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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-06-22

~MEM0RIAL DAY-EXEOUTIyE COM
AB MlITEE.-There will be meeting OF this
Committee, at Grand Army Hall, SATURDAY
EVENING, 22d instant. All the members are
requested to tie present, in srder TO finish up the
business 81 the Committee All bills not presented
on or before the 10th instant must lay over until
next year.
BY order of the Committee.
MARTINI. CASEY,
jelS Secretary Executive Committed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1872-06-22

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work again. 1T
FA MkETING OF YOUNG MEN OF THE
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CIT TO attend the Baltimore C9nv enton in body
Horse, 400 ilth street, at7:3o o'clock. 1t
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MING. II
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bunctuslly. The ATTENDANCE of every member is
II W. ii. MAY, Cor Sec.
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?, m, IN fuli Uniform, % attend the ceremony Of
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Ii TnoMas cARRAHER Commander.
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Of the oe1sn 70 .Se Of Ss il ns
for AGED Men and Women: under charge Of the Lit
tie sisters OF the Poor. The ATTENDANCE of every
II THos. FREDERICK, sec'y.
r@HOUsE OF DELEGATES,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, June p, 1572, .
- Persons having claims against the Contingent
ft nd Of the House Of Delegates are requested to
present the same to the undersigned at Legislative
Hal, + ON 10 q m to IL IN from the date hereof 20
jc22 ID CHARLKs L. HULsE Speaker.
lRepublican. Chronicle and Parriot.I
rYYnngNg CATHOLICS, FRIESD sOOI:
~ sIYIIhe member. Of the Society, will
sGFSs5 e g ,Tss' GsSes
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u JS ssfH1s' Ht Ms11 Stafcs secy
nTsT: J0HNs MUTUAL RELIEF Ass0-
@ae1late Gsnce Ston Church 1 on SUNDAY Z YR
MING, 80 instant at O'Clock.
MuEI fI sss assSAkrHf' Pr'i - ut
TGBANT AND WILSON RATIFICATION
The members Of the General Committee ami all
Cuts, State Associations and ali other ofgeniza
,ioss to ratify the nomination Of Grant and Wilson
Hs he 18th sa2nf 81 .nf o w
Net m,eip m The Legislative chamber Oh SATURDA
BY order: A s. soLOMoNs,
lrzl Chairman Committee Of Arrangements.
U citizers Of Washington Will De- given ~ 70 the
ceEutstiOn Of the Free Church of Italy, con.si ing
g hs Ri
s9,n io Ts At click After an addres. Q, wei
ard Ieformer. once private chaplain of Pops Plus
IN, The Elijah Of italy" will address the meet
ing on Italy. Civil and Religious Admis,on so
cents, including reserved seats Sale Of tickets to
sommence on Saturday, I'D inst, ~ BallaItynes
No. 400 7th street. Proceed, for the evangelizs
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~MEMORIAL DAY-EXEOUTIyE COM
JIG MIITEE-There will be q meeting OF this
Cemmiitee, at Grand Army Hall, SATURDAY
EVENING, 22d instant. All the members are
requested TO tie present, in 1rder 70 finish up the
business ~ the Committee All bills not presented
on or before the 10th instant must lay over until
next year.
ByoTder Of the Committee.
MARTIN CASEY,
jelS Secretary Executive Committee
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
A Coming English Colony.

A remarkable company of emigrants
left England recently on the steamer
HISTORIAN, bound for Baltimore. They
are exclusively English, and majority
of them from the farming class-that is
to say farmers, their sons and relatives /;
not agricultural laborers, but men hav-
ing practical experience, and the means
to apply it. Unable to obtain farms, or
farms large enough in England, they
determined to seek them in the New
World The section of the colony which
embarked, numbered 145 persons, with
capital of 100000. The colony in
cludes d small number of mechanics,
particularly wheelwrights, blacksmiths,
men who can shoe horses, and few
handicraftsmen. 1t is accompanied by
clergyman, who, with is family, in
tend to settle with the colony. Nearly
all the emigrants have made arrange
ments for the purchase of land, and their
lots are as nearly as possible contiguous,
and all are situated at Lincoln, the cap
ltal of Nebraska, and are intersected by
the Burlington and Missouri River
Railroad, whose agents were in the ag-
ricultural districts of England during
the winter, talking up the advantages
of the Central Western States, and the
benefit which would arise from the settle
ment therein of British farmers sons
When the colonists arrive at Lincoln,
they will be lodged, free of cost, except
for food, in an emigrant home, and
there remain until they can commence
the duties and life of an American farm
er. The British farming class has often
been dcrided as incapable Of forming OF
receiving new ideas. A good deal has
changed, however, since the days Of
steam threshing-machincs, and now there
are few men more ready to adopt a "no-
tion," if he can afford it, than the Brit
ish farmer. At all events, he seems tC
be soizing the idea that it is better fol
him or his sons to become landlords ii
the Western States of America than tC
have to sue for renewals of leases, or tc
be always in hot water about game.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
Jefferson as a Farmer.

Thomas Jefferson possessed facility
with notebooks and memoranda which
farmers, great and small, might study
and initiate with positive advantage.
James Parton tells us, in The atlantic
Monthly, that when u young man the
coming President took hold of his bust
ness of husbandry in manner which
showed that the genuine culture of the
mind is the best preparation for the
common as well as for the higher du-
ties of life. In everything he did he
was the educated being. Was there
ever mortal so exact, so punctual so
indefatigable as he in recording and
tabularizing details? He may be said
to have lived pen in hand. He kept a
garden-book, farm-boolz, a weather.
book, receipt book, a poclket-expendi-
ture book, and, later, a Textbook; and
there was nothing too trivial to be en-
tered i'll one Of them, provided it really
had any relation to matters of impor-
tance. In the small, neat hand, then
common in Virginia, he would record in
his garden-book such entries as these
March 80, sowed patch of later
peas" "July 10, planted out celery )"
July %, had the last dish OF our spring
peas; "March 81, grated D French
chestnuts into two stocks of common
chestnut" His garden-book shows that
he was bold and constant experimenter,
always eager to try foreign seeds and
roots, of which he introduced u great
number in the course Of his life. They
show, also, that he was close observer
and calculator. His weather-book is a
wonder of neatness and minuteness-59
days weather history on one small page.
This is one days record March 2l.
at G.30 a. NJ, ther. 27o; baron. 25
wind n. W. force of wind mot stated)
weather, clear after rain, Blue Ridge
and higher parts of S. W. mountain
covered with snow. No snow here, but
much ice black frost" Multiply this
by 50, and you have the contents of one
page of his weather book, every word
of which, after the lapse of century, is
as clear and legible as diamond type.
1t is raled in ten columns, one for each
class of entries. This practice Of min
ute record, which remained with him to
the end Of his days. he began while be
was still u student. Nor did he ever
content himself with the mere record OF
items. These were regularly reviewed,
added, compared, and utilized in every
possible way.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
All Sin at His Old Tricks.

A California paper publishes the fol-
lowing:
The little card transaction between
All Sin and Mr.. William Nyo, which has
gained so much celebrity, owing to the
graphic manner in which it has been de-
scribed by Bret Harte, may possibly
have been an actual occurrence. Gam
bling is a passion with the Chinese.
For thousands Of years they have
studied and practiced all manner of
sinful games, and they are adopts at the
tricks by which gamesters cilcumvent
the laws of chance. In the Chinese
quarter of a town on the Pacific slope,
couple of smart young men recently
encountered some Mongolians engaged
in the Mclean game of draw poker.
The boys asked if they could come into
the game, and received q cordial well
come Presently the innocent-looking
Cinnamon began to sweep i'll their coin
at an alarming rate.
This did not meet their views at all,
so they tried on the simple heather two
or three of the sharpest tricks kAown to
American gamblers. The Celestials ap-
peared to be entirely oblivious to the
advantages luey WeIG JdhlilS, anu per
mitted them to bet on their sure thing
to the extent of their funds, when, on a
call, the American sharpers found that
they were nowhere, and had the mortifi-
cation of seeing their antagonists rake
in their stakes with most aggravating
expression of artless indifference. The
Cinnamon had seen through their tricks
at glance, and beat them by methods
yet unnaturalized in this country. AS
the outwitted visitors withdrew, one of
the Cinnamon, with a smile of sweet
simplicity, invited them to call again.
Said John, "S'pose you next time like
play more pokee, you come see." But
the invitation was not accepted, and at
at the present time there are not to be
found ON the Pacific coast any more
ardent opponents of Chinese emigration
than the young men who undertook to
show poor John some new wrinkles in
the popular American game, which they
supposed he did not understand.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
Arabian Mode of Pertaining.

How the Arab ladies perfume them
selves is thus described by Sir Samuel
Baker in his work on the Nile: "In
the floor of the hut or tent, as it may
chance to be, small hole is excavated
sufficiently large to contain a cham
pagne bottle. A fire of charcoal or SIM
ply glowing embers is made within the
hole, into which the woman about to be
scented throws handful of drugs She
then takes off the clothes, or robes which
form her dress, and crouches over the
fumes, while she arranges her robe to
fall as q mantle from her neck to the
ground like tent She now begins to
perspire freely in the hot bath, and the
pores of the skin being open and moist,
the volatile oil from the smoke of the
burning perfumes is immediately alb
sorbed. By the time the fire has ex-
pired, the acenting process is completed,
and both her person and her robe are so
redolent with incense, with which they
are thoroughly impregnated that have
frequently smelt party Of women
strongly at full hundred yards dis
tancc when the wind has been blowing
from their direction. The scent, which
is supposed to be very attractive to gen
tlemen, is composed of ginger, Cloves
cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh, q
species of sea wood brought from the
Red Sea, and lastly the horny disc which
covers the aperture when the shell fish
withdraws itself within its shell. The
proportions of these ingredients in this
mixture are according to taste"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
PORuIar Orators.

Who arc the speakers that move the
crowd-men after the pattern of Whit
field, what are they? They are almost
always men of very large physical de-
velopment, men of very strong digestive
powers, and whose lungs have great
aerating capacity. They are men of
great vitality and recuperative force.
They are men who, while they have a
sufficient thought-power to create all
the material needed, have prominently
the explosive power by which they can
thrust their materials out at men. They
are catapults, and men go down before
them. Of course you VIII find men now
and then, thin and shrill-voiced, who are
popular speakers. Sometimes men are
organized with compact nervous tenn
perament and are slender-framed, while
they have a certain concentrated ear
nestness, and, in narrow lines, they
move with great intensity. John Ran
dolph was such man.-H W. Beeeher.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
Insect Instinct.

A correspondent of New York pa
paper relates touching instance of in
sect instinct as follows:
81 found cockroach struggling in a
bowl of water. 1 took a half peanut
shell for a boat. put him into it and
gave him two wooden toothpicks for
oars, and left him. The next morning
1 visited him, and he had piece Of
white cotton thread ON one of the tooth
picks, and set the toothpick up on end
as a signal of distress. He had hair
on the other toothpick, and there the
cockroach sat fishing. The cockroach
exhausted, had gone to sleep. The
sight melted ME to tears. 1 never had
to chew leather to get a soul. l was
born with one. took the cockroach
out, gave him a spoonful of cruel, and
he left. That animal never forgot that
act, and now my house is chuck full Of
cockroaches."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
4 Message from the Dead,

The Bangor Commercial prints the
following as q fact:
A former resident of this city some
years ago moved to Cincinnati and went
into business there. Some time since as
he was on his way to his place of bust
ness at his usual early hour in the morn
ing, when going past side street, one
which he never had occasion to use, he
distinctly heard voice which said, " Go
down this street," but not being of q
superstitious turn of mind, he contin-
ued on his way for few blocks, when
the impression grow so strong that he
retraced his steps and went down the
street indicated by the voice. He had
gone but few rods, when the voice
again said, $50 in there" he looked and
found himself opposite small third-rate
hotel. Going into the bar-room, which
opened on the street, the first sight that
met his astonished eyes was the bar
keeper holding up a coat of peculiar
cloth and color for the examination of a
small knot of idlers. He at once recog-
nized the coat as belonging to friend
of his whom he had last seen in Maine
during his visit home. Upon making
inquiries, he found that his friend lay
dead in the house, and finding that
there was an evident disposition te
plunder the valuables and clothing o.
his dead friend, he took charge of the
body and saw it properly buried, and
the property sent home to his mother
Had it not been for his emarkable warn
ing. the dead man, dying among stran-
gers, might have gone to the dissecting
room of the medical college, and his eff
fects to heartless thieves. What makes
the story the more wonderful is tina
this gentleman had no idea that hi
! friend was in the city.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13
POETR Y.
THE saILOIs,s MAID.

BY CHARLES II. wooDMAN.
met maiden, lithc-limbed, fair,
Upon the hard, wave-bcaten strand
With all her cloud Of golden hair
Floating above the golden sand;
She seemed lily, rich and rare,
A light of glory in that land
And singing sweet-as maidons can,
Ever the low heart burden ran:
o cruel sea,
O wasteful sea,
With thy far-streaming wild waves wan,
Bring back my true love unto me.
The foam that on the shore did lie,
Was not so white as her fair feet;
The warm west wind that fastened by
Was not more noiseless nor more fleet
The tender light Of her blue eye
Rested where waves and welliin meet
And singing sad-as maidons do
- Ever the sea she sang unto:
bittor sea,
Orcstless sea,
With thy flE-swellng waters blue,
Bring back my sailor boy tom me.
She stopped to reach flower there
That yoarncd thro' green waves for the light;
The flood carcssod her streaming hair
. And mixed ii with foam-petals bright
The sui. looked down on clusters rare
Ofgolden nlos and of white;
'And singing soft,-ns madcns may
Ever she charmed the sea alway:
loving sea,
Outlying seq,
VITA thy hay-nowins waters grey,
Bring back my true-lovc unto me.
Vast clouds and dread, the wasted. worn.
Low-lying sun were cumboling
The alowsy sea, with wild winds tone,
Woke from its noon tide slumbcring;
Alar, pale ships until the morn
The darkling hours were numbering;
Anl singing ticrce-as maiden. dare
Ever she poured forth her despair:
fcarIul sea,
hungry sea,
Shared in the coils of thy green hair
My sailor boy lies hid from me.
I met her when the glowing East
Broke into radiance on the coast;
Her eyes were eyes of those that feast
On love returned which once was lost;
/ wcen-wcre she in heaven the least,
Her beauty still would lead the host;
And singing glad-for maidens meet
Ever her pulses raptures beat;
fair, bright sea,
sister sea,
On thy shoro-scelllng waters sweet
My lost love has come back to me.
Boston Globe.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13

A Minnesota paper tells of the mar
riage of Swede who could not speak a
word of English with an American wo-
man who could not speak word of
Swedish. There certainly ought to be
no quarrelling or disputing between
them, though there may be plenty of
misunderstanding. The speaking eye
must in their case have deal to do.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13

Galesburg, Ill, has "Classic Nine"
1t is base ball club and has nothing to
do with the muses..
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-06-13

VOL. II.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14

The Southern States have thus far
subscribed so, 1921 toward u iEionu-
ment to General Robert +. Lee.
Last week Tuesday WAS reported
as exceedingly cold through New
England and Northern New York.
At Ogdensburgh, New York, the
thermometer marked 32' below
zero.
Gen. IIealy, U. S. Marshal at
Montgomery, Alabama, has applied
for L. =. troops TO assist In arresting
parties Indicted for Kuklux out
RACES.
Two giyls, IG years Of age, were ar
rested las, week in Chicago for gar
rotiIig and rObbing II woman in q
railroad depot in the daytime.
Horace n. Clarke, 0f New York,
ha, been elected l'res't Of the 4. r.
Rail,vaj. Thos. n. Scott, OF the
Penn':. centras, has been lro2cssa.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14

be made to exempt new and poor
roads-will notcarry. Also, an effort
to allow large cities to tax their
bridges and machine shops separate
ly, which of course will compel the
Census Board to deduct the amount
from the value of the whole road
and will be fought by all the Central
portion of the State.'
Having no experience, and not
sufficient knowledge, in this matter,
we cannot express any very decided
opinion upon it; but it seems to us
that, if upon fair consideration end
trial the taxation of railroads upon
their gross receipts be found no longer
advisable land of this zee are not
fully certain, then tie above bill
would seem to present pretty fair
system. But il would lodge a
weighty responsibility and consider
able power an the few men compos-
ing the Census Board; and whether
they Could discharge these new and
onelous duties to the satisfaction OF
the people would bave to be decided
upon trial.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14

In the Senate on the ith, n bill was
passed providing for the payment of
Jury fees and county Indebtedness in
cases OF change of Venue. Also, n
bill providing discharged convicts
with means of transportation TO their
homes. Also, a bill for the survey
and plating out Of town lots in GER
tain cases.--The bill to place Trans
fer Books i'm the charge Of County
Recorders instead of Auditors was
discussed somewhat, and then post
poned indefinitely.--lest OF the
day, consideration of the Code.
In the Senate on the 9Th, 4 long
discussion was held on the subject Of
an extra session, but no definite
action was taken. Hest Of the
day, consideration Of the new Code.
In the House, same day, most OF
the time was occupied by jawing-
match of Messrs. kasson, Caldwell
and others, on the newspaper qucs-
iion generally, but without any end
or aim; and nothing was done.
In the Senate on the 9th, the bill
providing for compulsory education
vas discussed at length, with the
usual arguments pro and con, ana
vas then ordered engros5cd for q
fhird reading. a bill was passed, ,
providing for the issue Of State bonds
fyr permanent losses to the School
find. Also, bill allowing municJ-
Ial corporations to levy poll taxes.
Rest of the day Code business.
The House, same day, says the
Reqister, "rather backed water on
the woman suffrage question:" by
reconsidering its former action on
the subject, thus leaving the question
lust where it was when the Iegisla-
ture assembled.-Ab bill allowing
associations to raise funds TO be
loaned among their members for
building purposes, &c, was passed
by vote OF 80 to 10. ALSO passed, q
bill allowing city councils, with the
instructions Of the citizens, to levy
tax not exceeding one mill TO buy
lots or erect buildings for free pabiic
libraries. bill "for the pro-
lection of the life and health Of min
ers" passed by vote OF II to ~. 1t
provides for the appointment OF a
Commissioner to visit mixes.----
Several other bills were passed., which
are not Of interest here; and after =
session in Committee Of the Whole
the House adjou1ed.
In the Senate OIL the 7th, a resoin-
ton derlari, g il 30 be good lsl ey TO
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1872-03-14
Conversational.

For proceedings from Goth ult. to
9Th lust, inclusive, see inner page.
The Senate on the 7th seems to
have occupied itself mainly in dis
cussion, without final action, on the
appropriation of $780, for the put
ting in force, the regulations of the
Civil Service Reform.--The House,
same day, passed the Deficiency APP
propriation bill, with the amendment
allowing full days pay for eight
hours work in the Navy Yards
No further business done.
In the House on the Sth, the House
bill for the payment of one hundred
dollars bounty to soldiers, their wild
ows and orphans, who were mustered
into service prior to July %, 1861, +,
was taken up and amended making
itapply to soldiers mustered in be.
fore the 9th Of August, 1861, and
passed.-The day was occupied
mainly in rambling discussion in
the Post Office Appropriation bill;
and the House then adjourned till
Monday.
The Senate, on the Sth, put in its
time mostly in the usual barren po-
litical' discussion, and then adjourned
till Monday; so we can give no fur.
ther report this week.