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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20
-. sstown Advertisements.
0@ CORPORATION OF GEORGETOWN
N TAXES.
FINAL NOTICE.

r CoRPoRATIoE OF GEORGETOWN
FINAL NOTICE.
Tks time for the payment Of the GENERAL and
The law IL imperative (laarins no dtscraso. .rifA
the Collector, TO advertise an property for the non
payment OF taxes after that date Property holders
will save iSrthsr heavy shsrses ,s IN grageTiy 70
immediately after the above named date
GEORGE W. BEkLL,
&C q -2aw4w Collector.
Try THOMAS BOWLING, Auctionesr.
CHANCERY SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY
SPACE IN GE0RGETOWN.
- BY virtue Of . decree u the supreme Court
IN. Of the District of Columbia, setting as Court
kof Equity passed in a cause in which Eliza
others defendants, No. LIS in Equity, the undersign
ed a Trustee will Offer at public sale on the premises
on TT EsDAl, the 0th day Of November next, at
No. <3 situated the east side of Market Space in
GeOrgetown. District Of Columbia. fronting - feet
more or less and running back the same width Ia
other buildings upon the same, and all the rights,
way and arpurtenances ca the same belonging as de-
scribed in deed from Charles Marquand and others
TO John Bogue recorded Ia Liber J. A. :. No. is
ticuRr description.
Terms Of sale: One third cash The residue of the
purchase money in and l. months, the purchaser
Civ ing his note bearing interest from the day u SALE
or the whole OF the purchase money may be paid
within days after the sale On payment &c the pur
chase money and the ratification OF the sale by the
Court the Trustee will convey the premises 20 the
purchaser at his cost and expense, free clear and
discharged OF all claim Of the parties tn the cause.
II. +. JACKSON, Trustee.
nol9 IHoNAs BOWLING, Auctioneer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

BASE BALL.-A game Of base bah was played
on Thanksg giving day on the grounds of the Deaf
and Dumb College, between the Kendall club
and the Anderson Of this city in which the for
mer was victorious by score OF . TO p.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

HERNANN, the prestidigitateur, who has for
several wee Ks past been astonishing the inhabit-
ants Of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore
with his wonderful feats Of legerdemain and
whose dexterity is spoken of BY a Baltimore
paper as appalling is to give series of en-
tertainments at Metzerott Hall, in this city,
next week. great many tickets for reserved
seats have already been sold, as Hermann's
fame has preceded him. He is said to have
largely increased his repertoire Of diabolisms
since his last appearance in this part of the
world, and many of his new tricks are represent
ed 10 surpass any heretofore exhibited i'm this
country, and to completely nonplus that inevi-
table member OF the audience who always know,
Just how il is done.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

CIRCUIT COURT, Judge Cartter-Yesterday,
Barth vs.. King; submitted. johnson s. Co. VS..
Hart ct al; plaintiff granted leave to amend;
verdict for plaintiff Butts VS.. Thompson; judg-
ment confessed. Hough Il Fry VS.. Middleton;
10. Kerr W. Amos; do. Maury VI. Alabach;
DO. Love 81 Co. vs.. Stevens; DO. Simpson 4
Co. vs.. Amos; Judgment on award of arbitrator.
Swaziland VS.. First National Bank; verdict for
plaintiff. On motion of Mr.. Darlington, Mr..
Corwine, OF the Ohi9 bar, was admitted to this
bar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

COOPERATION OF STATE AssOCIATIoNs.-
The committee appointed at the last meeting of
ington met on Wednesday evening and directed
the secretary Of the, committee, Mr.. w. j.
Hynes, to communicate with the proper officers
of the other State associations with view to
uniting with them in procuring an acceptable
hall for their permanent use in common, or as
may be agreed upon, and to establish facilities
for their social and intellectual enjoyment for
the coming season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

COOPERATION in the purchases Of food has
Congressional Printing Once. One hundred
barrels of Kentucky white wheat family four
have been purchased and delivered for 81 80 per
barrel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20
STEAMBOAT LINES.

THE sTAUNCH AND FAyoRITE sTEAMER
II J. p. SMITH, Captain A. b. -
Field, will leave Washington, 9Th st. kRS
MORNING, at clock, for all Landings on the Po-
tomsc River, arriving at kinsae same evening leav
ing kinsale at a. m. WEDNESDAY, arriving i'm
GEO. r.. CUSHING,
Superintendent Peoples Accommodation Steamboat
Line ocls-u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

IxPAssABLE--The rain last night inrra...,
the size Of the gutter across MARYLAND avenue
between 18th and 18th streets east, 20 sueh An
extent that - impossible to-day, and Is a Sc
Jious drawback 70 the farmers and countrv neo-
pie who are constantly using that route on their
way 70 and from market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20
HE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH.


None but those deprived Of this blessing know Of
its loss The pimplec, blotched and letter covered
person looks upon clear smooth skin with jealousy,
and inwardiy desires the same Those whose sys-
TENS are filled with the virus OF sCkOfCLA and
other cutaneous diseases cannot have good health.
when the blood b impure. disease IL sure TO follow.
All have timely warning IN thoee Blstchee, Pim-
plee letters, Sores, Boils Copper coored Patches.
Scales, &C: Avert the calamity By purifying The
system with the II
sAMARIfANs ROOT AND HERB JUICES,
before scrofula takes arm hold.
How many have the virus Of In the System,
ing little Of It's banefa influence the constitution.
these Impurities q that scrofulous Infection (which
in many csses is hersditary in the be-
fore you bring m1seey on yoursen and Offspring.
SAMAKITAN's GIFT.
The only real cure for Gonorrhoa, elect and Die
caused from indscrefion Only ten piils pure
" vegetable We discard 1sisam Copebsa and Mer-
curry - being not only useless but hurtful. en-
cures In fro0 to % four thus avoiding r0ubles
exao@re, and tie sxtortto. q euacks- nsle Pack.
-, "a EspaAss. %. SOFA q g g FQkp, and
nsS.soiy els RAe. ss-sss. fSiissespsia.
As55sSsyt 81 F1H r. 4:s r. Az
vs1systts street, bslcDors, Nd. Sent free . any
addTe0, ocD1ly
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

SUDDEN DHArH.-This morning the body of
an unknown colored man was found i'm a build
ing near Fowler's wharf, foot of 10th street, and
the Coroner; DIR. Potter, is holding an inquest
this afternoon. He was seen on the wharf last
evening, and, complaining of severe pains, some
Of the wharfmen gave him some lavender
brandy, and he went to the shed and laid down,
which was the last seen Of him alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

ARREST OF A HORSE THIEp-Joseph Bell,
colored, was arrested this morning by Oficer
Sneed, at Wallis Bazaar, for stealing valuable
horse from Governor Bowie, in Prince Georges
county, Nd, yesterday, and offering it for sale
at the horse auction. The Governors overseer,
who Is here, states that the horse Ia valued ct
500, and it had been knocked down for 81 just
before the arrest was made. 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

Mr.. WILLIAM p. HELEN, of this city, has,
according to TAe Neu Atricaa of the 9tk inst.
arrived in Santa Fe with his bride, and resumed
his duties in the Office Of the chief commissary of
that military district
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

PIyYY' PoINr-Messrs. Potts and Shelley
have leased Piney Point, and win take poses
sion on the first Of January, and by the OPENING
of next season intend to make extensive im1
prov ements, and make il, as in former years.
one of the finest watering places i'm the country
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

TOR LIVERPOOL AND QUEENSTOWN.
Imam Line Of Mail Steamers. sailing from New
York EVERY SATURDAY and AL ze4R4
TERNATE TUESDAYS. SfS
Tickets sold 20 and from England, Ire -
land, and the Continent.
FOR full information apply 20 JOHN q. DALE,
Agent, Is Broadway, New York. or
MIDDLETON 4 CO., kERS,
au24-tf Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

DESPERATE ASSAULT IN CHURcH.-Night be-
fore last, rs q festival was In progress at st.
Paul's Colored Church, in South Washington,
simon Lyburn attacked Samuel Stephenson,
knocking him down and cutting him in several
places, and also attacked John Delaney. Of
ficer Il. J. King arrested Lyburn, who Is held
for hearing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

BooKBINDERs' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION
A meeting of bookbinders- was held here this
week and ID AMI Mcfarland was elected presi-
dent pro te m and John b. Perkins secretary
pro TEN. After the consideration OF the report
Of the committee appointed at a previous meet
ing, constitution and bylaws were adopted
and those present signed the articles Of aSsOcia-
ton and organized themselves into a benevolent
and provident or health insurance association.
TO be known as the Bookbinders' Mutual Relief
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

FROM THE AZ THOR, Mr.. b. T. Spencer. of this
city, We have the "Eyangcline Dream Walt :.
ms popular piece OF music was performed Al
some Of the Marine Band afternoon co..sr-s
last summer with great acceptance, and We nm
derstand the leader Of the orchestra at the Na
nonal Ineatre has arranged IT for the purpose of
introducing " in the music of that estahI;sS
ment- We congratulate our young townsman %,
his success. oh
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

JUBILEE EXERCISES AT ST. ALoYsIUs
CHURCH.-On sunday evening next gious
exercises, exclusively for gentlemen, are an
nounced at ST. Aloysius Church. The Rev. VIM.
Clarke, Of LoyOla College, Baltimore, will
preach every evening at O'Clock. The preacher
is well-known in Washington. being native of
this city, We believe, one of the most eloquent
preachers of his order, fulfilling what is said to
be the qualification of a good Jesuit-''a lion in
the pulpit; a lamb in the confessional"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

l. q. G.. 1.-THE Grand Lodge OF the indie
pendent Order of Good Templars OF the District
of Columbia held its annual session this week
ness the following officers were elected to serve
the ensuing year:-G. W. G.. T., David Baker of
Bethesda Lodge No. s; g. W. c., Samuel Hous-
ton. OF Rising Sun Lodge No. 4; q. w. v. T.,
Mary A. Darnall, Of Purity Lodge No. 4: G. W.
r., l. II. Patterson. of Morning Star Lodge No.
$; Representative to Grand Lodge OF North
America, A. t. Longley, of Rising Sun No. 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

Row IN SroRE-Last evening Peter Will
lams sent q child to Mrs. Illusions store In Van
street TO make purchase, and he alleges that
tne proper change was not sent back to him,
Hhen he went to the shop, and dispute arising,
down Williams obtained a warrant charging
MT hurston with assault and battery, and she
also Obtained warrant against him, and both
M, sea5s1s a % oy Emser Gunnell, and are held
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

ABATEMENT OF TAxEs-To-day, the bill
providing for an extension of time during which
the abatement OF hve per cent. ON PAYMENTS of
taxes To January LIST was presented to the
Mayor, and he declined to sign 1t, and viii
probably send in a veto on Monday NIGHT
The abatement under the last act expires to -,lay
and If the Mayor does not consent to sign the
bill, or the Councils do not pass il over the Veto
pointed IN having to pay the fun amount.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-20

REAL ESTATE SALEs.-Kilbourn 8 Latta,
real estate brokers, have sold to ID. 8. Evans
lot ., square Sos ON 10Th street east, between 1
and X streets; lot IA, square ss5, on 9Th street
east, between Il and + streets, lot 10, square
LES, on Tennessee avenue, between b and &,
streets, Tor cash-$5,7D75.
Thomas bowling, auctiOneer, sold yesterday
lot, with improvements, on Water street
Georgetown, to DIR. Charles III. Laub, for 50 500.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22
Plain Speech to Mothers.

Professor Simpson, of Edinburg, who
has had large and long experience in the
medical treatment of mothers and children,
gave public address lately on matters of
hygiene. He spoke most plainly to moth
ers who send their children to the grave by
exposing arms and legs, while other parts
of the body are warmly dressed. Mothers,
he continued, commit child-murder, and
then wonder how God could be SO unkind
as to take away their darling. They not
only murder their children, but in his opin-
ion, commit suicide themselves, by expos
ing their own necks to the cold air. Itwas
a puzzle which he could not understand,
that women should cut off the top of their
dresses and appear with bare bosoms in re-
fined society, while that part of the dress
which should protect the heart and lungs,
and other vital organs, is trailing in the
mud.
Not to speak of health at the present
moment, he would remark that the exhibit
ton of a semi-nude but seldom approaches
to the classical standard of harmonious
proportions of parts and fullness of outline,
and is rarely suggestive of beauty and love-
illness. The inquisitive observer feels him
self quite at a loss to know the precise line
of division between the part which fashion
claims for exposure and the rest which
modesty would conceal. The boundary is
too changeable. More ought to be left to
the imagination and less to be condemned
by good taste. But, if mothers, and full
grown daughters, insist on being the vic
Tins of fashion, children ought to be ex-
empt from its insane and cruel requirements.
What has fashion to do with children, or
they with Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22

SILENT INFLUENCEs.-The Rev. Albert
Barnes says: at is the bubbling stream
that flows gently; the little rivulet which
runs along day and night by the farmhouse
that is useful, rather than the swollen flood
OF warning cataract. Niagara excites our
wonder, and we stand amazed at the power
and greatness of God there, as he pours it
from the hollow of His hand. But one
Niagara is enough for the continent and
the world, while the same world requires
thousands and tens Of thousands Of silver
fountains and gentle flowing rivulets that
water every farm and meadow, and every
garden and shall flow on every day and
night with their gentle, quiet beauty. So
it is with the acts of our lives. 1t is not
by great deeds, like those of the martyrs,
good is to be done, but by the daily and
quiet virtues of life, the Christian temper,
the good qualities of relatives and friends"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22
A Merchants Story.

A member of large mercantile firm re-
Gently gave bit of his early experience in
this wise:
81 was seventeen years old when left
the country-store l had tended for three
years, and came to Boston in search of a
place. Anxious, of course, to appear to
the best advantage, l spent an unusual
amount of time and solicitude upon my
toilet; and when it was completed, I sur
veyed my reflection i'll the glass with no
little satisfaction; glancing lastly and most
approvingly upon seal-ring which embel-
lished my little finger, and my cane, very
fine affair. which purchased with direct
reference to this occasion. My first days
experience was not encouraging; traversed
street after street-up on one side and down
on the other-without success. fancied,
toward the last, the clerks all knew my
business the moment entered the door,
and they winked ill-naturedly at my dis
comfiture as passed out. But nature en-
dowed me with good degree of persist
ency, and the next day I started again
Toward noon l entered store where an
elderly gentleman stood talking with lady
by the door. I waited till the visitor had
left, and then stated my errand. mo, SIR
was the answer, given in peculiarly crisp
and decided manner. Possibly I looked the
Encouragement began to feel; for he adj
Tod in, L NJ
taking hint?' Il don't KNOW answered
|, while my face flushed painfully. what
| wish to say is this, said he, smiling at
my embarrassment; 'if were in want of a
clerk, l would not engage a young man
who came seeking employment with tlashy
ring on his finger and swinging fancy
cane For moment mortified vanity
struggled against common-sense, but sense
got the victory, and I replied-with rather
Il shaky voice, am afraid-'I'm very much
obliged to you,' and then beat hasty re-
treat. AS soon as l got out of sight, slip
ped the ring into my pocket, and walking
rapidly to the Worcester depot, left the
cane in charge of the baggage-master until
called for" 1t is there now, for aught
know. At any rate, never called for it.
That afternoon | obtained situation with
the firm of which am now partner
How much my unfortunate finery had in
jured my prospects the previous day shall
never know; but 1 never think of the old
gentleman and his plain dealing without
feeling, as l told him at the time, very
much obliged to him.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22

needle and this coarse thread-well, l
neverr' With this Miss Minnie rethreaded
the needle, and with rare delicacy and rarer
skill proceeded in half minute to do what
the Judge had been trying to do for an
hour. The girl told the story ten minutes
| afterwards with so many feminine variations
and exaggerations, that ], in self-defense,
relate the plain, unvarnished truth here.
Every time sec the Judge now l am so
| forcibly reminded of SUIT Lovengood trying
to jump into his trousers that l laugh out
right. If ever opportunity offers l think
the Judge will fine me for contempt of
Court, and Minnie, am quite sure, will be
sent to the State Prison for ten years.
By the way, what strange creatures girls
are. Minnie is great friend of mine; she
always tells me all her secrets. She told
me last Sunday evening the story of every
young man who had called to see her
| There were several of these, and among
them very excellent young fellow who
didn't seem to call on her as much as on the
family. The young lady, / soon decided,
didn't care much for him. He was too
quiet, he made too little effort to please he
didn't play the agreeable. She was always
telling me about what the other gentlemen
said, about how handsome they We're, or
how foolishly they acted, or how they were
dressed, and how much she liked them, but
my quiet friend didn't receive the honor of
single reference. She always met him in
4 matter of-course way that seemed to say,
"Now you are good fellow and friend,
but don't you presume to be my beau. -
The others she met with gay sallies and
bright words of welcome. l was vexed at
this, and thought l would lecture the girl
at the first opportunity.
| Twas absent two days. Imagine my sur
prise last night to see my quiet friend
enter, and Miss Minnie run to meet him,
the two entering the room hand in hand
Then she insisted on him having the best
chair, chartered to him necessarily about
music and books, asked him hundreds of
delightful little questions, and in less than
half an hour proposed that they take
moonlight walk. There was no effort
about this manner no embarrassment
The girl acted in the same "matter-of-
course way" but was now as eager as she
had before been reserved
The mother explained that the gentel-
man was now an accepted lover. That the
girls reserve was the natural consequence
of loving a man whose feeling toward her
self she did not understand. AS soon as
he expressed this feeling, she as proudly
made known her love in every action as
she had concealed it by her womanly ways.
This gave me one lessen more in the mys-
terry of heart feeling. l thought all the
time this girl had been telling me her
secrets, but instead of this she had been
hiding them from me by series of feints
and maneuveres that would do credit to old
General Sherman. l have been a little
afraid of the girl ever since.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22

Ralph Waldo Emerson says: "Show
us an intelligent family of boys and girls,
and we will show you a family where news
papers and periodicals are plenty, Nobody
who has been without these private tutors
can know their educating power for good
or evil Have you ever thought of the in-
Vulnerable topics of discussion which they
suggest at the breakfast table; the import
ant public measures with which, thus early.
our children become acquainted; great
philanthropic questions of the day, to
which, unconsciously, their attention is
awakened, and the general spirit of intelli-
gence which is evoked by these quiet visit
ors? Any thing that makes home pleas
ant, cheerful, and chatty; thins the haunts
of vice, and the thousand and one avenues
of temptation, should certainly be regarded,
when we consider its influence on the
minds the young, as great social and
moral light"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-05-22
cpl Take What Father Takes"

"What will you take to drink 9' asked
the waiter of a young lad who for the first
time accompanied his father to public
dinner. Uncertain what to say and feeling
sure that he could not be wrong if he fol-
lowed his fathers example, he replied:
"I'll take what father takes"
The answer reached the fathers ear and
instantly the full responsibility of his posi-
ton rushed upon him. If he said, "Tn
take ale" as he always had said before, his
son would take it also, and them And the
father shuddered as the history of several
young men, who, once promising like his
own bright lad, had been ruined by drink,
started up in the solemn warning before
him. Should his hope also be blasted, and
that open-faced, noble lad become burden
and a curse as they had come? But for
strong drink they would have been, earnest
prosperous men; and if it could work such
ruin upon them, was his own son safe p
Quicker than lightning these thoughts
passed through his mind, and in moment
the decision was made. 1" If the boy falls,
he shall not have me to blame;" and then,
in tones tremulous with emotion. to the
establishment of those who knew him, he
said, "Waiter, I'll take WATER" and from
that day to this, strong drink has been BAN
ished from that mans home.
The young lad in his brief utterance,
was really the representative of the gener-
alton to which he belongs. God has so de-
creed it, that the father is the highest au-
thority in the world to his child. Who
does not know that "My father said so, -
is the end of all controversy, with the little
ones around us? Who does not see the
parents tone, gait, and manners continual Y
reproduced in the children whose nature is
now soft as wax to receive an impression,
and rigid as marble to retain it, and who
watch with quick, initiating eye those
who to them are Gods vice-gerents?
Would that we could impress upon the
fathers and mothers of this country the
solemn fact that the future character of
their children is being formed by them;
that if they are trained up in way they
should go, when they are old they will not
depart from it; but that, if they become
vain, sensual, and degraded, the seeds will
have been deposited and the bias given in
the early morning of their lives.
Voice Of Truth.