Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-10-01

We clip the following from the money column
OF the New York Journal Of Commerce, one of the
ablest commercial and financial papers in the
country. This article is especially apple able TO
large number of our own citizens who live
upon fixed salaries. Here, in Washington there
has long been an outcry against heavy taxes
and exorbitant rents. To-day, such a complaint
is groundlessi our taxes are lower than in any
other large city OF the land, and any man of
energy can procure home for himself and
family. The large number OF comfortable resi-
dences, of every capacity, now going up in
different parts of our city, can be procured upon
terms to suit any purchaser, and neglect of such
rare opportunities to provide for the future is
absolutely without excuse. The extract will re-
pay q careful perusal:
I'VE are very happy to answer our friend who
wishes to know how, on salary of 81 900 per
aDnum, he is ito make both ends meet There
Is no length or rope whose ends cannot be
brought Together IL too much isn't put in the
enclosure. Two yards OF line will not reach
ends meet nicely, with something to spare.
There may be a limit of salary below starya-
ton wages; but a man with q wife and one
child, four years DID, can live comfortably upon
one thousand dollars a year. He cannot rent a
house on Fifth Avenue, nor can he dress his
wife in Cashmere robes, nor take a carriage to
very commodious and independent, nor pur-
chase many comforts he nav have deemed
indispensable; but II he will cut his coat
according TO the cloth, in a cheerful.
economical spirit, he viii find his shelter, food.
and raIment far above the limit Of positive
discomfort The greatest burden, in the
attempt to support family OH the sum men,
toned, is the attempt, universal in Americans,
to I" ep up appearances" by which is m can't
to maintain a show of being and having not
waIraEtCd by truth. This l. why the German
mass OF natve.born laborers having equal pay.
A man who IS content to appear what he is. to
his situation With cheerful PURPOSE 70 TO ADo st
the best OF 1t, has conquered nearly all OF its
difheulties at the start, and little carefulness
in management of details will dc all the rest
Out Of every 81 eco spent from salaries of this
amount in this city, how much goes for that
which brings no real comfort, and is positively
wasted? III this portion were saved and hon.
estly applied TO real uses, the gulf at which so
many gaze despairinsly would he bridxed over
and peace and comparative plenty would of
tener be the constant attendant at the poor
mans board
The Washington and Georgetown Street Rail-
road Company came mp squarely to their prom
Use, and to-day are charging only five cent fare
Ii may be rough for the stockholders, but the
public like the reduction amazingly. 1--WE
cent fare Is so handy, YOU know! An exuberant
friend OF ours announces his purpose to ride
over the road all day, to enjoy the luxury of pay
ing i've cent fares.
This unreasonable hot weather following upon
rain y favorable to disease, and affords a par
ticular invitation to the yellow fever, which
seems to have got a foothold at New York and
elsewhere. Our health officers should exercise
a little extra vigilance to put the city in good
sanitary condition.
The Augusta Journal Is authority for the state
ment that some weeks ago President Grant Of
fered the mission to England to Senator Nor
rill, OF Maine, but that he was obliged to de-
cline the offer.
The registration Of voters in the several dis
tIic.s OF Montgomery county, Md, foots up 223
whites, ,54i colored.
To-Day all the street railroads in New York
and Brooklyn, with one exception, have re-
duced fare to five cents.
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vices at II o click. EDWIN JANIS,
1t Register Of vestry
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preach IN TIE UnitaTi an Church. corner Of
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y. Sermon in the morning from the text, where
"Relisi0n present duty and Joy" The Sunday
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