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The Yellow Fever.

THE CAsEs IN LOUlSNILLE.
LOUISVILLE, October II. Although there
have been several cases of yellow fever in this
city every one has been imported from Mem
phis. Thousands of fugitiyes from Memphis
and Shreveport have taken refuge in Louisville,
and naturally some have brought the seeds of
the disease with them. Not a single case
indigenous to this city has occurred nor probably
viii. There have been several frosts, and cold
weather is almost upon us, and immunity of
this city from such diseases is proyerbial.
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Schooner Abandoned,

FORT MONROE. VA, October 1.-THE
schooner A. F. Ames, from Alexandra, en-
countered the late ''norther" hundred miles
south of Montauk; split her sails and was blown
OFF Hatteras. The schooner j. II. Stickney
from Savannah, for Baltimore, took the crew
OF the schooner Shelbourn off a raft north of
Hatteras. They had been on il four DAYS. The
vessel was abandoned. No particulars have
been received
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Two MEN INJURED BY RAILROAD Acct
DBNT.-A stock train OF the Chicago and Alton
railroad ran on the switch at NOman, H., We'd
nesday night, and the caboOse, filled with pas
sengers, and two cars OF stock were ditched,
Five men were injured, two very severely and
q stock dealer of Kansas named Baker m a.
feared fatally. Twenty head Of cattle were
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AUDACIoUs ATTEMPT TO STEAL LocoMo-
TIvE.-Some bold rascal took advantage of the
engineer and fireman being at dinner the other
day at Hoopeston, ILL.,, to detach a locomotive
from freight train and start for the Chicago
exposition. The agent at the station ahead was
telegraphed to open switch and ditch the en-
CINE, but the thief met another train. compell-
ing him TO run some distance back, when ha set
The brake and escaped to the woods.
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0The Graphic jokes in Spanish. II thinks
since Don Carlos has put himself on the Spanish
postage stamp he 10 sure to be licked.
reverend gentleman OF Oswego, N. T.,
was last week fined $50 for CHOKING his vie
which he did with view to make her tax.
ga man collected $500 from the citizens nj
Rome, Ca, for balloon ascension, and when he
refused to go up they hung him up.
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SIOUX INDIANS FIGHTING TIE PoNCAs.-A
telegram from Sioux City, Iowa, October Is,
says "a war party of 200 Sioux attacked the
Poncas agency, seventy-five miles west of here,
this morning. They were repulsed by the Pom
cas-, but renewed the attack this afternoon,
driving the Pencas into plum orchard, where
the fight is now going on. -Four Indians on each
side have been Killed so far
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IHR Acknowledgement DUKL.-The case
OF Page McCarty, charged with the murder of
the late John Il. Mordecai, was again called in
the police court to day, but owing 70 the con-
unued indlsposition Of the accused, the Gaze was
continued until Monday, November 18th. His
ban bond will be renewed this afternoon in the
sum OF $4,000, with Walter X. Martin, ESQ.,. as
surety Ilraiain .SLal. .L....r.nI -. -
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LOVE- TRAGEDY IN ILLISoIs-On the Tth
OF September, Mr.. Mack Wood a wealthy
farmer Of Mulberry Grove, ILL.,, went With his
wife 20 a wood near their house TO pick plums
but the wife soon returned, saying that her hus-
band had remained TO look at his cattle. The
following day pool Of blood WAS found under
the tree near which she had left him. but a
careful search by a large number OF people for
several days failed 20 discover the man
month after, little girl was passing over a
field near by With a dog, and the latter was AZ
tracted 20 a certain furrOw in the piOwed gar
den, by the Odor Of decaying animal matter.
Search was made, and the body OF the murdered
man was found. IL had been plOwed in by one
Williams, fsther-in-law 10 the victim. Another
party TO the affair was a young fellow named
Henlon, who had been violently in love with
Woods wife, and whose passion had been re-
turned. IL Is thought that he is the murderer,
ana that Williams, who had a quarrel with
Wood, was only an accOmplice while Mrs Wood
knowingly decOyed her husband 70 HE death.
Williams aud the woman have been arrested,
but HenlOn is among the missing.
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A BABY KILLED by A SARATOGA TRuNK.-
Mrs. Henry Smith, OF Grand Rapids, Mich.
LETT her Saratoga trunk open on Thursday, aud
her little child Is months old, went 20 H. and
pressing on the straps which sustained tie
cover, brought the heavy lid down upon his
was quite dead when found
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PRoNscUoUs PISTOL SHOOTING IN WEST
AIRGINIA.-J. j. Sweeny, a candidate for the
West virginia legislature, assaulted and beat
.. 5. Long, editor of the Wheeling wv. Va
Register, for An alleged abusive article pub
lshed in Wednesday mornings paper. Yester-
gay mornings issue contained further rehec-
lions on Sweeny's character. About IL O'Clock
Sweeny met Lewis Baker, proprietor, and j.
5. Clarkson, local editor Of the Register, and
alter some words. all three drew their revolvers
and commenced firing. Baker was slightly
wounded and Clarkson had his arm broken.
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A Schooner from Georgetown, ID. C. b.
I'm Distress

NEW YORK, October 17.-Spoken october 10
in latitude SO deg, 81 min; long. ~ &c, Ine
schr. John Ferris, from Geo. Uown, ID. c., for
Hudson. She was d,s liantled, having cut away
her masts RI save the vessel. She was full Of
water anu settling. The captain and mate were
SEX with fever and ague; hoped to put into
Fortress Mnnrne.
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HE EDITORIAL ExCURsIoNIsTs from Wash
ington, Baltimore and Philadelphia, who are
delphia railway company, visited every point
OF interest in Buffalo yesterday. made a Yacht
trip around the hsrbor, luuched at Grand ISL
and, and enjoyed banquet at the Buffalo club
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A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION occurred last night
In Louisville from foul sewerage, in front of the
city hall, upheaying immense dagstones eigh-
teen feet long all around the building, and
shaking 1t as if by an earthquake. The pave
ment Oh 9th street, from the city hall to the
river, was thrown up at several points. A mum.
Der OF people at police headquarters were
thrown several feet and stunned. Fortunately
no one was seriously injured. 1t is feared the
foundations of the city hall are injured
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THE JERSEY CITY ABORTION CAsE.-The
bail for DIR. James NJ. Comins, of New York,
who Is charged with having performed an abor-
ton on Ida NJ. Vail at Jersey City, which re-
suited in her death, has been fixed by the court
at $4,000. The prisoner hopes to be able 70
procure that amount in a few days.-N. Z. Jour
Gam 18Th
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PROPERTY SALES IN NIRGINIA.-The follow
ing property was sold at public sale on Monday
6l2 acres of the EllZey farm to VIM. Beverly at
so per acre; 20 acres in the suit of Otley VS..
Humphrey, sold for S5O.1O per acre, S. II Gar
rett purchaser; house and lot in the case of Wat
son VS.. Watson, Sl,100, J. T. Watson purchaser
the Blrkltt Hotel in Hillsborough, 81 900, Lydia
va. Everhart, Al acres of land. at $3.50, w. b.
Moore purchaser, and 81 acres at So 10 per acre
Nathaniel Prince purchaser; Lacy VS.. Swart
storehouse IN Aide, at 500, and 60 acres of
land at sl2.15 per acre, Mrs. A. L. Palmer pur-
chaser.
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NOMINATION FoR JUDGE IN BALTIMoRE.-At
the democratic primary elections yesterday the
friends OF Hon. George VIM. Brown carried the
DAY and will go into the nominating convention
Unless some more popular candidate ia offered
by the other party, Mr. Brown will be elected
Judge of the city court for the next fifteen
years, as successor to the late Judge Scott.
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The Death of Young Legxett.

TESTIMONY BEFORE THE CoRoNER's JURY.
ITHACA, October 1.-THE coroner's jury find
that young Leggett's death was accidental, the
testimony showing that in the process prelimi-
nary in initiation in the Kappa Alpha society,
deceased was blindfolded, when he, Lee and
Watson, who were leading him, all fell of the
cliff,
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DEPENDING INTANTIoIDE.-Atth the session of
the Woman's congress in New York city, yester-
day, one of the speakers quoted q sort of an
apology fer inr .nticide, causing q hot discus
sion, during which Mrs. Julia Ward Howe ex-
pressed the hope that the congress would not
send forth anything that could be distorted into
an apology for the awful crime.
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AGRICULTURAL Co-oPERATIoN-Af armersS
co operative manufacturing company has been
organized at Lyndon, H., with a capital of
Sl5O,000. The Lyndon hydraulic company pre-
sents IL with lots and water power valued at
0,O00 and IL will 60 into the manufacture OF
agricultural machinery on an extensive scale
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KILLED AT WEDDING.-At a wedding ves-
terday at the house of Frederick Atteryogt in
Baltimore, Henry Herser, aged IS years, was
shot and killed by the accidental discharge or A
pistol in the hands of Charles Hultz. The hall
entered Herser's side and passed through his
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DEATH OF A DAUGHTER OF GEN. R. E. LEE
A dispatch from Lexington, Va, states that
Miss Agnes Lee, daughter OF Gen. r. E. Lee
died Unexpectedly yesterday, at a. m, at her
home, Mrs. X. Z. Lees, just three years and
three days since her father, General Il. Z. Lee,
died.
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CHOPPED HIS HEAD OFP.-At San Francisco
yestefday John Ryan murdered Owen Gillen
by chopping his head nearly off with an az.
NO cause Is assigned for the act. Gllen was
asleep on bench when the deed was commit
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MURDER By PROsTITUTE.-In Louisville a
notorious prostitute, named Josephine Brown
stabbed a hack driver, named Mike Keller,
Wednesday night, in front of saloon on Lafay-
cite street, in,lIcting two probably fatal wounds
hehler had an Old grudge against Brown, aud
had threatened her life before, "Wednesday
night he went into the saloon with the Intention
Of carrying ont his threats, and getting her on
the sidewalk, struck her first. when she drew a
knife and stabbed him. Brown was arrested
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Death Of q Methodist Minister

ATLANTA, GA, October T.-Rev. w. j.
Parks, q well known minister Of the M. K.
church south, died at his home in Oxford, Ga,
last night of congestion Of the lungs.
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TIE LITTLE P.cC1 JUS,-Iwo brothers
-.a1.se oonn and William Brown went 70 see
their father, living near Franklin, Ind, last
Tuesday, and took little brown Jug along.
reward evening they qusrrelled, and John
sell ed q gun and shot William dead
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A CHIEF OF POLICE SHOT BY RoUGH.-A
II. Brown, chief of police of Provo, Utan, was
PROBABLY mortally wounded Yesterday by a pIs-
toll shot by the hand of Harrison Carter, a
drunken rough
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AMUSEMEN TS.

ADJUSTMENTS.
WALLS NEW OPERA ROUSE.
TO. NIGHT AND SATURDAY MATINEE
NIB. JOHN L. OWENS
VIII sF APR ~ 5h,s ryeninG in the
GRAND MATINEE SATURDAY
Fz i ing to say something 10 ne iat les who
attend the Matinee 10 see THE VICTIMS
"MARRIED LIFE' and "S0L0N SINGLE"
Mr.. an and h mTsi " J p FG6FE Il
ION nsy ior great realistic drama as performed
OctH THE TiCKET-OF LEAvE-NAN
WARRINGTON THEArER COMIQUE.
" 18th Street, below Penna. Avenue.
AN ENTIRELY NEW COMPANY.
Is NEW FACES IL
The Greatest Of all European Stars
ZITELLA TROUPE.
Matemoiselle ZIrELLA, the handsomest lady in
THE GREAT yARELLA BROS.
LAPETITE ZIrELLA the Infant Hercules.
cHAs. md GAZETTE AUSTIN.
Last Week of.the Great Carols family
b. M. The GENE Ess vb LITTLE DICK: MAS
The great Dutch Come lians,
b. The tR 9hS PEE kEs assisted
1h AT lfEILi!S G q I Pfi'Su'o
MISS CARRIE AVERY
AF GEO Su ". FIT TaaM P Ps1 Ssny'
A. a the pERsECUTED pUTGHMaN
SATURDAY. octII tr
EBEE MUsICAL CONCERTS
EVERY DAY AND EVENING.
5000 ORCHEsTRIoN,
performing the latest Operate ana Naisssl Music,
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The Turf
sERnAU


MYSTIC 1ARk RACES YESTERDAY.
The M ystic park races were largely attended
yesterday. The unfinished race for horses that
never beat 2:31 was first in order, Deacon and
Kate Gilbert each having one heat, and Brown
Kenny two The fifth heat was won by MOdoc
Chief, and then Kate Gilbert captured the
sixth and seventh, which gave her the race.
Brown Kenny won the second money and Dea-
con third The regular race was for horses thai
never beat 2;50, and was won by Tontne Belle
beating MOdOc Chief, Lucinda, and Thought
Time, 2:45, PA, 2i2, 242k. The second race
was for horses that never beat 2:53. There were
but three entries; all started. The race wa
won by Dustin Jim, beating Flora Belle and
Brown Kenny. Flora Belle won the second
and third heats. Time, 2:3I, 90, 237s !, 2:37,
2:3IH.
AT DRXTER PARK, CHICAGO,
Goldsmith Maid, Glouster and ESasha n, IT., trot.
ted for purse of IS 600, mile heats. Goldsmith
Maid won in three straight heats; GlouSter sec
Ond. Time, 2:23H, 2:IS, 2:22R.
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ENSIGN W. A. MADDEN was before the naval
examining board to day for promotion 10 an ad-
vanCGd grade.
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Fire.

PRovIDEscB, r. l., October l6.-A fire at
Blackstone tonight destroyed eight houses,
turning out from twenty-five to thirty families.
LOS sos 600.
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THE PoLARIs INVESTIGATION was continued
at the navy yard to-day. 1t is doubtful if the
commission finish their labors before Tuesday
or Wednesday of next week.
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A SOUTHERN RAILROAD SoLD.-The Bruns-
wick and Albany railroad OF Georgia was sold
at public auction, yesterday, for $50 oO0 20 the
German bond holders, who held over % ,0Oo, 600
in first mortgage bonds Of the road.
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shot HTS WiGe Dead

LOUISVILLE, October H.-Jacob Raub delib
erately shot his wife yesterday with q shot gun
He says she had been unfaIthful.
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Our COUNTRY is having OF the most delight
full autumns IL has ever known, The eoui5oc-
tal disturbances were com paratiyely mefersfa
ana OF short duration, and everywhere the ex-
clamation now IL, "What beautiful yeafherlD
May IL cOntinue.-Ckfeaoo Io.,raoI
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SINGULAR FATAL AocIDKST.-In Cumber-
land, Md, Henry Tsuber, aged Ia years, scci-
oentally shot himself In the throat yesterday,
and was instantly killed. He had loaded a gun
to kin rats. Instead Of shot he had used white
beans, with which he was killed.
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Thirty Vessels Crippled BY the storm

FORTRESS MONROE, VA, October 1.-The
schooner Annie Iceland, from Brunswick, Ca,
for Norfolk, has arrived. She lost her nainsaii
and boat October eth; stood to the eastward GO
hours; saw abeut thirty crippled vessels In the
Gulf stream during the storm.
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WANTED $4,000 AND GOT ONLY s75.-A
colored woman who sued tor SO 900 from the
New York and Charleston steamship company,
for being excluded from state room has been
granted S75 by New York court.
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EVENING STAR.
Washington News and Gossip.

INTERNAL REvENUE-rhe receipts from this
source to-day were 1926 1861.
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THE CLKARANCEs OF the consolidated banks
yesterday amounted to g, 5O614.
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DICE MOORE, anotorious criminal, charged
With robbing the Philadelphia Corn Exchanse
Bank, was arrested in that city Yesterday.
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SECRETARY DELANo is expected TO arrive
from Ohio to- morrow.
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PRESIDENT GRANT is expected to return in
the early train to- morrow.
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RRv. NARAYAN SHEsHADRI addressed an
immense audience in Baltimore last night.
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BUY NOW.
liable BROTHERS.
Merchant Tailors and Fine Clothiers,
octl0-tr Corner It'll and ID Streets
SOUND FEET

-
are Indispensable TO health, comfort cheerfuness,
usefulness, and long hfs and In this busy age, the
feet being used constantly it is fOu nd TO be mat
ter Of economy a. well - confortt to give them
sonh attention in order to guard against the de-
engagements to which they are en- posed or IN aline
TO obtain the quick relief AFFORDED BIZ one specially
skilled in their treatment; and Is Q we'll know n
fact that thousands Of persons among them n any OF
the most eminent medical judicial political dig
nitsres and Others pying the highest positions
In public and private life pAtroniss DR. WHITES
establishment, No. eSS 18Th street, Opposite the III
Treasury, Washington, d. q.
Dr.. White successfully treats Germs, Bunions
troublesome Nails, Vascular Hxcrese.css, Chill.
blAiDs, and other ailments Of the feet. His fee to
the general public IL 81 per visit. (F~r special
treatment, By the year Otherwise, the fee s from
s6 % Sc and upvardsl Owing 70 press Of bust
patienis ct residences except sfter D. m. Once
hours from sa. m. to p m. sspH-tr
DAZAAR-Barsains In LADIES, 0lNre, ana
ID CHILDREHe UHDERCLOTHIH0 may Be-
found ct Womens Christian Association, JuAfcfarY
square. All orders promptly and neatly executsdl
Entrance on . srest, ~. u snA IN. nsll-ly
GENERAL EMPLOYMENT OFyICE-Au per
% rs 10 cal Isos I'LL
street, between and streets, where their orders
will be pronptlynlled. fsbkIy
NOTIOE-Thas =. o. JUSTH, 6l9 d street, b..
~ tween sth and 7th streets northwest. sells Gus.
YIN SECONDHAND CLOTHING
q les than half the cost 81 ready made new ones.
ELK pkEecxe . specially. fe1-N
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THE CONSTITUTION OF New JERSEY has been
amended, to enable the governor to call extra
sessions OF the legislature to veto separated
OF bills without detecting the whole, and pro-
Viding Tor the election Of sheriffs and coroners
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

Mothers, Mothers, Mothersi
Don't fail TO procure N Rs. WIESLOW'S sOOrH-
ING SYRUP for all diseases incident to the period
of teething in children. 1t relieves the child from
pain, wind collie, regulates the bowels and by
giving relief and health t. the child gives rest to
the mother. Be sure and call for
"MRS. wINsLOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP"
For sale BY all druggists. jyli-aoSru
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THE OHIO ELECTIoN.-The following dis
patch from Ohio was received at the Interior
department this afternoon:
We think Allen elected. Republican state
officers elected. Legislature democratic. Three
republicans elected from CiLcinnati.'
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BAhKRuPT.-George Bird, Grinnell & Co.,
OF New York, were yesterday morning declared
oankrupts, and their whole estate passed under
the control OF the bankruptcy court
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SUICIDE ON THE GRAVE OF A SoN.-On Tues
day afternoon John q. Hoffman, Morrisania
tailor, went to WOodlawn cemetery to visit hi,
sons grave. About FIVE O'Clock the report Of a
pistol was heard, and shortly afterwards Hoff-
mans body was found lying across the grave
with two bullet holes in the breast. Beside the
body was dOuhle-barrel pistol. Yesterday
Coroner Meeks held an inquest and found a
note in the dead mans pocket, written in a
trembling hand, addressed to the superintend-
ent of the cemetery and signed John George
Hoffman, saving that he had killed himself
Hoffman was So years old. His son died in 1865
Since then he has had family troubles. In the
note he requested to be inferred beside his favor
lite son.-N. y. Sun, 18th.
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EDUCATIONAL.

MADAME sCHLIECKER, assisted by her daugh-
4'f ter, Is prepared to resume her lessons in the
french Language to private pupils aud CLASSES
MademoIselle Florence Schliecker, for ten years a
pupil OF the best professors Of the Paris Conserva
tory OF Music, will give Lessons the PisnOforte
and IN Singing A German class will also be formed
kesldeLce 734 18th street, near New York avenue
kefereDces-nrs. Judge Field. Mrs. Senator West
NILS Bigg., Gen schriyer, U. S. A; Hon. L. @.
Parsons, N c. Count jacques de- Gsnay, French
LECTION Thos. Taylor, ESQ Agricultural Bureau;
fiol Salnl Oarusl. E2DeO2n'
T. EORGEIOWN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE
This Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies
will be reopened September 9. 1873.
foil corps Of experienced Teachers and Profes
sors are gagged.
For circulars, &c, address Principal,
MISS LUCY STEPHENSON,
sep2 I'm No. 100 Gay ST., GeOrg etown, ID, q.
MES, 8 A. PECKs SELECT SCHOOL FOR
W BUYS southwest corner 18th and X streets
The fourteenth annual session commenced sEPrKH-
bEK 10Th. seplsl I'm
ROYs' ACADEMY (Fourth Year EWork re-
H commences SEPTEMBER LIST, al DR. Sunder
lands church, Al street, between O street and
Loulslana avenue northwest. See Circular Al
principal bookstores, or call at the Prnci pal resi-
dence, 122 81 street southeast. Price ans psr ouar
ter; number Of pupils limited to thirty.
augl6-2Ia. CHASE R0YS, Principal.
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MEANS OF Escape FROM BURNING BUILD
INGs.-An official inspection of a number OF
theatres, hotels and school houses was recently
made by officials connected with the depart
ment of buildings of the city of New York for
the purpose of ascertaining whether these struc-
lures were provided with all the safeguards
against fire, and facilities for the escape of in
fects were noted orders were given requiring
the speedy construction Of such additional fire
escapes and ladders or repairs as were deemed
necessary. Such a system of inspection, rigidly
applied, will obviously give additional security
to human life, and prevent fatal accidents at
fires; and it is worthy of consideration whether
IL should not be adopted in other cities
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A COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION has been Or
dered by the board of civil service examiners
of the Treasury department to be held in
HOoe's building, on street, on the 10Th of DC
tober, TO fill three vacancies of class two in the
office of the Third Auditor.
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COFTErUdTCE.
ID E T r X MINED
TO DEFER THE WITHDRAWAL

~ O1CLIl lie w hi IDhA ALI
p OP U AR PRICE LIST,
FOR A SHORT TINE,
WE WILL STILL OFFER
THE FOLLOWING
EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS:
SIS SUITS FOR $40.
sI2 oyERCoATs FOR IS.
SIS SUITS FOB sI2.
sIs OvERC ATS FOR $40.
$40 SUITS FOR Ella.
$40 oyEBCoATs FOR s14
s2d SUITS FOR SIS
s25 OvEBCOATs FOR sIs
$50 SUITS FOB s22.
$50 OvERCoATs FOB sa2
BOYS.
sig SCHOOL SUITS FOR SIS.
SIS DRESS SUITS FOB $40.
sIS SCHOOL SUITS FOR SO.
SIS DRESS SUITS FOR sI3.
BoYS' RCoATs
AT SAME DISCOUN S.
EQUAL REDUCTIONS ON ALL GOODS.
POSITIVELY FOR ONLY FEW DAYS.