office. Threats of personal violence and even death, it is alleged, were pabiicly made and every kind of indignity was heaped upon bim. Mobs vis- ited his home, and on one occasion, it is charged, a number of men entered and com- elied him to signa letter of resignation. He, owever, at once informed the de- partment by telegraph that the — resig- ation was from him under duress, ently, however, he has written to the department, stating he could hold the office no longer, as he feared for his life. Mr. Wanamaker, after consulting with the Presi- dent and Gen. Clarkson, Saturday evening tel- egraphed Duckworth that be would be sus- tained by the department and informing him that in addition to the inspectors a U.S. mar- shal would be ordered to the scene of the trouble. Duckworth is an indepex liean and wax recommended to t large number of reputable citizens. Funerals in the East Room. ‘Thursday's Stax contained a short article on the subject of Panersls from the East Room” in reference to those of Mrs. and Miss Tracy on There were several errors in it, made inadvertently. Several letters have been received at Tux Sran olfice correcting these i In the first place, the death of Pres- instead of 1840. ‘Then, says - ~The terrible ex- josion alluded to occurred in 1544, not ‘43, on ard of a vessel cu the Princeton, com- manded by Com. Stockton, and the gun which exploded was called the ‘Peacemaker.’ explosion resulted in the ¢ men instead of two of State. not War mer, not Gardiner. ir. Gardiner (not in the cabinet at all), the father of the lady who after- ward became President Tyler's wife), and the other two victims were Commodore Kennon, whose widow still resides in Georgetown, and minister to Bel- ‘ hter, Mrs. Geo. W. Hughe: ughters, Miss Markoe and Mrs. S. Emmons, are residents of Washington. The nexterror is the omission of any men- tion of the death and “lying in state” in the east room of Presid ‘aylor. ‘Therefore, in- eluding the ma: two ladies, ¥ictims of Monday's catastrophe, were the ninth and tenth insiead of the titth and sixth Persons whose reniains had laid there, How Pink Ice is Made. “How do you make pink ice?” asked a Stan writer of a saloon keeper on F street. “That is what ‘most everybody asks,” was the Fespouse. “It is no end of a puzzle to our cus- tomers how we color it. And yet the solution of the problem is very simple. Just look be- hind the lump of ice.” The newspaper mam went behind the oyster counter—the chunk of svliditicd cold was on top of the heap of bivalves—aud inspected the thing for him-eif. “Ha, ha!” ejaculated the bar tender, “Ha, ha!” echoed the scribe. ‘The mystery was reveaied. On the back side of the lump of ice was pasted a sheet of pink tissue paper. The color showed through and the general effect was that of frozen claret or, one should rather say. claret punch, This was probably the first occasion ou which a news- per Man Was ever caught in the act of not nowing it all, see — He is Not Counted But Hopes to Be. The happiest man in Washington not counted ina quorum of the House is Hon. Frank B. Posey, republics contestant in the first Indiana district. He was only twenty votes behind the sittmg member, Hon. W. F. Parrett, ©n the official count, and charges the demo- erats with bribery aud the voti 1g of non-resi- dents and stud He says if work he will * spring. His que. After the election in Hovey of that district. who ed his seat 4 election Mr. “M) majority to fill out occupied the seat a d is now contesting the he is the only con- ushington indorsed by position is u 1388 Representative had been elected governor, resign in the House dat a Posey was chosen by the unexpired term, short time last winter earlier election. He sas testant who comes to W his district. Neliie Bly as a Lecturess. Miss Elizabeth Cochrane, the young woman ly made 4 trip around the world, 2g all previous records, made her debut on the lee last night at the Union Square w York under the man- agement of 5 Hill. Sho gave an interest- ing recital of Ler journey and the incidents connected with it. Ihe receipts at the box Office were $1,400. s Bly is under engage- Ment to deliver forty-three lectures, see — Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued by the Clerk of the court to Joseph Kohler of New York and and Kosa Ca Meyer; Jot Richard T. W and Maria s Williams; 1. Fairiax county P. J. Buewden and Mary ' wd Lillie BR. Sm ad Georgie ou, both of Keal Estate Matters. T. Hyde hax bought for $12,000 of C. Becker 10, B. aud it’s, addition to Georgetown, I feet 2 iuches by 129 feet 7 inches, on Beall and High streets. 5.5. Hoover has bought for 7.150 of Ww. Mayse subs 1 to 3, 19 anu 20, square 589, 160 by 136 fect 4 inches, corner of 2d and I streets 1 southwest. ie ~ The four chillren of Jacob R. Slater were drowned at Lermewater. Y.. yesterday, and the mother and father, going to their assistance, also broke through the nd perished, The wife of a negro janitor in Chicago was found dead in an alley yesterday. He said he found ber dead in their room and put the body in the alley to save funcral expenses. He is} held for ca: her death. ‘There arri it Castic Garden yesterday 957 immigrants, A train was wrecked by spreading rails at Haddieston’s Mills ou the Norfolk and Westera railroad Saturday night and ns were killed and ‘wounded. ianam The steamer Dunia at New countering many icebergs. Alice an actress, was focazed by gas in her room in Ni York reports en- | accidently suf- w York Satur- door mornit Mr. James S. Motealfe of are soon to be married, bing trade ean secure a moderate the capital invested by them in J. & P. Coats’ thread semi-annual thread. When you deduct the expenses of do- ing a dry goods business from this, as you prob- ably know, it leaves a commission of ‘about 2'¢ HE RECALLED IT AT LAST. WEIRD SIGHTS IN ALASKA. How a Man’s Memory Was Helped | Wonderful Const Scenery, Deserts, Gla- from Vagueness to Certainty. “Memory is a singular thing,” was the re- mark of an habitual observer to a Srar re- porter recently. “I was reading in my library the other day when some passage in the narra- tive before me aroused a recollective idea in my mind that coincided in a vague way with the thought presented by the author. There was nothing but an indistinct remembraice that a friend had said something tome in about the same line of reasoning a short time before, but the coincidence, instead of passing away from my mind worried me so that I was forced to discontinue my reading and set to work to discover what and when and where it was that I had heard this thing and by whom. I did not have much to go upon for I meet so many men during the day, and usnally hear so much said that it was a veritable case of hunt- ing for a necdle ima haystack. Suddenly there came into my mind, while { was searching for a clue, a shadowy idea that the words that my friend uttered ‘were spoken while we were standing iz front of a large window facing the north, and then I recollected that the prospect upon which we were looking was dull and drear. This in turn caused to flash into my mind the fact that it was a disagreeable day, raining lightly, thus giving everything in sight a most melancholy appearance, and then I knew that the thing was said on one certain day, for there was but one such day in my knowledge for such a period past that I knew I could not have cacied the ie that my friend had given me in my mind longer. This step was more of a surmise than anything else, but itserved my purpose of unraveling the mystery. My next move was to take myself back, in imagination, to that day aud go over as far as I could my movements and conversations. Keeping the fact of the large window firmly in mind Iran up and down the list of places I had visited where north windows were to be had, but for some time without success, At last ‘a great light broke in upon me and the entire conversation, with that particular thought that had started my recollections, passed again through my mind. Then it was that Lremembered not only the ideas that my friend had presented but also his very words, and I could almost repeat exactly what was said. Thas you see from a vague impression of a north wiftdow came the whole course of a memory that had nothing to do with it.” oo slates The Thread Controversy. STATEMENT BY THE AGENTS OF J. AND P. COATS. From the New York Evening Post: Feb. 8, 1890. The editor of the Economist kas taken special pains to investigate the repeated charges made by the free trade press that the Messra. J. & P. Coats and three other well-known concerns are banded together to oppress and injure the Merrick thread company, and that this four- leaded hydra of the thread trade was crushing outan infant industry that had sought to raise its head in opposition toa bloated monopoly, built up and fostered into a trust or combina- tion by the tariff—all this and a great many more words to the same effect. In the first place, as the company which claims to be oppressed is an American concern, incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts, with a paid-in capital of $750,000 and operating its mills at Holyoke, Mass.. and has been in existence now about twenty-five years, it is difficult to see wherein this American infant of mature years has cause to plead its youth, or wherein the tariff has anything to do with its troubles. But to get light on this thread ques- tion Edgar S, Auchineloss of Auchincloss Bros., the agents for J. & P. Coats, was interviewed and expressed himself quite plainly on the situation as follows: “suppose you refer to the article in The aso | Post of last evening. Well, the free- trade Evening Post is rather wide of the mark this time. “Messrs. J. & P. Coats put down the price of their best six-cord thread last March for the best of business reasons, Low prices for hank thread in Great Britain, cheaper raw cotton, and undervalued invoices gave the English- men achauce at the American market. well-known forcign brands appeared to solicit the public favor. and the American companies that had up to that time confined themselves to manufacturers’ lengths aud three-cord goods, not remaining satisfied with their own busin coveted that of their neighbors, undersold thi six-cord market. Between these two fires the standard brands of J. & P. Coats, the Clarks and the Willimantic were badly un Four rsold, “Now, then, these gentlemen have got the prices they bid for and they don't lixe them— “h ce these tears’ and all this outcry, ow, about this talk of a combination or a trust among the leading thread men. I beg to say most emphatically that each thread com- pany is directly responsible to the public tor its Own acts—and only for its own acts. I can speak for Messrs. J. € P. Coats, and I say posi- tively they are ouly agreed with other thread- makers in the American market to maintain a trade-price system of sales by which the job- rofit on “This profit is the bonus of 7'4 per cent paid yto dealers using 1,000 dozen of ‘nt net. ssrs. J. & P. Coats do not regulate the price of their thread “fler it leaves the jobbers’ hands. They bind the jobber to get a fixed price, but the retailer’ who buys from the Jobber can do with the goods as he pleases, ‘I will also say that Messrs. J. & P. Coats have never azreed with any one nor attempted im any way to influence the votes of their em- ploves at any time. Their mills are operated on busi iples. and polities have noth- ing to do with their affairs. We are in no pool to divide production, or profits, or losses of any kind. Each concern ‘paddies its own canoe batthey all maintain a jobbing-trade pric most zealously, and are prepared to defend this system of sales as the only one by which a middleman ean secure a fair compensation for his outlay and time. company championed by the Spring- eam has had since 1383 to defend a suit for infringement of J. & P. Couts’ trade- mark. They copied the spool-head of Messrs. J. & P. Coats’ goods so closely that suit was commenced May, 1833, for nominal damages of 10,000 in the United States circuit court, south- ern district New York, in equity. This case was decided against us by Judge Wheeler last sam- mer on the merits of the patent covering the design having expired by limitation of time. We have taken appeal to the Supreme Cuurt of the United States. where, we believe, a full bench will consider our trade-mark rights as of greater consequence thau patent law. It may take several years, but, the integrity of our trade-mark being attacked, we proposed to see the issue through to the end. per ce “Now, Mr. Editor, do you see anything in all this more than the attempt of one set of manu- facturers get hold of the business of other men, by underselling them, by copying their trade-mark and using every trick and device known tothe trade to secure in a few years what has taken Messrs, Coats and Clarks two generations to build up? At any rate that’s all there is in it, and itis really quite gratifying to note by The Evening Fort that these Massxchu- setts people, at the H yourmpeupa ly ices, do not seem to be able to sell their goods.” Aud, remarking that he thought this was about as longa “length of thread” as the Ecun- omist’s roaders could use at oue sitting, Mr. Auchincloss closed the interview. s — see Low Excursion Rates ro Maup: Gras Can- NIVAL AT Sew Owveans.—The Vicdmont Air Line will sell excursion tickets at one fare for the round trip to New Orleans, good to return until March 1, 189, on February 9, 10, 13, 14, Wand 16. Through Pullman cars to New O: leans without change. Double daily train viee without brecs or transfer between Wash- ington and Atlanta. Full particulars at com- pany’s office, 1300 Pennsylvania avenue, and at Ucket office, Baltimore and Potomac railroad station, = a See Two Shows on One Stage. w York Herald's London Cable, The clubs are laughing over the story of the duchess of Montrose and Mrs, Bancroft. The duchess engaged St. George's hall one night last week to rehearse ® company of amateurs for «society entertainment at her howe next week. On her grace’s arrival at the hail in the afternoon she found the stage in the possession of Mrs. Bancroft, who was rehearsing a profes- sional company in a piece written by herself. The duchess haughtily said: “This is my stage and I want it.” Mrs, Bancroft us sweetly replied: “No, duchess, the stage is mine and I want it.” “Lsay, woman, ‘tis my stage,” shouted the duchess, «Phen take it.” smiled the actress, ‘The duchess then calicd up her amateurs and began rehearsing at one side of the stage. The actress calied up her professionals and contin- ued rehearsing ou the other, both partes: shouting the other down, At last the duchess, losing patience, began to use more forcible than polite. The actress tried. Rive the duchess as good as she brought, but was no match for her horsey grace, So, draw- ing her skirts well above her ankles, she looked 5 was | the duchess up and down, then turned to her company and said: ~Ladies and gentlemen, let us leave these common people,” and so de- parted under a volley from the duchess, clers, and Mosquitoes Big Enough to Eat Moose. “There is no more wonderful scenery in the world,” said Mr. Marcus Baker of the geologi- cal survey to a representative of Tur Stan, “than is to be found along the coast of Alaska as you go up from Portland by steamer to Sitka and beyond by the inside passage. Only for a very small part of the way do yon feel the ocean swellat all. a continuous archipelago of islands forming a breakwater for hundreds of miles against the waves of the Pacific. while the vessel sails along in water as smooth as a mill pond. Along the maimland mountains thousands of feet high tower precipitously up from the sea, covered with dense timber, while here and there a great fiord reaches up to- ward the interior. The settlements so essen- tial to picturesqueness are penapeur lacking, save now and then an Aleut village may be. Upon reaching Sitka you find yourself ina much more equable climate than that of Bos- ton, its mean temperature being about the same, though it is many degrees north of the latter point. Pursuing your way northward along the coast you sce now and then a glacier reaching down to the sea. When you reach the Yukon, if it is the proper season, you find countless MYRIADS OF CANVAS-BACK DUCKS disporting themselves, That stream, together with other waters thereabouts, is the great breeding ground, you know, for canvas backs, as well for many other sorts of ducks and geese and swans, Allthe canvas backs that are shot on the Chesapeake come from the Yukon and its neighborhood, This fact has been established as a certainty by observation of their flights from various points, their aerial course being by way of the great lakes. “What is the interior of Alaska like?” asked Tue Srax writer. “Itis very mountainous and so bitterly cold through nearly all the year that nobody lives there save a few wretched Aleuts, The sum- mer only lasts about two months, during which the heat in the daytime is apt to be very in- tense, often rising above a hundred degrees in the shade, Grasses and other plants grow and ripen with enormous rapidity during the short warm season, because they have to if they are to grow at ail. In the winter it is night almost all the time, while in summer the sun hardly has time to set before it rises again. Alto- gether it is a very weird sort of country. The coast, of course, is kept warm by the enormous body of water called the Pacific ocean, THERE ARE NO SNAKES IN ALASKA, perhaps because no snakes would live there, The only frog ever discovered by explorers there was found by my own party some years ago. Probably, however, there is no part of the world where mosquitoes are more dreadfal than in Alaska, ‘The soil is of a soft, spongy character that holds water for days after a rain, and the insects are bred out of it in such swarms that it is hardly possible for man or any other animal to exist among them. ‘They at- tack the moose with such ferocity ag to drive the beasts into the rivers, where the natives attack them with knives. Bears and reindeer are plentiful, Perhaps the worst part of Alaska is that tothe northwest, south of the Yukon river—crossed but once by a party of ox- plorers, who nearly starved to death on the way. The history of Alaska is a story of successive leases to fur-gathering companies. When Russia added it to her empire she let it out in terius of twenty years each to such com- panies, but by 1869 the abuses practiced by the fur concerns had become so serious that the matter was made an important question in Russian politics. They decided in St. Peters- burg that Aluska was more trouble than it was worth, Thus it came about that Mr. Seward bought it for a comparatively small price, not- withstanding a very vociferous howl that was raised against the project. That was in 1869. A lease of the seul islands for twenty years was at once giving to an American company. This lease having just expired the same company 18 seeking its renewal, and, as you know, the pro- position is being earnestly antagonized in the Senate.” TEACHING A LITTLE CHINAMAN. The Experience of a Little Girl in the Ascension Sunday School. “Oh, say,” she exclaimed to Tue Srar re- porter, throwiug @ great emphasis on the “say” and her face beaming with a sudden recollection, “have I told you about my China- man?” She was a modest little school girl, and her question seemed a trifle odd, and so Tue Sram man expressed an appropriate amount of genuine surprise and told her that he had never heard of “her Chi “Well, let me tell you,” she continued, and as her auditor did not protest she proceeded: “He is just too cute for anything, and he is so bright that I am sure he will learn to speak real good English very soon, and then I am going to have him teach me Chinese. Won't that be nice?” “But you have not told me who and what he is,” suggested the reporter, “Haven't I? Well, he is my pupil at the Chinese Sunday school at the Ascension church—all my own—and I am teaching him, You sce, we have got to teach them to speak English before we try to teach them any reli- ion, and so Iam now trying to make him un- derstand me. It is pretiy hard sometimes, but Lam sure that he is going to learn.” “How many lessons have you given him?” asked the reporter. ‘Only one, but he can say several things al- ready and he is reai bright, You see there is a little primer book that we use that is written partly in English and partly in Chinese—just ike one of those horrid Latin lesson books, youknow, First there is a line at the top where there are given some English words, you know. and opposite there are the same words in Chinese, Down below, at the bottom of the page, there is a little story that brings in these words and so he learns, He is very eager to learn, but he cannot pronounce xome of the words, for he has trouble with his -r,’ which he will persist in calling an ‘lL’ ¥ can’t break him of the habit. I said he was bright, didu’t I? Well, he is in some things. but he was so stupid last Sunday, The word ‘hand’ was in the copy and I wanted to illustrate its use to him, and so I just stretched out my hand ‘and said: ‘My hand.’ What does the stupid do but reach over and take my hand and say: ‘My hand.’ Of course he did not mean to Ue rude, but it sounded so presumptuous that it made me mad for a minute, But the more I tried to show him his error the more he persisted in saying that my hand was his. At last I took hold of his hand and said; ‘Your hand.’ and then he did the same for me and said: ‘Your hand.’ It was a little provoking, but I am hoping he will know better next Sunday. “I suppose he is a high-toned Chinaman, from the legation, aps, With lots of silks and other mice clothe: gested the reporter. No, indeed, he is not,” was the somewhat indignant reply. ‘He is not one of those Chi- namen, but a real nice. hard-working, poor Chinaman who washes clothes for « living. and Ido not think any the less of him for it. I wouldn't have one of those legation Chinamen; they are so Broad and stuck up they think that there is nothing like them. They don’t come to Sunday school; they know enough already.” “Weil, do you like to teach Chinamen; queried the reporter, to round off the conver- sation, “I should say I did. 1 think it is just too lovely for anything; but I don’t wart to have him think that my hand is his, for it isn’t and it never will be,” and pair of ‘very black eyes sparkled charmingly. “I really don’t know what Iam going to teach him when I get him so that he can read, but I suppose that it will be something religious.” Woman (to Tramp, aes )—"Want something to eat, el Well, here's some cold hash.” Tramp— “But I haven't anything to eat it with. Woman—‘Just keep on a little further and you'll find a fork in the road.”--Exchunge, THE PARLIAMENTARY QUORUM. How They Count It in the House of Commons, London Cor. N. ¥. Times, WED: Much interest, and still more curiosity, has FIFTH. at FAVE UCLOCK, been aroused among politicians here by the PART Lor cabled reports of Speaker Reea’s summary attempts to create a quorum outside of the roll-call test.. The thing is not understood here very clearly because no such a test as a roll call exists, Parliamentary usage here is a quorum of forty members who are within view of the Speaker; if a member desires to count out the house he rises and says to the speaker: “T call your attention to the fact that there are not forty members present.” Thereupon a two-minute bell rings throughout the whole building. Those who wish to leave do so; those who desire to continue the session hurry in, ‘Then the speaker, taking his cocked hat in his hand, which he never wears and never uses for any other purpose, points with it to each man as he counts them. If there are forty the speaker calls on the man having the floor to resume; if not, he simply leaves the chair and the house is adjourned, . ‘There is a good deal of latitude taken by’the speaker in thus making the house, for the doors opening into the lobby are flung wide open and he counts as far out in the lobby as his eye can reach, so that members desiring to count out are careful to step aside, out of his visual range. I ought to add that formerly it was considered utterly bad form to cull atten- | tion to the abseuce of a quorum, and nobody ever did it until Mr. Biggar entered the house | and invented this system of obstruction. The Trish then adopted it and it is now a familiar weapon, ———_ ee Mrs. Kennan’s Helpfulness, Frem the Phiisdelphia Times, George Kennan is one of those fortunate authors who find the greatest possible assistance in their wives. The couple have no children, and she is therefore enabled to devote all her time to her huaband’s interests, and this sho does both willingly and successfully. Each day finds her at work recopying manuscript, reading proof, translating some Russian piece or going over the receipts from his work and seeing to its investment or deposit. Mrs, Kennan is a thorough business woman of con- siderable business tact, and withal possessed of a great deal of personal attraction. —-— oe West Virginia’s Contest Was Costly. The gubernatorial contest bids fair, says a Charleston dispatch to the Baltimore Ameri- can, to be a much more costly matter than was at first deemed possible. Going on the princi- ple thatif there had been no contest there would have been no extra session of the legis- lature the charge on the people will not fall much short of $50,000. When the commission Was appointed to look into the attempted fraud they were to get $4 per day and expenses. The bers have cach drawn $800, This was not deemed enough, and a bill was introduced to give the members £500 extra all around. This came up in the finance committee Saturday and there was a big kick. Members of the com- mission said the allowance was too small and the committee recommended that an extra allowance be raised of $1,250 each. ‘This will make a total of $10,250 as compensation for the members ulone. The stenographer's bill is $3,500, and other expenses in the same ratio. —<e0___ Watches Set by a Bugle Call. “Every watch and clock on Governor's Island, is regulated by the Western Union ball time,” remarked an officer of the fifth artillery the other day. “When Maj. Wal- lace F. Randolph, inspector of rifle prac- tice on Gen, Howard's staff, was in command of this post he conceived and put in operation | a plan which brought the ‘time’ of the island down to a fine point. Maj. Randolph directed that cach day, Just before noon, two enlisted men should be stationed at a point command- ing an unobstructed view of the tower of the Western Union building. One of these was the post bugler, the othera trained signalman, equipped with a powerful field glass, ‘The non- commissioned officer was required to-keep his glass fixed upon the time bull. The instant it dropped he gave the siznal to the bugler, who stood in readiness, and the latter immediately sounded the specified call, which was heard ail over the island, and forthwith there was a gen- eral consultation andadjustment of the watches and clocks,” oo Foreign Notes of Interest. The queen's speech, to be read at the opening of parliament tomorrow, will refer, it is be- lieved, to an Irish land purchase bill’and a bill transferring payment of clerical titles from farmers to land owners, The Parnell commission report will probably be presented to parliament this week. It is not believed that the powers will consent toaconterence to consider Emperor William's plans for the benefit of workingmen. Miss Isabel Florence Gibson, daughter of Col, Charles Henry Gibson of Philadelphia, was married in Paris to Surgeon Walter Croker Pool of the British army. ‘The former palace of Marguerite of Navarre in Paria was burned yesterday. The defense of the dake of Orleans will be that the new conscript act repealed the clause of the expulsion luw that forbids French princes | to serve in the army. The Greek steamer Spyrideon Vaghand has been wrecked near Falmouth. Only eight of the twenty on board were saved, A dispatch from Madrid says that the Orleans pe were settled ata family council at San ucar before the comte de Paris sailed for America. The request of the duke of Orleans that his case be remanded is believed to have spoiled his chances of 2 pardon. He ought to have al- lowed the case to be dealt with summarily. King Carlos has subscribed 245,000 to the defense fund. The queen and dowager queen have subscribed $20,000 each, A Berlin correspondent says that Maj. Wiss- man’s troops in East Africa will be doubled. The funeral of Gen, Salamanca, the late cap- tain-general of Cuba, took place in Havana yesterday with splendid ceremonies, The American squadron is at Nice. Mr. Gladstone has again refused an offer made by a firm of American publishers of £6,000 yearly for everthing he writes for the public, Senor J. d’Andrade Corvo, a member of the Portugal council of state, has sent a challege to fight a duel to Mr. Giynn Petre, the British minister, owing to the nature of his reply to the manifesto of the students, Sea The Colored Man’s Canaan, From the Philadelphia Presa, The next census will show a big increase in the colored population of Philadelphia, The colored people are emigrating from the south, but they are not going to Liberia, as Senators Butler and Morgan desire. They are drifting to the north, and many of them are settling in this city. In June of 1880 there were 31,690 colored men, women and children in this city and good authorities estimate that the census in June of this year will show a colored popu- lation of far over 45,000, — eee. The “First Bale Man” Dead. Hon. Primus Jones, member of the Georgia legislature and famous as having for a long time past marketed the first bale of cotton for the whole south each season, died at Atlanta, Ga., Saturday of pneumonia. He was prob- ably the most successful farmer in Georgia, ee While the authorities are putting all the wires under ground couldn't they be induced to in- clude all the piano wires too?” —/*uck, This must be put down as truly an open win- ter, Gen. Alger is ploughing all over New Jong in January and February.—Lowell ier, SALES. AUCTION SAI ‘FUME DAYS. De eaxsox BROS., Auctioneers. KUSTEE'S FP VALUABLE UNIMPROVED a PROFEETY oe Fae CORNER OF THInTy. HAND V SIREETN NORTHWiS1, IN BURUEITH, ADDITION 10 WEST WASHING: iuder aud by virtue of a deed of trust dated 8, 1888, duly recorded iu liber 1453, at he land Fecordas of the LAstrict of Col Tequest of the hoider of the notes will sell at awe K RUALY, tsbusat FIVE O'CLOCK FM the described real estate,situate iu theDistrictot Col 3 bered six (6) one of r auys from day of Brenig sper ve Wh, MADDOX. Trnetee, jesu-dads” 462 Louisiane avenue, | Sth streets and AUCTION SALES. 1890. —— AUCTION SALES. __ THIS AFTERNOO: EARLY NEW BRICK DWFLIING, No. 430 I N wt STREET NORTHWEST. 4 YERNOUN, FEBRUARY re INE UCL QE we wilsell, ar rout of the SQUARE SOUTH OF SQUARE 516, Fronting 17 Pata hey on I street fo new 4th ond gus ¥ A iuproved by a nearly new Brick wellitie with moderu tmproversen! ‘This property is advantageously situated and worthy the attention of investors, ‘Terms: Que-thint cash, balance in one and two years, Hotes to bear interest at 6 cent, payable semi- | gunually, aud to be yd secured by deed uf trust on pre sold, or all cash, at option of purchaser. Convey aucing, &., at purcliaser's cost. A deposit of $200 at Ume of sale ‘erms to be complied with i fifteen otherwise right reserved to reseil at riak and cost of detauitite purchaser, after fiveday® adveruneurent j nwo eas some Lewspaper puliiahed in Wash: nt .C. f1-d&ds DUNCANSON BROS., Auctioneers, St-THE ABOVE. SALE IS POSTPONED UNTIL MONDAY, FE. : ud oe ¥ HEPAUARY TENTH, sane hour = 0. HOLTZMAN, Real Estate Broker, R. ag Betas ii and Fate. w. CONNECTICUT AVE- REET AND KHODE G30 83-100 FEET NUE BET W ISLAND A ND kU: FINEST BUILDING Lot oN BS Rd ‘S NG TO AN ALL On MONDA AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY TENTH, at HALE-PAS'T FOUR O'CLOCK, we will sell, in front Of the premises, part uf aukaeae } t G1, VARE 159, fronting 40 85-100 feet vu Connecticut avemne and Tunuing back that width to aualey. A plat of the Drpperty can be seen at the office of the auctioneers. ‘This ix one of the finest building lots on this hand- some avenue and one of the few lots not built upon, | Deine near the British minister's, Church of the Cove: dant wud other handsome builditica. | ‘Terms: One-quarter cash, baiance in one, two and three years, notes to Lear six per cent interest, paya- ble seiui-ainually, and to be secured by deed of trast gp the Premises ‘sold, oF all cash, at option of pur- | chaser, A deposit of $000 required ‘at time of sale. Conveyancing, &c., at purchaser's cost. Terms to be complied with in diteen day's, otherwise right reserved to resell the property at the risk aud cust of the de- faulting purchaser after five days’ public notice of gueh resale in some mewspaper published 1n Washing: ngton, D.C, f4-d&ds DUNCANSON BROS., Auetioneers, TO-MORROW. Walter B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers, ALE OF A TWO-STORY BRICK G HOUSE, BEING Ni 0 NINTH SS T sol Whol, WASHING TO! . C. Under and by virtue of a deed of trust dated Jan- Mary 19, 1887, duly recorded in Liber 1228, 244 et. seq.,of the land records of the Distr.c dumbia, an: the request of the hulder o: the note | secured thereby, we will sell at public auction i front of the premises, ou 'TUESDA the ELEVENTH DAY OF FEBKUARY, 1890, at FIVE O'CLOCK P.M, the following described Keal Estate, situate in the Dis: f Col : Fart of orginal lot num- 4), 1n Square putubered tour hundred and nine (400), beg muinwon Ninth street, at apomt uine- tysone (sl) Teet and seventeen one- hundredths (17-100) of # foot north from the southwest corner of said square; thence with said street borth eixhteen (18) feet. thi 3 thence due south ciguteen (1) feet: uence due west nluety (0) feet to the bezinping. the said described part of said lot being lot numbered thirte-n (13) according to Plat or subdivision of said lot two (Z) wud others suid square anuexed to certain deed of trust, recorded | in Liber Ne IL atiolio ZOU et, seq, one of the land records of suid District, together with the per- | betual use of the allev in the Fear uf said lot thirteen a sail plat 1 5 Cs) cash: balance in one and two years, lor which the notes of the purchaser inust be | Kiven with juterest payable wemi-aupually at the | Fate of six (G, per cent per annum wntil paid, secured on the property sold, or all cash, at the purchaser's op- tion. A depositor $100 will be required ou sccept- unce of bid. All conveyancing and recording at pur chaser's cust. “The trustees reserve the right to re- sellatcost ani ti-k of detaulting purchaser if the terms of sale are not complied with im ten days frou day of sale, aiter ten days’ previous adverti-e- ment of suck resale in some newspaper published in Washington City, D.C. CHARLES N. LARN! eT NORTHWEST. ‘of the Supreme Court of the din iquitycunse N is complainant u nts, We Will well at | w EKIDAY, | O'CLOCK prs 1800, A MU ALY 5) + the following described re Biimbercd seven) iu square t a 5 fue to the plan of the city of said part of said lot at dixtant one and siaty -nine (5) inches trom the line of D street ng thence south thirteen (13) theuce nurth thirteen ait (34) imches, and thenes © (105) feet ten ‘and one-half 1¢ pluce of bexinniiuc, improved by a dtore and bw ‘Two-story fram ora Terms of saie rehase money in in two equal iustaliments in six ) Months, With Wterest at six (6) Fy Pu cas, a4 the option of che veces posit of 8100. wi required at Ume ot male, | and the trustees reserve the rizht ty resell at the risk aud cost of the defaulting purchaser. HUGH I. TAGGAICL, CAMP SATMING TON, Trustees, THOMAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. Jari-dis Tononnow. TCLIFFE, DARR » Auctioneers, ~ - = 920 Tu oven aw REGULAR SALF OF FINE HOUSCHOLD FURNI- CHAMBER, L1Bu KY. DINING ROOM ASD OTHER FURNITURE, CARPETS. iso. 10 BECOND-HAND PIANOS 1N GOOD OkDEIC Ls CONSIGNMENT GF HARNESS, SADDLE AND BEIDLES, TAP LOBES we Torether with » menortaent of z aT ACCT ‘On TUESDAY MORNING, FEPRUAKY ELEVENTH, encine at TEN O'CLOCK, ‘our comfortable Sales Kooms, 820 PENSAL AVE NOW. _¥.B—AM! goods sold within the x JOLEY, Auctioneer. THE ENTIRE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, CLOAKS NOTIONS, | &e., TAINED IN STORE 908 TTHSTREET NoOKTHW w . SOLD AT AUCTION, COMMENCING TUESDAY, FEB RUARY 4 AT'I0 OCLOC ND ERY DAY AT SAME HOUR POS iL ‘The stock consists 1 part ax follows ‘Silks. Vel Plushes, Cashineres, Five Dre. Guods, Cloth at Casmmecres, Fiaunels, Furs, Table Linens, Towels, Napkins, tings, “Blankets, Comfi 1 forts, Spreads, Underwear, Hosiery” aud Gloves, Corsets, Handker- chiefs Unibrellas Kabber Garinents, Jerseys aud Cloaks, Ginghanis, Cottons, Sateen. &e., Ke Persons 1u want of the above mentioned will do well to attend this saie.as the woods must be wld without reserve, in Consequence Of achapKe in business, lw" FOLEY, ai FUTURE DAYS. ATCLIFFE, DARK & CO., Auctioneers. ‘920 Pennsylvania ave, Bw, TRUSTEES’ SALE OF A VALUABLE TWO-STORY BEICK DWELLING, No, 2011 PORTNEM PLACE NORTHWEST, By virtue of & deed of trust duly reconied in Liber No. 1300, folio 18, et ‘weg one at the land records of the District of Columbia, and at the request of the patty secured thereby, we wall sell at publie auction im rout of the preiises on MONDAY AFLEKNOUN, FEBKUARY TWENTY-FOUKTH, AD. 1800, AT ‘CLOCK, all that certain piece or HALt-PAST FOUK Parcel of laud and prémises kuown and distimeuisbed ¢ hundred and twenty-six (126) as being lot numb vl in Portuer'x subdivimion of part of square Dumber two hundred and tour (204), as said subdivision is re- corded iu book number fourteen (14), folioone hundred and fifty-eicnt (Lod), of the records of the surveyor of the said District, together with all the Ways, easerients, rights, privileges an to the sume belobing oF in any wise ay The above property wall be sold subject to brauce of about #1,500 with interest at Oy per cent c ins (Which will be fully stated at time of aulr.) rs cash (over aud above the encum- i msix and tweive months with 6 terest, payable semi-annually, secured by dved of trust ou property sold, of ail cash, at option of purchaser. if the termes of sx pled with in ten days from day sale the trustecs reserve the Tight to resell the property at the risk and cost of the deiwuitiue purchaser aiter hve day sOILe hewspaper published iu W poet of BLO00 required upon ace couveyaucing, &c., at }OHLN _f10-<i&ds JACOB JRATHPFE, DARE & Co, Auctioneers, $20 Penu ave uw. ington, DC. A ptauce of bid All \EE'S SALE OF FINE STOCK 0! NISHINGS. DRESS SHIXTS, NI GLOVES, UNDEKWEAK, CULLAK: FFs, HATS, TOGETHER WIT ULL ASSORTMENT OF (GOODS USUALLY FOUND TN hp FIMSI-CLASS GENUS" FUNISHIN pron: By virtue of adeed of ansix @uly recorded, Twill sell at Katelile, Dart & Co., 920 3) THURSDAY MOLSING, PEBKUAKY THI 2890, commencing ut Tis O'CLOCK, a la, ‘d stock of Gents’ Furntshings, Hats, Canes, &c., to which Linvite special attention. it given tome and at the rooms of Terms AARON BRUNN, Assignee, BALCLIFE., DAK ACC, 110-dts Aucuonvers, ALTER B, WILLIAMS & CO, Auctioneers, AENSILS AND A GE OF HOUs: HOLD EFFE On THURSDAY, FEBRUAK enc, LEN O'CLOCK A. ew Jersey avenue w household efects, partially Chunuerated. “Lerma cush. ti0-dts WALTEK B. WILLIAMS & CO., Aucta Rieter. DARK & CO,, Auctioneers, 920 Pa’ ave. now. ye CONTRACTOR'S SALE OF SIX Wi CRIS, HARNESS, SHOVELS LOCK AND TACKLE, J ORK HO! AND re EAT CARIIAGE, DAU, HAKNESS, 10. KING, FEBRUARY EIGHT! K, we will sell im trout of « 0) Pennsylvania ave. n. w all the Horses. Carts, Tools, LAN ‘i, ur account fe-THE ABOVE SALE 18 POSTPONED UNTIL TUESDAY, FEBRUAKY ELEVENTH, 1890, same hour and place. {7-dts Byordervtthe Trustees, DPDUSCASSON Bhtos,, auctioneers CERY 5. UNIMPROVED KEAL ESTA ‘ALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVED AND TALE, BEING HOUSES Ro. 1006 AND NEW HAY ET THEAST Ww O SQUARES SOUTH OF LIN- K, AND UNIMPROVED LOTS IN By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, holding a special term as au equity court, passed on the 2d day of December, A. ISNY, in cause Ni amity, In which Alexander M. Proctor and otiers are coniplainats end Nathan W. Fitzgerald and other defendants, the under- signed trustees, by said decree uppoiuted, seli nt public auction Th frout of the respective premises the Jollowing described real estate, situate in the city of Washington, inthe Disicict of Columbia, on the days «lat the hours atter paued, to wit TUESDAY, PEBLUAKY ELeVENTH, 1890, ‘OUK OC 4a Nathan . Fitzwerald’s 176, exch lot iniproved by a G-room 2-story and baseinent brick dwelling, being Nos, 1908 and 1908 New Hampshire avenue. C UESDAY FEBRUARY CK Pb. Bt Nathin quare 748, on. n Land M street BRU Ag PM, lot LL in of Tots im equa ory brick dwelling, t northwest, z c ME DAY AT FIVEO'C Jot 2 in square 38, with a frame building t the north # Washington cirely vear the interiec dd street. tion of Penusy! ON FRIDAY KIEEN 1H, 1890, at M., lot 49 in Nathan W, ore ou of lots iu squure_ 176, imiproved by a tory and basement brick dwelling ou 17th en T and W streets north: DAY AT FIVE FOUKOC as subd G-roum street betw. ON SAM in square § tween B and C, W. Fitzwerald’s subdive in squall wd by & Y-story ck dwehing, Nos, au 14th street n.w., each coutaining 8 rooms. “Lerms of sale: One-third of the purchi money in cagh and the balance in two equal imstaliments im one and two years, with § per cent interest m day of sale, for whi notes of purchaser or purchasers must be given, secured “i deed or deeds of trust on the property sold, or all cash, at the opti f the chaser or pure! » A deposit of #250 will be re- quired of the purchaser at the time of eale of each piece of properly, except lots m square 748, on which & deposit or #30 cach will be required. All convey- ancipg and recording at the cos the purchaser, If the terms of sale ure not complied with within ten days after sale the trustees reserve the rivht to resell at the k and cost of Lu faulting purchaser, after teu days’ pple sare ent in some newspaper ablished in Washing to: .C, = HENRY Wisk GARNETT, 416 Sth st. uw, EDWARD H. THU v6 F st. Dw.,. Ja18-codtfeitats_ ae (QEO W. STICKNEY, eal Estate Auctioneer, G 936 F st. now, E'S SALE OF VALUABLE IMPROVE! RTEAL ESTATE, KNOWN AS NUMBERS 6: Bes 530 AND 532 SIXTH EasT. By virtue of s decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia passed on the second day of Jan- unr; 1890, in cause No. 12075, tquity docket Geor al, Martha E action, on SA TUK pigsty A.D. f rene ie. SS Evans et uublic. DAY ‘T FOU i o Gi HALF-PAS’ (103) in Sam'l Maddox, Trusts inal lots muubered 9,10 and original lot numbered 11 in § huudced and. sixty-seven (S6 tug improved by a two-sto: suine being kuo' 4 wis as NOs, northeast. SECOND, On the SAME DAY, at QUARTER PAST FIVE O'CLOCK, P.M., in front of the p oO ela . numbe nee ) square aud seventy mx ribed follows: beg 4 punton South BE street distant ove twenty-six feet frum thesoutbeast corner of said square and runming theuce east alopx suid E Street 17 fevt 734 inches; due north Ok feet 7 inches; theuce nurthwesverly 6:5 feet 7 inches to South ry 80 to the place aE a aren, a aut ies tad tenes eri 20 fet uci to te if “mt being the west oO} iccaubered wren save, aud uv te wesier eae : beck with p that with ap thereerinnetati tee South Carol enue, id and conveyed by one Walter Evans tap rong ts | Pawnee.’ a theust, Un the SAM& DAY, THrREAFTER, in frout of the ‘arriage, wed in said business, to which we iu- Vite weneral attention, Terms cash, KATCLIFFE, DARK & CO., fa-dt Auctioneers, count we Tein wu! 2 Yt CWE: DaY ‘OF FEBKUAKY, 1800. san KATCLIFF! 18-dts ra Bo RAICLIFFE, DARR & CO., Auctioneers, 0 Pa. ave. nw. ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE OF LAW LIBRARY. OFFICE FURNITURE, &,, OF NEHEMIAH 1 MILLER, DECEASED. By virtue of an order of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, bolding a special term of said court for Orphans’ Court business, passed in the matter of the estate of Nehcamiah H. Miller, deceased, te Undermictied, as adiuinistrator of said ‘estate, will sell PUBLIC AUCTION on THUKSDAY AND FAI S, the TWENTIETH AND TWENIY- OF FEBKUALY, 1890, HALF-PAST SEVEN O'CLOCK, AT. AUCTION OUMS OF ci RATCLIFFE, DARK & CO. No. PENNSYLV ENUE (SOUTH SID! NOMINTH AND TENTH STREETS NORTH. the Law Library of said Nehenuuh M. Miller, stinw of well-selected text Looks on we ts; also American apd English Keports, the American Decisions, Americ werican State Keports, Burrows’ le poi Cowper's seports, Durnford and East Leports, Kast Reports, Jolinson'Law and Chancery (New York) Kez ‘ta, M idox Chai i the Court DEPARTMENT, T DaYs. MENCING AT. HE Uyituder Kolling Lup Des, Buk ‘Cees. Cyluder Kolling Lop Dest volvil Look Case, Chairs, Iron Safe of Muller Pateut, Riyes ou witure: and also a Certificate for ean id also WILLIAM J. MILLER, administrator, Office 486 wave, IN BROS., Auctioneers, D ATTRACTIVE Sal HOUSFHOLD EFFECTS, EMBRACING, IN PART, LOK FURNITURE IN SUITES AND sEvalt PIECES, UPHOL- STEREO IN SILK PLUS! SLAB AND BRACKET, M1. ‘TAB, PICLURES, rOkTIEMES, LACECURTAIN RACK, CHEK. ¥ SUT AND OTHER B wv. ‘it. (HER Bibs, 1 ML CHERLY BUFFET, CHE TABLE WITH CHAIRS TO } EL PLAYED WAKE. GLASS WA KY, &e. VET AND Dovy i 7. SSELS CARPET, TABLES, CHAIKS, KITCHEN &., BEING CONTEN’S OF EIGHIEENTH SITREED NOW MORNE FEBRUARY TWELFTH, Isvu, AT TEN U'CLOCK AM sell the entire contents of house No. Szi' Tsth st. ‘. ‘This collection is nearly new aud should com- uiatid the attention of parties refuruishiug and those iu Search of line furuiture, DUNCANSON BEOS., {8-3t Auctioneers, FPHOMAS DOWLING, auctioneer. IAL SALE OF FINE CARKIAGES, ING eNGLISH LANDAU BY PET: DO: 3ON FKONT LANDAULET, 3 ELET. SATIN-LINED BKEWST EE UROUGHAM ENERAL OTHER CAKIIAGLS, WAGUNS, © DA ', FEBRUARY TWELFTH, 1800, LOCK A-M., in front of my sales abov ‘erms THusAS DOWLING, Auctioneer. fPHOMAS DOWLING. Auctioneer. TRUSTEN’S SALE OF ONE HOTEL OMNIBUS. By Virtue of a chattel deed of trust dated 16th Octo- ber, 1889, aud duly recorded in Liber 1428, folio 389 et seq., of the Jand records of District of Colum! i will sell at public suction in. frout of Thos, Dowling’s Fome on MEVNESDAY, FEDRUAKY TWELEIE, 40, at ELEVEN O'CLUC! .M., Une Hotel Ommi- tioned in aforesaid dved'of tru bus, an af ust. “Terms cash, G. a PREVOST, t Tustee. MPRIS- OF LON- S-dts GPO. W. STICENEY, Auctioneer, 936 F st, SALE OF VALUABLE It Tk IN THE SUBLIVIs1ON OF BARK’ FRONTING ON SHERMAN AVENUE, IMPROVED BY WELL KENLED HOUSES, By virtue of a certain deed of trust, recorded in Liber No. 1423, folio 331 et seg., one’ of the land records for the District of Columbix. and at the request party wec' y, 1 will offer for sale, iu t on "SATURDAX, bs die TEEN’ » 1800, AT HALF. PAST FOUK O'CLOCK P.M, the following described property in the county of Was iy District of Coltuabia, to wits Alef lot 16, iu section 3. of the subdivision of Barry Farm estate, as made by ‘trustees thereof, now on file in the office of the sur- Yeyor of the Listrict of Col the west one-half of lot 45 of @ récent subdivision said lot 16. rghet abi anv OTHER A BBB UU Sss® rer oo be $3 t ° by u vo u THE EVENING STAR is offered to the pub- lic, in good faith and with contidence, as THE BEST LOCAL ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN THE UNITED STATES. Iu point of fact, it may be truthfally said that it is without an equal in this respect any where in the world. These averments are borne out by the figures given below, which are compiled from the sworn weekly statements printed in the paper on each Monday in the year, and condensed from the sworn tabular statements showing the average daily circulation of the paper during the year 1889, published in Tue Sra on the 18th of January, 1590. Briefly stated, the points upon which the above claim is based are these: That— 1. The Star has three times the cirea- lation of any other paper in Washing= ton! 2 The Star’s circulation in Washing- ton is double that of all the other daily Papers published in the city added to- gether!! 3. fhe Star bas a targer and fuller circulation in the city where printed, im proportion to rending and purchas- ing population, than any other news paper im the world!!! 4. The Siar has the targest reguiar and permanent home circulation of any two-cent afternoon paper in the United States !i!! In support of these claims and to show the constantly increasing circulation of the paper, attention is invited to the figures following: PAILY CIRCULATION IN I885-85-87-88-89, ISS3. INSG. ISS7, ISSS, JAN...20,486 23,388 23,470 26,386 Fes...22,029 24,321 26,299 27,161 Mak...25,549 25,594 26,000 27,490 APK...22,572 24,727 25,575 27,166 MAY..22,474 24,359 25,742 26,722 JUNE..21,933 23,902 25,116 27,453 ISS9, 27.5 29,200 34,766 29552 29,616 30173 29.650 25,985, 2475 30,329 31,053 31,653 Av'ge.22,123 23,682 25,484 27,082 30,090 Increase + 1,559 1,803 1,598 3,008 Of this remarkable average aggregate of 30,090 copies circulated daily, no more than 1,102 copies are sent out of the city by mail, and 1,106 go to suburban places, by @xpress, railway trains, etc., leaving as a net circulation im the city proper the PHENOMENAL PRO- PORTION of 92% PER CENT, or AN AGGRE- GATE of 27,882 copies! Of this number, 21,142 were delivered daily by regular carriers at the homes of permanent sub- scribers. The remaining 6,740 copies represent the sales over the office counter, at the news stands, end by newsboys. But of this latter number a very large proportion is supplied regularly to per- manent residents of the city living in lodgings, &c. (not householders), so that its whole circula tion may be literally said to be in the family circle, While its aggregate circulation there- fore gives Tue Straw a distinctive and enviaiie position in modern journalism, the fullness of its home circulation, the extent to which AUG...21,445 22,364 24.559 25,521 SEPT..21,033 22,302 24,905 25,324 Oct...21,497 21,71 24,807 25,946 Nov...22,049 23,651 25,697 25,14 DkC...23,000 24,687 26,466 26,752 it is relied upon by members of the houschold, and particularly by the pure chasing portion of the community, are the marked characteristics of the paper, to which no other daily journal now published can furnish a parallel. This is no idle boast on the part of the paper. It is a well established fact, demonstrated to the full satisfaction of the sagacious and enter- prising business men of Washington, who seek and know where to find THE LARGEST RETURNS FROM THE MONEY PAD OUT FOR ADVERTISING. This is proven by the growth of Tae Srax’s advertiving patronage. Nothing can more surcly illustrate the esteem in which any article is held by the public than a constantly increasing demand for it—day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year,—in the face of ad- verse claims and pretentiouscompetition, The figures following tell the story on this point: NUMBER OF NEW ADVERTISEMANTS ©RINTED Et 1S85-S6-87-88-80, IsS6. LSS7 3,200 3,615 3,064 3,847 3.506 4,669 4,355 5,475 4,197 5,395 3.935 4,522 3235 BNL 2eN2 4,170 4,208 4,517 4,579 5,313 4,250 5,038 3,596 5,093 TOTAL 41,499 45,910 54,038 34,501 65,522 But it is not alone in numbers that the great increase of advertising is shown. The larger space required for advertisements during the year 1889 as compared with that occupied wm 1888 iseven more striking. ‘The average daily space filled by advertine- ments in 1898 was 25.10 columns, or 7779 columns for the year; whereas for the year 16S9 the dany average was 29.75 columns, or 9223 columns in the aggregate, being a total gain over the pre- vious yearof1444columns! And this, it must be remembered, consisted exclusively of the in the way of tax sales, poil lists, election returns, etc., such as occasionally swell the business of Political organs, being included im ite patrom age. In conclusion, it is only necessary to say that, in proportion to the extent and high character Of its circulation, Tux Stan's advertising rates take rank with the very lowest in tho country, and to add, finally, that every statement hercit made can be abundantly verified THE CIR CULATION OF THE PAPER IS SWORN TO; ITS PRESS AND CIRCULATION ROOMS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND ITS BOOKS MAY BE INSPECTED BY ANY ONE HAVING 40 INTEREST IX THEIR EXAMINATION inss. 4,076 S024 2.603 4,986 SATE 4,606 3915 3.508 4.004 3,412 4.680 3,007 Ine. SUNB....3,474 JULY....3,063 Ave 3.565, 4.485 1.608 3.589 6.589 6,107 5,793